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
Monday, December 31, 2018
Sunday, December 30, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics - The Nation
Egypt Goes Guns-a-Blazing: 40 Terrorists Killed In Mass Raids Following Tour Bus Bombing
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics - The Nation
Trump has taken a hatchet to federal rules, but a number of industries are now pleading to be regulated
Egypt Goes Guns-a-Blazing: 40 Terrorists Killed In Mass Raids Following Tour Bus Bombing
Chinese Scientist Who Genetically Modified Babies Is Under House Arrest
DARPA Seeks New Materials To Keep Hypersonic Vehicles From Overheating
Harris, Booker And Warren To Announce 2020 Bids Next Month: NBC
CenturyLink System Failure Causes 911 Outages Across The US
Saturday, December 29, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Google’s Parent Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes Worldwide
Chinese Schools Make Pupils Wear Micro-Chipped Uniforms to Thwart Truancy
US Troops Out, Syrian Army In: Kurdish City Handed Back To Damascus As Turkey Poised To Invade
"Everything Is Fake": Ex-Reddit CEO Confirms Internet Traffic Metrics Are Bullshit
India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption, Scrub "Unlawful" Content
"Imminent Collapse": US Farmers Prepare For Massive Losses In Japan
Friday, December 28, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Report Puts Michael Cohen in Prague and Trump-Russia Collusion on the Table
Russia announces plans to set up its first ever military base in the Caribbean - the country's largest presence in the region since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
First China, Now Russia: Kremlin Considers Changing Constitution To Extend Putin Presidency
Life in prison for selling marijuana: Meet the people new pot laws forgot
Banishing Truth - Chris Hedges
And we haven't even reached the twenty year incubation period.
The Dow drops 500 points, a day after its record-setting rally
For those who remember Fromthewilderness' series on the death of Pat Tillman
Thursday, December 27, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Mormonism Good For Body As Well As Soul?
Mormonism Good For Body As Well As Soul?
Soldiers are taking over Venezuela's oil industry, and the country with the world's biggest oil reserves is falling further behind
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Al Qaeda Plotting New Plane Attacks in Europe... Security Minister Warns
Al Qaeda Plotting New Plane Attacks in Europe... Security Minister Warns
Jim Kunstler On Wokesterdom, The PPT, & "The Sorcerer's Apprentice Scenario"
Futures Suddenly Plunge Ahead Of Mnuchin's "Plunge Protection Team" Meeting
LA Doubled Homeless Budget, Doubled Homeless Crime
US Ambassador To Germany Attacked After Demanding Spiegel "Fake News" Investigation
UK Taxpayers Funded Pakistani Death Courts As They Handed Down "Blasphemy Law" Sentences
Germany: New Law Banning Child Marriage Declared Unconstitutional
Spitzer Repeatedly Snuck $5,000/Night Prostitute Into His Apartment Using A Suitcase
Statute of limitations?
Monday, December 24, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Diseases From Millions of Years Ago Are Awakening Because of Melting Ice
Diseases From Millions of Years Ago Are Awakening Because of Melting Ice
Industrial Hemp Legalized
At least 222 people are dead and 800 are injured in Indonesia after a tsunami triggered by a volcano
Rumors Swirl As Mystery Firm Takes Fight With Mueller To Supreme Court
Yellow Vests Chase French Police Out Of Champs Elysees In Pre-Christmas Rumble
And...
20-something men invent underwear you can wear for weeks without washing
For a last minute stocking stuffer.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
SACHA BARON COHEN’S ‘WHO IS AMERICA?’ DELETED SCENE MAY HAVE EXPOSED ELITE PEDOPHILE SEX RING
"According to Baron Cohen, the FBI decided against pursuing the tip."NOW MATTIS ADMITS THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE ASSAD USED POISON GAS ON HIS PEOPLE: OPINION
Certain antibiotics may cause aortic aneurysm, FDA warns
Some evangelicals are opening their homes to help Central American asylum seekers for the first time amid heightened border attention: 'It's an issue of humanity'
Trump Is Considering Firing Fed Chair Powell
May Prepares "Secret" Brexit Plan B To Avoid "No Deal" Armageddon
Sierra Nevada Snowpack On Track To Collapse 79%, New Study Warns
Is The US Preparing For A War Between LatAm States?
'Greatest Economy Ever' - Boston's Homeless Population Soared 14% Over The Year
Saturday, December 22, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Declassified Records Show CIA's Involvement in Effort to Discredit Daniel Ellsberg
Declassified Records Show CIA's Involvement in Effort to Discredit Daniel Ellsberg
Roger Stone admits to InfoWars lies, settles lawsuit
A.G. Underwood And Acting Tax Commissioner Manion Announce Record $330 Million Settlement With Sprint In Groundbreaking False Claims Act Litigation Involving Unpaid Sales Tax
Education as Dumbing Down Tool
2018 was going to be the year Mark Zuckerberg fixed Facebook. Instead, he began admitting some of Facebook's problems can't be fixed.
Friday, December 21, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
Europe Bans Airport Scanners for Health and Safety Concerns
Europe Bans Airport Scanners for Health and Safety Concerns
McCain Was Responsible For Steele Dossier Leak
Major British airport forced to shut down for at least 19 hours by someone flying drones over the runwayPeak Deep Fake - Nvidia's Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real
Romania Stocks Plunge 12% On Proposed Bank "Greed Tax"
The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is spilling plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Thursday, December 20, 2018
From Jenna Orkin
US Added to Most Dangerous Country for Journalists for First Time
Why Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water
What happens when an earthquake hits near a nuclear plant?
Earthships post.
US Added to Most Dangerous Country for Journalists for First Time
Why Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water
What happens when an earthquake hits near a nuclear plant?
Earthships post.