I personally follow Billy Bob Thornton's dietary program, and only consume orange food.

Thanks for the post. I was first introduced to this 2012 stuff years ago when I was reading a lot of 'psychedelic philosophy'--I really enjoyed Terence McKenna's take on the whole thing. I sort of forgot about it for a few years, and have now noticed the date popping up in mainstream culture here and there. I found it extremely disappointing that the popular take on 2012 was no different than a Christian apocalypse, just sort of jazzed up for young secular stoners. McKenna's vision seemed a little more like what you've referenced above; Terence called it a singularity through which humanity will pass, emerging on the other side as something...different--a significant alteration of consciousness, rather than some rapturous physical holocaust.
Supposedly time would speed up as we approached the date, as the future fires more and more bits of itself into the past. I guess we'll just have to see. Must admit I'm intellectually skeptical, but certainly open--MORE NOVELTY!

I'm not too shocked by this. I'm going to paraphrase from a documentary I saw a few years ago on peak oil, can't remember the name of it, but it showed either on the CBC or BBC, and was fairly free from political bias. What stuck with me was an interview with an old oil man, who had worked in the industry for decades. A company man, and he was quite upfront that what we are seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan were the beginning of the oil wars. True or not, it finally got me thinking about our addiction to oil--it's simultaneously the lifeblood and the heroin of modern western society. I've lived in both central northern Canada and a few years here and there in the U.K., and I shudder to think about the amount of energy it takes to keep a first-world society running in the depths of winter, not too mention all of the food that is flown/trucked in out of season.
I've heard of a modern myth about humanity that runs sort of like this--the human race is comparable to a parasite that will consume/suck its host dry, and use that consumption as a base upon which to fuel our eventual departure into space. I like the idea, if only because the alternative is rather depressing.

It's pretty interesting stuff. Look up Project Paperclip. It was the codename for the secret program that brought Nazi scientists over to the U.S. at the denouement of WWII. I'm a little drunk at the moment, so I'll give a meandering ramble...obviously there's a lot of obfuscation and conspiracy theory concerning this subject, but you're darn tooting Uncle Sam was not going to let the best Nazi minds get absorbed by the Red Momma Bear. What's never mentioned in polite Nazi history is the fact that the core of the movement, the SS, was an occult organization, dedicated to some very odd ideas, the main one being, of course, the creation of a master race. SS officers coupled with women on auspicious nights in the graveyards of their fallen comrades. Hitler had whole bureaucracies dedicated to proving his racial theories; expeditions were made to the north pole in search of a hole in the ice that led to a lair of aryan giants. Parties were sent forth to Tibet--the inner core of the SS sincerely believed that there was a race of ascended masters in the mountains of that country. Supposedly, when the final bombardment of Berlin was underway, a pack of black cloaked Tibetan monks was seen dispersing through the rubble. ANYWAY, back to the more believable shit, such as it is...Project Paperclip was real, and it is a fact that the American space program would not have happened without those Nazi scientists...they were perfecting the alchemy of jet propulsion and their skills were wanted. Look it up. The disgusting part (not that the preceding is kosher, or anything), were the 'mind-scientists' they brought over. Nazi scientists had carte blanche to test out whatever they wanted to on the poor souls at the camps. If you can imagine it, they probably did it...the victims were subjected to the worst kind of psychedelic testing, experiments in brainwashing, truth serums, you name it. These tests were to be carried out by the CIA in the ensuing years...Dr. Ewen Cameron carried out tests called 'psychic driving' in Montreal, which basically amounted to dosing schizophrenics with psychoactive substance for days (!) on end, whilst playing his 'patients' recorded loops. The CBC did a doc. on him...his research was funded by the CIA, who eventually settled with the victims, but admitted no culpability.
I would suggest reading Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain. It's a good book, scholarly and riveting. For the Nazi shit, read The Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda--he's not that great of a writer, but whether you believe his claims or not, it's fucking interesting.
As for the ufos--it's always been an (one of many, hahaha) accepted fact in conspiracy land that the nazi's had the plans and built them, and that the americans took over from there. Whether it was reverse engineered or they came up with that shit on their own is open to question. One theory is that a group of SS did find the secret hole in the north pole and made alliance with the aryan giants--and what we think are ufos are really those skanky aryan bastards zipping around scaring people...jesus i'm starting to scare myself rattling on like this...cheers! have a good one!