With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Global Warming: Satellites/Leaked UN Report; Bears/Hibernating; Halliburton/Iran/Nuclear; MOU/Venezuela/Brazil
Please keep us informed on the status of the books. At this time of the year I'm not exactly flush with cash (no, I don't do any Christmas shopping -- lots of bills come due at year's end), but if worst comes to worst and you have to take up a collection...
This article by Larry chin, "Resource warfare intensifies across 'Grand Chessboard' and Horn of Africa", is very interesting and entirely consistent with FTW, and references "Crossing the Rubican" twice:
Apropos national debt, Japan's is currently about $6.55 trillion, not exactly a trifling sum. The nickname of the minister of finance here is shakkin'ou, which literally means "King of Debt."
Russian gas to cost Georgia twice as much
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Please keep us informed on the status of the books. At this time of the year I'm not exactly flush with cash (no, I don't do any Christmas shopping -- lots of bills come due at year's end), but if worst comes to worst and you have to take up a collection...
ReplyDeleteThis article by Larry chin, "Resource warfare intensifies across 'Grand Chessboard' and Horn of Africa", is very interesting and entirely consistent with FTW, and references "Crossing the Rubican" twice:
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US is insolvent
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As if we needed the government to confirm this...
Apropos national debt, Japan's is currently about $6.55 trillion, not exactly a trifling sum. The nickname of the minister of finance here is shakkin'ou, which literally means "King of Debt."
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