RICHARD E. GEIS a personal journal Copyright (c) 1979 RICHARD E. GEIS with fiction By Richard E. Geis a personal journal RICHARD E. GEIS POB 11408, Portland, OR 97211 5 for $3. 10 for $6. 6-22-79 Probably this weekend the OPEC mobile and on rampant consumerism, in of Carter and other big industrialized countries will raise the base price of this country. Directly and indirectly nations leaders, who are there to decide oil to 318—320 a barrel and this will at least a fourth of the jobs in the how much to cut oil imports—the U.S. be the final nail in the coffin of the USA depend on a hundred million cars wants each nation to have an import U.S. and perhaps the world economy. and trucks moving, wearing out, hitting limit per year—and you have a pre­ # Tourism is off 25? here in Oregon, each other...and on the habits of eat­ scription for a recession/depression, and no doubt that echoes the tourism ing out once or twice a week, going to very much higher gasoline prices or disaster-all over the country. a show, buying a lot of plastic junk... strict rationing, and very high rates # The independent truckers are rais­ The car and consume economy is be­ of "inflation" for a few years. ing hell over fuel prices, insane load ginning to end! As the slowdown progresses the regulations, and the 55 mph speed limit, Your best bet for a long-lasting pressure will increase on congress to and President Carter, ever one to rob job is in those companies which can cut taxes and on the Federal Reserve to Peter to pay (placate) Paul, is going make cars last longer, go farther on start pumping up the money supply to to cut the fuel supply of farmers to a gallon of gas, which save energy in flood the country with printing-press soothe the truckers. (The way he upp­ a big way, and which help people grow dollars to get the economy moving a­ ed the quota of gas for California but their own food. ■ gain. This is known as back door de­ didn't tell the Easterners it would come # K little-noted government paper valuation, and may not work 'one-more­ from them!) ■ ..... a few days ago was revealed which pre­ time’ since it would push the "inflation" So now, after generations of seduc­ dicted 80j per gallon heating oil this rate up to 20-25? per year and would ing Americans into an automobile/consurr- winter, with some families seeking push the OPEC n3tions into abandoning er lifestyle, big business and we Ameri­ shelter in public buildings for warmth, the dollar as a pricing unit and turn cans find ourselves at the end of the to avoid freezing to death. them to selling oil in prices based on road—dependence on seven internation­ # If you have a backyard, dig up a ’basket’ of currencies. This would al oil companies, seven or eight giant a big section of it and begin preparing ratchet "inflation" even higher in this international banks, two or three all­ the ground for crops next year—mix in country. powerful families who are waging an und­ organic garbage, grass clippings, leaves # I've finished building and painting er-cover war for control of the world... and manure if you can get it free. a woodshed against the house in back, and a bunch of small-fry local dictators, Learn about growing fruits and vegeta­ and have room in it for nearly two leaders, pretenders, and armed fanatics. bles. cords of wood. This gives me a stor­ All at risk. The standard of living in this age capacity of about three cords count­ Most of us are employees, renters, country is going to fall. In spite of ing the space in the garage I use for and in debt. Ue don't own our shelter, coming devaluations, wars, political wood keeping. we do not provide our own food and we promises...what you can earn will not I'll be buying wood in the next depend on our job (vulnerable, uncert­ permit the lifestyle you now enjoy. month to bring our supply up to the ain) for our income. Most of us are limit. And I'll force myself to start one to three months from destitution, # A small AR story on page six of the collecting scrap wood from wherever I starvation and homelessness. OREGONIAN caught my notice and sent a can find it, when on my bike. I have How do you protect yourself? chill through me: felt demeaned—humiliated—(most of 'WASHINGTON (AP) — With little I know the prostitute economists the time) when I stopped and picked up discussion and less information, the and government spokesmen and business a chunk of wood from the street or curb­ Senate on Wednesday passed a bill auth­ leaders are assuring us we face only a side. But that will pass, I hope, as orizing government intelligence agen­ mild recession—a slowdown—until the each acquisition changes shape as I cies to carry on unspecified activities spring of 1980. They’re lying. They look at it and becomes the equivalent at an unknow cost. The details of dare not tell the truth and in most of oil or p. It would take me about the legislation are classified.' cases dare not admit the truth even to a half an hour a day, I estimate, to What the hell is going on? themselves. Their jobs and reputations scavenge a load for my baskets. depend on a calm, easy-to-bear scenario As more and more people turn to for the future. And they dare not tell 6-27-79 OPEC dropped their bomb: a wood to supplement or substitute for the truth for fear of igniting panic and Saudi base price of 318.00 for a bar­ oil and gas, the easy pickings for me evil events. rel of oil, and (U3-5O tops for the will fade. And, of course, I have But evil events are in the works: other OPEC members, depending on the the corrugated paper log technology again: too many millions of people de­ quality of their crude. perfected and can roll-my-own as a pend on the use and abuse of the auto­ Add to that the meeting in Tokyo further supplemental fuel for the fireplace heating unit. Why all this penny-saving planning, fied for "affirmative action" programs. eral Commission. My guess is that An­ you ask? Well, in- a long-lasting de­ Used to be the octarooms tried to pass derson is in the race to try to weaken pression I think the income from SFR as white. Now they may fight like hell Reagan, or prevent a first-ballot Reag­ and REG will dry up to a -trickle. The in court to be legally black. Yuk Yuk. an nomination at the Republican conven­ monthly interest check I get from the And so on with the Indians, the chicanos, tion. money I inherited from dad will only the Chinese, Japanese... Does a trans­ pay for utilities and house insurance, sexual qualify as a woman?' What of a 7-6-79 What ho! joggers and health and such. Too, I expect that any pro "femme" homosexual? nuts? Mendy Rudolph, 22—year referee novel writing I may do will be very This latest Supreme Court ruling is for the NBA died yesterday, age 53, of hard to sell as publishers retrench and actually a bonanza for lawyers. a heart attack. As a college, semi- rely on their backlists to save money. pro and pro referee, Rudolf ran for The expanded gardens will not feed 6—29—79 The results of the economic hours on end almost every day. He re­ us all year, but we'll' eat fresh fruits summit at Tokyo are now in: we agreed tired about four years ago. and vegetables during the summer and to limit oil imports for six years, He was lean and in good shape to fall, and we'll dry and store as much starting in 1980, at 1979 levels. his dying day. as possible. And we agreed to raise domestic oil Makes you wonder, don't it? And we'll have a buffer against prices to the world price "as soon as a food shortage. The current truckers possible and keep them there." # In the years ahead various companies strike should give you a clue as to how This is a prescription for reces- will advertise home solar-heating Pack­ vulnerable we are to shortages (and sion/depression, massive strains on' the ages, solar hot water packages, etc. the price run-ups as the market prices social fabric, cultural trauma, perhaps Just put them in position, run this hose adjust demand to supply). We" are as a a war, perhaps a President in the 80s there, tighten this valve, and you will nation largely dependent on a string of who vill declare a national emergency and have "cheap" heat or hot water (or even oil tankers reaching halfway around the rule by invoking his wartime emergency electricity). Cheap, that is, if you world, subject to all kinds of disrup­ powers (never taken away by Congress figure the initial cost oyer a twenty­ tions, and as individuals we are de­ since WWII.) year period. pendent on a string of trucks that Gasoline and oil prices will go up But there are simpler, no-cost reach halfway across the country. and up and up to really painful levels ways of using solar energy to save The entire economy is so interwoven, and will force many extreme adjustments electrical or natural oas energy. to cross-linked, so dependent upon other in our way of life. For instance, never heat or cook links, that the failure or stoppage in Unemployment will soar this fall and .more water or food than you are going one area ripples out to slow and hurt winter and price rises will continue as to use. Putting a full kettle of water many others. And individuals are the the cost of energy pushes all manufactur­ on to boil for tea or instant coffee is most vulnerable. . ing and handling and delivery costs. stupid if you're only going to make one You've got to plan ahead, people! And the government—will probably or two cups. Pour into the kettle from Terrible times are coming. Protect turn to "stimulation" of the economy to the drinking cup or mug only that water your ass! alleviate some of the pain. T.hat means you will be using. they'll run 100 billion dollar deficits You might (depending on your house # The Supreme Court has done it again! and devalue the dollar like crazy. or apartment's location) be able to Their latest exercise in stupidity and There are signe even now that the Feder­ simply keep a container of water in the in ignoring the constitution tells us al Reserve has started to pump up the sun and pour warm-to-hot water from it that although schools and federally money supply. If this continues you to your kettle, thereby saving all the funded organizations cannot set racial can expect even .worse than 13% "inflation" energy that would be used heating cold quotas for jobs.or educational slots rates in. 1980-81. water to the temperature of the sun- (the Bakke case), it is constitutional . There's not much point in going to heated water. Same for all hot water for private concerns to do it. the expensive coal gassification tech­ needs. If you can make-do with warm The quagmire of "good" racism prob­ water in your washer, if you can make lems will deepen, now,, with every min­ niques and oil shale and gasohol and solar and nuclear power except to cut do with warm water baths.... ority —gays, women, blacks, chicanos, What, carry water in from the sun Indians, jews...suing big and little our dependence on foreign oil. Every in big cans or bottles? That’s work! companies for a special privilege. All energy source except hydroelectric is Eh! What would it involve? Two or this will simply piss-off the rest of more expensive than oil—even at today's oil prices. three minutes. Another minute or two the working population who have to com­ to fill the cans again with a hose, in pete on their own merits in a narrowing the yard. If you can't stand warm job market against a-group of Court- # I note with jaundiced eye that the water baths, bring it up to temperature created "teacher's pets". latest Republican to announce his can- with hot water. The point is this is The lower courts will now have to ditacy for President is John Anderson a very simple, no-cost way to save per­ decide how much black blood is required of Illinois. He's a congressman...and haps 5$ on your hot water heating in order to be a black and thus quali­ a member of David Rockefeller's Trilat— -2- costs. 