Monthly Archives: June 2012

Chris Martenson interviews Jim Puplava on oil and growth

Posted on June 27, 2012 by macca

Jim Puplava has made a decades-long career of interviewing hundreds of notable experts on the economy, energy, precious metals, geopolitics, agriculture and other sectors that impact our future.  The outlook he has developed as a result of all this input … Continue reading →

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Steve Coll: The “Private Empire” of ExxonMobil

Posted on June 19, 2012 by macca

In the new book “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power,” Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s sway over politics and security is greater than that of the U.S. … Continue reading →

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China in potential showdown over Nigeria’s Oil

Posted on June 17, 2012 by macca

As unconventional oil production (shale, tar sands) increases in the North American continent, oil imports from Nigeria into the USA have fallen. This situation has played into China’s hands, with one of its state-owned oil company now in talks with … Continue reading →

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Peeking at Peak Oil – Kjell Aleklett at ASPO2012

Posted on June 17, 2012 by macca

Association for the study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) President Kjell Aleklett presents his observations on 10 years of ASPO at the ASPO2012 conference in Vienna. Other videos from the conference can be found here. Visit the ASPO International … Continue reading →

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Techno-Fix – the Dr. Michael Huesemann interview

Posted on June 15, 2012 by macca

An excellent interview from the Extraenvironmentalist with Dr. Michael Huesemann, author of Techno-Fix, focusing on “technological optimism” and why technological solutions have failed to solve our long-term problems with resource scarcity, inequality, overconsumption and environmental degradation. Visit the Extraenvironmentalist website. Visit Dr. … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Jeremy Rifkin • The Third Industrial Revolution

Posted on June 13, 2012 by macca

Writer and thinker Jeremy Rivkin delivers this address to the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) in London on the critical need to develop our economies into a post carbon Third Industrial Revolution, or else we’ll spiral into a “dangerous … Continue reading →

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Oily politics: Dr Andrew Cooper on Iran • Late Night Live

Posted on June 13, 2012 by macca

Australian ABC Late Night Live host Phillip Adams talks to Dr Andrew Scott Cooper, foreign policy specialist, columnist with Public Broadcasting America’s Tehran Bureau website and author of “The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran & Saudi Arabia changed the … Continue reading →

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Banks, lenders abusing tough new credit card laws

Posted on June 13, 2012 by macca

In Australia, from the first of July, unsolicited offers to lift your credit limit will be banned but, in the lead up, banks and finance companies have ramped up efforts to dole out debt, with some devastating consequences. Sourced from … Continue reading →

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NSW’s great rail infrastructure rip-off

Posted on June 12, 2012 by macca

EcoTransit Sydney’s Gavin Gatenby shows that new rail infrastructure costs in New South Wales have spiralled out of control over the last decade… to the point where prices are several times greater in NSW than they are elsewhere in Australia … Continue reading →

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Steve Keen & Chris Martenson: Why 2012 is shaping up to be a particularly ugly year

Posted on June 10, 2012 by macca

At the high level, our global economic plight is quite simple to understand says noted Australian deflationist Steve Keen. Banks began lending money at a faster rate than the global economy grew, and we’re now at the turning point where … Continue reading →

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Stiglitz: European austerity measures a “suicide pact”

Posted on June 7, 2012 by macca

As European leaders scramble to address the sovereign debt crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues the austerity measures pushed by Germany, the United States and international creditors are only “going to make the countries weaker and weaker.” If European … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Robert Overtz interviews Michael T. Klare

Posted on June 7, 2012 by macca

Marin Commons presents Michael T. Klare Ph.D. in conversation with Robert Ovetz Ph.D., who discuss Klare’s observations in his new book “The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the Worlds Last Resources”. Recorded March 16, 2012. Producer: Jim … Continue reading →

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