Weekend Documentary! Sat. April 30, 2011 "Hunt for the Supertwister"

KM over at Big Picture Agriculture has a great article up today.  A great site you guys should check out.

Peak Oil Aware Biologist John Janovy, Jr. Predicts Future Human Evolution

I really liked the end prediction. :D

I'd also like to sincerely thank Draftee for the generous donation. Thank you so much! I was really surprised by that and can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

Also, Kathleen has a superb article on the royal wedding up over at the Dissident Voice.
I love this line."I’m curious if the usual cash for gold, pawn shop, and payday lender commercials will get some sweet air time during this magnificence."
Great work Kathleen! Your article made me feel better. You guys should check it out too, it's called,  
How About Some Royal Wedding Austerity?
oh, and one more thing, rj sent this wedding humor photo. Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on in this picture?

Ok, Now for the show!
For our documentary today, I thought maybe something about tornadoes might be appropriate after this past week's storms.
P.S. wanted to add this link that rj from Global Glass Onion just sent me. It's eye opening to say the least.
Go to the link and scroll down to the article with the graphs on this years tornado activity. I hope and pray this trend doesn't keep going.

NOAA's National Weather Service: U.S. Tornadoes -- Daily Counts and Annual Running Trends

Oh, and here's another he just sent. Wanted to share this one too, it's a good one!
Who Covereth the Heaven With Clouds, Who Prepareth Rain For the Earth, Who Hasn'teth A Clue (video) Fear not the extreme weather threatening us all, the tornados in the South, the drought and fire ravaging Texas. GOP Gov. Rick Perry - he who has called climate change “one contrived phony mess' and whose state is the biggest carbon polluter in the country - will save us with prayer. Also some help from the feds, though he wants to secede. Also a prayerful Facebook page and song. It only has eight words; I guess they ran out. But hear ye: Fear not climate change. Hallelulah.

Breaking News Fri. April 29, 2011

Surely now the nonsense over the reptilians getting married will finally end and the world can stop swooning over it.
I hope I don't offend anyone but that stuff has about driven me nuts! I'm not a fan of "royalty".

Anyway, thanks to Ozarker for links she sent, be sure to check out her wonderful writing at Conflicted Doomer. Also, thanks to friend of this blog rj who is getting a lot of rain and flooding from the storms. Check out his weekly economic round up today at Global Glass Onion. He usually has it posted in the afternoon.

 I love this story!
YahooNews: Man in cow suit robs Walmart of 26 gallons of milk
and this one too. :D
DemocracyNow: Johann Hari: Frenzy Around Britain’s Royal Wedding "Should Embarrass Us All"
As always, I'd like to invite any newcomers to the blog to check out the forums linked at the bottom of this post. If you're looking for a place to talk about current events, or discuss your prepping needs and concerns, you couldn't do better than those forums!





Japan
This just in from our good friend rj.
FTAlphaville: Japan’s ‘stunning’ stats: Yosano’s new nightmare - As variously predicted, the “3/11 effect” on Japan’s economy is starting to kick in. And true to warnings that the impact could be far worse than feared, the latest batch of data is reasonably horrible. Only a day after S&P signaled fresh concerns about Japan’s economy, official data on Thursday showed a far sharper plunge in March industrial production than the consensus 10.6 per cent – a whopping 15.3 per cent fall from February – while March household spending slid an annual 8.5 per cent. Kaoru Yosano, Japan’s economy minister who famously spoke in January of his “dreadful dream” about the national debt burden, was “stunned” by the industrial production figures, according to the Nikkei newspaper. No wonder. Yosano had told the FT just days after the March 11 magnitude 9 earthquake, that the disaster would have little impact on Japan’s economy.
ZeroHedge: TEPCO Releases Video Of Spent Fuel Rod Pool At Reactor 4
enenews: Report: New TEPCO data unequivocally shows ongoing criticalities at Unit 2

Global Conflict
Reuters: CBS reporter Lara Logan recounts assault in Egypt
(Reuters) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan felt sure she would die while being sexually assaulted by a mob when covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, she says in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday.
Guardian: Fifteen arrested after violence flares at new Bristol protestsDemonstration followed alleged police violence during protest against Tesco store in Stokes Croft area last week
BBC: Libya: Pro-Gaddafi troops 'captured in Tunisia
Hosted: Syrian security forces open fire at protesters 
Reuters: Syrian protesters call for Assad overthrow(Reuters) - Thousands of Syrians called on Friday for the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad and pledged support for the city of Deraa where tanks and troops have tried to crush resistance to his authoritarian rule, activists said.
LegitGov: Seven killed in Iraq after deadly mosque attack
TheAtlantic: How the World Let Qaddafi Get Cluster BombsLibyan government forces are deploying the horrific -- and, throughout much of the world, banned -- weapons against rebels, proving that we will have to do more if we want to end their use

Financial News
Another good one from rj.
ZeroHedge: McDonalds Hires 62,000, Turns Away Over 938,000 Applicants For Minimum Wage, Part-Time Jobs - This is what the US economy has been reduced to: McDonalds reports that as part of its employment event to hire 50,000 minimum wage, part-time (mostly) workers, subsequently raised to 62,000 it received a whopping 1 million applications, or a Tim Geithner jealousy inducing 6.2% hit rate.  Alas, the US economy is now so pathetic that the bulk of the population will settle for anything. Literally anything. And the saddest part: over 938,000 applicants were turned away. Here's hoping to Burger King needs a few million janitors in the immediate future too. And yes, aside from reality, things in America are really recovering quite nicely.
CNNMoney: What happens if Congress blows the debt ceiling?
ZeroHedge: As First Suggested By Zero Hedge In 2009, Massive CDS Price Manipulation Scanadal Erupts, Everyone Implicated
ModernSurvivalBlog: Core Shoppers Running Out Of Money 
CSMonitor: The oil company gusherExxon-Mobil earned 69 percent more during the first quarter than a year ago, and the industry is trying to keep a $4 billion annual tax subsidy
BusinessInsider: Democrats Are Caving Left And Right On The Debt Ceiling
Of course, the real story on the debt ceiling fight is this: The GOP wants austerity now because it weakens the economy in the runup to the election. The question is how much blood they can draw, and how much spending Obama has to give up on.
BusinessInsider: A Frightening Satellite Tour Of America's Foreclosure Wastelands
BusinessInsider: IT'S OFFICIAL: Surging Commodities Are Killing The Labor Market
Caterpillar's just released earnings were strong, but they confirm a trend reported by some others this season: higher commodity prices are being offset by squeezing more out of labor.
GlobeandMail: Canada's economy unexpectedly shrinks in February
ZeroHedge: As One Million Exhaust Jobless Benefits, A Look At What Recent Deteriorating Layoff Trends Means
GlobeandMail: Rising fuel costs hit small businesses 
CSMonitor: A tepid quarter for GDPThe first quarter of the year saw disappointing growth in the US economy. Here are the factors that caused GDP to grow just 1.8 percent.


