Rachel Nola, Peak Oil, Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr

A bend in the road, and the whole place disappeared."
KM the Woman at the Store
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haddock
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usatoday
I keep promising myself to ignore Iraq, but...

In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by the Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets and other protective gear if they must venture outside even in the heavily fortified Green Zone and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of the less secure trailers that most occupy.

Sunday pm: a resident of Basra reports that Maliki forces arrive, lot stores, burn stores and cars
Odd how Maliki faction is more Iranian than Mahdi army faction...
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Not an Indian
bluecorncomics
According to sources at the Comanche headquarters, David is not Comanche. His adopted mother is Comanche.
... Yeagley has gone through several cosmetic changes to appear more Indian.
blogspot
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Speech to Parliament

Ms Rachel Nolan MP - Member for Ipswich
13th March 2008

theoildrum

In November 2006 the world produced 85.5 million barrels or crude per day. No month since has surpassed that total. During 2007 world oil production declined to 84.6 million barrels per day. Around the world, nation by nation, oil production has peaked and declined.


The USA peaked at 9.6 million barrels per day in 1970 and now produces 5.1 million barrels per day. Venezuela peaked in 1970, the UK peaked in 1999, and Norway and Australia both peaked in 2000.

The Energy Watch Group in Germany recently analysed world data and suggest that we are past the world’s peak. They calculate that world supply will now decline by seven per cent per year, falling to 58 million barrels per day by 2020. There is no way known that production of biofuels such as ethanol can plug such an enormous and growing gap. Even putting aside the record grain prices we are already seeing as arable land is transferred from food to fuel production the simple fact is that there is not enough land on the planet to grow the liquid fuel volume which we require today.

Aldous Huxley once said that ‘human beings have an almost limitless capacity to take things for granted’.

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Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr speaks 29Mar08
roadstoiraq
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reuters




The curfew in Baghdad that was to be lifted on Sunday morning (local time), has been extended for an indefinite period, as violent clashes between Shiite fighters and security forces rage in the Iraqi capital, state television Al-Iraqiya reports.
3/30/2008 11:15AM
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