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Guernica Mag: Darfur Crisis, A conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Scaling Buildings to Alert on Global Warming (Did you know that beef-eaters cause 4X the global warming effects as plant eaters? About the same as a Prius driver compared to an SUV-Driver)

Why is Conyers stalling on IMPEACHMENT?

LA Times: The Old Man who Farms with the Sea Feature from Vanity Fair on Hodges and another interview of the gentleman expounding on the possibilities of saltwater loving plants with the potential to help out with global warming

Change going to come

Thx Yf Lau...

The New Yorker: Elizabeth Kolbert: The Island in the Wind A Danish Community's Victory over Carbon Emmissions

Senate Passes Unconstitutional Spying Bill: ACLU will Sue (Yay!!)

The Fruit Hunters

Tonight's Democracy Now! program was highly entertaining! Amy Goodman interviewed the author of "The Fruit Hunters": Adam Leith Gollner. He talks about some of the thousands of exotic fruits he has sought out all over the world in this video. The miracle fruit changes your taste buds from sour to sweet.

HuffPO: Naomi Wolf calls out Condi Rice on Sex Crimes in the White House and Torture

NPR Music: Rogue's Gallery: Songs of the Sea and In Baghdad

FEED: Tomato Scare highlights broken food system

Al Franken on David Letterman makes a lot of sense when he calls for Congresspeoples to be banned for life from becoming lobbyists.

Larisa Alexandrovna: At-Largely: McCain Wrong about Petraeus' "Central Front" also More Info coming out on Siegleman case

Philippe Sands' Torture Team is on my list of must reads

HuffPo: Joe Lauria talks about his and Senator Mike Gravel's new book: "A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to stop it" Why Bush has won in Iraq and the rest of us have lost

Bekka and Bear, Downtown Durango.

Durango Weekend and walking the high country in the Weminuche Wilderness: Mountain View Crest. Pigeon Peak, Turret Peak, Mount Eolus....

Chronicaling the destruction of species to make room for more peoples

Orangutans on fast track to extinction

Polar Bear extinct within 100 years

The Anthropocene Age: Extinction of species caused by man On track to be the greatest extinction of species since the Permian Extinction of 250 million years ago (this was massively greater than the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago)

The Oil Drum: Why are we Addicted to Oil? (Hint: it has to do with evolution)

TPM Cafe this week with David Sirota on his new book (which I just finished!) The Uprising

I'm just about finished reading a free version on my Kindle of Cory Doctorow's harrowing account of a near future of our impending total surveillance society: Little Brother. Here he is on Boing Boing TV with a reading.

HuffPo: Lloyd Alter: A Field Guide to the New Environmentalists

Wall-E: A World Without Us and Frank Rich: Wall-E for President

Google Video (2+ hours) (must watch) Alex Jones: Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement

Related: The Money Masters

My Letter to the Colorado Springs Gazette Editor regarding drilling ANWR.... Some lame responses a few days later

PUPPETS of WAR Mccain Obama Hillary

Leadville Training Run

Greil Marcus on his book "The Shape of Things to Come"

Best interview ever by Mark Molero. And that is saying a lot!! Watch this!

McDonalds in China: "McDonalds was a more formal place than for Americans"

This Brave Nation Video: Anthony Romero and Ava Lowery

Mark Molero's Alcove Interview with Greil Marcus on his new book "The Shape of Things to Come" How does prophecy affect us? How does it affect the way we live our lives?

Foreign Policy Mag: The World's Top Twenty Intellectuals: How many do you know of?

Arianna Huffington interview on The Alcove with Mark Molaro

Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein in This Brave Nation

Pharyngula: Evolutionary Biologist and the scourge of Young Earthers, PZ Myers has Carnival of the Liberals: Take 67 and other links in Catching up on Old News

At Largely: Seymour Hersh on Covert Action in Iran

Leadville 100 Training weekend

Today John Courtney and I ran from Twin Lakes to Winfield and back over Hope Pass, about 20 miles. The "official" Leadville Training Weekend ran from Winfield to Hope Pass and returned to Winfield because there was "too much snow" on the north slopes of Hope Pass. We say it wasn't so bad....


