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After watching Mike Ruppert in Vermont on May 13, 2010, lecturing on his book “Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World” last night from a link sent to me on the internet, I am somehow mortified into a state of depression all over again. He just has a way of scaring the bajeezes out of people. I guess x-cops only know how to tell it like it is and that can be sort of scary to most. Peak oil seems pretty transparent to me.

In the US, since 2005 the advertising of all major brands and more, seem to reflect the need to be green. That should be your first clue that we have reached peak oil. Other viewpoints seem to be trying to relay the same message in different ways. Aside from all of the facts that would lead one to believe that fossil fuels are not a good option anymore; global warming; pollution, war, human degradation, intimidation and piracy…One might consider that perhaps we have extorted too much of a good thing into a cataclysmic catastrophe. Sounds like human nature? I only agree that it is human nature now because of our indoctrination into a monetary system which breeds corruption and thievery and usury on all levels.

In the film “The End of Poverty” directed by Phillippe Diaz, free to watch on Hulu.com, the industrial revolution began a wave of business practices that manipulate markets and turn people from all over the world into slaves to serve those markets. He enlightens many to the term usury, which would seem almost a non-existent word in the English language since the advent of advertising. The practice of usury goes far back into history and is apparent in almost every society that seeks to profit off of some resource or another and that amounts to pretty much all of them. Now, with the advent of the computer, that information has gotten around very quickly, informing the public that things are not what they seem. If you step back to take a look at the planet and what has transpired over the last several hundred years and further, it might occur to you too, that the latest and greatest Empire to exist is in the process of caving in and it’s just a matter of how we go about transferring into another paradigm without massive losses (I’m talking people here) that seems to be most important. At least they are to me. In Mike’s lecture, he does state, that if any empire could have survived using the fractional reserve system, they would still be here. So that being said, confirms that no matter what you try to do, if you intend to charge interest on any good or service you provide, that is usury and it will not survive the will of the people nor any real means of life you wish to sustain. (My guess is some don’t really wish to sustain anything other then themselves.)

Of the many who are in the process of spreading the word and trying to educate people of the problems because the corporate media outlets will not, some are also trying to make a profit or at least maintain their living while they go about these educational seminars. It’s also quite remarkable that internet piracy is making them complain. Internet piracy is one of the reasons that the industrial complex is failing. But being that it is more an irritant to both Mike Ruppert and Peter Joseph, it also leads me to believe that it is not the only reason for the collapse, it has to be because of peak oil. And, it’s not just because the empire cannot keep a lid on their nasty ways of behaving, but also because internet piracy puts a major dent in the plans that some businesses had on using the internet for more creative business practices. For more usury. What’s interesting is that those responsible for massive internet piracy don’t actually have a platform, spokesperson or chariot going around educating people of the problems. Probably because they are so ingenious and far too busy keeping the profiteers from succeeding.

In this world, no matter what your circumstances, you go with what you know, so I’m going to make some observations here based on what I know. I will use some facts from the three men that I have been following for a couple of years now to make some basic observations and interject some of my own analysis along the way.

We have hit peak oil.

John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hitman and Secrets of the American Empire, ex-economic hitman himself, for a company out of Boston by the name of Charles T. Maine in the 1970’s, came out with his first book in 2005 (the year that Mike Ruppert confirms in his lecture that the world hit peak oil status) to declare that America was acting as an empire and has been raping the world of it’s resources quite religiously for many decades. He confirms that American businesses, corporations and multi-national corporations have turned entire countries into indebted slaves and put us all at risk by promoting an unsustainable infinite growth model that must come to an end. But, he also suggests that markets can be rebuilt if people just realize that we are all dependent upon one another and we need to revert back to the actual cost accounting methods of economist John Maynard Keynes’ and allow for everyone to maintain their personal dignity, instead of resorting to the usury business models that brought us upon this utter economic disaster. In his latest book, Hoodwinked, he explains the differences between Keynes and Freidman’s economist theories and how we departed from Keynes theories during the Reagan administration to the those of Milton Freidman’s.

