Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/lagavulin.rss Furl archive. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:23:02 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/35703173/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35703173 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:07:01 GMT General ...central banks have pushed debt to fatal levels by holding interest too low for a generation, and now the chickens have come home to roost. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34170975/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34170975 Sat, 31 May 2008 16:27:41 GMT Fossil-Fuel Resource Depletion The US Energy Department projects that this year, domestic gas consumption will drop by 190,000 barrels a day and overall petroleum use by 330,000 barrels a day, the first annual fall since 1991. But those figures look less impressive when expressed as percentages. Eleven billion fewer miles is a drop of 4.3 per cent and 330,000 barrels is less than 1 per cent of the country's total daily consumption. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34059348/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34059348 The director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations is framing the issue that a gold standard is a better idea than a worthless currency standard. Tue, 27 May 2008 21:44:45 GMT Decline of U.S. Hegemony 3 http://www.furl.net/item/32870822/forward http://www.furl.net/item/32870822 This is a pet subject of mine... Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:31:01 GMT Sustainable Living 3 http://www.furl.net/item/32569915/forward http://www.furl.net/item/32569915 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:35:10 GMT economic crisis Now this city and others across the nation are left with more potholes than they have seen in decades. Add the fact that asphalt is an expensive oil-based product, and the cost of those repairs is higher than ever. "It's been devastating," said City Manager Robert Betts. "We just don't know what to do." Some road departments are even delaying major construction projects because they need to spend money instead on patching potholes....Des Moines had to reduce by 20 percent the number of miles of road it planned to resurface. "We had to ramp back significantly on long-term maintenance work," he said. "We're out there patching because we don't have the money to do the overlay."..."We'll just keep doing it (repairing roads) until we run out of money," said Todd Hagan, the county engineer. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/31369701/forward http://www.furl.net/item/31369701 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:15:09 GMT Signs of Revolt and Revolution In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/31351040/forward http://www.furl.net/item/31351040 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:07:27 GMT East vs. West Decline of U.S. Hegemony Over 95% of China’s growth of 11.2% in the year to the fourth quarter came from domestic demand. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/20697416/forward http://www.furl.net/item/20697416 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:02:40 GMT Politics Control Issues The truth is, this Congress, elected by a public that made it clear it was sick and tired of the Iraq War, has really done little or nothing to challenge the president—not on global warming, not on the Iraq War, and not on his unilateral gutting of traditional and Constitutionally protected civil liberties. The truth is, there has been little for this president to object to coming out of this supposedly oppositional Congress. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/20696367/forward http://www.furl.net/item/20696367 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:11:27 GMT Control Issues Since joining the Army in 1987, he had risen to the rank of sergeant first class, serving in both Gulf Wars, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Korea. He ended up with shrapnel scars and a Purple Heart and, back in the U.S. after his last tour in Iraq, a job as intelligence analyst at Fort Sam Houston....Sgt. Buswell wants to know: What really happened on 9/11? And he said so in his e-mail...“Who really benefited from what happened that day?” he asked rhetorically. Not “Arabs,” but “the Military Industrial Complex,” Buswell concluded. “We must demand a new, independent investigation.” For voicing those opinions in an e-mail to 38 people on the San Antonio Army base, Buswell was stripped of his security clearance, fired from his job, demoted, and ordered to undergo a mental health exam. (He was also ordered not to speak with the press...) 3 http://www.furl.net/item/20385467/forward http://www.furl.net/item/20385467 Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:54 GMT East vs. West Fossil-Fuel Resource Depletion Four Britons were among a group of oil workers kidnapped from a pipe-laying vessel off Nigeria's coast. The rest of the group was made up of three Americans and a South African....It came a day after gunmen kidnapped a Polish engineer near the oil city of Warri, which took the number of foreign workers being held by armed groups in the delta to 16....Oil production from Nigeria, the world's eighth biggest exporter, is down by about 700,000 barrels per day or almost a quarter because of an 18-month surge in violence....The militants are demanding regional control over oil revenues, compensation for oil spills and freedom for two jailed leaders from the region...But crime flourishes in the lawless delta and most abductions are motivated by money. About 100 foreigners have been kidnapped this year and released unharmed after their employers paid ransoms. 3