Interview by Lars Schall

Mr Ruppert, you're about to publisha new book. What is the title of this book and what is it all about? 

"APresidential Energy Policy: Twenty-five Points Addressing the Siamese Twins ofEnergy and Money" is a book addressing what an American President shouldbe doing and saying about energy issues free from ideological, political, orother mental restraints.

It is a simple and stark analysis of the world'scurrent energy picture written for those with only a High School education thatquickly and clearly cuts through the nonsense we have been sold about energy,money and growth. It also has wide appeal for planners and leaders(especially local) in all countries.

Energy behaves the same wayeverywhere. German foresight on energy issues -- in particular its aggressiveimplementation of Feed-in-Tariffs  -- has offered some very positiveinnovations that I have recommended be adopted by President Obama here in the U.S.

When and through what did you beginto take interest in Peak Oil? Had there been all at once a nightmarish visionlike "the Road to the OlduvaiGorge" in front of youreyes?[2]

Iwas first exposed to the concept of Peak Oil by geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffershortly after 9-11. I was struck by how simple and clear the actual sciencewas; how easy the issue was to both comprehend and validate using nothingmore than basic math and simple logic.

It was absolutely a nightmarish visionthen (and still is) but it explained so much about geopolitics, macroeconomics, war and the markets that I jumped into it right away. -- We arestill on the Road to the Olduvai Gorge and that is preciselywhat my book seeks to prevent.
 

Years have gone by since then. Eventhough major newspapers like the New York Times admit these days that the endof cheap oil is near, they rather avoid to discuss the underlying consequencesof Peak Oil. How would you explain those consequences? Isn't Peak Oil somehowthe end of globalization? 

PeakOil is not just the end of globalization. I was saying clearly thatglobalization was dead five years ago. It was obvious. But PeakOil is potentially the end of the human race and that outcome is perhapsjust a few years away unless the human race essentially throws everyideological sacred cow out the window and starts with a fresh piece of paper.

There are around five billion people alive today that were not sustainablebefore oil came along. There is no combination of alternativeenergies (nor will there ever be) that can possibly sustain the edificebuilt by oil. In the industrialized world there are ten calories of hydrocarbonenergy involved in the production of every calorie of food.

Our soils have beenlittle more than infertile sponges onto which we throw massive amounts ofchemicals derived from oil and natural gas.
 

The most dire consequences may liein food production. Agriculture depends a huge deal on oil. At FTW you had thethesis that we are eating fossil fuels.[3]Can you explain those relations a bit? 

Inour world a farmer drives an oil-powered machine to plow fields. He or she thendrives another oil-powered machine to plant seeds. Water for irrigation is --in most cases -- pumped by electricity generated by coal, naturalgas, and oil. Germany has made great stridesin electrical generation through Feed-in-Tariffs which have exploded solarand wind generation but they do not resolve the whole equation.

After seeds areplanted and irrigated the crops are then sprayed with pesticides (derived fromoil) and fertilizers (produced from natural gas). To harvest the crops the farmerthen drives another oil-powered machine. Then oil is used to transport the foodto processing plants and for subsequent distribution. Food is often wrapped inplastic (also oil) and frequently treated with chemical additives also derivedfrom oil and gas.

Globalization has only compounded the issue by shipping foodall over the world (wasting oil) for the sake of profit rather thansustainability. I live in California and can go to a market and findstrawberries from Chile while Southern California grows greatstrawberries. This pattern is the same for most food consumed in industrializedcountries.

This only happened because cheap labour costs andless-stringent regulation became more important than common sense. Moneyovercomes logic every time. But just watching globalization end will not solvethe problem. As I have said for years, globalization dies with cheap energy.There's little point in fighting it anymore unless the struggle is inpursuit of a unified energy vision.
 

The financial mess we're in: Has itsomething to do with Peak Oil, too? Is there this systemic crisis because weare heading towards the end of the Age of Oil - and no one is telling thepublic so? 

