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With new environmental technologies and modern efficiency methods in mining can we revive this sector of our economy. It would be great for manufacturing costs and coupled with the current low dollar we stand to make gain quite a bit if we can. By doing this the job of doing mining correctly it is feasible, but environmental laws are not the only regulations that mining operations have to deal with, once you let those bastard regulators on the property they are only interested in finding something wrong to pay for their trip.

Many older coal miners of the past few generations met these US Regulators at the gates with shotguns. This is due to the outrageous, self-righteous attitude of the overbearing government regulators. Here is one story from the daughter of an old coalminer who owned several mines which were eventually forced to be shut down. Was it competition that prompted this? Was it the environment? Organized labor? Why the attacks on a coalminer family? Here is her story:

“There is so much political BS in the energy field it isn’t even funny. When I was 11 or 12, I walked down to the mine yard where I witnessed two Federal mine inspectors shoving my father around. They were provoking him to try to get him to fight them. He just stood there like the gentle soul he was. I went back to the house, picked up the rifle and shells and fired a warning shot over their heads. Lord, was my father ever mortified! The Feds backed up with their hands in the air and I told them exactly how to get in their vehicle and drive away before I decided to blow their heads off. They did. My father took the rifle and walked me back to the house lecturing me with the biggest grin on his face. When my mom and dad were discussing the situation, I snuck out, hopped on my bicycle and went after them (of course, I was gun less by this time). They were on the highway a few miles away and I decided to do the domino effect. I got neighbors to get other neighbors and we all hit the highway with me still on my bicycle leading the troops. We went around the corner and the bastards had decided to turn around and come back. All vehicles stopped and everyone got out and stood across the road with me. All were packing with their guns at their sides. The neighbors went to my parent’s house after this to tell them what we’d done. Someone got the law and the attorney and it was probably the first time I saw the gapping holes in our legal system.”

Interesting how we deal with things in this country. And mine you this is a true story, certainly 30 years ago, but it is real.

Truth, Justice and The American way are an ideal to work towards, it is questionable if they ever have actually existed in our country as per those wonderful textbooks in grade school. However with that now known and with the truth of Santa Clause also revealed to us, we do have duty in this country to fight for that ideal. Having read about this in many novels and non-fiction books and having now experienced these things personally;

http://washguy.com/ftc.shtml ,

I believe we can have those ideals and still provide business opportunities for those who wish to control various industries, by finding win-win solutions that expand the pie for all and serve the needs of the people, not the sheep. If you read about the Oil Barons in this country and understand the politics, the law and the DOJ, you can see there is more to it than simply digging up a raw material or resource, collecting it, refining it and selling it.

This is not good or bad, it just is. And “IT” affects every single aspect of our lives. Everyone should read Ayn Rand before they judge the producers, wild caters, entrepreneurs and risk takers that built all we are and all we know. Perhaps I am not the only one upset about the government’s ability to disrupt the flow of things. Perhaps we are not the first to be attacked or the last. I recommend “The Business End of Government” By Smoot. Here is one family that was attacked who still to this day has many things to say? Such as what is the role of Government?

http://www.rockinst.org/

and another who has given more money to humanity than any other couple in the history of mankind;

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm .

For us to continue to mine our own natural resources we need to sustain our factories and manufacturing facilities we need a new hands off approach to the inane regulations that plague the industry. We are not saying a complete lack of regard for the environment, but a better approach to the streamlining the bureaucracy and more reality based lawmaking and regulations. Not simply laws to make laws or appease the poppers in the peanut gallery and Sierra Club Fringe with the squeakiest of wheels in a little red wagon full of academia reports containing junk science. What we need is a reality check that will not produce more “Out to Save the World, by making Everyone and Everything Equal” college kids taught by the most liberal of professors.

If we want to revive this sector of our economy and the mining sector to help restore jobs for America and our manufacturing and industrial might we must think about these issues. We need cooperation between government and industry not over regulation from spiteful enforcement agencies. Think about it America, we can be strong again.

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“But for how long ? !” We send our brave men and women off to fight in a foreign land , while we allow certain anti Christian government officials to little by little chip away and remove the vary “GOD given” freedoms that we sent them off to defend!

We allowed the BIBLE to be removed from our public schools while we allowed the” theory” of evolution to be forcibly taught to our Children we look at incidents like Columbine and we hear a woman who’s lost a child in a school shooting say GOD how could you let this happen ? YOUR ANSWER : YOU SAID GOD WASN’T ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS ! It’s now more easily done to sneak guns and explosives into a public school , than it is to read a Bible there , and the A.C.L.U. won’t file a law suit for bringing a gun or bomb to school , but they sure will if you bring a Bible.

The American justice system , in the court room you are asked to swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth , “SO HELP ME GOD !”on the BIBLE , while The Ten Commandments have just been ordered out of the public court .”The same principles that you were just asked to swear to tell the truth by !” With the removal of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS on which the American justice was based , and our great country was founded ,YOU have just allowed the hope of all justice to be removed from the American court room !

When I was in school , we were taught to be loyal to our country .We stood shoulder to shoulder as young Americans, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance , the way it was originally designed , ONE NATION UNDER GOD , for those of you who don’t remember . ” GOD & A FREE COUNTRY” That’s what our brave men & women of the armed services are fighting and dieing for !

