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    So, are you a lifeboat builder?

    This intense documentary narrated by Michael Ruppert describes a future that our world is now entering. A heavy watch but well worth the 80 odd minutes...

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    Life's too fucking short. What's the one sentence summary?
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Naki Rat View Post
    This intense documentary narrated by Michael Ruppert describes a future that our world is now entering.
    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Life's too fucking short. What's the one sentence summary?
    hmmmmmmmmmmm
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Life's too fucking short. What's the one sentence summary?
    Kiss your ass goodbye
    To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Life's too fucking short. What's the one sentence summary?
    We are living a life reliant on oil and unsustainable financial systems, and the cracks are appearing in both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Life's too fucking short. What's the one sentence summary?
    Grow the fuck up and let's stop fucking around.

    You also answered your own question, but I prefer my answer: Life's too fucking short.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Naki Rat View Post
    We are living a life reliant on oil and unsustainable financial systems, and the cracks are appearing in both.

    uhh. there's feckall problem with oil. it's the money shit that's mucking that one up.



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    It's a bullshit, three ring, circus sideshow of freaks

    ...Some say a comet will fall from the sky
    Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
    Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still
    Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits, and

    Some say the end is near
    Some say we'll see armageddon soon
    I certainly hope we will
    I sure could use a vacation from this

    Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit

    One great big festering neon distraction
    I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied

    Learn to swim
    Learn to swim
    Learn to swim

    ...'Cause I'm praying for rain
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    I wanna see the ground give way
    I wanna watch it all go down
    Mom please flush it all away
    I wanna see it go right in and down
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    Summary: the end is nigh. Different medium same idiot on the street corner with his sandwich board.
    Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. --- Unknown sage

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    Quote Originally Posted by oneofsix View Post
    Summary: the end is nigh. Different medium same idiot on the street corner with his sandwich board.
    The world will survive just fine. We as the dominant and highly over-represented species are the ones in trouble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Naki Rat View Post
    The world will survive just fine. We as the dominant and highly over-represented species are the ones in trouble.
    I never said it was the end of the world but if you that the world as a human construct, as opposed to the planet which is the natural enty then the end of human life is the end of the world.
    Oh and BTW I don't think we are in any more trouble than we have been before.
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    So "Chicken Little" is alive and well! .... Often wondered what happened to him!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    So "Chicken Little" is alive and well! .... Often wondered what happened to him!
    Not so sure about the well part, what with his anxiety complex and all, but certainly alive and kicking.
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    Playing devils advocate...

    Isn't it a well known fact that the peak is measured against proven world oil reserves, only?

    Not that I at all disagree on consumption, but I always find it difficult to believe this "peak" mass debate....
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    There have been 3 or 4 ages ending with natural global catastrophe, in 'recorded' history.
    Different cultures have flood myths, Sumeria, Egypt, underwater cities, Australian interior used to be a shallow sea.... et el
    I thought of escaping cities a lot this week
    Looked at Henderson Beach Northland but it got totally decimated by a tidal wave in the last 500 yrs... NZ has had about 10 major tidal waves in the last 1000 yrs

    So something to occur is definitely on the cards and possibly even overdue [Mount Manganui Coromandel Coast Orewa.... if time-lines are anything to go by
    Southern divide shift is almost due, as well as tidal wave risk... so both Islands are due to cop something

    Up off the beach in Northland still looks like me
    Or in Kaitaia and make day trips to the different beaches, instead of residing specifically at one beach.

    Hows this commercial gem for only $149k http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=529454762 could start a bike repair business or even a Backpackers Lodge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genestho View Post
    Playing devils advocate...

    Isn't it a well known fact that the peak is measured against proven world oil reserves, only?

    Not that I at all disagree on consumption, but I always find it difficult to believe this "peak" mass debate....
    Not quite right. "Peak" relates to the recoverable reserves, and isn't only relevant to oil (watch the video). In the case of all resources there is a point at which the cost (and energy) required to recover them overtakes the value of the extracted resource. Rising oil prices have extended the point at which this occurs but when energy expended in exploration/drilling/recovery/refining/distribution becomes more than the energy content of that hydrocarbon it becomes a negative exercise overall so no point.

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