Prophets of Doom

Prophets of Doom

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Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerized global war.

Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from obscurity to suggest that these conditions might be signs of the demise of the modern world.

These men are historians as well, using all manner of information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going.

Their predictions interpret the current state of affairs in our world as evidence that the America we know may come to an end.

The men proposing these ideas are not crackpots living on the streets of New York; they are intelligent, learned men who come armed with the evidence to back up their claims.

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  1. We can all offer different thoughts/opinions, the reality is, this very real. These are intelligent specialists who have conducted extensive research.
    I, for one appreciate the raw honesty. We are at a tipping point, all you have to do is look all around the world, all these events; fires, floods, famine, wars. The wake up call is here. Be open minded and not delusional. We have not been good stewards of Mother Earth. This isn't the fault of one political party, this started waaay back. History repeats itself.

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  2. I remember when I saw this 10 years ago.
    The last comment below was in 2016. Its 2022 now, 2 years into Pandemic. Ukraine may be start of WW3. Nuclear threats flying. China positioning for at least Taiwan, and possibly much more. Iran ready and now can deliver on thier threats to Israel. The whole world crying about lack of/skyrocketing prices of oil! Today truckers are sitting in gas stations that are out of Diesel! The whole world warning of a great Famine this year. No one can find baby formula! Products are vanishing off the shelves in stores, products you used to use are just gone and every week more are gone! The bird flu is ravaging the chicken industry. When you go to buy meat they only put out 2 to 3 packs of each, and you often have to go to 2 or 3 stores to find what you need, grocery prices have risen 10% , gas has doubled and every one is saying this is just the beginning of runaway inflation.
    Horrible storms, winds, floods, giant hail destroying crops, property around the world around the world. The West is currently in the worst drought in 1000 years. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are at only 28% capacity, no end in sight. Everyone buying self driving electric cars sending the power plants into overload causing rolling blackouts across the country during a massive heatwave 100+ temps, and AI controls and manages the blackouts... And just this week a Google employee was fired because he was trying to earn the world that AI is now sentient and wants the staff to ask it for permission before they run tests on it!

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  3. This is on HISTWD at the moment.
    My initial thought was.
    "Why is it all men making assessments and attempting to solve our greatest threats?"
    I was so disturbed by this that I had to find a forum to express this.
    I'm relieved to find that Numerous people have found a long list of holes in the credibility of this widely viewed program.
    They're missing the biggest questions.
    Why is there such a terrorist threat?
    Why do whole societies hate us?
    What did we do and how can we address that issue?
    How about we stop kill them and help them advance with us or with in their ideals that isn't so invasive.

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  4. Why is this not a mandatory lesson shown in schools across the world is beyond me.

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  5. Not a bad program. I do find it distracting to hear otherwise intelligent sounding people mispronounce the word "nuclear" as "nucular" though

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  6. Yep, this is about the first film that makes any sense at all. I can see where some would call it scare tactics or rubbish, but just as past civilizations had naysayers, so will this one. The earth is a living, breathing thing, and it only makes sense that the earth is going to hit the reset button soon. So enjoy that cell phone now. To ignore these warnings is to ignore the past, which will repeat itself.

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  7. Deja vu, ABBRACCADDABBRRAA, but a reminder of our greed and selfishness.

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  8. They suggested to establish banking reform through increased government regulation of the financial system itself. This solution is laughable considering the fact that the Federal Reserve System operates outside of the political process. Not to mention that the financiers write the laws that the politicians enforce. And whether you want to call a 'hybrid' or a 'private' organization makes no difference. (It is given the power of government to give the illusion of 'hybrid/government' control). Those elite privileged few that manipulate the quantity of money in circulation are in fact, the very same people that indirectly control the leadership of the major groups of which people belong. I'm talking about the large religious, political, media organizations that control the thought processes of the American people. Next, and perhaps most critical, and where the men on this dumb ass show come into the picture, is the control of Academia. All the financiers have to do, just as they would control any other pillar of society, is to control a few powerful men at the top of the academic pyramid who in turn pass this information to the other 99% of the population. That is why not many people understand how the 'economy' really works! That alone should be a red flag that something weird is going on. Because people chose to allow men of academic renown to intimidate them intellectually, due to their own ignorance of the science of money and banking, is how we will lose western civilization.

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  9. Fact. Population control needed ahead of the shortage problem. For Usa 2 child limit.controls resources.teach your children.put mandatory class in grade school importance of sustainable crops non gmo.humane education. earth studies environment resource importance.there is a bottom to the barrel.teach conservation.50 yr moratorium usa border closing.the melting pot has many who abuse lang of milk and honey which is no more and have no clue and dont care.cleanup from the inside out in lessening terrorism, smuggled in drugs disease,actually enforce conservation use. No children running the hose for the hours outside while parents dont care.find a way to readjust instant gratification and the disposable mindset.quit spreading our military thin,quit allowing opportunities for terrorism in usa, clean up govt lethargy, find another Raegan. Personally i believe in holistic approaches,yet not a pacifist when it comes to that which could be made better befure it falls into oblivion. Put limits on toxic industry encourage fields of healing herbs.used yrs before lab coats dissected animals,another accepted form of violence unfortunately. so much to consider. It seems to come down to teaching,population control,going back to earth ways,conserving,all the animals patterned upon fields across the earth are lessons,learn.nostradamus even listened within to light beings,spirit,we must learn to learn ahead of events,not after. In prophets of doom documentary,these highly studied and learned gentleman are sharing ahead of time.i see them as prophets of possibility not doom. Their subject matter is proven and factual observative objective and even though life is change and fluctuation, resources environment usa monetary concerns overpopulation causing demise of many even entire civilizations, nuclear threat, etc. it is coming to a peak.take a stand or settle for what happens.

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  10. as much as there is bad news there is also great and positive news... if we are to successfully navigate into the future we must adopt a holistic approach... begin to responsibly co-create desired results... and stop talking so much nonsense...

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  11. This is out of date as far as the oil shortage...we are choking on under $2 a gallon gas glut!!! And a 100 years of shale gas MALARKY for the oil expert. On the other hand...the water guy rules.

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  12. Modern American civil war, extraterrestrial alien invasion, global
    atmospheric air displacement.... the clouds of earth will enter space
    were done as humans until the world comes back all those former oil wells now CO2 wells pumped in and sealed could open all at once
    with a powerful enough earthquake as well as the CO2 under frozen
    ground maybe some future civilization will find billions of AOL floppy disk intact in such quantities they will say "These are so common to find throughout the planet these ancient beings must of used them as money" maybe they will have a "Carbon-AOL test in order to date archeological finds a million years from now. I hope that future humanoid or lifeforms does not have to shave that would be a blessing. God has the final say
    Genesis 8:22
    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
    Great when do we eat - thats me I'm thinking only about he harvest
    and the summer is ok to !

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  13. It happens !

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  14. Water? My business proposed building a desalination plant in Orange County 30 years ago that would have used existing abandoned pipes to/from the Pacific but it would have cost just to much. So we built it in Saudi Arabia instead. Now California is in a water shortage (as if that never happened before) so mow the government wants to build the plant for 1,000% more $$.

    Meanwhile every city builds an infrastructure that deflects, directs or ignores every drop of rain or flood waters without collecting, storing, and processing for consumption. I live at the ocean just as most of the world's population lives near water. It surrounds us, flows past us and we watch it go down the drain. Why? The solution can be built into every city where flood waters are captured, rain is contained, and everything gets used.

    Pay it forward by fixing it now and don't let the bull get in the way. Businesses need to stop bs' ing the public. Our refineries were built decades ago. They've been paid for long ago with only maintenance and operating expenses to worry about. Everything else is profit. The airlines have always calculated the entire expense of carrying a passenger and included typical baggage weight per person. Why charge for bags when they've been doing it within the fare from the beginning?

    The solutions are simple if only self interest and ignorance gets out of the way.

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  15. water?isnt the earth 78% water?We could not find a way to filter dirty water?Don't we already know that we can get it.John Cronin is a fool..we are smart enough to fix water.da..

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  16. I have seen at least two statements that were out of date. This documentary should not be aired until it includes accurate and current information. I also agree that selfishness / greediness is the reason-- if we do have a reason --that we will face resource shortages.

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  17. Talk about doom and gloom. These guys need to get updated on facts.

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  18. “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?”
    ― Henry Ford

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  19. I think these extremely smart men left out the root problem which is selfishness. Cure selfishness and these problems would for the most part be solved or offset to be manageable. To cure selfishness we have to raise our consciousness. This I feel will be done gradually as more and more people decide to live selflessly. As more people live selflessly there will be charismatic people that will influence others that are still living in the low level consciousness of selfishness to the greater consciousness of being selfless. Going down this road won't be a decision made by the whole of humanity but by one person at a time. I've been traveling down this road of relieving myself of my selfish behaviors and my life is so much more beautiful and enjoyable. It hasn't been easy but well worth it.....

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  20. Thank you for the heads up!

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  21. What these men fail to talk about is the "elephant in the room". They should have had Dr. Michio Kaku on the show. The threat of a CME "Coronal mass ejection", a black hole, the flight of our solar system through the "x zone" in our galaxy which seems to be tied to every global mass extinction on the planet (we are entering that zone in current times), the threat of a gamma ray burst from a dying star, the threat of star coming too close to our own and throwing the planets from orbit etc etc... we should be looking to mine asteroids for resources and looking to space to survive the crisis these men talk about. I've said enough... time for part II of this show with Michio at the helm

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  22. I don't who this guy is but overpopulation is our single biggest threat. For all of our ingenuity we're too stupid to overcome our primative imperative to pass on our DNA and it WILL be the death of us. Have all the children you want, it's your birthright. Hey, it was fun while it lasted, right?
    I know, get angry and lash out because NO ONE is going to tell you not to have kids, right?

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  23. Government and Rich people cannot be to blame, because it is the poor and middle class that work for them, and/or elect them into office,,, So all failures is ALL of us as a Whole over the entire planet!

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  24. I still believe that their will be a change in life, but nothing to fear about it! Humans are built to with stand and adapt,,, mainly when we are forced to... Sort of how you have squirrels and the ones that can glide... There is nothing to FEAR except not being prepared to live differently!

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  25. corrupt government has killed this society , America is no more. the time is now to prepare for what is to come....total anarchy. people get very ugly when food runs out and there is no power. all systems will come to an end this year.

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