Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: 'Apocalypse of Coercion' Kevin Barrett
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Below is "Apocalypse of Coercion," a new article by mujca.com coordinator Kevin Barrett analyzing 9/11 as a psy-op. The article draws on media guru Douglas Rushkoff's book Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. Rushkoff, an NYU professor and Esalen Institute teacher, is one of the world's most celebrated media commentators: http://www.rushkoff.com/ Barrett sent him a copy of "Apocalypse of Coercion" and asked if he thought of 9/11 as the kind of coercive psy-op his book analyzed. Rushkoff responded:
"Yeah - terrific stuff. I began thinking about this sort connection, myself, when I saw the documentary Power of Nightmares. He's got a lot more to say about it than I do; pretty much all my opinions on the matter are just watered down versions of his. Have you seen it? I'm assuming you would have, given your area of interest."
The simple truth is, coercion doesn’t work any more, and future historians will view 9/11 as its final implosion. In the mid-1990s PR guru Howard Rubenstein saw that the internet had made damage-control coercion obsolete, and began advising clients that they had no choice but to let the ugly truth hang out. Need a coverup? “The lesson is not to do it. Sure, people will come to you and say, ‘Let’s set up a committee and we’ll call it so-and-so, and we’ll hire someone to run it,’ and my attitude is: What’s known is known. Simple. What is known gets published. So it’s foolhardy to set up a fig-leaf committee and hope nobody will look under the fig leaf and see what’s there” (160). Unfortunately, the Bush Administration didn’t take Rubenstein’s advice when it set up the 9/11 Commission.
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