by human » Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:08 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> Human:<br><br>Ruppert is NOT the only person who can --or has-- read oil industry and production/consumption reports to put 2 and 2 together, to realize the impending crisis of serious shortfalls in supplying oil to a world that has been made addicted to --and dependant on-- the convenient myth of relatively cheap and plentiful oil. In other words, the Peak Oil thesis is totally independant of Ruppert -- there are numerous scientists and experts in many fields who have read the data and come to the same conclusion. Besides, your apparant blanket criticism of Peak Oil = Eugenics is nothing but a strawman flunkie unsuitable for serious consideration.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>2+2=5<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>And anyway, why should I 'address' something you've only provided the most incidental, offhand reference to? I'm not going to do YOUR research!! The information supporting the trend of oil-resource depletion isn't based on anyone's ideas of how to prevent it (or postpone a final reckoning) -- Can't you see THAT? (Can I be blamed for concluding you can't debate because you don't even have a passing familiarity with how the scientific method works?)<br><br>How silly.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>okay, title of thread... "Mike Ruppert is a stooge" <br><br>you CAN be blamed for being a dick. passing familiarity with scientific method? i invented it for all you know... <br><br>its like saying, "Dont criticize the Catholic Church if youve never been to mass" , how do you say, unsuitable for serious consideration...<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>But, do you think it is somehow more ethical and moral for the world's peoples to do NOTHING about population pressures, than try to achieve a wise balance? Animal and even plant populations have their own natural population-control feedback mechanisms, to prevent many of the worst consequences of unregulated population increase. Humans, having far greater physical control over their environment and resources, aren't as subject to natural population-expansion limits, thus creating the conditions for crisis when the fact of unrelieved population demands cause breakdowns in the natural or social systems that humans depend on -- resulting in disease pandemics and the consequences of wars, famines, massacres, genocide, ecocide, democide, and other major life-threatening events (economic, political and environmental refugees, neocolonial exploitation, diversion of resources to war-making preparations, resulting pollution from war-making poison by-products, etc.) -- This should all be quite obvious and self-evident, and necessary for someone considering the moral issues of allowing disasters to occur versus taking pro-active steps to prevent such serious imbalaces from occurring in the first place. I think THIS issue is central to what your position boils down to -- even if you can't form a coherant and supported argument that CAN be rationally debated.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>so essentially what you are saying is that rather than wars, famines etc.. there should be scientific population reduction, which is what Eugenics is...<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The past twentieth century has seen unprecedented loss-of-life from deliberate human-caused violence or indirect causes, of more than an approx. 188 million (users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm), all directly or indirectly linked to humankind's inability --or failure-- to come to terms with population pressures on resources, denoting the evident benefitl of self-regulating population-growth so that basic human needs are met responsibly and humanely, in order to prevent the kinds of severe imbalances and instability that lead to famines, wars, genocide, war-crimes and pandemics. It stumps me how ANYBODY can claim it is somehow better to do nothing than something, viz, your apparant obsession-fixation to criticize, oppose and condemn discussions and suggestions toward achieving regulated balance of population growth with critical resources and infrastructure.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>lol. acheiving regulated balance of population growth?<br><br>dangerous shit. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>It takes a dedicated lack of awareness and attention to blithely disregard how much of the world's political and economic instabilities contributing to the horrible legacy of wars, low-intensity conflicts, strife and terrorism of the last 100 years are intimately tied to the west's quest for economic growth and hegemonic power fueled by cheap oil and credit expansion -- which in turn is tied to the US pushing the dollar as the world's trading currency. These three factors -- abundant cheap oil, credit debt and Federal reserve dollars-- are the basis for the US's ruinous, devastating Imperialist foreign policy that has contributed to enormous suffering and instabilities that have been exploited by military, political and corporate elites for wealth and power. It's impossible to seperate these factors from world events, as they're intricately part of the last century and have set the terms for the world we live in today.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>those three factors? last hundred years? you must be kidding. tell that to the Native Americans peoples, black African slaves... this country has since day one been all about imperialism, war & genocide. and this whole peak oil BS is nothing new.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>IMO, your reactionary opposition to the issue of population management is immensely flawed, abdicating the responsibility society should have to prevent natural and more-human-directly-caused catastrophes, thereby helping to cause the eventual consequences of humanity's inability to live on earth in balance.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>really? this is classic take what im saying, and for no reason reverse it & throw it back at me.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Do you really think it is morally 'better' for the world's biggest powers to continue their resource wars, including the US's four nuclear wars since 1991, having killed, seriously injured and caused dislocation and economic indenture of many hundreds of millions of people, including the gradual radiation/heavy metal-poisoning of the entire planet as part of the oligarch's agenda to profit-from and defer the consequences of oil depletion leading to an eventual supply-demand crisis?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>what? i bet you voted.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>One thing that really strikes me is your facility to discount science and verified facts to suit your narrow conclusions, framing your criticism of Peak Oil's thesis<br>--based on empirical evidence-- on the unargued and incredibly tenuous premise of an unsupported moral superiority. Essentially, you haven't even bothered to establish let alone support a position that can be argued and defended rationally. Your 'response' to abundant cited source data from a wide range of public records including trade, industry, academic and geologic publications, is (apparently) to simply deny them as evident fabrications. As far as I can gather, your 'position' is a) Theory of Peak Oil is a fraud by oligarchs (on behalf of the corporatocracy) to legitimize high prices and greater profits. b) Peak Oil is a fraud because it is used by extremists (ie, Ruppert) to legitimize Eugenics.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>hmm, seems to me like you make big long posts and you think it proves you smart. <br><br>i never said shit about high prices. or profits. thats all illusion.<br><br>what i think, is that there is a small group of twisted fuckers who feed off fear & death & misery. psychic vampires with no honor, like i said before.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>As I've seen, your 'method' of debate is, when a) is rebutted by reasoned argument and cited evidence, you say (to paraphrase) 'the evidence is false, and anyway there's b), which is so terrible that Peak Oil MUST be false'; And when b) is pointed out as being a strawman that doesn't even bear on the data supporting Peak Oil, you simply revert to asserting your point a).</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>huh? this is just i guess where me and you have different outlooks on reality, life, the universe and such......<br><br>now that ive said that, im gonna just end my comeback...<br><br>you are posting at me with all kinds of nonsense.<br><br>the stuff you are saying im saying is either NOT what im saying, or some twisted misunderstanding...<br><br>or, quite frankily, you are doing that on purpose.<br><br>if you dont want to make clear your opinion on Mike Rupperts position....whats YOUR position?<br><br>do YOU believe in Eugenics?<br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>