Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels
-Tickle your fancy
-Re-Appointed Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Didn’t Get Us Out of the Economic Crisis, He Helped Cause It
-Growing Poverty And Despair In America
-Peak Oil, Peak Credit and Investments – “So What the Hell Does One Do”?
-Brazil moves to boost control over new oil wealth
-Millions more Russians shunted into poverty
-Oil find sparks new hope for Uganda’s people
-Where Do We Go From Here?
-Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Is Dead at 77
-Edward Goldsmith (obituary)
-Discipline has given way to the silence of the graveyard
I’m happy to communicate that yesterday, 2009/08/27, the city council of the Borough of Teo, in Galicia (NW Spain), passed a resolution acknowledging peak oil. As far as we know it’s the second Spanish local authority in doing so after La Palma in Canary Islands in 2007.
-A strategic blunder in the North-West Frontier Province
-U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
-Tensions Rise in Post-Election Afghanistan
-Is Pakistan’s Taliban movement on the way out?
-Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?
-How Crime Pays for the Taliban
Last week the Oil Drum featured an article about the very wealthy making preparations for whatever catastrophe the post-peak future has in stock. Many commentators have pointed out that mercenaries understand very quickly there is more money to be had by cutting their rich but helpless employers’ throat than by defending them. The very fact than some people – including a few billionaires, apparently – believe a doomsday gated community is a viable response to peak energy speaks volumes about the preconceptions and fantasies which stand in the way of a successful adaptation to the changes peak oil heralds.
-As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up
-Ocean Temperature Record and Other Clues: What Is Your Response?
-A ‘Dow Jones’ For Climate: The Case for a Warming Index
-Africa seeks climate change cash
-Top U.N. climate scientist backs big CO2 cuts, 350-ppm goal
-Think health costs are hot now? Factor in global warming
-The fallacy of climate activism
Tom Whipple, retired CIA analyst and editor of the ASPO-USA newsletter, will be a speaker at the ASPO-USA conference this October 11-13. From his home just outside Washington D.C. in Virginia, the amount of information that Tom single-handedly has gathered and circulated about the unfolding peak oil story is extraordinary.
-Canada’s Oil Sands – Part 1
-Squandered Opportunity
-Health Care: Why costs spiral up
-Editorial: The Future of Coal
Town hall meetings being held on health care legislation across the country are exploding with emotion, frustration, and conflict. Citizens are showing up in throngs to speak out, and sometimes to shout, about health care—turning the meetings into a vivid demonstration of what’s missing from American democracy.
-The Gloom in China’s Glowing Economic Stats
-Walker’s World: The China bubble
-China’s wild west
-China pushing yuan as global currency
