Energy

The Choices We Make (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 1012 -- The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it's especially gratifying to see the Republicans sail off the edge of their own flat earth on the winds of religious idiocy. For 40 years it has not been enough for them to just be a conservative party. They had to enlist the worst elements of ig...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 18-26 House and Senate Presidents Day recess. Feb. 20 7:00 p.m., Trita Parsi, National Iranian Ame...
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governm...
All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor (James Howard Kunstler)

Flying Nuclear Robot. Credit: Irregular Times James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2012 -- A Martian psychoanalyst observing the U.S. Superbowl on TV would be shocked by the vicious...
Jive Talkin' (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 30, 2012 -- Well, he had to get up there and say something. In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest lies will d...
This Ripe Moment (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2012 -- The narcolepsy of the long Yuletide draws to a close and the world reawakens to its self-spun web of mutually rein...
2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2012 -- There's a lot to be nervous about, even if you don't subscribe to the undercooked Mayan apocalypse lo...
The Cookie Crumbles (James Howard Kunstle)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 12, 2011 -- A lot can happen in two weeks, which is what remains before the glorious orgy of gifts, sugar plums, and roast go...
Your New American Dream (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 28, 2011 -- It's really something to live in a country that doesn't know what it is doing in a world that doesn't know where it is going ...
Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 Nov. 19-27 House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. (House recess is through Nov.28.) Nov. 26 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon tes...
PILLOWTALK: Peak Stuffing (Deborah Goodwin)

Deborah stuffing a pillow in her loft Oct. 5, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- Today I plan to stuff some new pillows to bring to Art in the Park this weekend (http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org/art_park.html...
The Blue Bus Is Calling Us (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 20, 2011 -- Zeez European politicians unt economists all zound like rocket scientists wiss all zeir charming euro-chatter. But zey must be quite dumb to...
Rudderless (James Howard Kunstler)

Nov. 14, 2011 -- The Penn State football sex scandal, and the depraved response of the university community at all levels, tells whatever you need to know about the spiritual condition of this flounde...
Critical State (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 7, 2011 -- Portents of winter and the toothless chatter of flag-draped traitors vies with a fog of lies spread by Koch Brothe...
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 31, 2011 -- I landed back in the USA Wednesday from Sweden. What a downer to be reminded that more people speak English in the foreign country you just ...
The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)

Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind...
The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)

Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of man*- Imagine, John Len...
Nuclear Calendar -- October 25, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 25, 2011 Oct. 3-Nov.1 U.N. General Assembly'sFirst Committee(Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. Oct. 22-30 Senate recess. O...
Jet-Lagged and Ragged (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 25, 2011 -- I am in a nation of super-models. The girls who sell tickets in the art museum are super-models. The girls behind the hotel desk, ditto. Th...
Going Apeshit (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 17, 2011 -- It was amusing to see President Obama try to align himself with the OWS movement. The genial Millard Fillmore update asked them not to &quo...
Why The Whole Idea Of The U.S Achieving 'Energy Independence' Is A Sham That Enriches Big Oil And Coal (Joshua Frank)

Oct. 13, 2011 (Alternet) -- Whether it is the hucksters pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline to cut across the Heartland, or the coal barons who are ramping up their exploits in Powder River Basin, a ...
Occupy Everything (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2011 -- "Recession Officially Over," The New York Times' lead headline declared around 7 o'clock this morning. (Watch: they'...
Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 Oct. 1-8 Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, "Keep Space for Peace Week," with events in numerous cities. Oct. 3 8:30...
Here Come the OWSers! (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2011 -- All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous pr...
Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee (Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada and Stuart Biggs)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone aroundJapan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle ...