Douglas:
Nuclear only seems to work if the government cover the cleanup and disposal afterwards amounting to a massive subsidy in my opinion and not what was promised from “cheap” nuclear power. In the UK there are two nuclear power plants in particular, one near Barrow in Furness and one on the North Coast of Scotland which have had problems in the past. The joke was you could always tell who had been on the beach close to the Barrow plant due to their feet glowing in the dark. Those beaches were, and are still, I believe closed to the public. What the effect on sea life and the food chain has been I don’t know.
I should retract something from that original post which is: “Oh! what a scramble there is going to be to provide cheap energy to China” I believe I was 180 degrees wrong there. In the long term I don’t believe the intention is to give them cheap energy at all. I think the cost will rise both from a profit point of view and as a way of slowing the competitiveness of their emerging industries as well as their growth and cost of transportation of products to overseas markets.
Part two of the original article I pointed to in a following post here redmoonrising.com pointed out:
As we related in Part One of this study, the first attack on the Third World came in the form of a premeditated massive rise in oil prices in connection with the Yom Kippur war of 1973. Economies cannot develop without an energy supply, and the quadrupling of energy prices was a major setback to nations like India, Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia and Mexico. Then when President Bhutto of Pakistan tried to work around the situation by developing nuclear energy Kissinger threatened him saying, "We will make an example of you!" (9) The Shah of Iran, even though his nation had an abundant supply of oil, also began a program to develop nuclear energy. Both leaders were quickly eliminated.
With the rise in energy prices the development of the Third World was checked, but the Arab Middle East became greatly enriched. This was when the Globalists turned to their allies, the Islamists, to remedy the situation. Islam would be used to attack industrialization and modernization using the lie that human progress was un-Islamic and a Western plot against the servants of Allah. The real plot was actually aimed at the brown-skinned masses of the Middle East who were briefly experiencing a positive change in their quality of life in terms of education, employment, shelter, sanitation and nutrition. However the religious and intellectual advocates of ignorance, filth and violence joined forces to throw the prosperous Middle East back into the dark ages.
China is already having problems with its adherents of Islam in certain parts of the country and it is not inconceivable that this is being promoted from without.
So for all the race to supply China with energy, for one reason or another I doubt that it will go down in price much in fact I believe it may increase. Although the West seemingly needs lower prices to get the economy going again, particularly in the US... in fact the price in real terms is much lower than it was during the oil embargo in ’73 and the price of energy is not really at the root problems of the US and hence Europe.
Aircraft Carriers: The point really is that the thousands of Tanks which the Soviets built to invade/protect them from Western Europe were made obsolete by cheaper tank killing munitions delivered from the air, as was later shown in Desert Storm. Also relatively cheap and effective stinger missiles beat the soviet Hind gunships in Afghanistan. So in the coming war the old rules may not apply. I seem to remember that both the US and USSR had agreed not to use certain nuclear munitions by treaty. The two that stick in my mind were suitcase nukes and nuclear mines though there were probably others too. With the US and Israel threatening the use of tactical nuclear warheads against a relatively defenseless foe... the possibility, if not of a fishing boat, then of some third party contract laying a nuclear mine in the Straits of Hormuz or the Bab el Mandeb off Djibouti or some other restricted navigable waters to lie in wait for a battle group would level the playing field somewhat. For example if China decides that this war is about pushing up their price of energy in the future they might decide to lend a helping hand. They put their foot down pretty effectively in the past in both Korea and Vietnam with quite devastating results, but only after the US was committed to a course of action and in pretty deep.
Re: "They would be tough to approach while on a mission anyway" Yes the Jap’s found that out in WWII. (g)
Best Regards
T. |
