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Dry Kingdom

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

While on a tour of Saudi oil production facilities two years ago, Texas oilman Matthew Simmons saw some numbers that didn’t seem to add up. Simmons looked into the matter, and concluded that the kingdom’s reserves were about to peak with serious consequences for the world's oil supply.

Both Sides of the Hudson

Ben Smith, City Hall reporter at the New York Observer
and
Mike Kelly, columnist at The Record of New Jersey - on the New Jersey Governor's race and New York City politics

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Are You The Omar Khan Who…?

Omar Khan, frequent business traveler and a senior partner in Sensei International, a business consultancy,
-has some easy tips on improving airport screening security

» Sensei International

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The Dry Desert

Mathew Simmons, investment banker and former energy adviser to President George W. Bush, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Wiley, 2005)
- says Saudi oil reserves are peaking with dire consequences for world fuel consumption

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Conventional Thinking

Chris Dunn, associate legal director, New York Civil Liberties Union
- on the mass arrests of protesters during the RNC a year ago today, and the on-going arrests of Critical Mass riders

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Hitchens v. Galloway

Andrew Sullivan is promoting it this morning, so why shouldn't we?

Anti-Iraq War Brit firebrand (and accused exploiter of Iraq's oil-for-food program) George Galloway will debate pro-Iraq war Brit firebrand (and accused exploiter of ex-friends) Christopher Hitchens at Baruch College September 14th, in what the Guardian is ...

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