7-11-79 My contempt for Carter, if to have seedless grapes for eating next with a different set of new ills—an possible, increases hourly. He's now year, and a lot of seeded grapes for increase in the number of wood-chopping obviously playing games at Camp David: wine-making. accidents, fatal house fires, bicycle making a high stakes event of the ener­ accidents.... . gy problem, trying to save his politi­ 7—19—79 When disaster strikes.... Yes­ # It looks as if the age of sailing cal life, and trying to figure out a terday we awoke to find the drain that ships will return, as diesel oil for policy that will satisfy David Rockefel­ runs from the kitchen down under the ce­ powered ships escalates in price. ler and at the same time create an im­ ment floor in the basement to the main Large, cargo-carrying sail vessels age of a sincere president doing the sewer outlet...found it was stopped up are becoming economically viable. They right thing for the people and the na­ again. (Happened three years ago in could have motors fo'r raising and low­ tion. . the same place, happened last year) ering and. turning the sails and spars, He has promised to limit oil imports And a Rescue Rooter team confirmed my could have auxiliary engines for no­ (Tokyo summit) and promised to lower oil worst-case dread—the drain pipe under wind and docking purposes. Crew sizes imports 52 (European summit), and has the concrete (probably under the fur­ need not be expanded. urged the oil companies to buy and re­ nace) was broken and probably sunk away So, too, will the railroads come fine more oil to make the consumers from the next pipe section. Continuing back, with advanced-design steam loco­ happy. He has even granted oil compan­ to run water into it would only under­ motives using coal. ies a 5^ subsidy to buy more oil for mine the entire house. Long-haul trucking may be virtual­ home heating oil refining. So. A plumber will come out and ly wiped out by profit/loss problems. I noted that he was visited by give an estimate of the cost of by-pass­ Clark Clifford, an old-time (in my opin­ ing the under-concrete pipe. I think ion) Rockefeller.man, and I suspect was the drain can be run.along a beam to 7—16—79 Yep, I saw/heard ol' boy given the game plan.. a new ¥—joint insert in the main sewer Jimmy Carter's vaunted energy speech After all this build-up at Camp link and allow me to clean that long last night. It was laughable. He David, Carter will come forth with a house-wide drain pipe myself if it seemed ridiculous as he switched The mouse, a ho-hum "plan" that any high clogs due to grease and soap in future. Smile on and off on cue, and pounded school kid could have come up with in I'll need to buy a long, motorized his fist to show forcefulness. No a single day—ask congress to fund a snake, but that mechanism should be doubt the Teleprompter had reminders synthetic fuel program, ask congress to a staple machine for any house. Too, every time the TV advisor had advised give him stand-by rationing powers, and I could ream out stopped-up neighbor he show guts and willpower. he may fire Energy Dept, head Schles­ drains in a casual barter exchange, in But as a speechmaker, Carter be­ inger. He will make faces at OPEC and times to come. trays his phoneyness. And spending call for "sacrifice" and "restraint" In the meantime I fear the cost of the first 20 minutes of his speech and "patience" from the American people. the job will run around 3500. Viewing With Alarm and complaining He just might create another layer of that people ain't got no Faith in bureaucratic screw-ups to oversee oil, # SCIENCE NEWS has a story in the July the future no more (because the govern­ gas and etc. while also keeping the 7 issue about a report in the May 31 ment lies to them and screws up daily) Energy Dept. NATURE magazine. Seems the quantity of and preaching anti-materialism... When he talks to the nation, Carter airborne trace metals has increased while saying simultaneously that we will speak of the recession and how all tremendously in the last seventy years have strayed from The American Way of us will be forced to make changes in of industrialization. For instance, in (which is materialism!) seemed to me our lives. 1910 there were 993 million kilograms in both patronizing and dishonest. Does But the prospectus will be yet more the earth's atmosphere. At present he really think he's talking to kids? government taxes, more government con­ there are A.3 billion kilograms of lead To functional morons.? trol, more government interference in in the air, mostly put there by the The hard parts of his speech are your life. 1923 introduction of leaded gasolines. simple: He is NOW putting a hard lid Watch it happen. Carter’is a gut­ Cadmium, copper, nickel, and zinc on oil imports—at the 1977 level. less toady, a bought man. are also heavy in the air. The rest of his program is up to Con­ Brown will beat him in the early It's natural to suspect that this gress (and involves big taxes on gas primaries and a Teddy Kennedy, stand­ buildup of poisons in the air we breathe and oil—which you and I will pay, in will sweep away the majority of is a contributing factor in a host of not the oil companies—to pay for votes. Carter will be humiliated and diseases. But it is the price we must ever more layers of government inter­ will withdraw as his southern base pay for our mass-production, affluent ference and screw-ups in the self­ disintegrates. He'may find, he has a life-style. adjusting social/cultural/commercial health problem and use that as an ex­ Giving up (or being forced to give markets affected). Congress will cuse. up) heavy industrialized civilization fuck around for a year and give him will probably clean up the air signifi­ most of what he is calling for. # I got the grape vine frames (old and cantly, but like as not will face us The rocky road ahead is that the hew two-by-'fours) sealed and in place -3- lid on oil imports means a- contraction the last few days. Next year I expect of gasoline available