Peak oil and Energy News 
The below story sure doesn't bode well does it?  See the press release at the link.
There Goes the Data: Major Cuts at EIA Washington  

One of my greatest concerns coming out of the financial crisis of 2008 was that, eventually, free services like government data would be reduced or lost altogether. This afternoon I learned from EIA Washington that one of the cornerstones of my own work, and also the work of others globally, is about to be suspended: the gathering of International Energy Statistics. For me professionally, this is among the most important gateways to monthly data on global oil production. As I said, after 2008 I came to recognize my own professional dependency on this free data. But, I never actually expected to lose my access. Well, that’s always the way, isn’t it? Below is a portion of today’s EIA Press Release:

TheOilDrum: Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever
ClimateProgress: Oil roulette

EnergyBulletin: Live webchat with Asher Miller, Bart Anderson and Richard Heinberg - transcript
ClimateProgress: Paul Ryan endorses ending oil subsidies, even though he voted for them 
UPI: Trump wants all of Iraq's oil for the U.S.  

Reuters: Oil near 31-month peak on weak dollar, unrest(Reuters) - Oil prices hovered near 31-month highs as a weak dollar and violence in North Africa and the Middle East outweighed concerns about slowing growth in top consumer the United States.
EnergyBulletin: Won’t innovation, substitution, and efficiency keep us growing? - Conclusions - The near-religious belief that economic growth depends not on energy and resources, but solely on increasing innovation, efficiency, trade, and division of labor, can sometimes lead economists to say silly things. 

Environmental News
WSJ: Unusual Collision of Weather Forces Likely Set Stage for Storm Outbreak
USAToday: Across the South, violent storms left little hope 
Hosted: Blowout could spill 58 million gallons in Arctic
NewScientist: The hunt is on for million-year-old ice core
EarthObservatoryNASA: Flooding along the Mississippi River

On April 28 in the afternoon, 62 river gauges reported major flooding, 109 gauges had moderate flooding, 233 gauges showed minor flooding, and 298 showed conditions near flood stage, according to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS). Flooding was concentrated in the U.S. Midwest and South, with some in the Northeast.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired these images on April 28, 2011 (top), and April 29, 2010 (bottom). Flood conditions appear far worse in April 2011 than a year earlier, as the Wabash, Ohio, Black, and Mississippi Rivers are all considerably higher. 

ActivistPost: Radioactive Jet Streams

I climbed this mountain in North Carolina with Dutch right after publishing “Beyond the Door” on Monday. Even after all the devastating information I have been publishing about the nuclear disaster, I was shaken. It is not easy to understand the implications and follow the math of what is happening in the northern hemisphere but let’s try.

AccuWeather: 150-mph Jet Stream a Key Factor in Wednesday's Tornado Outbreak
A 150-mph jet stream was one of the key players in why Wednesday's historical tornado outbreak in the South was so devastating. The persistent presence of a strong jet stream over the South is the main culprit in why this April has been such a terrible month for tornadoes.
Hosted: Blowout could spill 58 million gallons in Arctic
SkepticalScience: Wakening the Kraken

America in Decline
Hosted: Americans wake before dawn to watch royal weddingBleary-eyed Americans woke before dawn Friday to watch Britain's Prince William marry his longtime sweetheart, Kate Middleton, gathering before screens in living rooms and restaurants across the country to watch the spectacle of a royal wedding and the couple's first kiss as man and wife.
AmericanDream: The Royal Wedding, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars And 7 Other Ways That The American People Are Being Distracted From Our Real Problems

Food and Water
Guardian: Rabbit battery farms could return to UKLocal and welfare concerns over planning applications lodged for first intensive rabbit farms since 1990s

Science and Technology
Definitely check out the article below, sent to us by the Ozarker at Conflicted Doomer
TruthOut: The Celestial Computers of Ancient Greece
CSMonitor: Space shuttle launch Friday will be last for EndeavourSpace shuttle launch: the US space shuttle Endeavour will launch for the last time on Friday, drawing an estimated 750,000 spectators from all over the country.
WashingtonPost: Shuttle mission includes the launch of a physics experiment

Medical and Health
WashingtonPostFactChecker: GOP lawmakers tout Medicare reform by stretching a comparison to the health benefits they receive
RawStory: ACLU defends cancer patient fired for legal marijuana useThe American Civil Liberties Union urged a U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit against Wal-Mart and a manager in Michigan for firing an employee who used medical marijuana in accordance with state law.
NewScientist: First partial transplant of a bioengineered larynx
WashingtonPost: The three most important health-care graphs in the world

The Kaiser Family Foundation has an excellent series of charts making the point that not only does the American health-care system spend much more than anyone else, but that spending has been growing much faster than everyone else’s, and is now so high that our government spends more on health care than the governments of countries with single-payer systems — and that’s true even though most of our health-care spending is private! But let’s start at the beginning. Here’s what we spend vs. what everyone else spends:

Wikileaks
FDL: Bradley Manning to be Removed from Solitary Confinement Tomorrow
RawStory: Pentagon tries to tamp down Manning detention outcry with media tour 
WashingtonPost: Documents offer hints of legal strategy in WikiLeaks case

