I don’t deal in conspiracy theory. I deal in conspiracy FACT!
- Michael Ruppert

He’s blown the whistle on CIA drug trafficking, exposed mainstream media cover-ups, and predicted the economic meltdown way before we knew the terms,”mortgage backed security” or “credit default swap.” Now, subject of the documentary Collapse, Michael Ruppert warns us of the complete social and economic breakdown of civilization as a whole…PAY ATTENTION.

Peak oil curve suggested by M. King Hubbert in 1956. Click to enlarge.

Remember this term: PEAK OIL. It’s the point of oil production where you’re on top of the bell curve, reaching half of the available resources; never able to increase production ever again. It’s all downhill from the peak, and civilization consumes more and more oil as our standards of living increase. Since the 70′s, scientists and speculators alike have been concerned about the possibilities of the day humanity finally sucks the last drop of oil out of the planet.

Ruppert suggests that day is coming sooner than we know. There are no more major oil finds left and it has those in power scrambling. Why is the US so concerned with IRAQ? Why would Saudi Arabia, who owns 25% of the known oil reserves on the planet, move to the vastly more expensive offshore drilling if their supply was dwindling? PEAK OIL. If Saudi Arabia has reached their peak, the WHOLE PLANET has!

Let’s divert away from peak oil and focus on the current economic crisis the world is facing. Between toxic loans and fractional reserve banking, the dollar is crumbling. Banks will soon become insolvent and all of our savings accounts will be wiped away like numbers on a calculator. Forget cities, entire countries are going bankrupt. Yet, we as a civilization believe that our standards of living should be constantly growing. It is how society is modeled. If we can’t believe in the concept that things will be better for us in the future, there would be revolution. According to Ruppert, this is exactly the reason why global governments withhold the oil reserve estimates and continue to print more fiat money for bail outs. Our global economy simply can’t sustain itself anymore because we believe in infinite growth.

So…what happens when Infinite Growth collides with FINITE ENERGY? When you can’t just print up more money to generate more oil?

This is as good as conspiracy theory gets. Ruppert’s fact based vision of our future is paranoia inducing, isolating, subversive, while both terrifying and enlightening at the same time…right up my alley! But documentarian Chris Smith (American Movie) eschews the sensationalism and apocalyptic visual FX stylings of the Alex Jones variety, opting for a more direct approach. This is a little under two-hours of listening to a middle aged man while he sits in a dingy room speaking his mind…and it shook me to the point where I wanted to jump off a bridge after email blasting a manifesto to everyone I know. But don’t take the leap just yet, Ruppert has solutions to guide us into a new aeon free of oil dependency. See this movie. Visit his website. Buy his books.

Every aspect of human existence is on the table. Evolve or perish!

- Cornbluth