to private cars. He"are going into a recession at least Money Establishment doesn't want him tl Federal Reserve Board Miller said now,'and the slowdown, plus the large as President and are afraid of him. yesterday he thinks the recession increase in the retail price of gas and Note also that both Brown and will be deeper than officially estima­ oil, will lower demand for petroleum Connally floated the idea of a Common ted by the White House and that (along products. But if the administration Market with Mexico and Canada. This about the first presidential primaries ■ pumps up the money supply and stimulat­ would lead to a "movement" to merging next year) the unemployment rate will es. the economy in other ways to keep the three nations in other areas... be 8.5^. unemployment down....inflation will re­ eventually. Carter is politically dead. sult, demand will go up, and gas lines Ted Kennedy knows that if he runs Some people think Alexander Haig will come back. for president he will be physically is slated to be a Man On A White Horse As it is, though, Carter has pro­ dead. ■ strong man President—to be slipped vided us with a prescription for 10 The next president will likely be into the job after the Republicans years of .stagnation and depression and a Republican. Jerry Brown will be bog down at their convention after a inflation. smeared and joked into an also-ran if stop-Reagan movement succeeds, and turn Interesting that all this is re­ he decides to challenge Carter. to him in orchestrated desperation. quired because Carter (and his owners) The powers-that-be might turn to We'll see. . cannot stand to .be dependent on foreign Mondale or another prominent Rocke­ You have to look for small clues oil and to have that gun.at their feller man for the Democratic nomina­ and signals. heads. It limits their delusions of tion if Carter is simply non-useable world power and influence. It makes in 1980. their geo-political plans in re Egypt/ 7-18-79 How Carter, clearly desperate Israel' subject to veto by OPEC. So the 7-19-79 MY SHOD! WHY ARE YOU DO­ to improve his image, is about to fire American people will pay and pay and ING THIS TO ME?- WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME some cabinet members and staff people. pay to develop a synthetic fuel industry 52 YEARS OLD TODAY? Why, I hardly (But secure in their jobs are the Rocke­ which will profit the big corporations, feel a day over 65. • mark my words, and which will be a vast • feller men of the cabinet: Vance, Brown and Brzezinski. Chase-Manhattan bank rathole for untold billions of dollars. 7-20-79 Will somebody please turn will still control the U.S. foreign The Energy Crisis (contrived, planned) down the sun? I’m fed up with the policy and war machine.) Carter will allows the multinational banks—owners 100° plus temperatures we've been no doubt pick other Rockefeller men to of oil companies, coal companies, etc. getting. replace whomever he fires. It's all a —to jack up prices more, to shortcut sham. # Despite what must be a cold.feeling environmental requirments, aid go ahead in his political guts, Carter contin­ with many, many nuclear plants in spite # The House Assassinations subcommittee ues on, trying desperately to.regain of laws and regulations (which will be has made its final report: Jack Kennedy the image and the voters that put. him shortcutted by the new energy board with and Martin Luther K.ng were "probably" (barely) Into office. To that end he power to do just that—in the national killed by two different conspiracies. has fired Joseph Calidano and put in interest). Alas, the subcommittee can't say who his place a black woman, Patricia H r- ‘Odd that Germany and Switzerland and done it or why, in either case. Ueli, ris, head of HUD, to be head of HEW. other industrialized countries don’t they think Jamea Earl Ray killed King Califano wasn't liked in the south be­ have to go to these lengths to get for money, on speculation that a St. cause he cracked down on school dist­ enough gas or fuel... But they don't Louis group would shell out after the ricts on desegregation matters and was want to be world-wide dabblers in act. . anti-tobacco. They grow a lot of to­ other people's affairs as our leaders Ho-ho. . . bacco in the south. and owners do. If the U.S. was a strict­ And they think-maybe the Mafia in Sec. of Treasury Blumenthal is al­ . ly neutral country without a CIA and a conspiracy with Oswald killed JFK. Ex­ so gone. And Schlesinger of Energy is series of megafortunes which are battling. cept there's no evidence of an Oswald- going... All these men angered key ‘ to own the rest of the world and who use Mafia linkage, and lots of evidence of a members of the White House staff. the CIA and other U.S. government agen­ CIA—Oswald and CIA—Mafia connection. And Carter, one assumes. He is a key cies (including the Presidency and his member of the White House staff. The cabinet) to further those ends, we The CIA used the Mafia to try to assass­ inate Castro, remember? I believe the Georgia Mafia and its Godfather Cart­ would not care about energy self-suf­ Rockefeller-controlled CIA put out a er are desperately cutting off heads ficiency. contract with the Mafia on Kennedy. as scapegoats. I note that in its post-speech prog- How pathetic, how obvious, how ram/conmentary NBC had Jerry Brown and Oswald was the patsy, the fall-guy. amateurish! Connally for their views. The leading In any case I doubt any final word will be said in these assassination Note that the former head of Coca­ Republican, Ronald Reagan, is not being Cola is the new head of Energy. The invited to say anything. He seems to cases. They're still arguing over the man was head of Coca-Cola when Carter have disappeared. I suspect he is being shooting of Lincoln J was Governor of Georgia. How nice. media-frcezed. Plainly the Eastern Big I note that G. William Miller is all the U.S. gold stock was sold off, in (surprise!) David Rockefeller's