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Category Archives: War
Will we go out with a whimper instead of a bang? Cyberwar more likely than nuclear war
Preface. This is a book review of Clarke & Knake’s “Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About IT”. The ransom cyber attack on the colonial pipeline forced the shutdown of a vital pipeline delivering … Continue reading
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Tagged china, cyber attack, cyber war, cyberwar, infrastructure, Russia, scenario
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Will Republican “Hate Talk” be the spark of violence in the future?
Will Republican “Hate Talk” be the spark of violence in the future? by Alice Friedemann, Oct 9, 2014 As long as trucks keep delivering goods, enough food is grown and distributed, then even if times get a lot worse, I … Continue reading
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Michael Klare: Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars
Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars by Michael Klare, originally published by Tomdispatch Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts. At first glance, these upheavals appear … Continue reading
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Civilians caught in a war
[ It’s very likely that the U.S. will collapse hard post-peak with so little preparation, and if we all don’t shoot one another the paramilitaries, gangsters, mafias, and bandits will. Or loot or move into our homes. Here are some … Continue reading
Why World War III Could Start In Space Forbes
Why World War III Could Start In Space April 25, 2014. We are inextricably linked to hundreds of spacecraft racing around our planet. But near-Earth space is reaching a saturation point — a detail driven home in James Clay Moltz’s … Continue reading
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Homer-Dixon Key findings on resources and war / violence
The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence Key Findings Abot 50 experts from 5 countries, developed a detailed set of conceptual tools for thinking about environmental scarcity and state capacity. Environmental scarcity has 3 sources: reduced resource … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Caused by Scarce Resources, Collapsed & collapsing nations, Scientists, Stages of, Violence, War
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How will the violence play out in the USA?
There will surely be violence as America’s population descends from 400 million to 100 million or less as energy production declines. Leaders will emerge who blame some particular group for our suffering. So far it’s been those terrorist Middle Easterners … Continue reading
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
THE MURDERER NEXT DOOR: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill, David M Buss http://www.amazon.com/Murderer-Next-Door-Mind-Designed/dp/0143037056 [pp. 36-44] THE COMPETITIVE LEGACY OF OUR ANCESTORS Every breath we take we owe to our ancestors-an unimaginably long and unbroken line of forebears who managed to … Continue reading
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Emergency drill: Cyberattack on electric grid
Preface. Although I am mainly concerned about peak oil, we’ve become so incredibly dependent on the electric grid, including electricity to pump oil at gas stations, that if the grid came down from an EMP or cyberattack, millions of people … Continue reading
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Cyber Attacks an unprecedented threat to U.S. National Security
Preface. This post contains extracts from 3 congressional hearings in the House of representatives session on cyber attacks. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the … Continue reading
Posted in China and War, Cyber, CyberAttacks, U.S. Congress Infrastructure
Tagged china, cyber war, cyberattack, united states
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