-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_nyquist/20000717_xcjny_things_fal.shtml Things fall apart � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com In his poem, "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats describes the circumstances surrounding the arrival of the Antichrist. He writes of a blood-dimmed tide which drowns the "ceremony of innocence." As anarchy is loosed upon the world, the "falcon cannot hear the falconer." In the midst of this, says Yeats, "the center cannot hold" and "things fall apart." The world system, as it stands today, is more fragile than most of us realize. And last week, as America moved pleasantly and comfortably along, there were indications of impending trouble. It is not yet the blood-dimmed tide that Yeats wrote about, but things could begin to fall apart. The oil problem, which affects us all, has been accentuated in recent months by repeated shortfalls in production. In fact, we are now facing a potential energy crisis. Since world oil production continues to decline as summer demand increases, economic growth could stall and markets could plummet. The situation is especially hazardous since stocks of gasoline in Europe and America are running low. Although key OPEC countries have promised to increase their production, it appears that Saddam Hussein has purposely thrown a monkey-wrench into the works, maliciously cutting his country's oil output by a whopping 490,000 barrels per day, lowering overall global production in June. The Iraqi dictator has long held a grudge against the West, which be blames for "centuries of wrongs." Pathologically animated by a lust for power, Hussein is not a normal human being. Testimony from Iraqi defector sources indicates that Saddam is a sadistic psychopath who revels in videos of torture and murder recorded by his secret police. A sick individual of this type is capable of anything. Recent history shows that Saddam is ready and willing to inflict great suffering on his own people to satisfy his general desire for revenge. In a recently published book by Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory entitled, "Brighter Than the Baghdad Sun," it is revealed that Hussein was readying an atomic bomb at the outset of the Gulf War, which he intended to use on the allied forces during Operation Desert Storm. Luckily, an American F117 pilot, running out of fuel over Iraq, was advised to lose his last bomb by dropping it on an unimportant Iraqi building. As it happened, the unimportant building was the location of Iraq's atom bomb, then being assembled. It is said that upon hearing the bad news, Saddam sat alone in the dark for an hour, his face buried in his hands. Since Saddam Hussein isn't a man to let go of his anger, the radical decrease in Iraqi oil production is probably no accident. Saddam wants to hurt the United States and the West, using any and all means at his disposal. According to press reports, Saddam has recently received jamming equipment from Russia that can hamper U.S. missiles. Given a new lease on life, who knows what the wiley Arab dictator will do next? With Western economies in an especially vulnerable position with regard to Middle East oil output, it is more than a little ominous that Russia is beginning to mass 50,000 additional troops on its southern frontiers, which look down on the Middle East. These troop movements, announced on Friday and masked by a phony row between the Defense Minister and the Chief of the Russian General Staff, are supposedly linked to a series of bomb blasts that have recently rocked southern Russian cities. Kremlin military leaders are also pointing to an increased threat from Afghan and Chechen rebel forces in the Caucasus and Central Asia, respectively. But there may be more to it than that, because the Russians are now claiming that NATO has entered the Chechen conflict. Last week military sources in Russia unofficially alleged that a NATO country was involved in the terror bombing of the central market in Vladikavkaz, and that this same NATO country was directing Chechen forces to launch diversionary attacks against Russian positions at Gudermes and Grozny. According to ITAR-Tass, the diversionary attacks were intended to facilitate the insertion of 1,500 rebel reinforcements that have been massing in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. This entire operation, said ITAR-Tass, was planned "by officers from the general staff of a certain NATO country." It is further alleged that Russian intelligence has intercepted radio communications between the Turkish military and Chechen rebel commanders. Turkey is situated to the south of Russia, and serves to extend NATO's flank into the Middle East. As it happens, Turkey borders Iraq and Syria, and has friendly relations with Israel. Any military or diplomatic pressure placed on Turkey, could alter the political-military equation in the Middle East. It is somewhat dangerous, and certainly provocative, for Russia's official press to accuse a NATO country of fanning the flames in Chechnya. Many patriotic Russian citizens will no doubt believe that Turkey is responsible for the killing of Russian civilians and soldiers. In fact, years of Soviet propaganda has taught Russians to regard Turkey as a puppet of the United States. The only reason for publishing such unproven allegations is to focus Russian indignation and outrage against the United States and its NATO ally in the Middle East. As if hinting at a military crisis expected in October, the Kremlin has also put forward a strange trial balloon -- a rumor about a government shakeup. According to this rumor, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will be replaced by Security Council Secretary Sergei Ivanov, a shadowy figure of Russia's strategic hierarchy. Journalists in Moscow were hearing about this some weeks ago, and on July 6 "The Daily Yomiuri" of Japan cautiously advanced the rumor by noting that Putin could "extend his power" by replacing Kasyanov with Ivanov. What does it signify if President Vladimir Putin supplants a financial expert with a military expert as the chief of Russia's government? Of course, we should not put too much significance in Moscow's latest rumors. However, we should not forget what the Sydney Morning Herald reported in May. According to the Australian newspaper, U.S. intelligence is secretly forecasting a Chinese blockade of Taiwan in the early fall. Once again, the question occurs: Is somebody in Moscow expecting a military crisis in October? Curiously, there is yet another data point that appears in the September/October time frame. An odd memorandum, dated April 6, was released by President Bill Clinton's Press Secretary on April 7, 2000. In this memorandum, President Clinton has designated the Attorney General to replace the Secretary of Defense on Oct. 1, 2000, as "the Lead Official for the Emergency Response Assistance Program." This program is also known as the "Domestic Preparedness Program," which is charged with coordinating federal, state and local agencies in organizing a response to "the threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. ..." As Saddam Hussein does his best to exacerbate our oil difficulties and trigger a Western economic crisis, as Russia begins to blame "a NATO country general staff" for coordinating the war in Chechnya, as China prepares a possible blockade against Taiwan -- things may fall apart. Specifically, the world could go a little crazy a few weeks before our presidential elections. It is curious that Bill Clinton, so late in his presidency, bothers to transfer responsibility for a national security problem to the Attorney General. 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