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Friday, June 11, 2010

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

From Jenna Orkin Currency Collapse May Stimulate Economic Expansion, BIS Says The euro mutiny begins
Spain: the new crisis in Euroland
Spanish debt wilts
Spain to Use $30 Billion "Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring"; Spain's Borrowing Costs Rise; Is an EU or IMF Bailout of Spain in the Works? Fed Ponders What To Do If Recovery Fails; Risks to Growth All on Downside
Osborne gives Bank huge new powers on economy
Marc Faber: The Financial Crisis Has Seen Governments Expand "Like A Cancer"
Morgan Stanley Explains European Banks Were Perversely Incentivized To Load Up On The Shoddiest Sovereign Debt Share Gold Mania Turns Deadly, As 111 Children Die Of Lead Poisoning In Nigeria
Mike Ruppert Confronts Obama on BP Disaster
Speech 'too difficult' for audience? "President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster Tuesday night was written at a 10th-grade level, which, according to analysts, may have gone over the heads of many in his audience."
Bush once said he talked to the public as though they were not tenth graders but ten year olds. No doubt it came naturally to him. Obama, by comparison, is an egg-head. As for Ruppert...
Pickens on Oil DUK Jobless total getting close to 2.5 million
Threat of cuts could cause crisis in foster care
Q&A: Is this end of cheap China labor?
Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Increased 12,000 Last Week to 472,000
15 Big Companies In Danger Of Sliding To Bankruptcy (That Aren't BP!) 15 States Facing A Terrible Demographic Crisis The 15 Most Hated Companies In America (That Aren't BP)
Obama: BP Agrees to $20 Billion for Victims
Obama said the independent fund will be directed by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw payments to families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Sierra Club and Gang Green: Oil Spill Cleanup “Just Fine” Sierra Club: Pro-Corporate, Anti-Grass Roots
Terror/Intelligence/Art
Britain accused of backing Iranian terror group Iran summons British ambassador over terror plot
Wikileaks Preparing to Release Afghan Airstrike Video
Wikileaks Case Echoes Pentagon Papers - from Elizabeth Miller
by Colleen Rowley and Robert Parry
Iceland rewrites law to create haven for investigative reporting A safe haven for Julian Assange, courtesy Birgitta Jonsdottir. - JO
Police seize 100,000 anti-Vladimir Putin books
Possible Western Pennsylvania Link to Israeli Nukes
Home school parents 'must register children'

Downtown Toronto trees, bus shelters removed for G20 security

Exposed: Voyeurism, surveillance and the camera "Tate Modern's current exhibition offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of voyeurism and surveillance."
Why Saving Sperm Whales Is More Important Than Ever
Region faces drought order as water supply falls Hosepipe ban warning as parts of Britain at risk of summer drought Waste review will lead to more slop buckets
Victory for food lobby as MEPs reject new labelling rules
Jamey Hecht on the Oil Gusher

