Collapse

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Here's an interesting documentary called 'Collapse'.....he talks a lot about the different forms of energy and the feasibility of these, and how oil is used for various things like food etc, and also about the economy and the nature of money... now whether you agree or disagree with his position is entirely up to you

"Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?

Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.


Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of peak oil, the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.


Collapse also serves as a portrait of a loner. Over the years, Ruppert has stood up for what he believes in despite fierce opposition. He candidly describes the sacrifices and motivators in his life. While other observers analyze details of the economic crisis, Ruppert views it as symptomatic of nothing less than the collapse of industrial civilization itself.


Thom Powers

Toronto International Film Festival"

http://www.collapsemovie.com/COLLAPSEMOVIE/synopsis.html



Michael 'Mike' Ruppert - Collapse (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCI3IpfBYmw

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“...What i see now is the end of a paradigm that is as cataclysmic as the asteroid event that killed almost all life on the Earth and certainly the dinosaurs. Now the dinosaurs were kings of their paradigm, and a paradigm is what you think about something before you think about it. Somebody talks about money and you automatically accept without thinking that compound interest, fractional reserve banking and fiat currency is okay and we have to protect that because if we don’t protect that, it’s going to be bad for us. If you know anything about Darwinism, basically what it said was that those species that had evolved or were able to adapt to changing circumstances were the ones that survived and those that were not equipped or had become evolutionary dead ends were destined to die. Mike you better be careful it sounds like your advocating social Darwinism. I’m not advocating social Darwinism, i am witnessing, actual Darwinism...”

Michael Ruppert

“...So i was trained at an early age in the skill of critical thinking and maybe i have a gift for it too, i believe there are some people who have a gift for critical thinking, in my own experience on the streets in south central Los Angeles as a cop there were quick decisions, sometimes decisions which changed people’s lives or could end people’s lives and it gave me an ability to respond and think to separate the ice cream from the bullshit. Probably one of the biggest impediments i removed to critical thinking was i stopped taking main stream media seriously a long time ago...No amount of technology and no amount of human ingenuity can possibly overturn the laws of physics, the laws which govern this planet, those are attractable, immutable, real and science has never been able to do that, man’s great arrogance i believe in one for which he’s paying a price now is to believe that mankind really could become God and even turn over and upset and revoke somehow the laws of the universe...”  

Michael Ruppert

“... [Obama] He’s a prisoner of government, he’s a prisoner of politics, he’s a prisoner of economics, he’s a prisoner of the federal reserve bank of New York, he’s a prisoner of the Federal Reserve, he’s a prisoner of a governmental system that’s archaic and not quickly responsive, so we should not make the success or failure of human civilisation rest on his shoulders. The only thing in the world that you and i can possibly change to give ourselves a chance of survival and to give our children a chance at some kind of human civilised life, is our minds. You have to believe, not wish, not hope, not pray, not beg, you just have to believe that there’s a way out of it, and you’re going to find it...”

Michael Ruppert