But it wasn’t the consumption of real oil that was driving up prices — it was the trade in paper oil.




(No Ratings Yet)there’s an even bigger problem with the Obama Doctrine; the precedent it sets. There are a dozen countries where leaders are slaughtering their own people, and we can’t insert ourselves in all of them. More people have died in Yemen than Libya. Iran routinely arrests and executes its dissidents. Sudan is committing genocide. What about Syria? Bahrain? Ivory Coast? Does the Obama Doctrine mean we should intervene in all of them as long as we do it in a limited way and not send in ground forces?




(No Ratings Yet)We’ve done it again! Is that Queen song still playing in your head?
It seems to me that around the 15th of March 2011, a huge amount of people were blasting the US and Obama for inaction where the country…




(No Ratings Yet)Far to often we hear of solutions but 30 to 45 days later we’re still looking for the answers. The below information was originally the “topic of the day” 6 weeks ago! Am I being to picky or just plain…




(No Ratings Yet)“The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development. These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicative…




(No Ratings Yet)“There is something fishy about the head of the world’s most powerful government bureaucracy, one that is involved in a full-time counterfeiting operation to sustain monopolistic financial cartels, and the world’s most powerful central planner, who sets the price of money worldwide, proclaiming the glories of capitalism.”




(No Ratings Yet)All these years the terms ‘peak oil’ and ‘fossil fuels’ have been synonymous. They imply we are inexorably faced with diminishing natural resources and the days of cheap carbon-based energy are gone. Supplanted in the public consciousness as real we grew to accept the inevitable coming of ever-higher energy prices as a consequence of our consumer lifestyle.




(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come
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“Winston, come into the dining room, it’s time to eat,” Julia yelled to her husband. “In a minute, honey, it’s a tie score,” he answered.
Actually, Winston wasn’t very interested in…




(No Ratings Yet)Socialism’s Trajectory: Obama’s HHS Is Bigger Than LBJ’s Government
February 16, 2011
Anyone who doubts that the trend toward socialism is pushing America toward ruin should examine the historical tables President Obama published Monday along with his $3.7 trillion budget.…




(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)“We have redefined how to look for oil and gas,” says Rehan Rashid, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. “The implications are major for the nation.”




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