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US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave Off Looming Global Meltdown --Dissident Voice

"Maj. Peters, formerly assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence where he was responsible for future warfare, candidly outlines how the map of the Middle East should be fundamentally re-drawn, in a new imperial endeavor designed to correct past errors. “Without such major boundary revisions, we shall never see a more peaceful Middle East,” he observes, but then adds wryly: “Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.”

Major Peters, the textbook imperialist, writes:

“Those of us who can sort, digest, synthesize, and apply relevant knowledge soar -- professionally, financially, politically, militarily, and socially. We, the winners, are a minority.” This minority will inevitably conflict with the vast majority of the world’s population. “For the world masses, devastated by information they cannot manage or effectively interpret, life is ‘nasty, brutish ... and short-circuited.’” In “every country and region,” these masses who can neither “understand the new world”, nor “profit from its uncertainties … will become the violent enemies of their inadequate governments, of their more fortunate neighbors, and ultimately of the United States.”

"There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."

Military source points to peak oil production and climate change, predicts global collapse by 2008:

...According to an American source with high-level access to the US military, political and intelligence establishment, Western policymakers are in no doubt that the world faces the imminent convergence of multiple global crises. These crises threaten not only to undermine the basis of Western power in its current military and geopolitical configurations, but also to destabilize the entire foundations of industrial civilization.

The source said that the latest petroleum data indicates that “global oil production most likely peaked two years ago.”

...The source also said that leading US financial analysts privately believe that “a collapse of the global banking system is imminent by 2008.”

...The source also commented on the danger posed by rapid climate change. Although most conventional estimates suggest that global climate catastrophe is not due before another 30 odd years, he argued that the multiplication of several “tipping-points” suggested that a series of devastating climatic events could be “triggered within the next 10 to 15 years.” ..."

The hungry planet --The Independent

"...Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. ..."

The truth about the "Terror Plot"... and the new "pseudo-terrorism" --Online Journal

Al Qaeda in Iraq's No. 2 Reportedly Arrested --LA Times

A List of Captured or Killed Al Qaeda in Iraq #2's --blogenlust.net

First Time Released Documents Expose Subservient Congress --NSBWC

Afghanistan's opium production jumps by nearly 50 percent: UN --AFP

Pentagon gives gloomy Iraq report --AP