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Humiliation All the Way Down
Kevin McCarthy's latest grovel
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
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THE ANGRY ARAB: The Rise and Fall of Aljazeera
World Medical Association boss compares new strain of COVID-19 with Ebola
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Climate change fuels a water rights conflict built on over a century of broken promises
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European thinktank adds U.S. to list of "backsliding" democracies for 1st time
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Werner argued that negative interest rates were designed not to stimulate the economy but to create deflation and wreak further havoc — “havoc that they intend to instrumentalise to accelerate their goal of becoming the complete masters of our lives, by allowing only digital currency that they issue and control – and that they can monitor in terms of all transactions, and that they can switch off, if, for instance, some pesky dissident criticizes them too much.”
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'QAnon Shaman' thanked the judge for OKing a fully organic jail diet
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