There are only two ways to be , right or wrong . So if we are in the right ot send our men & women to fight for our “GOD GIVEN FREEDOM”, isn’t it there fore wrong to allow them to remove the name of GOD from public view ?

The agenda of the A.C.L.U Is to make the USA reflect a non - believers view of the nations founding and future existence. They have filed suit to have our national motto” In GOD we trust” removed from our currency , One Nation Under God removed from the Pledge of Allegiance , The white cross war memorials removed and the grave markers In all government cemetery’s such as Arlington will surely be in their line of fire as well .

The Ten Commandments Moses was given by God has been forcibly removed form all most all of the government buildings and our government must reflect a non religious atheistic view in all public places . Why are they so ashamed of their GOD given freedoms ? That was the heritage the fore fathers wanted to pass on to all future generations !

Down through out all history we read of the sacrifices that our ancestors made as they fought and died to keep all of us free . George Washington ordered his troops to daily , begin the day by gathering all officers and troops together and praying . Praying for Almighty God to make them victorious in battle,and for the safety of the men.

The First Continental Congress filed a motion in 1774 to pause for prayer to ask for support and guidance following a report of the British invasion of Boston . The prayer was formed from Psalms 35 in the Bible .

A national day of fasting was initiated by congress to ask Gods forgiveness for sins of the American soldiers committed in the war . Church services were held in the U.S. Capitol building which Jefferson attended and the U.S. Marine band supplied the music at tax payers expense . Church services were also held in the Supreme Court building for many years .

Separation of church and state means , The government was never to force any single religion to be recognized as a nationally chosen or federally controlled , as it was in England . Instead , it was to recognise the practice of many different religions and not prohibit the exercise of it . In short , the government was to stay out of the church’s business , but not for church to stay out of government .

Freedom of religion is an amendment in the Constitution of The United States which stated that Congress was to not make a law for or against the practice of any certain religion,or to restrict the practice of it .

If we let the A.C.L.U. Full fill their objective of the total removal of God from our nations motto , our songs , our currency , our Pledge , our cemetery , our national monuments , Then we have lost some of our Freedom of speech as well as our Christian rights . That may as well be minority rule and not what the majority of Americans want.

With out the influence of Judaism and Christianity , this nation will morally decay . And if it is silenced for ever publicly , our children will have no idea of their heritage , where it came from or what it means to have God given Freedoms as an in alienable right endowed by their Creator GOD.

There has to be a difference between right and wrong , and where do we think we learned the difference in the first place ? It always returns to what the American Justice system was based upon , The Ten Commandments . And who gave them to us ? GOD ! And so , since we recognize that , then why is it that when something is morally wrong the A.C.L.U. Is the first to file suite to defend that instead of what is right ?

They also want to diminish the legal distinction of the traditional family ( one woman one man) as ordained by God . This undermines morals even further . They have made remark to the legal age of sexual consent to be lowered to 13 or 14 year old children . “YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK !” That’s right, federally funded . We are paying them to do this, whether we like it or not , whether you’re a believer , or non - believer .

People , it’s time to wise up , before it’s too late ! All of us Believer or non -believer , enjoy the freedom this Nation has to offer , and we can all happily live here together . It’s not yet to late to reverse the damage that has been caused . If we continue on the path of removing God from America , Why should He continue to bless it ? And None of us may even want to live here if HE doesn’t bless it . It could turn into another Iraq , where the war is in YOUR back yard !

But then, I’m a man who believes that there is a God who created us, loves us ,and wants us to love our neighbors as our selves . And what could possibly be wrong with that concept ? * * *

Editor monstermall1.com published 2-17-2006

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Israel likes to pride itself on being a Western nation, and in too many ways (idolatry and immorality) it is.

However, in too many other ways their bought and paid for leaders act like they’re old-style Russian Communists who hate religion and the religious and will exert a brazen double-standard in enabling the left to get away with murder (remember Yitzhak Rabin?) and persecute the right for any trumped up charge or wild accusation.

Those precious Israelis of American descent are particularly “troublesome” to the hardcore leftists who aren’t used to such independent thought (1 Kings 18:17), who abhor any who dare question the State, and who cherish their God-given rights of freedom of speech and religion. Israel is blessed to be like a Western nation in this regard, to the extent that those of American and other Western Israelite democracies are free to live and prosper in the Jewish homeland, free to set a noble example for the nation to follow, and free from politico-religious persecution.

Nadia Matar is one of the precious Israelis of freedom-loving American origin who is now under fire for expressing her heartfelt Jewish opinion in the letter that appears below, something that would be considered harmless in the United States. Yet, in today’s quickly disintegrating Israel, Nadia Matar (Co-chair of Women For Israel’s Tomorrow/Women In Green) has been indicted for it!

The outrageous charge in the insulting indictment is “Insulting a Public Servant.” More than a year ago, Nadia wrote her open letter, a public plea, to Yonatan Bassi (head of the Disengagement Authority — the man responsible for forcibly evicting Jews from their homes in Gush Katif/Gaza/Samaria). Is this further proof that Freedom of Speech, and legitimate discussion is verboten (forbidden) in Israeli-style democracy? Judge for yourself:

Fast of Gedaliah 5765 (2004),

Re: Help in writing your letter to the Jews of Gush Katif

I read on the Internet that in the coming days you will send a personal letter to each of the inhabitants of Gush Katif who are designated for deportation. Your letter contains a “personal appeal and initial explanation of the evacuation process.” According to the report in YNet, the final version of the letter has not yet been formulated, and therefore I am volunteering to “help” you formulate the letter. I am attaching a document that is chillingly similar to what you are about to send - and, actually, all you need to do is to change the date (from 1942 to 2004) and the place of the deportation (from Berlin to Gush Katif) and, here, your letter is ready.

