Sunday, September 09, 2018

From Jenna Orkin

Government Inaction Puts World On Track for "Catastrophic" Climate Change, UN Warns

Study Questions Iran-Al Qaeda Ties Despite US Allegations 

Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground - NY Times

The New York Times sent a reporter to our Peak Oil Conference in 2005, the first to be held in New York City. But his purpose that day was not to write an article; rather, it was to inform his bosses of what our fringey group of wing nuts was saying.  The Times has delighted in scoffing at the Peak Oil movement, as it did, in the early days, at the 9/11 environmental movement.  In the latter case, they hav been proven irrefutably wrong and these days, like everyone else, report on the deaths which they themselves could have had a hand in preventing.  Analogously, although I can't see the entire article linked here, they now seem to be acknowledging the limitations to the "shale miracle."  

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI


Wednesday, September 05, 2018

From Jenna Orkin

Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground

Over a dozen men who were near Ground Zero have breast cancer

Tech giants are getting grilled at the Senate today, but Google will likely be represented by an empty chair

Steve Bannon caused The New Yorker Festival to go down in flames on Twitter

Highly controversial but informative. However, Casey seems unaware of the astounding successes of Nigerian families, for example.

"I read something a few years ago about how China wanted to move 200 or 300 million of its citizens to Africa....Eighty years from now, Lagos, Nigeria will be the largest city in the world. It’s on track to have a population of more than 90 million. The world’s second biggest city will be Kinshasa in the Congo with about 80 million people. Dar es Salaam of Tanzania will be the world’s third biggest city with a population of roughly 75 million people."



'This story is officially nuts': Russia thinks someone with a drill caused the recent air leak on the International Space Station — and an alleged NASA photo is convincing

Sunday, September 02, 2018