Firedoglake: 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

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, May 10, 2013

SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM | More Intelligent Life

Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, April 25, 2013

Resonance – Beings of Frequency (documentary film)

quotes through the entire video: 100% of people are affected at a cellular level--- there were no long term safety studies prior to erecting emf systems globally--- the emf's have heating effects and are most similar to microwave's, as in oven's --- there are many cancer clusters around phone masts--- average age of a child getting a phone is 8 yr old--- putting the phone to your head is exposing your brain to these microwaves--- the brain has a metabolic reasponse to the phone signal and this occurs below legal limits of transmission--- [SAR] is specific absorption rate = the heating effect the mobile phone has on the body or energy absorbed in the US it is 1.6kw/kg--- average adult skull thickness of military men is used to test exposure, and tests are not done on children who have very thin skulls, effects are greater for them and all safety standards would fail if applied to children--- microwave heating of tissue is damaging ie heat an egg and the tissue hardens, if not if turns into a chicken.. the same applies to human's--- there is good evidence cell phone microwaves are cacinogenic, the true effects are not apparent in society yet, will will just begin to see the effects now 10 years after the large growth of use--- cell phone companies instruct owners to keep phone from your body for protection, and say it does play a role in the development of brain cancer--- effects are only long term--- melatonin is a powerful antioxidant anti cancer agent, it is secreted at night to repair body cells and mop up free radicals from the repair, it controls sleep and aging, skin and complexion, and this is reduced by emf's--- melatonin reduction comprises immune function and body repair, causes sleep issues and heart function problems--- the body can sense radio waves, emf's, as if they are light waves, and suppress melatonin production at night by the pineal gland-- the body sensing microwaves and magnetic field's, as if they are light waves is backed by lot's of research-- emf's may be implicated in all disease today-- all life is magnetic and sense these fields all around us-- as beings of frequency, light, and magnetism we have evolved over millions of years.-- to accommodate 4G wireless signals are being increased today even more-- in it's entirety this film really makes valid points about effects of emf's and their pollution causing various illness' over time and the viewer can understand why this is happening to all people at some level. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vb9R0x_0NQ&feature=player_embedded#! b.a.
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 16, 2013

How Digital Technology Has Helped Unleash a Devastating New Era of Propaganda

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 8, 2013

Amazing Water & Sound Experiment #2

This is a wonderful example of what sound, wi fi, emf's, and other frequencies can do to water and hence .....us! Let us also remember we are bags of water, and are consequently affected too. If health and mental stability is dependent on the schumann frequency of the planet without interference....... what the heck are all these other frequencies being pumped out by everything around us doing, to our healthy energy fields? Just think what your cell phone, satellite signals, emf's bounced off the chemtrails, your smart meter, your neighbor's smart meter, the batteries in you energy efficient battery car, electrical current of your dwelling, etc doing to your 'bag' of water as you can see the effects in this 2 effectsmin video. b.a.
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 2, 2013

19-Year-Old Student Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World’s Oceans | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Some good news from Raya King
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, March 30, 2013

Harper’s: How to Rig an Election – The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red

this report from Victoria Collier in Harper's came out last Oct and is now available online - it's an important piece + one of the best summaries of voting irregularities I've read so far .. Meanwhile I'm still waiting to see if there's any more tidbits of info about Anonymous' juicy claim to have blocked Rove from hacking/stealing the last election - Thanks Anonymous!
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, March 15, 2013

Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface

Are you interested in being one of the first "Elective Trans-humanist's"? Human trials are coming up tomorrow. Could this be a wireless smart meter for your brain? ALL the implication's are staggering and this technology evolves. b.a
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Adbusters: Panting for Breath on a Virtual Shore

Stefanie Krasnow in AdB ..

