Peak Oil Passnotes: Peak Oil vs. Cera - The Fight Continues (Resource Investor: Fri, 22 Dec) In a break from our normal market watch we look at a row between industry group CERA and Chris Skrebowski of the Energy Institute in London. Whichever side of Peak Oil you are on, it's a damn good Yuletide fight.
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Options Trader: Tuesday Wrapup (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Thu, 28 Dec) Phil Davis submits: What a way to end the year! Dow 12,510! If only this weren't a low volume week I'd be really psyched right now, but we'll certainly take what we can get and we got a lot today...
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World at tipping point; oil peak arrives (Online Journal: Wed, 27 Dec) The American empire is an energy junkie in its death throes, punching for new veins and final fixes, knowing that the supplies of its drug of choice - cheap oil - are virtually depleted.
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(12/27/2006) One Year Older, One Year Wiser. (Willamette Week: Wed, 27 Dec) News (NEWS STORY) As we close out 2006, WW learns by revisiting three cover stories that predictions can be dangerous, one Portlander can make a difference and there is life after war.
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Should we still be in Iraq? (Ridgecrest Daily Independent: Wed, 27 Dec) With everything that's been going on in our country, should we still be trying to save Iraq or should we be concentrating on saving our selves?
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Mark Green: W & Iraq - and the "Luck" of Democracy (HuffingtonPost: Wed, 20 Dec) In his recent book on democracy, scholar Alan Wolfe concludes that while democratic governance is superior to other forms, our American democracy works "mostly [as] a matter of luck." Our luck is running out. First was the coin toss of a presidential election in 2000 - where the winner was precisely the wrong person for the new global economy and global terrorism requiring leaders who ...
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