The document is a letter from 1942 to the Jews about the upcoming deportation from Berlin. The letter was sent to the candidates for deportation by the Jews of the Judenrat (the Disengagement Authority), in cooperation with the Nazi authorities. The document goes into great detail as to where the people will be transferred, what they are to take with them, and what they are to leave behind. The letter can be found at Yad VaShem.

The document ends with an emotional appeal by the heads of the Jewish community in Berlin to act calmly, and thereby facilitate the work of the deportation. “We fervently request that you obey the orders and perform all the preparations for the transport in a calm manner. The members of our community who are designated for immigration should be aware that they con decisively contribute to the smooth implementation of the transport by their personal conduct and orderly compliance with all the orders. Needless to say, we will do all that is in our power, to the extent that this is permitted us, to stand by the members of our community and offer them all possible aid” [Council of the Jewish Community in Berlin, 1942].

How similar is this to your words, when you say in various interviews how much you “identify with the pain of the settlers of Gush Katif,” and how important it is that you, specifically, are involved in their deportation, in order to ease the process. But all of your declarations will be of no avail, Yonatan. The truth is that you are a modern version of the Judenrat - actually, a much worse version, because then, during the Holocaust, this was forced upon those Jewish leaders by the Nazis, and it is extremely difficult for us, today, to judge them. Today, no one stands with a gun to your head and forces you to collaborate in the crime, without any conscience pangs. Yes, I know. There is a difference between then and now. The goal of the Nazi monster - that also annihilated most of my family - was the physical annihilation of the Jewish people, a physical Holocaust. But let’s not pretend to be innocent: the goal of the deportation from Gush Katif and northern Samaria is the annihilation of the entire Jewish settlement in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, as an interim stage of a spiritual Holocaust: the elimination of the state as a Jewish state, and its transformation into a secular state, a state of all its citizens, without any Jewishness. Not to mention, of course, the bloody price that we will have to pay for our retreat. If the criminal Oslo accords cost us more than 1000 victims, Sharon’s deportation plan will give such a push to the Nazi Arab terror (for the Arabs will see that Israel’s folding is proof that terror pays) that I fear to think how many Jews will pay with their lives for Sharon’s “disengagement.”

In conclusion - I wish to correct the empty words by Minister Poraz, who said today that “a Jew, too, may be an anti-Semite.” This sentence should be: “History has proven that Jews are the biggest anti-Semites.” And, Yonatan, you should know that there is no escape from the simple truth: whoever participates in the deportation of the Jews of Gush Katif and northern Samaria - participates in an anti-Semitic act, and will be remembered as such, for everlasting shame. It is still possible for you to resign from your abhorrent post and arrive at Yom Kippur, the Day of Judgment, clean and at peace with your conscience, without being part of the modern Judenrat - the Deportation Authority.

Nadia Matar, Co-Chairperson of (Women in Green)

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With all the education on drunk driving that our society has received in the past thirty years we feel that not much has changed. All you have to do is turn on your television every night to your local news station and hear about another tragic traffic accident caused by a drunk driver. We feel it’s time to get extremely tough with drunk drivers. We have set out what we think are appropriate penalties for Drunk Drivers.

We also feel that every time a person gets into a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol that it’s a premeditated crime and should be punished accordingly. Below are our recommendations:

First Offense: While our recommendations for first time offenders are tough, it still allows the offender time to improve their lives and re-establish themselves in society. First time offenders should be made to pay a fine of ten percent of their yearly income. This will have an equal effect for rich and poor offenders.

If an offender is unemployed then a sentence of one year in prison without parole should be handed out.

Every offender must have their name published in a local newspaper at the expense of the offender.

Finally, first time offenders must be forced to enter into an alcohol treatment program ( Such as Alcoholics Anonymous).

Note: If the drunk driver kills someone while driving drunk, they should receive a penalty of twenty five years to life in prison

Second Offense: Now it’s time to get really tough. For their second offense, drunk drivers should receive a prison sentence of three to five years. Hopefully the time in prison will instill in their minds that they are criminals who are committing serious crimes that have the potential of killing or injuring an innocent person.

A lifetime driving ban must also be imposed against the drunk driver. Alcohol treatment must be provided for the drunk driver. This will be the drunk driver’s final chance for rehabilitation.

The name of the offender must be published in a local paper.

Note: If the drunk driver kills someone while driving drunk, they should receive a penalty of twenty five years to life in prison.

Third Offense: Since this type of offender has already been given two chances for rehabilitation, we as a society must give up on this person and throw the book at them. A sentence of twenty five years to life must be imposed. We must keep this chronic offender off the road. This criminal has already been punished two times before. In their third offense they would be driving without a license.

This type of chronic offender must be punished severely. We have a duty to protect society and it’s obvious that this type of criminal disregards the life of other people and puts their criminal activity first.

We have provided what we think are appropriate penalties for people who drive drunk. While our penalties are tough throughout, the offender still has a the choice and the ability of re-entering society as productive members. It really is the choice of the drunk driver to continue to drive drunk. If these criminals continue to carry out these serious crimes against society, then we must react and punish them accordingly.