Other News
YahooNews: Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan says he was manipulated by a seductive girl in a mind control plot
LifeInc: Social Security goes paperless, saves moneyThe Social Security Administration is saying goodbye to the paper check.
Beginning Sunday, anyone who signs up for Social Security benefits will have to choose an option for receiving their payments electronically.
BusinessInsider: 53 Mind-Blowing, Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself
TheEconomist: America's transport infrastructure Life in the slow laneAmericans are gloomy about their economy’s ability to produce. Are they right to be? We look at two areas of concern, transport infrastructure and innovation 
IWPR: Telling the Real Story on Social Security

The Forums
TinfoilPalace: When the levee breaks or gets blown up is more like it 
TinfoilPalace: An Illuminati Higher Up Defector Reveals All
TheOilAge: Desperate sprawl developer gives away cars with houses
TheOilAge: Planet Easter Island
Hubberts-Arms: Donald Trumps profanity laced speech in Vegas, very interesting.
Hubberts-Arms: This ain't no rubber chicken story: ~25% Alabama poultry slaughter
SilentCountry: north slope now turning to "heavy" oil
SilentCountry: Economic growth slows as inflation surges

Breaking News Thurs. April 28, 2011

What a night!  It got pretty wild here for a bit but not as bad as up the road from us in Greene county. Two tornadoes touched down and so far 5 people dead. Hope everyone made it through ok. Here's some of the latest I could find on the storms.

Reuters: Tornadoes and storms rip through South, more than 220 dead
(Reuters) - Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing more than 220 people as they flattened neighborhoods, flipped cars and toppled trees and power lines, officials said on Thursday.
MSNBC: Storms, tonadoes ravage South; at least 213 Dead
Ala. governor says state has 'massive destruction of property,' up to 1 million without power.
and this from my neck of the woods.
WBIR: East Tennessee wakes up to massive storm damage 
Oh, and thanks to ConcernedMomma at Tinfoil Palace for posting this video. It's possibly some of the most intense and nerve wracking tornado footage I've seen.

Japan
Bloomberg: Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began
TheBarrel: Us-versus-them mentality in tanker market on voyages to JapanIn the aftermath of the earthquake in Japan, there's been a sort of polarization in the tanker market that has pitted some charterers against certain owners.
Bloomberg: Japan Quake Takes Bigger-Than-Estimated Economic Toll; BOJ Lowers Forecast

Factory output fell 15.3 percent from February, the biggest drop since data began in 1953, and household spending slid 8.5 percent from a year earlier, the government said today. The Bank of Japan cut its growth estimate for the year ending March 2012 to 0.6 percent from a January prediction of 1.6 percent.

UPI: Asbestos a danger to workers in Japan


Global Conflict
BlackListedNews: Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency and Loans

World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest.
Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank’s early role in the reconstruction of France, Japan and other nations after World War II.
“Reconstruction now means (Ivory Coast), it means southern Sudan, it means Liberia, it means Sri Lanka, I hope it will mean Libya,” Zoellick said.

UPI: Kim Jong Il offers to meet with South Korean president, according to Jimmy Carter
SEOUL, April 28 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il proposed a summit with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, former U.S. President Carter said Thursday in Seoul.

Financial News
Roubini Tweeted: Consensus chorus is already moaning: "it was only a Q1 soft patch". But this time is not different: anemic, sub-par growth is here to stay
ZeroHedge: Senators Franken and Blumenthal and Representative Johnson Announce Legislation Giving Consumers More Power In Courts vs. Corporations
BlackListedNews: How The Comex Lost 20% Of Its “Registered” Silver In One Week, Or Where There’s Smoke Of A Run, There’s Probably A Run
Reuters: Jobless claims jump in latest week(Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits surprisingly rose last week to their highest level since January in a sign an anticipated recovery in labor markets may take time, a government report showed on Thursday. 
CNNMoney: GDP: Economic recovery stumblesEconomic growth slowed to a crawl in the first three months of the year as a spike in gasoline, higher overall inflation and continued weakness in the housing market all took a toll on the recovery.
WSJ: IMF: Capital Flows to Asia Still Below Peaks
BusinessInsider: Government Spending Plunges, And We Haven't Even Gotten To The Austerity Yet 
GlobeandMail: High gas prices slow U.S. growthThe U.S. economy slowed sharply in the first three months of the year as high gas prices cut into consumer spending, bad weather delayed construction projects and the federal government slashed defence spending by the most in six years.
WSJ: Gold Sets Another Record 
Bloomberg: Nigerian Banks Winning Mobius With Asia-Like Growth in Africa6 of the 20 fastest growing country economies this year are in Africa -- what's behind the boom? 
BusinessInsider: CHART OF THE DAY: The Real Trend That Should Have Investors Worried
CNNMoney: Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money' 
ZeroHedge: Jim Rogers Comments On Triple Digit Silver And Issues Warning: "Parabolic Moves Always Collapse"



Peak oil and Energy News
EnergyBulletin: It isn't gridcrash that makes the lights go out
Reuters: Exxon's quarterly profit rises 69 percent
UPI: Russia to halt gasoline exports in MayMOSCOW, April 28 (UPI) -- Exports of gasoline from Russia will stop in May to address rampant shortages in parts of the country, a deputy energy official said.

