Re: "lets see....", sample reactions #6 on the charts

#6 comes from Amazon. Generally speaking, an Amazon sometimes is and sometimes is not of the same caliber of the usual suspect expected to show up near the tops of lists proffering web search results. For the time being, there still is some actual life left in the internet. It has not, yet, been totally rendered into the same kind of artificial reality embodied by the monopolized media the way TV has.... it's going there, just not there, yet. For now, it's not always the case, just often the case that given results of web searches show up closer to the top of the list simply because somebody, generally in conjunction with some thing somewhere in some crack or shady corner paid for it to show up near the top if not the top. Amazon is a specimen example of a something that lurks in dark places paying "good money" for the privilege of receiving a good rate of return - more money.

Amazon provides "10 customer reviews" of the book - The Energy Non-Crisis, by Lindsey Williams. While Amazon does not allow its web frequenters to anonymously express their sense of pettiness a la "click a blue thingy that turns green .... nobody will know ... except for Homeland Security, nobody will know it was you who clicked the blue thingy turned green!!", it does include the use of "_____ users found the following helpful" as an accessory attached to the still-popular star-rating-system ;)

Defies Logic, June 6, 2008

I've seen Williams' video on Google and this just doesn't ring true to me. He says Kissinger tried to make a deal with all the oil-producing countries and Saddam Hussein wouldn't go along with it, so we encouraged Saddam to invade Kuwait so we'd have a pretext to get rid of him (in other words, we set him up). For one thing, Saddam wasn't even in power when Kissinger was Secretary of State (Saddam took power in 1979). OK, so maybe Williams meant that....

Defies Logic... well, whether Steve D realized it or not, at least he said it in plain English right up front, and then promptly proceeded to not disappoint. The reprobate better known as Kissinger was originally placed into a power position, like a programmed parasite, or germ cell, to increasingly spread evil & influence over the globe, from as early as the Kennedy years. ... but Steve asserts that such forces cannot manifest until they are first, formally placed in front of the world to see by way of the TV and positions like Secretary of State. Steve then goes on to balance his wonderment "logic" by mixing in the ample bits of obligatory, 2-sided partisan political bickering, like, why, oh why, Mr Smarty Pants, if what Williams says is true, did not one Bill Clinton step in while given the opportunity and fix this fomenting global energy oil crisis mess? 'Cmon Steve, every political wonk knows that Bill was busy, too busy to fix anything, not even his zipper. He and the little Mrs were busy being quite preoccupied with: toasting Branch Davidians; accumulating charges of sexual assault; not inhaling unless of course it involved special-dip cigars; accumulating body bags; bombing Serbia; looting the public trust; granting pardons; and, of course accumulating the legacy-building required in "balancing the budget". LOL! Poor Steve. For the bean-counter-lovers among us, be sure to check out the review that comes by way of a lover of all known statistics in Durham, North Carolina.... and if there are any Twin Peaks fans out there, you are in for a delight. Who knew there were Peak Oil Myth twins? Word of a second comes from Alaska, no less! Here you have it: Hubbert and Ruppert, a veritable Frick & Frack, Heckle & Jeckle, Blue & Red wrapped up like so much twin peak oil peas in the proverbial pod.

Here then is a comment from the other side of the coin.

Some facts are hard argue with, June 22, 2008

There is great information presented here, but as evidenced by the wide range of opinions and ratings, people believe what they want and reject what doesn't agree with their world view, as manipulated by the zeitgeist that fortunately for now at least, includes Amazon.com. So believe this: In 1999 .... oil was at $10 a barrel.... it's pushing $140 a barrel, the world is less free.... Exxon is making record profits while getting massive federal subsidies...We're just one more Middle-Eastern invasion away from $200 a barrel oil.... So believe what you want, vote for more war, pay your sub-prime mortgage, bend over at the gas pump and watch a little more TV before you vote. Talk about getting HOSED! Read this book before you dismiss it--Or watch the reverend on YouTube while you still can, since this book is obviously going away.

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0890510687/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fe...