Collapse

Went to the showing of Mike Ruppert's Collapse at the Green Mountain Film Festival last night in Montpelier. Very good crowd. 100-150 for a film that was announced late. The crowd was mesmerized by the film and most stayed for the Q & A. The moderators were not real well informed and started out by being critical of the doom and gloom no way out theme in the movie. I pointed out that Ruppert devotes half of his book to solutions. The people in attendance all seemed like folks that may have both a garden and a gun, two things necessary for survival in the post peak oil world. Optimism continues to pour forth wherever I go and it bothers me that few people point out that our failed policies have been the cause of our fiscal and ecological collapse. We have no lack of money to solve these problems. we have a lack of leadership. Until someone in power in the state of Vermont denounces the war on terror and the war on drugs we will continue to live the destructive lies that have created these situations. One and one half billion dollars of Vermonters tax dollars are being used each year to fight wars for oil and opium. These wars do nothing to protect Vermonters. Corporate Entities are the sole beneficiaries of these invasions. The Defense industry profits from the slaughter in the Middle East and Big Pharma profits from the 350,000 permanently disabled U.S. soldiers. The state of Vermont is a big loser in this game. We need to refuse participation in both these fraudulent wars and use the 1.5 billion for health care, clean energy, education, and other things that are a benefit to the citizens of our state.