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  • James Howard Kunstler: “America, Think Downscale!”
    22 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “People cannot stand too much reality.” - Carl Jung
    Baltimore, MD - James Howard Kunstler, controversial author and civic gadfly, was the keynote Humanities Symposium speaker on Feb. 20, 2007, at Loyola College. For years, he has been raising unholy cain about the decline of our major cities, and the strip-mallization of our once-unspoiled countrysides. He has also played the role of Cassandra, in warning about the potential harmful effects to the economy from the national addiction to (…)

  • IRAK : Attacks on oil installations cost billions of dollars
    21 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mohammed Hameed
    Azzaman, February 20, 2007
    Iraq is losing up to 400,000 barrels of oil a day due to attacks targeting its oil infrastructure, a senior oil ministry official said.
    Assem Jihad, the ministry’s spokesman, said at current high prices on international markets the loss is massive as it amounts to billions of dollars a year.
    Jihad said there were 159 major attacks on oil installations in 2006, about one attack every other day.
    Most of the attacks targeted the country’s (…)

  • IRAK:Transport workers strike over fuel shortages
    17 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Transport workers strike over fuel shortages
    Azzaman, February 15, 2007
    Taxi and bus drivers are staging a strike in the northern city of Mosul over fuel shortages.
    The strike has almost brought life to a standstill in the city home to nearly two million people.
    Drivers taking part in the strike said they had not received their share of subsidized petrol for more than a month.
    Iraq’s fuel crisis started shortly after the U.S. invasion and has since aggravated and is felt across the (…)

  • Free Energy? Not for you. Sorry. Here`s why.
    3 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Intergalactic Hyperspace Super Cool Hippie Rangers Rejection Letter copyright by Spanner McNeil Feb. 2, 2007
    Dear Mr. Emery,
    This is a response to your query letter dated August 23, 1967. I will now answer you. You stated that some of the reasons you were making an application was that you wanted to, "...get out of going back to school next week and...to make world peace...and I figured out the new physics." Thus, I apologize for the tardiness of our response. I hope your scholastic (…)

  • U.S.-tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, Consumers
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guard against (…)

  • As our parting gift to Pataki, re-elect Alan Hevesi for NY State Comptroller
    5 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As our parting gift to Pataki, re-elect Alan Hevesi for NY State Comptroller
    By Mary MacElveen
    November 5, 2006
    I want everyone living in New York State to think back to last winter especially if they heat their homes with oil. As the tank gage inched lower, your anxiety of how you were going to pay for another delivery sky rocketed. I know mine did. You would have thought that Governor George Pataki could have demanded assistance on behalf of all of us for some relief from his (…)

  • Robert Redford Calls for Courage to Rise Up: Radical Videos to Pass Around
    2 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Redford To Democrats: Show More Courage
    WASHINGTON — The Sundance Kid gathered up the nerve to jump off a cliff with Butch Cassidy. Now, he wants Democrats to show similar backbone.
    "Democrats need to regain the courage that’s lost with political compromises over the last few years," actor and environmental activist Robert Redford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "They’ve got to get it together. If they don’t, it will not only be a tragedy for them, but a tragedy (…)

  • Russian energy: Europe’s pride, US’s envy
    15 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Buried beneath the heaps of hot words on North Korea’s nuclear test, the announcement in Moscow on Monday about the Shtokman natural-gas deposit off Russia’s Arctic coast almost escaped attention, despite its comparable lethal fallout in world politics.
    Undoubtedly, Gazprom’s statement shook up the world energy scene - and the calculus of European politics. Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, announced that it would develop on its
    own without foreign companies the fabulous Shtokman (…)

  • Lessons Of The Gas Pump
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Klare
    Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum . This piece originally appeared in TomDispatch.
    What the hell is going on here? Just six weeks ago, gasoline prices at the pump were hovering at the $3 per gallon mark; today, they’re inching down toward $2-and some analysts predict even (…)

  • Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    David Adam, environment correspondent Wednesday September 20, 2006 The Guardian
    Britain’s leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
    In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of (…)