From Jenna OrkinBP's next solution might make things even worse BP's "Bottom Kill" Solution Might Just Cause More Oil To Spill Why BP Oil Disaster Is Likely To Get Worse - from Elizabeth Miller Scroll to Dougr, June 13, 3:17 More detailed analysis than you'll find in the media. - JOHere's The Real Reason BP's Oil Leak Estimate Keeps Increasing Halliburton Bought Oil Risk Control Company in April BP Hiring Big Banks to Avert Takeover E.U. Chief Warns: Massive Government Debt Will Kill Democracy And Create New Dictatorships Europe's banks the next to fail en masse Mike Ruppert on Max Keiser Netanyahu Warns: Dark Days Ahead Oil DisasterObama appoints 'oil tsar' Someone to fire when the disaster gets worse. Pelican nests trampled, official says Oil Spill May End Up Helping GDP Slightly - from Elizabeth Miller Matt Simmons Revises Leak Estimate To 120,000 Barrels Per Day, Believes Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface BP's Gulf Well Gushing as Much as 60,000 Barrels of Oil a Day, U.S. Says
Shale Gas 'Revolution' Could Turn Out to Be Mammoth Spin Job ... Toxic Pension and Municipal Bonds; State and Local Borrowing Hits All-Time High Is The US Verging On A Bailout Of Spain? Soros warns of recession "Europe faces "almost inevitable" recession next year and years of stagnation says billionaire investor George Soros." Bank of England to cap mortgages Russia Preparing to Buy Canadian, Australian Dollars to Diversify Reserves Which is the most indebted country in Europe? "When it comes to household debt, the answer may come as a surprise." Food prices to rise by up to 40% over next decade, UN report warns - from Rice Farmer How the West Is Losing Turkey Pension income hits low UPDATE 2-France lifts retirement age to balance pension books What happens if your state government shuts down? - from Rice Farmer To Illinois Residents: Move. Now. - from Rice FarmerSales of beer and TVs push down inflation as fuel hits record high The end of China's cheap labor? "Is China's seemingly inexhaustable supply of cheap labor finally running dry? If so, will this set the stage for an even bigger bubble?" Ad for Job in "Internment" for the US Army Scores of Whale Products in the Pipeline ...including biodiesel. In the march back to the Stone Age, first stop: nineteenth century. - JO Libya sets up London hedge fund to train financial experts "The Libyan government is backing a new London hedge fund with hundreds of millions of dollars, as the Arab state seeks to diversify its economy away from oil and train a generation of investment professionals in the ways of the financial markets." Wikileaks Founder Has Massacre Video from Elizabeth Miller Wikileaks May Be Under Attack - from Elizabeth Miller China Space Command - from Rice Farmer Authors welcome halting of paedophile database "Philip Pullman has accused the last Labour government of using the murders of two Soham schoolgirls in 2002 as a "scare story" to persuade the public that it was necessary to create a database of adults who work with minors."Experts Use Top Spy Gear to Spies on Spies ‘Human Terrain’ Chief Ousted Swine Flu Lacks Killer Molecule English Hillsides May Become Inaccessible to Walkers Disease outbreaks and a dearth of young people mean English hillsides are going downhill. - JO3 powerful earthquakes rock Indonesia, tsunami watch issued 500 rare African penguins killed by big freeze in South Africa They died within 24 hours. The 'God particle' may exist in five forms Factories to Close so People Can Watch World Cup in Bangladesh - from Rice Farmer A doctor I know said that when he was studying, he witnessed surgeons remove their gloves, allowing an assistant to take over, so they could watch a cricket match.

