Items of Interest, 25 January 2012

The Archdruid Report: The Myth of the Machine

Kirkpatrick Sale, The Decline of the American Empire

Paul Craig Roberts: How Dogmatic Republicans Are Sabotaging Ron Paul's Campaign (plus, via CHT, More on Ron Paul)
War Abroad, Austerity at Home

Gareth Porter on crimes committed by mercenaries: See No Evil

2012 League of the South National Conference
Please Let Rebellion Survive

Homesick Nation by Susan Matt

On James Schall, SJ: My Favorite Liberal Arts Professor and I Never Had Him for Class

Theodore Dalrymple on the value of Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Again

Relocalization:
John Robb, I started a new site: ResilientCommunities.com - Resilient Communities

Local Economies for a Global Future

The new geography of trade: Globalization’s decline may stimulate local recovery by Fred Curtis, David Ehrenfeld (EB)

Sharon Astyk, Eat the Food and Food Waste

Urban Gardens, the Future of Food

Fibershed: A case study in sourcing textiles locally by Rebecca Burgess (EB)

Farming:
Organics and Sustainability: Reflections on my New York Times Misquote by Michael Bomford (PCI)

Gene Logsdon, Talking to Animals (EB)

Economics:
The plow and the iPhone: Conservative fantasies about the miracles of the market by Robert Jensen
Challenging Republicans on the Five Myths of Inequality

Review of Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth

Peak Oil and Energy:
Fossil fuels vs. renewables: the key argument that environmentalists are missing by Kurt Cobb (EB)

Article in Nature: "Oil's tipping point has passed"

The peak oil crisis: On closing our refineries by Tom Whipple (EB)

Duncan Crary, From Suburban Sprawl to Peak Oil: Talking With James Howard Kunstler

Tom Murphy, The motion of the ocean - updated (EB)

Diet and Health:
Processed meat 'linked to pancreatic cancer'

Links Between Diet and Behaviour (pdf)

The LLVLC Show (Episode 537): Paleo Blogger David Csonka From ‘Naturally Engineered’
(mp3)

The LLVLC Show (Episode 538): Dr. Lowell Gerber Discovers Low-Carb Promotes Health & Weight Loss (mp3)

The Paleo Health & Longevity Spectrum
Vitamin K2, Menatetrenone, Weston A. Price Activator X…or Whatever…It’s Amazing

Barefoot Running and Minimalist Shoes:
Run Barefoot, Run Healthy Book Review

SeeYa Vibram FiveFingers Review

Counterpunch: The New Face of War by John Grant
Special Ops and the Spectre of Terrorism

DoD names troops killed in Chinook shootdown
Portraits of Navy SEALs killed in helicopter crash

Edit.
Fabius Maximus, What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down? Who will hire them?

You might find this humorous sarge -- USMC instructors practicing [CQB] at Blackwater/Xe.



Triple Canopy...

Check this toy figure out...