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What's Oil Got To Do With It?
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The oil is running out. Believe all this posturing by OPEC is because Covid caused prices below zero? Not entirely. At the previous consumption rates, it will not last long enough. They are thinking long long long term.
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Russia planned for decades, pipelines look like a maze on a map. Enter non-fossil sun and wind. War on eu to force them to keep pipelines open? That's a raw response to energy shifts. You gonna turn off atomic plant electricity generation to force oil and gas from Russia as only option? Assuredly, a reason for war and absolute territorial dominion.
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usa and eu will let it happen and pay for it later. Why? Putin has threatened nuclear holocaust. And they believe him. I believe him. Why be a nuclear power if you can't flaunt it for position when they surround your queen?
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The plan: Europe, all of it, then middle east, Africa. Where have I seen that strategy before? You telling me Nigeria is the only African country with oil? England isolated, no oil for tanks and spiffy new bombers. It's a good plan. How much does China get? North and South America? usa has never been a country for long range planning.
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Coin flips. Oil and gas diminishment today, land tomorrow as climate shifts. China and Russia will kill off refugees, then anyone with large land masses. usa Generals have nightmares over it.
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We get attacked and the politicians begin to worry about preserving historic land sites. Do not destroy the Hermitage or St. Basil. Vlad & Xi will take out the Smithsonian first and put us in shock while New York, Detroit, Chicago, L.A., Dallas, Tallahassee, and Bismark are dusted next.
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Between nature doing the toxic pollutant dance, above, around, and beneath us, Tyrants are thinking very long-term. Those Harvardites and Yalies along with Annapolis Cadets and U of M (Go Bluers Michigan) better stop talking yatchs and start wearing the knees outta their designer jeans. Houston, you are a problem.
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Lady A
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All roads lead to Rome ('s collapse)
Perhaps nuclear holocaust is the only thing that can save us from Plan A. Seems we've gone too far down the road of a small number of men trying to be god. The car doesn't have gas left to back out of it, now. (A little nod to your words, there.) Truly, of course I don't wish for it, but I also don't see the road we've been on up until now as being mentally and spiritually better than the road that a nuclear holocaust means for the physical body's well-being. We fear apocalypse, but there is no escaping ourselves. The world was designed that way, it seems. We must come face to face with all of our barren ways, one way or another.
Many peoples have been through apocalypses at the hands of others, including historically at the hand of our country. I, of course, know you understand this. Whether or not it is our specific faults, or you or I is more the victim than anything, we'll all be dragged before the band to face the music. And those that sing our swan song will, in turn, sentence their offspring to face it at some later date. Such is the nature of this loop that we confuse with an upcoming end. Even a nuclear holocaust would only put the game pieces back at the beginning of the game, and the "Adams and Eves" of yore would make their moves all over again. Perhaps they'll make better moves than the people who played the game before.
This reset - not to be confused with the "Great Reset" - will come, whether it's due to nuclear incideration (which, I'm doubtful of), or a much longer, drawn out, torturous collapse of civilization that comes after our technocratic overlords have manipulated the genome of us and many other creatures on the planet, as well as handicapping what it means to be a free-thinking and breathing human - way beyond the point of what you and I could recognize in our lifetimes. Thankfully, Dante left a lot of room in his Inferno for the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and the tech gods like them in the various countries of power around the world, and the old money families with perhaps even deeper pockets, as well as their predecessors to come. That space is gonna be needed. Hopefully, the gates of Hades are wide enough to let those mega yatchs come on through.
Handicapped Freedom
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Well said. We are in a petrie dish and the nutrients are almost consumed. Cannibalism classes to begin anon. I like your usa short list, add world dictators and controllers of oil and gas. Apocalypse dreams of us, we dream of Nirvana's, heavens, and paradises. It's a great distraction from reality. If we could hit a reset button, what would we take out or not do again being wiser. Electronics, nuclear physics, ban math. Would we remain agrarian or would our baser instincts perpetuate themselves and make us once more climbers and over consumers set in high competition mode? We do not learn - weaker/wiser syndrome. Death is so final. The ultimate decision limiter. Cousin to time, death don't wait for zip.
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We are hierarchal in nature and have to be on top, we have to be the leader, first, and admired by thousands (a writer's desire). Little gods syndrome is what we have here. And women just got into the game. By the time we reach the point of catharsis, that is when the ciitizens of the world look up and decide it's time for better thinking, better leaders, time to pick up torches and go after the monster, it will be too late in the day for rebellion.
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Chain breaking is not a human quality because there are so many of them; television, careers, needlepoint, sports, family, estate planning, and friends. We are secure, or so we think until the volcano melts security, or Fire and Water raid the forests, or the land slips and sucks down your country, or, or . . .
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Reset. Inevitably, yes. And yes, not in the time of you or me. The piper to be paid is immortal and waits for our offspring, hopefully not blocking the road riffin' Roy Orbison's IT'S OVER, when they get there.
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I don't think Putin is stupid enoughTo choose the nuclear option, but if he did and his generals let him, for whatever reasons they've manufactured, the reset would be science-fiction apocalypse. Dystopia On the horizon. Civilization cabab on a stick.
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Currently, prevention would require an incredible amount of cooperation and energy. Of course, we live in a world where two people cannot agree on the color in the flag overhead, so I'm not hopeful there.
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We are on the verge of catastrophe and most of our chances and reprieves are used up.Oil and gas did us in because Putin made plans to dominate and terrorize and blackmail the west and got/is getting shut off. It's in his genes, in his DNA, it is ego wanting absolute power. I never dreamed that big, the ideal is just too all consuming, to energy draining, a bit Mad Hatter. It's a big world. This is the same kind of ego that created gods and then subjected humans to them ruthlessly and indelibly. Belief is a terrible thing to trash.
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The question generals are asking is: How do we get out of this mess? I think it is past time for blame laying. Everybody's guilty; We, the users and consumers and believers and followers--They, the oligarchs, the leaders, the Ubers, the tech giants, the rapers of the earth. Mother nature will allow you a scratch or bruise, but she will not allow you to dig too deeply. That hurts, and like the major powers of earth from time to time, she awakens, looks over at father nature and asked a few questions. Sleeping on the job? Forget to water the humans? "You are supposed to protect us," she says as she straps on her armor and her shield and tucks her helmet under her arm. Climate is under her control. We are foolish to attempt to usurp her attributes.
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Whenever I hear a loud boom, I look up and go mushroom hunting. Have not done that since 9/11. I think of ants. Humans running around trying to find out why the ant hill has been stepped on. By the way, I liked your image of the mega yachts being squeezed through the gates of hell. That made me laugh. Thanks for the giggles.
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~A~