Thecurrent economic collapse is a combination of two things. First, the currentglobal economic paradigm -- governed by fractional reserve banking, fiatcurrency, and compound interest (debt-based growth) -- is inherently and bydefinition a pyramid scheme.

Money is useless without energy. One cannot eat adollar bill or crumble it up and throw it in his gas tank. Each of thetrillions of dollars created out of thin air since the fall of 2008 is acommitment to expend energy that cannot and will not ever be there.

The Laws ofThermodynamics prevent this. I applaud the decision of Chancellor Merkelto resist the temptation to achieve a temporary solution by printing moneyendlessly. I am German by ancestry. My great grandfather migrated to the U.S. from a small town in Essen called Ruppertsburg atthe turn of the last century.

German pragmatism and realism on energy hasbeen apparent to me since my first visit to Germany in 2003. It is notperfect and must be improved, but I have seen more clear thinking on thesubject in Germany than in any of the 13countries I have visited. That is actually not as good a thing as it mightsound.

Therecan be no "recovery", no return to growth (which is what theeconomic paradigm demands), without energy. 

Whyis this not discussed openly: The dinosaurs of the old paradigm -- who areabout to pass into extinction -- cannot admit this because it would have animmediate effect on the financial markets which are already dying. People wouldstop buying stock if they understood that a return to growth is impossible.

Ithink, however, that on a more fundamental level the dinosaurs just cannot seetheir own impending extinction. They are incapable of mental and spiritualevolution which all of our survival depends upon. They cannot adapt.

As theglobal environment changes forever, from the related issues of climate change,energy shortages, and economic collapse all dinosaurs can do is die. That'swhat Darwin so clearly proved withregard to all life on this planet.

Those species which cannot adapt must goextinct. We see billionaires and dinosaurs disappearing or losing moneyeverywhere. Even Warren Buffet and George Soros are losing money because theycannot grasp that infinite growth is not possible.

The term "sustainablegrowth" is perhaps the greatest oxymoron ever coined and an instant indicatorof imminent Darwinian deselection for anyone who uses it. I keep a safedistance from such people.

Mainstreammedia all over the world is corporate-owned; a dinosaur by definition. InAmerica CNN is owned by Time-Warner; CBS is owned by Viacom; NBC is owned byGeneral Electric, ABC by Disney; the Wall Street Journal is owned by RupertMurdoch and Newscorp, ad infinitum.

All large press outlets sell stock and --far worse -- are tied into a global derivatives bubble now estimated at $700trillion in notional value that not only is collapsing: The Mother of AllBubbles. Telling the truth to the people means that people will stop buying GE,Time Warner, Viacom and Newscorp stock so that is the last thingmainstream media can acknowledge.

Thosewho produce, edit and report the "news" are corporate citizensrather than human beings. They have chosen to murder their own children toprotect their current jobs (the food they receive from an abusive parent).Being of German ancestry I am sensitive to issues about being willfullyignorant (cowardly) in the face of great evil.

I am also aware of and gratefulfor the White Rose and von Stauffenberg and his heroic colleagues. I have feltlike these great Germans must have felt for many years now. I still owe agreat debt of gratitude to my old friend Andreas von Bülow from Köln[4]who graciously exposed me to authentic German culture.

I have lost contactwith Andreas and his wife Anne and I pray they are well. Now we findthat this blindness is an inherent part of humans in all countries and the onething that must and will go extinct with the Old Paradigm.

Butthe dinosaurs are losing their grip. Since the start of the collapse ofindustrial civilization, corporate-owned media has become somethingof a joke. "Check the tire pressure on your resume" is about the bestadvice they can offer.

Then they say, "We think we have hit the bottom soby stock and don't pull your retirement out of the markets" while atthe same time issuing reports that show that we are nowhere near a bottom andthat everything is getting worse. Who can trust such nonsense. [There must be agreat German word that means idiotic, contradictory and bullshit at thesame time.] (Kokolores)

The money that is spend in billionsand trillions these days will be needed in the struggle with the consequencesof Peak Oil - and will be gone. Forever. Doesn't make that a collapse ofindustrial society inevitable? 

