Urgent Investment Special Coverage: The Full-on Oil War of 2008 : By Byron King I want you to imagine this: You've just left a café A sickly 19-year-old steps out behind you, pulls a gun and fires five shots into a passing sedan. You would have had no way of knowing, in that instant, that four years later, 9 million soldiers would be dead... four royal families would disappear... or that a mountain of debts and destruction would collapse a 300-year legacy of European hegemony. All because of that event, the assassination in Sarajevo that sparked World War I. Fast-forward to Feb. 14, 2005. You've just stepped out of the luxury St. George Hotel. A caravan of black cars passes. Suddenly, there's an explosion and one of the cars is thrown off the road. Inside, an extremely popular multibillionaire is dead. Like other isolated events, maybe you read the headlines and forgot about it. But what I'm about to show you is that this event - an assassination of an already retired, very wealthy politician - will also mark the beginning of a history-making crisis. A time of radical change and power shift that will immediately impact the way you live, the world you live in and the way you invest and protect your wealth. It is, in fact, a whole chain of events... and an unholy alliance... centering around the collaborative desires of four extremely powerful, and potentially dangerous, men. The most immediate impacts are just now coming to bear. By the time this is fully under way - as early as March of 2008 - you'll know better how this happened. Even more, you'll feel the true sting. Oil that soars past $100 per barrel...skyrockets through the $125 ceiling... and careens toward a shocking, history-making $150. The dollar gets destroyed. Energy-dependent industry goes bust. Many stocks go down. That's the bad news. The good news is when energy is under the gun, the soaring oil price itself opens you up to all kinds of soaring investments. Just on energy shares alone, we've helped our readers do extremely well... Like the 174% gains we chalked up on PetroChina... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands.... an impressive 182% gain on Talisman Energy... plus 370% so far on Tesoro Petroleum... 731% so far on Suncor Energy... and another 608% and climbing on Valero... But there's a lot more money waiting to be made. You can discover how just by following the simple, effective three-step strategy I lay out for you in the paragraphs below. It's all there. Not only how to protect your money, but how to use paradigm shifts like these to actually BUILD yourself a cushion of wealth. Money you can fall back on, even as the chaos unfolds. I'll give you this strategy free, as part of a full five-report special investor's library. Along with up to a full year FREE of what was just ranked the #1 Best Performing Investment Advisory Letter of the Last Five Years. This is also, I'll remind you again, yours free. Should you decide to accept it. More details on that in just a second. For now... Let Me Introduce Myself... My name is Byron King. And when it comes to oil, gas, energy, war and politics, I think I can politely tell you -- I know what I'm talking about. First, I'm what you'd call an "old rock hound." Which is my way of saying that, years ago, I graduated with honors from Harvard, with a degree in geology. In the 1970s, I took that background to the oil industry, and I worked as a geologist in the exploration and production division of a major oil company. But I'm the restless type. So, when flaring natural gas whipping out of a 21,000 foot well got too routine, I joined the U.S. Navy, logging over one thousand hours of flight time in tactical jets. I've even pulled off more than 127 carrier landings. And after I left active duty I became a practicing attorney in Pennsylvania. But oil and energy dynamics are still my passion. I write and write about these subjects, study them, and give speeches about them every chance I get. I've done more radio shows and have written more published articles on the topic than I can count. Years ago, I was even lucky enough to meet M. King Hubbert himself. If you know anything about oil, you know he's the genius who predicted a peak oil crisis -- for the U.S. and later for the globe -- more than 20 years in advance. I'm not telling you all this to brag. I just want to show you how it is that I linked up, just a few years back, with someone you might already know -- New York Times best-selling author Addison Wiggin. See, Addison is also a top dog in the world of energy market analysis. In fact, he's high profile in the world of investing and markets in general. He's been on interviewed by Forbes, ABC Money Matters, CBS Sunday Morning, FOX, Bloomberg, CNN/Money, MotleyFool.com, TheStreet.com, Money, The New York Times Magazine and more than 350 different local and national radio shows about his books Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis. What really drew me in, though, was that Addison also manages a nearly prophetic, multimillion-dollar financial research group. Long story short, when I realized just how much he and I saw eye to eye on many of these forces that both threaten the U.S. economy and make commodities such a brilliant investment, I jumped at the chance to join his international team of experts. That's why I'm writing you today. I've had plenty of venues where I could talk about commodities and oil over the years. But none like the private network I'm going to let you in on today... Hello, my name is Addison Wiggin. I was proud when Outstanding Investments earned the title "#1 Ranked Equity Trading Newsletter for 2005" from MarketWatch. And I was ecstatic when Mark Hulbert, of the unbiased Hulbert Financial Digest, crowned Outstanding Investments the #1 Ranked Investment Advisory Letter for the Past Five Years. But I've got to tell you. Nothing makes my chest swell more than having the chance to do for you what I'm about to do today. Because, today, I get to introduce you to what has to be the most experienced and insightful team of analysts working today, oilman Byron King and brilliant resource trader, Kevin Kerr. You might