It took millions of years of evolution for life on earth to move out of the oceans onto land, where our phylogenetic ancestors gasped for their first breaths on a pebbled beach. Now, some 590,000,000 years later, we find ourselves panting for air on a virtual shore. We're embarking on the second greatest migration in the history of life of earth, from the physical world into virtuality. In the span of just one generation, we've been completely wooed over by the entirely-cerebral and entirely-virtual adventures accessed when our fingertips apply light pressure to a plastic "mouse." Today, teenagers in America spend seven hours on a screen each day, 11 if you include multitasking hours: this is more time than human beings spend doing anything else, including sleeping .. Gary Small, head of UCLA’s Memory and Aging Research Center, documented that even just five hours of internet use, for web-virgins, substantially rewired the prefrontal cortex of the brain. So we can infer what happens as we spend more and more hours online. The amount of time one spends online is directly correlated to depression, obesity, ADD, ADHD, OCD, and anxiety

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, March 3, 2013

Naked Capitalism: Peak Oil, The Shale Boom and our Energy Future

Yves Smith @ NC Interviews energy expert Dave Summers

This where we stand, and it’s a fairly bleak view: Peak oil is almost here, and nothing new (with the possible but unlikely exception of Iraq) is coming online anytime soon and while the clock is ticking – forward movement on developing renewable energy resources has been sadly inadequate. In the meantime, the idea that shale reservoirs will lead the US to energy independence will soon enough be recognized as unrealistic hype. There are no easy solutions, no viable quick fixes, and no magic fluids. Yet the future isn’t all doom and gloom – certain energy technologies do show promise. We had a chance to speak with well known energy expert Dave Summers where we cut through the media noise and take a realistic look at what our energy future holds

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, March 1, 2013

Netflix, the New HBO

Nancy Hass in GQ..

These days, [Ted Sarandos] is the man everyone wants to take a meeting with. People love you when you're handing out the cash, and Sarandos, who looks the part [] but has one of the weirdest résumés in town (graduate of an Arizona community college, worked his way up in the DVD business from video-store clerk, landed at Netflix in 2000 to run distribution), has $6 billion to dole out over the next three years [including] $300 million for original programming .. He hopes to make at least five new shows a year. [] His dream project: a Netflix series created by Warren Beatty. "He's great in long form," Sarandos says. "His only problems have been when he's constrained." .. "The goal," he says, "is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." His seductive pitch to today's new breed of TV auteurs: a huge audience, real money, no meddlesome executives ("I'm not going to give David Fincher notes"), no pilots (television's great sucking hole of money and hope), and a full-season commitment

Their new series "House of Cards" is amazing .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, February 20, 2013

ARGUS: The Next Generation of Surveillance

With an astounding 1.8 gigapixel, long-range, wide-area camera, it is manifold times more accurate than the Predator.
Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 18, 2013

America Is Far from #1

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 9, 2013

Solar power cheaper than coal: One company says it’s cracked the code | Grist

Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 31, 2013

NOVA What Drones Can See

Pretty incredible, and probably old tech, since new tech is classified...they can now film all lifeanyplace, moment to moment, down to 6 inch images, from 17,000 feet up, and also go back in time to review footage!!! The guy actually pushed in closer on the film than I thought he would, but my feeling is he can go in as close as he wants. This may explain why some people are so upset with drone surveillance. They can decide to check out just about anything from you going to church... to going to the gun store, via film they have on your life.. This could really open some doors to a whole new level of enforcement of just about anything, depending on who is accessing it, and what they wish to accomplish. Wow ! 2.5min video
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Kevin Gosztola: ‘Rise of the Drones’ Is Mostly a PBS Infomercial for the Military Defense Industry

Gosztola at FDL ..

Much of the first half is like a military defense contracting infomercial. Multiple statistics are presented so viewers can marvel at the capabilities of the technology. Mary “Missy” Cummings, who works with the MIT Humans and Automation Lab (and appeared on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart the same night of the premiere), says drones are more precise when they bomb if a human is not in the cockpit. Scenes unfold where a drone pilot at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico who is being trained demonstrates how a pilot learns to use the technology. Contractors from a company called Rally Point dress up as “insurgents” and enter a mock village where the pilot flies the drone and attempts to get a lock on them so he can execute them. Chad, an RPA pilot, notes the “error distance” is “less than nine feet.” He adds he can put a weapon through a “window-sized opening with ease.”

