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Mea cupla, if so then. Irony and satire can be hard to detect on the internet sometimes.
Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett
Sarcasm/irony is difficult to recognize. When I suggested that the Saudis were cutting oil production as part of their effort to combat global warming, someone actually wrote a comment saying that biodiesel is worse, and that the Saudis should keep pumping.
Though slowly recovering from my previous fixation, my take on peak oil tends to have a political/DC perspective since the 1970s. That 4 million barrel a day claim has been floating around for a number of years - at one time, it was also connected in a hazy fashion to the idea that America could break OPEC's back if it could just get control of Iraq's oil and flood the market. Not that getting control of Iraq's oil would have anything to do with invading Iraq, of course - it would just be the natural reaction of a newly freed OPEC member being invited to enjoy the benefits of selling oil at a lower price than before.
The thing is, many of the people making decisions in DC live in bubble chambers, or mirrored rooms, or ivory towers, or have perfected self-delusion to an art form. They simply repeat what is said among themselves until it becomes reality - like the rose petal welcome the Iraqis were expected to give to their American liberators. And when events don't go as expected, then obviously, the messenger is to blame.
It is always difficult to figure out which DC figures are utterly amoral and shameless operators (many), true believers (very few), and who has real power - for example, no one still understands the balance of power between Bush and Cheney.
As for truth? Of no benefit to anyone in DC at this point.
That's spot on. The problem is that the bubble now includes most of the "serious" pundits of the media, thus their world view becomes conventional wisdom on a much wider scale as it is endlessly rehashed and repeated in the media, and most people genuinely believe that to be true, simply because they hear it from reputable sources.
America needs a regime change and quick. The Nazis were also living in a bubble of delusion and that made them dangerous to humanity. But the UK establishment is not far behind in wallowing in its own drivel. Together they are shifting their hate focus on Russia. Do these f*cktards really believe that Russia will be a cakewalk and that the physical damage will be outside their borders?
As one reporter said( I do not remember who) you can be invited to dinners and parties or not it depends on what you report afterwards as to which list you go on.
It is easier to get along and it pays the same as long as you are good looking, I see very few common looking newsreporters anymore. Twist Ben Franklins famous statement to match current US attitudes.
"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance"
Seriously, how many americans want to hear things where they have to change thier lives to less of everything?
"The show must go on" or "On with the show" "Charge(it)"