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MicroHydro on August 12, 2006 - 8:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The CFR has over 4000 members, it is not monolithic.

What is more damning of Yergin is his continued media prominence considering his track record.  In the free market for subscription investment newsletters, economic feedback is swift and merciless.  Investment gurus who  repeatedly influence subscribers to lose money end up losing subscribers and going broke.   Yergin has been disasterously wrong for years.  Anyone who followed his advice is broke already.  Yet Yergin has not vanished into oblivion, his star keeps rising.  Therefore his paymasters are happy.  Simmons has avered that CERA is employed by KSA.  Yergin is a paid propagandist, and good at his job.  Yergin's job is to baffle the masses with bullshit.

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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on August 12, 2006 - 10:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
what's KSA?
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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on August 12, 2006 - 10:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Kingdom of Saudia Arabia?
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MicroHydro on August 13, 2006 - 1:46am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes, KSA = Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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totoneila on August 12, 2006 - 10:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello MicroHydro,

Excellent points!  Dave, excellent keypost!  As an increasingly upset taxpayer--I sure wish you could testify to Congress to offset CERA's misinformative testimony.

Khebab's graph says it all in regards to Yergin & CERA!

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Dryki on August 12, 2006 - 11:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Don't waste your time testifying. Remember, it's the "military-industrial-congressional-media" complex.

I've been finding the whole concept of 4th generation warfare - between the global elite and the rest of us suckers - particularly explanatory of late. Warfare extends in depth throughout all of society. Think Lebanon.

There is no end to which the global corpos will not go, said a relatively conservative member of Maine's Fair Trade Commission recently.

"We" just are not doing a good enough job competing, that's how the corpos would frame it. And if we are not matching the Yergins appropriately, well, it sucks to be us. We lose.

Lifeboats - the global corpos will smash them. Unless we build community defenses and use the states (at least here in US) to protect the communities. But testifying doesn't cut it, because you leave the decision making in the hands of those who profit by smashing your lifeboat. Via the Commerce Clause in US Constitution, WTO or GATS. And we need to get much more creative about taking the offense - best defense is a good offense. You might want to debate Yergin on the facts, but he is only one of the many points of attack on the cultural front. There's economicfare, legalfare and real warfare. And borders don't matter, because it's not state vs state, but class vs class. Oh, now I'm depressed.

cfm

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ThatsItImout on August 13, 2006 - 2:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

....and you guys accused me of being a "conspiracy theorist"!!!!
:-)

Roger Conner  known to you as ThatsItImout

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