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[otraque]

The future i can see China and U.S. dividing the world in 1/2 and then pretending thay were at war with each other, as with 1984.
And also the world as in the movie Brazil, which paints brilliantly the total horror of a homo sapien infested planet that has evolved into a corporate management megapolis, and the worlds people are reduced to digits working in cubicles or in hard labor.
All high society are corporate management and families.
And then the omnipresence of the resistance attacking( but their resitance is futile, they never win only give dents that are quickly fixed). The motive of their resistance is rather than be but enslaved fleshy bots they find self in trying to destroy the horror of a totally materialist and shallow and utterly meaningles world( one the hard realities this movie deals with, is humans generate incredible amounts of Sh-t, this will become a "NEAT" part of the human experience ahead, movin this sh-t around as we get more and more crowded).
The resistance is always attacking the "sh-t" system--wild.


The pictures Rice is playing with all fit one scenario, an absolute 100% commitment to rule of totalitarian corporate state , which is fascism in its most perfected form.(there is a fine line between Private Entrprise wedding to the Government, to form a fascist totalitarian state, and, the to form a Government run corporate structure, where the structure is far more important than the the human, the human be but the ants to maintain The Colony(sometimes called Communism)--totalitarianism UNDER any name it is totalitarian.
So many are so lost to be able to think as individuals, i have learned a country can say is stands for democracy and freedom, the the people will believe it---they will believe anything.
Thomas Jefferson's GREAT response to the question "What will people believe?" Jefferson replied,"That is not the question, the should be 'What will people NOT believe'"

Condeleeza is a cold calculating fascist bitch, that has formed a platonic devotion to Bush43, like some banal caricature of Hitler and Eva Braun.


i don't paint these scenarios for fun, i feel like an H.G.Welles to be brutally frank--i do have that type of confidence.


But unlike Welles i do not see the world marching into apocalyptic destruction that is then followed by all the survivors then embracing each other swearing never to war again, and dedicate themselves to reason and friendship and peace.
Back to Fraulein Rice, everything she speaks should horrify any that have any remnant of soul left.


All that would applaud it, are the living dead; and, if, they are religious, and see this as g-d's plan, then worship a vampire, that evidently needs devotion to live---just like that StarTrek episode where the The Enterprise is being taken over by some terrible force, and all are doomed until Kirk realizes this force FEEDS ITSELF on creating FEAR in people. so all start laughing and making merry and the force dies--it has lost its food.(Hint:)

We are faced with this, no matter the scenario that prevails, it will be the annihilation of individualism, freedom, art, laughter.

i will say are living in the breakout of America into a full blown totalitarian state, and China may well be its needed partner in this Imperial Triumph of the artless, dull, cold souless horror people, these are our future masters.


That is, if the homo sapien has become SO COWARDLY and Dull there will be no meaningful resistance.


We, the people of America, have been spoonfed to make us BY FAR the most gluttonous consuming organism is the history of the world.
Believe it your not, fact is that from 1996 to 2005 the people of the United States accounted for 47.5% of consumer spending in the entire world!
This huge move in out of control consumption to those born in 1980, is for them NORMAL, like wow the world has always been like this.
Fact is the kids today live in biggest fantasy Bubble in world history and think this is reality, forever.

i close as i always have to when i write like this and will state i am as deeply a spiritual person you can conceive.
i don't bother with speaking of the cutting edge of Physics, as maybe but one in a hundred listen to Physic cutting concepts:) But anyway, FWIW, new physics have made new fertile ground for totally revolutionary new perceptions of space/time and where we actually are.

But most important cutting edge physics has allowed it to be perfectly fair realm of contemplation and to create systems that allow validity to view that we can can live in our dimension and walk through , look through another world even though it surrounds us.
And there can be 1,000s of different other worlds.
Enough already. Max

[Amaunet]

Bush Leverage With Russia, Iran, China Falls as Oil Prices Rise

Current high oil prices may exacerbate the erosion of the United States but the fact of the matter is under the failed Bush administration regional power centers led by China have been able to gather speed as never before and move forward practically unimpeded.

Bush has committed the greatest sin of which a president can be guilty. During his tenure the United States went from sole dominant power to a player in a multi polar world.

RICE's analysis was preceded by a change in the Pentagon's perspective through 2005 in which military planners introduced the idea that Washington was entering a "long war" to secure its interests against Islamic revolutionaries and a long-term attempt to contain rising regional power centers that would require partnerships and stabilization efforts around the world.

The 21st century, in RICE's view, will not be a second "American century"; it will be a global century defined by what PINR (Power and Interest News Report) has called "the new regionalism".
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-Am

Bush Leverage With Russia, Iran, China Falls as Oil Prices Rise
May 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, already weakened at home by the soaring cost of oil, is finding that it's also eroding his ability to achieve his foreign-policy goals.