Anthony B. is the founder and owner of ItsTheRightWay.com a news, political and sports commentary website.

Anthony has over 7 years of experience as a business professional.

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How the Government of Ontario would entertain such a regressive notion as the introduction of Shari’ah law in the resolution of family matters continues to mortify me. Widely documented and internationally condemned as being contrary to basic Canadian values, the abuses, biases, and discrimination practiced against women under Shari’ah has no place in my province.

Justice is blind to nothing but the facts, Shari’ah law is not.

It devalues women and accords them little if any protection in respect to domestic
disputes. To believe that the provision of Shari’ah law as a “voluntary” dispute
resolution alternative is naivety at its grandest. Implementing this puts women at
risk of coercion, condemnation, and alienation within the Muslim community should
disputes arise and they fail to “voluntarily” opt for resolution through Shari’ah
tribunals.

“Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel
others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore
obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose
part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-
places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely
Allah is High, Great.”
(Qur’an 4:34 English translation: MH Shakir)

I know this because Hinduism had a similar “voluntary” practice called suttee. For
Hindu women who became widowed “voluntarily” jumped on the funeral pyre,
sometimes being “helped” by her husbands family to maintain their honor upon his
death. The British outlawed this practice 200 years ago, and for good reason. It is
not inline with western thought - and as hard as it may be for some to believe,
Canada IS a western nation.

I believe that women, irrespective of faith are entitled by law to equal status,
protection and representation as their male counterparts. “Equality before and under
law and equal protection and benefit of law” is enshrined in the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms. Shari’ah does not embrace this ideal in its application to
domestic matters and on that ground alone if no other, is unacceptable. Ontario
already has means of arbitration. The Family Law Act exists to govern family legal
matters in the Province of Ontario and should also be the only applicable Act in
respect to family matters in the Muslim community.

I urge anyone who claims stake in the future of Canada to write to the Premier and
voice your concern for the introduction of Shari’ah law as a legally binding means of
arbitration.

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It’s a perception that’s long been held in American politics. The Republican Party is anti-black and racist and the Democratic Party is pro-black and anti-racist. The Republicans cry foul and point to their history of fighting for civil rights, the Democrats scoff at such lunacy. Without getting into a long and arduous debate over which side is correct in it’s assumptions regarding the other, I feel that both parties have a lot of work to do and that neither are blameless in regards to the treatment of blacks in America.

That said I have long felt that the literature of a time period was a reflection of life during that time. A person wishing to know how the English elites lived in the Victorian Era would get a good idea of the reality of it by reading Jane Austen or Emily Bronte. Likewise, a person fifty years from today who wants a snapshot of our culture would do well to read Grisham, Clancy, or yes, even King and any number of romance novelists. Not an exact image by any means, but a good ‘feel’ for how it was.

Due to recent employment difficulties I’ve found myself with a lot of extra time on my hands and have been catching up on some reading that I was putting off until, well, I had a lot of extra time on my hands. As such, I’ve begun re-reading ‘The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes’ a huge and complete tome of the fictional detective’s life written by Arthur Conan Doyle between 1891 and 1905. The reason I mention this and indeed the reason I’m writing this piece is because of a passage I stumbled across while enjoying ‘Adventure V. - The Five Orange Pips’ published originally sometime between July 1891 and December 1892 in the London magazine The Strand.

In the passage a young gentleman has come to Mr. Holmes’s Baker Street residence and began to recount past events to help the detective understand the man’s predicament. During the narrative he says this about an uncle:

“…About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe, and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the Negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them…”
Imagine how startled I was to see, in a story written 112 years ago, a reflection of the Republican Party’s policy of ensuring the rights of blacks.”

Now, don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying the Republicans are as pure as the driven snow in regards to this issue, but in fairness, neither are the Democrats. A political body is only as good as the individuals who combine to create it and as a party, the Republicans have a long held policy of supporting constitutional rights for every citizen in this country, as this hundred-year-old passage published in an English magazine illuminates. To that end, it is unfair to throw a blanket accusation of racism across any political ideology, whether liberal or conservative, and serves only to make the accuser look foolish and ignorant.

Steve Doss is a freelance writer and editor of Narratives of the Weird.

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Why do they need 3 Special Reports. It seems that the Department of Defense, the Congress, and the President are all going to do special reports on what went right and what went wrong with regards to the government response to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Victims. Before this is over I wouldn’t be surprised if the State Governments also launch Investigations.

It’s been said allowing Government agencies to investigate Government agencies is like letting Dillinger guard a bank vault. What purpose does multiple investigations serve. The outcomes are very predictable Congress is going to blame the President. The President is going to blame the Congress. The State Governments are going to blame the Federal and Military bureaucracies. The Military will blame the Department of Homeland Security, It may not happen just as stated above but everyone will blame everyone else. The finger pointing will resemble a bunch of kids in a sandbox.

Politicians have to much to loose if they are too hard on themselves. What politician is going to stand up and say if we would have done this differently we could have saved many lives (plug in a number).

The only way to get real usable information is to have an Independent commission not associated with any of the groups responsible for responding. The purpose of the report shouldn’t be to finger point (unfortunately mistakes will be needed to be pointed out). The Purpose of the report should be to put policies and procedures into place to enable a better response next time. In the wake of disasters no matter how well the relief effort goes if even one or two things can be learned to save even 1 life next time it is worth investigating and making the improvement.

