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FT.com | FT Energy Source | IEA warns non-Opec oil supply will peak next year

  • Non-Opec oil production will peak next year, the International Energy Agency says in its World Energy Outlook.
  • The IEA also says that post-peak gas fields are declining at a rate of 7.5 per cent, but there appears to be enough recoverable gas reserves to satisfy world demand until at least 2030.
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Five Hundred Oil-Industry Geologists Vote on Peak Oil : TreeHugger

  • At the Petroleum Geology Conference in London, 500 geologists took a vote on wether "Peak oil is no longer a concern" (something that was argued by some of the speakers). The results were interesting.
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The Internet Doesn't Make You Lonely - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • According to a Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey,
    which polled 2,512 adults, the dawn of new technology and the Internet
    has not caused people to withdraw from society. In fact, the study
    found that "the extent of social isolation has hardly changed since
    1985, contrary to concerns that the prevalence of severe isolation has
    tripled since then." Pew said that 6 percent of the entire U.S. adult
    population currently has "no one with whom they can discuss important
    matters or who they consider to be 'especially significant' in their
    life."

Von Hoffmann Award Nominee - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Rumsfeld: Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up
    come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost.
    How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other
    countries, is an open question. I think the way to put it into
    perspective is that the estimates as to what September 11th cost the
    United States of America ranges high up into the hundreds of billions
    of dollars. Now, another event in the United States that was like
    September 11th, and which cost thousands of lives, but one that
    involved a -- for example, a biological weapon, would be -- have a cost
    in human life, as well as in billions, hundreds of billions of dollars,
    that would be vastly greater," - January 19, 2003.

Tai Chi for the arthritic knee: Consumer Reports Health Blog

  • At the end of their 12-week course, people in the Tai Chi group had a 75 percent drop in their pain, on average, and a 72 percent improvement in their ability to do everyday tasks.
09 Nov 09

Ezra Klein - Lieberman will filibuster health-care reform 'as a matter of conscience'

  • What's the mechanism by which the public option increases the national deficit?
  • The Congressional Budget Office estimated that a public option paying Medicare's rates would save the government more than $100 billion in the first 10 years, and more after that.

Sensory Deprivation And Interrogation - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Here's a new study of the effects of as little as 15 minutes of sensory deprivation on the brain:
  • After spending 15 minutes deprived of sight and sound, each person
    completed a test called the “Psychotomimetic States Inventory,” which
    measures psychosis-like experiences and was originally developed to
    study recreational drug users.



    Among the nine participants who scored high on the first survey,
    five reported having hallucinations of faces during the sensory
    deprivation, and six reported seeing other objects or shapes that
    weren’t there. Four also noted an unusually heightened sense of smell,
    and two sensed an “evil presence” in the room. Almost all reported that
    they had “experienced something very special or important” during the
    experiment...



    The researchers were not altogether surprised by such dramatic
    results from only 15 minutes of sensory deprivation.

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08 Nov 09

Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy | Environment | The Guardian

  • The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.
  • "The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.
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The Issues - Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections

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  • Introduction


    “The notion of stolen elections is something we assign to
    Third World countries but not this beacon of freedom and
    democracy that we like to view

    ourselves as.”
     

    Bernie Ellis, Election integrity activist

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    Exit Poll Discrepancies in 2004

    “Nearly all the experts are in agreement that the exit
    polls could not have been so far off that they gave such
    distorted results. It’s far more rational that the voting
    process was compromised.”


    Rep. John Conyers, Chair, House Judiciary Committee

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    “Jim Crow” Voter Suppression in the 21st
    Century


    “The targeting of people of color is very political and
    very computerized.”

    Harvey Wasserman, Journalist & author

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    Undervoting

    “When you see 42%, 70% and 80% undervotes in a
    precinct in this election, you know that’s not real. There’s
    something desperately not right.”


    Marybeth Kuznik, Pennsylvania poll worker

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    Electronic Voting

    “With all these [electronic] machines, you can alter the
    outcome of a national election in a way that is just
    unprecedented in terms of its reach and the power to really
    play around.”


    Andrew Gumbel, Journalist & author, “Steal This
    Vote”


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    Privatization of our Election Process

    “Voters should not have to rely on any private company
    for the security and the fundamental fairness of their
    election system… The further you go into privatizing this
    activity of running elections, the more you lose control
    over the very core of our democracy.”


    Lowell Finley, Deputy Secretary of State, California

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    Provisional Ballots

    “On Election Day, I went to my polling place and was told
    that my name wasn’t on the register. [But] I voted here in
    the primary. And they said ‘Well, you can sign
    a provisional ballot.’ Come to find out later, I followed
    up - my vote was never counted.”


    Bobby Jackson, Ohio resident

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    2006 Mid-Term Election

    “Election 2006 gives us no reason to assume that our
    elections are now being run fairly and honestly. Just the
    opposite. Look at the pattern of the last few elections. We
    have every reason to believe that the 2008 election is going
    to be manipulated.”


    Jonathan Simon, Co-founder, Election Defense Alliance

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Boehner Misrepresents FactCheck.org’s Findings | FactCheck.org

  • We never have said that seniors would suffer "massive cuts to Medicare benefits" under the pending House or Senate overhaul bills, and in fact have done our best to debunk claims to that effect. The only seniors who might see cuts are those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, about 22 percent of the Medicare population. Currently, many of those seniors receive a bit more in benefits than regular Medicare fee-for-service patients – perhaps a gym membership, a pair of eyeglasses, a reduced premium. But, as we’ve written, Medicare pays the private companies that administer Medicare Advantage about 14 percent more per beneficiary than it does for the rest of Medicare beneficiaries, who wind up subsidizing the program, according to government analysts.

The “Government-Run” Mantra | FactCheck.org

  • The claim that the House bill would amount to "government-run health care" suffered a blow last week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the so-called "public plan" in the revised bill wouldn’t offer much in the way of competition to private insurers. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from repeating the claim.
07 Nov 09

Easier To Get Than Beer - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • I actually feel better
    knowing my child is with trusted friends, ingesting measured substances
    than on a corner at night buying an illegal substance from a stranger.
  • As a teenager, I witnessed firsthand a world in which it was easier to
    get marijuana than alcohol. I don't just say this now because it suits
    my agenda; it's the truth. If my friends wanted booze for a party, they
    planned days ahead. If they wanted pot, they just made a phone call.
    The difference was that old, but very true, cliché that drug dealers
    don’t check ID. That's why research has repeatedly shown that teenagers
    have easier access
    to marijuana than beer. What can never be quantified, however, are all
    the other harms that go along with this vast underground, underage drug
    economy that continues to thrive thanks to marijuana prohibition.
06 Nov 09

In Front Of Our Noses - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • Obama's favorability-unfavorability rating in the South is 28-67, while it is 68-23 in the rest of the country.

Taiwan and the United Nations: Not even asking | The Economist

  • For the first time since 1993, Taiwan is not to ask its little band of 23 diplomatic partners to propose it for UN membership. This is not because Taiwan has suddenly given up: it has always known membership was out of the question, since China refuses to recognise its statehood. Rather, Taiwan’s new approach typifies the effort that has marked the 16-month tenure of President Ma Ying-jeou: to ease tensions with China without dashing all hopes for greater international recognition.
  • It wants to become, like Palestine, an observer at the International Civil Aviation Organisation. And it wants to join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is even prepared to be flexible over the contentious issue of the name the island uses.
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