Post by Pracau on Sept 2, 2005 2:56:10 GMT
Fintan.
You deserve all of the plaudits you've received for having the courage to expose the the CIA manipulation of the 9/11 Truth movement. You have made it properly clear that not all of these sites need be concious of their being manipulated. But your making public the psychological manipulation aspect of dare I say it, ALL media withoit exception, is very valuable. Thank you. I still listen to your show with feelings of admiration. "The same cast of characters and we get no-where". Spot on.
Thank you for posting this article on the Peak Oil fraud... for it allows me to more appropriately address the Peak Oil issue which is a classic PsyOp... and I contend your blind spot.
Your responses to my recent posts have consistently missed the points I have been trying to make. So lets try again.
°°°°°°
Lets start with the oil that we so apparently need.
Actually we as people have no need at all for oil. We do have a need for the services oil or other energy sources can deliver through the powering of technologies that deliver the goods and services we pay for. But we actually have no direct need for oil.
But let's not quibble on that point. We do absolutely depend now on the energy driven ways we now exclusively get just about everything we need. This is the culmination of a long process that has its origins long before the Industrial Revolution.
With the concurrent Enlightenment the first economic theories (Adam Smith Ricardo and later Marx) came out that make some sense when it comes to free people working alone or together to produce goods and trade them. But this was at a time when the energy in inputs were miniscule in comparison to now, and human inputs much more crucial (People were not just 'Useless Eaters')
Inventiveness found its reward from the emerging capitalist class, not from the artisans who not surprisingly got a bit pissed off at being deprived of their livelihoods by machines that only the rich could afford. What's done in this world is what's paid for. And who benefits, those with the money.
And it was clearly in the interests of the nuvo-rich to utilise energy sources that were appropriatable... like coal... or later oil. What's more the formerly free artisans and their families could be given a means of survival (servitude) in the new factories and mines. And all this was presented as progress. The Luddites who set about destroying the new machines are still seen as reactionaries standing vainly in way of the inevitable improvement, progress.
But no-one ever considers that the artisans may well have been pleased to use technology to increase their own productivity. But decentralised technologies were not on offer. And the rich prospered, the poor but skilled became factory and mine fodder.
The problem confronting the capitalists (aka robber barrons) was how to appropriate the energy source, coal or oil, once its usefulness was established. In the early part of the 20th Century the price of oil dropped to below the price of water.
Enter Rockefeller (Standard Oil) and the necessary rationalisation of the oil industry to bring about some semblance of stability. Rockefeller fell foul of Ant-Trust laws and Standard Oil was split up. But the clear need for stability in the market led to the transmogrification of Monopoly into Cartel. Stadard Oil was replaced by the Seven Sisters who were faced with the same problem. How to keep over abundant oil from the market and maintain their margins.
At the end of WWII with the destructive capabilities of oil fueled technologies amply demonstrated, Governments and industry set about the painful business of reconstruction, putting technology to benign use. But it was not painful the BIG OIL who were only too pleased to be of service.
Without attracting notice, the advantages of monopoly/ cartel control were fully reaped by the Oil industry (and their financial backers) in this post World War II period. The need for reconstruction of war-ravaged countries meant that demand for oil-based technologies was high. The US had escaped the destruction of war whilst playing a crucial role in the Allies victory. It was well positioned to assist in global reconstruction.
Under President Truman’s watch, the US launched the extolled Marshall Plan to restore Europe to its former glory. Obsolete technologies powered by indigenously mined coal gave way to oil fired technologies, the oil coming from the virginal oil reserves of the Middle East/ Persian Gulf.
Concessions to supply oil from these reserves were the exclusive property of seven Oil Companies, The Seven Sisters — Exxon, Mobil, Gulf, Socal, Texaco, Shell and BP. And the price to be fetched for all this oil (and derivative petroleum products) was based on pre-war US prices. What went unnoticed were the dramatically reduced costs of producing oil from these fresh reserves.
The all up costs (circa 1962) of producing oil from the Middle East was between 4 an 10 cents a barrel, compared with about $1.50 in the US. (costs as estimated by M.A. Alderman (Petroleum Press Service 1966) borne prior to freight charges from ports of export to the market and excluding tax and royalty payments to governments.) Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce an illustrative Table here, but I will send it to you if you are interested.
