darkman
06-03-2007, 10:23 PM
This happened last year in uk airports ten flights were grounded for other reasons than terror plots this is a report on why this happened
There are many places from which to start to utterly dismember the recent so called “unimaginable” terrorist plot to blow up ten airliners bound from the UK to the US over the Atlantic. But perhaps the easiest is to first debunk the theory about mixing binary chemicals onboard an airliner in flight. The Scotland Yard chief who made those comments was quite correct: It is “unimaginable”.
Making explosives out of Gatorade and hydrogen peroxide (or any other known combination of chemicals) just isn’t feasible. It requires a laboratory set up where only two of the key issues are temperature (ice is needed) and stability. This fact was superbly demonstrated in an August 17 article in Britain’s The Register. In that article, Thomas Green brilliantly deconstructs, from a scientific viewpoint, using chemistry professors and expert testimony, the notion that such a feat could be carried out aboard an aircraft in flight. Of course, the Brits, the US and CNN would ask you to understand why they can’t tell you how it would be done because they judiciously don’t want anyone trying this at home.
The truth is that no one can tell you how it can be done by someone posing as a passenger, because it can’t. And don’t tell that to those who have been (or will be) indicted in the plot because they’ve probably been led to believe that it can be done just as Richard Reid sat there foolishly trying to light his tennis shoe with a cigarette lighter. Funny how they’ve never banned tennis shoes since Richard Reid. Yet now all liquids except baby foods and prescription medicine have been nixed.
Crossing The Rubicon and a great many other books, articles and official records are full of accounts where willing, uneducated jihadist martyr “Muhammad X”, receiving instructions from one of his countrymen who’s been turned by the CIA or other intelligence service, is sent out on a mission intended to fulfill US, British or Israeli needs. In this case, the so-called “bigger than 9-11” plot was just what the doctor ordered as I’m about to demonstrate.
So why would the British and American governments go to such trouble to cause all this turmoil?
DEMAND DESTRUCTION
Despite hurricanes, high fuel prices and increased conservation, energy consumption in the United States remains strong, as does China and India, the bank said.
"Ultimately, we agree that the energy bull market will roll over once demand destruction really begins," it said. "We simply do not believe we have arrived at that point."
* Reuters News Service quoting Goldman Sachs Analysts, December 13, 2005
The reason why such long lead times are required is that the worldwide scale of oil consumption is enormous – a fact often lost in a world where oil abundance has been taken for granted for so long. If mitigation is too little, too late, world supply/demand balance will have to be achieved through massive demand destruction (shortages), which would translate to extreme economic hardship. On the other hand, with timely mitigation,economic damage can be minimized.
* The Inevitable Peaking of World Oil Production, Robert L. Hirsch (SAIC), The Atlantic Council of the United States, October, 2005
Traders and analysts, however, warn that many may be overestimating consumer reaction to high prices. "There's a perception that this demand destruction is going to continue," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago. "But I think that people are being a little bit overly optimistic."
* The Associated Press, October 24, 2005 (After Katrina and Rita)
"This morning's IEA Monthly Oil Market Report counts as a significant blow against the 'demand destruction' thesis that has been the dominant theme driving oil and refined product prices lower over the past week," said Kevin Norrish, an analyst at Barclays Capital.
*
Reuters, October 11, 2005
What is demand destruction? On a small scale it is exactly what happened after the 7-7-05 London subway attacks. Note the following from MarketWatch the day after the London bombings which were (coincidentally) the height of the summer travel season (but before Katrina and Rita).
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude futures recouped much of their losses Thursday as Hurricane Dennis stole the limelight from a reported climb in last week's U.S. refinery production and terrorist attacks in London....
But IFR's Evans pointed out that "one lesson from September 11 that bears repeating is that terrorist attacks against civilian targets like the ones in London ... are bearish for demand."
Many economists, trying obliquely to address Peak Oil issues had predicted that $50, $60, or $70 oil would slow demand. They were wrong.
On larger scale however, demand destruction, as recognized by Peak Oil analysts and groups as powerful as the Council on Foreign Relations is seen as the only way to deal with Peak Oil when supply cannot be increased. Demand must be destroyed in order to:
* Protect the markets,
* Maintain consumer confidence and hide truth of Peak Oil, and
* Keep some kind of order in the world economy and energy supply system.