leaving as head of the Federal Reserve secretly, to defend the value of the Chase—Manhattan bank—once as head Board to become head of Treasury. An­ dollar, and that a huge portion of it of the planning division— and was other musical chairs performance. The went to private buyers (Rockefeller/ head of the New York Federal Reserve man will not be Sec. of Treasury long. Morgan & allies) by way of agents bank when picked by Carter for the top About a year and a half—until the and some cooperative (captive) govern­ job at the Fed. election. ments. He is supposed to be a conservative Recently, it is said, Senator G3rn of banker. But I'll wait and-; see. He is # Speaking of the Federal Reserve of Utah got wind of this and officially also not a rich man, so his change of Board—they raised the discount rate asked the Fed amd Treasury for informa­ jobs will involve a severe cut in from %/j to 10/. This is the interest tion. He also went to Ff. Knox and was salary, from .'.110,000 per year to rate the Fed chargee the nation's banks denied admittance. After five weeks he ii>59,000. (Remember the Federal Re­ for loans from the Fed. has not received ?ny answer from the serve banks are private banks, while This will force banks to raise their government about his questions. the Chairman of the Federal Reserve interest rate charges for loans to the A few years ago Dr. Peter Beter, Board is government appointed and public. a financial advisor and ultra-right paid.) I imagine, though, th3t the The Fed was forced to do this because commentator raised this same story big-money rulers, of this country will European interest rates are higher and and public pressure forced the govern­ see that he is taken care of nicely were drawing billions away from the U.S. ment to make a show of inviting chosen when he leaves the Fed. (Look what and because, with inflation at 12—1J^ a congressmen to "see" the Ft. Knox gold. they've done for Kissinger and Ford 12—13% loan is "free" money—the cost Or at least a display pile. They were and Nixon!) of renting money was equaled by its de­ not allowed to examine it or look any He'll do what Rockefeller/Morgan valuation. further. Beter was not invited, of want done. But mainly, with the banks loaded course. He said the display was a sham, with lots of low-cost Fed money to loan, Isn't is curious that every new a P.R. show to discredit him and the with loan volume escalating week by president always appoints Rockefeller/ truth. week, with the money supply bulging anew Morgan men to the key cabinet posts week by week insuring ever more deval­ Now, if indeed there is lying going of Treasury, Defense, State, and Na­ uation ("inflation") in the months on about the true U.S. gold supply in tional Security Advisor? Also CIA. ahead, into 1930, the OPEC nations made Ft. Knox, and if a huge hoard of gold is it very clear that if we continue to in the hands of private banks and corp­ # And isn't it confirmation of the try to devalue our way back to cheap orations...multinationals...then (in a Rockefeller/Morgan grip on Carter and oil (as we did in 1975—6—7—8) they will far-out speculation) I see a scheme to our government that Carter has just simply stop pricing oil in dollars and ruin the dollar as an international appointed to his staff Hedley W. Dono­ will turn to other, harder currencies or currency and create an essentially van, retired editor-in-chief of Time even gold, as payment. private international currency backed Inc. who gave Carter the cover of TIME So the economy cannot be saved a­ by gold, controlled by the Rockefeller/ and pushed his candidacy for President gain by cheapening the dollar. There Morgan locus, the European Rothschild in 1976. They met as members of (you is simply no way of escaping the conse­ locus, or both foces in cooperation. guessed it) David Rockefeller's Tri­ quences of past debt excesses. In that event, the USA would be a lateral Commission. Even so, I think the government (and colony...as it is increasingly, anyway. Donovan will be "senior advisor" those who control the government) will This future would be more explicit, and will have independent access to turn to huge deficits, more and more with less pretense. Carter, by-passing Hamilton Jordon, inflation (20—25% next cycle) to try to the new chief of White House staff. keep the structure from tumbling. It's It appears that the establishment 7-26-79 President Carter picked Paul all they know how to do. wants/needs a bit more close control A. Volcker to be the new chairman of the These'policies will bring on a near of Carter who is showing signs of Federal Reserve Board. Everyone is say­ revolution as the middle class rises up coming unglued and is not to be trust­ ing it's a great choice. Blumenthal and and as the lower class riots as taxes ed anymore. Proxmire and G. William Miller...all the increase due to inflation of incomes into Rockefeller/Morgan followers and agents it Every night, Johnny Carson savages ever-higher brackets and as living say it's a great pick.... (And those Carter unmercifully during his mono­ standards fall due to terrifying in­ are the opinions presented by the Big logue. Carson crucified Gerry Ford and creases in living costs. Mediate mold mass opinion.) may have been responsible for Ford los­ But Volcker presided over two of­ ing the election to Carter. Now Cart­ # The latest story on gold is that the ficial devaluations of the M while under­ er is getting the treatment. NBC, of U.S. gold stockpile in Ft. Knox is by secretary of the Treasury in past years course, is an arm of the power-group law required to be hand inventoried— (He wrote and conceived the scenarios) who rule this country. brick by brick—every four years. The and has served twice in high positions . Seems far-fetched to think of story goes that this has not been done Johnny Carson as a factor in a presi­ since 1953. Further, in 196^ virtually dential election, until you consider a lot of heat! As