tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post341163148640422031..comments2024-03-26T11:32:37.965-07:00Comments on From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog: Theory of Everything (Going Wrong)Jenna Orkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05812985825726850202noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-62800022903438575462009-12-06T02:05:51.081-08:002009-12-06T02:05:51.081-08:00Agape, now that is what I call nice writing. Keep ...Agape, now that is what I call nice writing. Keep it up!F.Kamilovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10367438225330977373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-46227879799756090592009-12-06T02:05:51.080-08:002009-12-06T02:05:51.080-08:00part of financial/commercial collapse
http://www....part of financial/commercial collapse<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B407F20091205<br /><br />5 more banks bite the dustPeddler on the Hoofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05957172471411534181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-48716221537994932802009-12-06T01:56:15.470-08:002009-12-06T01:56:15.470-08:00movie tonight in berk was great. thank you!!
inte...movie tonight in berk was great. thank you!!<br /><br />interesting here,<br /><br />http://dailyreckoning.com/the-collapse-of-finance/Peddler on the Hoofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05957172471411534181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-89502226991096747802009-12-05T20:54:17.311-08:002009-12-05T20:54:17.311-08:00hey mike!!
thanks for being here in SF last night....hey mike!!<br />thanks for being here in SF last night. the movie was great and you're great. you should be very proud and im glad to hear you're relaxing and enjoying life. hope to see you soon. you're always welcome in my tribe. <br />thanks again<br />LukeHef Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06395143257028231938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-43216197338788935972009-12-05T15:25:17.192-08:002009-12-05T15:25:17.192-08:00saw collapse in berkeley last night. interesting t...saw collapse in berkeley last night. interesting that there were kids everywhere, but the theater for collapse was completely empty 10 min to showtime (i realize that mike was in sf at that exact moment, but i have a two year old, and can't always be where i want to be when i want to be there). there did end up being some people, but it was funny because i could overhear a conversation amoung a group of college students who had no idea what they were about to watch. i could tell by their reactions throughout the movie that they were very receptive, and very engaged.<br />outstanding job to everyone involved, and mike, i'm glad you stopped holding back on telling us how you really feel.toner deeskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022265516040950375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-48696839911284478642009-12-05T12:06:02.852-08:002009-12-05T12:06:02.852-08:00I find this curious: go to the URL "Illuminat...I find this curious: go to the URL "Illuminati" spelled backwards (www.itanimulli.com)you are redirected to the NSA's website??<br /><br />Hmmm....OregonSurvivorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17640765528086153569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-56717801865068177382009-12-05T07:50:23.850-08:002009-12-05T07:50:23.850-08:00Agape Wins, Your 5:48 PM post above is a fine, co...Agape Wins, Your 5:48 PM post above is a fine, coherent body of information from start to finish, and provides us with material to which we can confidently and productively respond. You might juxtapose & compare it with the/your 11/27/09"Bets Rise on Rich Countries Defaulting" 9:56 PM post which triggered my 5:23 AM criticism of your slipping back & forth between 'excellent reasoning' and 'self-defeating incoherence'. <br /><br />You also might consider framing the two, together, in juxtaposition, and hang them on the wall right in front of your 'puter... you know, just for reference, whenever you feel yourself sliding back into thinking you're "insane"! :-)<br /><br />We love you bro.RanDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05841404809073660720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-4676469375185831722009-12-05T02:30:42.914-08:002009-12-05T02:30:42.914-08:00Businessman, would you believe there wasn't ev...Businessman, would you believe there wasn't even a whimper from the public. The fireworks and celebrations in Brussels (which we paid for) were hardly covered in the media, it was all very low key here. Most Brits don't even realise the ramifications. We didn't get a referendum because we would have voted NO to EU. <br /><br />As an aside, I may have cleaned up some of your trash :) As a RN Clearance Diver in the 80's I had to dispose of a WW2 US 400lb air dropped bomb in the English channel, (few miles out from The Wash, off Skegness). A nice big plume and plenty of fish for the table! <br /><br />On Agape's wood-burning dilemma. In the UK there are smokeless zones (planning restrictions) where only certain approved woodburners are allowed, it can be difficult to get planning permission in some urban areas. They are manufactured in such a way so as to only burn efficiently, often this involves welding open secondary/primary air controls so they can't be shut down to a smolder. I have converted to woodburner fired heating with back boiler, and a wood fired cooker/stove in the kitchen for radiant heat and cooking, I would offer to extend the flue/stack if my neighbours complained, tho I don't actually have any neighbours within 1/4 mile. <br />I have also planted 400 willows, a specific variety developed as a real fast grower for industrial biomass plants (Salix-Bowles Hybrid). We've been germinating 3000 Ash keys for a year, for planting this spring (2 year dormant seeds) for future fuel. One day I will be self sufficient in fuel, but we're not quite there yet. I did not choose this system to adjust my carbon footprint, it is a self reliance doomstead prep with sustainability in mind.gamedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366724220594141999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-90320408424935118902009-12-04T17:48:31.916-08:002009-12-04T17:48:31.916-08:00Resubmission, first could not be processed.