Who's Up, Who's Down From Jenna OrkinThe great transvestite wit, Quentin Crisp, once said, "If you describe things as better than they are, you will be called an optimist; worse than they are and you will be called a realist; but if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be called a cynic."They called us cynics and doomer-gloomers but ha! Look who is getting the last laugh. Those of you who find this sentiment off-putting, be aware that the velvet glove in which the knife is held is itself lined with razor blades. For no one gets the last laugh; like rock-climbers bound together, we fall together.This is one of the most important lessons outside of a really useful one such as what crop to grow in your backyard: It is as wrong-headed to revere as to despise; in fact, it's just the opposite side of the same coin and leads to the same dead end. The hero, if you have one, will disappoint, and far sooner than the meek will inherit. My students who hail from the most recondite reaches of the world may believe that so-and-so is a witch or that the bribery and corruption they came here to escape was the result of "Jewish influence," thus exonerating their own countrymen who were engaging in said bribery and corruption, but they are more open than Americans to the knowledge that we are not the world's saviors. We are fat, spoiled and laughably clueless about the rest of the world.Then why did you come here? I ask them.No answer. Or one that quickly leads them to understand they came here in order to become as fat and spoiled as we are.This is my purpose in teaching: To upend their assumptions; the more cherished, the more in need of upheaval or at least of questioning. When the dust settles, some of it may be in the same place as before, but surely not all.I have a student from somewhere in the Middle East/Central Asia who a year ago said that when he saw homosexuals, he wanted to kill them. One of the reasons he is here is that his family was afraid that if he stayed in his country, he would kill someone or be killed himself. It was almost a rite of passage where he was from.When the question arose of what attribute of themselves the students were most proud of, this young man said he was most proud of his loyalty to his beliefs.Several weeks ago, we were discussing a court case concerning the custody of a child. The mother was a lesbian; the father, a convicted murderer.The young man from the Middle East/Central Asia said, "Give the child to the lesbians." We all looked at him.He shrugged. "I changed my mind."Il Hamdul' illah. ("Thanks be to God.") There is hope. CommitteeA cul-de-sac sown [? in?] which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. John A. Lincon A group of people who keep minutes and waste hours. Milton Berle Common SenseThe collection of prejudices acquired by the age eighteen. Albert Einstein CommunismSocialism with electricity. Vladimir Lenin ComplianceThe path of least persistence. Gordon Baker CompromiseThe art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. Ludwig Erhard EloquenceThe ability to describe Kim Basinger without using one's hands. Michael Harkness FanaticismRe-doubling your effort when you've forgotten your aim. George Santayana Economy ‘may never recover from banks crisis’ BP Hires Mercs to Block Oily Beaches (Updated) What's Really Going On In Kazahstan The issue is whether Russia can be drawn into interfering in other states' affairs. If the conflict extends into Uzbekistan, China, too, may become involved via their participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
US General Petraeus collapses at Senate ...
CHART OF THE DAY: Even The Fed Admits Ben Bernanke Is Dreaming If He Wants To End The Stimulus Wall Street Set To Get Huge Win, As Blanche Lincoln Caving Towards A Derivatives Compromise AXA: eurozone still at risk AXA analysts dismiss Europe's €750bn (£623bn) rescue package. Angela Merkel's government threatened with collapse 9 Reasons Spain Is A Dead Economy Walking Banking Crisis: Europe Banks the next to fail en masse - from Rice Farmer Glimpses of the End Game - from Rice FarmerPension income hits low - UK Japan PM warns of Greece-like debt crisis Japan has the largest public debt among industrialized nations at 218.6 percent of its gross domestic product in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund.Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case Update: Fannie, Freddie "Mother of all Bailouts" may cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion New York Fed's Enhanced Power May Come at Expense of Reduced Independence Transcript of Soros's "Act II" speech Calling a bear a bear 7 Secrets BP Doesn't Want You to Know "In the first quarter of 2010, they made $73 billion in revenue, $72.3 billion of that came from the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas..."BP Is Building Long-Term Floating Hotels, Because This Is Going To Take WAY Longer Than You Think BP Bankruptcy Would Offer No Protection From Costs (Update1 ... Efforts to Repel Spill Are Called Chaotic A ProPublica report last week chronicles BP's involvement in some of the biggest oil and gas disasters of the past five years due to their negligence... Exxon Distances Itself From BP's `Dramatic Departure' in Gulf Oil Disaster BP Makes Plan To Capture 50000 Bbl/Day Of Leak ... One Ton Tar Ball - from Lisa BP: Hydrogen Sulfide 120-240 Times Acceptable Level Sick Fishermen As Mess Is Sent to Landfills, Officials Worry About Safety Opinion: BP still in charge of oil spill, still shrouding it in secrecy
Nuking the Gulf
Caymans Move Cut Transocean's Tax by $2 Billion, Magazine Says ... 7 Signs the Fossil Fuel Party Is Over (Discovery Channel) - from Rice Farmer Half of Japan's nuclear reactors in trouble - from Rice Farmer New Study: Biomass Worse Than Coal - from Rice FarmerNew Mexico Candidate Wants Landmines Along US/Mexican Border Four Months In, Special Forces Team ‘Can’t Find the Taliban’ FAA Experiments With Integrating Drones Into Civil Airspace Gaza blockade may be eased after inquiry deal Kyrgyzstan: Russia to intervene Report: U.S. taxpayers helping to pay for Somali child soldiers GPs to waive privacy of ill gun owners Doctors agree to breach duty of medical confidentiality if patients who own guns become seriously mentally ill. Whites only legal notice has Massachusetts residents furious Cuts will leave Britain's military stronger, says Fox F.B.I. Opens Kennedy File John Embry: 17 reasons to own gold Waiting for inflation? It’s already here National Guard Available But Only Fraction Used in Oil Spill Cleanup (June 2) NOAA, FDA Continue Ramping Up Efforts to Ensure Safety of Gulf of Mexico Seafood Think gas is too pricey? Think again. From Rice Farmer: Someone just directed my attention to a policy paper recently published on the website of the Democratic Party of Japan. The statement deals with the party's plans for agriculture, fishing, and food production. Quite surprisingly, it contains an acknowledgement of peak oil, and suggests that they understand what it means because it's defined in this way: "[oil] production peaks because it can no longer be used economically, even if reserves are plentiful." Haven't seen anything on this in English. I doubt that policy papers are translated. The Japanese file is posted on the DPJ website here. Lloyds on peak oil, climate change, resource depletion… a historic ... China picking up lots of oil in Iraq Obama Says BP Oil Disaster Echoes 9/11Visualising the Gulf Oil Disaster

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

White House Pushes to Clear Way for Oil-Drilling Permits ...

