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UG#508 - Truth & Lies of The Financial "Crisis" (Peak Oil and Peak Ponzi)

18-07-2010 12:10

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The show this week looks at the financial crisis from two angles. Most of it is given over to a talk by Nicole Foss about the implications for expansionary debt-based money of hitting the planet's ecological limits. We conclude with a reading of Michael Hudson's 2009 article, The Language of Looting, which explains how the term "free market" is now used to mean the opposite of its historical meaning.

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Scotland’s Peace Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future - 30 July to 29 August

17-07-2010 14:06

Footprints for Peace in Brussels, July 2009 (D. Viesnik)
Gretna to Edinburgh, 30th July - 29th August, 2010

Footprints for Peace invites you to take part in a journey of solidarity for a nuclear-free future.

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Wildlife Nuked?- No Thanks!

16-07-2010 19:47

What time is it Mr Wolf? Time to stop uranium mining!
Uranium mining is the beginning of the nuclear fool cycle.
Cumbrians have been invited to make charcoal drawings of the threatened wildlife and habitats in Finnish Lapland.
"What time is it Mr Wolf? Time to stop uranium mining!

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Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event

15-07-2010 13:06

"The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water.

Such occurrences can lead to the rupture of the methane bubble containment—it can then permit the methane to breach the subterranean depths and undergo an explosive decompression as it catapults into the Gulf waters. [6]

All three warning signs are documented to be occurring in the Gulf."

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Oil Spill at the British Museum

13-07-2010 15:55

This morning three members of the art activist group Culture Beyond Oil poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the museum. Emily James, Director of Just Do It, happened to be there and captured the action.

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National Demonstration against Agrofuels

12-07-2010 16:33

National Demonstration against Agrofuels

Saturday 25th September

At the site of the proposed new palm-oil burning, agrofuel power station at Portland in Dorset.

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Warning over Nuclear Industry Freshwater Use

10-07-2010 09:52

A Pictorial View of the Lakes Nuclear Sacrifice Zone - from Coniston Old Man
While Cumbrians face the prospect of £1000 fine for using a hosepipe during
the drought - Sellafield uses the equivalent of Millom, Barrow and
Ulverston's fresh water put together every day. Over 4 million gallons
are abstracted daily from Wastwater, Britain's favourite view, in order to prevent the high level liquid wastes from boiling.

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BP, Government Blocking Press from Reporting Their "Ballet at Sea"

06-07-2010 05:56

"As high tourist season approaches, there will be people who 'come on down to Alabama' regardless of the oil spill. A delicate balance between preparation for the worst and the pleasure of tourists is in the making."

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Campaign against agrofuel power station in Ealing successful

05-07-2010 13:17

Ealing London Borough Council's rejection of a proposed agrofuel power station in Southall has been upheld by the Secretary of State, following a planning appeal and public enquiry. More than 1,000 people, mostly from Southall, had objected to the planning application, both because of concerns over further increasing the demand for agrofuels, and over air quality impacts in a heavily polluted urban area.

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Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

01-07-2010 17:20

An MP through a Private Members Bill is aiming to restrict further the possibility of opencast mining in England

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Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

01-07-2010 10:14

A Bill that will lessen the environmental and climate change damage caused by opencast mining has just been introduced into the House of Commons

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After the oil rush: BP news

01-07-2010 05:37

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Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill damage the climate, as much as the oceans? Alex wraps up the big picture - including record heat, extreme floods, record Arctic ice melt, & the dying economy.

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The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

30-06-2010 19:05

We live amidst multiple crises -- economic and political, cultural and ecological -- that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.

There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some experience of dread, depression, distress.

To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse.

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Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

29-06-2010 20:01

A Member of Parliament is about to introduce a Private Members Bill, which if successful, would significantly reduce the amount of opencast coal produced in England. It will also reduce impacts on local communities by bringing policies in England into line with those operating in Scotland and Wales by introducing the need for 500 metre Buffer zones between opencast sites and areas of settlement.

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Proposed Law would make Minorca type applications History.

29-06-2010 19:52

Andrew Bridgen MP for North West Leicestershire is to introduce a Bill into the House of Commons that would introduce 500 metre buffer zones between areas of opencast mining and areas of settlement in England as already exists in Wales and Scotland

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Bloody Oil – Drum Em Out

29-06-2010 18:33

Samba over the Millenium Bridge to St Pauls
On Monday the 21st June 2010 In protest over The World National Oil Companies Congress protester marched from London’s Tate Modern to the Grange St Paul’s Hotel where In the middle of the death and destruction sown by oil companies all over the world, the industry’s “greatest minds” gathered together to celebrate and plan more carnage.

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Growing Concern

29-06-2010 11:07

The financial outlook for UK is not looking good.

Mainstream press and in-depth analysis paint a worrying picture.

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Climate 9 Guilty: Final Statement

26-06-2010 10:11

Final statement
Statement from 9 defendants found guilty of breach of the peace yesterday for shutting down Aberdeen airport.

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Shell due to start work next week

25-06-2010 19:35

COME TO ROSSPORT!
Things are getting very busy here - after a peaceful June Gathering the camp is once more set to become a focal point for resisting Shell pipeline work. Shell are due in the estuary any day now to drill 80 boreholes - pipeline survey work that should take all summer. Yesterday we shut down the Shell office in Belmullet. Today Maura Harrington was jailed for non payment of fines. Niall and Pat are still in jail. Generally it seems that lots of people are wising up to the oil industry in the wake of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....

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Transition Network Conference: Closing Session

25-06-2010 16:13

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Attached is a recording of the closing session of the Transition Network Conference which was held on 12-14th June 2010.