New t...Resubmission, first could not be processed.<br /><br />New twist on com trails? Surprise, Ha Ha!!<br /><br />http://www.newsweek.com/id/224595<br /><br /><br />We are headed toward the most drastic/catastrophic change in the history of humanity, we have never approached the point of over population, we have always had the<br />option of moving away/killing/taking away from the powerless!<br />Our technology now permits us to eliminate all higher forms of life, it appears several of "our" space projects have contaminated the moon & Mars, Accidentally!<br />The life we live is unlike anything in nature, we are surrounded by the artificial, what we could confine locally by nature or medicine can/Is now kill/ing worldwide. We as a Race/Species have lost any/all natural Immunity, WE have made ourselves dependent on chemicals!<br />These same Chemicals which save us, also kill us, directly or through their side effects.<br />As an example: Motor Oil, 1 Qt. will contaminate 25,000 gal of ground water. When I was young and up until 1980 it was common to use Oil as "Dust control", legally, & then illegally; I myself dispensed thousands of qt.'s.while working for a Street Dept..<br />This is history, we were also constantly checking for illegally dumped chemicals in the sewer water, & at the Landfill; this is history, History is being made today/Everyday, deliberately, and/or accidentally. We will not know for YEARS, which we don't have<br />anymore.<br /><br />Just now caught up with Sebastian's 1:26 am post, another reason to be here, fine reasoning, read/think History; the only real advances' made are after a "DIEOFF", call it war, Pandemic, The Flood, or just Chance, there must be a Pruning of the <br />deadwood, the "Know it all"/complacent, the old way is the only way people that got us here.<br /><br />There will always be a "Remnant", those who could see/Plan, & those who "just happened"!<br />There are some here who seem to be stumbling along, as I said I detect 7 "Mind Sets", posting here, we each of us has a style, none fits a "Mold"/box; I have seen a collective change in thoughts, & expectations.<br />Others can state what they Know, suspect or Think, but that still leaves that big unknown, that-- that we haven't considered, or refuse to Think about/Face.<br /><br />My awakening began when I watched (on TV) the carpet Bombing of the Rice Paddy's during 1965 in Viet Nam. I had been a Tech. on the on the B52 Bomber (changed from a Defensive to an Attack Aircraft), from 1960 to 1963. I wept in front of the TV, how many innocent Men, Woman, & Children did MY Aircraft Kill? Reflect on where that leads, you have never heard/read me defend America as a nation, just it's deceived/abused people.<br /><br />As the sides are drawn where will you stand, on Wood burning/Energy conservation?<br />Is it worth taking a stand on?<br /> <br />http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/annie-s-mailbox-r-2009-11-22.htmlagape winshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04414745354700395872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-55799178258845482552009-12-04T16:56:50.477-08:002009-12-04T16:56:50.477-08:00Brilliantly articulated response there to eyeballs...Brilliantly articulated response there to eyeballs' humorously sincere toying with collapse, Sebastian. And how informing it is to daily see it literarily as well as literally evinced that there are so many geniuses amongst us with such insoluble resistance to seeing the picture, in its whole. A shame? Oh my goodness; of course not! All of those silly things are also but pieces of the whole; alive and ever moving forward one piece at a time; each operating at its own pace.<br /><br />And as you imply you've only recently discerned, none of it is to be taken personally! Cheers! However, existentially it is. <br /><br />Ultimately 'tis but a matter of, as suggested, exercising free will; but never from other than one's own personal quarters, as always, of course.RanDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05841404809073660720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-31456237194100660202009-12-04T10:07:45.985-08:002009-12-04T10:07:45.985-08:00Review From The Oregonian:
I’m not saying that Mi...Review From The Oregonian:<br /><br />I’m not saying that Michael Ruppert is a Cassandra or Chicken Little. I mean, he’s a former LAPD narcotics officer with deep knowledge of the intelligence community and a decades-long record as a muckraking journalist exposing governmental scandals in major publications. <br /><br />So, no, watching “Collapse,” an 80-odd-minute interview by director Chris Smith (“American Movie”) in which Ruppert lays out what he sees as the inevitable downfall of the global environment, economy, food system, and legal and social framework doesn’t feel like spending time with a kook or alarmist.<br /><br />But if any of what he says makes sense to you -- and even if it’s only a small piece, it’s terrifying -- then you’ll want to invest in gold and organic seeds and friendly relations with your nearest neighbors. You know: JUST IN CASE.....<br /><br />Sitting in a tiled basement, chain-smoking, dropping names and statistics and data with chilling certainty, Ruppert makes a compelling case that everything we know is about to end. Actually, believes it’s all already over, and we’re just like cartoon characters who’ve run off the edge of a cliff and haven’t yet realized that we’re in for a hell of a fall.<br /><br />So, yeah: Happy holidays from Michael Ruppert and Chris Smith. And here’s praying it’s not the last year we can say that.OregonSurvivorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17640765528086153569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-24086792690336873782009-12-04T01:26:54.837-08:002009-12-04T01:26:54.837-08:00eyeballs, re "If we do not collapse pretty so...eyeballs, re "If we do not collapse pretty soon, we're going to wish that we had."<br /><br />The technocratic dystopia and effeminate decadence of the Western world is part-and-parcel of the collapse, is it not? The collapse is underway. A decade or two here or there on an historical timeline is nothing; it is the blink of an eye.<br /><br />The Ummah throbs with anticipation. Mattel recently introduced a Burka Barbie. They should have brought you on board as a consultant: interchangeable, plastic nipples I could see as an added feature. Fortress Europe is a write-off. The Swiss have stood strong on more minarets, but even the BNP finds itself fighting a rear-guard battle.<br /><br />As I recently posted elsewhere: "<i>IF the pending collapse of industrial civilization is not extreme, complete nor decisive enough to neutralize the globalists and offer us all a level playing field, and; IF the political analysis/organization is wanting or derelict to pre-empt the unfolding condition, then we may as well gather up our marbles and go home. We shall be rendered philosophical or physical grease spots before our heads hit the floor.</i><br /><br />I have recently added Guillaume Faye's Archeofuturism to my bag of political tricks. I highly recommend it. It may very well be the door knob on the post-Green door that I have been knocking on.<br /><br />Complete, unconditional collapse is our only salvation. How odd to be advocating for burnt-earth. The globalist cull and ecological purge run in tandem. Nihilism approaches a place of philosophical legitimacy, while further burrowing into the vacuum of a political null.<br /><br />The trick, I find, is to take none of it, <i>absolutely none of it,</i> personally.Sebastian Ernst Roninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577726817981722245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-11234739711368852452009-12-03T18:23:15.272-08:002009-12-03T18:23:15.272-08:00Only the RFID chip embedded in the cloned human st...Only the RFID chip embedded in the cloned human steak will guarantee that it is free of salmonella, I presume. Presumably, specific parts that are prefered could be cloned, such as nipples, and you could buy a sack of them at a baseball game. "Nipples! Fresh hot nipples!"<br /><br />If we do not collapse pretty soon, we're going to wish that we had.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15089030424077326543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-18690509791285726952009-12-03T16:39:56.308-08:002009-12-03T16:39:56.308-08:00AK Gold,
Lumiere Theatre.AK Gold,<br /><br />Lumiere Theatre.John Keltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059688896505493782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-43589773561152822202009-12-03T16:18:31.095-08:002009-12-03T16:18:31.095-08:00gamedog...I am saddened to see that the U.K. has n...gamedog...I am saddened to see that the U.K. has now officially given up its sovereignty. My father was a Royal Air Force pilot in World War II, one of the men Winston Churchill referred to as being "The Few". And at the end of the War he was awarded the MBE by King George VI.<br /><br />I am sure that most all of the gallant warriors still surviving from that War and living within the U.K. are saddened by this also.businessmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014863390357287025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-24017550045670988952009-12-03T15:52:09.274-08:002009-12-03T15:52:09.274-08:00excellent post RanD.
the personal is political.