Killer Undersea Oil Plumes From BP Spill Lurk in Gulf of Mexico ‎ From Jenna Orkin Links on this blog are provided for their inherent interest, either because of their content or because of their mere appearance in particular news outlets. Their presence here should not necessarily be construed as an endorsement of their message. The same can be said with even more intensity about comments from readers. It is not possible to vet all the links they send in. Nor do I feel it advisable to publish only those comments which seem palatable. There are myriad reasons for publishing comments. Readers are advised to use the scroll mechanism accordingly. Headlines Aerial Video Shows Second Leaking Rig Near The Deepwater Horizon Senator Nelson: Well Casing May Be Breached
CNN News - Researchers: We have oil plume evidence
"Worst case scenario is that we have a collapse of the food chain."
North Korea Shoots Three Chinese At Border, As Relations Between The Countries Deteriorate Further Kim Jong Il Consolidates Power
Ahmadinejad Stresses Need for New World Order

Iran building first gas pipeline to Europe
Voice of America: Russia Says Afghan Drug Trade Threatens World Peace
Oil Disaster
BP May Well Be Spewing 100,000 Barrels a Day, Scientist Says
Ending Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Will Reduce Oil Demand, IEA Says ...
Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, Official Says ...
T. Boone Pickens: This Oil Leak Could Go On For A Year - from Rice Farmer
Fishing gear bigger threat to birds than oil
Over 1 Million Gallons Corexit Used
Toxicity of Corexit
Adm. Thad Allen Says Fragmented Nature of Spill Adds to Complexity of Cleanup
Oil Odors: If You Smell It, Is It Toxic? NRDC Blog
BP Jacks Up Oil Capture Estimate, While Obama Reverses Course On Shallow-Water Offshore Drilling
$100 Oil Will Soon Be Here to Stay, Says Former Shell Oil President
EconomyEurozone crisis worsens sharply; stark choices ahead 12 Charts That Show A Big Eastern European Crisis Coming Forget PIIGS, US Debt Is Out of Control - from Rice Farmer
U.S. Will be Like Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts - from Rice Farmer
Gold could fall 40% from peak
DJIA slides under “flash crash” low
A Rising Dollar Is Horrible News for China Steel, The Number One China Indicator, Is In Deep Trouble Goldman 'disrupting' probe
Bank accused of inundating FCIC with millions of pages of documents. Germany pledges record €80bn of budget cuts
Terror/Intelligence
Gaza Flotilla Organizer Admits Activists Seized Weapons from Israeli Soldiers (Haaretz)
Wikileaks Iraq video: US soldier held
Helen Thomas Retires After Comment About Jews: Updated Islamic Extremist Group Recruits Americans for Civil War, Not Jihad - from Rice Farmer
'US missile' used in Yemen strike - from Rice Farmer
Every Google search to be logged and saved for two years under new Euro MP plan - from Rice Farmer
Kosovo: drugs for Europe - from Rice Farmer
Mohamed cartoonist says he is quitting
UK to deport child asylum seekers to Afghanistan Immigration officials plan to forcibly return 12 minors a month via Kabul 'reintegration centre'
Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks Flood of Afghan Heroin Fuels Drug Plague in Russia (June 2009)

Environment
China: cracks in the Three Gorges Dam, so 300,000 people can wave goodbye to their homes
"Red Dawn" Remade: "China Is Coming for Our Children"
Learning Chinese in Mexico: Children prepare for the future - from Rice Farmer

Tensions build over Israel's blockade of Gaza Gaza Flotilla Organizer Admits Activists Seized Weapons from Israeli Soldiers (Haaretz) Obama secretly deploys special operations against al-Qaeda"Obama's actions have been described as much more 'aggressive' than his predecessor." Helen Thomas Retires After Comment About Jews: Updated Germany pledges record €80bn of budget cuts Mohamed cartoonist says he is quitting Fishing gear bigger threat to birds than oil UK to deport child asylum seekers to Afghanistan Immigration officials plan to forcibly return 12 minors a month via Kabul 'reintegration centre' Wikileaks Iraq video: US soldier held Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks Flood of Afghan Heroin Fuels Drug Plague in Russia (June 2009) Senate Panel Zaps Pentagon Mad-Science Agency Banks in `Downward Spiral' Buying Capital in CDOs Distrusted by Regulators UK Prime Minister Warns "Years of pain ahead, No Trampoline Recovery"; Garcia's Booming Peru Economy May Not Help Defeat Chavez-Like Challenger `Extremely Active' Atlantic Hurricane Season Set to Test Catastrophe Bonds China: cracks in the Three Gorges Dam, so 300,000 people can wave goodbye to their homes Gamblers smoking vulture brains to predict outcome of World Cup

