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by Daniel Tencer
Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments, says a secret Germany military report that was leaked online.
The sun sets over an oil platform waiting to be towed out into the Gulf of Mexico at Port Fourchon in Louisiana in May. According to Der Spiegel, the report from a think-tank inside the German military warns that shrinking global oil supplies will threaten the world's economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval within the next 15 to 30 years. (AFP/File/Mark Ralston)