World Analysis Newswire Archive

Sadly, it appears as though Obama has allowed himself to be surrounded by the same types of people that were responsible for the Madness of the reign of Bush the Lesser. The hope is fading fast ...

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The emerging consensus on Iran in US foreign policy circles again underscores the fact that the differences between Obama and McCain were purely tactical. While millions of Americans voted for the Democratic candidate believing he would end the war in Iraq and address their pressing economic needs, powerful sections of the American elite swung behind him as a better vehicle to prosecute US economic and strategic interests in the Middle East and Central Asia—including the use of military force against Iran.

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Last week a "taskforce" made up from representatives from the FirstGroup plc, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group, Virgin, Arup, Foster + Partners, Yahoo launched a report of Peak Oil and Peak Gas: The Oil Crunch - Securing the UK’s energy future, PDF:  http://peakoil.solarcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/oil-report-final.pdf

What has Obama wrought? In the euphoria, can reality reclaim its rightful place? The parameters of rhetorical change are boundless, propelled into the nether-reaches of nonsensicality by hyper-speak and super-wishfullness that can never supplant the real world of entrenched class and race rule. Celebrate good times...COME ON! But at some soon point in time, we must return to the ground. And the need for struggle. Better start as soon as the cold breeze hits you. Like now.

The Americans are more interested in destabilizing the Bolivian government than in suppressing the cocaine trade. President Morales shuts down the DEA and expels the U.S. ambassador.

A new video has been released (attached), from sources unknown, of the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 on September 11th 2001. Previous videos of the collapse ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ) were from angles that didn't show the lower section of the building as clearly as this new one does.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.
(To be published in the "Divulgando", bulletin of the Associacao dos Servidores do Centro de Processamento de Dados do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, ASCPDERJ).

The U.S. military constantly expands in size, budget and mission. Two new U.S. military "commands" have recently been activated or augmented, with ominous implications for global peace and domestic civil liberties. Africom now casts a shadow over the last continent for which the U.S. had no designated "command" structure, and Northcom, with responsibilities over the domestic U.S., is a nightmare for those who fear repressive "martial law" in America.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

The following article, posted to Red Pepper's 'Change We Can Believe In?' blog on Obama might be of interest to Indymedia.org.uk readers. It's by Ewa Jasiewicz and on what an Obama/Biden presidency might mean for Iraq.

Growth is Vanity Fair, Lear Jets, Sex in the City. Sustainability is Adbusters, bicycles, sex in the haystack. And now, just as eco awareness is spreading, the financial meltdown hits... We came for the oil, left a mountain of corpses and filled up the rivers of Babylon with shit.

In recent years, natural gas consumption in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly. At the same time, there has been an abrupt change in UK natural gas supplies, brought about by depletion and decline. In the first part of this two part series, I look at historical developments in EU and UK natural gas consumption, production and imports and the challenges posed by declining production.

In the second part of the series, I use a simulation approach to test the likely adequacy of natural gas supplies during the upcoming heating season. In these simulations, I use data from the UK Department of Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform (BERR), UK National Grid, as well as information about recent UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) develpments. Based on what I refer to as the reference scenario, it seems likely that the UK will increasingly have to rely on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports to secure adequate supplies.

The Financial Times has leaked the results of the International Energy Agency's long-awaited study of the depletion profiles of the world's 400 largest oilfields, indicating that, "Without extra investment to raise production, the natural annual rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent."  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5e78778-a53f-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html

We have been led to believe that the act of sabotage, all acts of sabotage, are inherently bad. This is because sabotage is a potential threat to everything civilization holds dear: it is perhaps the only thing that could stop the environmental crisis.

The following article is from a grass roots 9/11 truth activist who has done lots of work with the families who lost relatives on 9/11 and the victims of the toxic dust.

After hearing Alan Greenspan's "testimony" before the Congressional hearing (made up of millionaires and multi-millionaires), I'm reminded of the police chief in Casablanca... "I am shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here..."

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