# Latest **URL:** https://ff2f.discourse.group/latest.md?page=2 [Latest](https://ff2f.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://ff2f.discourse.group/categories.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [Book Review | The Oracle of Oil](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/book-review-the-oracle-of-oil/167)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/book-review-the-oracle-of-oil/167 "2017-11-10T05:51:03Z")
Living in highly technological civilizations that generally place the greatest importance and value upon the material gadgetry and inventiveness of our societies, it should come as little surprise that the luminaries and… --- ## [Note to Bernie Sanders: Something is More Than Rotten in the State of Denmark, and Peak Oil is Coming to Take it Away](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/note-to-bernie-sanders-something-is-more-than-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark-and-peak-oil-is-coming-to-take-it-away/165)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/note-to-bernie-sanders-something-is-more-than-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark-and-peak-oil-is-coming-to-take-it-away/165 "2017-11-10T05:27:09Z")
Being from an English-speaking country where books abound, I'm well aware of the likelihood that I enjoy access to more books on the topic of peak oil (and related topics) in my native language than a person of any other… --- ## [How a (False?) Flag Debate and a Rent-a-Prime-Minister Assisted New Zealand in Relinquishing its Sovereignty](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/how-a-false-flag-debate-and-a-rent-a-prime-minister-assisted-new-zealand-in-relinquishing-its-sovereignty/164)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2017, 5:02am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/how-a-false-flag-debate-and-a-rent-a-prime-minister-assisted-new-zealand-in-relinquishing-its-sovereignty/164 "2017-11-10T05:02:49Z")
The candidates in New Zealand's follow-up rent-a-Prime-Minister flag referendum Chances are that unless you live in or are from New Zealand (or perhaps Australia), that you didn't hear much, if anything, about New Zeala… --- ## [Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Forget Austerity and Grexit – it's Time for a Gretaway! \[part 3/3\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-forget-austerity-and-grexit-its-time-for-a-gretaway-part-3-3/163)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-forget-austerity-and-grexit-its-time-for-a-gretaway-part-3-3/163 "2017-11-09T22:43:03Z")
"Taaaaake myyyyyy moneeeeey! Pleeeeeease!" So here we are on this precipice of sorts, staring upon the twilight of the industrial economy due to peaking energy supplies and thus peaking credit supplies (as explained in p… --- ## [Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Crashing Oil Prices Aren't Due to an Oil Glut But to Demand Destruction and Peaking Credit \[part 2/3\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-crashing-oil-prices-arent-due-to-an-oil-glut-but-to-demand-destruction-and-peaking-credit-part-2-3/162)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-crashing-oil-prices-arent-due-to-an-oil-glut-but-to-demand-destruction-and-peaking-credit-part-2-3/162 "2017-11-09T13:28:17Z")
As I began to mention at the end of the first part of this three-parter, I've only just recently come to the conclusion that oil prices aren't going to have a tendency to rise due to the tightening of supply imposed by p… --- ## [Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Fractional-Reserve Banking, Meet Peak Oil \[part 1/3\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-fractional-reserve-banking-meet-peak-oil-part-1-3/161)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/peak-oil-ass-backwards-fractional-reserve-banking-meet-peak-oil-part-1-3/161 "2017-11-09T12:12:38Z")
If the ongoing crash of oil prices over the past year – and now the stock market crashes of last week – have continuously taught me one thing, that would be that I've got very little clue regarding the economic implicati… --- ## [How Sustainable Can Cities Be When They Can't Even Deal With Their Own Shit?](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/how-sustainable-can-cities-be-when-they-cant-even-deal-with-their-own-shit/160)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/how-sustainable-can-cities-be-when-they-cant-even-deal-with-their-own-shit/160 "2017-11-09T05:34:01Z")
Just this past week the City of Toronto was informed by the Ministry of the Environment that it must now notify the public whenever water treatment plants are bypassed and raw sewage is sent into Lake Ontario. These occu… --- ## [Confidence Scheming New York City-Styles or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Climate Change's Upcoming Floods](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/confidence-scheming-new-york-city-styles-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-climate-changes-upcoming-floods/159)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/confidence-scheming-new-york-city-styles-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-climate-changes-upcoming-floods/159 "2017-11-09T05:07:12Z")
Yeah I said it Following the Pope's climate change Encyclical by about two months, last week one of the world's most respected climate researchers, former NASA scientist James Hansen, laid down the gauntlet with 16 othe… --- ## [Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard?](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/is-democracy-hitting-the-fossil-fuels-too-hard/158)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/is-democracy-hitting-the-fossil-fuels-too-hard/158 "2017-11-09T04:59:34Z")
