Fruit and Vegetable Prices Are Rising

Grocery shoppers may soon need more green in their wallets to afford their next salad. The cost of fresh produce is poised to jump in the coming months as a three-year drought in California shows few signs of abating, according to an Arizona State University study set to be released Wednesday. The study found a […]

The Slow Death Of The Old Global Order

In the spring of 2012, The National Interest produced a special issue under the rubric of “The Crisis of the Old Order: The Crumbling Status Quo at Home and Abroad.” The thesis was that the old era of relative global stability, forged through the crucibles of the Great Depression and World War II, was coming […]

To the 34% of American Adults Who Are “Worried a Great Deal” about “Global Warming”

Preface:  A recent Gallup poll showed that 34% of American adults worried “a great deal” about “global warming”.  This essay is written for that 34%. Many well-intentioned people are desperately trying to stop climate change … And yet they are proposing things that will put more C02 and methane into the air and otherwise do […]

Why Controlling the World’s Population Might Not Be About Numbers After All

In a world with limited resources, we have to conserve what we have and reduce the number of people on the planet—at least, that’s what most of us believe. But is this true? That’s the provocative question raised by the new documentary Misconception. The film, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, […]

In memoriam: Michael C. Ruppert

Carolyn Baker (Speaking Truth to Power) IN MEMORIAM MICHAEL C. RUPPERT, February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014. Sunday night following Mike’s Lifeboat Hour radio show, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This was not a “fake” suicide. It was very well planned by Mike who gave us few clues but elaborate […]

ABCs of LNG

Current debates over LNG export often ignore its primary benefits, such as enabling gas to be produced for sale to markets beyond the realistic reach of pipelines. It also allows gas to compete with petroleum liquids where energy density is important, such as in powering ships, trains and land vehicles.  The international reaction to Russia’s annexation of […]

Peak Oil: Taking A Stand

We live in a society where it is impossible to live a functional lifestyle and not consume products made from petro-chemicals every single day — electronics, fabrics, painkillers, food additives, cosmetics, fabrics, cleaning supplies, building materials, the list goes on. More than ever, it is precisely because it is incredibly difficult to survive outside of […]

Soaring Food Inflation Full Frontal: Beef, Pork And Shrimp Prices Soar To Record Highs

We previously noted that both beef and pork (courtesy of the affectionately named Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus) prices have been reaching new all time highs on an almost daily basis. It is time to update the chart. Below we show what a world in which the Fed is constantly lamenting the lack of inflation looks […]

Peak Coal

Comments about coal are usually not complimentary. Despite our dependence on it as a source of heat for electric power generation, environmentalists wish it would go away. On the other hand, advocates like to claim we have more than 110 years of coal left – “at present rates of consumption”. Both sides are overlooking crucial […]

Peak Soil: Are We Taking More Than the Earth Can Give?

There is a tendency for humans to perceive ill occurrences as unconnected events, rather as the Biblical plagues of Egypt: water into blood, frogs, lice, wild animals or flies, deceased livestock, boils, storms of fire, locusts, darkness and death of the firstborn. Scientists now believe that these events really happened, but they were in fact […]

A Brief Comment on the Death of Mike Ruppert by Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound

We always knew it could come to this. To write about Mike requires the tranquility of recollection but at the moment, all is turmoil. Mike, you told us, “Evolve or perish.”  Yet in Apocalypse Man you merged them, speaking of death as the ultimate evolution.  One day we’ll all find out whether that is, in fact, the case but it’s […]

Michael Ruppert: The Lifeboat Hour – Carolyn Bakerfor & Mimi German

We will be joined by Carolyn Baker for the full show and by Mimi German of Radcast for about ten minutes. Then we want your calls.  Everywhere on this planet right now the warriors leading the way to a new consciousness are feeling the heat. My trip to Seattle was an ass kicker. Perhaps most of […]

Desalination Plant to Provide Third of Beijing’s Water

One-third of the tap water used in Beijing in five years will be desalinated from the sea to make it potable and boost clean supplies, according to state media. Beijing Enterprises (371) Water Group, the biggest publicly traded water-treatment company in China, is developing the reverse-osmosis project in the Caofeidian district of Tangshan in Hebei […]

1 Chart Showing the Stunning Reversal of America’s Energy Future

It wasn’t all that long ago that we were worried about peak oil. Those fears have largely vanished thanks to booming American oil production. It’s a stunning reversal that’s perfectly captured in the following chart detailing the change in America’s proved oil reserves over the past 30 years. Source: U.S. Energy Information Agency America began […]

Robert Rapier: How Do You Justify Consuming ExxonMobil’s Oil?

