Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.

America is not the only game in town anymore. State of the art technology, manufactured products and military equipment are available on the open market from nations other than the USA. America has become an economic zone, a duty free shop like you see at the airport. We’re the globalists’ bazaar or flea market, with 300 million slack-jawed consumers. We’re not particularly important to most nations of the world except in the sense that we buy a lot of natural resources (petroleum) and manufactured goods from the rest of the world. We provide very little in return except a falling-in-value dollar. Our domestic technology and engineering skills are equalled or surpassed by a number of countries who do not demand fealty to their political positions as the U.S. government does. The American elites still delude themselves with the idea that the rest of the world finds America indispensable and necessary. Thus those elites believe we can threaten and even attempt to force the submission of the world’s nations to the whims of the U.S. government through our military power. But it’s not possible. Swift’s Gulliver in Lilliput is a perfect metaphor for the United States in 2008. The smaller nations of the world are collectively much stronger than the United States, especially since the United States is dependent upon those smaller countries for energy resources (petroleum). Unfortunately American politicians don’t want to admit that and what it’s going to take to teach America some humility, humanity and introspection is a “Bridge too Far” scenario. America will eventually initiate yet another war it can’t fight then subsequently get its teeth kicked in on a foreign battlefield or several foreign battlefields simultaneously. Hopefully that does not result in the utter destruction of the United States. The scenario will be a humiliating and unquestionable defeat somewhere in the world that could clearly be much worse if America does not openly admit it’s beaten then retreat like a whipped dog. After that America must turn its attention inward, completely reject its self-appointed role of global-cop and understand it had better repair its own house first as well as learn to play well with others. Or perish. That of course includes ridding ourselves of our sixty year old tapeworm, israel.

P.S. Some interesting energy stats:

The United States burns approximately 21 million barrels of oil per day. That amounts to approximately 7.5 BILLION barrels of per year. (1)

60% of that, or approximately 4 Billion barrels per year is imported from outside the country. (2)

The most optimistic estimate of the ANWR reserves in Alaska is 36 Billion barrels. That entire reserve would replace our imports for nine years. To emphasise that — there’s only enough oil in Alaska to replace what we currently IMPORT for nine years. (3)

The Big Alaska Oil deposit that so many people cling to in their hopes and dreams is a fantasy. There isn’t enough oil in Alaska to matter. In comparison to what’s in Alaska the Bakken reserves in Montana and North Dakota are even punier. (4)

The USA is the third largest country in the world in terms of population and we’re the #1 nation in the world in oil imports. On the other hand Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world in terms of population but they’re #18 on the list of oil importers. (5)

Refs below.

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Alaska North Slope may hold 36 bln bbl oil – U.S. Department of Energy

Tue, 29 Jan 2008

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Oil and natural gas production at Alaska’s North Slope has been declining since 1988 but the region holds promise if energy prices stay high and Congress opens key areas to exploration, the U.S. Energy Department said in a report released on Tuesday.

Through 2050, the North Slope could yield up to 36 billion barrels of oil and 137 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under optimistic assumptions, the Energy Department said.

That would be enough to meet current U.S. oil demand for about five years and natural gas for a year and a half, but some major obstacles stand in the way of hitting those goals. (3)

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Bakken Formation oil field has up to 4.3 billion barrels
11 April 2008

A new federal study estimates the Bakken Formation in Montana and North Dakota contains from 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil, a figure 25 times greater than the 151 million barrels originally estimated in 1999.

The original estimate was based on traditional drilling techniques, but a new technique used by Billings wildcatter Dick Findley in 2000 has changed that. He drilled horizontally — fracturing the porous dolomite rock that holds the oil — to make the Elm Coulee field in northeastern Montana the biggest discovery in the continental United States and Canada.

“So this new estimate compensates for the change in technology that opened up the Elm Coulee field,” petroleum geologist Jim Halvorson of the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation said Thursday.

The Bakken Formation encompasses some 25,000 square miles in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The U.S. Geological Survey calls it the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed. (4)

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Refs:

Oil consumption 2007 – USA (1)
Here.

Net Petroleum Imports 2006 – USA (2)
Here.

Alaska North Slope may hold 36 bln bbl oil – U.S. Department of Energy (3)
Here.

Bakken Formation Oil Field Has up to 4.3 Billion Barrels (4)
Here.

Oil Imports – Net by Country 2008 (5)
Here.

One more time
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

In Britain it was clearly a masterstroke to make a Tory (Tony Blair) the leader of the Labour party. It meant he could implement extensive corporatist policies with the support of the Tories. Labour were so thankful to be elected that they followed blindly.

There is now a massive momentum toward tyranny and fascism (the merging of state and corporate power) which is almost unstoppable. As I grew up in the shadow of the second world war, I would sometimes wondered how the Germans allowed Hitler and the Nazis to gain power.

Now I know. If you ask people today about war crimes in Iraq or torture in Guantanamo mostly they say ‘ … yes, but it is time to move on’ or ‘… I know but what can I do?’ or ‘ … I don’t have time to pay attention to that ‘.

That’s what they said in Nazi Germany.

The only way to save the US is vote 3rd Party. Vote libertarian, constituion or green party. Vote anything but republican or democrat. The US needs change, promised by Obama, who is just another democratic politician.