PEAK OIL UPDATE: Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/no...
"The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves."
A report by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) last month said worldwide production of conventionally extracted oil could "peak" and go into terminal decline before 2020 – but that the government was not facing up to the risk. Steve Sorrell, chief author of the report, said forecasts suggesting oil production will not peak before 2030 were "at best optimistic and at worst implausible".
But as far back as 2004 there have been people making similar warnings. Colin Campbell, a former executive with Total of France told a conference: "If the real [oil reserve] figures were to come out there would be panic on the stock markets … in the end that would suit no one."
To the 'drill baby, drill' morons out there...we told you so and your stupidity is incomparable.... When the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell tells you we'll have Peak Oil in 7 years

REPOST: Shell CEO Admits Peak Oil Could be Here in 7 Years - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/shell...

President Obama Implies that He Seeks Rollback of Stupak Amendment to "Status Quo." One Can Presume That Means the Hyde Amendment. Statement Comes After Outcry from Pro-Choice Supporters.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/poli...
We can't let the bad bill be the enemy of a good bill.....

Max Baucus is a worthless moron Update: Senate Finance Committee calls on polluter lobbyists to defend pollution economy yet again
- http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-09-senat...
On Tuesday, Sen. Max Baucus's (D-Mont.) Finance Committee will look at the effect of clean energy legislation on the "future of jobs." Appearing before the committee are four industry or conservative lobbyists and one coal-industry union lobbyist, Abraham Breehey. The only economist to testify will be Margo Thorning, a lobbyist for the anti-tax American Council on Capital Formation. Also testifying is Carol Berrigan, a nuclear industry representative, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Kenneth.
With 'friends' like him....who needs enemies???

Why do Citizens of Oil-Rich Nations Live in Poverty? - http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/citizens-oilri...
In Angola, one of Africa’s largest oil producers, 68 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. According to Herman Cohen, a retired US diplomat formerly based in Angola, the answer is simple: the state is behaving like a private company. Instead of focusing on schools, infrastructure, and the needs of its people, the government-owned oil company has a private airline and invests in other countries in an effort to expand its wealth.
And so exists the paradox of oil, or the “oil curse” as its sometimes called. Nations rich in natural resources, making money hand over fist exploiting these resources, leave their own people behind to fend for themselves.
Gee...that sure sounds like the con-servative Republican/Libertarian 'mindset' of pick yourself up by your bootstraps crap....problem is...what if you don't have bootstraps?????

The Republicans are Killing Us With Greed, Literally: "While it has the second-highest income per head in the world, the United States ranks 42nd in terms of life expectancy." And that's an "average" of income, not reflective of the unequal distribution of income and assets. Also worthy of note in the American Human Development Report: Nation slumps from 2nd to 12th in global table. Richest fifth take home $168,000, poorest $11,000.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jul/17...
But 'greed is good'...right???

End the Plutocracy: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year. The firms -- the three biggest banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- will hand out $29.7 billion in bonuses, according to analysts’ estimates. They get the bonuses, and we get the shaft.
- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206011...
We really, really, really don't want to be the 21st century Rome...

Con-servative Heritage Foundation Sticks Up For Violent Sex Offenders - http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200911090001
Its an epidemic...

Paul Krugman goes after teabaggers - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09k...

Banks Raising Interest Rates and Punishing Good Credit Risks! - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Wow...they love to screw everyone...we shower them with trillions and that's apparently not enough....greed is death

Murdoch: Glenn Beck Was ‘Right’ To Say Obama Is ‘A Racist’ With ‘A Deep-Seated Hatred For White People’ Join the BuzzFlash Brigade to Persuade America to WWW.TurnOffFox.com
- http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/09/murdoch-b...

Journey found their Missing Link with this guy. They found Arnel on YouTube. This kid is really soulful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUWJ8bf09BU&fe...