Environmental News

Raw Video: Tornado Blows Through Miss. Town

SFGate: BP gets billion-dollar tax credit for Gulf Spill
SFGate: Deepwater Horizon one of 6,500 fossil fuel spills and explosions last year 
Reuters: Storms knock out TVA nuclear units, power lines(Reuters) - Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabama to shut and knocking out 11 high-voltage power lines, the utility and regulators said.
WSJ: Deadly Storms Hit South
Scores Killed Across Five States; in Flooded Midwest, a Battle Over Levee Plan
RawStory: Footage shows massive tornado touching down in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
In what may be one of the most damaging outbreaks of tornado in U.S. history, nearly 180 people are said to have died in the devastating storms that have ripped across the south and mid-west this month.
ExtinctionProtocol: Omen? Scientists dismayed as millions of aquatic animals swarm Antarctica
WalesOnline: Exotic birds fly into WalesThey’re normally spotted in the more exotic climes of Africa, South America and the Mediterranean. But changing global climates are bringing some unusual avian visitors to Wales, as Sion Morgan reports
GMO: Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever (19pp pdf) The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

America in Decline
TheAtlantic: U.S. Shakeup and the Blurring Line Between Military and Intelligence
MotherJones: The GOP's Favorite Fringe Historian

Jesus opposed the minimum wage, God hates socialism, and other teachings of the controversial evangelical leader Republican presidential contenders can't stop praising.
Newt Gingrich is a fan. So's Michele Bachmann. Mike Huckabee's such a booster that he recently said that all Americans should be "forced at gunpoint" to listen to this guy.

CreditWriteDowns: Do the Facts Really Matter?

And yet, it’s not entirely fair to blame Trump, Drudge or the information age for our persistent idiocy. Rather, the fault is really our own: The human mind is simply terrible at politics. Although we think we make political decisions based upon the facts, the reality is much more sordid. We are affiliation machines, editing the world to confirm our partisan ideologies.

WashingtonPost: Shiloh Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity

“We received a fax that had the image of a monkey with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telephone calls that have been so vulgar until she has had to hang up.”

 Science and Technology
BlackListedNews: Facebook Facial Recognition Could Get CreepyIn early April, Engadget posted a short article confirming a rumor that Facebook would be using facial recognition to suggest the names of friends who appeared in newly uploaded photos. You’d be allowed to opt out of tagging, and only friends would be able to tag each other in albums. Nevertheless, a commenter beneath the story quipped, “Awesome! Now I can take pictures of cute girls at the grocery store or at the park, upload them and Facebook will tell me who they are! (I’m pretty sure that’s not [how] it works but I’m sure it will get there.)”

Other News
TPM: After-Birthers: How Conspiracy Theorists Reacted To Obama's Long-Form Birth CertificateNow that President Barack Obama's legal team went out of its way to get a copy of Obama's so-called long-form birth certificate, it's time for the birthers to eat crow, right? Not so much. It hasn't taken long for members of the "birther" movement to grab their backup plans.
Good: The Movie That Predicted Birtherism 11 Years AgoA Democratic minority politician gunning for higher office who is beset upon by right-wing conservatives, all of whom caterwaul about a secret past. Is it today's biggest headline? Nope, it's The Contender, an underappreciated Rod Lurie film from 2000 that should be on the Netflix queue of anyone interested in birtherism.
MotherJones: Should the FBI Redefine Rape?

House Republicans attracted a lot of outrage earlier this year when they attempted to redefine rape in a way that would limit exceptions to the ban on federal funding for abortions. The GOP originally proposed limiting the situations in which the government could help pay for abortions to those in which the pregnancy was the result of "forcible rape" or incest "if [the victim is] a minor."

Eventually, the party dropped that effort: its amended legislation returns to straightforward exceptions that allow the government to pay for abortions "if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest." But it's worth noting, as Ms. reminds us, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still operating under a "forcible rape" framework.

BusinessInsider: WATCH: After A Big Shouting Fest Lawrence O'Donnell Kicks Crazy Birther Orly Taitz Off His Show
SOTT: Why We Are Not Surprised? Air France Recorder Found, but Missing Its MemoryThe investigation into what caused the crash of an Air France jet two years ago suffered a major setback, officials said Wednesday, when search crews in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean located one of the plane's black boxes - only to discover that its memory unit was missing.

MSMagazine: Rep. Allen West’s Phallocentric Theory of Deficit Reduction

We need you to come in and lock shields, and strengthen up the men who are going to fight for you. To let these other women know on the other side—these Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women that have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness—to let them know what we are not going to have our men become subservient. That’s what we need you to do. Because if you don’t, then the debt will continue to grow.

The Forums
TinfoilPalace: Top Illuminati Celebrities Exposed
TinfoilPalace: Possible Friday "Event"
TheOilAge: For we shall reap the whirlwind. Hundreds dead..
TheOilAge: Worthy Investments For The Poor Man
Hubberts-Arms: The story of a recent suicide.
Hubberts-Arms: Massive Tornado Outbreak
SilentCountry: Atlas Whined
SilentCountry: N.Korean food situation

Breaking News Wed. April, 27, 2011

Well, thank God the birther drama is over! Or is it???? LOL
But enough of that silliness, please take a minute and visit this link, also posted at the bottom in the forums section. Our very own Megadoom is going to be doing some consulting! Check it out!
MEGADOOM'S consultation services

As always, thanks to rj for today's links, be sure and visit him at The Global Glass Onion.

Japan
FT.com: Chip companies warn on Japan effectSome of Europe’s largest semiconductor companies on Wednesday warned that disruption following the Japanese earthquake would mean lower growth for the global chip sector this year.
MiamiHerald: Japanese government considers underground wall to contain Fukushima radiation  The Japanese government is considering building an underground barrier near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive material from spreading far from the plant via soil and groundwater, a senior government official said. Sumio Mabuchi, a special adviser to the prime minister, revealed the plan Friday at the Japan National Press Club building in Tokyo. The plan is the first attempt to address the risk of contaminated water spreading far from the plant through soil. According to Mabuchi, the barrier would extend so far underground that it would reach a layer that does not absorb water. The wall would entirely surround the land on which reactors No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 stand. Mabuchi is a member of the unified command headquarters set up by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. to deal with the nuclear crisis. He serves as the head of government representatives on a team dealing with medium- and long-term issues, including how to contain the spread of radioactive materials from the plant.

