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Uhm, so when you plant a crop now,

what happens, is you drive an oil-powered machine,

It drives along and it plows.

Then you drive another oil-powered machine,

and it drives along and it plants.

And then you irrigate.

Well, how do you irrigate? Well...

That water is pumped by pumps

that are powered by electricity.

Where does that electricity come from?

In the US, it's either coal or natural gas.

So, next thing you do, is come along in your fertilizer.

All commercial fertilizers are made from ammonia,

and the feedstock for ammonia

is natural gas.

So you have ammoniumnitrate fertilizers that are then

sprayed on by another oil-powered vehicle,

Then the cropdusters come along

that are powered by oil,

that spray pesticides

that are all made from petroleum.

Then, when it's time to harvest the food,

what do you do, you drive another oil-powered machine,

and you harvest it.

You use another oil-powered machine

to drive it to a place where it's processed.

Ahem, then you wrap it up in plastic,

which is oil, and you put it in another

oil-powered machine and you drive it

x-number of miles to a

food distribution warehouse,

the oil-powered machine to your supermarket.

The way food is grown, produced and moved

around the world today, it's an enormous

waste of hydrocarbon energy,

which doesn't make sense.

Why do we have strawberries from Chili,

why do we have spinach from China,

why do we ship anchovies

halfway around the world to be

packaged in tin cans

and, you know.

There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy

in every

calory of food consumed

in the industrialized world.

Three times in my life

I tried to

walk away from, forget about

the things that I had seen,

that were so...

out of whack.

That were so crazy, that were so wrong.

You know, and that's what many people urged me to do,

but what inevitably happened every time I tried to

walk away from this path that I've walked,

was that everything else in my life would be

taken away from me, so this path was

the only thing left. I had no other choice.

And uhm, yeah, anger and resentment

do build up when you see

and document as much corruption,

as much dishonesty, as much illigality,

as much murder, as much betrayal

as I have from people who

pretend to be otherwise.

And I reached a point, it was about 1993,

when I first became involved and learned of the murder

of marine Colonel Jim Sabow

at El Toro marine airstation.

He was the chief of air ops and he had caught CIA

C-130's flying two and three thousand kilos of cocaine.

onto his base and he was suicided.

Uhm, I crossed my own Rubicon at that point,

there was no turning back for me.

And I knew that wherever this path

was gonna go, I had to follow it.

In the eighties, because I had some skill

as a writer, I started freelance writing.

I got published a few times.

I realized that I could be a writer.

I wrote about 109 mysterious deaths

or suicides in the US military,

in a very short period of time

and I found that most of those were

connected to covert operations

in one way or another.

The next real revolution came in 1996

after my confrontation with CIA director

John Deutch at Locke highschool,

you know, and I remember saying up something like

I am a former Los Angeles Police

Narcotics detective.

I worked in South-Central Los Angeles

and I can tell you, director Deutch,

emphatically and without equivocation,

that the Agency has dealt drugs

in this country for a long time.

And the room exploded.

I had been saying that CIA was dealing

drugs for 18 years. I mean,

I'd been shot at for, I'd been forced

out of LAPD, I'd been trashed, I'd been called crazy.

If, in the course of the IG's investigations,

in Fred Hitz's work,

you come across evidence of severely

criminal activity, will you tell

the American people the truth?

We will bring the people to justice

and make them accountable.

Like so often, when they promise justice,

there isn't any. It was widdled and tweeted down

There were some very mysterious deaths involved.

Congressman Julian Dixon

was at that meeting,

had a very sudden heart attack,

which led to the publishing of the first issue

of my first newsletter in may of 1998,

From the Wilderness.

I sat down, wrote a few pages out,

I mailed it to 68 names,

and over the next eight and a half years,

From the Wilderness grew to have,

as many as 60 members of congress

as subscribers,

professors at universities around the world,

government officials.

One of my first exposs after CIA and drugs,

was that I proved CNN was absolutely lying

in something called the Tailwind scandal

of 1998,

where CNN had correctly reported,

their producer April Oliver had reported that

CIA had used sarin gas in Laos

during the Vietnam War,

and Henry Kissinger authorized it.

... were different A1 pilots,

who brought the gas.

In spite of what the Pentagon said...

CNN rolled over, Henry Kissinger called,

Olliver was fired.

Patt Tillman series that I broke

in my newsletter, all seven parts,

that was what broke the Patt Tillman Expos,

that brought down nine officers, got them disciplined.

... Patt Tillman, the governement violated

its most basic responsibility.

But my economic predictions then...

uhm, we had it so right.

... problems are sevenfold behind the economic

crash that is coming, that will be nothing

like we have ever seen before.

In, uhm, 2006,

we said get out of debt right now.

Check your mortgage carefully,

especially if you have an ARM,

Get into gold, reduce debt as much as possible,

stay away from any kind of financing,

and heavy credit card.

We issued a whole series of warnings.

... How many people have ever heard of the fact

that they're trading at mortgage backed securities?

Like mutual funds, but it's all mortgages?

Those books are as cooked

as the books on Enron!

But it was like 11, 12 days after we issued that

economic alert in the middle of running the Tillman series,

that our offices were burglarized,

all seven computers smashed.

Uhm, and a whole chain of events

that took place up there which was...

... which actually worked out ok,

because I needed to evolve,

and I have since then.

There was a period after so many years

of deliberate attempts to sabotage my operations,

four of which we connected

in one way or another to the FBI...

I published that I had retired.

I said officially that I had retired.

What I had... And at that point, given the way

I felt, that was a pretty honest statement.

I didn't know that I would bounce back, or that

there was a third or a fourth wind to come inside of me,

but that also is the image that I wanted out there,

just to take the heat off me,

at least until Bush and Cheney got out of the White House,

because that's where the heat was coming from.

From them personally, I mean, from their administration,

from the people that ran the CIA, that ran the FBI,

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