already know Kevin Kerr. He's been quoted on MarketWatch over 500 times. You can also see him quoted from time to time on CNN and CNBC. Not to mention in Investor's Business Daily. Recently, he was even featured on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. What's more, Kevin has traded commodities professionally for the last 18 years. He's worked the floors of the New York and Chicago... and the commodity derivatives markets of London. He's cutthroat and successful, and he believes the energy explosion related to China and India will be one of the biggest... if not the biggest... investment stories of the next 10 years. Meanwhile, co-editor Byron King has a pedigree that's even more astounding. Not only does he have his Harvard degree in geology (with honors)... and experience as both a Navy jet pilot and, now, as a practicing attorney... but he's got hands on expertise having worked as a geologist for an international oil company. And he now he's already published reams of powerful analysis, specifically for raw resource investors. I couldn't imagine being luckier, to have both these guys on our Outstanding Investments team. I also can't imagine two guys more qualified to lead you through the explosive wealth-building opportunities in raw resource investing. Especially right now, at this fundamental turning point in history. As oil and other resources soar, a lot of investment wealth hangs in the balance. You should join readers of the #1 ranked Outstanding Investments in landing on the most profitable side of this monumental and historic shift. Read on to find out how... The #1 Performing Investment?Letter of the Last 5 Years The service I now run -- alongside resource trading genius and national media phenomenon, Kevin Kerr -- is called Oustanding Investments.? And I'm proud to say that unbiased and meticulous industry watchdog Mark Hulbert just recently ranked Outstanding Investments as the #1 Performing Investment Letter of the Last FIVE YEARS. Sorry for bragging... but I'm thrilled to be on this team and I can't help but be proud. Especially with our #1 ranked track record. And with a guy like Kevin at my side (Kevin's traded commodities for the last 18 years. He even studied resource trading in the shadow of the great Paul Tudor Jones, one of the 25 richest investors in America). But enough about us. I'll let you hear what some of our Outstanding Investments subscribers have to say.? For instance, guys like reader Jeff B., who wrote in... "It's difficult to be unhappy when all of the recommendations I hold from Outstanding Investments are up a minimum of 36%!" Then there's reader Charles B., who says he's done even better: "I made a 140% gain with Tocqueville Gold - great pick! And 64% on Northgate, another winner!" And reader Garry C.: "On Monday, I sold my last coffee contract for a net profit of 560%... [today] I took another net gain of 652% on two of the soybean contracts you recommended... and a profit of 205% on two soybean oil contracts... I'm absolutely wrapped, as I have never traded commodities until now." I'm not cherry-picking these results. We get letters like this all the time: "My stock portfolio has increased 52% in eight months as a result of the insight of Outstanding Investments. I plan to be a subscriber for years to come..." - Fred H. "I made back the cost of the subscription on my first buy, within about a week... Your newsletter is a great deal!" - A. D. "Thanks for all the good advice. Subscribing to Outstanding Investments is one of the best investment decisions I've ever made." - Wade G. Here's my point. Readers like you have done very well so far following our advice. Now, before this critical moment of upheaval, I'd like to invite you to join them. And in a very special way. I'd like to invite you to try Outstanding Investments for yourself... free for up to a full year. That's correct. No charge, for as many as 12 months. Plus, to make it even more tantalizing, I've arranged for nine free gifts that are also yours the moment you get started. Including a new library of five special investing reports I've pulled together especially to help you protect your wealth and profit during the radical market shift ahead. I call it my "Crude-Awakening Crisis & Profit Library." Inside, you'll find a three-step strategy for safeguarding your money against the new oil war of 2008... brilliant alternative energy plays that will soar as a new wave of violence overcomes the Middle East... safeguard strategies, like a new and still undiscovered way to own "zero-downside" gold... plus much more. It's yours at no charge, as soon as you're ready. Now... let me share with you the dire warning we talked about... A Collaborator Countdown: There's a good chance you'd never heard of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. And least not until very recently, during last year's radical unrest close to the Israeli border. But famous in the U.S. or not, Nasrallah's stock is soaring in the world of Islam. See, it's Hassan Nasrallah who heads up Hezbollah, the known terrorist organization that dominates the southern half of Lebanon. It was Nasrallah who secretly encouraged his fighters to take on Israel with shoulder rockets. And Nasrallah, too, who more recently tried to overthrow Lebanon's non-Muslim government. Here's where it gets complicated. Very different from what you see today. And a large and very driven group of Muslims want to keep it different. For 16 years, in fact, they fought civil war with Christians and others in their country. It got so rough Syria stepped in to end it. When Rafik Hariri, a self-made billionaire, became prime minister and tried to rebuild Lebanon into a modern state all over again... this activist group of Muslims did what any voter would do. On Feb. 14, 2005... they blew up his car with 1,000 kg of TNT. What Does This Matter to the Price of Oil? Insiders, the CIA and just about everyone else believe that the group behind the murder of the ex-prime minister... and the backers of the Hezbollah terrorist organization... are not Lebanese at all. They're Syrian. And Iranian. Hariri wanted Lebanon for Lebanon. Both