Global Conflict
BlackListedNews: Mexican Drug Cartels Place Roadside Bomb in Brownsville, Texas
BBC: UN to debate Syria as the violence continues
ActivistPost: Ex-CIA chief: Kadhafi was good partnerNATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (AFP) - The former chief of the CIA on Tuesday praised Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's past cooperation and said his downfall could complicate US interests in the short term.
UPI: Pew: Egyptians don't want Israeli peaceWASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- The majority of Egyptians say the peace treaty with Israel should be annulled, a survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project reveals.
BBC: Ivory Coast: Pro-Ouattara forces clash in AbidjanFighting has broken out in the Ivorian city of Abidjan between forces loyal to the new president and the "Invisible Commandos", a rival militia.
AlJazeera: Stop the presses, literally in Iraq
The US military praises Iraqi security forces as they crack down on press freedom.

Financial News
ZeroHedge: Pimco's Observations As The US "Reaches The Keynesian Endpoint" - The QE2 Ponzi Scheme Is "Nothing But A Profit Illusion"
ibtimes: Gold and Silver Bubble? - Some Retail Investors Taking Profits and ETF and COT Data Suggest Otherwise
MyBudget360: The financial tipping point of peak debt – Total credit market debt owed increased from $28 trillion in 2001 to over $52 trillion in 2011. Household debt contracting while Fed juices up the banking sector with more debt.
BusinessInsider: Rally Evaporates, As Market Realizes That America Is Officially A Circus
MSNBC: Why more people are rejecting their credit cardsFinancial experts say people who live a cash-only life usually spend less
BusinessInsider: The Debt Ceiling: Geithner Prepares To Drain Retirement Accounts, And Banks Step Up Lobbying
CBSMoneyWatch: What to Do About Retirement Sticker Shock
WashingtonPost: BP Q1 net profit up 16 pct, but replacement cost measure falls on asset sales
CBSMoneyWatch: US Stocks Within 3 Percent of All-Time High
RawStory: GOP Reps Ryan, Webster face screaming anger at town halls
In the words of MSNBC host Rachel Madddow, House Republicans are in the midst of a “collective freakout” over the public’s reaction to Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan, which cleared the House right before Congress went on vacation.
USAToday: Bank overdraft fees pile up despite Fed regulation
Consumers will spend an estimated $38.5 billion in overdraft penalty fees in 2011, up from $18.6 billion in 2000, according to a study out today by the Pew Health Group, the consumer-product safety arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
YahooFinance: The New Ideal Retirement Age
A decade ago many people strived to retire young. Now most people are nudging back their retirement date and wondering if they will be able to retire at all. The age workers expect to retire has increased from an average of 60 in 1995 to 66 today, according to a new Gallup poll of 1,077 adults.
Reuters: Special report: Does corporate America kowtow to China?
ActivistPost: Economic Hit Men Now Used on Americans (Video)
CreditSlips: For the Servicers: Is It Better to Rob Peter or Paul?
The U.S. mortgage servicing industry is in deep doo-doo. To foreclose on a mortgage, you must own the note and the mortgage. 
CalculatedRisk: Q1 2011: Homeownership Rate at 1998 Levels - The Census Bureau reported the homeownership and vacancy rates for Q1 2011 this morning.

Peak oil and Energy News
TheOilDrum: Global World Product Will Not Grow at 4%+ for Five Years
Reuters: Oil above $124 as weak dollar supports(Reuters) - Brent crude oil edged above $124 a barrel Wednesday as support from a weaker dollar, ahead of a Federal Reserve statement expected to maintain loose monetary policy, countered rising U.S. inventories.
TheOilDrum: Drumbeat: April 27, 2011 

ClimateProgress: TVA agrees to retire 2,700 megawatts of coal - Tennessee Valley Authority plans for a clean energy future

Environmental News
ScientificAmerican: Ice Cores from Greenland Unlock Ancient Climate Secret

Paleoclimatologist James White finds stark warnings about the potential for rapid climate change hidden in ancient ice
White's ice–core studies helped reveal two striking facts. The first is that the Earth's great ice ages are bookmarked by a clear fluctuation in carbon dioxide levels: 180 parts per million (ppm) in the glacial periods, 280 ppm in the warmer periods (the level at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago). A shift of 100 ppm in CO2 concentrations meant the difference between flowers blooming in the Arctic and ice a mile deep over Chicago.

AlterNet: Displacing People For Profit: Obama Administration Supports Controversial Coal Project in Bangladesh
Why is the Obama administration covertly pushing for an internationally opposed open-pit coal mine operation in Bangladesh?

CNN: Residents evacuate as volcano spews ashes in Ecuador
(CNN) -- Authorities in Ecuador closed schools and evacuated residents in areas near a volcano Tuesday after ashes spewing from its crater fell on homes and farms, state media reported.
Ashes from Tungurahua -- which means "throat of fire" in the native Quechua language -- rose more than 7 kilometers (4 miles) into the air Tuesday, the government news agency said.
NewScientistTV: Up close and personal with an active volcano
USAToday: 1 dead in Arkansas as more storms roll in
AL.com: Storms with winds of up to 100 mph damage houses, knock out power to 262,000 statewide (updated) 
ClimateProgress: Limbaugh tells Boehner to flip-flop and “defend Big Oil” — and the House Speaker does
MotherJones: Is Your Organic Compost Really Sewage Sludge? 

America in Decline
Salon: Strong anti-American sentiment in EgyptPublic opinion in Egypt is very instructive -- and troubling -- in this regard. Americans cheered in consensus for the democratic rebellion against the Mubarak regime. But most Egyptians aren't cheering for America, which long supported that regime until the very end. A new Pew poll was just released -- the first taken since the fall of Mubarak -- and its findings were summarized by today's Washington Post.
ABCNews: Guantanamo Docs Neglected, Concealed Medical Evidence of Torture, Study FindsDoctors caring for detainees at the Guantanamo prison may have neglected or concealed medical evidence of torture, such as bone fractures, lacerations, and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, , according to a study released today by Physicians for Human Rights.
ibtimes: China in no mood to listen in U.S. rights talks
Washington'sBlog: Four Stories This Week Prove that the War on Terror is a Farce
Alternet: We're #1 -- Ten Depressing Ways America Is ExceptionalAmerica is exceptional in the advantages we’ve had over other nations, not what we’ve done with those advantages.  