John Courtney and last year's winner of the Leadville Trail 100, Anton Krupicka. Anton was returning from the Twin Lakes side for his second ascent of Hope Pass as we came down Hope Pass for the second time....

George Carlin at the Tonight Show (1966)

Transitional Fossils II

Transitional Fossils I - NEW

Transitional Fossils I

Ran to the summit of Pikes Peak this morning before work. Saw five bighorn sheep. 18 miles running starting at 3 A.M.

14 June, Hatfield-McCoy Marathon

Getting from Colorado to the race start in Williamson, WV was at least as tiring as the actual running of the race. With plane tickets into Charleston, WV @ $650 I finally settled on spending 50,000 of my Skymiles to get there. When I arrived at the COS airport Friday morning at 0700 I learned the first leg to Chicago (ORD) was delayed four hours and had to change to a flight to DED then ORD. In ORD the next flight kept getting delayed until finally it loaded up five hours after my arrival, after which we sat on the tarmac for a couple more hours due to thunderstorms all up and down the east coast. I finally arrived at Charleston at 7:30 PM, picked up a rental car (which I had mistakenly reserved for the day before--which cost me $65 for the extra day -- I'll never use Hotwire again), and drove frantically to Williamson to make the 9 PM deadline for packet pickup. Made it with five minutes to spare and they still gave me a wonderful pasta dinner that was included with the entry fee.

Next morning the forecast was for thunderstorms, but they didn't materialize and I only got rained on for the last two miles and by that time it was a welcome relief from the humidity.

The course was on lush green back country roads with minimal traffic. The crux of the race was an 850' hill that climbed from mile 7.5 to mile 8.5 after which we promptly lost all the elevation we had gained in about a mile and a half. At the half-way point we crossed the river and ran into a small village and turned around and came back over the river and continued the course along the Kentucky side of the river. Here I was able to see everyone from the race leader to those as far as four minutes behind me. I was in fifth at this point. I ran alone all the way to about mile 24 when I heard what I thought was a wild boar snorting in the woods. When I looked back it turned out to be a middle-aged runner. I talked myself into thinking he was in his mid-40's as he trotted past me. Later I found out he was 55! I won my age group (50-54) though. 6th overall.

Big Oil Fuels John McCain's Straight Talk Express

Economist.com: Its Mine I Tell You: Mankind’s inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law

Spencer Ackerman: Nixonland: Oh My, He's so Gangster

WaPost: Bill McKibben: End of the Open Road: The Land of the Perpetual Frontier Meets $4-a-Gallon Gas

Alternet: Eat Shit and Die: Contaminated Veggies Are the Meat Industry’s Fault

Google Video: The Fourth World War

My brother Doug blogs on HuffPo: Gardasil or Guard your Girls

New World Order - BLACKWATER : military industrial complex

The Cost of War

Some Links from your browsing pleasure...

Chris Floyd says: Torturegate: Truth, but no Consequences

Raw Story: Bush "War Crimes Conference" to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of administration officials

Sanity from Time Mag: Will more Oil Drilling Mean Cheaper Gas? short answer, no

DailyKos: Sacrificing ANWR for 3.5 cents a gallon, and Too Little, Too Late


UK's The Herald: Are we Ready for this Financial Storm?
Is Peak Oil already affecting the Market?

Robert Hirsch, author of 2005 Pentagon Report on Peak Oil, says: Energy Future: A Period of Significant Discomfort

Tonight I watched a bit of C-Span testimony on the ignominious torture hearings by the House Judicial Committee. The honorable Lawrence Wilkerson, a true patriot, testified. One statement he gave resonated to the highest mountaintop by the name of Pikes behind my humble dwelling and thence assuredly reverberated across the plains from eastern Colorado all the way to the den of iniquity in D.C. That is, America is only an idea. If we as a nation countenance torture and strip away our rights in the name of "fighting terrorism" then the terrorist have won. America as an idea. It is assuredly not the buildings and the concrete and wheat fields. America is an ideal. The "terrorists" achieve victory when they extinguish the idea that was America. I fear they have already succeeded....