Iran and Syria want to use Lebanon, and especially Hezbollah, to stir up fights with Israel. When Israel fights, the Middle East gets hot. And oil prices go up. Iran sends over $100 million a year in secret financing to Hezbollah. Along with guns and shoulder rockets and other sophisticated weapons. And most of these get shipped secretly through Syria, one of Iran's few real allies in the Middle East. The bigger Hezbollah gets, the further Iran's reach across the region. Tel Aviv wants to send missiles into Tehran? Go ahead. Iran will unleash Hezbollah on northern Israel. Just like it did that summer. And in propaganda terms, it was a huge success. Hezbollah doubled its victory by handing out bags of money to fellow Muslims whose houses were destroyed by the bombing. Today, that's made Hezbollah even more popular across the Middle East than al-Qaida. Hezbollah's gaining strength. And that's the problem. Edward Walker is a Middle East expert. He heads up the Middle East Institute and was once ambassador to both Egypt and to Israel. "Hezbollah," he says, "is more popular than sliced bread." All the "wrong guys" are getting a boost from the current situation. Keep in mind, before Sept. 11, the FBI considered Hezbollah an even bigger terror risk to the U.S. than al-Qaida. Today, Hezbollah has taken terror mainstream. Imagine al-Qaida, but with seats in Congress. Hezbollah has done almost that. It's recently won seats in Lebanon's parliament... it's now hugely popular with a certain, large group of Lebanese... only the biggest danger about Hezbollah is that it doesn't really work for Lebanon at all. No, it serves a much bigger, more dangerous master... The Middleman: While almost nobody on the international scene pays attention, Syria -- next to Lebanon --?plays a dangerous game. To understand, you need to know Syria's young president, Bashar al-Assad. His family has ruled Syria for more than 30 years. They hold "elections." They win with 99.99% of the vote every time. Bashar was an eye doctor, trained in the U.K. At age 34, his dictator father died. He took over and pretended to be a moderate. But he quickly changed his tune. Syria also has no real stake in the Middle East. What it does have, however, is a long-lasting friendship with all the wrong kind of people. In 1985, Syria helped finance the terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruiseliner. In 1983, Syria helped pay to bomb a military bunker in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. Marines. Again in 1985, it also funded the hijackers of TWA Flight 847. Syrian backing is even linked to the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972. And investigators say they can directly link Syria to killing Rafik Hariri in February 2005. Though of course, Syria denies it. Why? Syria wants the Golan Heights. The Golan is a key fresh water source in the parched Middle East. It's also a perfect lookout into Damascus. And Syria doesn't want anybody but itself to own that advantage. But it lost the Golan to Israel in 1967 and 1973. Iran has promised to help Syria get it back, even if that means throwing its military might in a future war with Israel. In fact, days after Hariri was killed in Lebanon, Iran's foreign minister flew to Damascus and forged a "united front" with Syria, including military support. What does Iran get in exchange? Syria lets Iran use Syrian territory as a land bridge over the border into Lebanon... so Iran can keep Hezbollah fully armed. As another part of its role in the new Middle East alliance, Syria also feeds support to new resistance fighters in Iraq... The Radical: How's democracy taking hold in Iraq? Not too well. Meet Moztada al-Sadr, son-in-law of a grand ayatollah. He's young. But he can trace his family lineage directly back to the prophet Muhammad. That gets him a lot of credibility. al-Sadr heads the Mahdi Army. It's not an official army. It's a band of 10,000 Shiite militiamen, vying for control of Iraq. His followers battle coalition troops in Baghdad. They've taken control of cities in the south. They run police stations, holy sites and political offices. His own father, two brothers and father-in-law were all murdered by Hussein's secret police. In a U.S.-run poll in Iraq, al-Sadr ranked more popular than Iraq's "elected" prime minister. Then you've got the "Badr Brigade." The Brigade is also Shia. It's the armed wing, in fact, of SCIRI, the party of Shia Muslims who dominate the newly elected Iraqi Parliament. Shia Muslims - or Shiites - are a sect of Islam. Around the world, there aren't many of them. But in the Middle East, the 140 million Shia Muslims make up more than half the population of the entire region. The other half is Sunni Muslim. Shiites and Sunnis hate each other. They have been at war in Iraq ever since Saddam fell. They have been at war across the Middle East for the last 1,374 years. The 40% of people supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon are also Shia. President Assad in Syria is Alawi, which is a Shia subgroup. The new president of Iraq is Shia. In fact, 60% of the Iraqi population is Shia. Sadr City, Karbala and Najaf, Iraq... they're all jammed with Shia Muslims. The oppressed Shiites partied in the streets when Saddam fell. Today, they terrorize the coalition troops and take potshots at their Sunni neighbors. They call it the "Balance of Terror" - a cycle of violence and counterviolence between Sunnis and Shias across the region - that's supposed to keep Shia populations from being marginalized ever again. This virtually guarantees the Iraqi civil war will happen. In fact, even though Washington says we don't have to worry, our own top generals, CIA insiders and Middle East experts all say it's already begun. Gen. John Abizaid was our top U.S. military commander in the Middle East. Here's what he had to say recently: "I believe that sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have ever seen it." And William Patey, the U.K. ambassador to Iraq who just retired, says, "The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy." Bush and his?advisors have turned a deaf ear. They're in denial. But that doesn't