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California Attorneys and politicians are to blame for the energy crisis and blackouts and the ones, which will come this summer too. A simple study of finite capacity scheduling would have yielded the necessary tools for the CA state government to figure out what was actually feasible. They obviously did not understand the capacity of the power line and the amount of energy trading that would occur when deregulation took place. Obviously if someone is going to get a better deal on energy they are going to buy it somewhere else? You cannot energy futures when you do not have the power lines to move the energy to a different region, just like you cannot use the Ford factories excess capacity to make pharmaceuticals. Think of the problem; attorneys and politicians who are master manipulators of human emotion make policy on the deregulation of CA energy based on reports done by quote experts that were paid by government millions to do reports.

Of course, the reports may have been good or maybe not, but surely were only glanced at anyway by politicians who are not smart enough to understand or did not enough time to read, and may even conflict with the time necessary to campaign to get re-elected or sit down for lunch with those who finance their elections. Lots of people invested in Enron stock when CA was in an energy crisis, since they owned a lot of contracts. Their stock was inflated based on their future earnings that CA would never pay and later sue for. But was it really Enron’s fault or was it just stupid, ignorant California Attorneys and Politicians, who screwed California. After all deregulation was California’s idea in the first place to lower prices. Luckily Arnold has it right and he is putting together the department of energy for California to work with the DOE and get the crisis solved before peak season summer. Let’s hope they get things ready before California has its next disaster.

You know it is funny it took the terminator to turn California upright, those brown nose politicians have been bending over so long, they forgot which way was up. Thanks Arnold, thanks for listening.

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With gasoline prices at the pump climbing strongly into the $2 slot, many people are becoming concerned about how high they may go, and what Congress should do about it, if anything. Petroleum prices effect the pricing of so many other products. Most of the items bought by consumers have been trucked some distance from a factory, to a warehouse, to a retail store. Consumer transportation, home heating, and electricity can also be adversely affected by rising fuel costs.

Besides capped oil wells and vast reserves in Alaska, the United States maintains a petroleum storage called the “U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve”. This government-owned stockpile of crude oil is stored away in a series of salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. Current records show the reserves to be holding 700 million barrels of crude. These reserves are held for national emergencies or during wartime efforts. A significant amount was withdrawn from these reserves during Desert Storm in 1990. As of late, the Bush Administration has been topping off these large salt caverns with crude, even as the price was on the rise.

Unfortunately, these vast reserves are only a drop in the barrel when compared with the United States domestic demand. Presently at 20 million barrels per day, the United States could completely drain this reserve in just 35 days. Of course, every country on the globe uses petroleum. Global demand is now at about 82 million barrels per day, and rising each year by about 2 million barrels per day. The Energy Information Administration website estimates total global reserves of petroleum at approximately 1.2 trillion barrels. It is unclear from the report viewed for this article as to whether this is a report of all known crude on the planet, or just the crude of developed sites. If it is an estimate of all known crude, than at current global usage—without increases in use— this indicates that 39-1/2 years of crude remains.

Some in U.S. Congress have been pushing the agenda to begin drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. On March 16, a closely divided senate voted in favor to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, moving the country one step closer to opening the Alaskan crude reserves. Experts estimate that the billions of barrels of oil beneath the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain can be extracted from key positions so as to cause minimal interruption to the surrounding area. Many political hurdles must be passed before drilling would be permissible. After committee reviews, the Senate and House both still must pass the final version of the proposal. Experts estimate that it would take 7 to 10 years of development before oil would be pumping from the ground.

Opponents argue that the volume of Alaskan oil will be insignificant to control petroleum prices, or to substantially reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Government models forecast that oil companies would be able to pump nearly 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Alaskan Refuge by the year 2025. At present U.S. demand, that represents 5% of daily consumption.

According to the Energy Information Administration website, the Middle East crude reserves account for 57% of global supply. The North American continent holds about 17%. The remaining 26% of supplies are somewhat evenly split around the globe, with the smallest volumes being in Asia and Western Europe, where crude demand is quite high. Much of the developed world relies on imported crude.

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When Boris Yeltsin spoke about an experiment that ‘they’ wrought upon his Russian ‘brethren’ on June 1st, 1991; did anyone ask who THEY were? Here is what he said:

“Our country has not been lucky. Indeed, it was decided to carry out this Marxist experiment on us -… Instead of some country in Africa, they began this experiment with us.”

MOTHER RUSSIA AND THE BASILIDAE:

The creation of Divine Kings as outreaches for inner sanctum elites who controlled Rome and its Empire that grew every time it supposedly fell is part of many books I have done. Along with Manifest Destiny and the Flat Earth, the concept of Divine Kings needs close scrutiny. I think Hecateus gave up his Basilidae primogeniture right to be his family’s spiritual leader for good reason and I think the Basilian Fathers and their Nestorian counterparts ran much of the Asian continent for their ‘brothers’ in Rome and Britain. There is a good possibility that Genghis Khan fathered the line of adept Dragons like Count Drakul who fought for the Catholic Military Orders and whose progeny include St. Germain De Medicis who assisted or planned the New World Order now in control. A couple of paragraphs cannot do justice to the issue but here is a Catholic scholar speaking a little about the matter.

