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IHS Markit: Oil Demand Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022

IHS Markit: Oil Demand Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022 Global oil demand will likely take another year or so to return to pre-pandemic levels—by late 2021 or early 2022, energy expert and IHS Markit vice chairman Daniel Yergin told Al Arabiya English in a video interview on Monday. Yergin’s expectations for oil demand are roughly […]

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2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong

2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong How today’s energy problem is different from peak oil Many people believe that the economy will start going badly wrong when we “run out of oil.” The problem we have today is indeed an energy problem, but it is a different energy problem. Let me explain it with an […]

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Are We Facing a Future Where Life Only Goes “Back to Normal” for Rich People?

Are We Facing a Future Where Life Only Goes “Back to Normal” for Rich People? As jobs and businesses vanish, and prices go up, Americans could soon face another expense – the expense of proving that they’re “healthy.” While the government tells us that the Covid vaccinations are going to be “free,” are they really? […]

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War On Truth

War On Truth Our response to censorship & bad reporting Welcome. Maybe you got here because you followed a link from YouTube, or Twitter, or Facebook.  Or maybe you’re already a long-time reader, in which case welcome back. Below, once you are signed into this site (which requires registration for all newcomers) you will be […]

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Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America 

Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America  In the last five days, the US reported over one million new COVID-19 cases with total virus-related deaths swelling over 311k. The resurgence of coronavirus cases is now affecting meatpacking plants. According to Bloomberg, Cargill Inc. was forced to idle one of its plants […]

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The Fall of the Citadels of Science: the Pandemic and the End of Universities

The Fall of the Citadels of Science: the Pandemic and the End of Universities Far from being ivory towers, nowadays universities look more and more like battered citadels besieged by armies of Orcs. The Covid-19 pandemic may have given the final blow to a structure that was falling anyway. (image credit “crossbow and catapults“) A […]

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If You Thought 2020 Was Bad, Watch What Happens In 2021

If You Thought 2020 Was Bad, Watch What Happens In 2021 In terms of the economy and the American social situation, 2020 is definitely one of the ugliest years on record, there’s really no way around it. That said, I get the impression that many in the public are operating under the assumption that we […]

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UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’

UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’ The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the […]

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A World in a State of Total Confusion

A World in a State of Total Confusion While 17 states have joined Texas in their lawsuit against Pennsylvania for a fraudulent election, YouTube/Google and the new BigTech conspiracy against the people vow to delete any content claiming the election was tarnished in any way pronouncing Biden is the president-elect which is totally illegal for only the Electoral College […]

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Make markets matter

Make markets matter A 1,200-year-old farming and fishing site known as the Horta or Huerta (garden) of Valencia has been recognised on the register of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), managed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This ancient and culturally rich, fertile area is made up of 6,000 small agricultural holdings and […]

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Time to Get Defiant: Improving Our Collective Food Awareness

TIME TO GET DEFIANT: IMPROVING OUR COLLECTIVE FOOD AWARENESS In the final blog in our series about a post COVID-19 sustainable food future, Bristol public health medic Dr Angela Raffle explores how we find ways to help everyone in the city understand where our food comes from. How do we radically shift our collective awareness […]

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Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels

Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels Have the recent pronouncements of the death of oil and reigning renewables been more rhetoric than reality? Yes and no. It’s true that peak oil is now closer than ever, and globally we’re seeing a more earnest effort to decarbonize than ever before, in large part thanks to […]

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Three Big Retailer Casualties in One Week: UK Retail Landlords Reel after Worst Week of Nightmare Year

Three Big Retailer Casualties in One Week: UK Retail Landlords Reel after Worst Week of Nightmare Year Some property owners are more exposed to the fallout than others. The UK’s retail property sector was hammered by three big corporate casualties last week, even as the country’s shopping centers began reopening after another lockdown. Two of […]

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Chief Medical Officer Says Canadians Who Refuse Vaccine Won’t Have “Freedom to Move Around”

Chief Medical Officer Says Canadians Who Refuse Vaccine Won’t Have “Freedom to Move Around” Suggests those who don’t take the shot will have to wear masks. Cole Burston via Getty Images Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer says that those who refuse to take the COVID vaccine won’t have “freedom to move around” and will have to […]

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War and Censorship — Difficult Times in Italy

War and Censorship — Difficult Times in Italy A post by Miguel Martinez, originally published in Italian on his blog on 23/11/2020. Italy was the first European country to be struck by the COVID-19 pandemic and the first to implement a national lockdown. At that time, Italians would display the flag on their balconies and sing aloud in […]

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