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 By Shashank Bengali | McClatchy Newspapers
May 7, 2010
WASHINGTON — To meet the world’s boundless thirst for oil, drillers are searching in the sand and mud of remote western Canada, the tough shale rock of North Dakota and more than a mile under the seas off the southern U.S. coast, where a drilling accident has sent millions of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Why are we going nearly to the ends of the earth and the bottom of the seas for oil?
The answer, say many experts, is that we’re consuming as much oil as we ever have but the era of “easy oil” is in our rearview mirror and receding fast.
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 Greg Neale
Thursday 15 April 2010
guardian.co.uk
Just over 200 years ago an Icelandic volcano erupted with catastrophic consequences for weather, agriculture and transport across the northern hemisphere – and helped trigger the French revolution.
The Laki volcanic fissure in southern Iceland erupted over an eight-month period from 8 June 1783 to February 1784, spewing lava and poisonous gases that devastated the island’s agriculture, killing much of the livestock. It is estimated that perhapsa quarter of Iceland’s population died through the ensuing famine.
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.gif) Thinking Rationally About Terrorism
John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
www.foreignaffairs.com April 2, 2010.
Many people hold that terrorism poses an existential threat to the United States. But a look at the actual statistics suggests that it presents an acceptable risk — one so low that spending to further reduce its likelihood or consequences is scarcely justified.
 Researchers expect brain waves to operate computers, TVs and cell phones www.popsci.com
By Jeremy Hsu
Posted 11.20.2009 at 3:00 pm
If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don’t tell Intel researchers. Intel’s Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020.
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 U.S. Behind Tide of Countries Increasingly Dealing with Water Shortages by Trying to Force Rain Fall
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 11, 2009
www.cbsnews.com
(AP) On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing droughts.
This is a cloud-seeding machine designed to increase rainfall by spraying a chemical vapor into the clouds. Under the right conditions, it can help water droplets grow heavy, coalesce and fall to the ground.
Faced with water shortages, growing populations and the threat that climate change could make matters worse, governments around the globe have increasingly turned to cloud seeding in an attempt to wring more rain and snow from the sky.
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March 24, 2010 |
www.alternet.org
For several
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By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, April 1st,
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
by Mike
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Brian Peek
AlternativeMedia.org
February 13, 2010
Last Thursday,
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By Katie Drummond
www.wired.com
February 5, 2010
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Ronnie Cummins
Founder and Director, Organic
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Economic Collapse
- 11 Clear Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet Friday, January 15th, 2010
- U.S. National Debt Tops Debt Limit Thursday, December 17th, 2009
- 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams Monday, November 23rd, 2009
- March Toward a One World Currency Continues Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
- US Unemployment Surpasses 10%, the New World Order Agenda Marches on! Friday, November 6th, 2009
- The Collapse of Detroit: Ground Zero for the Globalist’s Deindustrialization Agenda Sunday, November 1st, 2009
- Banking Elite Continue to Ravage the Middle and Lower Classes Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- Gold pushes to another record high Tuesday Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
- The Demise of the Dollar Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
- The IMF to Play Role of Global Central Bank? Monday, October 5th, 2009
World News
- Only 100 al-Qaeda Now in Afghanistan Friday, December 4th, 2009
- NY Times: Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
- United States to send ‘up to 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan’ Thursday, October 15th, 2009
- War Criminal Obama Deserves An Oscar, But Not A Nobel Peace Prize Friday, October 9th, 2009
- FBI RELEASES ‘EDITED’ OKC TAPES Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
- The Demise of the Dollar Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
- US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Science & Tech
- How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
- Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers’ Heads by 2020 Monday, April 12th, 2010
- Drought Turns Governments to Cloud Seeding Thursday, April 8th, 2010
- Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included Monday, February 8th, 2010
- Bombshell UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty Friday, December 4th, 2009
- IBM Builds ‘Bar Code Reader’ for DNA Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Health, Environment
- Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
- Obama USDA Poised to Take Away Our Right to GMO-Free Food Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
- Pressure Rises to Stop Antibiotics in Agriculture Thursday, December 31st, 2009
- Big Pharma Reaps Billions From Swine Flu Fearmongering Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
- The Link Between Obesity, Cancer, and Toxicity (Part 1) Friday, October 9th, 2009
- IBM Builds ‘Bar Code Reader’ for DNA Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
New World Order
- Media Shill Glenn Beck, 911 Liar Sunday, February 14th, 2010
- Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated Friday, January 8th, 2010
- Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
- Bombshell UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty Friday, December 4th, 2009
- The new EU President, Herman Van Rompuy, has proclaimed 2009 as the first year of global governance. Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
- March Toward a One World Currency Continues Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
- US Unemployment Surpasses 10%, the New World Order Agenda Marches on! Friday, November 6th, 2009
- The Collapse of Detroit: Ground Zero for the Globalist’s Deindustrialization Agenda Sunday, November 1st, 2009
- Banking Elite Continue to Ravage the Middle and Lower Classes Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- War Criminal Obama Deserves An Oscar, But Not A Nobel Peace Prize Friday, October 9th, 2009
- The Demise of the Dollar Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Class Warfare
- 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams Monday, November 23rd, 2009
- March Toward a One World Currency Continues Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
- US Unemployment Surpasses 10%, the New World Order Agenda Marches on! Friday, November 6th, 2009
- The Collapse of Detroit: Ground Zero for the Globalist’s Deindustrialization Agenda Sunday, November 1st, 2009
- Banking Elite Continue to Ravage the Middle and Lower Classes Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- The Link Between Obesity, Cancer, and Toxicity (Part 1) Friday, October 9th, 2009
- The Demise of the Dollar Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
- The IMF to Play Role of Global Central Bank? Monday, October 5th, 2009
- Caught in the Crossfire: The False Left-Right Paradigm and the Deception of the American People Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
- US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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