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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Preventing economic shock wave: Securing the port of Houston from a terrorist attack
[ An attack on (LNG) ships, oil tankers, or the Houston port facilities Houston would cause an oil shock, since a third of oil refining takes place there, and it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Disasters, Oil & Gas, Terrorism
Tagged financial collapse, terrorism oil shock
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Wells Fargo created bogus bank accounts and credit cards without customer knowledge, billed them millions
[ I know this is “old news” from 2016, but the drawback of newspapers is that stories aren’t repeated. What an insane level of corruption we’ve reached! Just look at the financial book list I haven’t yet posted at the … Continue reading
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We Must Preserve The Earth’s Dwindling Resources For My 5 Children
Brenda Milford. June 28, 2006. We Must Preserve The Earth’s Dwindling Resources For My 5 Children. The Onion. Vol 44 Issue 27 “As we move into the 21st century, it is our responsibility to think of the future of the … Continue reading
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (excerpts)
Preface. Here are some excerpts to give you a taste of how delightful and well written this book is, hope it inspires young women to go into science. And something good to read when the grid goes down… Warning: these … Continue reading
Lessons learned from how Cuba survived peak oil
Preface. After seeing the film “The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil” in 2006, I thought about how those lessons might apply to California agriculture. California grows about one-third of the U.S. food supply. Much of what follows … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Cuba, What to do
Tagged cuba, peak oil
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U.S. House 2013 “Exports and the Changing global energy landscape”
[ My excerpts from the house hearing below is another “let’s export Natural Gas to our allies now that we’re energy independent”. The driving force is not making even better friends with Europe and keeping bully Russia away (though that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Independence, Military
Tagged energy independence, export, natural gas
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Promoting abstinence and fidelity does nothing to reduce teen pregnancies or HIV
Preface. One of the goals of Christian evangelists and fundamentalists is to get enough Supreme Court justices who will stop sex education and ban contraceptives. Bad timing, free birth control and abortion are desperately needed to get the human population down … Continue reading
Posted in Population
Tagged abstinence, birth control, overpopulation
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The mega rich are escaping to New Zealand
Preface. This may not be a wise choice if postcarbon China and other overpopulated Asian nations invade New Zealand and Australia). And in hard times, property rights of rich foreigners are not likely to be respected. Other hidey-holes for the … Continue reading
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Booklist: Agriculture
Preface. Industrial agriculture is destroying topsoil, aquifers, and biodiversity with land use changes and pesticides. Pests adapt within 5 years on average to toxic chemicals (see Dyer’s “Chasing the Red Queen” below), and scientists are running out of new poisons. … Continue reading
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Bill Bonner escapes to Argentina
[ The Dailyreckoning warned about the dot.com crash before 2000, and the coming housing bubble very early on (it is absurd that the media often says the housing bubble was unpredictable), the rank corruption of wall street and banks, detested … Continue reading