Author: Gaianne

This Monday, Matt Simmons is reported dead in this article in the Bangor Maine Daily News. Best known for his accurately predictive book on the decline of Saudi oil production, “Twilight in the Desert,” more recently...

[Update Th 17 June 2010: at Migeru’s suggestion, I have reformatted this for clarity. No text has been changed–Gaianne] Dougr in a comment on The Oil Drum says:   OK let’s get real about the GOM oil flow....

This item seems to have slipped by, but I think it is important.  I thought it would develop, so I didn’t write about it, but instead it sort of finished–for the moment.  But I think it will bubble up...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was left shaken but unhurt on Thursday on his first visit to Baghdad after a Katyusha rocket landed just meters from a building where he was giving a news conference....

Promoted by Steven D. I wasn’t going to write this, but then I saw skippybkroo’s post on the spike in housing foreclosures languishing at the bottom of the diary list, and realized that he had caught the Scoop of the...