By the early 1970’s all of the Seven Sisters had attained rankings in the top ten of Fortune’s list of top performing companies. Between them, the Seven Sisters controlled the taps, ensuring that supply just kept up with increasing demand.
They and their financial backers amassed great wealth to be, as is the way, profitably invested. Where better than in energy intensive industries. Coal based technologies were replaced by oil based technologies. And new industries grew to prominence, most notably petro-chemicals.
It was the perfect positive feedback loop. Supplying oil to meet exponentially increasing demand led to great profits that were invested so that demand continued to exponentially increase. And so on, and on. What a gold mine, what an enviable bonanza. Until the seemingly limitless seam is exhausted and the Earth plays its hand. Through the halcyon days that was eons away. And, “In the long run, we are all dead”, as John Maynard Keynes comfortingly observed
This cozy arrangement was not without threats. The vast profits of the Seven Sisters were the envy of other US oil companies who sought to break into the game as independents. Armand Hammer’s Occidental Oil secured a concession from Libya’s King Idris and in the early 1960’s flooded Europe with discounted oil. Boom times, but not so good for the Oil Cos.
Enter the oil producing countries that wanted an increased cut of the action. OPEC, formed in 1960, was able to flex its muscle after Colonel Qadafi of Libya called Occidental’s bluff in 1970, won increased royalty payments, leading the dominoes to fall and the quadrupling of the price of oil in 1973-74.
But the greatest conceivable threat to Oil’s preeminence would be the emergence of energy sources cheaper than oil, and even worse, an energy source that was not appropriatable and amenable to supply and demand management — as is oil.
And so it was that the so-called alternative energy sources got promoted, solar power, nuclear power, etc all of which could not compete with oil as the primary enrgy reesource. These were phurphies intended to foster the illusion of the free market. Any thing that threatened the hegomony of the super rich was debunked... or worse... by paid for hacks in the Media and elsewhere, using old and not very good science. Not surprising really given the massive concentration of money wealth.
Key to managing this threat has been the management of the myth that the much heralded success of Industrial civilization lay in the Free Market system, on one hand, or Centralised Planning on the other. So it was that the US reveres free enterprise (complete with Adam Smith’s ‘hidden hand’) and reviles the alternative communist system as stifling freedom and initiative.
This is a false dichotomy. The energy source that powers the productive systems and economy, of both, has been under centralized, Elite control. It’s the dichotomy that has been fostered in the public mind.
The general perception, illusion, of a free oil market, and free markets in general, is managed through the manipulation of news and information by Mass Media, Governments and Education under Corporate ownership and/or control through its power to endow in return for acquiescent and supportive Spin.
One only has to notice the prominence of Oil industry figures in and around the White House to be filled with admiration, and foreboding, at the extent to which consummate wealth has taken control.
With the masterful skill that only money can buy, the oil idustry remains hidden behind the curtain as various terrorist patsies are blamed for the geo-political events that create anxiety in the (manipulated) market forcing the oil price ever upward. (elCIAda, Mossad, MI5, the Illuminati, Bush and Co; the list goes on)
And for the niche of inquiring minds we have the Peak Oil scam right there to find like Mohhamed Atta, fostered by the likes of the respectable Club of Rome and the disreputable fear mongering www.dieoff.com. And now Peak Oil, the issue is public, we have the newly emmergent and paid for experts telling us that after all, oil is not a fossil fuel. It is in fact still abudant. But the oil price continues ever upward now... and our economies will go into recesssion as energy consuming firms head towards bankrupcy.
This is pure PsyOp diverting us from the truth that its just money logics applied by the rich that have brought us to this fearful impasse.
****
Fintan. Just a small admonition from a comparatively old fart. A philosphical point. In the Universe of ideas there are black holes. When one passes though them, say with the help of an acid trip, one thinks one has found the Truth (CIA fakers, for example) but the curious thing is that when one passes through one black hole idea, if you look around there are more, and when you pass through them, more again.
Don't be like Ivan Illich who came up with an illuminating view of the world but was unable to see that there was more to the Truth than what he had seen. He was caught by his celebrity status and could not move on past his initial profound insight.
I hope that we might have a conversation about this and more.
Or are you inadvertantly engaged in yet another exercise to keep us in the System's thrall as it collapses due to its internal contradictions.
We shall see... because though everyone is engaged in perception management (yes you, and I, too)... the future is never actually shaped by the preponderence of belief alone.
