Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Saturday Jun 13, 2009 7:00amInformed Comment: Iran awaits ballot results. Iranian millennials certainly oppose Ahmadinejad, but the Neocons are pulling hard for him
Seed Magazine: A Not-So Silent Spring
Southern Poverty Law Center: Pat Buchanan's immigrant bashing org has invited a prominent white nationalist to speak at their national conference
BIitter Lawyer: Interviews Pulitzer Prize-finalist Gerald Posner. Posner isn’t your average lawyer-turned-author. He’s an investigative journalist with a nose for Nazis, organized crime, drugs, and mass murder.
earthfamilyalpha: Adopt A Tree
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: BlatherWatch, The Real Amway Global, Reidblog, thump and whip, News of the Weird
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All great sites you have picked. It's amazing that Pat Buchanan can call Sonia Sotomayor a racist, when it is obvious that he consorts with known racists and is a closet-racist himself. I read this article and have posted it on my blog, The Hinterland Gazette. I can't understand why MSNBC features this guy on a daily basis.
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
I am excited that Iran is back on the map. Waiting for the inevitable insider articles about their society and life.
I have heard it is real nice there, but the airplanes suck.
I know why, too.
They might be ready for a bit of 'opening and reform'...
Gerald Posner interview:
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There are heavy weights out there, William K Black and James Galbraith who pull no punches on the 'F' word. F as in fraud.
I sure would hope that Mr. Posner would jump in on that one in earnest.
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On the other front du jour, this day and every day from now on, as it is on us and there is no modern world without it, that being Peak Oil:
Pension Pulse here
Regarding the new book by Jeff Rubin, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization (Random House Canada, $29.95) here
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My last series of comments here
Did you read Jim Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" about peak oil? I think it came out about 6 years ago now? Check out his website, "kunstler.com"
Also, have you seen Chris Martensen's tutorials on Peak Oil, the Economy etc.? Chrismartenson.com
Thank you!
I know of Kunstler and "The Long Emergency".
I have 'The Geography of Nowhere' in front of me on deck, as it were, after I finish David Goodstein's 'Out of Gas, the End of the Age of Oil'.
Kunstler is not actually trained in these fields but he gives a good talk.
Goodstein is so trained and his knowledge is greater than his writing style, no matter to me.
Chris Martensen is new to me, I am listening to his 'Crash Course' right now.
He is very good.
His one point is extremely important, in an exponential graph of a developing situation, in the last few 'moments', change comes very fast.
We as a species on this planet are now in the last few moments.
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I recall in 1967 with my Volkswagen at a gas pump, it was 23¢ a gallon, I believe.
I was 18 and I remember perfectly clearly thinking as I watched the mechanical dial turn, 'this is a finite resource, the world will run out of this one day'.
In the 60s my VW was the best I could find at 25 mpg.
In the 70s my Fiat was the best I could find at 35 mpg.
In the 80s my Plymouth/Mitsubishi was the best I could find at 40 (+ a little) mpg.
In the 90s my Honda CRX was the I could find at 59 mpg.
In the 00s my 98 Honda HX was the best I could find at 45 mpg.
I have always tried to conserve.
Refining gasoline from oil and putting in our cars to burn was about the dumbest thing we could have done.
Is Seed Magazine the name of Gay Porn?
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What if the plants started turning gay? Where males pollinated other males, with the help of enabling bees, and the females just stood watching, like wallflowers.
What if?
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It's a good time to be keeping an eye on the racist crazies.
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And some not so kewl people.
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