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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Deepwater Horizon

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

Recommendations stemming from the recently announced independent Presidential Commission on the tragedy will likely have much influence on the course of deepwater drilling and thus the availability of oil in the future.

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Mabo Day Commemoration.

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Wed, 2010-05-19

Federation Square, City.

Event date:

Thu, 03/06/2010 - 12:00pm

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Peak Fish and the biodiversity crisis

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

We were recently reminded yet again that regarding the Earth's biodiversity crisis, we need to get used to failure.

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Tip of an iceberg of community: Infoshops and radical community centers

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Wed, 2010-05-19

<p>It's summer traveling season so here's a few places to visit on your travels that aren't in the 2010 Slingshot organizer. Please let us know if ...

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Climate Progress

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

Hayward is apparently completely unaware of the growing realization by everybody else that his monomaniacal quest for cost-cutting, corner-cutting, and profits was the proximate cause of this disaster, which, it must be pointed out, killed 11 people

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War is Peace - Obama expands nuclear power & weapons for . . . disarmament?

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Wed, 2010-05-19

<p>Unlike some gullible chaps who have faith in electoral politics as a representative democracy, I did not experience a yawning chasm of disappoin...

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Energy descent action plans for cities: some thoughts…

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

The subject under discussion is EDAPs (or Community Resilience Plans… or whatever you want to call them), and how one does them for cities, or even if one does them for cities...

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Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Break Records

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-05-19

by Alan Zibel

WASHINGTON - The number of homeowners who missed at least one mortgage payment surged to a record in the first quarter of the year, a sign that the foreclosure crisis is far from over.

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Tar sands - May 19

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

-China, not U.S., will be tar sands’ market
-Tar Sands in Your Tank - report by Greenpeace UK
-Investors reject Royal Dutch Shell oil sands review

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Africa's Oil Spills Are Far From U.S. Media Glare

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-05-19

by Joe Brock

LONDON - Oil gushing from an undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico has damaged BP's reputation and share price but accidents involving other companies in less scrutinized parts of the world have avoided the media glare.

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Bye-election returns Pan-Democrat Council Members.

Syndicated from International Viewpoint on Wed, 2010-05-19

The by-election which took place in Hong Kong on the 16th May saw the return of all five pan-democrat councillors who had resigned earlier this year.

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A point of no return

Syndicated from International Viewpoint on Wed, 2010-05-19

The political crisis engulfing Thailand is not a clap of thunder in an otherwise calm sky. The discourse about a country where “everyone lives in harmony and where there is no class struggle but a people united behind its adored sovereign” has nothing to do with reality.

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The Other Foreclosure Menace

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-05-19

by Fred Schulte, Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched her West Baltimore home over what began with an unpaid city water bill of $362.

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The Straight Row Mentality

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-05-19

My morning survey of the garden reveals that I did it again.

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Quebec earnings gap at 30-year high

Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-05-19

A groundbreaking new report shows the earnings gap between the rich and the rest of Quebeckers is at a 30-year high.

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