How Do YOU spell success, Dean?
(link to his article)

I like to follow various economists research to see what their views are, and recently I had to laugh at the apparent desperation of one economic researcher, CEPR’s Dean Baker’s analysis of the actions of the IMF in regards to Greece’s recent default, as he compares it with Argentina’s growth from it’s recession in 2002. He uses GDP analysis to hopefully prove something. I think that GDP should stand for Gravely Disproportionate Propaganda, because, simply put, a GDP which helps stock traders analyze a country before they invest, is manipulated as well, in order to get investors to invest. Even the CIA worldfactbook puts a disclaimer with that same general statement in it’s definition of terms. And, it’s the one thing that the markets depend on. Although, I understand why Dean is showing us the benefits Greece would see by devaluing it’s own exchange rate instead of the other. He uses the graphs to demonstrate how a country like Argentina can rebound in a shorter time, I am not convinced that starting from the bottom can lead you anywhere else but up from there, because we are looking for growth all the time instead of the stark realities of our ways. GDP is a crooked measuring tool. And frankly, why do we need to see growth like that? I don’t care about financial growth, I only care that all the people are happy, well adjusted and have a wholesome diet. That’s simply not going to happen from the viewpoint of the markets.

Both Mike Ruppert and Peter Joseph concur that infinite growth as propagated by the markets, as we have known them, are completely unrealistic. And, this I believe to be true. I have signed up to receive notes from John, I have become a huge fan of him since I’ve read his books and I would love to visit his dreamchange.org center in South America sometime in the future, if I ever am able to make that happen.

Mike Ruppert, ex-cop and author of Crossing the Rubicon and From The Wilderness, also emphatically tells people that we are on the brink of destruction because we have reached peak oil status and we have done nothing about it. In this lecture that aired on a public broadcasting station in Vermont and was obviously recorded then put up to view by millions with an internet connection, refers to facts that the American media has been trying to hide from people in it’s very silly way the truth about it’s mis-dealings and about our having already reached peak oil. The American government doesn’t want anarchy or people losing faith in it’s leaders, it doesn’t want panic in the streets and mass hysteria, it also doesn’t want people to get wind that Barack Obama is a servant of the Fed or that the federal government is losing control by the second because of internet access and that China will back Iran in any confrontation America tries to begin there. He also sees China being the culprit for internet service attacks that might prevent people from being able to maintain a living standard if they try to build their own lifeboats within their own communities. Mike Ruppert complains about internet piracy being the reason why he is still penniless even though he has over 11,000 friends on facebook. Mike was the whistle blower from the LAPD that spilled the beans on the CIA’s fake war on drugs and helped us all to realize that they were actually dealing drugs and the obvious reason for that was profit is profit, no matter from which end you can get it. And, this is also true. In one of my TwigSnapButtCrack animated videos, I do declare that even those organizations that claim to be so pristine with credibility and astute with gleaming pride and integrity, they are really just cowards doing the same as everyone else, trying to compete in a world full of liars, other cowards and thieves, so what you see isn’t always what you get. That Farmer John label that presents a pretty picture of a meadow or a snugly bear is really just another corporate head that is feverishly working and demanding of it’s employees to find ways of reaping more market share and gaining an advantage over other corporate heads.

What Ruppert suggests is we all sign up for his collapsenetwork.com or collapse.net website (whenever that comes out) to assist in everyone finding what they need while they are creating local economies within their own communities. He also gives us insight that the US military does not have the soldiers or the particular resources to man every street to enforce Marshall law in the US, and I would have to agree, there is no need to panic about that. As the oil and money dwindle away and the tax dollars do not get paid, the banks will lose control of their hold on the politics of this country and other countries and the small tight netted communities will face the horror of going it alone and having to fend off masses of zombies that will be starving and in need of the basics, if they ever make it out of the cities that they came from.

But, The Venus Project takes us a step farther to rescue ourselves from this mess. The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project will hopefully be found by the ex-corporate employees of engineering firms and scientific researchers and internet companies, because they do have the right answer for everyone, even the Chinese.