mean you should ignore the writing on the wall. Think about it. Shias dominate the new Iraqi government. This is a "New Middle East" all right. Just not the one anyone ever hoped for. The Iraqi Highway Patrol, run mostly by Shias, doubles as a not-so-secret Sunni Arab death squad. When Sunni's bombed the Shias' Golden Mosque, Shias bombed eight Sunni mosques and killed over 50 Sunni Arabs in retaliation. Gunmen spraying worshippers with automatic fire during morning prayers... blasts in a crowded marketplace... over 1,000 Shia dead in a stampede, on rumors of a Sunni suicide bomber. The last time Shia militias threatened to blow up oil fields in southern Iraq, they shut down - cutting off 90% of Baghdad's oil revenue. This is the seat of world oil wealth on edge, worse than at any other time in history! And behind it all... The Mastermind: How a Blacksmith's Son Just Engineered the End of Cheap Oil Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the son of a blacksmith. He's smart. With a PHD in engineering. He's also ruthless. In the late 1970s, he graduated as one of the top students from Iran's version of MIT. He joined the Revolutionary Guard. During the Iran-Iraq war, Ahmadinejad trained 12-year-old boys to march into mine fields, sacrificing their own lives, to make way for the Iranian army. After his election, he said in his speech, "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution is arisen..." He's doing everything possible to make sure he's right. Take Iraq. The Iran-Iraq war was one of the bloodiest battles of the 20th century. Iraq was run by Sunni Muslims then. Now it's run by Shiites. And Iran, also nearly 91% Shiite, is sending electricity to Iraq. It's sending wheat. It's sending $1 billion in foreign aid. Ahmadinejad knows what he's doing. Iran just offered to pay for three pipelines running across Shia territory in Iraq. Iran has offered to open its ports, so war-torn Iraq can use them for shipping. And every day, Iraq will ship 150,000 barrels of light crude direct to Iran, for refining. Remember, Iran also funds Hezbollah in Lebanon. And it's busily buying influence in Syria. Don't look now, but... Iran Just Pulled the Persian Rug out From Under Our Feet! You've seen, so far, how much of a chip Iran has on its shoulder. The British sailors... the rebuffed U.N. inspections... the direct verbal challenges to the authority of the West. What happens once Iran gets the bomb? Everything changes. Shias unite across the region, behind the new dominant power in Tehran. The Sunni House of Saud... Saudi Arabia's ruling family... collapses. Along with any remaining alliance with the U.S. More radical fundamentalists step in to take charge. Inside the region, the Sunnis get isolated - away from most of the oil. Now it's the Shiites who get to call the shots. And with the backing of the Iranian oil bourse, they're not afraid to price oil through the ceiling. Here's what our own government says, through the U.S. Council on Foreign Affairs: "Tehran sees itself as a regional power and the center of a Persian and Shiite zone of influence stretching from Mesopotamia to Central Asia. Freed from the menace of the Taliban in Afghanistan and of Saddam in Iraq, Iran is riding the crest of the wave of Shiite revival, aggressively pursuing nuclear power and demanding international recognition of its interests." Oil markets hate uncertainty. The smart money is fleeing to energy investments outside the danger zone. We've already helped investors pile up resource profits, not just investing in the boom in Canada's oil sands and other energy investments, but also across the hard assets... especially in soaring gold, silver, copper and other mining shares. And you can read all about them - including specific how-to steps on how to get started - in the free "Crude-Awakening Crisis & Profit Library" I already mentioned... including brilliant investment safeguard strategies, new no-risk ways to own gold at a fraction of the market price, cutting-edge energy alternative investments about to soar and plenty more. Yours free in the five special investing reports included in the library of investing research I want you to have, with my compliments. I'll send it to you immediately, as soon as I have your permission. Hopefully, you'll let me send it to you very soon, too... The "Open Oil War" of 2008 Take a look at this map... What you see is a "Shia tide" or "crescent" cutting a swath across the Middle East. Iran's Shiites... along with Shiites in Pakistan and Afghanistan... the Shia majority in Iraq... the Shia-friendly government in Syria... and Hezbollah and the large Shia movement in Lebanon... add up to a total 140 million people. That has Washington worried. It has Saudi Arabia even more worried. Saudi Arabia is mostly Sunni. In Saudi schools, they teach Sunni kids that Shiites aren't real Muslims. And that it would be better to marry a Christian or a Jew than to marry into the Shia sect. Here's the thing... Nearly 20% of Saudi Arabia is also Shia. But the land the Shia occupy happens to include virtually all of Saudi Arabia's biggest and most important oil fields. It's only a matter of time before the Shia movement in the north... reaches the Shia communities across the major Middle Eastern countries to the south. Already, Saudi Arabia is feeling like a second-class power. The House of Saud is in trouble. Its stubborn alliance with the U.S. has destroyed local credibility. Many of its 5,000 princes live decadent lives that don't square with Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's especially strict form of Sunni Islam. And new geological research shows Saudi Arabia's oil fields may be drying up. Meanwhile, Iran's economy is bigger than Saudi Arabia's. Iran is mineral rich, it's people are highly educated and its army is powerful and well rested. And by forging an alliance with the Shia majority in Iraq, it's now combining two of the largest oil deposits in the world. For decades, Iran has hung back in the shadows. With the growing Shia alliance across the Middle East, that's changing radically. Iran's current super-nationalist, hostile government is like Japan