Thecollapse of industrial civilization within the next five to ten years (perhapssooner) is inevitable. It is the degree of collapse, what is destroyed in thecollapse, how many people will have to die in the collapse, and what willsurvive the collapse that I and many others are fighting for now.

That is whatevery human being should be concerned about and nothing less. Pursuing optionswhile not rapidly disengaging from the current economic paradigm of infinitegrowth is the only real issue confronting the entire species.

To not do thatwill be literally to consign unborn generations and those under 40 to death ora living hell.

Mr Ruppert, when we know something forsure about 9/11 it is the fact that theworld public was deceived, information on TV and in the newspapers was veryone-sided and incomplete. What does this tell us about the handling of the situationwe are facing now in 2009? And hasn't 9/11 itself become a major distractionfrom the collapse of industrial civilization?  

Fewhave done more detailed investigation of the 9-11 attacks than I have. Eventhough Rubicon is in the Harvard Business Library and has sold around 100,000copies in two countries, it has never even been acknowledged by mygovernment. 9-11 was a predictable event and it was motivated preciselyand solely by Peak Oil and nothing else.

I believe I proved that conclusively inRubicon which has never been challenged; only ignored. It is absolutely toolate to go back and seek justice for the crimes of Richard Cheney andGeorge W. Bush. I believe they were counting on that.

It would beliterally a waste of energy. Oil and natural gas can only be burned or consumedonce. The present crisis is so severe that we cannot waste oil, natural gas andthe limited energies of human consciousness to go back there.
 

At the end of "Crossing theRubicon" you stated this scenario: "We have to pay for $100-(or higher)a-barrel oil somehow. Why don't we just print the money? Anyone who has heardof the damage done by inflation and hyperinflation to those least able to copewith it should think back to Germany's Weimar Republic in the 1920s."[5] There is no need for youto rewrite this passage insofar it seems like this recession wants to proveyou're right, don't you think? 

Weimar-styleinflation is inevitable in the United States, especially as majoreconomies start to disengage from the dollar.

I predicted this at least sixyears ago. It is only a matter of time. Here is the basic sequence of events Isee coming: FDIC insolvency, Treasury default on T-bills and all Treasurynotes, the end of the dollar as the global reserve currency, hyperinflation,insolvency and bankruptcy of the Federal Reserve which is a privately-ownedbank.

That will be followed by the eventual collapse of the United States government. All ofthese things are inevitable in my opinion and could happen in full in aslittle as three years. The dinosaurs refuse to accept this because they won'tquestion a monetary ecosystem which they created and which has allowed them to thrive fromthe Garden of Eden until now.

Those who wish to survive and understand theissue will do whatever they can to disengage from a Titanic that is clearlysinking by building local lifeboats, tailored to their local needs.

Fortunately,there are many things that can be done, independent of government action, andthat's why "A Presidential Energy policy" was written. 
 

In February of this year, theInternational Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris put out a forecast in which they are predicting aneven bigger economic crisis in years to come. According to the IEA, the reasonfor this is the cancelling of new investments into new drilling projects by themajor oil companies. In the case of rising demand in 2010, the oil price couldexplode, inflation could rise and the result could be that world economicgrowth would likely come to an end. Let us talk about the infrastructureproblem first: Why do you think big oil doesn't invest anymore in newprojects? 

Allof those projects, whether for deep sea oil or in pursuit of alternativeenergies were only profitable when oil was at or near $100. All over the world,energy infrastructure is crumbling as a result of collapsed oil prices makingit unprofitable to invest in infrastructure or alternatives.

A few years agoRobert Hirsch of SAIC wrote a study for the U.S. government warning ofthe crisis which stated clearly that the time to have started preparing forthis was 30 years ago.[6] Heexamined scenarios in which preparations were begun twenty, ten and zero yearsbefore Peak. All scenarios were catastrophic.

