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Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay

rather than look at the unprecedented Chinese demand for oil or Mideast instability as the cause of current high gas prices, this article details how the remaining global oil sources (tar sands, arctic, deepwater) are much more expensive to extract.

world oil energy environment
10 weeks ago by dsankey

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Dick Cheney cancels Toronto trip, says Canada is too dangerous

(<a href="http://juancole.com">via</a>)

usa world canada politics
10 weeks ago by dsankey

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Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat

it begins.

world environment
11 weeks ago by dsankey

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Top 5 Stratfor Revelations

from the Wikileaks documents. Now whenever I hear "Wikileaks" I think of the hamster from South Park.

politics USA world spy
12 weeks ago by dsankey

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Whose Police?

on police brutality in evicting OWS from Zuccotti Park (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)

world activism politics usa
november 2011 by dsankey

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Hackers Challenge Mexican Crime Syndicate

makings of a Bruckheimer movie

world news
november 2011 by dsankey

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London riots: the underclass lashes out

(<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)

World
august 2011 by dsankey

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Oslo Terrorist Used Modern Warfare 2 as "Training-Simulation", World of Warcraft as Cover
games world
july 2011 by dsankey

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Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held on hacking whistleblower

"unexplained but not thought to be suspicious"... nothing suspicious about a dead whistleblower.

news uk world
july 2011 by dsankey

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Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant
japan world energy
may 2011 by dsankey

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The Banality of Evildoers

"OBL’s grubby lair would have been far more impressive if it had really turned out to be a cave in the mountains, as we’d been conditioned to expect."

world usa
may 2011 by dsankey

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Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs

as in submersible boat, not sandwich

tech drugs world
april 2011 by dsankey

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Renewistan

"the land area dedicated to renewable energy (”Renewistan”) would occupy a space about the size of Australia to keep the carbon dioxide level at 450 ppm." But we'd have to get it lower than that, and also cut our consumption drastically. Unless we can do this, we unfortunately need nuclear power.

energy environment world
march 2011 by dsankey

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Nukes: Improve them, but don’t even think of abandoning them

Doug Saunders on why nuclear power is still vital despite the disaster in Japan. Good point: Germany's massive wind power plans rely on nuclear.

energy environment world
march 2011 by dsankey

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Threat of nuclear meltdown sparks a quiet panic in Japan

poor Japan. what a nightmare

japan world news
march 2011 by dsankey

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Skyrocketing oil puts recovery at risk
economics world oil
february 2011 by dsankey

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Arab Revolution

"Arabs are kicking out their oppressors one at a time! This blog will document this journey. 2 down & 21 to go. ☑Tunisia ☑Egypt"

politics world
february 2011 by dsankey

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A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange
politics law world
december 2010 by dsankey

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Nigeria 'to charge Dick Cheney' over alleged bribery
news usa cheney world
december 2010 by dsankey

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Second collapse at Pompeii triggers call for action
history world rome
december 2010 by dsankey

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How Germany got it right on the economy

fascinating. They kept their manufacturing & emphasized local growth over global expansion.

economics world business
november 2010 by dsankey

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A Funkaoshi Production :: Chennai (and a day trip) — Feb 1st - Feb 6th

The last leg of Ram's trip to India. I love this writing style.

World writing
october 2010 by dsankey

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Shrinking Cities - Global Map Animation
video cities world windsor
june 2010 by dsankey

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Context M.I.A.

Columbia Journalism Review about the truffle fry NYT takedown of M.I.A. last week. "I must have missed the part where we don’t want rich people to care about others."

music world journalism
june 2010 by dsankey

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Cheap Traveling Bastard

how long can you live on $75,000 in what parts of the world? I'm getting some bad ideas here. (via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com">Funkaoshi</a>)

travel ideas world
may 2010 by dsankey

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Canadian researchers reveal online spy ring based in China

botnet contains "almost every e-mail sent to or from the Dalai Lama’s offices in 2009", amongst many other things

tech spy world canada
april 2010 by dsankey

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