Monday, June 07, 2010

This is Epochal! -- A NY Times OpEd titled "Should This Be the Last Generation"! This is a major turning point in human consciousness. The deep questions are out on the table here. These are the questions simplest to understand once the gravity of our human situation is accepted. And they are the most difficult to answer. This is why CollapseNet has come into existence. We in the Lifeboat Movement are already seeking answers. -- How fitting that this should be printed on the day before CollapseNet launches. -- This is what we really need to be talking about. Because once we have even partial answers to these questions, directions for future action emerge on the map. Until we find the courage to deal with these questions we are mostly just flailing about -- like oil covered birds on the beach, or fish that are suffocating and being poisoned in the Gulf... or humans on the edge of extinction. I have known that Infinite Growth was dead for many years. So have many before me. -- As Bucky Fuller might have said, The Old Paradigm is dead long before the new one becomes apparent and emerges from the unseen to the seen.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/should-this-be-the-last-generation/?hp

See you at CollapseNet! http://www.collapsenet.com

MCR
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Jenna Orkin adds: Mike is referring to a link in the post below.

Farewell, Blogspot

From Jenna Orkin

Friends:

As of tomorrow, this blog will be appearing at CollapseNet.com. I trust most of you will come along for the ride. Those for whom $10 a month is a hardship have the option of bartering your way in. CollapseNet needs information on what's happening locally vis a vis "lifeboat" building and offers access to the site in return. See Collapsenet.com for details. I have also recommended that translation be accepted as a medium of exchange. So as you can see, this is an evolving sphere in which the dollar is not the only currency; your talents and unique perspectives can be put to inventive uses.

At worst, you will be able to receive the information collected for this blog after a lapse of thirty days. Perhaps it will feel like receiving a package a month after it was sent but "map-making" does not become obsolete, though it may morph into charting history. Much of what I know about how the world works came from studying fromthewilderness and oilempire.us archives as well as whatever offshoots - books or other websites - they sent me to.

So I don't consider this a farewell to anyone but blogger software to whom I say Thank you and please don't freeze this post.

Headlines
Nato Warns of Strike Against Cyber Attackers
Why A New Natural Gas Deal Between Turkey And Azerbaijan Is A Game Changer
US $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP
Clinton Expects Iran to "Pull Stunt"
12 Ugly Charts That Scream COLLAPSE
Business Can't Rely on Oil After Deepwater Horizon
They're blaming the BP disaster for Peak Oil whereas in fact it's just the catalyst, but still, the message leaks out.
Russia: Our Mini Submarines Could Stop Your Leak, But They're Busy In Irkutsk
The "Discrimen" Of Change Is Near, As The Bernanke-Geithner-Keynes-Japanese Experiment Comes To An End
U.S. Air Force: Here Are The Threats That We're Really Worried About
Panicked European banks flood ECB with record deposits
Should This Be the Last Generation?
A hypothetical piece but an odd question, no?

Economy
Euro continues to fall, plummets below $1.20 against U.S. dollar
The Growing Underclass
Why This Is Starting To Look A Lot More Like A Bear Market Than Just A Correction
Crisis moves to Hungary?
There's a slow train coming
Job Ad: "The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered"
Canada's radical solution to tackle Britain's debt
Cameron Prepares U.K. for Budget Cuts That Will Hurt `Every Single Person'
In 5 Years, UK Will Be Spending More On Interest Than Schools, Climate, And Transport Combined
Bomb Proof Accounts - from Vantage Point
Iran's Bank Melli opens first women-only financial institution

Terror/Intelligence
Chinese peasant fights off home demolition with his own cannon
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations
From Secrecy News:

The U.S. Army has arrested Spc. Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland for unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Among other things, he is suspected of having provided the video of a 2007 Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad that killed several civilians to the Wikileaks web site, which published it online in April of this year. The story was reported last night by Wired's Threat Level blog. See "U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe" by Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter.

Spc. Manning is currently being held in pre-trial confinement in Kuwait, according to an Army statement obtained by NPR.His arrest is the third known apprehension of a suspected leaker during the Obama Administration, after Shamai Leibowitz and Thomas A. Drake, and seems to reflect an increasingly aggressive response to unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
How Tight are Clapper and Gates?
What exactly is the blockade of Gaza? from Vantage Point
Sarah Palin Aide Fred Malek Helped Richard Nixon Dump Jews from Government
Australian police investigate Google

Oil Disaster/Science/Environment
Severe Space Weather--Social and Economic Impacts
How events in space could affect the grid, navigation, etc.
Oil Spill Cleanup to Extend Into Fall
BP held by ethical funds
"Environmentally-friendly funds may not be as green as you think."
Countryside in Crisis: how dairy farmers are milked dry -UK
Crying Over Raw Milk
Central Europe battles floodwaters, at least 20 killed
Study: Organic food may not be as good as you thought
To Save The Planet, Nature Publisher Democratizes Science

And...
Rat fur: the latest fashion accessory - from Rice Farmer

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Stimulus is Dead; Long Live Austeriry

Collapsenet.com launches June 8.