The Impossible Dream -- Man of La Mancha

Democracy Now!: Citing Iraq War, Renowned Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Seeks “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder”

General Taguba, who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes... And then there is this 148-page report from Physicians for Human Rights: Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact. Shame, shame Amerika. Shame, shame Bush enablers and Bush sycophants. The lowest rung of Hell is what you deserve.

Mexico City Protest (naked)

Rollingstone: Matt Taibbi: McCain's Playbook: Hate, Fear and Caveman Politics

IMPEACH

Faux Christians

Institute for Critical Animal Studies Be sure and check out the on-line Journal for elegant essays like this one: Prairie Wolf

The Atlantic: Is Google making us Stupid?

Mark Lynas writes for the Guardian: Climate Chaos is Inevitable: We can only avert Oblivion. Mark Lynas wrote "6 Degrees Warmer" which was made into a compelling National Geographic documentary. Mark blogs here.

Tom Paine's Corner: Evolve or Die: Can we shed our Moral Primitivism before it's too late?

The Big Picture (on Capital Markets and market meltdowns)

The Independent: Nature Laid Waste: The Destruction of Africa The massive scale of environmental devastation across the continent has been fully revealed for the first time in an atlas compiled by UN geographers.

EXPLOSIVE: CIA Insider: CIA Blackmailed Officials So "Bush Family" Could Profit From War

Orion Mag: From the Faraway Nearby: Revolutions per Minute: Radical transformation is all around us

by Rebecca Solnit

Youtube: Mark Molero interviews Byron Hurt on his film, "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes"

Very refreshing interview of a complex film maker by the always sensitive Mark Molero

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom

Larisa Alexandrovna on HuffPo speaks out on the 35 articles of Impeachment read last night on the House floor by one of the only patriots left standing in this sorry excuse for a nation: The Truth Gagged and Hidden

Very important book is available as a free PDF document:

Plan B Version 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown

I bought a copy of the paperback and also put it on my Kindle where I'm currently reading it. Lots of facts I was not aware of. Highly recommended. Knowledge is power.

Dennis Kucinich is reading 35 articles of Impeachment of George W. Bush live on C-Span into the Congressional Record. It is very edifying. This is living history. Go Dennis!

James Howard Kunstler interviewed on his new book, "A World Made by Hand", about a post-peak oil world.

Looks like a good web site to keep checking back on: Political Attack Truth-O-Meter

The Dog that Didn't Bark

Despite every Western media outlet which has mentioned PM Nour al-Maliki's two day trip to Tehran including a claim that he would confront Iran over alleged meddling in Iraq, public statements from Maliki's office at the close of the visit are utterly devoid of any mention of the issue. Instead, Maliki has gone out of his way to assure the Iranians that his country won't be used for an attack on theirs and the Iranians for their part have said that they consider a peaceful Iraq to be essential to their own security.

That's really not all that surprising, although you wouldn't think so from reading Bush administration pronouncements or mainstream media stenographic repetition of the administration's talking points. When push comes to shove, the real story is that the Iraqi faction most backed by Iran is the Iraqi government - and that Sadr is a looser cannon who is far less under Iran's control.

And despite the US "suspecting" that every captured Shiite arms dealer or insurgent is part of those "Iranian-backed special groups", often purely on the circular argument that they're Shiite, there's evidence to suggest that a more of the weaponry washing around Iraq was "mislaid" from US-provided stockpiles than came from Iran. In neither case. of course, does the presence of black market entrepreneurs selling that country's weaponry to insurgents prove that the country's government is deliberately arming insurgents.

