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Lecture by Naomi Wolf – ‘The End of America’
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Charles Goyette Interviews Naomi Wolf
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/20…rviews-naomi-wolf.html
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Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study
Output peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year, Decline in gas, coal and uranium also predicted.
Ashley Seager
The Guardian
October 22, 2007
World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday hitting more than $90 (£44) a barrel.
“The world soon will not be able to produce all the oil it needs as demand is rising while supply is falling. This is a huge problem for the world economy,” said Hans-Josef Fell, EWG’s founder and the German MP behind the country’s successful support system for renewable energy.
The report’s author, Joerg Schindler, said its most alarming finding was the steep decline in oil production after its peak, which he says is now behind us.
The results are in contrast to projections from the International Energy Agency, which says there is little reason to worry about oil supplies at the moment.
However, the EWG study relies more on actual oil production data which, it says, are more reliable than estimates of reserves still in the ground. The group says official industry estimates put global reserves at about 1.255 gigabarrels – equivalent to 42 years’ supply at current consumption rates. But it thinks the figure is only about two thirds of that.
Global oil production is currently about 81m barrels a day – EWG expects that to fall to 39m by 2030. It also predicts significant falls in gas, coal and uranium production as those energy sources are used up.
Britain’s oil production peaked in 1999 and has already dropped by half to about 1.6 million barrels a day.
The report presents a bleak view of the future unless a radically different approach is adopted. It quotes the British energy economist David Fleming as saying: “Anticipated supply shortages could lead easily to disturbing scenes of mass unrest as witnessed in Burma this month. For government, industry and the wider public, just muddling through is not an option any more as this situation could spin out of control and turn into a complete meltdown of society.”
Mr Schindler comes to a similar conclusion. “The world is at the beginning of a structural change of its economic system. This change will be triggered by declining fossil fuel supplies and will influence almost all aspects of our daily life.”
Jeremy Leggett, one of Britain’s leading environmentalists and the author of Half Gone, a book about “peak oil” – defined as the moment when maximum production is reached, said that both the UK government and the energy industry were in “institutionalised denial” and that action should have been taken sooner.
“When I was an adviser to government, I proposed that we set up a taskforce to look at how fast the UK could mobilise alternative energy technologies in extremis, come the peak,” he said. “Other industry advisers supported that. But the government prefers to sleep on without even doing a contingency study. For those of us who know that premature peak oil is a clear and present danger, it is impossible to understand such complacency.”
Mr Fell said that the world had to move quickly towards the massive deployment of renewable energy and to a dramatic increase in energy efficiency, both as a way to combat climate change and to ensure that the lights stayed on. “If we did all this we may not have an energy crisis.”
He accused the British government of hypocrisy. “Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have talked a lot about climate change but have not brought in proper policies to drive up the use of renewables,” he said. “This is why they are left talking about nuclear and carbon capture and storage. “
Yesterday, a spokesman for the Department of Business and Enterprise said: “Over the next few years global oil production and refining capacity is expected to increase faster than demand. The world’s oil resources are sufficient to sustain economic growth for the foreseeable future. The challenge will be to bring these resources to market in a way that ensures sustainable, timely, reliable and affordable supplies of energy.”
The German policy, which guarantees above-market payments to producers of renewable power, is being adopted in many countries – but not Britain, where renewables generate about 4% of the country’s electricity and 2% of its overall energy needs.
$200 Dollar a Barrel Oil Is Bilderberg Plan To Destroy Middle Class
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/170907_middle_class.htm
The Myth Of Peak Oil
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm
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Thousands of Monks in Burma to be imprisoned; Thousands more reported dead
Wikinews
October 1, 2007
Several reports coming out of Myanmar today suggest that thousands of monks involved in protests against the Burmese government will “be sent away” to prisons outside of the capital city of Rangoon. Other reports are stating that the number of monks killed by Burmese troops are in the thousands. According to reports by BBC News, at least 4,000 or more monks have been arrested and questioned by government authorities in their recent crackdown on protests favoring democracy for the nation. It is reported that they are being held at the Government Technological Institute, the Kyaikkasan racing track and in a prison called Insein Prison. From these locations, they will be transported to prisons located in the extreme northern part of Burma. The monks have not been allowed to wear their robes and are in shackles, and some of them have been beaten. Many have also initiated a hunger strike, refusing to eat.
Although the Burmese government reports only 10 monks to have been killed, other reports from activists and media agencies say that the death toll is in the thousands.
Pictures have surfaced claiming that thousands of dead monks have been dumped inside the Burmese jungles. Many of the monks who managed to escape capture from troops have dressed in civilian clothing and have begun to hide inside their temples or have fled Rangoon.
“Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand,” said a deserter of the Burmese army and a former intelligence officer, Hla Win. He also states that he deserted the army when he was ordered to kill monks in what he called a “massacre of holy men.”
“I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks on to trucks. They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this,” added Win.
