Moveable Feast Cafe 2016/04/02 … Open Thread

Greetings to the Saker community. Though an avid reader from the old-blog days this is my first post so I will take this opportunity to commend and thank the Saker and the Vineyard’s contributors and the Saker community for creating this special vehicle and space for helping us all to gain a greater understanding of the forces moving the world around us, of the dangers of these and means of liberation through consciousness and spirit. Thank you to the brave Truth-Tellers.

I would like to pass on a public service announcement of sorts and hope this doesn’t infringe on any moderation policy.I know many of the Saker’s followers read ICH and would know that the blog has not been updated for a while, by way of explanation I would like to pass on the following:

Hi Ron,

Thank you for you concern and for taking time to email me.

I am presently in hospital in Mexico, having had a stroke, brain swelling and bleeding.

I have been unable to do any work or update the website for 2 weeks.

Today is the first day that I feel like I am making progress. The surgeon tells me I should be out of hospital on Saturday (I hope)

The doctors and staff have been so kind and helpful.

Thank you for your concern and support.

If possible please advise others of my condition , I am anxious to return to work.

Peace and joy to you and yours.

Tom Feeley

Part I

oil Jul 15th, 2008
Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic
petroleum
Oil is NOT a fossil fuel and AGW is non-
science
By Online Monday, July 14, 2008
by Peter J. Morgan
We all grew up believing that oil is a fossil fuel,
and just about every day this ‘fact’ is mentioned
in newspapers and on TV. However, let us not
forget what Lenin said – “A lie told often enough
becomes truth.” It was in 1757 that the great
Russian scholar Mikhailo V. Lomonosov
enunciated the hypothesis that oil might
originate from biological detritus. The scientists
who first rejected Lomonsov’s hypothesis, at the
beginning of the nineteenth century, were the
famous German naturalist and geologist
Alexander von Humboldt and the French chemist
and thermodynamicist Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac,
who together enunciated the proposition that oil
is a primordial material erupted from great
depth, and is unconnected with any biological
matter near the surface of the Earth.
With the development of chemistry during the
nineteenth century, and following particularly
the enunciation of the second law of
thermodynamics by Clausius in 1850,
Lomonosov’s biological hypothesis came
inevitably under attack. In science, a hypothesis
is merely somebody’s attempt to explain
something. It is merely that – an attempt. In the
scientific method, a hypothesis is also an open
invitation for somebody else to discredit it by
using physical evidence to demonstrate that the
hypothesis is flawed, or incorrect – that is how
scientific knowledge is advanced. Einstein is
reputed to have remarked that just one fact was
all that was needed to invalidate his theory of
relativity.
The great French chemist Marcellin Berthelot
particularly scorned the hypothesis of a
biological origin for petroleum. Berthelot first
carried out experiments involving, among others,
a series of what are now referred to as Kolbe
reactions and demonstrated the generation of
petroleum by dissolving steel in strong acid. He
produced the suite of n-alkanes and made it
plain that such were generated in total absence
of any “biological” molecule or process.
Berthelot’s investigations were later extended
and refined by other scientists, including Biasson
and Sokolov, all of whom observed similar
phenomena and likewise concluded that
petroleum was unconnected to biological matter.
During the last quarter of the nineteenth
century, the great Russian chemist Dmitri
Mendeleev also examined and rejected
Lomonosov’s hypothesis of a biological origin for
petroleum. In contrast to Berthelot who had
made no suggestion as to where or how
petroleum might have come, Mendeleev stated
clearly that petroleum is a primordial material
which has erupted from great depth. With
extraordinary perception, Mendeleev
hypothesised the existence of geological
structures which he called “deep faults,” and
correctly identified such as the locus of
weakness in the crust of the Earth via which
petroleum would travel from the depths. After
he made that hypothesis, Mendeleev was
abusively criticised by the geologists of his time,
for the notion of deep faults was then unknown.
Today, of course, an understanding of plate
tectonics would be unimaginable without
recognition of deep faults.
Soon after the end of World War II, the Soviet
dictator, Stalin, realized that the then Soviet
Union needed its own substantial oil reserves
and production system if it was ever again called
upon to defend itself against an attacker such
as Hitler’s Germany. In 1947, the Soviet Union
had, as its petroleum ‘experts’ then estimated,
very limited petroleum reserves, of which the
largest were the oil fields in the region of the
Abseron Peninsula, near the Caspian city of
Baku in what is now the independent country of
Azerbaijan. At that time, the oil fields near Baku
were considered to be “depleting” and “nearing
exhaustion.” During World War II, the Soviets
had occupied the two northern provinces of
Iran, but in 1946, they were forced out by the
British. By 1947, the Soviets realised that the
American, British, and French were not going to
allow them to operate in the Middle East, nor in
the petroleum producing areas of Africa, nor
Indonesia, nor Burma, nor Malaysia, nor
anywhere in the Far East, nor in Latin America.
The government of the Soviet Union recognised
then that new petroleum reserves would have
to be discovered and developed within the
U.S.S.R.
Stalin’s response was to set up a task force of
top scientists and engineers in a project similar
to the Manhattan Project – the top-secret US
program to develop the atom bomb during WWII
– and initially under the same secrecy, and
charged them with the task of finding out what
oil was, where it came from and how to find,
recover and efficiently refine it.
In 1951, the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of
deep, abiotic petroleum origins was first
enunciated by Nikolai A. Kudryavtsev at the All-
Union petroleum geology congress. Kudryavtsev
analyzed the hypothesis of a biological origin of
petroleum, and pointed out the failures of the
claims then commonly put forth to support that
hypothesis. Kudryavtsev was soon joined by
numerous other Russian and Ukrainian
geologists, among the first of whom were P. N.
Kropotkin, K. A. Shakhvarstova, G. N. Dolenko, V.
F. Linetskii, V. B. Porfir’yev, and K. A. Anikiev.
During the first decade of its existence, the
modern theory of petroleum origins was the
subject of great contention and controversy.
Between the years 1951 and 1965, with the
leadership of Kudryavtsev and Porfir’yev,
increasing numbers of geologists published
articles demonstrating the failures and
inconsistencies inherent in the old “biogenic
origin” hypothesis. With the passing of the first
decade of the modern theory, the failure of
Lomonosov’s eighteenth century hypothesis of
an origin of petroleum from biological detritus in
the near-surface sediments had been thoroughly
demonstrated, the hypothesis discredited, and
the modern theory firmly established.
An important point to be recognised is that the
modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of abiotic
petroleum origins was, initially, a geologists’
theory. Kudryavtsev, Kropotkin, Dolenko,
Porfir’yev and the developers of the modern
theory of petroleum were all geologists.
Their arguments were necessarily those of
geologists, developed from many observations,
and much data, organized into a pattern, and
argued by persuasion.
By contrast, the practice of mainstream,
predictive modern science, particularly physics
and chemistry, involves a minimum of
observation or data, and applies only a
minimum of physical law, inevitably expressed
with formal mathematics, and argued by
compulsion. Such predictive proof of the
geologists’ assertions for the modern Russian-
Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum
origins had to wait almost a half century, for
such required the development not only of
modern quantum statistical mechanics, but also
that of the techniques of many-body theory and
the application of statistical geometry to the
analysis of dense fluids, designated scaled
particle theory.
To recapitulate, Stalin’s team of scientists and
engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but
is a natural product of planet earth – the high-
temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction
between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two
of the most abundant compounds making up
the earth’s crust. This continuous reaction
occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a
pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres
(5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately
1500°C, and will continue more or less until the
‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time.
The high pressure, as well as centrifugal
acceleration from the earth’s rotation, causes oil
to continuously seep up along fissures in the
earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which
we call oil fields. Oil is still being produced in
great abundance, and is a sustainable resource
– by the same definition that makes geothermal
energy a sustainable resource. All we have to do
is develop better geotechnical science to predict
where it is and learn how to drill down deep
enough to get to it. So far, the Russians have
drilled to more than 13 km and found oil. In
contrast, the deepest any Western oil company
has drilled is around 4.5 km.
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J.
F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation,
Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor
vessel and proven that oil is produced from
calcium carbonate and iron oxide, as detailed on
the Gas Resources website

Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-02/wikileaks-reveals-imf-plan-cause-credit-event-greece-and-destabilize-europe

I know I know, nobody will ever agree with me on that, but at least lend your ear to a Trotskyst:

“America’s elites know that capitalism is totally unworkable. We try to impose it in the 3rd world so we can destroy them” — Noam Chomsky

http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/04/02/1037654/general-unveils-plans-for-iran-s-naval-presence-in-latin-america

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi on Saturday unveiled plans for the presence of the country’s naval forces in Latin America.

Speaking to reporters in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the senior commander said special plans have been devised to reinforce the Navy in the new Iranian year (which began on March 20) and equip it with advanced gear.

According to the commander, one of the main purposes is to enable the naval forces to “take bigger steps” in naval voyages.

Iran seeks to prepare for “mighty presence” in Latin American waters, Major General Salehi noted.

Question more: there is false narrative, alternative universe narrative and then there is laugh track narrative re N-K situation

1. that it was a surprise move by the Azeris: Both Creepy Kerry and Biden the Beast show up in Baku and no one ( Russian Intelligence?) suspects anything is up? More like their occupation of the heights along the border was a first move advantage.
2. That there is now a “ceasefire”. Is this like the Ukie’s ceasefire? which is really (in)crease fire?
3. someone? is calling for the OSCE to assume observer status? Please! really?

Trump sez: We demand some vigorish for our protection racket with our Saudi buddies!

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/04/458972/Saudi-royal-family-collapse/

Speaking at a campaign rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on Saturday, Trump denounced America’s protective relationship with Saudi Arabia.

The billionaire businessman told supporters that the US should be reimbursed by the countries it provides protection, especially those with vast resources such as Saudi Arabia, a top oil exporter.

“We take care of Saudi Arabia. Now nobody’s going to mess with Saudi Arabia because we’re watching them,” he said. “They’re not paying us a fair price. We’re losing our shirt.”

It’s official–the Donald is a bona fide bigwig:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4_qadKL0L-M/VdzQj4sofpI/AAAAAAAAAcM/rXOOsmamjdc/s1600/trump%2Bfro.jpg

Received by Whatsapp on my phone:

“ALERT IN SORIA”

“The Belgian government announces it will send its F-16s to bomb Syria.
But knowing the effectiveness of Belgian intelligence services in Soria are really scared “

P.S: Soria is a city and a province of Spain. This joke was received in a whatsapp from a group of the gym.
I say it for those who think that average people who does not read alternative media have no clue about what´s going on.

Main stream media article about the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict…what is most interesting is the very last line of the article. ( similar game plan it appears).

http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/05/nagorno-karabakh-defence-ministry-announces-a-ceasefire-in-the-region/