Link to Klare's article: 
 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/2/103828/2945

Why I don't like those kind of articles?

Because they are not honest with you or me. On my computer I have - like you - a command key and an 'F'. (Apple) The 'F' stands for 'find'. And it's always the same with gatekeepers like Klare, Tom Engelhardt, Zinn and all the ( Read more... )

Robin M. Mills writes in an op-ed for IC

A pernicious myth has recently re-emerged: that oil is ‘running out’, that global production will soon peak and enter inexorable decline. What is the proper response to ‘peak oil’ - to attempt energy self-sufficiency, or to take military control of oil producing regions before the Chinese or Russians get ( Read more... )

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August 29, 2008

Categories: Barack Obama

Palin praised parts of Obama's energy plan in August

On August 5, she sent out a press release applauding Obama's embrace of natural gas and his plan to give $1,000 tax rebates to deal with rising energy costs. The link to the press release isn't working -- it looks like it was removed from the site -- but ( Read more... )

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“Front running” Against Humanity in the Oil Markets

CNNMoney.com

Wednesday August 27, 5:43 pm ET

By Ben Rooney, CNNMoney.com staff writer

As things in the economy have gotten worse, the number of people and businesses heading to bankruptcy court has spiked.

Bankruptcy filings surged 29% in the 12 months that ended June 30, according to government ( Read more... )

By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer 17 minutes ago

China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at the Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday.

The deal, restoring a project canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, was signed late ( Read more... )

The Associated Press August 20, 2008

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
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MOSCOW

An Iraqi Cabinet minister invited Russia's Lukoil on Wednesday to renew its bid on the vast West Qurna-2 oil field and urged Russian companies to seek roles rebuilding dilapidated power plants as Iraq searches for foreign investment to revive its oil industry and ( Read more... )

Thousands of gas pumps shortchange Texans
Did you get cheated? 11 News lets you check on pumps in your neighborhood 11:19 PM CDT on Thursday, August 21, 2008
By Mark Greenblatt / 11 News Defenders
HOUSTON -- It’s no secret: Americans are paying a lot more at the gas pump these days.

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A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading

By David Cho

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; A01

Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses.

But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( Read more... )

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
One of the facts hurled your way if you attempt to assert that the attack on Iraq was one of the Wars For The Jews is that Dick Cheney isn't Jewish. No, he was a Shabbat goy,a gentile enlisted to do what the Jewish Billionaires couldn't do, not for religious reasons, but for the practical ( Read more... )