An unnamed diplomatic official from Sweden also claims that at least 40 monks were beaten to death, then their bodies were burned.
Meanwhile, Ibrahim Gambari, an envoy for the United Nations is in Burma attempting to resolve the issues there and meet with government officials, but he has been unsuccessful so far in arranging a meeting. New reports say that the government is making Gambari wait another day before there will be the possibility of a meeting.
“He [Gambari] will come back tomorrow and he will meet with the senior general tomorrow in Naypyidaw,” said an unnamed U.N. Information Ministry official. Gambari is waiting to meet with Senior General Than Shwe, the head of the junta, to urge a resolution to the violence. This is the second day the meeting has been postponed.
Thousands of protesters and monks missing in secret gulag of the generals
Times Online
October 3, 2007
With its rusty barbed wire fence, dense tropical foliage and acreage of decaying buildings, the former Government Technology Institute in Rangoon would be a spooky place at the best of times. In the past week, however, if reports circulating in Rangoon are correct, it has been transformed from an abandoned ruin to a place of mass suffering and repression.
According to Western diplomats and at least one Burmese government official, the technical institute has become a temporary concentration camp for 1,700 of the victims of last week’s brutal suppression of the democracy uprising. It provides a partial answer to one of the lingering questions about the Burmese junta’s crackdown: where are the monks, democracy activists and journalists who have been rounded up and spirited away over the past six weeks?
Despite the international attention given to the quashing of the anti-Government marches, the crackdown remains undocumented. Apart from admitting that 13 people have died, a figure regarded by most observers as an underestimate, the authorities have given no details of the numbers of those arrested and detained.
Most people have vanished without trace, many of them the Buddhist monks who formed the backbone of the tens of thousands of people who turned out last week in Rangoon and Mandalay. “We think that at least 30 have been killed, about 1,400 people have been arrested,” Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister said. “This is a brutal regime and we’ve seen it at work over the last few days.”
One international organisation based in Rangoon has made a provisional reckoning of 40 dead, based on reports from hospitals, 1,000 monks arrested and 3,000 secular detainees. The only thing of which one can be sure is that somewhere in the country large numbers of people are being held in an invisible prison camp, without charge, without legal recourse and without the ability to communicate.
One of them is Win Zaw, 56, a former university teacher and now a Burmese journalist who works for the Japanese newspaper, Tokyo Shimbun. At 12.30am on Friday he answered a knock on his door to six strangers in civilian clothes. Two of them introduced themselves as representatives of the Home Ministry; the rest remained silent. They told Mr Win Zaw that they wanted him to come with them for questioning.
Since then, despite repeated enquiries to the authorities, his family has heard nothing from him and they are increasingly anxious about his health. Mr Win Zaw is a diabetic and his supply of insulin will run out in nine days.
The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended its visits to prisons at the end of last year after the junta insisted that its delegates must be accompanied by government-nominated observers, a condition that the ICRC insists is unacceptable. In the absence of any concrete information from the Government, foreign embassies in Rangoon do their best to sift through the huge number of phone calls made to them by local people.
Several consistent reports have emerged from this mountain of information of monks and secular detainees being held at former educational institutes and sports venues around Rangoon. The news agency Agence France Presses quoted an unnamed government official who confirmed what foreign diplomats have suspected for days — that about 1,700 people have been held at the Government Technology Institute campus, including 200 women and one monastic novice, aged 10.
Even on the ground it is difficult to confirm such stories, but something is going on at the campus. Armed police and soldiers can be glimpsed through the barbed wire and trees all along its perimeter fence, and guarding its main gate. Many buildings are derelict, but one of the biggest — a blue and green striped warehouse-like structure with a high roof and no windows — has a concentration of soldiers outside. According to AFP it is in a building like this that the prisoners are being detained. Many of the monks have been forcibly deprived of their monastic robes; some have gone on hunger strike, a continuation of the policy of refusing alms from members of the regime as a token of resistance.
The streets of Rangoon continued to be quiet yesterday as the United Nations special envoy on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, flew out after a four-day visit.
The UN has provided no details of the substance of his trip but he did eventually see the junta leader, General Than Shwe, and has had a second meeting with the detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Defector: Burma’s junta has executed thousands of monks
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/6491
Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articl….%20the%20jungle/article.do
Burma blogger posts photos of dead monks
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/….photos-of-dead.html
BBC: Burmese monks ‘to be sent away’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7022437.stm
BURMA’S main internet link remained shut for a third day straight
http://www.news.com.au….,22049,22509496-5001028,00.html
Stallone and Crew Saw Myanmar Aftermath
http://www.columbian.com/….tNews/AP10012007news207188.cfm/
3,000 join Burma protest in London
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P282
Myanmar: Thousands Of Monks To Be Jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7022437.stm
Myanmar: Thousands Of Monks Dead
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages…ldnews.html?in_article_id=484903
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