``It's a geopolitical nightmare,' says William Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and defense secretary under President Bill Clinton who is now chairman of the Cohen Group, a Washington-based consulting firm. Such nations as Iran, Russia and China ``don't see us as the colossus that can cause them any harm, either by our economy or by our prestige.'

Record-high energy prices are weakening Bush's prospects of assembling an international coalition to counter Iran's nuclear ambitions. They are diminishing his chances of influencing energy-rich nations such as Russia and isolating troublesome ones including Venezuela and Sudan. And they are straining U.S. economic and diplomatic ties with China, whose oil needs are skyrocketing.

Prices show no signs of abating in the last two-and-a-half years of Bush's presidency, with oil futures hovering near $72 a barrel through the November 2008 presidential election. That's creating a windfall for oil-producing nations that may thwart Bush's goal of promoting democracy and free markets from Asia to the Middle East and halting the spread of nuclear arms.

Bush acknowledged last week that high oil prices have decreased the U.S.'s power to sway events.

``Some of the nations we rely on for oil have unstable governments or agendas that are hostile to the United States,' he said in an April 25 speech to ethanol producers in Washington. ``These countries know we need their oil, and that reduces our influence.'

Security Concern

Bush called the U.S. dependence on imports a ``national- security concern,' saying the nation now gets about 60 percent of its oil from overseas, up from 25 percent two decades ago.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that 74 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling gasoline prices, while 23 percent approve. The poll, conducted April 6-9, also showed Bush's overall approval rating fell to a record-low 38 percent.

While his weakened standing with Americans limits his ability to marshal support for his policies at home, energy- producing countries that view oil as political and diplomatic currency are emboldened, recognizing that the American economy depends largely on them.

`Tied Bush's Hands'

``The high crude prices have tied Bush's hands,' says David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn International Strategies, a Washington-based consulting firm, and an assistant energy secretary during the Clinton administration. ``These very high prices really empower other leaders to act with impunity.'

It isn't only oil producers that are ignoring U.S. wishes. China, the world's second-largest consumer of petroleum products behind the U.S., is seeking energy resources wherever it can find them. That includes negotiating for investments in nations such as Iran, Nigeria and Sudan, where Bush is seeking to improve human rights and push democracy.

Chinese President Hu Jintao followed his April 20 visit to the U.S. with a trip to Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, to seek drilling rights. China has accounted for more than 40 percent of the growth in global oil demand during the past four years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has frustrated the Bush administration by rolling back democratic rights in his country and seeking to dominate former Soviet republics. Putin has also been reluctant to pressure North Korea and Iran to not develop nuclear weapons. He has resisted U.S. efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, as has China.

Difficulty With Russia

The Bush administration is having difficulty with Russia even though the U.S. buys little oil or natural gas from the country, says Jim Goldgeier, a professor of international affairs at George Washington University in Washington.

``It's not so much our dependence,' Goldgeier says. ``The bigger impact has been the effect of Russia's energy development on its own assertiveness in foreign policy. There's a real sense that they don't need us very much, so they don't need to listen to us.'

Last year, Russia earned $117 billion from exports of oil and oil products, and another $32 billion from gas, government figures show.

In Iran, the world's second-largest holder of oil and gas reserves, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a UN deadline to suspend the nuclear program. On April 28, the UN's nuclear agency told the Security Council that Iran has enriched uranium and is stonewalling efforts to determine whether the program is intended for the production of nuclear weapons.

Oil Earnings

Iran earned $45 billion in oil revenue in the year ended March 20, almost 50 percent more than it generated a year earlier, the government says.

That income helps keep society calm and reformers at bay. ``High oil prices help the people who are in power to stay in power,' says Michael Mussa, a senior economist at the Washington-based Institute for International Economics.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says rising oil prices reflect U.S.-led global economic growth that has benefited many developing nations. She also says increasing oil revenue has benefited some governments that are hostile to the U.S.

``High prices have supported some regimes that do not share our values,' Perino says.

One such regime is in Venezuela, the U.S.'s third-biggest oil supplier. President Hugo Chavez has sought to throw his weight across Latin America, urging Colombia to renege on a free- trade accord it signed with the U.S. and tripling trade with Cuba since taking office in 1999. ``A high oil price allows him to get away with a lot of nonsense,' Mussa says of Chavez.

``We're in the middle of a new wave of resource nationalism because these countries feel like they don't need any help' from the U.S., says Luis Giusti, who headed Venezuela's state-run oil company before Chavez came to power. ``This is a completely different world.'



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Last Updated: May 1, 2006 00:14 EDT

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