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[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: May 15, 2008: Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al- Naimi said global crude oil reserves have doubled since 1980, countering analysts who predict a supply shortage.
[Politics in the Zeros. Anti-war, global warming, peak oil, progressive politics] Interview With SOS Georgia: What does Gabrichidze think of the current cocktail of Russia threatening Ukraine and Poland and the USA and NATO stretched in Afghanistan and Iraq? Gabrichidze claims they are taking advantage and compares their actions to those of Germany in the 1930s when they annexed or neutralised one state at a time with no serious military opposition.
[Post-Peak Liberal] 9/11 Crossroads -- The Path Not Taken: And indeed, bin Laden's stated reasons for the 9/11 attack included the specific grievances of US support of the corrupt Saudi regime, the continual US siding with Israel against the rights of the Palestinians, and the highly offensive presence of US military bases in the Islamic homeland of Saudi Arabia. We'll deal with the merit of these claims in a bit, but that's not the main point right now. For the moment, we're just highlighting that some people (myself included) were not overtly surprised by the 9/11 attacks themselves, albeit the unexpected nature of the exact tactics.
[Jam Side Down by Martin Manley] Category Five Storm Slams Wall Street: Moving the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt intogovernment conservatorship last week roughly doubled the US debt fromabout $5.1 trillion issued and outstanding to over $10 trillion.Washington wants to keep this debt off of the government’s balancesheet, but country credit risk analysts will include it anyway whenthey rate a country’s creditworthiness. (They add in other stuff aswell - especially pension fund defaults that the US may be on the hookfor, unfunded Social Security and Medicare obligations, etc.)
[The Post Peak Oil Historian] Israel eyes US failure to act in Georgia, Lebanon: The similarity between this chain of events and the crisis in Georgia is striking: Iran and Syria parallel Russia, Siniora and Saakashvili are the pro-Western leaders, Hezbollah resembles the separatists in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, France is the frenetic Western mediator, and above all - the Bush administration, encouraging Saakashvili and Siniora as supporters of democracy. Both leaders tried to stem the tide, wound up confronting a superior force, and discovered that the waning Bush administration was of no use.
[A to Z Energy ETF] DrumBeat: September 3, 2008: I do realise that for the most part of the past few months I, and my colleagues here at FNArena, have been a lone voice amidst a tsunami of reports about the new era for oil -essentially US$100-plus forever- intertwined with peak oil theories and other upbeat claims and predictions, none of which will stand the test of reality.
[Vacation Box Office] Will Religion Prevent Us From Saving The Planet?: Even if global warming is a hoax, even if the peak in oil production is millions of years away and even if we are living in the End Times…there are more than enough political, financial, humanitarian and national security reasons to change our living and working habits right here, right now, this instant.
[我的åšå®¢] The Nuclear Future That Never Arrived: How is nuclear going come to our aid quickly enough to offset peak-oil? The only "answers" that come to mind are hydrogen or electric-cars and there are many problems both in implementing vast new engineering and providing the basic .
[Organic Food Blog] Nutrition for Vegetarian Organic Athletes: By determining your Resting Metabolic Rate and factoring in the intensity and type of training you are doing you can then begin to formulate a Daily Caloric Expenditure to ensure you are taking in the optimum amount of calories. If the athlete desires to lose weight they should do so cautiously because you want to be able to restore liver and muscle glycogen levels as well as blood glucose levels for your next training session.
[Cheap World Travel Tips Radio Weblog] Cheap World Travel Tips: All travellers to Israel should be aware that the country is subject to occasional terrorist attacks and they should accept that sometimes there are inconvenient security delays while travelling through Israel. For example, a suicide bomber killed three people in the southern resort town of Eilat in January 2007 - the first such attack in Israel in nine months.
[Heinz Duthel, My Anti-Official Blog ..] Heinz Duthel: ”˜Will England ever get a parliament and become a ...: These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global “Peak Oil.” “Are We ”˜Running Out’? I Thought There Was 40 Years of the Stuff Left” Oil will not just “run out” .
[iamned.com Blog] Obama’s Intrade Numbers Tank, Smartist Web 2.0 Era is Here: The attendees of this convention know that the new smartist, globalist, consumerist, hypercapitalist era is here and they are choosing to embrace it instead of fighting it, as in the case of the Obama. Currently we’re in a second Internet boom in the Silicon Valley under the moniker Web 2.0, but the boo hoo hoo, wellfare Obama liberals who are against free trade and globalism are still bemoaning an imaginary recession, a housing bubble, a fake credit crunch, and a non-existent liquidity crisis.
[Jackbecommspeednet's Weblog] Jack L. Doan’s Political (decision making process): Their (U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Legislature) corporate special interest gain may be to try and keep this decision out of the federal government congress by insuring there is no other slate of electoral votes and get Bush’s brother Jeb Bush the Governor of Florida to sign the legislators slate of electors. Should this be what develops then JLD Analogy of Political Science will be developed and placed into history to the best of my ability to record the extent the rich will do to take away the poor votes counted.
[MarketAsiaHub] Housing: Are We Near the Bottom?: (Long-term I think oil will go MUCH higher, but that is another story.) A 40% reduction in gas prices from their peak is not out of the question. That would impact inflation by pulling it down.
[EZ READING MONEY MATTERS] Those EVIL Mountain Terrorist Tribes Win Again: Lemmon in Arizona. When I went looking for a property last time, I gravitated towards a small mountain.
[Bibitcwphilippa's Weblog] Rotation Any which way: Inflowing a situation where the U.S. has convenient justifiability so as to see that its key dignity within America nonintervention is unswervingly predicted, the Protection forest wardenship was “looking unto geosyncline army sphincter now the incompletely unattached heteronomous grand duchy subliminal self has left”? and in transit to “flagellate the entrance fee in re oblation discounting the breath respecting the continent in the gutter a tortuosity referring to delivering deathlike silence and nerve seeing as how all”?
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