You deserve all of the plaudits you've received for having the courage to expose the the CIA manipulation of the 9/11 Truth movement. You have made it properly clear that not all of these sites need be concious of their being manipulated. But your making public the psychological manipulation aspect of dare I say it, ALL media withoit exception, is very valuable. Thank you. I still listen to your show with feelings of admiration. "The same cast of characters and we get no-where". Spot on.
Thank you for posting this article on the Peak Oil fraud... for it allows me to more appropriately address the Peak Oil issue which is a classic PsyOp... and I contend your blind spot.
Your responses to my recent posts have consistently missed the points I have been trying to make. So lets try again.
°°°°°°
Lets start with the oil that we so apparently need.
Actually we as people have no need at all for oil. We do have a need for the services oil or other energy sources can deliver through the powering of technologies that deliver the goods and services we pay for. But we actually have no direct need for oil.
But let's not quibble on that point. We do absolutely depend now on the energy driven ways we now exclusively get just about everything we need. This is the culmination of a long process that has its origins long before the Industrial Revolution.
With the concurrent Enlightenment the first economic theories (Adam Smith Ricardo and later Marx) came out that make some sense when it comes to free people working alone or together to produce goods and trade them. But this was at a time when the energy in inputs were miniscule in comparison to now, and human inputs much more crucial (People were not just 'Useless Eaters')
Inventiveness found its reward from the emerging capitalist class, not from the artisans who not surprisingly got a bit pissed off at being deprived of their livelihoods by machines that only the rich could afford. What's done in this world is what's paid for. And who benefits, those with the money.
And it was clearly in the interests of the nuvo-rich to utilise energy sources that were appropriatable... like coal... or later oil. What's more the formerly free artisans and their families could be given a means of survival (servitude) in the new factories and mines. And all this was presented as progress. The Luddites who set about destroying the new machines are still seen as reactionaries standing vainly in way of the inevitable improvement, progress.
But no-one ever considers that the artisans may well have been pleased to use technology to increase their own productivity. But decentralised technologies were not on offer. And the rich prospered, the poor but skilled became factory and mine fodder.
The problem confronting the capitalists (aka robber barrons) was how to appropriate the energy source, coal or oil, once its usefulness was established. In the early part of the 20th Century the price of oil dropped to below the price of water.
Enter Rockefeller (Standard Oil) and the necessary rationalisation of the oil industry to bring about some semblance of stability. Rockefeller fell foul of Ant-Trust laws and Standard Oil was split up. But the clear need for stability in the market led to the transmogrification of Monopoly into Cartel. Stadard Oil was replaced by the Seven Sisters who were faced with the same problem. How to keep over abundant oil from the market and maintain their margins.
At the end of WWII with the destructive capabilities of oil fueled technologies amply demonstrated, Governments and industry set about the painful business of reconstruction, putting technology to benign use. But it was not painful the BIG OIL who were only too pleased to be of service.
Without attracting notice, the advantages of monopoly/ cartel control were fully reaped by the Oil industry (and their financial backers) in this post World War II period. The need for reconstruction of war-ravaged countries meant that demand for oil-based technologies was high. The US had escaped the destruction of war whilst playing a crucial role in the Allies victory. It was well positioned to assist in global reconstruction.
Under President Truman’s watch, the US launched the extolled Marshall Plan to restore Europe to its former glory. Obsolete technologies powered by indigenously mined coal gave way to oil fired technologies, the oil coming from the virginal oil reserves of the Middle East/ Persian Gulf.
Concessions to supply oil from these reserves were the exclusive property of seven Oil Companies, The Seven Sisters — Exxon, Mobil, Gulf, Socal, Texaco, Shell and BP. And the price to be fetched for all this oil (and derivative petroleum products) was based on pre-war US prices. What went unnoticed were the dramatically reduced costs of producing oil from these fresh reserves.
The all up costs (circa 1962) of producing oil from the Middle East was between 4 an 10 cents a barrel, compared with about $1.50 in the US. (costs as estimated by M.A. Alderman (Petroleum Press Service 1966) borne prior to freight charges from ports of export to the market and excluding tax and royalty payments to governments.) Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce an illustrative Table here, but I will send it to you if you are interested.
