This whole Maya calendar end of the world whoohaa has reached such a pitch that White House.gov for goodness sakes created a link about the idiocy which sends you/me to the answers.USA.gov site with further links to NASA’s point of view on the subject.

There is the Shock Doctrine which holds that you can change things by taking advantage of disasters. Now we are seeing the process of legislating by the threat of disaster. It is new and it is worse.

More information on the rapid decline of the arctic…for most of us to ignore.

The communities that have been destroyed by the financial tornadoes are no less devastated than those destroyed by natural tornadoes, and the toll on the people is no less heartbreaking. The financial tornadoes didn’t roll through in a single night, but wreaked their destruction slowly over time. And they continue to spin out of control.

Even if the Fukushima reactor is brought under control the destiny of the area and those who are there is almost certainly unpleasant.

While it is axiomatic that we don’t have all the details at any given time this post is going to attempt to keep everyone updated. Last night Scarecrow, Lobster and Prof Foland in particular did a great job keeping everyone up to speed on the apparent rupture of the Unit 2 reactor at Daiichi Nuclear [...]

The ability for the United States to project power abroad – to protect its national security interests – is broken

BP CEO Tony Hayward is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. The meeting is chaired by Bart Stupak (D-MI). It is expected that the meeting will be interrupted throughout the morning for a series of House votes. You can watch the testimony live on CSPAN 3. You can find part one of the liveblog here and part two here.