Stick that in your democracy and smoke it? Over the past few weeks the notion of democracy has been getting its fair share of attention in the media, and quite rightfully so; Greece had a referendum on whether or not it… --- ## [Neither Crowdfunding, Nor Oxi, Nor Anything Else Can Stave Off Greece's Systemic Collapse](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/neither-crowdfunding-nor-oxi-nor-anything-else-can-stave-off-greeces-systemic-collapse/157)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/neither-crowdfunding-nor-oxi-nor-anything-else-can-stave-off-greeces-systemic-collapse/157 "2017-11-09T04:39:07Z")
In case you missed the media hubbub, a one-week Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign was started back on June 29th with the goal of raising €1.6 billion to pay off Greece's most recent debt repayment and set it back on the ro… --- ## [Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/teaching-ourselves-out-of-the-industrial-economy/156)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/teaching-ourselves-out-of-the-industrial-economy/156 "2017-11-09T04:29:32Z")
Last week I had the fortunate opportunity to attend a fruit tree pruning workshop held at a nearby community garden. I say "fortunate" since I've only had one day of pruning experience, and because growing fruit trees is… --- ## [We Are All Now Cypriots-to-be in the New Age of Bail-Ins](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/we-are-all-now-cypriots-to-be-in-the-new-age-of-bail-ins/154)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/we-are-all-now-cypriots-to-be-in-the-new-age-of-bail-ins/154 "2017-11-09T03:33:34Z")
According to the mostly ignored and hardly covered piece of news from a couple of weeks ago, it turns out that 11 of the 28 European Union countries have been scolded by the European Commission for failing to implement a… --- ## [The Uber Disguise of Industrialism's Collapse](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-uber-disguise-of-industrialisms-collapse/153)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-uber-disguise-of-industrialisms-collapse/153 "2017-11-09T03:29:14Z")
Uber-tastic! If you're a bit more up with the times that I am then you're probably aware of Uber, the new taxi service that's apparently been gaining an increasing foothold in major cities around the world. But predomin… --- ## [The Apex of Industrialism: Manufactured Fake Shit](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-apex-of-industrialism-manufactured-fake-shit/152)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-apex-of-industrialism-manufactured-fake-shit/152 "2017-11-09T03:25:40Z")
A factory for the production of ammonia (NH3) While it would be nice to think that in times before the industrial era that farming was a wholly benevolent practice, the truth of the matter is that similar to today, agri… --- ## [To Poop or Not to Poop, That is Not a Question](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/to-poop-or-not-to-poop-that-is-not-a-question/151)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/to-poop-or-not-to-poop-that-is-not-a-question/151 "2017-11-09T03:14:51Z")
"Let's be friends!" We all poop. Peter Piper pooped, the popes all pooped, heck, even Penelope pooped. But even though poop is an undeniable fact of life – Benjamin Franklin might well have said "In this world nothing c… --- ## [Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/honeybee-collapse-is-the-result-of-their-enslavement-in-industrial-monocultures/150)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/honeybee-collapse-is-the-result-of-their-enslavement-in-industrial-monocultures/150 "2017-11-09T03:10:52Z")
As you may have noticed, last week the media was once again filled with yet another round of collapsing honeybee stories, this time the coverage being about the loss of 42.1 percent of hives in the US over the past year,… --- ## [Collapsing Down the Plum Tree](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/collapsing-down-the-plum-tree/149)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/collapsing-down-the-plum-tree/149 "2017-11-08T12:32:22Z")
Having recently started this From Filmers to Farmers blog, one which quite often brings up the topic of peak oil, I was recently confronted with a question that I had unintentionally been avoiding for some time: Do I env… --- ## [Too Much Internet Crack](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/too-much-internet-crack/148)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/too-much-internet-crack/148 "2017-11-08T12:11:33Z")
I hate to say it, but it looks like I've been degraded to having to write what might be called a filler/fluff piece. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ff2f.com/too-much-internet-cra… --- ## [Collapse Café: Age of Limits Conferences and Collapse \[part 2/2\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/collapse-cafe-age-of-limits-conferences-and-collapse-part-2-2/147)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/collapse-cafe-age-of-limits-conferences-and-collapse-part-2-2/147 "2017-11-08T11:41:33Z")
I need to add a new write-up to these two podcasts, which I'll do before the end of the year (2017). This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ff2f.com/collapse-cafe-age-of-limits-conferenc… --- ## [Don't Go With the Flow, Go With the Wax: A Take on the Flow Hive](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/dont-go-with-the-flow-go-with-the-wax-a-take-on-the-flow-hive/145)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/dont-go-with-the-flow-go-with-the-wax-a-take-on-the-flow-hive/145 "2017-11-08T11:34:42Z")
