COLIN CAMPBELL "LETS THE MATTER REST" One of the key assumptions of peak oil "die-off" theory is that there are too many people. Oil has allowed human population to balloon, and overshoot the carrying capacity of the earth. Therefore when oil production begins its steady decline, billions of people will have to die to bring humankind back into balance with nature. A
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One of the best, and earliest warnings about the Oily Peakers back in 2003, from the late Green activist Walter Contreras Sheasby. excerpt: "Support for a remedial program of oil exploration and development versus switching to research and development of alternative energy sources tends to be found among oil experts who are consultants to the industry. While accepting some of t
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Quotemargarets It's tough to find a spokesperson who will appeal to everyone. Sometimes you have to go with what you've got. I think you can do better than that, Margaret. Nice try, though.
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Also, one last question, Rob, and it is an important one: Where did the money come from? Are your books open and transparent? As someone who has been active in various left/eco groups over the years, I'm well aware of how tough funding can be, how difficult it can be to create and sustain mass organizations (that aren't thoroughly coopted and funded by groups like Ford Foundation, M
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" I haven't read any other threads on this forum, but if this is the quality of the debates here, something tells me I haven't missed a great deal. -Nice, start with a blast at the forum itself. * There are no links between Transition and the Steiner schools movement. There may be some people who are involved with Steiner schools who get involved with Transition and vice
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Please read this thread, it is about Transition Towns, and their possible Waldorf influence. Lots of good Waldorf info.
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I apologize for not replying sooner, Margaret, somehow I missed your posts on the board. "Not Heinberg. I had heard of it before Heinberg wrote his books. There are many other books on this subject written by scientists of various stripes. Heinberg is a latecomer." -I'm aware of Hubbert. However, he is not the main public face of "Peak Oil". Heinberg is. And he
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Hi, "Out of Transition", Out of curiosity, who is the "channeler who brought Transition to the US"? Is it Jennifer (aka Raven) Gray?
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"So...let me hand the football to a member of the team.Could someone check the the energy bulletin site?" -I can take that handoff. As I suspected, the PostCarbon Institute includes oil experts like... Rob Hopkins! And Richard Heinberg! Getting the pattern here yet? I didn't look at EVERY bio on the fellows page, but I can make this general assesment. Seems to fall into two
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"His doctorate wasn't ON Heinberg." -No, but his work was clearly part of Hopkins PhD. In fact, from the thing you sent, it looks like it was the main part. So I'll rephrase "his doctorate was ON Heinberg's work". "No - that's not what TT is about. If you look at each TT group on an individual basis, they all have different plans, based on lo
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Thanks for info, Hope, I appreciate it. So Hopkins has a PhD. Or at least worked on one. Did he ever finish? The fact that his doctorate was on an idiot like Heinberg makes me wonder what his advisors thought. "My note - TT is more about adjusting behaviors in order to effect change. " My guess is that is true. But it may be an effort to adjust behaviors so that people are so foc
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More on Heinberg, particularly his fascist associations in Russia. This is all very strange stuff, but, hey, Nazi/Indo-Aryan philosophy is INHERENTLY strange stuff! This whole thread can be found here and should be read by ANYBODY skeptical of Richard Heinberg and the Oily Peakers in general. Heinberg is fascinated by "shambala", the lost tibetan world that obsessed the Nazi
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One other thing to point out about Heinberg's CV on wikipedia. "In February 2007 Heinberg addressed the Trade Committee of the European Parliament and served as an advisor to the National Petroleum Council in its report to the U.S. Secretary of Energy on Peak Oil." An advisor to the National Petroleum Council? The group that represents the OIL INDUSTRY in its interaction
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(continuing with Heinberg) So, looking further at Heinberg's CV, we find that his main experience as an academic was several years at the "New College of California" diploma mill. Let us check out the academic status of that FINE institution, shall we? First off, note that not being approved and certified by WASC pretty much means you're not really a school. Also, I sh
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GREAT thread here! Had heard about this movement and had some suspicions but didn't really know much until now. Some things to consider... Rob Hopkins appears to be basing his whole schtick on the "Peak Oil" movement that popped up a few years back. Now I'm not arguing that "oil replenishes itself" or even arguing against "peak oil". I'm agnostic o
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QuotecorboyOne has to wonder whether the age of Aquarius/apocalptic beliefs of the group are stated, up front and plainly, at the newcomer events, coffee houses and lectures. Insane Nazi cult, stay far, far away. Here is the real scoop on them from a former member, and longtime Massimo Introvigne enemy and exposer...