By the early 1970’s all of the Seven Sisters had attained rankings in the top ten of Fortune’s list of top performing companies. Between them, the Seven Sisters controlled the taps, ensuring that supply just kept up with increasing demand.
They and their financial backers amassed great wealth to be, as is the way, profitably invested. Where better than in energy intensive industries. Coal based technologies were replaced by oil based technologies. And new industries grew to prominence, most notably petro-chemicals.
It was the perfect positive feedback loop. Supplying oil to meet exponentially increasing demand led to great profits that were invested so that demand continued to exponentially increase. And so on, and on. What a gold mine, what an enviable bonanza. Until the seemingly limitless seam is exhausted and the Earth plays its hand. Through the halcyon days that was eons away. And, “In the long run, we are all dead”, as John Maynard Keynes comfortingly observed
This cozy arrangement was not without threats. The vast profits of the Seven Sisters were the envy of other US oil companies who sought to break into the game as independents. Armand Hammer’s Occidental Oil secured a concession from Libya’s King Idris and in the early 1960’s flooded Europe with discounted oil. Boom times, but not so good for the Oil Cos.
Enter the oil producing countries that wanted an increased cut of the action. OPEC, formed in 1960, was able to flex its muscle after Colonel Qadafi of Libya called Occidental’s bluff in 1970, won increased royalty payments, leading the dominoes to fall and the quadrupling of the price of oil in 1973-74.
But the greatest conceivable threat to Oil’s preeminence would be the emergence of energy sources cheaper than oil, and even worse, an energy source that was not appropriatable and amenable to supply and demand management — as is oil.
And so it was that the so-called alternative energy sources got promoted, solar power, nuclear power, etc all of which could not compete with oil as the primary enrgy reesource. These were phurphies intended to foster the illusion of the free market. Any thing that threatened the hegomony of the super rich was debunked... or worse... by paid for hacks in the Media and elsewhere, using old and not very good science. Not surprising really given the massive concentration of money wealth.
Key to managing this threat has been the management of the myth that the much heralded success of Industrial civilization lay in the Free Market system, on one hand, or Centralised Planning on the other. So it was that the US reveres free enterprise (complete with Adam Smith’s ‘hidden hand’) and reviles the alternative communist system as stifling freedom and initiative.
This is a false dichotomy. The energy source that powers the productive systems and economy, of both, has been under centralized, Elite control. It’s the dichotomy that has been fostered in the public mind.
The general perception, illusion, of a free oil market, and free markets in general, is managed through the manipulation of news and information by Mass Media, Governments and Education under Corporate ownership and/or control through its power to endow in return for acquiescent and supportive Spin.
One only has to notice the prominence of Oil industry figures in and around the White House to be filled with admiration, and foreboding, at the extent to which consummate wealth has taken control.
With the masterful skill that only money can buy, the oil idustry remains hidden behind the curtain as various terrorist patsies are blamed for the geo-political events that create anxiety in the (manipulated) market forcing the oil price ever upward. (elCIAda, Mossad, MI5, the Illuminati, Bush and Co; the list goes on)
And for the niche of inquiring minds we have the Peak Oil scam right there to find like Mohhamed Atta, fostered by the likes of the respectable Club of Rome and the disreputable fear mongering www.dieoff.com. And now Peak Oil, the issue is public, we have the newly emmergent and paid for experts telling us that after all, oil is not a fossil fuel. It is in fact still abudant. But the oil price continues ever upward now... and our economies will go into recesssion as energy consuming firms head towards bankrupcy.
This is pure PsyOp diverting us from the truth that its just money logics applied by the rich that have brought us to this fearful impasse.
****
Fintan. Just a small admonition from a comparatively old fart. A philosphical point. In the Universe of ideas there are black holes. When one passes though them, say with the help of an acid trip, one thinks one has found the Truth (CIA fakers, for example) but the curious thing is that when one passes through one black hole idea, if you look around there are more, and when you pass through them, more again.
Don't be like Ivan Illich who came up with an illuminating view of the world but was unable to see that there was more to the Truth than what he had seen. He was caught by his celebrity status and could not move on past his initial profound insight.
I hope that we might have a conversation about this and more.
Or are you inadvertantly engaged in yet another exercise to keep us in the System's thrall as it collapses due to its internal contradictions.
We shall see... because though everyone is engaged in perception management (yes you, and I, too)... the future is never actually shaped by the preponderence of belief alone.
