Day March 12, 2005

US report acknowledges peak-oil threat

It has long been denied that the US government bases any policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal decline. But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, does exactly that. This brand new senior-level…

A rose is a rose is a security device

Security plants primer Among the plants they mention is the fearsome voodoo rose, which is “more menacing than barbed wire.” (pictured) Then there’s the really scary fuschia flowering gooseberry. Plant them under your windows!