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• National day of Action on the Northern Territory “Intervention”

  Published: November 18, 2007, 12:55 am

  Tags: Australian Issues, Energy Issues, Political Lies, Rights

  In my self-centred frenzy of spruiking our new plan for world domination family business on my own blog, I missed the National day of Action on the Northern Territory Intervention yesterday. So here’s a roundup of links and commentary from Australia and the US. After all, the election focus has switched back to “responsible economic

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• Malcolm’s Liberal Party: Maintaining The Momentum.

  Published: November 26, 2007, 6:38 pm

  Tags: Awb Scandal, Anzus, Australia In Iraq, Australian Issues, Economics, Education, Energy Issues, Environment, Health, Industrial Relations, Intellectuals Commentators Etc, International Affairs, Media, Political Lies, Rightwingers Say The Darndest Things, Security, Terrori

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• The symbolism of Kyoto

  Published: December 3, 2007, 6:15 am

  Tags: Energy Issues, Environment

  It would surprise me if a pundit somewhere hasn’t already observed how symbolic it was that Kevin Rudd’s first act as prime minister was to commit Australia to Kyoto. You know how it would read … new generation, recognising the dominant issue of our time, that sort of thing. The symbolism was significant, but not because of its

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• Age op-eds: Snap ‘em in, bolt ‘em on.

  Published: December 16, 2007, 1:58 am

  Tags: Energy Issues, Environment, Science

  of the Clean and Safe Energy coalition, “a public relations campaign for new reactors launched April 24, 2006, funded by the trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), and headed by former Bush Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Christine Todd Whitman and former Greenpeace activist Patrick Moore”. In

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• Oil Tops $118

  Published: April 22, 2008, 11:48 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Energy Issues, Energy, Oil Prices

  News item: Oil prices hit $118 / barrel In a related development, here’s an image of the new alternate “gasoline scrip” being considered for issuance this summer by the Bush administration a consortium of oil companies: It is anticipated that the scrip initially will cost $5, or 10 for $50. The good news is that this scrip will

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• Against the Grain: Food Shortages in the U.S.?

  Published: April 24, 2008, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Food Chain Crisis, Globalization, Politics Global, Corn, Ethanol, Food Chain, Grain, Oil

  that they included in an energy bill last year… While higher profitability in planting corn crops for ethanol purposes may explain rising corn prices, it doesn’t necessarily explain the shortages of other grain staples, such as rice and various wheats. Over the past month, reports have started trickling in about severe

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• Tom Friedman on the Gas Tax Holiday

  Published: April 30, 2008, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, John Mccain, Politics U S, Gas Tax, Windfall Profits Tax

  have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season.

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• He really is a straightshooter

  Published: May 3, 2008, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues

  friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East, McCain said. Share This

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• Catapulting the Propaganda on CNN - “Why Gas in the U.S. Is So Cheap”

  Published: May 3, 2008, 1:47 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Lies And The Lying Liars, Media, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cheap Energy, Cheap Gasoline, Cnn, Gas Prices, United States

  the U.S. are to have cheap energy and gasoline prices. The report cites a “study” by Associates for International Research, Inc. (AIRINC), which supposedly found that the U.S. only has the 111th most expensive gasoline in the world. But, what’s more important is what the CNN/Money article doesn’t disclose - about

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• MC Straighttalker Flip-Flopping on Energy Policy

  Published: May 6, 2008, 8:34 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Energy Issues, Environmental Issues, John Mccain

  deployment of new and better energy sources and technologies. This approach will build the business case for alternatives to oil such as ethanol. It will promote the conservation and diversification of energy to include alcohol fuels made from corn, sugar, switchgrass and many other sources; fuel cells; biodiesel derived from waste products;

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• Oil Bubble?

  Published: May 16, 2008, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues

  be dealing with supply issues, but that’s certainly not the case right now. And neither are taxes. Consumption and the low value of the U.S. dollar are driving the market right now, pure and simple. The fall is going to be a hard

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• Bush Honors Troops, Quits Golf

  Published: May 14, 2008, 8:55 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Bush Arrogance, Energy Issues, Military Issues Veterans

  I’m with Votevets.org on this one. The other day President Bush said that he honored our troops serving in war by giving up the game of golf. Yeah, he really said that. You can read Votevets.org’s take on it, and also how it turns out Bush pretty much had to give up golf anyway because of knee problems. That’s sort of like a

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• Gas Prices, Gas Bags, & The Gas Chamber

  Published: May 18, 2008, 7:56 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Environmental Issues, Politics U S, U S And World Economy, Capitalism, China, Corporate Profits, Energy Shortage, Environmental Regulation, Free Market, Gas Chamber, Gas Prices, Global Warming, India, Lobbying, Oil Exploration, Opec, Refineries

  No doubt the current energy crunch is a complex equation. A number of factors likely contribute to the rising price of gasoline in the United States. As I understand it, they include the rapidly expanding consumer demand (including China and India), the fact that the U.S. hasn’t built a new refinery in three decades and couldn’t

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• Jumping: Oil Prices and Unemployment

  Published: June 6, 2008, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Food Chain Crisis, General, U S And World Economy

  A couple of OMG stories from this morning almost take my breath away, and indicate just how bad the economy is tanking, despite a market run up in the past couple of weeks. And baby, it’s not going to get any better anytime soon. It’s getting scary. First up: the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5% in May. Earlier this morning, when I

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• Dear BushCo: Quit Lying to Us

  Published: June 7, 2008, 10:29 am

  Tags: Bush Arrogance, Culture Of Corruption, Energy Issues, Gop Court Docket, Lies And The Lying Liars

  report on Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman’s trip to a G8 conference in Japan. According to the article: Samuel Bodman, attending two days of meetings in northern Japan among energy chiefs from Group of Eight industrialized countries and other top economies, said the surge in world oil prices was largely a simple problem of supply and

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