Food and Water
FarmWars: GM Alfalfa – Why No Sprouting?

The new Monsanto Technology Use Agreement (TUA) indicates that purchasers of Roundup Ready Alfalfa seeds are not allowed to sprout them. When I read that, the first thing that popped into my mind was – why?

Grist: Strawberry grower shows how to make a profit without poisons
Grist: How to solve world hunger by bringing farming indoorsWhat if the only way to save crops from climate change was taking the climate out of the equation entirely? Researchers in the Netherlands think that artificially lit, carefully irrigated "sunless farming" may have the power to reverse world hunger.

Science and Technology
NewScientist: Details of 77m PlayStation users stolen, admits Sony
GlobeandMail: Massive data theft: 77 million users exposed in Sony’s PlayStation security breach 
Economist: Creepy crawlies The internet allows the malicious to menace their victims 
NewScientist: The Middle East is ripe for a scientific revolution 
Forbes: Apple Blames Bug For Extensive Location Tracking

Medical and Health
CSMonitor: Supreme Court hears case: Is Vermont restricting drug companies' speech?Drug companies tell the Supreme Court that by barring access to doctors' drug prescribing records, Vermont is discriminating against the firms' protected commercial speech.
ActivistPost: Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and steal natural health products in shocking FDA raidAmidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicine.

Other News 
abcNews: Donald Trump Claims Credit for Obama's Releasing Birth Certificate 

SHTFPlan: Americans are Preparing at Unprecedented Levels

Do you have enough larder to feed your family and some friends if grocery stores ran out of food? How about several assault rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo? Solar panels, a water filter, medical kits, bug-out bags, fire starters, tents, sleeping bags, some junk silver and reserve gasoline?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

RawStory: Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish
CNN: Toddler shoots mom dead, boy's father tells Florida police
RawStory: SETI forced to shut down search for alien lifeThe SETI Institute has been forced to temporarily shut down operations at its telescope array due to federal and state funding cutbacks.
RawStory: Drug-bashing RI Republican charged with drug useRobert Watson, a high-ranking Republican state legislator in Rhode Island, is in hot water after being charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Drug charges alone would be bad enough for a public official, but Watson, Rhode Island's House minority leader, is still remembered for his controversial anti-drug, anti-gay and anti-immigrant remarks.
Grist: Ezra Klein: ‘Obama, based on his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s’
Alternet: Gingrich: Secular Elites Have Declared War On Time ItselfNewt Gingrich, the maybe presidential candidate and recent Catholic convert is ready to stand up and defend the basic concept of time from what he says is an onslaught from America's secular elite.

The Forums
TinfoilPalace: Bernanke Speech 
TinfoilPalace: 'Birthers' ignore chance to view Obama's info
TheOilAge: MEGADOOM'S consultation services
TheOilAge: Record-setting homelessness in New York CIty 
Hubberts-Arms: 2008 crash deja vu: We’ll relive it, and soon
Hubberts-Arms: Maurice Sendak: "I'm getting out just in time."
SilentCountry: Water to get even scarcer on the US west coast
SilentCountry: Who else wants the MSM to just stop the wedding stories?

Breaking News Tues. April 26, 2011

The Banana Peel of Destiny

You will recall, perhaps, that hoary old concept, the "bumpy plateau" of the peak oil story. This was the idea that the actual tippy-top "peak" of peak oil, studied at close scale, would actually take the form of a raggedy line representing the interplay between supply, demand, and most importantly the frantic psychological response of humans operating in markets. It was clear that economies would stagger under the burden of high oil prices, and economic activity would contract, and people would use less oil and the price would go down. When prices were real low again, people would resume buying more oil (and other stuff) and economic activity would mount and oil prices would go up again. We knew this would happen for a couple-few cycles, and that then things would get... more interesting.

James Howard Kunstler

Still a bit under the weather today. Should be back to my normal self in a day or so. Hope everyone is doing well. Do check out rj at Global Glass Onion who sent me some really good links this morning. Thanks rj! and say hello to the Ozarker over at Conflicted Doomer! She does beautiful writing, especially when she writes about tomatoes! LOL

Japan
WSJ: Japan Utility Chief Bumped Off Plane at Start of Crisis
CNN: Japan's irradiated waters: How worried should we be?
Reuters: Rebuilding Japan's disaster-hit towns may take a decade

Global Conflict
CNN: Syria launches bloody new crackdown as U.S. threatens sanctions
TheTelegraph: Libya: western leaders call for Nato to target GaddafiSenior western leaders called for Nato to adopt an assassination policy against Col Muammar Gaddafi to salvage the bombing campaign in Libya from a descent into stalemate.
NYT: Syria Escalates Crackdown as Tanks Go to Restive City

Financial News
Bloomberg: Silver, Gold Rise to Records on Bets China's Demand Will Climb
YahooFinance: Boehner open to repealing oil company tax breaksWASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that Congress should "take a look at" repealing the multibillion-dollar tax subsidies enjoyed by the major oil companies.
YahooFinance: Boehner open to repealing oil company tax breaksWASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that Congress should "take a look at" repealing the multibillion-dollar tax subsidies enjoyed by the major oil companies.
BusinessInsider: There Are No Miracle Cures From Inflation And It Will Destroy The Middle Class
TheEconomist: Africans are asking whether China is making their lunch or eating it
Reuters: Ford posts best first-quarter profit in 13 years 
ConsumerReports: Is it ever smart to walk away from your mortgage? 
WashingtonPost: The word most politicians ignore: Jobs 
Reuters: Spanish borrowing costs jump; Greek debt shunned(Reuters) - Spain's short-term borrowing costs jumped on Tuesday as euro zone markets returned from the Easter break still fretting about a potential Greek debt restructuring with knock-on effects on other sovereigns. 
NPR: Home Prices Still Searching For A BottomHome prices are falling in most major U.S. cities, and at least 10 major markets are at their lowest point since the housing bubble burst.

