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totoneila on April 30, 2006 - 3:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello IndyDoug,

Peakoil will Milgov & MSM forcibly shoved down everyone's throat until we are 24/7 choking on it when TPTB declare martial law and reinstall the Draft.  Until then, unless the general public quickly overcomes denial [not likely], we are headed to the '3 Days of the Condor' scenario and the 'Nuke their Ass--I want Gas' mindset.  Mark my words.

From AngryChimp's post at the Yahoo energy forum, AlasBabylon:

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http://tinyurl.com/poca3

Source (html):
http://tinyurl.com/lp2bf

 What does America prefer?

"Nuke their Ass--I want Gas"        HUMMER bumper-sticker

or "No Thanks--I like Empty Tanks"  bicycle bumper-sticker

From the movie,"3 Days of the Condor":
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[Turner]: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

[Higgins]: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15 years-- food, plutonium, and maybe even sooner. What do you think the people are going to want us to do then?

[Turner]: Ask them.

[Higgins]: Now now. Then. Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. Want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. THEY'LL WANT US TO GET IT FOR THEM.
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"We see the rising floodwaters, secretly working to make the others drown first".

I would hope we prefer Voluntary Population Control & Powerdown instead.

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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fleam on April 30, 2006 - 5:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I have got to see that movie. All I know about it is, it was Kevin Mitnick's favorite movie when he was hacking, hence his hacker name, "Condor".
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Donal on April 30, 2006 - 6:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It was a good movie, but it is funny that the book was Six Days of the Condor.
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AngryChimp on April 30, 2006 - 6:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This has more "impact"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUz_JHeM59M

==AC

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totoneila on April 30, 2006 - 7:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Big Thanks for posting this, AC--I am glad you are more computer savvy than I am.  Seeing this film segment scares the Hell out of me because it was made so long ago, yet seems to exactly predict what lies ahead as we go postPeak!

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Alaskan Pete on April 30, 2006 - 8:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Bob, you want prescient and scary, watch the opening 5 minutes of "The Road Warrior"...the old second part installment of the Mel Gibson "Mad Max" trilogy. It starts with newsreel style clips of the fall of civilization/global war as oil supplies dry up. Great film too, if you enjoy action movies.
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pstarr on May 1, 2006 - 12:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
As i recall the very next scene has the protanganist, (notice I don't call him the "hero") a young mel gibson, fighting and killing for a rusty hubcap's worth of gasoline. very prophetic. The entire movie concerns a oil-tanker load of  . . . sand
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