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The Global Lubricant: Sweet Crude

As the months pass and the U.S. economy continues its steady march toward systemic hibernation, Americans continue to endure a rather peculiar form of insurgent warfare; global-economic warfare.

Gone are the days when a U.S. President, ensconced safely upon the bully-pulpit, can lecture the American public on their excesses, the scarcity of thought and resources or re-engineer public sentiment toward peddle cars, wind-power and toxic-battery hybrids without stirring the ire of suspicion.  Even Al Gore was unable to weather the storm of contempt his manufactured carbon-credits market generated or his collusion with climatologist artful interpretation of environmental data. 

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The Elite Robber-Baron

Implicit in the mind of a predator is the belief in the ideal of no-contest. In effect it becomes an undeniable amassing of overwhelming hubris that when merged with a willing accomplice effectively licenses conquest of any target of imagination. In the Blind-Vision Series I referred to a variant of this process as Legislative-Coercion.  

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