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"Regarding Castaneda's teaching about the leap into space in order to find out if you can fly-- to a rational person, reading a book in his armchair, this is a metaphor and a spur to break free from habitual thought patterns." -While I would agree with most of your post, I can't agree with this. MOST Castaneda readers did not view this as "metaphor" but truly beli
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"The Order of the Black Tower", eh? That can't be good...
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"That is what I was wondering about with asking what it is like at MacArthur's church. That is exactly what I wanted to know- is this the effect his teaching has on the people in his congregation? I know just what you are saying by that but I wouldn't have thought of the words for it. You hit the nail on the head there.But I do want to just make sure I understand you right (even th
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Among those present at the meetings, said Fetters, were current Deputy Chiefs Glenn Levant and Bernard Parks and former Assistant Chief Jesse Brewer, all of whom filed declarations last week saying that Vernon had injected his religious views into Police Department business. Levant, Parks and Assistant Chief David Dotson, who last week filed a declaration claiming Vernon had favored fundam
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" If a strong, disproportionate focus on the offering was a consistent attitude from the pulpit that would be a problem, especially if it was accompanied by a condemning attitude for failing to give sufficiently. " -It was a consistent attitude. " But if he was just saying that because it was the point in the service where the offering was taken and it is A good reason we
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Uh, Rick, maybe it's time for the old "Cultnews forum is not for proselytizing, etc." message for Mr. Braveheart?
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Grew up going to this church. I support you "isitacult". I don't really care about McArthur's theology, other than to say that it was mostly radical right-wing nutjob stuff. McArthur's theology is green. Money, moolah, benjamins. Still remember these almost exact words from the last time I attended a service. "It's so wonderful to be here today... to
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"but there is no real cult to fall into anymore, only culty thinking and the small time culty groups that are anchored by some of YB's former echelon." -That's good to hear. Are the mafia types, as you call them, still running the boiler room type scams? The worst one I remember was where they were calling people in Canada, telling them they won the Canadian lottery, but th
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OK, something very troubling is going on here. That puff piece from James Arthur Ray's attorneys has been used to replace a PREVIOUS critical article on Ray. The original article is rapidly disappearing from the Web, probably due to threats from Ray's attorneys. In fact, while trying to find the original article (which I noticed had disappeared from one of my tabs and which I was unable
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Sigh, I'lll guess I'll have to take this one on as nobody else seems interested. 3HO is a cult. And a particularly nasty, powerful, and well-connected one. Good place to start: Rick's page of multiple links about the dark side of 3HO. http://www.culteducation.com/groups/3ho.html#A%20Special%20Report fun facts: -YB got his start as a customs official at the New Delhi
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Anyone have info about "Mercury Aviation, LLC", Bill Harris' supposed airplane business? The only mention I find online is in his own bios.
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Quotecorboyhttp://www.bigmind.org/AdvisoryBoard.html Read the names. Those are some fishy folks indeed. David Deida and Ken Wilber are no strangers to this board. Oh, man. Yeah, I had a feeling that Roshi Glassman was going to pop up in this story at some point. As soon as I heard about James Arthur Ray and his "homeless for a day" program, I had a suspicion this might connect to
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QuoteThe AnticultA new participant report on the Byron Katie LGAT seminar Is it just me or do you wish we had the ability to change the name of this thread? Just to see "legit" and a "?" anywhere near Katie or Tolle's name is just too much of a gray area. No big deal, but I guess it just drives me nuts to see a sentence that implies any doubt whatsoever that Katie or T
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"Lakota Nation files lawsuit against parties in sweat lodge incident " -While I support Native attempts to reclaim their sweat lodges, beware of the Lakota! They are not representative of most Natives and are actively plotting to break apart the US. They are working with foreign powers through an organization called the UNPO. Strangely, Sarah Palin's pals in the Alaskan Independ
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