“Is Holy Mother Russia undivided?

Despite his other great merits for the churches of the east and the Catholic Church in Ukraine through his association with the Servant of God Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky, Fr. Korolevsky’s views were marred by his russophilism and the political-religious conception of a one and undivided Holy Mother Russia. His views were shared by many of the policy makers in the Catholic Church. For him there was one great Russia and one Holy Russian Orthodox Church, the great Russians. Ukrainians and the Belarus were “malorosy,” the little Russians and white Russians. The initial treaty of friendship and non-aggression of Pereyaslav signed by the hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1648 eventually became the tool of imperial oppression and enslavement of cossack Ukraine by Muscovy under Tsar Peter and his successors. With the fall of the Tsars in 1917 the empire became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a new prison of subjugated peoples and nations still struggling to cast off the spectre of Russian political and ecclesiastical domination even after the events of glasnost, perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet empire. It is only today, with the proclamation of an independent state of Ukraine, that the political west is accepting the right of these people to their own sovereignty. But old ideas die hard. Certain ecclesiastical circles in Rome had been infected by these views even to the present day.

A new perception

One of the principal voices of a new perception was Fr. Athanasius Welykyj, O.S.B.M., a young hieromonk of the Basilian Order, an indefatigable researcher and scholar. Fr. Korolevsky had enlisted him to assist in researching the Vatican archives. Fr. Welykyj, who would become the Proto-archmandrite or superior general of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, began to publish the Vatican documents in the Basilian Analecta. In 1961, he was called by Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Amieto Cicognani, the secretary of State, to head the secretariat of the Preparatory Commission of Vatican Council II. As secretary of the Council Commission on the Eastern churches, Fr. Welykyj made substantial contributions to the principal ideas of the Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches (Nov. 1964), and many of the materials developed by this commission became the foundation for the conciliar documents on the Unity of the Church and Catholic ecumenism (1964).” (1) ‘Catholic ecumenism’ is anything but true ecumenicism.

American and British Corporate Interest in Russia:

Sometimes Marshal Pilsudski is called the ‘Jewish Uncle’ due to his support for the Jews; this section has information about the nature of outside influences in the formation of the Russian Federation and why the British and others switched sides (or appeared to). Pilsudski was no tyrant despite having to assume dictatorial powers. Stalin and Hitler were both backed by International Financial interests and you could call Stalin their CEO - he certainly was never a communist. The Americans had armed forces in support of the Bolsheviks a lot longer than others like Britain. I think we see the growth of Rockefeller or American branches of the Rothschilds in Russia and elsewhere in the early 20th Century but London’s Rothschilds still had control.

“Marshal Jozef Pilsudski 1867-1935

Pilsudski was imprisoned in Siberia from 1887-1892 because his brother Bronislaw was wrongly accused in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. After his release in 1892, he joined an underground Polish political party (Polish Socialist Party) based in Paris. This party advocated an independent socialist Poland. {It is not to be confused with the Bolshevik version of socialism. It is a relative term when compared to the totalitarian Czarist system.} Starting around 1894, he actively printed, smuggled and distributed anti-Tsarist materials. While a medical student at the University of Kharkov, in the Ukraine, he became noticed for his revolutionary behaviour, for which he was arrested in 1900. After escaping Russian captivity, he made his way to Austrian Poland (Galicia) and proceeded to organize a Polish volunteer fighting force, later (during WW I) to be under Austrian command against Russia. He became the leader of the military wing of the Polish Socialist Party in 1904. His primary duty in this post was to organize protection for party members in Poland who were being persecuted by the Tsarist secret police, the OKHRANA.

During the pre-war period, Pilsudski attended Jagelleonian University in Krakow. Pilsudski was the founder of the Polish Legions (originally the Societies of TIR) that bore his name, which he used only to promote a free Poland. Starting around 1908, Pilsudski began to build the Legions with Polish volunteers from Galicia, assembling a force which eventually numbered 14,000 men. Pilsudski sided with Austria because of the three occupiers of Poland (Austria, Germany and Russia), it was the only power that even came close to offering any sort of post-war autonomy for Poland. Pilsudski offered intelligence information on Tsarist military movements to Austria and openly campaigned for Poles under Russian domination to rebel. Upon the surrender of Tsarist Russia in 1917, Pilsudski and many leading Legion officers were jailed by Germany, for refusing to allow the Legions to fight against France. The Germans also provided no guarantee of an Independent post-war Poland. This became clear when the German governor of Warsaw, von Bessler, attempted to appoint a German as head of the Legions and thereby strip Pilsudski of control (after the battles had been won with the blood of Poles). In July, 1917, the Legions were supposedly disbanded. The Legionaries did not stop the fight for Independence. Underground para-military cells were formed to continue the fight for Independence for the remainder of WW I. Among the organizations was the POW (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa), which carried out attacks on German, Russian and Austrian targets. They were loyal to Pilsudski, who was at this time imprisoned at Magdeburg Castle.