in the 1930s. Not just overconfident, but ready to assert its place in the world. With nuclear weapons. With support of terrorists. With missile threats. And with tentacles of subversive ideological support reaching from Pakistan to Lebanon. Is it any wonder other energy investors are watching closely? In a report from Barclays Capital, energy analysts Paul Horsnell and Kevin Norrish wrote, "Iran's external relations remain the key wild card in the oil market." We agree. A violent new revolution is headed for the Middle East. An "open war" that spreads across borders. In the crossfire, over 696 BILLION barrels of valuable oil are at risk. At exactly the time when the world can't afford a constricted oil supply. As this powder keg implodes, the impact will be enormous. Consider, the world's spare oil capacity is much less than 2 million barrels per day. The loss of Iran's 2.5 million barrels in daily exports ALONE would breach that limit instantly... almost certainly sending the oil price to $100 a barrel overnight... and much higher over the months that follow. And if Iran shuts down tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, an Iran-controlled waterway through which 80% of Persian Gulf oil passes... prices could rocket quickly past $125 per barrel... even as high as $150 per barrel... propelling the world economy and markets into a nose dive. At the same time when oil markets are under pressure... A few well-placed investors can get very rich. Let me show you what I mean... Superstock Power Play #1: A recent energy breakthrough I'll show you could soon replace most of current oil demand. Without political risk. Without huge sacrifice. And using a resource so plentiful it could stretch out our total world energy supply by at least 300 years. What is this breakthrough? The answer is liquid coal. Yep. Coal. When it comes to coal, the Middle East has next to none. Meanwhile, China, Australia, India and South Africa are all filthy rich. The U.S. is even richer. We've got a lock on 26% of all the coal deposits in the world. Over 254 billion tons of proven reserves. In natural form, that didn't used to mean much when you talked about oil. Now, though, new breakthroughs in "clean-coal technology," and, more importantly, "coal liquefaction," will change all that. How much does it cost to convert coal into petroleum? About $22-28 dollars. That used to look expensive. But with oil heading to $100 or even higher, now it looks like a bargain. And at that price, the U.S. alone could have as much as 12 times more oil than even Saudi Arabia! You can imagine. Liquid coal will play a huge role in the future of the U.S. and the rest of our heavily oil-dependent nations. I could see you doubling or tripling your money on the related investments, and in record time. How should you profit? Superstocks That Could Double or Triple Every Dollar Invested Let me rush you the "Crude-Awakening Crisis & Profit Library" I've just put together. In the series of five FREE investing reports you'll find inside, I name a blockbuster company that's just plugged into a $3.3 billion coal liquefaction project. This same company just licensed its liquid coal technology to both China and India. It's a completely international, well-diversified play on the amazing future of liquid coal. Yet the company itself is located right here in the U.S. You'll find it described in detail in the "Crude-Awakening Crisis & Profit Library" I'll send you immediately, the moment I have your permission. You can even download it yourself, tonight, and be ready tomorrow when the market opens. This is no tricky move. You can buy shares in this brilliant company at a very good price right now, right here on the Nasdaq. It won't take you more than five minutes to get set up. Plus, you'll discover another great long-term coal stock for you to own. It came onto the market 2 years ago and it's already one of the top five largest coal companies in the U.S. This company has 13 mines through the resource-rich Appalachians and the Illinois and Powder river basins. Not to mention 70 electricity generators and 100 power plants in 29 different states! I urge you to send for my FREE library of reports. You'll discover everything you need to know about this stock and many more groundbreaking opportunities, all across the resource markets. On the very same kinds of investments that are already piling up fortunes for other readers of our monthly advisory letter, Outstanding Investments... How to Average 113% Gains Every Time You Buy a Stock Just looking back, we've helped readers seize the opportunity to make a fortune so far. Winners like our 151% gain on Wheaton River Minerals... 162% gains on Intrepid Minerals... a solid 332% gain on Glamis/Francisco Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources. Plus, another 105% gains on Gentry Resources... 151% gains on Tocqueville Gold... 228% gains on Niko Resources... and 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 116% gains on Cameco... 174% gains on PetroChina... and 270% gains on July silver calls... Plus, 108% gains on Norsk Hydro... 118% gains on Anglo American PLC... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands... and an impressive 182% gain on Talisman Energy. Even now, as the resource markets pull back and then surges ahead all over again, we're up 370% on Tesoro Petroleum so far... plus another 525% on American Century Global Gold... 163% so far on Newmont Mining... 