Horrible alarmist garbage.

^^ I couldn't agree more with this post. It's truly amazing browsing this forum how many people take his every word as fact. We are now half way through 2010 and the global economy didn't collapse as he predicted. We entered a period of recession, some countries recovered faster than others (Canada where I live for example), while other countries like the US took much longer. But every country is either currently in an upward economic trend, or has already recovered.

He did make a couple good points though, peak oil for one. Nobody really knows for sure how much longer oil will last, but it's not a renewable resource. Once we are out, we are out. Many things in the world we rely on come from oil one way or another. Though with all the alternate energy sources currently being created and developed, we will survive the end of oil. The sun for example puts out more energy in a single day than we have used in the entire span of human existence.

Another good point he made was about the money system, and how it is based on infinite growth. This is not a system that can last forever. But I find it incredibly alarmist to believe it's demise will be the end of man kind. We will evolve, adapt, and create newer and better systems that will eventually lead to a system we can sustain indefinitely.

I'm so tired of all these alarmist conspiracy theory documentaries that play on people's naivete. Watching Zeitgeist, Collapse, The Obama Deception, FIAT Empire, and programs like this doesn't make you an informed person. If you really want to understand these concepts with any real depth start buying books on modern economics, politics, attend a post secondary institute and get an education. There is far more depth to these topics then can be covered in a 2 hour documentary. It's not as black and white as these programs make people believe.

I see posters all over this forum accusing people who disagree with Michael Ruppert as being uneducated and buying into the lies government tells. It's hypocritical to say this when you take everything said in a 2 hour documentary as fact but completely disregard a political and economic system that has been centuries in development. No system is perfect though, there is constantly room for improvement. But quit being such soothsaying alarmist sheep. The end of the world is not going to happen in 2012, or 50 years from now, and probably not even 10000 years from now. We are intelligent intuitive evolving mammals and we will continue.

Anyways I'm sure someone will respond by correcting my grammar, or extracting a sentence they disagree with completely ignoring all the other valid points I've made as is customary on the internet. But it's this type of cyclical behavior that stops most people from absorbing anything they read online. Truly a generation that refuses to read, and instead skims their way through.

"Ruppert is personally repulsive, exhibiting a self-satisfied I-told-you-so smugness and sneer. He is a cold, dry man, whose only relationship seems to be with his dog, which didn't seem very interested in him. He is vulgar, emotionally unstable, arrogant, and overly impressed with his every little thought. He is an angry little man. His appeal is narrow, a cult appeal. His authoritarian stance smacks of demagoguery. "

Ok, ok.. I get it what you think about this man.

Now - maybe youll write something about the subject of this movie?

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Bluesdoctor, your original post reveals how much of an idiot you are. Instead of using a thesaurus, how about you investigate and produce some substance into your post.

Just an fyi, Ruppert is very educated man. He graduated from UCLA with honors, and was the top of his class in his police academy. He was promoted to become a narcotics detective. The man is sharp. The reason he was fired was because of his unwillingness to cooperate, and ignore about LAPD/CIA/MAFIA drug smuggling into that area. If you're willing to look into that, there is a video of Ruppert confronting the Director of Central Intelligence in the 90s on youtube. Also, in Gary Webb's investigative masterpiece, Dark Alliance, it intricately details how our federal government was involved in the smuggling of cocaine, which helped fuel the crack-cocaine epidemic. This information is also detailed in his book, Crossing the Rubicon.

Now, this documentary, it was meant to be over dramatic. Infact, imo, it did Ruppert little justice other than generating awareness for his name. If you want real substance into understanding why peak oil is even a possible problem, and how resource control is even evident, read his book. I couldn't stress it enough. Over 1,000 footnotes; it's incredibly investigated. Ruppert correlates 9/11 in regards to the U.S' keen concern with resource control in the middle east. Its far too intricate for me to detail you on, so you need to teach yourself.

As for all trues, actually do research instead of basing your arguments off of your high school science classes and prejudices just because he cried on camera. The guy has been shot at, framed by LAPD/CIA, suffered from alcoholism, heavily monitored, and when he produced his journal series (from the wilderness), all computers involved in the making of FTW were destroyed. I would break down too once in a while.

Again, do research.

"Ruppert suffers from the intellectual limitations of the self-educated. "

You got rid of the slight amount of credibility you may have had with that sentence.

We're not going to war with Iran. This is the same garbage they pulled when I was on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in 2005. It's basically just a huge prick-waiving exercise because Ahmadinejad has an ego problem.

And now it's 2014 and the world is still here. The EU did not collapse. We are not at war with Iran. The banks are still a problem, but they haven't blown up. Don't know on China and housing, though... I'll have to check that one out.

I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart