From Bondage to Bondage

Interesting article re: progression of society

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Environmental Testing forbidden in NYC?

This headline "New York CIty Council Bill Would Prevent Independent Environmental Disaster Testing" from Act 2: From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog sent me searching for backup information on this news:

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About The Book

War, terror, circumvention of law and convention, "intelligence"... Anyone read this book yet?

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"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic

The US already has a Plant Genetic Resources Preservation Program in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)database so it is interesting that the Gates funding is being paired with private sector funding for this project.

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Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More than a Taser Story

Klein provides more details about the man Tasered in Vancouver.

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Muir Beach man cited for cleaning beach

From the article: Moser, a 45-year-old communications consultant, said he was forced to sprawl handcuffed on the wet sand for an hour before he was released and given two misdemeanor citations, one for entering an emergency area and another for refusing a lawful order.

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RFIDs on Michigan License Plates

There are two photos of license plates with RFIDs on them in this article. This surveillance of society is out of control!

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Claiming Arctic Oil

Here's what's coming down the pipe-line. From the article: Making profitable use of these abundant fossil fuels depends not only on drilling rights, but on creating a mode of transportation—a way to bring the oil and gas south to energy-hungry consumers.

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Slum Fights - urban warfare

From the article: "We think urban is the future," says James Lasswell, a retired colonel who now heads the Office of Science and Technology at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.

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I Dream of Naomi the Globophobe

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Weapon of Math Deduction

"a simple yet effective statistical formula that correctly predicts the outcome of 78% of the conflicts [read war] plugged into it."

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2nd UPDATE: US Federal Regulators Close NetBank - Georgia, USA

"NetBank marked the largest bank to fail since since the early 1990s, which marked the end of the savings and loan crisis. The Office of Thrift Supervision closed NetBank at 3 p.m.

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Global Systemic Crisis - The current crisis explained in one thousand words

Anyone heard of LEAP/E2020? From the article: "In other words, the wisest people in the global banking and financial sphere (which excludes most of today's large international bank leaders) know that in the coming six months some entire sectors of activity and corresponding res …

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Belgium Poised to Rip Apart

"A sign of the times, the President of the French Community of Belgium, Socialist Marie Arena, has just created a commission, the work of which will last a year. A sort of Bélanger-Campeau commission.

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The New Military Frontier: Africa

"Most Americans have never heard of Djibouti, and fewer can pronounce it correctly, but here — far from the bombed bridges of Baghdad and the flourishing poppy fields of Afghanistan — is the third front of the war on terrorism."

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Shock Doctrine By Naomi Klein

The intersection between disasters and markets Excerpts from the article: "I call these orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities, "disaster capitalism"."

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Noncitizen role tabled in Boulder

From Artilce: Councilwoman Robin Bohannan, who first proposed adding noncitizens to city boards last month, proposed expanding that to allow immigrants to serve on the city Human Relations Commission, which rules on issues such as fair housing and job discrimination and makes de …

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Peak Oil, Missing Oil Meters and an Inactive Pipeline: The Real Reason for the Invasion of Iraq?

From the Article: The primary assumption is that the world's oil production has been on a plateau for the last two years, and in fact we may be teetering on the brink of the production decline predicted by the Peak Oil theory.

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The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin (1968)

Though this is an old article, it's worth re-reading. Our collective Population Problem is more relevant today than 40 years ago.

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