Peak oil and Energy News
FinancialSense: The peaking of oil prices and the coming Depression. Resource Wars to follow.
Time: Will Israel's Electric Cars Change the World?
Econbrowser: Saudi oil production and the Libyan conflict 

Environmental News
NewScientist: Warmer oceans release CO2 faster than thoughtAs the world's oceans warm, their massive stores of dissolved carbon dioxide may be quick to bubble back out into the atmosphere and amplify the greenhouse effect, according to a new study.
Reuters: Five dead in Arkansas as floods, tornadoes hit again(Reuters) - A tornado destroyed 50 to 80 houses and killed at least two people in an Arkansas town on Monday and floods caused at least three deaths in the state as storms continued to lash the region, authorities said.
ABCNews: Tornado Outbreak: Severe Weather in Arkansas Leaves 7 Dead, Flooding in Missouri

America in Decline
AddictingInfo: Blatant Tea Party Racism. Or “If It Walks Like A Duck…”

“You have declared war on the white man in America-putting the wants and needs of the moochers, leeches, looters and criminals ahead of the producers and the workers of America. And we don’t want 15 to 20 million illiterate Mexicans and Chicanos as our new welfare society, living like rats in our neighborhoods.”

Alternet: Texas GOP Fights Catastrophic Wildfires With Prayer and Global Warming Denial
Praying for rain will be little help while Texas politicians work to deny global warming and prevent the changes that might actually deal with their troubles. 
TruthOut: Guantanamo Detainee Files Hint at Psychological Research 
MotherJones: Tennessee Sharia Bill Too Extreme For Tea Partiers 

Food and Water
SFGate: Corn Gains as Rain Delays Seeding; Wheat Jumps to 2-Month HighApril 25 (Bloomberg) -- Corn gained on speculation that wet, cold weather across the U.S. Midwest will further delay planting, reducing yields. Wheat advanced to a two-month high.

Science and Technology
WashingtonPost: Are drones a technological tipping point in warfare?


Medical and Health
ActivistPost: Medical Marijuana Becoming Blockbuster Drug
ABCNews: Seeking 1,000 Brains from the Healthy, the Diseased, the Extraordinary 

Other News
RollCall: Reports: Ron Paul to Form Exploratory CommitteeRep. Ron Paul will reportedly announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee Tuesday in Iowa, according to multiple news organizations.
ConsumerTraveler: State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport
Alternet: Why Garment Sizing is a Social Class IssueClothiers are now attempting to standardize sizing in the US, alleviating the pain of women everywhere. But why didn't they just do that in the first place?

The Forums
TinfoilPalace: "This guest list reads like a 'Who's Who' of tyrants and their cronies," - Royal Wedding
TinfoilPalace: Moon man in hiding after death threats
TheOilAge: Not the Refineries!
TheOilAge: Prepping For Three Futures...
Hubberts-Arms: My Slver/Gold Conspiracy Thread of the Day :)
Hubberts-Arms: American Hellholes
SilentCountry: Sharon Astyk: Zombietopia!
SilentCountry: Second computer worm 'hits Iran'

Breaking News Mon. April 25, 2011

Just want to apologize for missing yesterday. The headache that had been nagging me for a couple days decided to turn into a once in a decade migraine! If I'd looked at a computer screen my head would have exploded! LOL
anyway, looks like we're headed into a busy week for news. Hope everyone had a great Easter and got a little gardening done. We're having a bad storm right now so I'm going to go ahead and post this, just in case!


Japan
Just an observation. The news coming out about Japan is fast fading from the main new sites. Probably one of the most important stories of our time and it's disappearing. When the disaster first happened, I couldn't keep up with the news. It was one story after another as fast as you could read them. And now they are much much fewer and farther between.  I want to thank rj at Global Glass Onion for the two links below.

NakedCapitalism: Guest Post: Radiation Expert Says “Sr-90 and Uranium and Particulates Will Be Building Up in the USA and Europe … For Now I Think It Prudent To Stop Drinking Milk”
LWH: Hi-res photographic proof reactor core exploded at unit 3 

UPI: Health risks numerous near nuclear plant Some experts believe the Fukushima crisis is more serious than that resulting from an explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant 25 years ago, the Mainichi Daily News reorted Monday.
 
Global Conflict
WashingtonPost: Mass graves in Mexico reveal new levels of savagerySAN FERNANDO, Mexico — At the largest mass grave site ever found in Mexico, where 177 bodies have been pulled from deep pits, authorities say they have recovered few bullet casings and little evidence that the dead were killed with a gun.
Time: Yemen in Crisis: Last Impasse Before the Storm?
WashingtonPost: Taliban dig tunnel to free prisoners from Kandahar jail
LAT: With 300 protesters dead, group seeks sanctions against SyriaHuman Rights Watch has called for travel bans, the freezing of assets and other international sanctions against Syrian officials who allegedly had a role in killing hundreds of protesters. Activists say 120 were killed by Syrian security forces in two days alone.
Guardian: New Irish terror groups are threat to UK, warn police
BBC: Nigeria election violence 'left more than 500 dead'Ruins of a market in the town of Zonkwa The town of Zonkwa in Kaduna state witnessed some of the worst violence
WashingtonPost: Bomb explodes outside Baghdad church on Easter Sunday, wounding 7
Economist: AFTER months of protests, Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down within 30 days. Whether he will actually go remains to be seen.
BBC: Libya crisis: Powerful blasts shake TripoliLoud explosions have rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli, briefly putting three TV stations off the air, as Nato jets overflew the city.
BBC: 'New phase' in NATO strategy as Gaddafi's compound bombed

Financial News
WSJ:MarketWatch: IMF bombshell: Age of America nears endCommentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016
WonkRoom: Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing 
MyBudget360: Student loan shark industry  
total revolving debt contracts during recession while student loan debt increases by a stunning 80 percent on an annual basis. A college degree for working at McDonald’s?
MyBudget360: Low wage capitalism
 Newly added jobs are coming from lower paying sectors while productivity increases and profits filter to the top of the economic class. 3,500,000 high-wage jobs lost during recession and only 179,000 have been added so far.
ZeroHedge: China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings

All those who were hoping global stock markets would surge tomorrow based on a ridiculous rumor that China would revalue the CNY by 10% will have to wait. Instead, China has decided to serve the world another surprise. Following last week's announcement by PBoC Governor Zhou (Where's Waldo) Xiaochuan that the country's excessive stockpile of USD reserves has to be urgently diversified, today we get a sense of just how big the upcoming Chinese defection from the "buy US debt" Nash equilibrium will be. Not surprisingly, China appears to be getting ready to cut its USD reserves by roughly the amount of dollars that was recently printed by the Fed, or $2 trilion or so. And to think that this comes just as news that the Japanese pension fund will soon be dumping who knows what. So, once again, how about that "end of QE" again?