There are many places from which to start to utterly dismember the recent so called “unimaginable” terrorist plot to blow up ten airliners bound from the UK to the US over the Atlantic. But perhaps the easiest is to first debunk the theory about mixing binary chemicals onboard an airliner in flight. The Scotland Yard chief who made those comments was quite correct: It is “unimaginable”.
Making explosives out of Gatorade and hydrogen peroxide (or any other known combination of chemicals) just isn’t feasible. It requires a laboratory set up where only two of the key issues are temperature (ice is needed) and stability. This fact was superbly demonstrated in an August 17 article in Britain’s The Register. In that article, Thomas Green brilliantly deconstructs, from a scientific viewpoint, using chemistry professors and expert testimony, the notion that such a feat could be carried out aboard an aircraft in flight. Of course, the Brits, the US and CNN would ask you to understand why they can’t tell you how it would be done because they judiciously don’t want anyone trying this at home.
The truth is that no one can tell you how it can be done by someone posing as a passenger, because it can’t. And don’t tell that to those who have been (or will be) indicted in the plot because they’ve probably been led to believe that it can be done just as Richard Reid sat there foolishly trying to light his tennis shoe with a cigarette lighter. Funny how they’ve never banned tennis shoes since Richard Reid. Yet now all liquids except baby foods and prescription medicine have been nixed.
Crossing The Rubicon and a great many other books, articles and official records are full of accounts where willing, uneducated jihadist martyr “Muhammad X”, receiving instructions from one of his countrymen who’s been turned by the CIA or other intelligence service, is sent out on a mission intended to fulfill US, British or Israeli needs. In this case, the so-called “bigger than 9-11” plot was just what the doctor ordered as I’m about to demonstrate.
So why would the British and American governments go to such trouble to cause all this turmoil?
DEMAND DESTRUCTION
Despite hurricanes, high fuel prices and increased conservation, energy consumption in the United States remains strong, as does China and India, the bank said.
"Ultimately, we agree that the energy bull market will roll over once demand destruction really begins," it said. "We simply do not believe we have arrived at that point."
* Reuters News Service quoting Goldman Sachs Analysts, December 13, 2005
The reason why such long lead times are required is that the worldwide scale of oil consumption is enormous – a fact often lost in a world where oil abundance has been taken for granted for so long. If mitigation is too little, too late, world supply/demand balance will have to be achieved through massive demand destruction (shortages), which would translate to extreme economic hardship. On the other hand, with timely mitigation,economic damage can be minimized.
* The Inevitable Peaking of World Oil Production, Robert L. Hirsch (SAIC), The Atlantic Council of the United States, October, 2005
Traders and analysts, however, warn that many may be overestimating consumer reaction to high prices. "There's a perception that this demand destruction is going to continue," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago. "But I think that people are being a little bit overly optimistic."
* The Associated Press, October 24, 2005 (After Katrina and Rita)
"This morning's IEA Monthly Oil Market Report counts as a significant blow against the 'demand destruction' thesis that has been the dominant theme driving oil and refined product prices lower over the past week," said Kevin Norrish, an analyst at Barclays Capital.
*
Reuters, October 11, 2005
What is demand destruction? On a small scale it is exactly what happened after the 7-7-05 London subway attacks. Note the following from MarketWatch the day after the London bombings which were (coincidentally) the height of the summer travel season (but before Katrina and Rita).
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude futures recouped much of their losses Thursday as Hurricane Dennis stole the limelight from a reported climb in last week's U.S. refinery production and terrorist attacks in London....
But IFR's Evans pointed out that "one lesson from September 11 that bears repeating is that terrorist attacks against civilian targets like the ones in London ... are bearish for demand."
Many economists, trying obliquely to address Peak Oil issues had predicted that $50, $60, or $70 oil would slow demand. They were wrong.
On larger scale however, demand destruction, as recognized by Peak Oil analysts and groups as powerful as the Council on Foreign Relations is seen as the only way to deal with Peak Oil when supply cannot be increased. Demand must be destroyed in order to:
* Protect the markets,
* Maintain consumer confidence and hide truth of Peak Oil, and
* Keep some kind of order in the world economy and energy supply system.