From Jenna Orkin

Headlines
BP and Feds Withheld Videos Showing Massive Scope of Oil Spill
Mentions three leaks.
Iran Dumps Euro Reserves for Dollars; Debt Crisis in Japan; Govt Sponsorship of Newspapers; Govt to Collect ATM Records, Addresses of Bank Customers
West Moving Towards Deeper Financial Abyss
G20 Heated Debates; Europe Politely Tells Geithner Where To Go
G20: The Time For Stimulus Is Over, Long Live Fiscal Austerity
Paul Krugman: Lost Decade, Here We Come
Hungary Tries To Calm Markets; Europe Headed Back in Recession, US Will Not Decouple
Oil Is Front and Center in Doomsday Scenarios from Luis Mora
Boone Pickens: Get Ready for $400 Oil? - from Rice Farmer
US Mulls New N. Korea Measures
Sub Attack Was Near US-S. Korea Drill

Economy
10 States Where An Absurd Percentage Of The Population Works For The Government
Almost 25%.
US Debt Nears Key Threshhold
Say Good-bye to Full Time Jobs with Benefits
Euro 'dead in five years'

Oil Disaster
SQUID Solution Could Contain Oil BP Disaster Threatens Florida Water Supply
BP Oil Leak May Last Until December
BP Is Capturing 10,000 Barrels a Day From Gulf Spill, Chief Hayward Says

Suddenly it's cool to bash Obama

Terror/Intelligence

"The same countries that are criticizing us today should know that they will be targeted tomorrow,"

The above quotation from Benjamin Netanyahu is making the rounds of the internet with the implication that Israel intends to target its critics. But see it in context:

"...he said, just a day after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Israel's policy toward Gaza "unsustainable." 'It's for this and for many other reasons we have a right to inspect cargo heading into Gaza,'' Netanyahu added."

It is clear that Netanyahu means that countries other than Israel are vulnerable to attack from what he calls "terrorists."

Disinfo muddying the already treacherous waters.
Lying About the Gaza Flotilla Disaster from Vantage Point
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack from Vantage Point
Photos of Israeli Commandos Bloodied, Aboard Mavi Marmara - Turkish press
For the interpretation of these photos, we are at the mercy of unidentified translators.
James Clapper
"In September 2001, Clapper became the first civilian director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (previously known as the National Imagery & Mapping Agency), a job he would hold for five years before joining the Pentagon brass."

Environment/Health
45% Doctors Would Consider Quitting if Health Care Bill Passes (2009)
Nearly 1/3 Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health Care Bill Passes (March)
Nation Faces Shortage of 150K Doctors in 15 Years
GM lobby helped draw up report
Report: WHO created ‘distortion of priorities’ over swine flu
UN Urges Global Move to Meat- and Dairy-free Diet
Climate Change Forces Major Vegetation Shifts from Elizabeth Miller
Floods Bring Chaos to Central Europe from Vantage Point

And...
Kieran UK has left a new comment on your post "BP Chief Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil Spill": Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Ireland....P-I-G-S-H-I-?Any guesses for last one?

Saturday, June 05, 2010

BP Chief Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil Spill

COLLAPSENET TM LAUNCHES, TUESDAY JUNE 8, 2010

http://www.collapsenet.com http://www.collapsenetwork.com http://www.collapsenet.net

May 21, 2010 – CollapseNet ™, a long-anticipated new effort from internationally-recognized author, lecturer and activist Michael C. Ruppert, will officially launch on Tuesday June 8, 2010. The site will be a first-of-its-kind effort to promote the rapid and focused sharing of information between millions around the world who are preparing for the collapse of human industrial civilization – The Lifeboat Movement.

CollapseNet will also feature regular video and written updates, commentary and analysis from Michael C. Ruppert, the sole subject of the critically- acclaimed feature documentary Collapse. DVD sales of Collapse begin on June 15th, 2010. The film, directed by two-time Sundance Winner Chris Smith, has been mentioned as a strong candidate for Best Documentary at the 2011 Oscars.Michael, the author of two books, is a former LAPD detective and recognized investigative journalist, is known for having thoroughly predicted the 2008 economic crash starting in 2000, as well as many other geopolitical and economic events over the last decade. More than half of the predictions he made during the filming of Collapse (March-June, 2009) have come true since its theatrical release at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of that year.

