2008-11-19T23:19:06Z Zeug Gezeugt zeug@polemos.net.au Copyright 2008, Zeug Gezeugt SPHPBLOG
Add to that the very real threat of terrorism originating from extremely pissed off muslim groups with the US inspired Iraq blood bath a training ground for fanatics, soon to be followed by Lebanon it seems, then we're in for an interesting ride in the build up to a possible 'pre-emptive' attack on Iran and another step towards a nuclear WW3. And every terror attack, such as those in Bali and London, serves only to strengthen the politicians who support the US 'war on terror' making Islamic terrorism itself a very useful participant in keeping our democratic hawks in power and the rest of us cowering.

A recent Howard Scripps/Ohio Uni national poll found 1 in 3 US resondents thought their government might have been complicit in the 911 attacks. Another poll found 42% calling for an independent re- investigation of 911. Seems remarkable to me but if accurate then the possibility of political chaos in the US is something we Aussies should maybe seriously think about, seeing as we've shoved our heads about as far up Bush's arse as we can go.

My rule of thumb nowadays though, as far as being skeptical about the reality of our crazy world, is to be wary of my own reactionary bourgeois angst in dismissing anything to do with the geopolitics of energy without first looking at the available information. You perhaps have come up against this yourself when you first became aware of imminent peak oil and in your attempts to warn friends and family. It is a rather difficult prospect to broach.

With many good people bad news that threatens our officially sanctioned and mass mediated consensus reality is quite often dismissed without any informed opinion and with the implication that you are perhaps suffering from a manic condition or at best you are a confused eccentric. Push a little further and soberly provide supporting evidence or testimony and all you mostly do is stir their emotions even further and deepen the irrational rejection and hostility, in many cases anyways that's been my experience with both peak oil and the 911 controversy. These are both unsettling and interrelated propositions with revolutionary implications so no wonder we want to hold to the delusion of 'business as usual', shut our eyes, click our red ruby slippers and chant 'there's no place like post WW2 global modernity' ...

As far as the official story of 911 goes it is already a conspiracy theory involving 19 mostly Saudi hijackers but if you actually read the government reports and what the critics are saying about them the entire story along with the 911 Commission and US government sponsored NIST and FEMA reports are so amazingly full of holes that any rule of thumb here would very simply indicate a rather desperate and incredibly brittle coverup, which the 911 Commission itself has just confirmed in part with revelations the Pentagon actually lied to them. Add to that the empirical evidence for controlled demolition in all 3 collapsed towers and as far as I'm concerned it's a real 'slam dunk'.

I'm not interested in trying to convince anyone here though but if you're interested in seeing for yourself check out the Scholars for 911 Truth at http://www.st911.org/. You can also see what all the fuss is about via Google video (broadband only) with the ST911 founders broadcasting their views via the national US public TV channel CSPAN a month ago.

Now it's no real surprise to us here that the threat of peak oil has led Australia into complicity with US supreme crimes of aggression in the Middle East ... is it? Knowing the very serious implications, to put it mildly, of declining oil extraction on our way of life some of us might even argue that since peak oil affects every nation on earth then if it comes to war 'better them than us'. The only problem here of course, apart from founding our national energy security on mass murder which is 'evil', is that the US Neoconservatives are such ludicrously inept fascists that they seem to be on the verge of complete imperial overreach. If 911 Truth goes mainstream god only knows where the US might go, I assume that when push comes to shove as the global economy tanks and declining extraction really starts biting into their middle classes it will most probably hang on whose side their military decides to support, the people or the state.

We can call it a 'hypothetical' if you like, but I was just wondering what people here think about Australia being an isolated vassal state of an emerging predatory totalitarian super power that is on the verge of possibly violent collapse as we progress into the peak oil plateau. If that actually turns out to be the case then what? Duck and cover?

A global war that 'will not end in our lifetime' is a waste of energy and national wealth which can only impoverish the majority of us and divert the nation from dealing with what will still become an enforced powerdown, equitable or otherwise. If we're very lucky though maybe the collapse of our democratic humanist facade and the public realization that waging oil wars actually does mean supporting naked fascism at home and abroad will lead to a real and sane change of course. And yes, probably not but who really knows?]]> http://www.polemos.net.au/blog/index.php?entry=entry060820-230725 2006-08-20T00:00:00Z 2006-08-20T00:00:00Z