731% so far on Suncor Energy... and another 608% and climbing so far on Valero. Wouldn't you feel pretty good registering those same kinds of gains in your own trading account? Add in the 87% gains so far on Foundation Coal Holdings... another 139% gains on CEMEX... and 248% gains so far on EnCana Corp.... plus, the 166% we're up on BG Group... and you'd be leagues ahead of most other investors. We've had a few losers, of course. As I write this, out of 39 open recommendations, only five are still waiting to pan out. Average every single pick together and you could be making an average 113% gain on every play. That's phenomenal. Remember, even mega-rich Warren Buffett only needed to average about 22% per year to pile up his fortune. We averaged, on all our 2002 plays, 81% gains. In 2003, we averaged 106% gains. In 2004, another 62.1%. For 2005, an average of 48%, with individual gains as high as 108%, 160% and 179%. And in 2006, high gains of 83% and 147%. We're on track to have our best year yet. And I believe we'll do even better, even as the turmoil I'm describing to you rips apart the rest of the market. We've already got our new lineup of winning picks in place. And I want you to be a part of it, while there's still time. For instance, here's another choice opportunity you don't want to miss... Superstock Power Play #2: We just talked about the amazing prospects for liquid coal. Now let's talk about liquid natural gas (LNG). See, a couple of years ago, liquid natural gas terminals like the one in Cove Point, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, sat empty. Now, every four days, tankers pull into port and unload millions of gallons of LNG. That's a direct result of the shift toward more energy autonomy. Around the U.S. alone, there are plans to build another 43 NEW LNG import facilities. In fact, the U.S. is already on track to be the biggest LNG consumer in the world by the end of 2010. How big could this market get? ExxonMobil Corp. just put the finishing touches on plans to build 28 new LNG tankers and supertankers... ConocoPhillips just bought into a huge new LNG terminal project in Freeport, Texas... Shell Oil has its hands in new LNG import facilities all over the globe.... Sempra Energy is spending $1.8 billion building two LNG terminals and pipelines in Baja California and Louisiana. Here's the reason for the sudden boom... LNG takes up less room to store than regular natural gas. You can squeeze 600 cubic feet of the gas into just 1 cubic foot of the liquid. You can also ship LNG more easily, especially by tanker. Which is key as North America's natural gas supplies fall, but demand for natural gas is set to soar by 30% over the next 10 years. With over 33,000 LNG tanker voyages... covering 60 million miles and 45 years of LNG shipping... there hasn't been a single major accident with LNG. Not one. Plus, even if there is an LNG spill on the open seas, there's no cleanup involved. The super-cooled liquid warms up, turns back into gas and dissipates in the air. Now here's the clincher: Compared to oil, the world has adequate supplies of natural gas... for now. Yes, natural gas use is up. And so are natural gas prices, from two to three years ago. But so far, because raw natural gas has been so hard to transport, much of the transition to greater natural gas use is not yet complete. You might even be shocked to learn that most leftover gas that naturally occurs near oil deposits is simply burned off or "flared" at the source. Yep. Never used, because it's simply too costly to transport in gaseous form. As much as 2,500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas per year get wasted this way. Imagine if all that gas could be more easily converted to a liquid and then transported via pipelines, trucks and supertankers. Up until now, it's been possible, but too expensive. But once we get newer, more efficient liquid natural gas technology online, you're looking at the energy equivalent of an extra 1.7 billion barrels of oil per year! In case you find it tough to get a grip on that big a number, this is huge. And what makes it even bigger is the fact that natural gas can also be used to power electricity power plants. Just as the U.S., China, Europe and India are all thirsting for oil, we're also facing a major electricity shortage over the months and years ahead. Fueling power plants with liquid natural gas gives us yet another way to churn out cheap electricity and stave off crisis. How much growth will that mean for the liquid natural gas market? Consider that just to keep pace with the electricity industry, we will burn twice as much natural gas by 2025 as we do now. According to the International Energy Agency, that's why energy companies are suddenly ready to invest $250 billion into the future of LNG. This is a bonanza for anybody with his eyes open. Even the typically conservative-speaking Alan Greenspan, before he retired, called LNG an essential "safety valve" for the power crunch ahead. And the White House has just recently promised to throw huge money behind the LNG industry. Global LNG trade is already growing about twice as fast as world oil trade. Even with the attention LNG has gotten so far, your opportunity to make even more money investing in the right LNG companies over the next 24 months is huge. I'd like your permission to help you tap into this next wave of energy-investment wealth. Already, I've lined up major investment opportunities in LNG, clean coal and even oil sands and shale oil. And I'm sharing them right now with readers of our Outstanding Investments advisory letter. I'd hate for you to miss out. If you'll let me, for instance, I can show you how to position your money as LNG demand TRIPLES over the next three years. I fully believe buying into this trend now is like buying into the future of petroleum when the first Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. I hope you'll let me show you how, with a free trial subscription that's yours for up to one full year. To help you get started, the first thing I'll do is rush you the FREE set of five special reports we just talked about. Inside, one of the many stocks you'll discover is a mystery company that will soon dominate LNG's future. You can still get in right now for a price that's relatively low compared with the rest of the energy market. In fact, even though this particular company already has an $18 billion market cap, I believe this company is still small enough to grow. Very quickly and with impressive gains for investors. By the way, this company ALSO trounces the rest of the energy industry on the numbers... from stellar growth to incredible profit margins... conservative valuation to rock-solid financial stability... and amazing total returns on its own investments. Plus, over the past five years, this company has an impeccable "replacement ratio." That's the number that measures how much more gas it finds for every cubic foot of gas it takes out of the ground. This is a very important number in the LNG sector. For this company, for every cubic foot of gas it takes out of the ground, it finds another three. That's a brilliant performance. I expect us to haul in another 300% or more on this company over the months ahead. And I'd like you to join us. At the end of this letter, find out how to send for your five FREE reports. You can decide for yourself whether or not my well-researched recommendations are right for you. Because You're Among the Few Who Understand... Let me put it this way. A little while ago, two journalists - Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther - wrote a book called The Wealthy 100. The book lists history's wealthiest people and asks how each made money. John Rockefeller - with a fortune in 1937 that would have been worth $212 billion today - got rich not with conventional stock investing or by inventing something like computer software... but with Standard Oil. Andrew Carnegie - worth $112 billion in today's dollars - did it with another vital resource, steel. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, who made the equivalent of $48 billion in 1914, made it all on land. Andrew Mellon and his brother Richard each made about $36 billion by feeding resource investments into the Industrial Revolution. I'm writing to you because I believe you share our sense of history. And because you instinctively understand what these giants of wealth and industry also lived to prove: That real assets represent real wealth. Tangible wealth. While stock manias come and go, the building blocks of civilization move in a dependable, cyclical flow. Understand those cycles and the forces that drive them and you can get very rich. It's what we've done over the past five years, better than any other advisory letter in the industry. It's what we intend to do again, over and over, for a long time to come. I'd like you especially to join us as we do. Safer Than Most Stocks, With 10 Times the Gains Maybe you've been around long enough to remember the OPEC crisis following Yom Kippur in the early 1970s. Then, if you held the most popular blue chip stocks of the day, you lost a fortune. General Electric dropped 54%. Kodak fell just under 60%. Xerox plunged 64%. Avon dropped 79%. And many of these stocks didn't recover the lost ground for over 24 years. McDonald's, down 59%... Coca-Cola, down 68%... Disney, off nearly 84%. Meanwhile, Exxon's price doubled and then doubled again. Amoco, Mobil and BP also rose by a factor of four over the decade. Junior oil stocks shot up even higher, with some companies locking in gains of over 1,000% for investors who were shrewd enough to get out of blue chips and into big profits. And oil is just the obvious example. When resource prices skyrocket, inflation has to follow. A disaster for some, but a huge opportunity for you if you're holding the same resource-based investments we'll reveal to you regularly once you sign up to try Outstanding Investments. (I'll show you, in just a second, how to try it free for up to a year). If I'm right about the facts I just shared, you'll continue to do very well in the months ahead... on investments that could even double or triple your money over the next 12-24 months. Not just oil, but gas, water, gold and silver. Coal. Palladium. Even cement. And anywhere else warranted by this new global shift that lies ahead. Real trends, in real assets, that have real substance. With real research and very real proven profitability behind everything Outstanding Investments recommends. Here's another fine example...
Crisis-Proof Profit Boom #3: Instability destroys faith in the dollar. So does soaring debt. So does unrestrained government spending. So does the prospect of a war without end. And an energy crisis that could undermine the foundation of the entire U.S. economy. Ask yourself: If the greenback is a wasting asset, wouldn't you rather race elsewhere with your wealth? The Chinese and the Japanese agree. Right now, both China and Japan combined own about $906 billion of the $1.1 trillion of U.S. Treasuries held overseas. But they're not likely to hang onto those dollar-denominated assets much longer. Yu Yongding, who sits on the Chinese central bank Monetary Policy Committee, told the China Securities Journal he was worried the U.S. would drop interest rates in 2006, putting pressure on the dollar and the yuan. "More seriously," he said, "China's economy would take a big hit if the U.S. dollar weakened sharply due to such factors as a bursting of the U.S. property bubble. The loss for China's foreign exchange reserves would be extremely serious." Publicly, the talk is China moving more of its currency reserves away from the dollar and into the euro. While that has already started to happen, obviously, the euro is only paper too. And has its own problems. So guess where the Chinese are really reinvesting their money? Quietly, they're loading up on... gold. That's right. Back in December 2005 - on the very same day, by the way, that the U.S. yield curve "inverted," which is a strong economic danger signal for the dollar - an economist at China's biggest brokerage firm, China Galaxy Securities, quietly hinted China's central bank should quadruple its gold reserves in the very near future. While it likely won't go that far, China did just recently cash in about 2.4% of its dollar reserves to buy gold. And it's not alone. Japan's central bank is also gearing up to raise its gold reserves. So are South Africa, Argentina and Russia. In fact, early on in this recent gold resurgence, Russia promised to hike up its gold reserves from 5% of total financial reserves to 10%. That's double what it's already holding now. That would mean Russia is about to absorb the equivalent of its entire gold output... for the next three years! Who else is snatching up gold? How Arabs Spend Their Oil Riches Don't look now, but our old "allies"... the grand sheiks of Saudi Arabia... are also deserting the dollar in droves. And to do it, they're