Peter Joseph, musician and film maker, promotes The Venus Project, a somewhat overlooked, possibly more sustainable future created by another man, Jacques Fresco. Peter also confirms the facts, although in a very different way, that we can no longer use fossil fuels as an energy source because of it’s limited capacity. In his films, which have also been pirated over the internet and wreaked havoc within The Zeitgeist Movement, which is the movement that he proposed in his films and lectures, he introduces the same problems with the fractional reserve system that the above authors have confirmed and, but also provides a solution that is far beyond what many seem to be able to grasp, and that is abandoning the monetary system and initiating a technologically advanced paradigm that insists that the monetary system has created this problem and if it were to gain any more momentum, the problems would eventually resurface and destroy again what we rebuild, our lively hoods. I believe this is VERY true. Even though there are numerous people out there that still want to believe that we are being chased by the devil to the edge of the cliff, there are people like me whom have already jumped and survived. I, like Ruppert, an ex-officer of the court and peace officer, have never purchased a home, not because I didn’t want to, but because I wouldn’t do it by way of fraudulently signing my name to a contract that I knew I could not hold up. I can say that I understand where Ruppert is coming from. I have also seen the corruption within agencies that are supposed to be known for their integrity. It was more than disappointing. I know that it is money that creates human smuggling, drug running, prostitution and white slavery and human slavery in general, so I would be willing to speak out that money is the root of all evil and that love is the ultimate answer. That is the solution that John Lennon and Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi and various other brave and yet dead men have been trying to tell us all along, throughout history. Their deaths were meant to scare you into paralysis, but don’t let it. If we the people have the knowledge that gives us the power. If we have the numbers (all the people) to back it up. Guess what? We win.

The above three that I have featured here in this blog are all claiming the same thing; We have to change the way we live or we are all doomed. Now this seems pretty understandable, although some folks don’t really want to acknowledge it so much. Some might acknowledge it but still live within the city limits and are hard pressed to keep food on the table and the lights on for the children that they tuck in at night. All this pressure makes some just ignore the facts and deny what needs to be changed. Some are still addicted to substances like illicit drugs and pharmaceutical drugs and alcohol so much so, that they fear a change in the system would result in their bodies not getting what they think they need. But, the reality is clear, we cannot keep shopping for extra luxuries, nick nacks and substances because we cannot keep our businesses afloat, because every human in every country is effected by the financial collapse of the corrupt markets. The markets have collapsed because the fight for energy resources has left too many with crushed bodies, minds and spirits to carry on the facade. And the internet, although it might provide a way for people to stay connected and care for themselves, can only be used to do just that, without any profit motives involved. This is also true.

The Zeitgeist Movement is different from Mike Ruppert’s collapse network, because it has already got folks getting organized to share the best that information has to offer. It is a young movement but it is already starting to grow well over 400,000 world wide and their projects and activism events are offering a real solution for every man on the planet, not just the local communities that are just finding out about this, that we already have the technology to get what we need if we release ourselves from fear and move on to love as the ultimate answer. And, not use money as a way of defining ourselves. The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project are a better choice than trying to rebuild markets that would inevitably lead to theft and corruption again eventually, it is better than building your lifeboat with just a few people around you to remain safe and secured, especially if the zombies will try to steal, kill and take over what you have created. The Zeitgeist Movement is the best choice to see truth in because we do have advanced technology to rescue us from the Victorian days and closed border nationalistic wars. It’s a movement that involves all the people on the planet uniting and moving ahead with what we have learned and what we already know and collaborating with people instead of governments and banking institutions. It’s a movement that shares instead of tries to sell you something. It’s a purpose in life that no one can steal. The Zeitgeist Movement would like to involve the Chinese. With the respect for nature and their knowledge of technology, it must be for all of our benefit.

I m zero and I love the world and I love it’s people, places and all forms of nature. I love science and I know that knowledge is power, the greatest power of all. I love all these men for their bravery to speak out against the cowards who would gladly see you dead over saving you from a painful death at the hands of their profit machines. I hope that everyone succeeds in finding their way to a better life. And, no I am not running for office. I’m just a blogger with another opinion.