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Synopsis: A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Chris Smith
Production: Vitagraph Films
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
UNRATED
Year:
2009
82 min
Website
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has passed its peak and is in decline,

the whole planet is, just because of

the size of the reserves that are there.

Iraq is oil that's not only accessible,

it's right close to the Persian Gulf,

which means it's a short distance to ships.

They can put the pipelines,

they can get that into the global supply stream.

As everything else declines.

And Iraq was all about the oil. You know,

a lot of people have admitted that and like 'duh'.

Eleven days after 9/11,

when there was no clear evidence that

Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11,

of course he didn't,

that the plans were started to invade Iraq.

Of course!

That was the objective.

Get control of that oil.

Because Saddam Hussein had been talking about

pricing his oil in Euros, taking it away from the dollar.

We got in there, we restructured everything,

we put in a friendly government,

using the US dollar,

and we assured the oil companies their quote on quote

fair access and fair share of Iraqi oil.

We have no intention of leaving Iraq.

We're never gonna leave Iraq.

Going back to 2004, we started building the largest,

most permanent military bases, three of them, in the world,

plus the largest embassy compound

that's ever been built.

We built an embassy compound in Bagdad

that's bigger than Vatican City.

That's not a temporary deal.

Nobody's gonna take that oil,

we're sitting on it.

But there's not enough oil in Iraq

to change anything.

But Iraq probably has around

That sounds like a lot of oil.

But when you consider that in 2008,

the world was consuming 85 million in barrels a day,

that means a billion barrels of oil only lasts

for about 11 and a half days.

So that ain't that much oil.

They knew exactly what was coming.

That's what's in the National Energy

Policy Development Group report

that's been classified, because

if that report got declassified,

we would be building scaffolds to hang

Dick Cheney and everbody

in that administration tomorrow.

Let's assume just for the sake of discussion

that there's 600 billion barrels in the arctic.

First of all, it happens to be under the polar ice cap.

That's a problem.

The polar ice cap happens to be on,

what, 10,000 - 15,000 feet of water.

The problem with the polar ice cap is,

it floats, it moves.

So you can't drill a well on tuesday.

and expect it to be in the same place on thursday.

That's why a lot of conservative

think tanks and oil companies,

are cheering the melting of the polar ice caps.

If there is oil in A.N.W.R.,

there's no more

than about a six month supply

for the entire United States.

There are no pipelines across the thousand miles

of tundra that's melting

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Michael Ruppert

Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and peak oil awareness advocate known for his 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.From 1999 until 2006, Ruppert edited and published From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and the nature of the 9/11 conspiracy. It attracted 22,000 subscribers.Ruppert was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse, which was based on his book A Presidential Energy Policy and received The New York Times' "critics pick". He served as president of Collapse Network, Inc. from early 2010 until he resigned in May 2012. He also hosted The Lifeboat Hour on Progressive Radio Network until his death in 2014.In 2014, Vice featured Ruppert in a 6-part series titled Apocalypse, Man, and a tribute album, Beyond the Rubicon was released by the band New White Trash, of which he had been a member. more…

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