Gazprom Warns Oil could HIT $250

The Russians undermined Opec's attempts to talk down the oil market by warning that crude prices could almost double within 18 months. I see a lot of commuters riding motorcycles these days. Have a nice day!

Are you ready for $15 a Gallon Gas?(Click here for the full story)

Robert Hirsch: "Are you ready for $12-15-a-Gallon Gas?"

Robert Hirsch, Management Information Services Senior Energy Advisor , as quoted to Becky Quick on CNBC's May 20 Squawk Box, "there is no single thing that will solve our problem of declining oil reserves".
He told the Business and Media" institute that this was not his prediction, but that he was quoting Charles T. Maxwell, the "Dean of Oil Analysts", and the senior energy energy analyst at Weeden & Co.

The Spontaneous Christmas Truce of 1914! September 11, 1919: President Wilson Confesses War Guilt During Speech in St. Louis!!

Click here: In direct violation of their orders, soldiers decided for peace, but soon their criminal and evil governments forced them to kill each other once more. I am proud to report that my grandfather, a soldier in the German Army on the Western Front, participated in this historic truce. Click here for reviews about "Merry Christmas", alternate title "Joyeux Noel", a French movie about this historic truce, by writer-director Christian Carion, now playing in your neighborhood.

Only our criminal governments want war, and all governments use a subservient press to deceive their citizens in order to persuade them to fight. As President Wilson confessed during his speech in St. Louis, on September 11, 1919: "Is there any man, woman, or child here, who does not know that the seed of war is industrial and commercial rivalry? This war was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war".

Type "keynes" after clicking on this link:(Click here to read "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by that world-renowned economist, John Maynard Keynes) During your next PTA meeting, ask why our children are not permitted to learn about this easily documented speech of President Wilson in their history classes.

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"Friends" Abandoning George Bush

"It's Twilight at the White House" says Der Spiegel, Germany's most influential news magazine. (Please click on the title for the full story).

George may be presiding over the White House for another 14 months, but, judging by the mood of his friends, including the many corporate fat cats who slobbered at the Republican trough, you would think it was the last 14 hours. Sixty corporate CEO's, who had previously donated primarily to the Bush campaigns are now giving more money to the Democrats.

Four months ago the speechwriter who invented the "axis of evil" phrase jumped ship, soon followed by the White House press secretary, the budget director, the director of "strategic initiatives", and chief political adviser Karl Rove. They were followed by two cabinet secretaries and the secretary of agriculture.

Looks like it's crying time again for the Republicans, while a newly enlightened public prepares to leave them!

Terrorism Experts Say Bin Laden Getting Stronger

According to the a top British Newspaper (please click title for link), President Bush's homeland security adviser (see cartoon at left) is dead wrong when she alleges that the fugitive Al-Qaida is now "virtually impotent".

The consensus of the nation's top intelligence analysts is that it is regrouping and growing in strength, intensifying efforts to put operatives in the United States and plotting against U.S. targets that will cause massive casualties. The U.S. is in a "heightened threat environment" and al-Qaida is the most serious threat, according to these analysts. "While he may be physically contained , his influence is not bounded by any physical barriers," says Thomas Sanderson, an authority on terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairmen of the independent Sept. 11 commission said that though our defenses are better "we have become distracted and complacent". Senator John McCain also described bin Laden as a "great danger". "He continues to communicate, he continues to lead, and he continues to be a symbol for them of leadership in his radical hatred" commented McCain.

Second British General Bashes US Iraq Strategy!

Major General Tim Cross (left, in civilian attire) the top British officer involved in planning post-war Iraq, said Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the serious concerns he had raised about the possibility of the country descending into chaos.

On Saturday, General Mike Jackson (far left - in uniform), had branded US post-invasion policy "intellectually bankrupt", and blamed Rumsfeld for the current situation in Iraq.

Major General Cross, who is now retired, was deputy head of the coalition's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. "Right from the very beginning we were all concerned about the lack of detail that had gone into the post-war plan - and there is no doubt that Rumsfeld was at the heart of that process. Rumsfeld apparently did not want to hear about Cross's concerns.

America: No longer feared, but the nut you walk away from!

Nicolas Sarkozy, now President of France for three months: The (American) catastrophe in Iraq has had an unlooked-for effect: Not to stoke anti-Americanism in a new generation but to make America seem almost marginal....when people in Paris talk about manufacturing might, they talk about China; when they talk about tall buildings, they talk about Dubai; when they talk about foreign takeovers, they talk about Gazprom, the giant Russian oil and gas company. (After acquisition of Sibneft, with 119 billion barrels of reserves, it ranks only behind Saudi Arabia as the world's largest owner of oil and natural gas.)

America is no longer very important in the world. What Brown (Britain), Merkel (Germany), and Sarkozy have in common is that they do not want to be defined by their response to America. Its military weakness has been exposed in Iraq, its economic weakness by the rise in the Euro, and its once-great cultural magnetism has been diminished by post-9/11 paranoia and insularity.

To a new European leadership class it is no longer the human bomb you have to diffuse, but the nut you walk away from. (Thank you, President Bush!)

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