much as a small wood Arabia has increased production to keep how many voters he reaches each night, and stove and I think more than my fireplace a lid on the spot oil price, a few of how terrible mockery and satire can be heating unit. the smaller oil producers are cutting to a politician. I suspect that Johnny I figure the slight temporary kero- production, including Nigeria. OPEC Carson tagged Gerry Ford as an awkward sene odor is counterbalanced by the in- will keep its base price in place, and klutz and kept up that joke image for evitable wood smcll/smoke that will slight-will increase its prices if the U.S. all of Ford's tenure as President. Oh, ly permeate the room when the fireplace is dollar is further devalued 5%. and Chovy Chase, too, who, as Gerry Ford, used (or a woodstove is used). It wouldn't take much to trigger always slipped or fell or was Clumsy on With one of these Kerosun units you another "run" on the dollar. The over­ camera. light it (press a button—two D-cell hang of Eurodollars is in the area of batteries do the job of ignition) and 70 billion or so that cculd be used’to # I note that the new ORGANIC GARDENING after a couple minutes make a simple buy into mark-s, yen, Swiss francs, and magazine and the various Sunday Features turn-a-knob wick adjustment for best gold. Let the money supply start an­ inserts in big metro papers-are filled, efficiency. And then it'll burn until other surge, let a huge deficit ap­ now, with ads for woodstoves and solar it runs out of fuel...and there is an pear, let it be obvious that the Fed heating equipment. - automatic shut-off device in case the will not keep the dollar strong with There arc stores in the east which unit is somehow tipped. But it has a high interest rates...and the deluge sell wood stoves and solar—alternate wide base and very hard to tip. ■ ■ of dollars would kill us by flooding heating systems. Fireplaces stoves/ In Portland, kerosene is 89(£ per into this country and shooting infla­ furnaces are big. gallon in purchases of over AO gallons. tion to unheard-of levels. Overseas And I ve heard Sen. Jackson (I Okay. We now have 108 gallons in two bankers, businessmen and governments think) mention the likelihood of |1. 55 gallon drums, in the garage. The will no longer sit quietly and hold per gallon heating oil in places in drums cost $19.50 each, and a pump cost dollars that are decreasing in value. America, coming this winter. $12.50. They will spend them—sellthem—for There is an alternative heating sys­ This winter we'll be giving these some currency or some thing which will tem you don't hear about which is worth heaters a good test run, and I'll report keep its value. looking into.- It isn't chic, and it is our findings. Thus the U.S. government is in a •a "no-no" as far as ecology and the ro­ I know it doesn't seem right to go box it has created for itself; devalue mance of the "natural" wood stove/fire- to an oil derived fuel for heating, but the dollar in order to alleviate or place appeal is concerned, but it is if it works as I suspect it will, we'll end the recession and it will suffer probably cheaper, more efficient and save 300 or more gallons -of heating oil horrendous inflation------keep the dollar far loss trouble to operate than wood per year and pay off the entire cost of strong and the recession will (I say fire heating. the Kerosun heaters and equipment in two will) worsen and cause a debt collapse. I'm talking about kerosene-heaters. years. In six years we may have paid for Politics will dictate more de­ Specifically, the Kerosun line of Jap^ the storm windows due to be in place in valuation and making foreigners and anese kerosene heaters. I've seen them, late August. OPEC the cause of our subsequent prob­ and after checking them out, I bought two And in the hard times to come a yearly lems. ■ A war might result. Wage-price of them. They are a precision, metal, • heating bill of about $200. will be the controls are assurred "for the emer­ attractively designed and beautifully envy of a lot of people. gency". That will bring shortages and engineered heater. And the Radiant 10 .If you'd like more information about a black market. Expect-this to begin model will burn at its optimum heat the Kerosun heaters, write to Kero-Sun, in late 1980 or 1981. (9400 BTU per hour) for at least JO Inc., Box 340, Kent, CT 05757. ■hours on less than two gallons of fuel. '# The nearly half a billion dollar From a test I ran in the house I loss by Chrysler over the past 18 estimate 100 gallons will be enough to 8-4-79 The politization of oil con­ months and the looming bankruptcy of heat upstairs and downstairs office for tinues. The latest evidence and in­ that giant corporation is only the 150 winter days—from mid-October to stance is Nigeria's nationalizing Brit­ first sign of the coming collapse of mid-March. ish oil interests because British Pet­ the debt structure. At the minimum There are six models and a cook roleum dared sell Nigerian oil (by a I imagine Chrysler will have to stop stove available. third party sale) to South Africa. making cars. It may sell its car There is a slight drawback: there Since Nigeria sells the United factories to Volkswagen. That option is a slight kerosene odor during the States 14# of our imported oil, I wond­ would save most of the 100,000 UMW few minutes of initial burning until er how long it will take them to hang jobs after a year or so of retooling the wick unit heats up and stabilizes, an anti—Israeli requirement on U.S. pol­ and adjustment. and for a moment after the heater is icy if we want to continue to live with­ # For maybe a year, the devaluation turned off. You can add a deodorizer out rationing. rate of the $ will go down—the re­ to the room if that bothers you. It should be noted that while Saudi— cession will see to that. But then But one of these heaters gives off -6- will come the effects of deficits.and the deluge. Gold will go to $400 or $500 esteem