BusinessInsider: China Orders Bank Stress Tests That Factor In A Massive, 50% Collapse In Housing PricesThere are stress tests, and there are stress tests. And it sounds as though China is conducting the latter.
According to FT, the country's banks have been ordered to assess their viability if real estate fell 50%.
NYT: Let’s Take a Hike, by Paul Krugman - When I listen to current discussions of the federal budget, the message I hear sounds like this: We’re in crisis! We must take drastic action immediately!  You have to wonder: If things are that serious, shouldn’t we be raising taxes, not cutting them? ...
Independent: God's bankers: How evangelical Christianity is taking a hold of the City of London’s financial institutions
Alex Preston asks how the disciples of evangelical Christianity reconcile their faith with the avarice of high finance
BusinessInsider: CHART OF THE DAY: The Dollar's Ominous New Record
Bloomberg: Sales of New Homes in U.S. Rose 11.1% in March to 300,000 Rate 
WSJ: Q&A: Bank of Japan Gov. Shirakawa Discusses Japan Economy 
TheNation: The Issue is Jobs, Not Deficit Reduction Republicans never cared about deficit reduction when George Bush was president.
And, for the most part, they don't care now -- as evidenced by broad GOP support for House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's plan to keep the budget out of balance until 2040 while clearing the way to begin streaming federal Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid dollars into the coffers of Wall Street speculators and insurance-industry profiteers.
CreditWritedowns: China May Add Fuel to Commodity Rally
BusinessInsider: Did The Doomsayers Just Get Cover-Jinxed?
We can't help but notice that it coincides with a shockingly peaky move in silver (the doomers' metal of choice) followed by a really swift decline.

Peak oil and Energy News
EnergyBulletin: Surprise, surprise! Iraq war was about oil
Cryptogon: More Drivers Running Out Of Gas 
CNN: Gas prices rising more slowly, might have peaked 
ABCNews: High Gas Prices Mean Record Profits for Big Oil 
PeakOilNews: IEA: The age of cheap energy is over

Environmental News
EnergyBulletin: Exclusive: Plants and animals join forces with climate change deniers
Thanks to the Ozarker at Conflicted Doomer for the above link!
Cryptogon: USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
NatGeo: Europe Starting to Dive Under Africa?New subduction zone may increase quake risk in the Mediterranean, expert says.
USGS: Magnitude 6.2 - SULAWESI, INDONESIA
2011 April 24 23:07:51 UTC 
Bloomberg: Tsunami Speeds ‘Terminal Decline’ of Japan’s Fishing IndustryThe wreckage of a 379-metric ton tuna boat blocks the road to the deserted fish market in Kesennuma, once Japan’s largest port for bonito and swordfish. Even after the debris from last month’s tsunami has been cleared away, the industry may never recover.
SFGate: Pot wars: Private land new frontier in CaliforniaA little-spoken-of war is taking place behind California's fences and property lines: Trespassing marijuana growers are setting booby traps, resorting to violence and vandalism, and spoiling the land by stealing water and spraying dangerous chemicals that leach into streams.

America in Decline
SHTFPlan: Staggering Security Holes In Power, Water, and Oil Grid Infrastructure; 40% of Utility Companies Expect to Be Attacked in the Next 12 Months

BlackListedNews: The Orwellian Internet Surveillance Noose: No Privacy, No Place to Hide... 
LAProgressive: More Black Men Now in Prison System than Enslaved in 1850 
PShannon: Madness: Right-Wingers Are Serious About Trying to Undermine Child Labor Laws
BlackListedNews: Military patrols start Friday night in downtown Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Starting at 10 o'clock Friday, two senior non-commissioned officers from Fort Benning will be on courtesy patrol.  The soldiers will be wearing arm bands that read, "Courtesy Patrol." 

Food and Water
CSMonitor: Eight keys to growing great vegetables
To successfully grow vegetables in your home garden, follow these eight tips.

Science and Technology
ArchaeologyNewsnetwork: Scientists abuzz over rumor that God Particle has been detectedA rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle."

Wikileaks
Cryptogon: Obama on Manning: “He Broke the Law.” So Much for that Trial?
WiredDangerRoom: Sega Bombs, Magnet Mines: Terror Tech from WikiLeaks’ Gitmo Files

Other News 
WashingtonPost: Five myths about church and state in America
AmericanDream: What Is The Best U.S. State To Move To If You Want To Insulate Yourself From The Coming Economic Meltdown? 
RealitySandwich: Terence McKenna's Final Earthbound Interview 
WashingtonPost: Spring brings growth of regional public bicycle program Capital Bikeshare 
BusinessInsider: Steve Jobs On Location Data: "We Don't Track Anyone" 

The Forums
TinfoilPalace: Utter Deception In The Food We Eat 
TinfoilPalace: Homeless woman prosecuted for enrolling son in Conn. school - may face 20 years jail
TheOilAge: Demo against Tesco store in Bristol, UK, turns to riot
TheOilAge: Extending the plateau
Hubberts-Arms: Nearly one-third of Canadians don't have enough money to live on - survey
Hubberts-Arms: 3 Japanese banks, about to eat 160billion in losses on their TEPCO stock.
SilentCountry: America, Meet Tipping point
SilentCountry: Weird Japanese Earthquake Aftereffects Video