Normally when talk of Global Warming's possible negative effects come up, the picture is of Bangladeshis and South Sea Islanders being flooded by rising sea levels or some other Third World society having to adjust.  Now however, the American Southeast and Southwest, large parts of Mexico, Europe and Australia are in grip of droughts so fierce that they are being viewed as 500-year events.  People should be asking if this is connected to the types of Climate Change being predicted by those who think than mankind's activity is messing with the weather.

Bilaal Abdullah - Author - Peak OIl Paradigm Shift

Read the Tom Dispatch story. Click this link
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174863/as_the_world_burns

This article is significant because the New York Times is belatedly recognizing what the mainstream press has long refused to see; namely that "This is the world's first demand-led energy shock".  Oil prices will continue to trend higher not because of supplier chicanery or speculation but because of an imbalance between burgeoning demand and resource-restricted supply.
Bilaal Abdullah - Author - Peak Oil Paradigm Shift

To read the full New York Times Article go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/business/worldbusiness/09oil.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1195186375-6O5+tR8tH2KzndBGDY5PsQ

Whiskey & Gunpowder
September 24, 2007

As a loyal Whiskey & Gunpowder reader and personal friend of Byron King, I must say that not only do I subscribe to the Peak Oil theory, I am experiencing it first hand. As I write this, I am only a few short minutes from the border of Russia at my home in Estonia. Yes, Estonia, the small Baltic country with the big heart and the taxes to match it.