February 2012
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“ US Postal Service loses $3.3 bln in first quarter - via Reuters — The U.S....”
– Five By Five - 10 Feb 2012 | TheFuturesAgency (via mediafuturist)
“In one email, an Anadarko employee expressed disappointment that BP had not...”
– From “BP wins exclusion of emails from oil spill trial” by Jonathan Stempel in his coverage of the legal circus surrounding the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (via climateadaptation)
Mohandas Gandhi: A few things about Iran: →
mohandasgandhi:
I’m really glad that this post is going around and received so many reblogs but there are a few things I would like to add because mainstream public commentary has proved to be largely useless.
The United States is not going to attack Iran in an offensive attack by itself. A conventional war…
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via politicalprof)
“The fact remains that oil will continue to play a major role in the overall...”
– Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (from his sick bed). The speech was delivered at the Middle East and North Africa Energy 2012 conference at Chatham House. (via climateadaptation)
New Climate Central series on how reduced funding... →
climateadaptation:
“On Sept. 7, 2011, a record deluge associated with Tropical Storm Lee struck Binghamton, N.Y., dumping 7.5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period — the most the city had ever seen in such a short time. Weather forecasters, emergency managers and rescue teams knew the nearby Susquehanna River was already rising from an unusually wet summer, and that this would further swell the...
“As journalism and the habit of reading decline, it seems entirely possible that...”
– Timothy Noah, New Republic. What the Heck is the ‘Political Intelligence’ Industry.
The News: The US House of Representatives killed a provision in an insider trading bill that would have required people involved in ‘political intelligence’ to register in the same way that traditional lobbyists...
Politicalprof: Republicans against the Violence... →
politicalprof:
So the Violence Against Women Act is up for renewal this year, and surprise of all surprises … not a single Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize the act. Not a single one.
Why? Well, the editorial in the New York Times puts it this way:
The main…
“When a chick says, ‘we need to talk,’ you might as well start punching yourself...”
– Eric Cartman (via philphys)
Jared Diamond - Collapse: How societies choose to...
Jared Diamond is Boss. Guns, Germs, & Steel is a must read. Collapse is cool too.
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
Politicalprof: On Natural and Unnatural... →
politicalprof:
Imagine two groups of politicians. Group A contains Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama. Group B contains George H.W. Bush, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Mitt Romney.
I want to suggest that these seemingly incongruous groupings make sense, at least on one variable.
Group…