Death and Salvation on the Salton Sea

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Robert Silverberg: Reflections: The Death of Gallanium (We are running out of more than oil)

DailyKos: Global Warming 101: A Short Reading list (This will give you a good grounding in facts for all the global deniers in your life)

You really need to read this piece from the London Review of Books concerning the state of affairs in the Gaza Strip.

It's Solar Power's time to shine

John McCain (aka McSame) is the Lime Green Monster

Burma's Secret War

NPR: Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises, a non-profit organization that aids poor communities in the developing world is Fighting Poverty in his own way

More Good News!

U.S. Housing Industry: A Monument to Futility

Crude Oil Prices set to Double and Double Again!

U.S. Economy in Deflationary Death Spiral

Larisa Alexandrovna in a Buzzflash interview on Siegelman, Minor, Diaz... READ IT. It is a Attorneygate in a nutshell. If you haven't understood the Don Siegelman witch hunt this is your opportunity to get the skinny.

At-Largely reports on Blackwater's purchase of a fighter-bomber from Brazil, that will set them up with a no-bid contract to train Iraqis who are being herded into purchasing eight of them.

retired Lt Gen William Odom, passionate and eloquent critic of Bushevism, is dead. Here is a testimony on his legacy from NPR.

Winter Soldiers on the Hill

Veterans of the Iraq War have finally testified before Congress about the violence against civilians, torture, and lax rules of engagement. But their larger campaign -- convincing other soldiers to oppose this war -- is ongoing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable ... a book I just finished listening to on audio CD, in a wide-ranging interview has a harsh assessment of Bankers, Economists, and the Fed.

Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy and now Bad Money (a book I am currently reading) lays into the Fed with this HuffPo piece: Bernanke Panky

The Oil Drum has a review of Dmitry Orlov's Book--Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. This review is the one that convinced me to go ahead and buy a copy though.

Frontline documentary, Sick Around the World goes a long way to exposing the shortcomings of the U.S. healthcare system. (You can watch it on line)

Dr. Housing Bubble: How I learned to love SoCal and forget the Housing Bubble

New sacreligious Manga out of Japan: Let's Bible!

Barr Trail in Winter Part II

The second part of my "documentary" on running the Barr Trail in winter. This one takes us from no-name creek to Barr Camp at 10,200' elevation.

This morning's CRUD run on Garmin Connect.

Ran up Barr Trail to Barr Camp, turned right on the Elk Park Trail up to the meadow. Lost the trail in snow. Rich Muzzy, Rick Hessek, Scott Jaime, and John ? continued for another mile or so, while I scaled the rock pile northeast of the meadow to get a view. I could see down to the Manitou Reservoir and had great views of Pikes Peak and Bottomless Pit and all the way to the Elk Park Trailhead on the Pikes Peak Highway. In the mean time John Genet and Keith Grimes caught up to us. We returned to Barr Camp where John Genet and the rest ran up Barr Trail for A-Frame, while I headed back down to Manitou Springs with Keith Grimes.

Last night's run to Barr Camp and back on Garmin Connect

Guerrilla Gardeners: A growing green grassroots initiative is afoot, or, well, underfoot so to speak, and is cropping up globally in cities such as London, Toronto, and Los Angeles.

Some Free ebooks sites: WOWIO, Manybooks.net

Jason Stoddard: The Death of the PC and the rise of Us, Computer

Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy

Bill Moyers interviewed Isaac Asimov. He asked Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues?” and Asimov says, “It’ll be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then they both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want, stay as long as you want, for whatever you need. And everyone believes in freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the constitution. But if you have twenty people in the apartment and two bathrooms, then no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there’s no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang on the door, ‘Aren't you through yet?’ and so on.” And Asimov concluded with one of the most profound observations I've seen in years. He said, “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation. Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one individual matters.”

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren

TED Talks: Mark Bittman: What's Wrong with what we eat?

