I believe her belief was confirmed in a conversation I had over a year ago on the spacecast message boards.
I was having a jovial chat with a guy who said he was from Calgary. He jokingly said that all politicians were the same and that they were all going to hell. I said that he must have voted for Stockwell day during the last election.
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Oh man those are war words. There is no way I would ever vote for him but I am not thrilled with Jean either. All of them are pursuing their own agendas for their own aggrandizement. To think a left winger is doing it for any less of a personal reason than a right winger is naive. I've dealt with all stripes of politicians over the years and this comes from my personal experience.

What needs to happen is that the whole works need to be lined up against a wall and shot. Then we need to start over and keep doing that until it gets done right.

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The lady, (sorry I can't remember her last name) told Michael that the industrialized democracies are sliding rather quickly towards fascism.

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sliding? In Alberta Ralph Klein has begun making Canada's first Nationalsocialist Conservative state by illegaly making changes to the health care act necessitated by his meddling in the very same system to in fact ensure it's collapse.

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Nazism is usually considered as a kind of fascism, but it should be understood that Nazism sought the state's purpose in serving an ideal to valuing what its content should be: its people, race, and the social engineering of these aspects of culture to the ends of the greatest possible prosperity for them (the party not the people) at the expense of all else.

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worked completely for the betterment of the party

Made Alberta an almost "right to work" province. Something only seen so far in Southern states

Has dictated to Nurses what their contract will consist of plus removing certain pensions and refusing them the right to strike

Decided that "Easten Bastards" should freeze in the dark

Decided the homeless should just get a job

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Anybody else tried talking about this with friends & neighbours? One doesn't have to scare monger; just suggest that oil production may be peaking soon and see what kind of reactions you get.

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I spoke to my mom and sister about it. Neither of them seem to be worried. Mom did answer my Numorus questions about how prepared we are for the crunch. Our vehicle is old, we have a garden and our spending habits aren't that lavish, so we'll probably survive the initial price increases.
The problem with sites like after the oil crash.com is that they get you so upset you can't think straight. What good is a warning when you can't think of any solutions to the problem?

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Oh, oh...looks like only China and the US are going to have oil.

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We are going to attack China!?

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I think it is necessary now for the goverment to do an assessment of what is left. It is impossible to believe reserve figures given by private enterprise for the simple reason that there is no incentive for them to provide an accurate accounting.

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There is a lot one can do. Pay off debts, use energy efficiency to decrease your demand on the system, and use energy conservation if that's not enough. There's a fellow in eastern Ontario that has a 3000 sq.ft house, high efficiency appliances (everything - DVD, home theatre, hot tub, the whole bit), and practices no conservation. He generates his own electricity, and would use the equivelent of $18 of electricity per month. Consider what you pay per month. The difference is what energy inefficiency is costing you.

Educate yourself, and make appropriate changes for yourself, and you'll weather things better than everyone else.

"The future is simple, says Amory Lovins. The future is nonpolluting, inexhaustible, nontoxic, and so basic that even a liberal arts major can understand its chemical structure.

The future is hydrogen: H, one proton, one electron. The first, lightest, and most common element in the universe.

The stuff that turns oil into margarine. The stuff that made the Hindenburg float. The stuff that combines with oxygen to make water and with carbon to make methane. The stuff that sends the space shuttle skyward and could someday power your car, office building, house, cell phone, even your hearing aid.

The simple answer to Peak Oil is that virtually "free" energy from 1900 to the present day, has allowed the world's population to just about quadruple. So it would make "sense" to conjecture that, when our "free" energy is no longer free, we will experience a rapid decrease in population. And as we fight over the scraps of energy that are left, democrcies will go the way of the dodo.