If You Are My Friend Then You Will Watch This Film

It's a documentary on the paradigm shift that we need to save the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

Block out three hours of your time to watch this.

It talks about peak oil toward the end. Very interesting stuff.

After you watch it leave a comment.

From his latest column

"Either we begin to militantly stand against the coal, oil and natural gas industry or we do not. Either we defy pre-emptive war and occupation or we do not. Either we demand that the criminal class on Wall Street be held accountable for the theft of billions of dollars from small shareholders whose savings for retirement or college were wiped out or we do not. Either we defend basic civil liberties, including habeas corpus and the prosecution of torturers or we do not. Either we turn on liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party, which collaborate with these corporations or we do not. Either we accept that the age of political compromise is dead, that the corporate systems of power are instruments of death that can be fought only by physical acts of resistance or we do not. If the liberal class remains gullible and weak, if it continues to speak to itself and others in meaningless platitudes, it will remain as responsible for our enslavement as those it pompously denounces. " - Chris Hedges

Listen Close: It's Over

Game Over.

For decades we have been ignoring Peak Oil. Within our lifetime there will be no more left. It is not science fiction. This is not an opinion. This is going to happen. The aftermath is, more or less, anybody's guess. An apparent conclusion, though, is that modern industry is going to be over. The world will probably become decentralized and we will return to local communities. Really though: think of all the technology behind the 20th century and imagine that it never happen. Oil is the basis for most of it. Without it, what will happen to us?

A Prophet, Ignored

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Collapse

Despite some very recent happiness in my personal life, I am finding it more and more difficult to replicate that same emotion in regards to the outside world. The reason: Peak Oil. The possibility of running out of the substance that the entirety of modern civilization relies upon has been creeping around my brain for the past couple of months. My then girlfriend, now my fiancee, and I watched a documentary called "Collapse." The whole movie was, more or less, footage of this guy talking about the End of Oil and what the implications would be for the rest of us. It was haunting.

Bullshit

Thanks Congress, for passing the Bush tax cuts.

This is all that should be said on the matter:

“We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both.”- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Perspective

1. Almost 3 million people were evicted from their homes in 2009.

2. Congress and the bastard Obama are extending a tax cut for the richest of the very rich.

Things to keep in mind as Chrismas comes closer.

I am not being facetious or cute right now:

Seriously ask yourself, what would Jesus do?

Would Jesus try to help those 2.8 million? Or would he extend the most irresponsible, un-democratic and useless tax cut in American history?

Of course moderates are tripping over themselves to defend our elitist President. Apparently it is a 'reasonable' deal for Americans. We will see how that will pan out.

These tax cuts have not created jobs, do not promote investment, and they do not boost the economy. If they did we would have had a net job gain during the Bush II administration instead of a net job losses. Instead, what we will get is more of the same. More inequality and more suffering for those of us who aren't millionaires.

How Obama sleeps at night is anybody's guess.