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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)
June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the ...
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Mismanaging Contraction (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 21, 2010 -- Lesson of the Macondo: Blowout preventers don't prevent blowouts. This comes as a shock to people attuned to the on-schedule arrival of ...
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Grow Up Or Die. But How? (Carolyn Baker)
A commentary on Clinton Callhan's Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings June 16, 2010 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- In May 2008, psychotherapist Clinton Callahan offered me an article entitled ...
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Fierce Urgency (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 14, 2010 -- The exquisite morbidity of the BP oil spill has concentrated the collective national mind like few other events in this ongoing long ...
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Toxic Undersea Oil Plumes Lurk in Gulf of Mexico (Jessica Resnick-Ault)
Tests confirm the existence of oil plumes in the Gulf which BP CEO Tony Hayward has disputed. Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Undersea clouds of oil that kill marine ...
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Pimco’s Crescenzi Sees ‘Endpoint’ in Devaluations (Wes Goodman and Garfield Reynolds)
Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Bill Gross speaks during a conference. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nations have reached a “Keynesian endpoint” as exhausted balance ...
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Cowardly Progressives (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
June 7, 2010 -- After listening to a number of speeches at a national conference of progressives I come to this conclusion: Progressives are more than eager to take credit for electing President ...
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Facebook and Muslim Outrage: Gleaning the Wrong Lesson, Again (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 4, 2010 -- “Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,” wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English. The above ...
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Which Horizon? (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 7, 2010 -- Did the nation heave a sigh of relief when BP announced that their latest gambit to "cap" the Deepwater Horizon gusher will result in hosing ...
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Welcome Home To Slum Nation (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 31, 2010 -- It's sad to be a citizen of a nation that can't do anything right. While BP was fumbling its "kill shot" into the Deepwater Horizon hole, ...
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