IN YOUR FACE

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- Connections between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil “On the Table”

- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney “Duck Hunts” with Scalia

- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective

by

Michael C. Ruppert

“The Cheney report is very guarded about the amount of foreign oil that will be required. The only clue provided by the report is a chart of net US oil consumption and production over time. According to this illustration, domestic oil field production will decline from about 8.5 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2002 to 7.0 mbd in 2020, while consumption will jump from 19.5 mbd to 25.5 mbd. That suggests imports or other sources of petroleum… will have to rise from 11 mbd to 18.5 mbd. Most of the recommendations of the NEP are aimed at procuring this 7.5 mbd increment, equivalent to the total oil consumed by China and India .

-- Professor Michael Klare
“Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World's Oil”
Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2004



The White House Stonewall goes on, as the Bush administration continues to deny the non-partisan General Accounting Office's request for information on who the White House Energy Task Force met with while formulating national energy policy. For the first time in history, the GAO has sued the executive branch for access to the records. It has been 42 days since the GAO filed their suit against the Bush administration and 333 days since the White House first received the G A O request. Why is the White House going to such lengths? What are they trying to hide?

Truthout, www.truthout.org
“White House Stonewall”
April 5, 2002

“The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a fight over whether Vice President Dick Cheney must disclose details about secret contacts with energy industry officials as the Bush administration drafted its energy policy…

“The Supreme Court will hear the case sometime in the spring, with a ruling expected by July.”

-- The Associated Press, Dec. 15, 2003

“Bush and Blair have been making plans for the day when oil production peaks, by seeking to secure the reserves of other nations.”

-- George Monbiot
“Bottom of the Barrel”
The Guardian, December 2, 2003

“ China and India are building superhighways and automobile factories. Energy demand is expected to rise by about 50 per cent over the next 20 years, with about 40 per cent of that demand to be supplied by petroleum…

“Oil supplies are finite and will soon be controlled by a handful of nations; the invasion of Iraq and control of its supplies will do little to change that. One can only hope that an informed electorate and its principled representatives will realize that the facts do matter, and that nature – not military might – will soon dictate the ultimate availability of petroleum.”

-- Alfred Cavallo
Oil: The illusion of plenty
Bulletin of the A tomic Scientists, Jan-Feb 2004

The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination…

The plan <“Rebuilding America's Defenses”, Project for a New American Century – 2000> shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power…

The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies… As demand is increasing, so supply is decreasing, continually since the 1960s.

-- Michael Meacher MP, UK Environment Minister 1997-2003
“The War on Terrorism is Bogus”
The Guardian, September 6, 2003

"Moreover, as A merica becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard, p211 (1997)
(Brought to world attention after 9/11 by FTW on Nov. 7, 2001 )

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[SixShooter]

1. I just read this somewhere else too.

Very interesting!