GOP Endorses Nazi Fischer/Tropsch Process

COMMENT: The GOP has seized upon the Fischer/Tropsch process as a means of reduc­ing U.S. depen­dency on energy. Devel­oped by the I.G. Far­ben firm and used by the Third Reich to pro­duce fuel, the process was the focal point of the Standard/I.G. Agree­ment of 1929.
Recently, the process has been used to facil­i­tate the pro­cess­ing of [...]

Leaking in Persian Gulf: “WikiPeak” Oil?

COMMENT: A recent Wik­iLeaks State Depart­ment cable dis­clo­sure gives a boost to the “Peak Oil” hypoth­e­sis as well as lay­ing the foun­da­tion for a fur­ther run-up in the price of oil. Quot­ing a for­mer Saudi offi­cial (who may have been speak­ing from bit­ter­ness), the cable says the Saudis’ oil reserves are very much lower than [...]

Convicted in China, U.S. Geologist Worked for Thyssen/“Peak Oil” Firm

Com­ment: The cov­er­age of China’s sen­tenc­ing of a U.S. Geol­o­gist to eight years in prison has not stressed the fact that Xue Feng worked for IHS, Inc–a firm spe­cial­iz­ing in analy­sis of the petro­leum indus­try and the epi­cen­ter of the “Peak Oil” hypoth­e­sis. A sub­sidiary of Thyssen/Bornemisza indus­tries, IHS pro­vides analy­sis derived from data submitted [...]

FTR #710 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Jihadist ele­ments wel­comed in Geor­gia (for­mer U.S.S.R.), appar­ently with U.S. bless­ing; Russ­ian fas­cism growing;Pentagon buy­ing “Peak Oil” hypoth­e­sis; cor­po­rate jets exempt from FAA reg­u­la­tions; cyber-attack on U.S. power grid?

FTR #687 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Saudi money power helps them evade 9/11 guilt; inves­ti­ga­tion reveal­ing con­nec­tion between Bush admin­is­tra­tion and ter­ror financ­ing moves for­ward; CIA’s [ex] Scheuer’s trea­so­nous remarks; Syr­ian nuke inves­ti­ga­tion continues.

FTR #643 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Long-standing effort by neo-fascists to acquire “spe­cial­ized knowl­edge and abil­i­ties,” mil­i­tary, law-enforcement and espi­onage pro­fi­ciency; UFO devices devel­oped by humans, not space aliens.

FTR #641 Were We Controlled? (Part II), The Collapse of Bear Stearns

Dis­turb­ing analy­sis of the appar­ent sab­o­tage of invest­ment bank Bear Stearns by cor­po­rate ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the global Nazi money machine.

Biofuels Become Aviation’s Big Focus

by Chris Kjel­gaardAviation.com
As con­cerns about global warm­ing inten­sify through­out the world, avi­a­tion is receiv­ing a dis­pro­por­tion­ate level of scrutiny for its con­tri­bu­tion to total global pro­duc­tion of green­house gases.
Even though avi­a­tion emits only about one-ninth as much car­bon diox­ide (CO2) as do motor vehi­cles, its high-visibility nature as an activ­ity, its rapid growth as an industry [...]

FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­ity to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism could lead to [...]

Big Coal Tries to Recruit Military to Kindle a Market

Big Coal Tries to Recruit Mil­i­tary to Kin­dle a Mar­ket Use as Liq­uid Fuel Is an Aim, but Cost, Pol­lu­tion Are Issues
by Matthew Dal­tonWSJ
The coal indus­try wants the U.S. mil­i­tary to jump-start a major new mar­ket for its prod­uct: liq­uid trans­porta­tion fuels derived from coal.
The effort, how­ever, faces skep­tics who say the Pen­ta­gon shouldn’t be subsidizing [...]