Upon the surrender of Germany in 1918, Pilsudski was released to take control of the Army of the newly Independent Poland. The members of the POW (mostly ex-Legionnaires) were already being organized before Pilsudski was released on November 10, 1918. Independence was declared on October 7, 1918 by a Polish National Council in Exile, headed by Roman Dmowski (a National Democrat). He was supported by Ignacy Paderewski, who was then residing in the USA. Paderewski has some influence with American Politicians, including President Wilson {Totally ‘possessed’ by Col. House who was a seventh son of a seventh son and the man who selected directors for the FED for his Rothschild bosses.}. This influence became apparent when the creation of Poland was contained in President Wilson’s 14 Points, and later as part of the Treaty of Versailles. The Western powers supported Paderewski in order to gain some influence in the region after WW I. Also on October 7, 1918, a Lublin Socialist named Daszyniski seized government offices in Galicia and became head of a provisory government of the Republic of Poland as of October 12, 1918. Daszyniski then appointed Pilsudski (still in jail) as Minister of War…

After the Treaty of Versailles was set into motion, provisions for the German Army to occupy and maintain parts of Poland, Lithuania and Bialyrussia were agreed upon by the Western powers. This was to ensure stability in the area until the volatile situation in Russia was settled. As the Russian civil war raged on, many western powers had been supporting Russian Tsarist Generals in their bid to retake Russia. The official granting of Polish territory under the Treaty of Versailles was to take place June 28, 1919. When the Germans began to leave the area prematurely, it left the entire region vulnerable to Bolshevik expansionism. This did not sit well, especially with the French. France became a strong supporter of Poland, and sent advisors and military equipment to aid the young Poland. The French hoped that Poland would help the cause of General Denikin, a Russian who was fighting the Bolsheviks. It was also hoped that any Russian lands that Poland took would be held in trust for Denikin.

England, on the other hand, actually tried to impede French efforts to support Poland because they had just concluded trade deals with the Bolsheviks. Labour Unions in England actually prevented the loading of ships destined for Poland. It was a common belief among the British elite that Poland was incapable of self government and should be administered by Russia. All of Europe was tired of war, and the Bolsheviks were seeding discontent and spreading the word of a proletariat uprising among the increasingly un-employed in many European nations. It became apparent to Pilsudski that he would have to make a pre-emptive strike to prevent Lenin from igniting revolution with his red army. When the Bolsheviks installed puppet governments in Lithuania and Bialyrussia in January 1919 (the LITBEL Republic), it became apparent that Lenin was systematically retaking territories of the Tsar and making them into Soviet Republics. Pilsudski decided to invade Bialyrussia and Lithuania in February 1919 in order to attack the Red Army before it could gain strength. By April 1919, Pilsudski had overthrown the LITBEL Soviet Republic. The vast majority of the city of Wilno was Polish, and Pilsudski was justified in taking the area and claiming it for Poland.

Lenin (and still, many modern historians) had mistakenly interpreted France’s support of Pilsudski and saw Poland as a tool of the Western powers (who supported Denikin). In reality, Pilsudski gladly accepted France’s aid, but did not support Denikin or any other Tsarist Generals. Pilsudski was content with the Reds and Tsarist weakening each other so he would have an easier time defeating which ever side won the Russian civil war. Both Lenin and Denikin wanted to include Poland in Russia, and Pilsudski would have to fight at least one of them. Pilsudski spent most of 1919 gaining control of much of Lithuania, Bialyrussia and the Ukraine. By December 1919, Denikin had fallen out of the picture, and had been replaced by General Wrangel. France continued to pressure Pilsudski to help the new Tsarist commander, but he refused. Lenin became concerned about the possibility of Poland supporting Wrangel, and decide to sue for peace with Pilsudski. In December 1919 there were peace talks held at Borisov (Pilsudski chose this location to deny access to western journalists, thereby preventing an opportunity for Lenin to use this event for propaganda). The British, under Prime Minister Lloyd George, pressured Pilsudski to accept an agreement on the Curzon {Admiral or Lord Curzon noted the Versailles Treaty was not an end to war and said it would begin again in 20 years. That was exactly how long until Britain again declared War. Is this pure co-incidence or informed insight?}Line, which gave an advantage to the Bolsheviks. The British were still interested in the trade agreements they had with Lenin, and it showed. Pilsudski rejected this proposal. He much preferred allowing Bialyrussia and Ukraine to set up buffer states, which would be teamed with Poland in a defensive alliance. The war continued…

… Pilsudski was in a fight for Poland’s very existence, and it started to look very bad.

In July and August, the Western Allies urged Pilsudski to accept peace, and save what was left of Poland. Talks were held in Minsk, but were un-eventful. Lenin only pretended to seek peace, believing that he had already won the war. By mid August, Warsaw was threatened. The French advisor to Pilsudski, General Weygand, advised Pilsudski to abandon Warsaw and take up a defensive position west of the Wistula River. Pilsudski requested volunteers to defend Warsaw, and thousands complied. Pilsudski decided to stand and fight. General Wladyslaw Sikorski was given the responsibility of defending the City itself, while Pilsudski assembled a strike force south of Warsaw. On August 20, 1920, a miracle happened (as it became known, “The Miracle on the Wistula”). The Red army had made a critical mistake, and went north of Warsaw in an attempt to cut off Polish supply routes from the Baltic. Pilsudski, who may have anticipated this maneuver, was ready and launched his counter-attack. The Red Army seemed to disappear as fast as it appeared. Thousands of terrified Russians surrendered, and others ran away so fast, they seemed to vanish. About 100,000 Russians were taken prisoner. Arriving too late, Budyenny became cut off from the main Bolshevik force, and Tukhachevsky was forced to retreat toward Lithuania in order to avoid having a major portion of his forces encircled and captured. Pilsudski again defeated Tukhachevski at the battle of the Neman River.