His observations were onlyconfirmations of warnings issued by Vice Chancellor David Goodstein of CalTech which said clearly in his book that it takes thirty years and a lot ofmoney to change an energy infrastructure.[7] Mankindhas waited until the last minute and there is no money left. It's that simple.People have been warning about precisely this moment since 1949 when thegreat M. King Hubbert laid this landscape out for all to see.[8]

Thereis little or no money left for essential infrastructure investment and theinfrastructure cannot be rebuilt under the current economic paradigm.As Dutch economist Martin van Mourek said in 2003, "It may not beprofitable to slow decline." He was absolutely correct and I knew itthe instant I heard him say it in Paris.
 
And now let us talk about the oil price spike. In 2006, you and Michael Kanewrote an article for FTW called "The Markets React to Peak Oil. IndustrialSociety Rides an Unsustainable Plateau before the Cliff", in which you werewriting about the Bumpy Plateau. You've explained it like this:

"Recent priceswings - both up and down - have been predicted as a part of the Peak Oilscenario for years. I saw the first hard predictions of the bumpy plateau in2002, and they made good sense.

WHAT IS THE"BUMPY PLATEAU"?

Here's howColin Campbell described it when FTW contacted him for this special report:

1.Priceshock (as the capacity limit is breached) 
2.Economic recession cutting demand 
3. Price collapse (the market overreacts to small imbalances between surplusand shortage) 
4.Economic recovery (followed by increased demand) 
5. Price shock (as the falling capacity limits are again breached)

Simply put,everything is triggered by the inability of the planet to increase supplybeyond a certain point, regardless of demand. That is the definition of peak.Peak is still peak whether it leads to sharp and immediate fall off or to thebumpy plateau we are now seeing."[9]

Is this model still the procedureafter which "everything is triggered"? Is it the Bumpy Plateau that the IEA istalking about for 2010? And was it the Bumpy Plateau we have witnessed alreadyin 2008? 

Weare on the bumpy plateau right now. The description and predictions offered byCampbell and many others were very good but only two-dimensional in that theyaddressed price and demand only. I think my greatest contribution on top oftheir pioneering work has been to thoroughly explore and illuminate thecorruption of the economic paradigm, the significance of derivatives[10] andto introduce that as a third factor.

This has allowed me to make astonishinglyaccurate predictions for a decade now. The implosion of the derivatives bubblewhich has only just begun may prevent any real or eventemporary "recovery" from ever taking place.

All the energyspent on a "recovery" in the infinite growth paradigm will have beenwasted. One thing I am also certain of is that there won't be many bumps in thebumpy plateau. As soon as any kind of recovery begins it will collide instantlyagainst the brick wall of diminishing energy.

We have passed Peak I am certain.The IEA has virtually admitted all this. After the last bump it isstraight down the cliff back to the Stone Age unless people take actionimmediately.

In 2001, when the BushAdministration came to power, the broader public did know nothing about PeakOil. The Bush Administration did. In your book "Crossing the Rubicon" you pointto a speech by Dick Cheney that he delivered in London at the PetroleumInstitute in 1999.[11]Mr Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton back then. He was in the loop,right?  

Cheneywas the loop. There isan abundant record that the most powerful policy-making institutions have knownabout Peak Oil since at least the 1970s.

That includes our CIA, [12]leadership in Russia, Britain, China and Japan. My studies suggestthat Germany understood it bestand has done the most to address it implications over the years. 

An important topic of your researchwith regard to 9/11 are the unknown records of the "Energy Task Force" run byDick Cheney, the National Energy Policy Development Group. In "Crossing theRubicon" you wrote: "I have said for two years that the deepest, darkestsecrets of September 11th lie buried in the records of the US National PolicyDevelopment Group (NEPDG) which began its work almost the same day the Bushadministration took office and produced its final report in May of 2001, justfour short months before the World Trade Center ceased to exist."[13] Can you explain this inmore detail for those who have never heard about this before? 

