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"Global starvation imminent as US faces crop failure" - comment by Jan Lundberg
by Marc Davis   
23 August 2009
Editor's commentary: The above headline and first sentences of a recent report from CommodityOnline.com grab one's attention: "The world faces 'mass starvation' following North America's next major crop failure. And it could even happen before year's end."

World leaders and the corporate media don't appreciate the role of petroleum in food production and distribution. On top of that typical error in the report, several other contradictions make for a jaw-dropping reading experience.

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Natural Gas Scam and Folly Again
by Jan Lundberg   
11 August 2009
Image Top Inside-the-Beltway Democrats are trying to serve up a two-decades old fiasco again: touting natural gas as the "bridge fuel" for a renewable energy utopia.
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The planet's future: Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse' - with commentary
by Jonathan Owen   
14 July 2009
Critical comments by Jan Lundberg: This serious sounding report is yet another assessment of Earth's and humanity's crisis that falls flat when "solutions" are offered. Many perceive the current ecological disaster as an opportunity to invest in the next generation of greener technologies -- this is the technofix.
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Bigger isn't Better
by Peter A. Victor   
12 June 2009
There's nothing like a good crisis to make us rethink old ideas. The depression of the 1930s led to the rejection of the prevailing idea that unemployment would right itself if only people would work for lower wages.

Governments could do very little to help. These ideas were overthrown by experience...
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The Great Dick Cheney Psyche Out
by Albert Bates   
19 May 2009
"Enhanced interrogation was reverse-engineered to create a false linkage between Iraq, Al Qaeda and the events of 9/11. Just ask yourself — why would anyone want to do that?"

In a recent interview with the C-realm, petrocollapse author James Howard Kunstler said he was allergic to conspiracy theories. While we are sympathetic, we find it hard to draw a firm line between conspiracy rants, news shows, and intelligence briefings these days.
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Tactics of Pathetic Reformers with No Plan B
by Jan Lundberg   
24 April 2009
The economic stimulus and social programs in general do not solve the crises that have been with us and intensifying for many years. The real answer is life-style change that if widespread enough will (1) retire the corporate economy and (2) empower people in their own communities and bioregions to manage their own affairs without government's inefficiency, meddling, corruption, and oppression.
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