The documentary examines our dependence on oil, showing how oil is essential for almost every facet of our modern lifestyle, from driving to work to clothing and clean tap water. A Crude Awakening asks the tough question, “What happens when we run out of cheap oil?” Through expert interviews, the film spells out in startling detail the challenges we would face in dealing with the possibility of a world without cheap oil—a world in which it may ultimately take more energy to drill for oil than we can extract from the oil the wells produce.

The film includes in-depth, thought-provoking interviews with Colin Campbell, Matt Simmons, Roscoe Bartlett, David Goodstein, Matt Savinar, Terry Lynn Karl, Fadhil Chalabi, Robert Ebel and many others. Shot on location at oil fields in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the Middle East and Texas, with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip Glass, the film provides not only questions, but possible solutions to the most perplexing and important economic, environmental and public policy issue of our time.

I worry most about the implications of peak oil on food and our ability to sustain the current and ever growing population.  We’re in for rough times ahead and most people have no idea what’s coming.

http://www.oilcrashmovie.com for more information on the film.

This is a great film.  It covers the facts of what is happening, who is behind it and what can be done about it.  No surprise to see the main culprits are behind our water problems and the oppression of the world poor (multinational corporations and their politicians, the WTO, IMF and World Bank).  Do your roommates a favor and lay down some plastic before watching this…your head will explode!

Here is the official movie description, website address and online video that can be accessed for free through veoh.com (free registration required).

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

This film follows numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?

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Just be warned that this one put me to sleep which is hard to do. Don’t watch this while you are driving!

It all boils down to this: It is very challenging to have a healthy population without a healthy diet, and you cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture system.

Through a series of impressively candid, informed and articulate interviews, this film argues that the bizzare events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizzare prosecution of the so-called “war on terror”, can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent and critical divergence between available global oil supply and and global oil demand.

His website has all sorts of good information so I recommend spending some time perusing his site: Click Here

Below is a great interview with Bill Moyers. They discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy.

Here is the start to his letter to the President titled “Farmer in Chief”.

Dear Mr. President-Elect,

It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since the Nixon administration–the last time high food prices presented a serious political peril. Since then, federal policies to promote maximum production of the commodity crops (corn, soybeans, wheat and rice) from which most of our supermarket foods are derived have succeeded impressively in keeping prices low and food more or less off the national political agenda. But with a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close. What this means is that you, like so many other leaders through history, will find yourself confronting the fact–so easy to overlook these past few years–that the health of a nation’s food system is a critical issue of national security. Food is about to demand your attention.

Complicating matters is the fact that the price and abundance of food are not the only problems we face; if they were, you could simply follow Nixon’s example, appoint a latter-day Earl Butz as your secretary of agriculture and instruct him or her to do whatever it takes to boost production. But there are reasons to think that the old approach won’t work this time around; for one thing, it depends on cheap energy that we can no longer count on. For another, expanding production of industrial agriculture today would require you to sacrifice important values on which you did campaign. Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change. Unlike food, these are issues you did campaign on — but as you try to address them you will quickly discover that the way we currently grow, process and eat food in America goes to the heart of all three problems and will have to change if we hope to solve them. Let me explain.

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The part that struck out to me the most is changes happening in our universe.  He couldn’t give much detail but what he was describing matches some information I heard just this weekend regarding the earth moving through a very strong electro-magentic field over the course of the next 10 to 20 years that would cause all sorts of problems much like those described by John.  A number of other points are very consistent with predictions on peak oil, climate change, geo-politics, Islam, terrorism, world government, earthquakes, food shortages, war, volcanoes, large storms, etc.

This is not meant to generate fear, however.  God is in control and wishes to use this period to bring the US and His church into alignment with Him.  The end of Part I and Part II focus on our response and God’s purposes in a time such as this.

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Some of my notes:

• He discusses a war agenda and military doctrine which involves oil pipelines and oil reserve control but is about much more than these things.
• The New American Century is a blueprint for world domination and lays out a game plan for conquest using the War on Terror as an excuse to move into the middle East.
• Al Qaeda is a creation of and continues to be a US intelligence asset
• There are four opposing factions including the US/British, Euro zone, Russia and China.  A silent war is currently raging between these groups around the defense industry/arms, oil and currency.
  
• Nuclear war is now part of the strategy in US preemptive warfare.
• Globalization of poverty is the result, not due to scarcity but due to the destructive expansion of the empire via privatization and deregulation.
• Financial crises is a result of the shift of resources to the military complex away from the real productive economy.  The agenda is to privatize all public assets and activities into centrally controlled corporations.  Unlike WWII, the war economy will not create jobs and bring economic well being to US citizens.  The opposite is happening.
  
• We see a slide into Fascism.  Outside of the US it looks like military and economic conquest.  Inside the country it looks like a police state via the militarization of the police force.
• 9/11 serves to justify the war on terror (war of conquest).  But this is a false cover and much like Pearl Harbor, could have been avoided and was used as an excuse to move forward with war plans.
• Dealing with the criminalization of the state.  Politicians on both sides are highly compromised and complicit in keeping the system running.  High level politicians are puppets.
  
• American citizens are uneducated and unaware of truth.  Media has failed to inform people for many reasons.  Government propaganda machine overwhelms truth that does make it out.
• Must question the legitimacy of what is behind all these plans.  Must identify the corporate interests involved including central banks, Wall St., defense industry, pharmaceutical industry, big oil, big agriculture, etc.  Must then get behind who runs these highly centralized businesses and sets their agendas.
• Watch out for dissent movements that serve to demobilize and distract the truth movement.  Manufacturing dissent is used to redirect dissent in ways that actually support the system as a whole.
• Truth is the enemy of this system.  Truth will destroy it.  Truth can be spread person to person in a grass roots movement.

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Lecture: The Global Financial Crises — The Great Depression of the 21st Century with Michel Chossudovsky Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown.

• The speculative onslaught
• Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”
• Bankruptcy of the real economy
• Impacts on employment, wages and social services
• Towards a spiralling public debt
• The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war
• The centralization of corporate power
• The concentration of wealth
• The globalization of poverty
  

Path to Freedom presents ‘A Homegrown Revolution’, a collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action — growing food in the city.

They run a little urban homestead on 1/10 of an acre in Pasadena, CA and produce about 6 tons of produce each year.

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