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, January 25, 2013

The Atlantic: Some Good Reads

"The Web's New Monopolists," "Awakening," "What's Inside America's Banks" (must-read), "The Real Cuban Missile Crisis"
Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, January 21, 2013

Energy Dept. Launches Rare Earths Center To Avoid Shortage

from Talking Points Memo ..

The U.S. government in March 2012 filed a trade case against China, the major producer of rare earths for the globe, over export restrictions. To address the looming shortfall, the new Critical Materials Institute, or “Hub,” as it is known, will focus on developing new ways of leveling the supply-demand ratio of five rare earth elements in particular: neodymium, europium, terbium, dysprosium and yttrium .. elements responsible for making such commonplace devices function as light-emitting screens on smartphones and computers, earbuds, car speakers, and hybrid electric car motors

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, January 13, 2013

The Amazing Benefits of a Home Organic Aquaponics System

An idea whose time has come......functional and efficient....Why does industry not do more of this? At the end I included a farm in Texas that is using hydroponics so you could see other photos and ideas.b.a
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 24, 2012

Naomi Wolf: The coming drone attack on America

Wolf in The Guardian ..

30,000 of them are expected to be in use by 2020, some as small as hummingbirds .. Domestic drone use is here, and the meshing has begun: local cops in Grand Forks, North Dakota called in a DHS Predator drone – the same make that has caused hundreds of civilian casualties in Pakistan – over a dispute involving a herd of cattle. The military rollout in process and planned, within the US, is massive: the Christian Science Monitor reports that a total of 110 military sites for drone activity are either built or will be built, in 39 states. That covers America

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 24, 2012

Solar Panels for Every Home – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 14, 2012

9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out

Watch 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out on PBS. See more from CPT12 Presents.

Documentary that aired on a Colorado PBS station from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, December 9, 2012

Verizon Files Patent for DVR That Can See You and Listen in on You in Your Home

from Ars Technica ..

Verizon has filed a patent for a DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room. In the application, the company proposes to use the technology to serve targeted ads appropriate to whatever you’re doing in the, uh, privacy of your own home—fighting, cuddling .. Verizon gives two examples of the context-sensitive DVR’s use in a couple’s living room: sounds of arguing prompt ads for marriage counseling, while sounds of “cuddling” prompts ads for contraceptives

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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Cliff Arnebeck: What REALLY happened in Ohio on Election Night

Arnebeck via Mark Crispin Miller ..

Some hackers/spooks [i.e. Anony/mous] hacked Romney’s computers .. The hack we discovered was limited to Ohio. Its use was coming from Bob Urosevich the same guy who personally delivered a malicious patch in Georgia 2002 which flipped the votes and outcome in their governor and US Senate races. Our exposure of the problem in court [] occurred at about 3:15 PM on election day .. Urosevich would have been informed that the fix had been exposed and that an Ohio judge with jurisdiction had expressed willingness to adopt the corrective action recommended by our expert. He and the one operative who would have been positioned pull the trigger, instead nixed the operation. Neither of them would have been so foolish as to contact Rove to inform him that the Ohio fix was off. Rove’s communications were surely being monitored by law enforcement authorities. Thus, Rove’s mistaken rant over Ohio being prematurely called for Obama

haha! interesting theory .. more on this here (Thom Hartmann), here (Salon) and here .. we'll wait and see where this one goes or doesn't go - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, November 26, 2012

Tom Tomorrow: The return of Droney

new Tom T cartoon @ Daily Kos

Droney: "remember kids, eleven years ago we were attacked -- so we get to do whatever we want -- Forever"

Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, October 7, 2012