Pilsudski inflicted defeat upon the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the Battle of Warsaw. His victory and wisdom kept Bolshevism from spreading west into Europe, and allowed Poland to rise to nationhood after over a century of occupation. This freedom was only to last two decades. The Bolsheviks were defeated soundly and were in full retreat. In a few weeks, Pilsudski had recaptured much of the territory that he controlled until April 1920. In early October 1920, Pilsudski secretly sent General Zeligowski to Wilno to overthrow the Lithuanian government there. The official line was to be that the Polish majority in Wilno requested assistance because they were being persecuted by the Lithuanian minority which governed there. Zeligowski took Wilno and the surrounding area and occupied it until a plebiscite could eventually be held in 1922. The majority decided to join Poland. Lenin became serious about peace, and on October 12, 1920, the treaty of Riga was negotiated, which came into force March 18, 1921. A new Polish Constitution was proclaimed on March 17, 1921. A free Poland became a reality for this first time in over a century.

… The Parliament elected Pilsudski as President by a majority of the vote in order to gain control of a rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. Pilsudski publicly declined, and appointed Ignacy Moscicki on June 1, but in reality retained actual power for himself. Pilsudski gradually increased his already dictatorial powers over the next few years. In 1927, many opposition leaders were arrested. Elections were held in 1928, and the Socialists gained some influence in the Sejm. Pilsudski, originally a Socialist started to lean to the political right. Bitter fighting between leftists and those on the right ended in 1930 when Pilsudski arrested all the radical leftist leaders. New elections were held in November 1930. In 1932 power was given to the president to rule by decree, which was formalized on April 23, 1935, just before Pilsudski died on May 12. After his death in 1935, General Smigly-Rydz took over as Commander in Chief of the Polish Army, and was the de facto successor to Pilsudski.

Pilsudski has been accused of Anti-Semitism and, in the case of Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Bialyrussians, ethnic cleansing. Upon closer examination, these accusations have no merit. The Polish Jews that Pilsudski supposedly persecuted turned out to be supporters of Bolshevism. Poland in reality was the most tolerant country toward Jews in Europe at the time. Many of the Bolshevik supporting Jews fled to Russia only to return later as Stalin’s hand picked yes-men in the newly formed government of the People’s Republic of Poland. The complaints of the ethnic minorities were in part exaggerated by Communist agitators, trying to discredit Pilsudski. The truth is, that even though the minorities experienced some discrimination with regard to language and religious rights, they were allowed much more freedom than the same minorities had on the Russian side. For example, Ukrainians were expected to learn Polish in Poland. In Russia, Stalin expected them to starve. Pilsudski also had to contain Bolshevism from spreading. During the 1918-21 War, some suspected Communists were summarily executed (without trial). It must be remembered that some measures during times of war are hard to understand in peace time. Pilsudski was fighting a war with a very dangerous enemy. The Bolsheviks used every deceptive tactic imaginable. Pilsudski could only succeed in his goal of setting up an Independent Poland if he could irradicate, where ever possible, any support for Lenin’s ideas. Communism had very little support in Pilsudski’s Poland anyway, and the number of these executions was very small. Almost all of those executed were certainly Communists. The executions were based on political lines, not ethnic ones.

Pilsudski’s rise to role of dictator was not based on personal glory. He always had Poland’s best interest as the basis of his actions. Poland was in many difficult situations. It was surrounded by hostile enemies. The post-war European economy triggered massive inflation. The last thing that Poland needed was a weak government that quarreled with itself. Pilsudski’s strong leadership was the only thing that kept Poland on the map until Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland in 1939. In revenge for Pilsudski’s 1920 victory, Stalin made Poland pay a heavy price during and after World War II. Stalin was Budyenny’s Political Officer during the 1920 Galician campaign. Stalin actually prevented Budyenny from reaching Tukhachevsky in time in order to help in the attack on Warsaw. This interference may have caused the Bolsheviks to lose the entire Polish-Russian war. After Stalin consolidated his power, he went about re-writing history. He heaped much of the blame for losing to Pilsudski on Tukhachevsky and had him and other Bolshevik officers executed in 1938. After Stalin gained control of Poland in 1944-45, he began hunting down Polish veterans of the 1918-21 war. Many were executed or jailed in Siberia.

Stalin then tried to erase any memory of Pilsudski or his defense of Poland from the history books.” (2)

THE CZAR IS KILLED:

The Second World War was the continuation of World War One and a plan to break down the existing structures in order to make this part of the One World plan come to fruition. They had tried this with the Merovingian Napoleon in a more direct fashion in the century before they put this refined plan in motion. Prince Bernhard was part of the Thulean Gestapo and I think Plantard was his equal on the apparent other side. Bernhard became the CIA man to head the Bilderberg founding and Plantard went on to be the Nautonnier of the Priory which even if it was new they both have been around in some way under some name since the Trojan War as I have demonstrated. Saunire as a top Priory official would have been part of the planning of this effort to unite the world beginning with Europe. Metternich, Czar Alexander II and others had seen the importance of uniting Europe. This Czar was assassinated for trying to create a real democracy and for his efforts on behalf of the US against the Rothschild plan. Clearly the Rothschilds had a change of heart after trying to break the US into many warring factions. They saw how to use the US as their own police force.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer at World-Mysteries.com

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