By, Uwe Paschen. Since the triple disaster that hit Japan on March the eleventh 2011, the country has been thrown into limbo. No longer knowing which way to go. Even though this state of paralysis especially in our...
opinion by Uwe Paschen | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 198 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
The conventional histories blame the decline and fall of Rome on “decadence,” which they use to mean personal and sexual freedom. This explanation is transparently wrong. Rome was conquered 200 years after it had been Christianized and the practices deemed “decadent”...
Chittagong, a city in southeastern Bangladesh, has – according to our guidebooks – nothing to offer. And indeed: it is a dirty, nasty, big, industrial city with millions of people, hard pressed by poverty and traffic congestions troughout the day. To get here from Dhaka,...
opinion by reinaut | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 324 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment
Back to the future: Drill baby drill Deja vu - All over again It took two years to get it. The short term solution is to extract more oil and to procure it from somewhere other than the middle...
What does Obama mean? Increase domestic oil production by 1/3rd; increase synthetic fuel production? What does it mean to cut oil imports by 1/3rd? 1. Wider use of natural gas...
What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration, hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive,...
What countries are Libya’s biggest oil customers? That is who should be engaging Libya. " “Over 85 percent of its crude exports go to Europe, while around 13 percent goes east of the Suez Canal to Asia....
"On his Fox News talk show, host Sean Hannity wondered aloud why Iraq and Kuwait hadn’t “[paid] for their own liberation” by the United States, and said that America has the right to “go in there…and take...
On news this week that the newly-elected U.S. Democratic congress is considering playing Robin Hood, and taking at least some money previously allocated for oil and gas and reallocating it to renewable energy, we thought it'd be useful to look into fossil fuel subsidies and...
New Years is a natural time to look for improvement. Here we are, faced with a brand new clean slate, so to speak – and nothing could be more organic than a little focused soul searching. It’s good to look for...
Read entire story with rare photos at:http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-dying/A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil SpillIt is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the...
created by WordSmith | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 268 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Political bizarreness The world’s most successful welfare state is Saudi Arabia. " “Saudi Arabia has the world's largest oil reserves and is the world's largest oil exporter. Oil accounts...
Arguably, the Alberta Tar Sands is no more of a "legit" enterprise in the Canadian economy than is the trade of crack cocaine and other hard narcotics. It is a fact that Canada does not need the Tar Sands to meet its current energy needs. Tar Sands "demand" is being spurred...
opinion by agora | 2 years ago 203 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/tests-confirm-gulf-seafood-toxic-oil/Test from several independent laboratories have confirmed that Gulf seafood contains a high level of toxic compounds as a result of oil contamination.BP's Deepwater Horizon well leaked over ...
Portending what will likely happen elsewhere When the world eventually makes a sharp turn toward non fossil fuels, as it is happening now, the sources of oil will run out of economic production capacity. Since...