A False Solution: The real impact of opening new areas for oil exploration and drilling.

Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:59 PM EDT

All call to action: Regarding drilling oil on the intercontinental shelf, GWB cannot lift this ban with an Executive Order alone. Congress placed the ban and Congress must lift it. We must contact our Congressional leaders, Senators and Representatives to not lift this ban.

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energy, oil-prices, politics, environment, gasoline-prices, oil-exploration-and-drilling

Continuity of Government (COG)

Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:34 PM EDT

The laws are already in place for the president to declare a national state of emergency, after which the Congress and the Judiciary would be disbanded and a group of administrators would take over the government.

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patriot-act, politics, watch-list, cog, continuity-of-government, war-and-emergency-powers-act

Iraq, the Economy and National Security: It's All About Oil....

Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:31 AM EDT

The dangers of our oil-based economy have been growing for decades. We first saw the "writing on the wall" in the '70s during the oil embargo. Even before the fall of the U.S.-propped-up reign of the Shah of Iran in the '70s, anti-Americanism has dominated the Middle East.

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energy, oil, politics, petroleum, policy