Do you see the SIGNIFICANCE of THE/THAT 'BOTTOM LINE' ?
( in the following news item re. the looming gas/[AND MILITARY] crisis)?

"... the world's population must be reduced by as many as four billion
people. ...
especially since 9/11, this reality has been secretly accepted and is
being acted upon
by world leaders."

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Going into 2007, will "Gas ... become
the main coin of exchange and the key asset to get hold of" ?

"Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has suddenly died, leaving a
gaping and dangerous power vacuum in gas-rich Turkmenistan"

Posted to the web on: 22 December 2006 Niyazov's death stokes energy
supply fears
Reuters

MOSCOW - The death of Turkmen leader Saparmurat Niyazov yesterday
plunges Europe's energy security into doubt, with the prospect of a
struggle for power raising the spectre of a new gas crisis.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A347166

"With the world now one full year off the Peak Oil and Gas cliff
(according to work of geologists such as Kenneth Deffeyes), it is no
surprise to see geostrategic tensions superheating quickly in several
key oil and gas regions, as the world's superpowers and multinational
energy giants (supported by their nation's militaries and intelligence
agencies) intensify their combat over remaining energy supplies" Larry
Chin

... Turkmenistan is central in the continuing militarization of the
Eurasian corridor, and the struggle over strategic Eurasian pipeline
and transport routes, and involved in years of interconnected policies
and operations related to 9/11 ... It is for this reason that the
vitally important Caspian Sea/Black Sea/Central Asian region as a
whole is known as "Pipelinestan".

...

According to the coverage of Pepe Escobar and other analysts tracking
energy warfare at Asia Times, Iran and Russia have become the more
dominant regional pipeline players over the past few years, gaining
serious advantage over the West and its consortiums. The increasing
hostility on the part of the Bush administration (including its
conquest of Iraq and violence aimed at Iran) is no surprise against a
backdrop of failure.

It is a virtual certainty that covert operations, as well as "high
level negotiations", will intensify in the wake of Niyazov's death,
setting the stage for yet another political battle in Turkmenistan
between the West (led by the US and the Bush-Blair administrations),
and Russia, China and regional competitors.

War in Somalia

At the same time, in key energy-rich theatres further south, across
the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Somalia is on the brink of war, bracing
for an invasion by Ethiopia. This genuine crisis has received scant
coverage in American media.

Somalia, and the greater horn of Africa region, has been a site of
simmering geostrategic conflict and rapacious foreign interests for
many years, and in earnest since the spring of 2006. The energy wealth
of Sudan is a key driver of recent military-intelligence operations,
which now include plans by Bush-Blair for the establishment of a
no-fly zone over the area.

...

Energy wars hot and cold

With the crippling systemic impact of Peak Oil and Gas making itself
felt in increasing intensity, the world's competing superpowers, as
well as smaller strategic players, will engage in more violent,
frenzied and bizarre actions, all over the world.

As noted by Mike Ruppert in Crossing the Rubicon, "it comes to this:
first, in order to prevent the extinction of the human race, the
world's population must be reduced by as many as four billion people.
Second, especially since 9/11, this reality has been secretly accepted
and is being acted upon by world leaders."
 

Above taken from:

www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4252

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David