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A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week

A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week

The indifference of the Metropolitan Police to the murder of Stephen Lawrence rightly led to private soul-searching and public examination of procedures, and we have to hope that our country and particularly our police service is better as a result. But there is a more insidious form of racism that goes unquestioned and causes the death of far more people. This is the racism of an economic system that values the lives of the poor differently from the lives of the rich.

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-The Euro crisis
-China
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-The EU downgrade
-Nigeria
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

As Chavannes Jean-Baptiste points out in the interview that follows, climate justice and the proliferation of false solutions to the climate crisis, such as “Climate Smart agriculture,” carbon markets, and REDD, are a primary concern for La Via Campesina. La Via promotes food sovereignty, Chavannes says, not only to resolve the food crisis, but also the climate crisis.

- Nigeria fuel protests: two killed and dozens wounded as police open fire
- With Work Scarce in Athens, Greeks Go Back to the Land
- Korea: Fur shoes, fleece sweaters replace heaters in offices
- China's city dwellers to breathe unhealthy air 'for another 20-30 years'

- What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going
- What OWS can Learn from South Africa’s United Democratic Front
- Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy
- The Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance

- Nigeria union chiefs urge general strike amid fuel protests
- Global unrest: how the revolution went viral
- Hungary set for protests over constitution
- Stephen Cohen: Russian Protests and the Soviet Union's Afterlife

- Which (Mid East) tyrant will fall next?
- Juan Cole: 2011 Revolutions and the End of Republican Monarchy in the Arab world
- Guardian: US military retains global reach, but role as world leader is gradually ending
- Immanuel Wallerstein: The United States versus Everybody
- Noam Chomsky: The Decline Of America (but no competitiors in sight)

- Former oil expert from the IEA: decline of 'all liquids' soon after 2015 (in French)
- Nigeria on alert as Shell announces worst oil spill in a decade
- Shelling out the Oil in Waters off Nigeria: Radar Satellite Image December 21, 2011
- Oil Workers Rise Up in Kazakhstan, Face Brutal Crackdown
- MIT: The Chinese Solar Machine

- Egyptian Military Advisor: Protesters Should "Be Thrown Into Hitler’s Ovens"
- Krugman: Will China Break?
- China's epic hangover begins
- China's top paper praises settlement of village dispute
- Greek woes drive up suicide rate to highest in Europe
- Fragments of a Defunct State (haves vs have-nots in Russia)

Originated by the rising concerns expressed by many International Land Coalition (ILC) members in 2008, the Commercial Pressures on Land research project is intended to go beyond the large-scale land acquisitions phenomenon, focussing on the wider set of converging drivers for investment interest in land, such as rising food consumption and predicted long-term food prices rises; demand for feedstock for agrofuels; increasing commodity prices; carbon-trading mechanisms such as REDD; and rent seeking and speculation practices on land by recontextualising them within longer term trends.

This "we" is something that hasn't been seen on this planet for a long time, and perhaps never quite so globally. And here's what should take your breath away, and that of the other 1%, too: "We" were never supposed to exist. Everyone, even we, counted us out.

- Global climate change treaty in sight after Durban breakthrough (video and text)
- What happened in Durban?
- Durban: good science always wins (Ugo Bardi)
- Obama Winning Climate Debate as China Opens to Legal Accord
- The young and the restless: Kids sue government over climate change