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You know... There's been a lot of talk
about Abraham Lincoln.
But the president we need today
is not Abraham Lincoln.
The president we need today
is Thomas Jefferson.
He said that we needed a revolution
every generation.
Thomas Jefferson said you have to be ready in order to
preserve the vitality of your liberty and your freedom,
to defend it, nothing by overthrowing anything else
except for what you've been holding in your head,
that may not be applicable anymore.
We've gotten very lazy, where many generations
are overdue for revolution, and are thinking.
I'm not talking about blood and violence,
although I'm afraid that's already happening.
I'm talking about a revolution that's
probably the hardest kind.
The kind that takes place in the human soul,
in the human mind.
To be able to tear everything down,
throw everything out, and start with
a completely fresh paper and say...
okay, how do we solve this problem?
Uhm, can you talk to me a little bit-
Who-who are you?
Listen, this is not a plan that would
make sense to anybody except God.
You know, I gave up trying to figure
that out a long time ago.
I was born into a family deeply connected to
the US intelligence community.
My mother had been a cryptanalyst at the
in World War II.
Her work product went to
president Roosevelt,
and to the secretary of war, Stimson,
and Cordell Hull, secretary of state.
My father was an airforce aviator who went to work for
contracts for the CIA and the airforce,
namely the Titan III-c, which put up the
CIA's keyhole spy satellite.
Uhm, at age 19,
when I was interning for LAPD,
I was pulled into the chief's office, because
somebody discovered I had a cue clearance.
I didn't know anything about it.
I went home and asked dad,
and he said, yeah, because you're my son
and they have to do that,
because I might leave my briefcase open.
But a cue was a secret, compartimentalized
clearance above top secret.
I went through UCLA as a republican,
who didn't like anything about the war in Vietnam,
who didn't like, uhm,
anything about government with this naive belief that you
can get inside the system and change it from the inside.
Worked in South Central, Los Angeles,
in the Jungle, and the CIA tried,
unofficially, to recruit me into an operation where
they were smuggling drugs into the country,
back in 1976, 1977.
And I wouldn't get involved in that.
You know, I thought, geez, this must be
an isolated incident of corruption.
This must be something that everybody's
gonna wanna try to correct right away.
And of course that was a mistake.
Basically, my life desintegrated because
I was betrayed by a woman who worked for CIA,
who was my fiance. And when I said I wouldn't
get involved in drugs, she disappeared,
and people started shooting at me.
And then, it was a matter of saving my life.
The tools which I acquired to save my life then,
which were, you know, writing letters to congressmen,
getting on the record,
trying to get newspaper stories written,
those were survival skills, but it was
also a part of learning how things worked.
I was a map maker, if you will, a cartographer.
Going out to try and map how
as opposed to the way we were told it worked.
And the map that we had made,
has proved so startlingly accurate over 10 years,
whether they had to do with gold prices,
or geopolitical developments,
or economic events.
The only thing that amazes me, is the speed
with which things are falling apart.
And that message now is the single
most important thing in my life.
It's the only thing in my life. Well, except for
rock and roll music, good music,
playing with my dog,
and long walks on the beach.
Rex, come here.
I first became focused on energy issues in late 2001.
Uhm, just at maybe a month or two after 9/11.
I was contacted by a geologist,
a brilliant guy named
Dale Allen Pfeiffer,
who introduced me to the concept of peak oil,
and the basic issues about energy, and helped me
to realize that there was a great deal of evidence
in 2001, not only that peak oil was very real,
but that government agencies were acting
and responding as if it was very real.
All plastic is oil. Most paints,
all pesticides are made from oil.
Everything from toothpaste, to toothbrushes,
is made from oil.
There are seven gallons of oil in every tire.
There is nothing anywhere,
in any combination that will replace
the edifice built by fossil fuels.
Nothing.
Peak oil is probably now very easy to explain.
Much easier than it was a long time ago.
People have felt what 147 dollar
Essentially, peak oil is like
if you know what a Bell curve is,
goes up, comes down.
Peak oil is the point of oil production when
you're at the top of the Bell curve.
And essentially, what that means,
is you've used up half of the resource.
Uhm, but in the case of oil, or any other substance
like that, no matter how much money you throw at it,
you're never gonna be able to increase
oil production above where it was at peak.
As of 2008, the international energy agency
has admitted that there is a global 9%
decline rate in oil production.
That's the equivalent of about 8 million barrels a day.
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