It'sexplained in detail both in "A Presidential Energy Policy" and in"Crossing the Rubicon". Essentially the NEPDG appears to have beenset up, almost from the first day of the Bush administration, to find out howmuch oil was left, who had it, and how it could be obtained (bought orstolen) to support U.S. hegemony, U.S. consumption, and the monetaryparadigm.

Those things are all dinosaurs anyway and they are dying in the NewParadigm as they must. The fact that the NEPDG records have been keptsecret from the American people who paid for it is one of thegreatest crimes of all time. Seeing those records now would save a lotof  duplicated effort in trying to inventory how much oil there isleft. 

Thefigures on oil reserves quoted by producing nations and companies are asfraudulent and cooked as the books on mortgages, banking, and even BernieMadoff. The Saudis cannot hide the fact that they have passed Peak anymore.

Iprove that in my new book. The world's largest energy investment banker MatthewSimmons proved it before I did in his book "Twilight in the Desert".[14]I have proved the same thing a different way. If Saudi Arabia has passed Peak thenthe whole world has passed Peak. It was Peak Oil that was driving Dick Cheney'sTask Force and nothing else.
 

Is there a chance that we will everknow about the real content of the NEPDG files? 

Ihope so. That's what I have called for in "A PresidentialEnergy Policy."

 
You are known for using this quote byBenito Mussolini: "Fascism ought more properly be called corporatismbecause it is the perfect merger of power between the corporation and thestate." Isn't Dick Cheney a perfect example for this? He did made awhole lot of money as shareholder of Halliburton through the foreign policy ofthe Bush Administration, didn't he? 

Heshouldn't be singled out. The Bush-Cheney administration had its"base". Some of that base is shared with the Obama administration.The Bush-Cheney administration, knowing that collapse was coming, looted the U.S. economy on behalf ofits base. It was perhaps the largest wealth transfer (theft) in history.

Ipredicted and warned about each step in precise detail for eight years.[15]I was dead-on accurate and there's a clear record to prove that.  And Isuffered for it. I was harassed, sabotaged, my offices were burglarized and mycomputers smashed in 2006 prompting me to flee the U.S. for four months.

Whatdid we Americans do as Bush and Cheney rode out of town with allthat wealth? We gave them a parade and called it inauguration day. 

Beyond Peak Oil as a motive for theBush Administration to "arrange" the thing that we know as "9/11", you wroteextensively about the importance of Afghani drug traffic. Since the militaryengagement of NATO forces in Afghanistan, the profits from Heroin trade are at an all timehigh, aren't they? 

Theglobal drug trade is evolving. I won't go back now and explain whathappened between 2001 and today. The global drug trade was estimatedby me to be generating around $600 billion a year in totalrevenues in 2004.

That was fine as long as the infinite growth bubbleappeared to be functioning. Drug cash was chased by banks and majorcorporations like General Electric, AIG, Philip Morris, Citigroup, etc. backthen. Europe was no exception. But now the collapse of a $700trillion derivatives bubble has changed everything.

What was a lubricant toallow further expansion of the bubble in 2001 is today less than theminimum monthly payment on a credit card. The reason why the U.S. is having all this drugviolence now is, I am certain, because U.S. banks are crying forall the illegal cash they can launder to service the "minimum monthlypayments" on their derivative exposure.

The drug violence is here becauseall over Mexico the word is out on thestreets, "Get a kilo of grass across the border and you get $500."It's a stampede because Mexicans are starving. That is because their largestoil field Cantarell is collapsing and oil revenues have plummeted. It alwayscomes back to energy and money.

Whoknows how many drugs are being consumed now? Personally, I don't think it issignificantly higher than it was five years ago or twenty-five. I have writtenextensively -- citing scientific studies -- that only about 10% to 12% of anygiven population is susceptible to addiction.

The rest of the people may usedrugs but will never get addicted because they realize it's not beneficial.They don't like it. One does not create addicts by pumping more drugs into asociety. One only feeds that fixed percentage who are susceptible to addiction.That is what is called a captive market under the current monetary regime.

Let's take a look at this news article from mmnews.de,please:

--->Bankenrettung: Mit Drogengeld?

Can you comment on this? 

AsClaude Rains said in "Casablanca", "I'mshocked! There's gambling going on in this establishment."

Mr Ruppert, we are talking hereabout Organized Crime at the top ranks in finance, economics and government.One might think: "Well, has it ever been different before?" In my opinion themain difference is that Organized Crime is nowadays almost officially part ofthe game - it isn't really hidden anymore. One example for this is themanipulation of the stock market by the infamous Plunge Protection Team (PPT).Can you explain how the PPT works, who is involved and why its existence isn'tjust a "conspiracy theory"? 

ThePPT is overwhelmed now. This collapse has been a tsunami that has renderedthe PPT largely ineffective. It had the ability to intervene artificially to prevent marketcollapses when it was only billions of dollars involved.

Now that we're dealingwith trillions the PPT is of little interest. Broadly speaking, the U.S.Treasury (almost a proprietary of Goldman Sachs) has become in itself a PPTwith increasing ineffectiveness. The U.S. is currently having thebiggest "Sucker Rally" there will ever be.

I would also like to talk a littlebit with you about gold under the circumstances of Peak Oil. I remember youhave written a while ago that the "new" wealth is gold - which is the "old"wealth. What do you mean by that precisely? 

Look,the fact is that when the FDIC and the Federal Reserve go insolvent, gold willbe the only place left to turn. Proposed new currencies cannot solve theproblem. They will only destroy evidence and people by chasing the miragedeeper into the hole. New currencies will only recreate the same problem in adifferent and more vicious form.

For seven thousand years the humanrace has chosen only one option as a universal store of value in hard times-- gold. To protect against inflation -- gold. I have seen manyreports saying that there is five times more paper gold than there is physicalgold out of the ground. Gold is finite. It cannot be printed. It has aconnection to the earth.

I strongly advise all my readers to buy and holdphysical gold and have done so for years. The human race does not have to staywith gold forever. But it will help those with it to survive and functioneconomically as collapse unfolds. 

Another question, straight und dry:Is the gold market manipulated, and if so, how? 

Absolutelygold prices have been manipulated. For the best discussion of that I recommendthe Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) and http://www.lemetropolecafe.com[16]
 

You have said over and over againduring the last years: "As long as you don't change the way money works, youchange nothing."  For example you wrote recently in an open letter toPresident Obama: "All you are doing is buying time to prevent the collapseof a totally dysfunctional marriage where the mother (the government) kills thechildren (us) to save her relationship with the father (the way money works)." Two simple questions: How does money work, and: How should it work in future? 

Theseare addressed clearly and succinctly in my book.

In order to sum our interview up sofar: What we need is a paradigm shift. How should it look like, besides achange of the way money works? 

Theway the paradigm shift should occur and what it should look like is adiscussion for the entire human race. I choose not even try to answerthat. I do offer some ideas on how to start the dialogue in the book.
 

Let us take at the end of thisinterview a look into the future. Ten years from now: Give us your best casescenario, please. 

Thereis a mass awakening of human consciousness; the equivalent of mankind takingthe red pill from the movie "The Matrix". We stop chasing animpossible notion of infinite growth and begin to change our minds about lifeand what it means right now.

We accurately, clearly andfearlessly accept  and embrace the crisis and begin implementingavailable solutions today. We stop feeding the economic beast which has nooption but to kill us in order to save itself. Maybe instead of four or fivebillion people starving and or dying in resource wars, or in nuclear exchangesover resources, we can reduce that number to two or three billion and alsoidentify, redefine and preserve the best parts of human civilization for thegenerations that follow.

We find a way to live in balance and truesustainability with the planet that gives us life and all the life that weshare it with.
 

And now give us your worst casescenario, please. 

Humanextinction and the possible extinction of all life on the planet, either as aresult of climate collapse or a global nuclear exchange over energy.
 

