Reply #26: Also, consider the foreign alliances that have busily been

[Mike03]

forming among the Asians, UK, Eastern Europe and Middle East among all of our ex-trading partners while we have been idiotically obsessed with occupying Iraq and enriching the Carlyle Group and our defense industry stockholders.

The world is like a carcass and a handful of intelligent vultures are pulling apart the pieces and saving them for use over the next decade or so, before it becomes a free-for-all.

I don't believe green energy can save us. We are in way, way too deep, and we ignored alarms that began sounding in the 70s and 80s.

But I hope you are right, and we experience some sort of collective cosmic enlightenment and Deus Ex Machina.