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Adbusters: Farewell and Good Luck, Zuck! Will his latest moves mark the beginning of the end of Facebook?
the mighty Adb ..Zuckerberg, who turns 29 today [5/14], is using his Facebook fortune to create and promote advertisements for fracking companies, the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, and for oil companies that want to drill in such delicate places as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! And of course, his success as an entrepreneur has always been contentious, since we know that he's stepped over a lot of people, including his friends, stealing ideas and playing hardball, to get where he is today – one of the world's youngest billionaires .. Zuckerberg is moving boldly into the political arena. The new lobbying group that he co-founded with other technology executives in the Silicon Valley is called FWD.US. "Their first moves," writes Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet, mark a resurrection of "old-school libertarian values: [] trashing health care reform and backing the Keystone XL pipeline.".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, May 18, 2013
Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit – NYTimes.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 18, 2013Markos Moulitsas: Tesla at War with Sleazy Car Dealers
Kos ..My next car will be a Tesla. It'll be a while. They're really expensive, though a lower-cost mass-market sedan is in the company's longer-term plans. But who wouldn't want a car that dispenses with messy fossil fuels (especially if recharged with solar, as I would), cleaned up all the major 2012 automobile awards [], and got a near-perfect rating (99 out of 100) by Consumer Reports .. Of course, conservatives hate anything that helps the environment, even if it's good despite the fact it helps the environment. So naturally, they hate Tesla[]. But the company is now profitable, and supply is so constrained that the waiting list to receive a car is about eight months. But Tesla is fascinating for another reason—it is a disruptive technology, and we know how the fossil-fuel and auto industry have worked hard to squelch any challenge to their dominance. And there is certainly an entire national infrastructure in place that is dependent on dirty, gas-guzzling vehicles. And that infrastructure is a definite barrier to change.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, May 16, 2013
Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has ‘Control Over Product of Life’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013Good-bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities would leave the Entire Gulf States Region virtually Uninhabitable | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013Patent filing claims solar energy ‘breakthrough’
via McClatchy ..Inventor Ronald Ace said that his flat-panel “Solar Traps,” which can be mounted on rooftops or used in electric power plants, will shatter decades-old scientific and technological barriers that have stymied efforts to make solar energy a cheap, clean and reliable alternative .. Ace [says] “This invention can meet about 92 percent of the world’s energy needs.” .. If the trap even comes close to meeting his futuristic vision, its impact could be breathtaking: It could reorder the world’s energy landscape, end the global economic drag of soaring energy costs, and eventually curb greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for climate changeeven if it proves true its a sure bet the oil/coal/nat gas industry will fight fight fight for the next 30-40 years .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone – NYTimes.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 11, 2013FOCUS | How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 10, 2013Firedoglake: Interview – Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble
Steve Horn at FDL interviews Powers ..shale gas[], it’s importance has been vastly over-stated. We do not have a 100-year supply of shale gas. The increasing demand, which has been brought about by the low prices of the last few years, is going to lead to another 1970’s-style gas crisis. That will happen sometime between 2013 and 2015. [] While there’s been a lot of promotion of the 100-year supply myth – the facts simply just do not support it ... if we look at Canada right now, the biggest supplier of gas to the U.S. by a huge margin, the second is Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago has declining reserves and is also one of the biggest suppliers of LNG in the Western Hemisphere [who knew??] . So what you have is a very tight world LNG market. The world LNG market is about 11 trillion cubic feet a year. And that will go up with Australia, but that will be somewhat offset by Qatar already at maximum production. Indonesia is a top five producer, and they’re going down; Oman is a top ten producer and they’re going down. We’re seeing increasing demand in the Middle East and huge demand in Asia. I also think China will become an importer of LNG ... [China has] had a huge increase and they are going to suck up any available cargoes. And there’s a huge push for them to get away from coal because of the pollution we’re seeing in Beijing and Shanghai; it’s killing people and leading to social unrest. They’re not just going to wait for solar panels and other things, this is stuff they can do right now. These facilities are being built right now. The world LNG market is tight, and it’s going to be tight for a long time.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, May 10, 2013
Worker camps from natural gas boom cause headaches for local officials | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, May 8, 2013Government should ‘grow up’ on climate change, scientist says – Politics – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, May 8, 2013‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience – The Globe and Mail
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, May 8, 2013Rationing to slow consumption if we want to survive
This really addresses the prime problem we all face. Population growth which cannot be controlled as long as religious, corporate, political push for more clients. m.b.Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 3, 2013
Massive, uncontained leak at Fukushima is pouring over 710 billion becquerels of radioactive materials into atmosphere
Be sure to stay on therapeutic doses of iodine, selenomethionate, along with the IHHS E&W program, IHHS herbs to optimize health, multiple vitamins, and antioxidants!!! It is just a way of life for those who wish to remain as healthy as possible with the environmental deterioration on several levels. b.aPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 1, 2013
San Onofre Edison… West Coast Radiation Crisis – Part 1 By Yoichi Shimatsu
Why did O have to sign new levels of safe radiation exposure two weeks ago? Lest we wonder...... b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 27, 2013
TomDispatch: Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming Global Explosion
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 23, 2013How can we boost distributed solar and save utilities at the same time? | Grist
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 20, 2013Tar Sands Is Worse Than You Can Imagine: Incredible Images You Have to See
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 19, 2013Going off the grid: Why more people are choosing to live life unplugged | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, April 18, 2013The Fossil Fuel Resistance | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 13, 2013interesting stuff from RT on natural gas in the Middle East
from Peter ZuelkhaPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 5, 2013
Arkansas pipeline rupture spills Canadian crude – World – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, March 31, 2013Democracy Now: Energy Nominee Ernest Moniz Criticized for Backing Fracking & Nuclear Power; Ties to BP, GE, Saudis
.. read transcript at Democracy Now
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, March 26, 2013
FOCUS | David Frum, the Iraq War and Oil
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 20, 2013Glenn Greenwald: David Frum, the Iraq war and oil
Glenzilla ..Wars rarely have one clear and singular purpose, and the Iraq War in particular was driven by different agendas prioritized by different factions. To say it was fought exclusively due to oil is an oversimplification. But the fact that oil is a major factor in every Western military action in the Middle East is so self-evident that it's astonishing that it's even considered debatable, let alone some fringe and edgy idea .. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, nothing produced faster or more vicious attacks on war opponents than the claim that oil was playing a substantial role in the desire to invade .. Dennis Kucinich appeared on Meet the Press and argued that oil was a primary reason for the US to want to invade Iraq .. [which] led the Washington Post's liberal columnist Richard Cohen to write [] "How did this fool get on 'Meet the Press'?"its been 10 years .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, March 19, 2013
