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Peak Oil, 20 Years Later: Failed Prediction or Useful Insight? - https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/peak-oil-20-years-later-failed.html?m=1

A moon mission for the 21st century? Why not an Earth mission instead. We should apply the concept of a mission to develop and implement models for true sustainable communities, right here on earth, right now. The moon can wait. - https://medium.com/iipp-blog/a-moon-mission-for-the-21st-century-57c091283f76

88000 deaths a year! Prohibition again!!!

Alcohol taxes and restrictions could curb problem drinking, but are hard to sell

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/11/19/alcohol-taxes-restrictions-public-health-policy-problem-drinking-blue-laws/1729501002/

https://qoto.org/media/I9w9FzSNz7w19RE2NPU

Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan #TokyoReflection

Day of revolt leads to mass arrests in the UK as protest participants argue too many still don't "recognize the seriousness of our existential crisis" and almost nobody is doing enough to end humanity's wreckless assault on planet's living systems - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/17/because-good-planets-are-hard-find-extinction-rebellion-shuts-down-central-london

The Ghost of IG Farben: Can Monsanto Reform Bayer?

Berlin. The marriage of Monsanto with Bayer breaks records not only due to its size but because of its evil smell, and not only due to Monsanto’s reputatio

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/the-ghost-of-ig-farben-can-monsanto-reform-bayer/

https://qoto.org/media/9zM8b0jpjNbrlM0hf9M

https://qoto.org/media/ybt_Obur7iqYimV7UrQ

Full text of "The Treason Of Rockefeller Standard Oil (Exxon) During World War II.pdf (PDFy mirror)"

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-eQ-GW5bGFH1vHYJH/The%20Treason%20Of%20Rockefeller%20Standard%20Oil%20%28Exxon%29%20During%20World%20War%20II_djvu.txt

https://qoto.org/media/YpsCnKqPBMqU6P4KHgQ

Cities are sinking — and experts say we're not doing enough to save them - RN - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-17/cities-are-sinking-so-what-are-we-doing-about-it/10503924?pfmredir=sm

The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling - Quillette - https://quillette.com/2018/11/16/the-one-sided-worldview-of-hans-rosling/

‘La ultraderecha’ y el gobierno se manifiestan juntos en Polonia para celebrar la independencia https://quitter.es/url/2147537

a normal society: people need houses so we should build them

a commodity fetishist society: some people have to be homeless because otherwise some peoples money numbers will go down

Good color from the Japanese maple.

BREAKING NEWS : ISRAEL DEFENSE :100_gay: MINISTER RESIGNED! PROTEST IN STREETS BY ISRAEL CITIZENS DEMANDING NETANYAHU RESIGNATION

Oooh, it's snowing...! It's so pretty, all this white falling from the sky, blanketing the world in a soft and fluffy layer of...

...wait. It's MID NOVEMBER and this is Maryland, why is it snowing? We usually don't get noteworthy snow until January. Did reality segfault?

Time to kick the neoliberalism while it's down.

Not Sorry to Bother You: Boots Riley’s Insanely Radical Film Bum Rushes Neoliberalism – Tropics of Meta

https://tropicsofmeta.com/2018/07/19/not-sorry-to-bother-you-boots-rileys-insanely-radical-film-bum-rushes-neoliberalism/

Rapid population growth and poor infrastructure have put two out of three cities in Africa at "extreme risk" of the threats posed by climate change, according to a new analysis
https://t.co/UENscAbP82 https://t.co/2eKo8WdoOx https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1062649476131774464

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown

"Even if anthropogenic warming were constrained to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to lose mass this century, with rates similar to those observed over the past decade. " | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0305-8

"And those Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility."

Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West

Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again - 1/2