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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Should we still be in Iraq? (Ridgecrest Daily Independent: Thu, 28 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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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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Holiday craze nothing new: Christmas has been out of control for centuries (Naples Daily News: Fri, 22 Dec) Once upon a time the holiday season was a quiet time spent with family and friends - simpler, less commercial, more spiritual, nothing like today's frenzied orgy of soulless consumption. "There are worlds of money wasted, at this time of year, in getting things that nobody wants, and nobody cares for after they are got," one observer noted recently. Well, not so recently.
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