a...excellent post RanD.<br />the personal is political. <br />all nations have been founded on top of some sort of class/caste system, and are therefore flawed.<br />we can do better.toner deeskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022265516040950375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-88821754407688722432009-12-03T14:55:57.131-08:002009-12-03T14:55:57.131-08:00Right on eyeballs!Right on eyeballs!agape winshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04414745354700395872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-67689501898956267442009-12-03T14:44:20.563-08:002009-12-03T14:44:20.563-08:00http://wweek.com/editorial/3604/13425/
Collapse
...http://wweek.com/editorial/3604/13425/<br /><br />Collapse<br /><br />The end is near. Have a cigarette.<br /><br />BY AARON MESH<br /><br />ILLEGAL SMILE: Michael C. Ruppert.<br /><br />The last time Michael C. Ruppert appeared in the pages of this newspaper (Rogue of the Week, Oct. 21, 2009), he had been ordered by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries to pay $125,000 in damages to a former employee for sexual harassment including “standing in his underwear in a ‘wide-legged stance’ with a ‘big smile.’” Ruppert’s acolytes—judging from WW’s online comments, he has quite a few—accused the paper of smearing him to distract from his wider political stance: That the world’s oil supplies have reached their peak capacity and are in an irreversible decline that will devastate Western civilization. Chris Smith’s arresting new documentary on Ruppert, Collapse, gives the harbinger of doom a full hearing, and it does cast doubt on BOLI’s ruling—for most of the movie, Ruppert does not appear capable of, let alone interested in, smiling.<br /><br />Filmed in a Culver City, Calif., basement, Ruppert calls to mind The X-Files’ Cigarette Smoking Man, chiefly because he has an overarching matrix that explains all governmental duplicity, but also because he smokes a lot of cigarettes. “I don’t deal in conspiracy theory,” he says, “I deal in conspiracy fact. ” Even though he’s the only person speaking in Collapse (except for sporadic off-camera queries from the director), his hurried, antagonistic cadence sounds like he’s constantly interrupting somebody whose objections he finds insultingly stupid. A former LAPD cop, he started out accusing the CIA of running narcotics, but a full five years ago he was deploying the phrase “mortgage-backed securities” as an all-too-prescient warning of financial ruin. Now that he has your attention, his current case includes a lifetime supply of insomnia material: Energy supplies are finite, the planet’s population spike cannot continue, and a lot of people are going to starve while Western civilization turns into something else. “You need to survive the transition phase,” Ruppert explains. “Don’t panic. You’re going to be able to get water for a few years.”<br /><br />It’s hard to say exactly how much Chris Smith buys into this. The director of American Movie (in which a would-be Wisconsin filmmaker feared a future in which he would “suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at 2 in the morning”), Smith specializes in profiling men strung out on their own visions. Ruppert’s Collapse predictions often sound not only plausible but incontrovertible. But then he throws out a gem about how he’s ridding his soil of biochemical pesticides: “I’m mixing barbecue and wood ash, and then I go out and pee on everything.” An autodidact immensely unwilling to countenance the idea that any of his conclusions might be wrong, Ruppert seems determined to push himself out of society. After talking for an hour about the end of the world, he finally breaks down crying—because he’s so angry that nobody ever listened to him. Like every self-appointed prophet, he needs the system to break down. Otherwise he’ll always be on the outside.<br /><br />The other possibility—and it would be unwise of me to rule this out—is that he’s right, and the world is coming to an end.<br />SEE IT: Collapse plays at Cinema 21 Thursday-Thursday, Dec. 3-10. Michael Ruppert will attend the 4:30 and 7 pm showings on Thursday, Dec. 3.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-90996328837720190112009-12-03T13:44:17.461-08:002009-12-03T13:44:17.461-08:00The vatican has teamed up with russia,maybe that&#...The vatican has teamed up with russia,maybe that's the sudden turn in russian tone on Iran.<br />http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/03/world/AP-EU-Vatican-Russia.htmlJeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415186385167275704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-54286936504842607262009-12-03T12:06:26.837-08:002009-12-03T12:06:26.837-08:00RE: CIA Magic Manual
For whatever it matters, Joh...RE: CIA Magic Manual<br /><br />For whatever it matters, John Edward McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence under George Tenet, was an accomplished magician, according to Wikipedia. <br /><br />I'm reminded of Henry VI, Part II, in which Duke Humphrey of Gloucester beats a man pretending to be lame, and makes him run. The crowd of courtiers congratulates him on a miracle. He turns to the king, his nephew, and says:<br /><br />"But you have done more miracles than I: You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly."<br /><br />The reference is to a secret deal by which he ended the 100 years war by marrying an attractive French heiress (who is present at the remark, and later persecutes him for his opinions) and incidentally signs away most of England's claims to France.<br /><br />So magic is a state art from long ago. Complemented on the magic of the internet, Bill Gates might have turned to Bill Clinton and said, "You are a greater magician than I: you made in a day whole economies to fly."