http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174888/ michael_klare_barreling_into_recession Something Had to Give How Oil Burst the American Bubble By Michael T. Klare The...
Scott Munson
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Feb 1, 2008 9:34 am
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Hello colleagues I am sending this to you since you have an interest in peak oil and what to do about it. I just did blog post on vertical farms that pulls...
Although no authorities are saying the word "intentional", it's getting more difficult to imagine that three separate failures of sub-sea communication cables...
Choice quotes below (CAPS are mine)... The SUBSIDIES have prompted a surge in private investment, led by venture capitalists. In 2007, these seed investors put...
Interesting notes from elsewhere: 'Thanks to the morons in Congress... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22782454/ Your Burn has been paid for. Ticket, Food, Gas,...
Feed grain to people not animals - then the people will just beget more people who are even more destructive. But the article has a bunch of nice statistics...
Reichard, Thanks. A 177 MegaWatts 24/7 - beats a small natural gas peaker plant insofar as sustainability. PG&E also has a contract for 553 MW with Solel of...
Those "factory farms" are part of the reason I don't eat meat. Pictures like that are hard to come by in the media, but I think if people saw where their meat...
Let them grow food easily replaces "Let then eat cake". What the Haitian fascist military did to their own people makes Marie look like a walk in the park. ...
Total deposits that aren't borrowed, according to the federal reserve, were right at $200,000,000 just a couple weeks ago. That's somethin' like 67 cents per...
Dennis, thanks for sending this. I'd like to send this around but I'm afraid that I'm going to lose people when they go to the page at that link. I have been...
This is a heads up to plan your February calendar. We will be showing Manufactured Landscapes. Manufactured Landscapes Edward Burtynsky is internationally...
Global Exchange - An Evening With Lester Brown <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q8r7GsOmmzUK%2FnGnCkGbYZGh7kMmfv69>CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL...
... Santa Claus cost a lot this year, cause reindeer gasoline went up so much? Actually it's just the banks starting to fess up to their mess, isn't it?...
If you'll recall, the Fed loaned banks $boffo millions in December and again in January. That's the other half of Bernanke's plan to keep the banking system...
Jeanne
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Feb 2, 2008 12:33 am
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Hi, Jean. That's good for the number going down. Now I'm trying to figure out "what it means." Does -8751 billion in that column mean "Insolvency" like Dennis...
... If the only way to make good on debt payments is by printing money, that to me is the same as being insolvent. It's a sad state when we excuse governments...
... Well, hell, that's been the story of my lifetime (and earlier). Fortunately, it wasn't a big worry for me even when I was earning a fair amount of it. ...
Shameless enclaves of "yuppie Permaculture". There are probably more, but I am googled out for the evening. Do correct me if I'm wrong. Peru, Belarus, Kenya,...
My friend Peter Sternlicht has been hard at work on this ROE piece. I'd like to get your feedback, suggestions, etc. If this meets a need, I'd like to help him...
Third Mid-east internet cable cut. <http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop> Indian Ocean tsunami warning cable snaps. ...
I don't think Dennis meant that the entire country was insolvent. The figures from the Fed are just for the banking system. In aggregate, the banks have no...
Jeanne
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Feb 2, 2008 10:25 pm
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Mish--the Global Economic Trend Analysis blog--one of my favorites, has an analysis of this situation: His explanation is simple: "Given that the Fed is not in...
... It's not that permaculture is "yuppie" it's just the attitude that desperate people (who are relegated to eating dirt) will have the time, energy,...