[wisconsin_cur]

Some of you might know John Batchelor from his radio show which was cancelled last year. He spent a lot of time on the Middle East. He will be a guest host for Drudge tonight on your local am radio station.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'S')ome of you might know John Batchelor from his radio show which was cancelled last year. He spent a lot of time on the Middle East. He will be a guest host for Drudge tonight on your local am radio station.

[mos6507]

Thought this was quite timely with all the doomstead talk lately.

[AAA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')hought this was quite timely with all the doomstead talk lately.

[Hermes]

I recall these guys being mentioned in a post maybe a year or two ago. IIRC in the course of the discussion it was pointed out that they heavily fertilized their land, got external workers, and just generally did things in an unsustainable manner. Like - their results were FAR from typical shall we say.

I think it was in a thread questioning how much can be grown in a small area.. something like that.

I searched through the forums for the family's name and didn't find it... I wonder if I'm screwing this up... like it was a different family or something.

[Fishman]

Excellent post Mos, even if they were not perfect it does give several ideas to work toward. Unfortunately the ecovillage pillagers are still a potential problem

[Ludi]

I've been posting about these folks regularly for years. Years, years, years.

http://pathtofreedom.com/

[wisconsin_cur]

I have a lot of interviews recently and thought I would start sharing them. I will have more tonight but lets start with the best of the day. It is a lecture from the London School of Economics and runs about 2 hours.

London School of Economic Lecture on the politics of peak oil (and climate change)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Government of Uncertainty: how to follow the politics of oil
Speaker: Professor Tim Mitchell
Chair: Dr Sam Ashenden
This event was recorded on 15 October 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
This lecture explores the politics of oil and how we can seek to understand it, at a time when uncertainty is presenting new challenges to the claims of objective knowledge. Tim Mitchell is professor of Arab studies at Columbia University, New York. Sam Ashenden is managing editor of Economy and Society and senior lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck College.

[Quinny]

Many thanks.

[Ferretlover]

Good find, Cur.

[cipi604]

Thank you

[Revi]

I listened to the whole thing, and I have to say that it was great. I was able to clean out my files while listening too, so it was a productive 2 hours! Thanks.

I think he's right. The field of economics used to be about what nature provided and what men did with it, but now it's about the accounting of numbers disconnected with reality. Look at how we are trying to get out of this crisis. We're inventing more paper so that we can account for more stuff that isn't there.

It was the first thing I've heard that really made sense out of economic theory.

[shakespear1]

Thanks for the lecture link as I would have missed learning about this man,

Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
http://www.good.is/post/the-new-nostradamus/

I did not listen to his lecture but instead looked up to see what was said about him. Damn interesting and scary. Check out the comments in the link I provide.

PS: His knowledge certainly did no good in defusing the financial disaster the US sailed into.

http://www.predictioneersgame.com/game