After Peak Oil in the US

Lecture about how important Oil is for the World Economy (especially the USA) and how everything is based on it. It also explains what will happen when we will have shortages of it and what can be done to have a smooth transition to less oil dependent society.

Crude Awakening: Peak Oil & The End of Cheap Energy
Part 1 (here) and Part 2 (here).

What's in a word

Very good little essay from The Economist (here) about the power of words and why it is important to use some of them carefully.

A quick excerpt:
THE “global war on terror” is what America calls its response to the September 11th attacks. Never mind the cliché, or the fact that “terrorism” is a tactic and “terror” a state of mind; George Bush's crisp slogan helped to rally a traumatized American public.

Paris instead of Moore

What does it tell you when a society gives higher priority for an interview with a starlet who just got out of prison against an interview with a film producer who just released his documentary about the abyssal problems of the health care system?
I think it shows how screwed up you are as a society, how you scale of values is wrong!
This is exactly what happen last week on Larry King (here)