Over the past several years there's been a steadily growing awareness that a problem exists with our honeybee populations. Although not quite a household term, what has been called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has evok… --- ## [The Netflix Wall, the Netflix Fall](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-netflix-wall-the-netflix-fall/144)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/the-netflix-wall-the-netflix-fall/144 "2017-11-08T08:16:00Z")
I think that's Russian or something As far as such things go, March 24th, 2015, marked a momentous day in the annals of film & television in Kiwi land and the land Down Under. As was conveyed to me the day before the oc… --- ## [Is Greece Planning to Print Energy?](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/is-greece-planning-to-print-energy/143)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/is-greece-planning-to-print-energy/143 "2017-11-08T07:49:02Z")
Can these new Greek gods (minus the ties) conjure energy from thin air? Over the past couple of months the story keeping many people on the edge of their seats has been the ongoing dilemma of Greece's detested debt burd… --- ## [Money: The People's Proxy (for Energy)](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/money-the-peoples-proxy-for-energy/142)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/money-the-peoples-proxy-for-energy/142 "2017-11-08T07:40:40Z")
Calling it "energy" instead of "bread" probably wouldn't earn you as many cool points In my previous post I drew some parallels between energy and money – and more specifically, energy and banking – and pointed out that… --- ## [Follow the Energy to Find the Money](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/follow-the-energy-to-find-the-money/141)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/follow-the-energy-to-find-the-money/141 "2017-11-08T07:23:57Z")
Peat, an early yet minor "fossil fuel" While the phrase "follow the money" is common parlance in progressive circles these days, a more relevant line of investigation for these peak oil times of ours might be, I think, … --- ## [Timber, the Inconspicuous Welfare Queen](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/timber-the-inconspicuous-welfare-queen/139)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/timber-the-inconspicuous-welfare-queen/139 "2017-11-06T07:31:09Z")
Monster machines! A few weeks ago I had the fortunate opportunity to attend an excellent weekend bamboo course with Giant Grass on the outskirts of Melbourne. Along with a thorough overview of bamboo and its uses, a gro… --- ## [Lemminged: To be Herded off the Peak Oil Cliff by Filmmakers](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/lemminged-to-be-herded-off-the-peak-oil-cliff-by-filmmakers/137)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/lemminged-to-be-herded-off-the-peak-oil-cliff-by-filmmakers/137 "2017-11-08T06:18:55Z")
Can we escape the siren's blue light? According to an Associated Press article, Fish don't know they're living in water, nor do they stop to wonder where the water came from. Humans? Not much better, as we share a worl… --- ## [Distraction, Surveillance, Peak Oil and the End of the Internet](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/distraction-surveillance-peak-oil-and-the-end-of-the-internet/136)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/distraction-surveillance-peak-oil-and-the-end-of-the-internet/136 "2017-11-08T05:54:43Z")
What do we do when there's little left to power our computers with? Let me be upfront about one thing: I don't particularly want to be writing this blog. But as I am an unpublished writer completing his first book in th… --- ## [Will Sexist, Racist Robots and their Progressive Coders Oppress James Damore and the Rest of Us White Males Even Further?](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/will-sexist-racist-robots-and-their-progressive-coders-oppress-james-damore-and-the-rest-of-us-white-males-even-further/672)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/will-sexist-racist-robots-and-their-progressive-coders-oppress-james-damore-and-the-rest-of-us-white-males-even-further/672 "2017-10-13T01:00:00Z")
Due to my preoccupation with that excruciatingly long third Svalbard post I put up a couple of weeks ago I'm a bit late to the Google / James Damore ordeal, perhaps a bit of a blessing in disguise for Damore since this m… --- ## [Fanfare Ciocărlia, A Retrospective \[part 6/6\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/fanfare-ciocarlia-a-retrospective-part-6-6/194)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/fanfare-ciocarlia-a-retrospective-part-6-6/194 "2017-03-30T13:00:00Z")
As I stated in part 2, I'm all but certain that I discovered Taraf de Haïdouks by stealing their music in a shot-in-the-dark gesture on Hotline, something that led me to discovering Fanfare Ciocărlia in a rather roundabo… --- ## [From the Gutter of The Lounge Lizards' Confidence Schmuzic to Fanfare Ciocărlia and the Peak of Music \[part 5/6\]](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/from-the-gutter-of-the-lounge-lizards-confidence-schmuzic-to-fanfare-ciocarlia-and-the-peak-of-music-part-5-6/193)
**Author:** [@system](https://ff2f.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://ff2f.discourse.group/t/from-the-gutter-of-the-lounge-lizards-confidence-schmuzic-to-fanfare-ciocarlia-and-the-peak-of-music-part-5-6/193 "2017-03-26T13:00:00Z")
As put by Ioan Ivancea, the late patriarch of the Romanian Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia, This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ff2f.com/from-the-gutter-of-the-lounge-lizards-confi… [Previous page](https://ff2f.discourse.group/latest.md?page=1) [Next page](https://ff2f.discourse.group/latest.md?page=3)