Thursday, July 22, 2010

Items of Interest 22 July 2010

Rod Dreher, Bad economy! Bad, bad economy! and China is turning Christian and Goodbye, Beliefnet! Hello, BQO!
Fred Reed, Getting What You Want, Wanting What You Get: An Unbiased Study of Feminism


Energy Bulletin:
The peak oil crisis: thinking about China (original)
Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

Whether Beijing's formula of mixed capitalism and state control of key enterprises will prove to be durable over the long run has yet to be seen. What we do know, however, is that a few more years of surging energy consumption will soon be playing havoc with energy prices around the world.

Oil production during deleveraging (original)
Stuart Staniford, Early Warning

I've been musing on the interaction between a) an extended period of economic stagnation/contraction due to deleveraging, and b) peak oil.


Counterpunch:
Gary Leupp, Obama's Afghan War in Perspective

Bruce E. Levine, How Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars

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