Oil Posts First Close Above $100
From today’s New York Times…
“Crude oil closed above $100 for the first time Tuesday, vaulting through a longstanding psychological barrier amid persistent concern about whether production can keep up with rising global demand.”
I hate to say “I told you so,” but I will anyway. Secondly, this is not a “psychological barrier.” Peak Oil is a real barrier and the only psychological issue is humans foolishly refusing to believe there’s a problem. Why this is so hard for people to grasp is a mystery. Our society is completely dependent upon a non-renewable resource and the production of that resource has peaked. From here on out, we’re in the decline phase.
Yet, in this country, despite recent reports of a slight decline in our usage, from my vantage point, the show goes on as usual. The apathetic and the ignorant were in front of the tee-vee this weekend, watching NASCAR, and Texas has plans for its 4000 mile monstrosity. People, it’s time to wake the fuck up. Please, for the sake of your children and grandchildren, for the sake of all life around you, read and study this situation. To do otherwise is willful and deadly ignorance.
In a related story, there’s a new plan afoot to start rounding up homeless people in Iraq and take them to places “where they can be cared for.” The risk, it seems, is they can be unwittingly used to carry bombs developed by terrorists. My guess is as shit starts to hit the fan in the United States, you’ll see similar “round ups” over here. The camps are ready. They’re sitting there empty and ready for deployment by the National Guard. Got one in the Desoto County National Forest in Mississippi.
Doesn’t that sound like a hellish place….
You may ask, “how is this related to oil?” Well, it’s not so hard to connect the dots. Many of those street people in Iraq are where they are because of war. A war fought with oil as the major backdrop. And as things begin to deteriorate in the United States with sky high oil prices, water shortages and collapsing markets, you’ll see more cities begin to resemble New Orleans after the hurricane. Desperation. Homelessness.
You think the banks are being hard asses now with mortgages? Just wait. And why on earth do you think the State of Mississippi recently tried to sue the City of Memphis over water from the seemingly bottomless aquifer that supplies both North Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee? The water wars are in full swing, and in areas where water has never been a concern. Until now.
The jackbooted thugs armed with truncheons and Glocks are waiting.
Be real careful about this “concentration camp” stuff.
The Mississippi “camp” is a hoax. The right-wingers say it’s a government misinformation campaign, but who knows.
Go to the web pages on FENA concentration camps and you see this, repeated without question:
ALASKA
Wilderness – East of Anchorage. No roads, Air & Railroad access only.
Estimated capacity of 500,000 Elmendorf AFB – Northeast area of Anchorage -
far end of base. Garden Plot facility.
Eielson AFB – Southeast of Fairbanks. Operation Garden Plot facility.
Ft. Wainwright – East of Fairbanks
This is all false. East of Anchorage is mountains. Elmendorf is north of Anchorage, not east, in a populated area.
There aren’t 500,000 people in all of Alaska, even if you rounded up all the Alaska Natives in all the villages and flew them in to town. No need. No roads, so what are they going to do if each and every Alaskan gives up their Permanent Fund Dividend check and revolts?
We have far more reality to worry about the fake FEMA concentration camps.
Seems timely as I just watched “Who Killed The Electric Car” check it out if you get a chance…I knew I should have filled the tank yesterday before gas rose 10 cents. I’ll be damned if I get on a bike around this town anymore…death wish.
Whether the “camp” exists isn’t really the main issue. I always thought the facility was adjacent or near Camp Shelby, a NG facility that absolutely does exist. I’ve seen it. This other stuff may all be fabrication.
I feel pretty certain, however, that when the government wants to start rounding people up, they’ll find or construct somewhere to house them. The prison system is full. I can easily imagine some barrack type of facility being constructed.
Dear Jack Burns-
As much as I enjoy reading this blog from day to day, I believe that you would highly benefit from an extended jaunt in the wilderness. I see that you’ve travelled near Moab and Duke City, but I think that if you really got out—put a pack on your back and started walking out in Canyonlands, say, for a few days—you might not get bummed out so easily. I hope to be out there in a week or so, spring break is coming up. With the rising costs of oil, I figure I ought to take a trip of this magnitude while I still can—while its still there, as Abbey would say.
These are strange times now. If you can’t enjoy whisky, a good woman, or wilderness (not necessarily in that order) you’re a lost cause. I find that its the small victories that count these days, the ones on a personal level. Of course, I’m only 22.
As far as those FEMA camps go, I’ve already survived Hurricane Katrina, (I live in the mountains of NC now) so I rightly don’t plan to be corralled into a cozy martial law madhouse. I figure if I’ve gone through shit like that once, they’ll have to reckon with my shotgun this time around.
Best Wishes-
Tim
Good advice, Tim. I have another friend named Tim in Colorado urging me to do the same thing…guess I better get the backpack ready and head on out into the desert.
Abbey spent a ton of time in the wilderness, but as soon as he spent a short period back in “civilization,” he was far grumpier than me!
And generally speaking, I’m a pretty happy guy. I find great pleasure in family, critters, gardening, cold beer and good books. This is my ranting place. Otherwise, I’m the life of the party.
Thanks for stopping by….Jack