“There are millions of us around the world who see and understand what is happening,” says Ruppert. “Worldwide reaction to the film has proved that. CollapseNet will – as fast as our maps can populate – demonstrate that the Lifeboat Movement is global, vocal and rapidly standing up to meet this supreme challenge. We apologize or justify ourselves to no one. All we ask is that governments and those who disagree leave us alone. We will be here to help your children build lifeboats when they are ready.”

Ruppert’s newest book, “Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post-Peak Oil World ” – on which the movie was based -- lays out in stark, clear and simple detail the challenges we face as the realities of Peak Oil and diminishing energy supplies collide with a hopelessly corrupt and collapsing economic paradigm based upon infinite growth.

“The essence of survival as human industrial civilization disintegrates,” says Ruppert, “will stem from one thing only; the relocalization of all things necessary to sustain life, civilization and culture. Most important will be relocalization of food production so that as much food as possible comes from within the shortest possible distance. As collapse progresses, all other essential life-sustaining needs will have to be met close to home because there will not be enough energy to either grow crops using current methods, or to produce other critical goods and transport them across great distances.” – Currently, ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to grow every calorie of food consumed in the industrialized world. “The only way to prevent a massive die-off is through permaculture and petro-chemical-free agriculture and the skill sets needed to support local communities after the social contract has withered. This must be undertaken by neighborhoods and communities rather than increasingly ineffective and dysfunctional national and regional governments.”

The collapse of human industrial civilization will bring with it a host of unforgiving challenges including the breakdown of governments, economic collapse, the end of fiat currency, massive civil unrest, displaced populations, permanent blackouts, infrastructure failures, fresh water shortages, famine, war, widespread disease and suffering. The tragedy of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico has drastically reduced what time there is to prepare and forever changed the global playing field. It has unleashed an immediate host of unforeseen and unforgiving new challenges.

CollapseNet launches with the premise that a large reduction in human population is inevitable. CollapseNet’s greatest mission is to limit and mitigate the losses and suffering from this while helping people to prepare to maintain a recognizable quality of life. CollapseNet has no political affiliation and is not aligned with any religion, political ideology or nationality. Although based in the United States, CollapseNet’s proprietary software is, at launch, scalable and operational on a global basis. “I'm fairly confident we will have a presence in at least 40 countries before the end of 2010,” says Ruppert.

“There are a lot of things we hope to do with CollapseNet,” Ruppert adds. “We’re going to expand our video capabilities and move into special web-based programming as we grow. We’re going to find ways to help those with needed skills, information and on-site reporting get vital information into the right places quickly, securely and efficiently. CollapseNet will become what lifeboat builders around the world need it to become, as circumstances dictate. And we'll do it without the vacuous wasteland that is mainstream, publicly-traded media throughout the world. CollapseNet will never trade its shares, or its integrity, in the marketplace.”
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From Jenna Orkin

Headlines
BP chief sold shares weeks before oil spill
NASA Pictures of Gulf Leak
Obama secretly deploys special forces
Barter Banks
China Property Woes Worse than US
Gulf of Mexico oil spill: cap 'capturing 1,000 barrels a day'
Marcellus Shale Gas Rupture Forces Evacuation

Economy/US
Could We Actually See Negative 2% GDP Growth In Q3?
U.S.'s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day
Dollar Soars; Euro, Euro/Swiss, Forint Hit New Low; Hungary’s Prime Minister says Economy in "Very Grave Situation, Default Talk Not an Exaggeration"
Hungary Says Default Comments Were `Unfortunate', Can Finance Its Spending
SEC Postpones Single-Stock Circuit Breaker Meant to Prevent Market Crashes
Euro Weakens Below $1.20 for First Time Since 2006 on Debt Crisis Concern
Venice sells off its heritage to plug cash blackhole
About 2300 Running For Congress, Most in Decades

Terror/Intelligence/Science
Knesset Member Denies Israel's Account
Israel Seizes Gaza-Bound Aid Ship; Organizers Say Boarded Without Violence
California Officials Caught on Tape in DC Meetings
ACLU Sues for Records of Govt's Unconstitutional Use of Spying Powers
WikiLeaks Founder's Mission for Total Transparency
Drug Firms Encouraged World Health Body to Exaggerate Danger of Swine Flu
Anti-fear drug 'could help wipe painful memories'
Scientists solve mystery of resistant flu virus
Australia: Experimental Drug Used to Control Virus Spread
Newsweek: Scientists analyze Jews' genetic code
Tailor-made Medicine
Refining medicine to treat patients more effectively sounds like an unmitigated advance. But what of the other potential uses for the information garnered?
Quasi Black Hole Created