<br /><br />And then there's the old Disappearing Bill of Rights trick ...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15089030424077326543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-39685059186437215812009-12-03T11:01:28.380-08:002009-12-03T11:01:28.380-08:00I have been constructively criticized by two of ou...I have been constructively criticized by two of our posters who I hold in the highest regard,<br />I had 2 posts almost completed, when it struck me that ether I have not made myself clearmor they have short memory's. Are others confused about why I post here, what I think our objective should be, and why I write the way I do? Please let me know; I do not write to display how smart I am, to vent my spleen, put anyone down/dominate, or even put my<br />outdated knowledge on display.<br /><br />Small World, "The Little Book of Life", I'll have to see if I still have my copy (I do pass<br />important stuff along),<br />I discovered "Perfection/imperfection (mine(small) ), when I was 4, while living as a wild child, and seeing my first auto wreck, with 6 dead, smelling the blood, gasoline/oil/hot engine,<br />& alcohol (a Black 4 door, model A Ford head on into a tree, 2 ft. off the ground; after watching the fireworks on the 4th of July. Explain IMperfection to me & where it is found?<br /><br />I'll wait several days before posting my responses.agape winshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04414745354700395872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-40328711511583635552009-12-03T07:49:39.857-08:002009-12-03T07:49:39.857-08:00Collapse - a lens through which to learn - #21
Te...Collapse - a lens through which to learn - #21<br /><br />Telegraph Media religion editor & Anglican priest George Pitcher tells us "It's...Government, not the nuclear family, that's falling apart". Hm-m... well, yeah. However, presuming that the Anglican Church, and thus its priests, trace their beginnings from the Judaean-Christian Bible, also tells us that journalist and AC priest Pitcher ought to know and remind his readers that, according to said Bible, the human family existentially predates and is thus the foundation of all human social fabrications -- which fabrications include our religious establishments as well as our governing systems. <br /><br />The point: <br /><br />We should consider taking a much closer and more open-minded look at how we've been interpersonally conducting ourselves as human females & males producing and rearing children, i.e. conducting ourselves as families, and thereof been spreading ourselves, our ideas, our behaviors and practices across our planet. And, if we see anything going on out there & all around us that isn't going the way we think it ought to, then we need to examine what we're doing at the familial level. For instance: <br /><br />If what's going on out there and all around us that we're increasingly calling "collapse" is happening, predominantly as the consequence of how we've been doing our "man/woman/family thing", as a species -- which it is -- we then know where to look for causes if we're interested in surviving the likely utter collapse into which our current self-governing status quo's socio-psycho-economic ideas, practices, policies, laws & leaders are daily stubbornly taking us ever deeper.<br /><br />To paraphrase:<br /><br />What we're experiencing here is real-time self-actualizing collapse of our own self-devised global-wide/species-wide socio-psycho-economic paradigm. However, by using our current/once-again truly epochal "collapse" as a lens through which to examine ourselves as "Adam & Eve" in our most recent incarnation as "Petroleum Man & Woman", we have another singular opportunity to look at and see "who" we are in terms of "what" we are in terms of "what we are doing" relative to "what we should be doing"; and by securing such knowledge learn how to free ourselves from the critical ignorance which otherwise keeps us securely locked into a situation impossible to escape until it takes us all the way down, once again. <br /><br />Our failure to learn from this situation of our own fabrication ensures to us a loss of truly cosmic proportions; which loss requires having to once again start from scratch and try getting it right.<br /><br />Here's wishing us well, again, beginning from where we're at right now.RanDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05841404809073660720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-85787480304793674562009-12-03T01:10:06.561-08:002009-12-03T01:10:06.561-08:00"Dubai World" victim of world economic r..."Dubai World" victim of world economic recession<br /><br />http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=211407Arif Hasan Akhundzadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13023128470154781928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-18910453703377529562009-12-02T13:12:47.737-08:002009-12-02T13:12:47.737-08:00At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased ...At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign state <br /><br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100018459/at-midnight-last-night-the-united-kingdom-ceased-to-be-a-sovereign-state/gamedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366724220594141999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903415.post-42921706301783249092009-12-02T09:09:14.889-08:002009-12-02T09:09:14.889-08:00where is collapse playing in san francisco on dec ...where is collapse playing in san francisco on dec 4? hope to see you there. thxD3Financialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16879583852909706335noreply@blogger.com