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, January 29, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Ukraine’s Democracy in Darkness
With elections postponed and no end to the war with Russia in sight, Volodymyr Zelensky and his political allies are becoming like the officials they once promised to root out: entrenched.
Donald Trump is preparing for a massive new trade war with China
One reason a Youth Cohort is needed, she explained, is that among the 15,000-plus patients currently enrolled in the Health Program, only about four percent (638 enrollees) were younger than 21 on September 11, 2001. Among this small group, however, there are some troubling preliminary indications, including elevated levels of serum dioxin, furan, and perfluoroalkyls. “We can tell you that most of the certifications for those less than 21 include airway diseases, such as asthma, rhinitis, and sinusitis,” she continued. “And, as in our whole population, an increased number of people are referring themselves in for cancer certifications.”
In that subset, according to data provided by Dr. Reibman, there have been 18 cases of thyroid cancer, eight cases of breast cancer, six each of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia, and four each of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and cancers of the head or neck, as well as 14 other cases of various cancers.
How Senate Democrats Are Divided on Israel
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley discusses Bernie Sanders’s failed resolution to condition U.S. military aid to Israel, and his visit to the Gaza border.
New research challenges hunter-gatherer narrative
Protesters hurl soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris
Juvenile Crimes - Chapter 24
Plowing Though The Muck
WESLEY T. MILLER
Is an increase in penile length cause for concern?
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The (Geo)Politics of Sweden’s NATO Ascension
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