and over-compensates. He hides are labelled schizophrenia of the per ounce end in politics we may have behind a facade of competence and hon­ mind—in the brain. a dictator in fact if not in name. esty and religion. Yet to be integrated is the mare's At base he is in danger of schizo­ nest involved in the psychc-somatic phrenic paranoia, concealed megalomania. aspects—how do strong emotions alt­ 8-5-79 A small AP story in the paper It would be best for him and for er the blood chemistry of the brain? today speaks to heavy geo-political power­ the country to get him out of the White Does intense emotion conscious and struggles. Datelined KUWAIT: 'The U.S. House; he isn't up to the job or its unconscious alter the shape and size National Security Council is secretly pressures. of brain cavities? investigating the increasing European The Rockefeller/Morgan locus made a Does diet have a place in the gene­ influence among the oil-rich Arab serious mistake in picking him for Pres­ sis of mental illness? Sure—if states of the Persian Gulf, the Kuaiti ident. But they needed a man easily drugs can change brain chemistry, why newspaper Al-Qabas reported today. used, who would do as they wish in ex­ not a prolonged vitamin starvation of 'Quoting unidentified sources in change for the title and the glory. one kind or another? An excess of Washington, the paper said the United We've had a succession of such men sugar...too much fat... States is deeply concerned about the since Roosevelt; only Truman and Ken­ I suspect much of mental ill­ European thrust and particularly about nedy had much guts and competence in ness will continue to be a mystery, the mounting Erench involvement "that office. They went along with the money with "cures" mostly a matter of is being achieved at the expense of the establishment, but not slavishly, and treating symptoms and blood chemistry; American political, strategic and oil not to the point of letting Rockefeller/ treating the results of mental ill­ interests." Morgan use the government and army any ness...diluting the harmfull effects '"franco has already reached an way they wished. of mental illness...neutralizing the agreement with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Kennedy rebelled too much, too oft­ effects of mental illness. to provide them with a protective mili­ en, and was eliminated. Since then tary umbrella," the paper said. we've had a series of pliable fcols and 'Al-Qabas said the Arab states in­ con men: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter... 8-9-79 Today I-will be closing out creased oil shipments to Europe in re­ Of the men mentioned or setting up this issue of REG and run it off; turn for the European Common Market's to run for the Presidency in 1980, I I'm late this time. So it goes. support for the Arabs in the Middle like Howard Baker best; ho strikes me Will get the next issue out more East conflict. In contrast, it said, as having a good grasp of the issues, quickly—unless some publisher wants the United States "laid down very tough of being able t‘ make tough, decisions, a book, etc. conditions in return for recognizing of being forthright and direct, and of By the way, I may be able to sell the Palestine liberation Organization.' being only at present marginally bought a somewhat de-sexed version of SPLIT­ by the rulers. He has some backbone The U.S. government is now married TING to a low-pay New York or Cal. pub­ 'and I don't think would crack under to Israel and Egypt because of long­ lisher. We'll sec. pressure as has Carter. And I think he term mistaken Rockefeller/Morgan policy, would show a good deal of independence and because of the very powerful Jewish #1 see that increasing numbers of Chry- in re Rockefeller/Morgan. They would influence, political and financial, in sler/Dodgc/Plymouth dealers are going turn to him only if Connally or Bush or this country. out of business due to sharply reduc­ Anderson or Haig or Ford cannot be sold The Rothschild power/money locus in ed sales. Since Chrysler's share of to the Rppublic3n convention. Europe is busy exploiting that blunder; the new car and truck market has slip­ they used to have pre-eminence in the ped from 16? to 9? a reduction in Middle-East, lost it to the American dealerships is in order. 8-7-79 The July 14th issue of SCIENCE big money power after World War II, and S?me Ford dealers are quitting, NEWS had a major article about the gross now are busy taking it back, as well as too: 3 recently in the Portland area physical changes found in the brains of positioning themselves for a dollar war alone. Seven Chrysler dealers have schizophrenics compared to normals. which will result in a new world-wide bit the dust in the last month. Briefly, there are cavities in the brain reserve currency based on^gold-backed I expect American Motors to stop called ventricles, and in schizophren­ Common Market international monetary making cars, too, perhaps selling their ics these cavities are mostly larger, unit . Jeep division to Ford or Volksvagen. and nobody yet knows why. Nor do doc­ tors know why schizophrenics have a # I wonder if Mexico will offer to pay # The stories and speculation about slightly different brain chemistry. for damage and cleanup costs incurred Jimmy Carter's health—his mental And so science continues to discov­ by their "runaway" offshore oil well health—are exaggerated. The man is er differences but not causes for the south of Texas? No? But if that were neurotic, has deep-seated identity and many symptoms—loss of touch with real­ an American oil well spewing oil into anxiety problems, is an over-achiever ity, hallucinations,thought disorders the ocean for five or six months, pol­ and is doomed to over-reaction and and an outward lack of emotions—which luting the sea, damaging beaches, hurt­ ego-pride defense. He has a low self­ -7- ing tourism...all hell would be loose in the media and if Mexican beaches I think the policy-makers in the U. of living, social disruptions) it will were damaged! 