BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post-Peak Oil World — by Michael C. Ruppert — I don't have enough good words to say about Chelsea Green Publishing. I'm told we should have books at the San Francisco and Berkeley screenings coming up and I'm going to be only too happy to be there to autograph them. They should be in bookstores by December 15th.

It's even up on Amazon already too. This will be a little fresher than the first version in many ways. If the movie moved you to look deeper, this is where you must go next — without delay. Please read on...

AND THE SCARIEST NEWS STORY I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-builds-up-its-bases-in-oilrich-south-america-1825398.html

I know I said I was through with this but there must be exceptions. This story shows that our map was even better than we thought. Just before the attacks of 9-11 both I and others like Peter Dale Scott were looking hard at Colombia and Venezuela. We were calling it the next Vietnam. This British story tells us that what was "postponed" by 9-11 has picked up far ahead of where it left off. Somebody just turned the burner up a notch. I also read today that Chavez's government had seized 48,000 acres of farmland that was unused and neglected. He's putting people to work growing food.... Good for him. That's what we should be doing here -- right now.

The United States imports half of its oil from Latin America.

We made a map.

Michael C. Ruppert