The coming situation of Peak Oilwill be a turbulent event. When I got you right, you argue in "Crossing theRubicon" that the Patriot Act and the cut-back of the Posse Comitatus Act wereimplemented by the American government to prepare itself against civil unrestduring the "hard times" of Peak Oil. Is your country heading into a futurewhere freedom is again a privilege, not a given right? And why should people inEurope and around the world be very interested in the freedom of the citizensin the UnitedStates? 

Idisagree with the Russian analyst who predicted a civil war here.[17]Civil wars are defined by geographic boundaries. I do however think itinevitable that the United Sates will dis-integrate and there are clear signsof that beginning right now.

But what's going to happen here is no differentthan what will happen all over the world. As human industrial civilizationcollapses everything will be governed by a force as powerful andunyielding as gravity. That is geography. Things do not break up. They breakdown. They get smaller.

Problems in Essen or the Rhinelandwill be different from problems in East Prussia or Bavaria. There will be massivesocial unrest here but I do not believe it can be accurately predicted how thatwill play out. There can be only one end result. Everything will revolve aroundwhat is within 50 or 100 kilometers of where one lives.

[1] Gary Webb: "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack CocaineExplosion", Seven Stories, 1999

[2] siehe Richard C. Duncan: "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Roadto the Olduvai Gorge" unter: www.hubbertpeak.com/Duncan/olduvai2000.html

[3] vgl.Dale Allan Pfeiffer: „Eating Fossil Fuels" unter:

http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html.Siehe ferner Dale AllanPfeiffer: "Eating FossilFuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture", New SocietyPublishers, Oktober 2006  

[4] MikeRuppert meint den ehemaligen Parlamentarischen Staatssekretär undBundesminister für Forschung und Technologie, Andreas von Bülow.

[5] siehe Michael C. Ruppert: "Crossingthe Rubicon. The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil",New Society Publishers, 2004, Seite 568

[6] siehe Robert L. Hirsch: "Peaking ofWorld Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management" unter: http://hiltoplancers.org/stories/hirsch0502.pdf

[7] siehe David Goodstein: "Out of Gas:The End of the Age of Oil", Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2005

[8] siehezu M. King Hubbert: http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/

[9] Michael C. Ruppert, Michael Kane: "The Markets React to Peak Oil.Industrial Society Rides an Unsustainable Plateau before the Cliff" unter: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/ww3/100406_markets_react.shtml

[10] siehehierzu u. a. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_09_01_Derivatives.html

[11] vgl.  Michael C. Ruppert: "Crossing the Rubicon",Seite 47ff. Für eine vertiefende Analyse der Rede siehe desWeiteren Kjell Aleklett: "Dick Cheney, Peak Oil and the Final Count Down" unter: www.peakoilnet.com/Publications/Cheney_PeakOil_FCD.pdf

[12] vgl.Richard Heinberg: "The Smoking Gun" unter: 

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081503_cia_russ_oil.html

[13] siehe Michael C. Ruppert:"Crossing the Rubicon", Seite 42

[14]Matthew Simmons:„Wenn der Wüste das Öl ausgeht. Der kommende Ölschock in Saudi-Arabien -Chancen und Risiken",  FinanzBuchVerlag, 2006

[15] siehehierzu u. a.: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/070802_alert.html

[16]siehe ferner: Mike Ruppert am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 auf seinem Blogspot www.mikeruppertblogspot.com: "The BearMarket-sucker's-manipulated-pumpanddump rally ends shortly -- right on time.The only thing I missed in recent predictions was $2,000 gold, but I think I knowwhy. I've noticed two huge gold sales recently. One for 140 metric tons andanother for (I think) 30 metric tons. There can only be so many tranches ofthat size. That's around six million ounces. No wonder the price has taken ahit as fools sold their gold and threw money back in the markets. I smell theend of the gold cabal. They've had to dip into their reserves... the realthing. "

[17] MikeRuppert meint Igor Panarin. Siehe hierzu: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html