using the piles of wealth they raked in on $90 oil. See, here in the U.S., we price gold in dollars. But in Saudi Arabia, you might as well price resources like gold in the real currency of the region - oil. And priced in terms of oil, even gold as high as it is now is still very cheap. Historically, gold averaged a cost on par with 10 barrels of oil. Today, oil is so much more valuable, you need only the equivalent cost of 8 barrels per gold ounce. In other words, if you're a sheik today, lucky you. Because you can pick up all the gold-based stability you want... for cheaper than you once had to pay. Now, in just a second, I'll show you how to get gold not at half price... but one penny per ounce. But first, let me ask you this: Nature has a way of restoring the natural order. What do you think happens when the gold-oil ratio slips back into balance? I'll show you. Either oil prices would need to plunge to $75 per barrel again... or today's gold price would need to jump to atleast $850 per ounce. Ask yourself: Do you really think, with endless crisis right now in the Middle East... staggering geological and economic shortages... we're going to see plunging gold or oil prices soon? It's not likely. So gold, already high, will have to go up. How high? Even if oil prices level out at $105 per barrel - you're still looking at $1,050 gold and if oil soars to a paralyzing $125 per barrel, now you're talking at least $1,250 gold. Could go even higher still? Absolutely. Consider that in 1988, the gold-to-oil ratio hit 33-to-1. That's close to $2,813 gold! No, I don't think it's going that high anytime soon. But I can tell you that in addition to the alternative energy investments I've already told you about, there's plenty you can do to get in prime position for another MAJOR spike in the price of gold. In fact, I've got another report I'd like to rush into your hands. It's called Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!
Getting a copy of this FREE report sent to you is easy. Just let me know when you're ready. In this report you'll also discover.... HOW TO SNAP UP RAW GOLD... What if, just before the biggest gold price surge in recent history, you could get your hands on a large stash of the yellow metal... for less than one penny per ounce? There's no alchemy involved. No secret technology. And no smoke and mirrors. But a small, upstart new mining company is doing exactly that. Their technique is simple. But they're just about the only company across the entire mining industry that's able to do this, right now. In 2005, they mined about 100,000 ounces this way. For 2006, they quadrupled that haul, using this same technique. Now they're on track to be a million-ounce producer... with at least 12 million ounces of gold still in the ground. The math is simple... Four Times Your Money Even if Think about it. Anybody who can get gold out of the ground for a penny... And sell it for even $500 per ounce or $400 per ounce, stands to make a handsome return. And so do their shareholders. What I'll show you here is gold hitting as high as $900... a $1000... or even $2000 per ounce... over the next 12 to 24 months. Owning shares of this company could mean at least a 400% gain in that time period, even if only half of what we're calling for comes through. So here's how this works. For most miners, getting gold out of the ground is done pretty much the same, across the industry. But not for this wily little company I've been telling you about. What they've done is invent a way to mine the gold -- and rich veins of raw copper -- at the same time. The copper mining is so lucrative, the profits more than cover the cost of pulling the gold out of the same hole. And that means close to 100% upside potential on the gold, no matter what the current spot price on the market. Any way you slice it, they're booking massive profit. At Least Two Years of Locked-in Value, Right now, this "little" undiscovered new mining company already has five mines up and running. Plus one more under construction. And three more projects after that heading into development. They also have enormous land holdings with lots of undisclosed mineral potential. Plus, they just swallowed whole another holding with as much as 2 million more ounces of gold in the ground. Add that to measured and recorded reserves of 12 million ounces... plus another 14 million ounces that are either "inferred" or "proven and probable."
Sound rich? Don't forget, I haven't even said anything yet about the nearly 2 billion pounds of copper tucked under this company's territory. And copper is the key to this whole secret. Because it's the steady flow of cash from the copper -- remember, they've innovated a way to get both the copper and gold out of the ground at the same time -- that's making the gold production, in relative terms, possible for less than one penny per ounce. Here's the best part... This little company's savvy management had the foresight to hedge the entire copper reserve, by making deals that locked in their copper sales at record levels for essentially the next two years. So even if the global economy keels over and copper prices in general fall, this company will keep on raking it in on their copper discoveries... which means they keep on getting the gold out of the ground for next-to-nothing at the same time. Did I mention? This company has no debt. They're also sitting on a massive pile of cash. And that pile just keeps getting bigger. This is partly why the stock not only has huge upward potential, but it also pays a dividend. This is a powder keg waiting to pop. With gold prices creeping higher... and then accelerating... this isn't going to stay off mainstream radars for long. You'll need to make a move on this soon. The Shocking Future Most Investors Don't Expect The radical market shift ahead promises to be swift. With all kinds of outcomes most investors don't expect...
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What's behind it all? Nine years ago, Nasrallah's son was killed in a battle with Israelis. He's angry to the core. He's also very powerful.
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