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Seeking True Security

By Frida Berrigan

In January, my sister was arrested for hanging a banner off Los Angeles’ Transamerica building depicting a gas nozzle gun held to Lady Liberty’s head with the slogan “Ford: Holding America Hostage To Oil.” My sister’s direct action might seem extreme, but as Matthew Yeoman’s Oil: Anatomy of an Industry makes clear, such stark confrontations with how oil affects our… return to article

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    The US’s lack of a rational oil policy that would free us from the crazies in the MidEast is shameful. Giving billions of dollars - or far worse sophisticated weapons - to a civialization still in the dark ages is insane! We should pursue all viable alternative energy sources, from nuclear power to solar to geothermal.

    United States Posted by ken on Aug 11, 2004 at 9:33 AM

    Ken,
    you are mentally ill, no really, see a doctor.

    United States Posted by Matilda on Aug 13, 2004 at 11:52 PM

    matilda, seriously, you should seek a lobotomy. i also hope your genes have a limited capacity to reproduce.
    but then even if gw’s god(?) is real i still won’t worry about my well being but about yours and those
    who believe his nonsense about direct guidance from this supreme entity. after all only GOD has the final word not those who claim to be GODS servants.
    Remember, Hitler was also a popular leader.

    United States Posted by randombyter on Sep 1, 2004 at 8:55 AM

    Frida, thank you for the review.  I had heard of the book and now would like to read it.  I would also encourage anyone interested in the oil wars to visit the ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil) website.  No politician or oil company dares admit that we are the down slope of oil availabilty and resources, lest the market and citizens of developed countries react in panic. But the oil wars have started . . . Chechnya and Iraq are examples.

    United States Posted by Don on Sep 7, 2004 at 5:24 PM

    Hi All Souls.

    How do y’all like what I’ve done so far?  I’ve created a fossil fuel and made it such that you all can’t get by without out.  THAT brings you closer to ME because of the things you’ll find yourself DOING to GET that stuff. 

    You can’t get up in the AM without MY oil in your life.  Even that alarm clock you smack the “snooze” button on is made of my precious black gold, Texas Tea.. 
    I’ve given the POWER to the most corrupted, incourageable, untenable hunks of human viciousness I could find.  They were right in your country, the good old US of A. 
    I thought John Major was bad until I got hold of your RUMSFELD human.  He was sooo easy to bend and shape any way I want him. 

    Now he and the Rove Gang are going to make it miserable for the rest of yaz who have hitherto, been sucking up to that WHITE GHOST in the sky. 
    He’s not going to help you because he gave you all Free Will.  But that won’t help you now in a world I’m fixin’ to provide that’ll slowly but steadily become less and less “FREE.”

    Who do you think Rupert Murdock works for, for instance.  I have his soul signed over to me ahead of time.  He wanted to Control all the media in the world.  I said, “So be it, but you must commit your soul when you die to ME. Sign here.” And so he did.  He’s mine. 

    You of LESSOR status quo existence are necessary to keep that big machine going so it churns out more souls to my domain. 

    I got you all right where I want you. 
    And , by the way and a HINT:  It “AIN’T” GOD who is talkin’ to GW every day at the Monkey Palace.  Heh heh heh heh.  Also, who do you think put ARNOLD in the Gov’s chair in your Sacramento?  I just had to get EVEN with you for calling that little shithole THAT! 

    You think Kenny Boy [Lay] is going to “get away” with anything? He will in temporal times, but when it’s time for him to go, he’s going straight to HELL.  That’s right, straight to ME! 

    So as time goes on, you’ll get more confused and all bamboozled by your own people.  Even your “liberals” like Greg Palast, and Voice Of The White House and Madsen, aren’t who you think they are.  Ha ha ha ha!! 

    You’ll see. And I and my Domain will look better and better to you as an alternative to the “HELL” on earth you’ll be suffering.  I’m the supreme MARKETING STRATEGIST of the UNIVERSE.  I didn’t collect as many souls as I have by sitting back doing nothing while that CASPER GHOST upstairs constantly put the big DISS on me and my humble digs, dig?  How do you think something BAD gets so much patronage and becomes successful?  My market model worked quite well on McDonald’s, by the way.  Ray Kroc is now a denzion of my place of course.  He sold out long ago, in your perspective of time, that is. 

    Heh heh heh heh ...  Yep.  I plan to win this f**king game!  “I’ll see you in Hell” isn’t just a cliche any more.  I plan to make that a FACT. 
    So, see ya’all SOON.  Very Very SOON! 

    Love,

    Lucifer B. Satan
    Hell Unlimited
    Proprietor

    United States Posted by SATAN on Dec 20, 2004 at 8:54 PM
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