'dell! S. government are not stupid, incompet­ happen. ent men. Sure, they make mistakes, but Things is getting serious, folk. # Wholesale prices are up again at a their goals and policies are masked, to very high "inflation" rate: 1.1$ This benefit the megafortunes that really # SPOTLIGHT, a right-wing muck­ ..points to another big Consumer Price In­ control this country and much of the raking weekly, has an article in the dex jump in another month or two. world. The conservative press and current issue about how a top-level thinkers point out time and again the conspiracy between the heads of Costa # The dollar has resumed its slow de­ obvious black and white proof of the ' Rica, Cuba, and Panama resulted in the cline in value in foreign exchange sank- govt.'s wrong policies, and point out Sandinista rebels' takeover on Nigar— cts, prompting, as predicted here, the over and over the simple, clear ways agua. The rebels' hard core cadres OPEC nations to rumble even louder about to get free of those contra-productive were trained in Cuba and in Costa Ri­ shifting from dollar payments for their policies. can camps, and there is hard specula­ oil to another currency or combination Nothing changes. The "dumb" and tion that some Cuban officers’command­ of currencies. "mistaken" policies continue and are ed some Sandinista units. extended. And I believe with cool cal­ SPOTLIGHT charges, further, that # Incidentally, about the price of OPEC culation for the benefit of Big Money. a David Rockefeller Trilateralist §il... In the July 25 issue of PERSONAL The wealth and property of the peo­ policy is in effect in the State FINANCE—Inflation Survival Strategies, ple are slowly, gradually, being taken Department and higher up to subvert there is an article, "The Gasoline by way of inflation (devaluation of and overthrow right-wing governments Shortage: Who's To Blame?" by Jarret B. savings, increased taxes, increased in central America, and that Guatemala Wollstein. The convincing argument is debt) and this process will continue and Costa Rica are among the next tar­ that govt, allocations, entitlements, until the citizenry are largely in gets. rules and regulations are screwing up the slave position—propertyless, But SPOTLIGHT fails to say why the the oil production and distribution sys­ dependent on the state for income, Rockefeller empire wants these govern­ tem. The Energy Dept, has a 10 billion food, shelter...all life support. ments overthrown and replaced with dollar budget and is causing tens of We will be an aristocracy/serf leftist authoritarian governments. billions of J worth of foul-ups. society. Consider that the multinational Wollstein doesn't address the likeli­ (Incidentally, you may think, what's monster banks now are solidly in hood that the Energy Dept, is a creature so bad about the price of 1946 gasoline place in Panama (some say they own of the Rockefeller/Morgan power locus and oil? At that time the average fam­ that government lock, stock and flag) and would not have been born and funded and that the Panamanian govt, helped ily had gess ^an one car and used it and would not regulate as it does unless overthrow Nicaragua. It looks like far less than a car is used now. In it benefited Rockefeller/Morgan interests Rockefeller & Co. are into a long- terms of real income gas and oil and in this country, and especially their range attack on Mexico and its oil cars were near luxuries then. People interests overseas! by way of marxist and leftist "reb­ rarely ate out, vacations were short But there is a graph in his article els". and inexpensive, and above all in those which shows that the real price of oil, I suspect, too, that Rockefeller days, right after the trauma of the measured in 1946 dollars, has not chang­ & Co. want a solid geographical base Great Depression and WWII, debt was ed more than 11$. In fact it was down to or residence—militarily strong— abhored, down-payments were very high, 16.9 cents per gallon (1946 dollars) in to which they can retreat if necessary and saving was praised. 1972. At present it is now about 22.5? in event of war or in case the Ameri­ It has taken government and corpora­ per gallon in 1946 dollars. In 1946 it cans rebel against the current stgt— tions about 35 years to induce/push was 20.80 per gallon. ist trends and rip-offs. people into horrendous debt, an arti­ Astonishing? This shows very clear­ . The Big Money Internationalists ficially high, waste-ridden standard ly how much the dollar has been devalued always set up a counter-force they of living, and a contempt for saving since that time...and why OPEC, in pure control to keep a given government in and a sound dollar. self-defense, cannot afford to either let line if its people get insubordinate the U.S. further devalue the dollar and I believe the plug is being pulled. (or if its nominal rulers become Deliberately. (Or is the result of a reduce the real purchasing power of the insubordinate). This was the pattern long term policy.) The debt bubble is currency or (if the U.S. insists on de­ in Nineteenth and Twentieth century in the beginning process of bursting. valuation to save the economy) keep on Europe as the Rothschilds manipulated It'll take years to liquidate all that accepting dollars for oil, in dollar- governments in order to protect their unsecured debt. Corporations will go denominated prices. investments and loans to governments. down the tube, banks will go, and homes, Economist Milton Friedman has said, It still works and is operative, only small businesses in windrows will go. "If the people conducting energy policy of course on a secret, sub rosa, top­ One way (massive deflation and bank­ level. in the U.S. had been the paid hirelings • ruptcy) or another (massive devaluations, of OPEC, they could not have performed inflations, severe lowering of standards See you next issue. better in OPEC's interest." -8-