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President Carter warned Americans oil was finite and need to sacrifice and conserve energy for future generations

Preface. I have a post titled “Why do leaders deny peak oil and climate change“. President Carter is the exception, and his warnings are one of the reasons he wasn’t re-elected. Who wants to be told they need to sacrifice … Continue reading →

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Fantasyland Part 2. How America Went Haywire. A 500-Year History.

Preface. This is the second of nine parts about the book “”Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.  A 500-Year History”, mostly the introduction. Links to the 9 parts of this book review:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Continue reading →

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Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union

[ A great post by Dmitry Orlov about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than will be the case in … Continue reading →

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