Sometimes the written word is easy to misinterpret. More than once I have written an article to find that some minor point I made became the focus, or that the point I was making was just lost. Most of the time that’s my fault, but sometimes it’s because an editor wanted to spice up the […]

Russia has a secret weapon against the West, and it’s not oil, gas or nukes

Energy markets have been a bit more volatile recently, thanks to sporadic violence in Ukraine and the war of words between Russia and the West. Both sides of the conflict are playing pipeline politics, with threats and counter-threats flying between some of the world’s biggest energy suppliers and consumers. As tempers flare, the threat of […]

Seeking Consensus on the Internalized Costs of Coal

What is meant by “internalized costs”? Internalized costs are the costs which can be accurately accounted for in our current systems. In energy production, these costs typically consist of capital costs, financing costs, operation and maintenance costs, and exploration costs. Some energy options incur these costs in various stages such as extraction, transportation and refinement. […]

Mike Ruppert kills himself after finishing his radio show

The conspiracy theorist Mike Ruppert shot and killed himself Sunday night after recording his Lifeboat Hour radio show. His death was announced Monday night in a Facebook post by the blogger and author Carolyn Baker, who assured her followers that Ruppert’s death was “not a ‘fake’ suicide.” “It was very well planned by Mike, who […]

RIP Mike Ruppert

Mike Ruppert has shot himself. This makes me very sad, but I certainly won’t think any less of him for his decision to take his own life. Everybody has that option. I’ll remember him for the happy times we had together, and for the big difference he’s made in so many people’s lives, opening their […]

Energy Department Seeks Methane Hydrate Proposals

The U.S. Department of Energy is soliciting for another round of research into methane hydrates, the potentially huge energy source of “frozen gas” that could step in for shortages of other fossil fuels. The department is looking for research projects on the North Slope of Alaska that could explore how to economically extract the gas […]

Japan Fukushima Radiation Reaching West Coast

  Concerns are being raised about the plumes of radiation released from the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor during the tsunami that rocked the area in 2011. The radiation from Fukushima is floating through the Pacific Ocean from Japan and beginning to reach the west coast of America. Ken Buesseler, a research […]

Mexico’s Proven Oil And Gas Reserves Fall 3% In 2013

Mexico’s proven oil and gas reserves fell 3.1 percent in 2013, according to energy ministry data, as the nation’s once-ample shallow water deposits begin to run dry. The proven Mexican reserves totaled 13.439 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), or down by nearly 430 million boe compared with the previous year. Nearly three-quarters of the […]

What is the Greenest Source of Electricity?

Earlier this week the new French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reiterated President Hollande’s plan to cut French dependence on atomic power to half of all output by 2025, down from almost 75% currently.  The plan is to curtail nuclear and ramp up renewables.  In his speech he noted that: The climate is probably the area where regulation is […]

Crimea: the Oil, Gas Story

Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine is the most significant geopolitical event to occur in Europe in a generation. Not since the Kosovo crisis in the late 1990s has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) deployed its forces in response to aggression, although this time around NATO is potentially facing a larger and […]

Why the Sudden Rush Into Africa? It’s the Oil

Oil-rich African nations could benefit from the crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Kenya, Libya Uganda and Nigeria are thousands of miles removed from that toilet of European tension known as Ukraine, but as drama unfolds in Eastern Europe, their destinies could be closely aligned. In essence, the more Russian President Vladimir Putin puts the grip […]

King Coal Is Dying a Slow Death in America

You’ve seen the photos or read the stories. In some of China’s cities you can’t even see the sun. People walk down the streets wearing surgical masks. Tourists pose for photos in front of fake landmarks since the real ones are obscured. China’s economic salvation might end up its undoing… and ours. The country’s prosperity […]

Cost Skyrockets For United States’ Share of ITER Fusion Project

“ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France, aims to prove that nuclear fusion is a viable power source by creating a ‘burning plasma’ that produces more energy than the machine itself consumes. Although that goal is at least 20 years away, ITER is already burning through money at a prodigious pace. The […]

Israeli Gas Holds Promise of Better Ties with Neighbor

Israel’s drive to export its new-found natural gas could help to rebuild strained ties with old regional allies Egypt and Turkey, but could deprive Europe of a precious alternative to Russian gas. Israel has in recent months already signed energy deals with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, though relations with the Palestinians are at a […]

A Concept for Optimizing Strategic Energy Infrastructure?

A timely new report published by the World Economic Forum in April 2014 titled “Strategic Infrastructure Steps to Operate and Maintain Infrastructure Efficiently and Effectively” addresses an important area for necessary investment globally: infrastructure. The current focus in the US is on energy infrastructure – whether this concerns the need to build out the petroleum […]

US Pays Half Of Gazprom’s Overdue Invoice With $1 Billion Ukraine Loan Guarantee

With Ukraine no longer paying for Russian gaz, and with Gazprom making it clear Kiev has to a) first pay the overdue $2+ billion in invoice and then b) prepay some $5 billion in gas until the end of the year of Europe gets it, it was only a matter of time before the US […]

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