It's Debt, It's Jobs

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5418

Cheap Food Causes Hunger

Chttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/05-9

Climate Summit, This Time in Bolivia

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/12/evo-to-resue.html

It's a Gas

China head opens Kazakh pipeline

China's President Hu unveils the Kazakh section of a 7,000km (4,300 miles) natural gas pipeline joining Central Asia to China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8410369.stm

UN Summit, Rich vs. Poor

Draft text divides climate summit
Documents leaked at the UN climate summit reveal divisions between rich and developing nations over the shape of a possible new deal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/8402502.stm

Geithner, Bernanke, Financial Crisis

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke "Complicit" in Financial Crisis and Should Go

In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Bernanke and Geithner "actually built and participated in creating the structure that now has collapsed," Spitzer says and calls on them to be replaced.

Spitzer also talks about the scandal that erupted last year that forced him to resign as governor. "I have no doubt there were many people who were opposed to me, very powerful forces, who were happy to see me go," Spitzer says. "Whether they participated, I'll let others figure that out. I resigned because of what I did."

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/eliot_spitzer_geithner_bernanke_complicit_in

In-depth Article on Peak Oil

http://www.truthout.org/092209W?n describes current energy sources and their continuing scarcity; meanwhile, alternative energies lag far behind. A recipe for more environmental degradation and global energy wars. Please insist that our local governments are discussing these issues and developing some sensible plans to get us thru the next very difficult decades.

Peak Oil Day July 11

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-11-2008-peak-oil-day.html

It's the Gas for Europe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8090104.stm [who owns the gas owns the power]

200 Years in Bolivia

Bolivia marks freedom bicentenary
Bolivians mark 200 years since their country's uprising against Spanish rule with President Morales decrying capitalism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/8066580.stm

The Powerdown Show

http://transitionculture.org/2009/05/21/the-powerdown-show-now-available-heret/

Energy, Where We Stand Now

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/05/looking-at-where-we-stand.html

America's Stuff, NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Voting With the Dollar

http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/responsibleshopper/

Mud Eruption From Drilling

Mud eruption 'caused by drilling'
Leading geologists from around the world decide that a mud volcano disaster in Indonesia was triggered by oil and gas exploration.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/7699672.stm

The Poor Must Be Protected, Too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7679144.stm

Global High Food Costs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7671612.stm

Deforestation Crisis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7662565.stm

The Long Emergency

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871138883/ref=ase_dailyreckonin-20/

"Profound" Downturn--UK

Darling warns of economic crisis
Chancellor Alistair Darling says the UK is facing the worst economic crisis in 60 years and warns of a "profound" downturn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/business/7589291.stm