Environment/Energy
James Cameron: BP Turned Down Help Offer
Lab Tests Confirm Underwater Layers of Gulf Oil from Elizabeth Miller
Petrobras Strikes Black Gold With New 380 Million Barrel Offshore Oil Discovery
They're baaaack...
Moving US Energy Policy to a Decentralized Grid - from Jon Noel
U.S. Climate-Satellite Capabilities in Jeopardy
Australian restaurant charges you 30% more if you waste food

And...
Japanese PM Puts Ex-Swimsuit Model In Charge Of Declining Birthrate

Friday, June 04, 2010

COLLAPSENET TM LAUNCHES, TUESDAY JUNE 8, 2010

http://www.collapsenet.com
http://www.collapsenetwork.com
http://www.collapsenet.net

May 21, 2010 – CollapseNet ™, a long-anticipated new effort from internationally-recognized author, lecturer and activist Michael C. Ruppert, will officially launch on Tuesday June 8, 2010. The site will be a first-of-its-kind effort to promote the rapid and focused sharing of information between millions around the world who are preparing for the collapse of human industrial civilization – The Lifeboat Movement.

CollapseNet will also feature regular video and written updates, commentary and analysis from Michael C. Ruppert, the sole subject of the critically- acclaimed feature documentary Collapse. DVD sales of Collapse begin on June 15th, 2010. The film, directed by two-time Sundance Winner Chris Smith, has been mentioned as a strong candidate for Best Documentary at the 2011 Oscars.

Michael, the author of two books, is a former LAPD detective and recognized investigative journalist, is known for having thoroughly predicted the 2008 economic crash starting in 2000, as well as many other geopolitical and economic events over the last decade. More than half of the predictions he made during the filming of Collapse (March-June, 2009) have come true since its theatrical release at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of that year.

“There are millions of us around the world who see and understand what is happening,” says Ruppert. “Worldwide reaction to the film has proved that. CollapseNet will – as fast as our maps can populate – demonstrate that the Lifeboat Movement is global, vocal and rapidly standing up to meet this supreme challenge. We apologize or justify ourselves to no one. All we ask is that governments and those who disagree leave us alone. We will be here to help your children build lifeboats when they are ready.”

Ruppert’s newest book, “Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post-Peak Oil World ” – on which the movie was based -- lays out in stark, clear and simple detail the challenges we face as the realities of Peak Oil and diminishing energy supplies collide with a hopelessly corrupt and collapsing economic paradigm based upon infinite growth.

“The essence of survival as human industrial civilization disintegrates,” says Ruppert, “will stem from one thing only; the relocalization of all things necessary to sustain life, civilization and culture. Most important will be relocalization of food production so that as much food as possible comes from within the shortest possible distance. As collapse progresses, all other essential life-sustaining needs will have to be met close to home because there will not be enough energy to either grow crops using current methods, or to produce other critical goods and transport them across great distances.” – Currently, ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to grow every calorie of food consumed in the industrialized world. “The only way to prevent a massive die-off is through permaculture and petro-chemical-free agriculture and the skill sets needed to support local communities after the social contract has withered. This must be undertaken by neighborhoods and communities rather than increasingly ineffective and dysfunctional national and regional governments.”

The collapse of human industrial civilization will bring with it a host of unforgiving challenges including the breakdown of governments, economic collapse, the end of fiat currency, massive civil unrest, displaced populations, permanent blackouts, infrastructure failures, fresh water shortages, famine, war, widespread disease and suffering. The tragedy of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico has drastically reduced what time there is to prepare and forever changed the global playing field. It has unleashed an immediate host of unforeseen and unforgiving new challenges.

CollapseNet launches with the premise that a large reduction in human population is inevitable. CollapseNet’s greatest mission is to limit and mitigate the losses and suffering from this while helping people to prepare to maintain a recognizable quality of life. CollapseNet has no political affiliation and is not aligned with any religion, political ideology or nationality. Although based in the United States, CollapseNet’s proprietary software is, at launch, scalable and operational on a global basis. “I'm fairly confident we will have a presence in at least 40 countries before the end of 2010,” says Ruppert.

“There are a lot of things we hope to do with CollapseNet,” Ruppert adds. “We’re going to expand our video capabilities and move into special web-based programming as we grow. We’re going to find ways to help those with needed skills, information and on-site reporting get vital information into the right places quickly, securely and efficiently. CollapseNet will become what lifeboat builders around the world need it to become, as circumstances dictate. And we'll do it without the vacuous wasteland that is mainstream, publicly-traded media throughout the world. CollapseNet will never trade its shares, or its integrity, in the marketplace.”
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