Peak Oil Day

Excerpt: It is impossible to say what will happen in the future with regard to oil prices. Clearly, very high prices kill demand by undercutting economic activity. Thus it is possible that the barrel price of petroleum may never break last year’s record. On the other hand, if the value of the dollar were to collapse, then the sky’s the limit for prices in dollars per barrel. On July 11, 2008, the price of a barrel of oil hit a record $147.27 in daily trading. That same month, world crude oil production achieved a record 74.8...

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(The Intelligence Daily) -- Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks,...

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(The Intelligence Daily) -- Confronted by multiple irritants from Washington, the Kremlin seems to have caved, wonders Eric WalbergA little over 40 per cent of Russians consider Russian-US relations...

Blackwater Charged With Murder, Tax Evasion, Shredding of Evidence in Baghdad Massacre Case

(The Intelligence Daily) -- New charges filed against private security contractor Blackwater accuse the company of murder, destruction of audio and videotaped evidence, distribution of controlled...

So-called “Charitable” Hospitals Providing Very Little “Charity”

(The Intelligence Daily) -- If President Obama wants to “squeeze billions of dollars from (healthcare) spending,” as Associated Press reports(July 1), he could begin by administering a...

MSN MONEY: True unemployment rate already at 20%

Really, how hard is it to find a job? Was June's horrid numbers, in which 467,000 people lost their jobs compared to 345,000 in May, a one-time fluke? Or does it mean that all those Wall Street...

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