Nigeria: Police battle gangs over stolen crude
Extra troops are deploying to the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt in support of police battling armed gangs linked to local political groups and an illicit trade in stolen crude.
Power blackouts in Cuba to last through end of year
Power blackouts that have plagued Cubans all summer will continue through the end of the year, an electricity official told local media in an interview published Thursday.
New Book: Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
This is a detective story that gets to the innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at the center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named individuals in preparation for Peak Oil: an economic crisis like nothing the world has ever seen.
Oil, guns and money
What’s really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from “Oil: Anatomy of an Industry.”
NZ: Expert warns nuclear power is on the cards
Nuclear power stations may be operating in New Zealand, a country known for its anti-nuke stance, as soon as 2015 if coal continues to be shunned as a fuel source.
Let A Thousand Reactors Bloom
Explosive growth has made the People’s Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on
earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
China’s Great Depression
The development and the causes of the Inflationary Boom of the 1920s and provides a basis for comparison with the economic policies of modern-day China. This time, however, the bust may be triggered by peak oil.
Backdoor Found In Diebold Vote Counting Program
Investigators believe they have found a “backdoor” – a deliberately left security opening – in 1,000 of the infamous Diebold electronic voting machines which would allow for vote count manipulation.
The Gates of Hope
“Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope–not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill and angry hinges (people cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through); nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of “Everything Is Gonna Be All Right.” But a different, sometimes lonely place…”
US: Energy Industry, the Party Animals
At lavish invitation-only bashes, corporations can freely spend unregulated dollars to woo political insiders.
Energy shortage hits Chinese firms
“There are now restrictions forced on us. For two days a week we are not allowed to use any electricity and that means I have to send my workers home,” says Ms Dai.
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
There’s a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world’s extractable oil reserves.
