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Exclusive: Election Day Worries

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July 19 issue – American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call “alarming” intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned

MSNBC


OPEC Still Committed to Raising Quota by 500,000 bpd Next Month

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OPEC will go ahead with next month’s planned production increase in a further attempt to reduce high world oil prices, the cartel’s President Purnomo Yusgiantoro said. “OPEC still has a commitment to raise its quota by 500,000 barrels a day beginning in August”

RigZone


Wall Street Life: Take an oil price over $40 – then quadruple it

Public Policy

Everyone agrees that we are running out of oil, what no one knows is how quickly. Pessimists say it could only be a few years until we are plunged into bitter darkness, causing a typhoon of war and famine to sweep the Earth.

telegraph


Skids are Greased for Oil Crisis

Public Policy

When geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when the world will run out of fertile new oilfields and new ways to recover oil, and petroleum supplies will begin an inevitable and maybe very fast slide.

Common Dreams


Oil Fields: Cold Storage for Greenhouse Gases?

Public Policy

July 9, 2004


Science group warns of political interference

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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is still packing scientific advisory panels with ideologues and is imposing strict controls on researchers who want to share ideas with colleagues in other countries, a group of scientists charged on Thursday.

MSNBC


Science group warns of political interference

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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is still packing scientific advisory panels with ideologues and is imposing strict controls on researchers who want to share ideas with colleagues in other countries, a group of scientists charged on Thursday.

MSNBC


Science group warns of political interference

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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is still packing scientific advisory panels with ideologues and is imposing strict controls on researchers who want to share ideas with colleagues in other countries, a group of scientists charged on Thursday.

MSNBC


Someone in Cleveland is paying attention

Public Policy

Skids are Greased for Oil Crisis by Elizabeth Sullivan Sullivan is The Plain Dealer’s foreign-affairs columnist and an associate editor of the editorial pages. From The Plain Dealer via Common DreamsWhen geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when […]


Someone in Cleveland is paying attention

Public Policy

Skids are Greased for Oil Crisis by Elizabeth Sullivan Sullivan is The Plain Dealer’s foreign-affairs columnist and an associate editor of the editorial pages. From The Plain Dealer via Common DreamsWhen geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when […]


Someone in Cleveland is paying attention

Public Policy

Skids are Greased for Oil Crisis by Elizabeth Sullivan Sullivan is The Plain Dealer’s foreign-affairs columnist and an associate editor of the editorial pages. From The Plain Dealer via Common DreamsWhen geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when […]


Saddam Hussain, Saudi Arabia and higher oil prices

Public Policy

Now the oil market did sink under the weight of this speculation for a brief period last month. But all the signs are that the fundamentals are already back on top, and oil prices are going higher. Indeed, we may be approaching times when $40 a barrel is going to be considered cheap.

AME


Japan launches oil, gas survey in disputed waters

Public Policy

In a bid to force China’s hand, Japan on Wednesday started a geological survey of prospective oil and gas reserves in a contested area of the East China Sea.

asahi


Japan launches oil, gas survey in disputed waters

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In a bid to force China’s hand, Japan on Wednesday started a geological survey of prospective oil and gas reserves in a contested area of the East China Sea.

asahi


Japan launches oil, gas survey in disputed waters

Public Policy

In a bid to force China’s hand, Japan on Wednesday started a geological survey of prospective oil and gas reserves in a contested area of the East China Sea.

asahi


Japan launches oil, gas survey in disputed waters

Public Policy

In a bid to force China’s hand, Japan on Wednesday started a geological survey of prospective oil and gas reserves in a contested area of the East China Sea.

asahi


Pressures at home bedevil Opec ministers

Public Policy

Behind the debate among Opec members on a reasonable price for their oil lies the urgent need among many of these oil-dependent nations to finance growing government expenditure in the face of rising unemployment and population growth.

Financial Times


Iran upbeat on oil forecasts, analysts sceptical

Public Policy

Mr Zanganeh dismissed suggestions from reporters that Iran was angling for a bigger slice of the OPEC cake, fearful about Iraq


Price controls on gasoline: bad idea

Public Policy

price controls on gasoline are a terrible idea. They would cause shortages and lineups and would hurt producers and consumers.

St. Paul Pioneer Press


Price controls on gasoline: bad idea

Public Policy

price controls on gasoline are a terrible idea. They would cause shortages and lineups and would hurt producers and consumers.

St. Paul Pioneer Press


Price controls on gasoline: bad idea

Public Policy

price controls on gasoline are a terrible idea. They would cause shortages and lineups and would hurt producers and consumers.

St. Paul Pioneer Press


Saudi castle of sand

Public Policy

Why should the regime now turn imploringly to the killers and offer a limited amnesty? The latter have keenly perceived the paralysis that wracks a divided royal family. Arabia’s Islamists believe they can hit the jackpot, and grab it all: power, money, oil fields, holy places and high-tech weaponry. They are tired of power flowing through the royals’ effete hands, and money through their deep pockets. Civil war is coming.

G&M


Saudi castle of sand

Public Policy

Why should the regime now turn imploringly to the killers and offer a limited amnesty? The latter have keenly perceived the paralysis that wracks a divided royal family. Arabia’s Islamists believe they can hit the jackpot, and grab it all: power, money, oil fields, holy places and high-tech weaponry. They are tired of power flowing through the royals’ effete hands, and money through their deep pockets. Civil war is coming.

G&M


Saudi castle of sand

Public Policy

Why should the regime now turn imploringly to the killers and offer a limited amnesty? The latter have keenly perceived the paralysis that wracks a divided royal family. Arabia’s Islamists believe they can hit the jackpot, and grab it all: power, money, oil fields, holy places and high-tech weaponry. They are tired of power flowing through the royals’ effete hands, and money through their deep pockets. Civil war is coming.

G&M


Happy Birthday America!

Public Policy

Still young by country standards, happy 228th B-Day!


(I could swear it’s not a year over 200…)


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Happy Birthday America!

Public Policy

Still young by country standards, happy 228th B-Day!


(I could swear it’s not a year over 200…)


From:


Happy Birthday America!

Public Policy

Still young by country standards, happy 228th B-Day!


(I could swear it’s not a year over 200…)


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Where the war really is ‘about oil’

Public Policy

Granted, the United States, with its vast economic and military power, would probably win any direct “hot” war for oil. The far more worrisome scenario is that an escalating rivalry among other big consumers will spark new conflicts


Where the war really is ‘about oil’

Public Policy

Granted, the United States, with its vast economic and military power, would probably win any direct “hot” war for oil. The far more worrisome scenario is that an escalating rivalry among other big consumers will spark new conflicts


Where the war really is ‘about oil’

Public Policy

Granted, the United States, with its vast economic and military power, would probably win any direct “hot” war for oil. The far more worrisome scenario is that an escalating rivalry among other big consumers will spark new conflicts


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