Samantha Power commencement address: Be a Good Ancestor

Jason Stoddard Blog (I found him on manybooks.net)

David Holmgren, founder of Permaculture: Future Scenarios

Vice-Premier Paul Hellyer, Canada - Alien Contact

Lobbyists, Lobbyists

From the archives of Harper's magazine (1956): Subways are for Sleeping

Pharyngula has this: Birth Pangs of a Police State

Minneapolis is hosting the Republican National Convention this summer, and that means we're seeing an uptick in sleaze (you might want to avoid public restrooms when these guys are in town). The most bizarre part of it all is that the FBI is looking for villains in all the wrong places.

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant--someone to show up at "vegan potlucks" throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort's primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division's website, is to "investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines."

Vegan potlucks now fall within the definition of a terrorist cell, as defined by the US Attorney General? What are they going to do, threaten a mass assault by kumbaya-singing hordes in birkenstocks armed with lumps of tofu?

This is not about protecting citizens. It's about silencing the expression of dissent, no matter how mild.

Springtime in the Rockies

Obama takes on McCain/Bush

Larisa Alexandrovna: All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush

Interesting Trails...

I left my house this morning with the plan to run up the Barr Trail to No-Name Creek (mile 3), then turn right on Longs Ranch Road to the intersection with Bob's Road, then continue on an obscure trail down Hurricane Canyon that leads eventually to the Manitou Reservoir, take another trail that ascends to the Barr Trail at the 7.8 mile-to-go sign, then continue on to Barr Camp before returning down the Barr Trail.

However, when I neared the Manitou Reservoir I noticed the forest service had erected a sign that pointed north with "Heizel Trail" on it. I had forgotten where this trail goes so I headed up it to see if I could get a bead on where it terminates. At first it was not a trail at all, but just a way through the open woods marked by the occasional red tag on trees. It popped out on the "real" Heizel Trail where there was a trail post pointing down the trail I had just ascended stating to stay on the trail down at the Manitou Reservoir. Apparently they are trying to keep people away from the reservoir which is why they are trying to redirect the Heizel Trail. I continued up the Heizel Trail past some fantastic granite formations and occasional outstanding views of the Peak until it crested on a high ridge overlooking highway 24 and Cascade. At this point I jettisoned my plans to return to the Barr Trail and descended the Heizel Trail to the town of Cascade, ran down the Highway to the Ute Pass Trail and returned to Manitou Springs with a side-line on the Pipeline Trail.

Very interesting 3.5 hours!

Running Barr Trail in Winter

Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Brendan Demelle: Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

NYT: James Risen: Blackwater is making its comeback

A Dream Deferred....does it explode?

Quite a story: Triumph on Capitol

(Capitol Peak, near Aspen)

Devastation on the slopes of Engelman Canyon (across from my house)

Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms

Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?

Frans Lanting: A lyrical view of life on Earth

Ted Talks: Frans Lanting: A lyrical view of life on Earth

In this stunning slideshow, nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a collection that tells the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Hoping for a glimpse of the world the way it was in the age of photosynthesizing stromatolites, "back before the sky turned blue," Lanting journeyed to a remote lagoon in Australia, the only place in the world where stromatolites still exist. The story moves forward from there, via a lyrical collection of photographs set to a soundtrack from Philip Glass.

No Peace No Work

Seattle Longshoremen marching to end the war and occupation of Iraq

Richard Heinberg's MuseLetter #193: It's Happening Global Warming, that is...

I completely agree with Glen Greenwald that Jeremiah Wright deserves much more attention.

500 Climate Changers List from DailyKos

Elvis Costello - I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea ( Live )

Face of the Day

Venice Beach, Friday, April 25th

The 4th Branch

Found this on Larisa Alexandrovna's At-Largely Blog It is brilliant!!

A bench returns to nature in the cloud forest in Costa Rica....

We spent this morning hiking the trails of Monteverde Forest Preserve at 4000' elevation on the Continental Divide. Fantastically high ferns, moss-covered trees rising 200' to the sky covered with multiple varieties of orchids and epiphytes. What is an epiphyte? A plant that lives on its host in a non-parasitic relationship, that is it draws its minerals and water from the clouds and mist in the air.

Larisa Alexandrovna: At-Largely: Your Legacy Mr President: Chapter 1, War Crimes

Just arrived in Costa Rica. Picked up the rental SUV with GPS. Dialed in Monteverde and away we go...

American River 50

The first 27 miles were flat on asphalt bike path so I tried to run as slow as I could and stay on the dirt sides as much as possible. I reached 27.4M in 3:24 -- plenty fast for me at my advanced age but I felt just fine. The final half of the race was scenic rolling single track trail through beautiful meadows with wildflowers interspersed with sections of forest. I hit cruise mode and passed about ten people up until the "Last Gasp" aide station at mile 47.6. The final 2.4 miles were up a steep road and here I flagged a bit getting passed at the last minute by two runners: one of them Tim Twietmeyer who has run the race 29 of the 30 times it has been run with a PR of 6:05 on the course. Rebekka followed my trek in style in our rented Cadillac STS, saving the day by returning to me 10 miles later the water bottle I had inadvertently discarded that held all my salt tablets! She had to really scurry along the course as I ran faster than advertised!

Winner Anton Krupicka's AR50 race report

Jean Pommier, good friend and 2nd place finisher at this year's Costa Rica Coastal Challenge, his AR50 race report

My finish: 7 hours 13 minutes; 1st 50 - 59 age group; 24th overall

vatican queens

Google Video: The World According to Monsanto: A Documentary Americans will never see

Earthlings -- 1 hour 35 minute documentary -- we are all earthlings: fish, animal, plant -- we are all on this earth evolving together

My toes after running Sacramento's American River 50-miler today. I finished 24th overall and first in the 50-59 age group.

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson

The Hillbilly Report

If I Were A Terrorist!

Rep. Jane Harman Comments on The Release of Bush's Law by Eric Lichtblau on TPMCafe.com and gets slammed by a tough crowd

The "On The Table" primary challenge movement started in San Francisco with Shirley Golub is spreading all over the country.

Mark Welyczko in OR-01, Joe Walsh in OR-03 and Nancy Moran in OR-05 are "The Impeach Team", putting the heat on their districts to put them in the impeachment column to support H.Res 799 to impeach Dick Cheney, and to support Wexler's call for impeachment hearings.

Larisa Alexandrovna: Of Violent Sex Crimes Covered up by your Tax Dollars

Slate: Fixing it: Repairing some of the worst Bush administration screw-ups.
End the war on terror as a legal paradigm; abolish military commissions, and restore FISA.

Vanity Fair: The Green Light As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure—then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.

Kirst's Earthship's Adventures in Taos

Larisa Alexandrovna: Torture Americana

TomGram: Howard Zinn: End of Empire

Figure out how to watch "Garbage Warrior" a documentary on Earthship builder Michael Reynolds...

'Stop-Loss' Trailer

Saw this movie last Sunday. Every American needs to see this. They need to confront the raw truth of what the Iraq occupation means to middle America. We are ruining young souls for what? FOR WHAT? OIL? WAKE UP AMERICA!

The Worst Environmental Disaster in the history of the world. The process of extracting and refining tar sands -- also known as Canadian crude -- involves strip-mining a 50,000-square-mile span of forest (approximately the size of Florida) located in the western Canadian province of Alberta.

Bill Gross on the credit meltdown: Pyramids Crumbling

The Collapse Party A new party whose time has come? We need to confront our impending collapse. Is "the Collapse Party" going to surge on our two-party system as we implode like the old Soviet Union?

Dmitry Orlov: The Five Stages of Collapse (We are in the first stage -- credit collapse)

World Food Prices Soar as Asia consumes more

LA Times: Perfect Storm of Hunger in the Third World

Review of Dmitry Orlov's "Re-Inventing Collapse"

Slab City

On a sun blanched slab in the California desert, a new off-the-grid, on-the-slab city has been attracting full-time vacationers for years.