The Great Arctic Oil Rush
The melting of the Arctic ice caused by the climate warming, ocean currents shifting or whatever, makes it possible to expore for and exploit oil reserves in the arctic polsar region. With wind and solar energy falling waaaaay short of expectations as replacements for fossil fuel and demand for energy increasing you can understand why as exploration permits become available exploration companies and oil giants alike are piling in hoping to fill their boots. In July 2008, the US Geological Survey released the first ever publicly available estimate of the oil ...
Goodbye To The Mad Dog - Maybe Not
A heavily armoured column was seen crossing the border out of Libya into Niger. Has Gadaffi fled for good. Are the troops a force led by Gadaffi's son whih which he plans to fight a guerilla campaign or are they just mercanaries getting the hell out before thay are captured and shot?
Stock Markets Crash - We Got It , we were'nt pessimistic enough
It is not often The Daily Stirrer has to say "We got it wrong," we are much more likely to be telling you "We told you so." Last week however we predicted that the final collapse of the FUBAR global economy would beging in abou four to six weeks. We wwerre horribly wrong. It has started ...
Gadaffi's High Noon Will Be The Batle For His Hometown
Libya's transitional leaders believe hundreds of their supporters have been gunned down in Colonel Gaddafi's home town of Sirte by desperate regime loyalists, even as they try to negotiate its surrender. A more reasonable interpretation of the story reported by ...
Global Markets Crash
The latest figures announced by the US Government show the American economy added no net new jobs in August, according to the key non-farm payrolls figures from the Department of Labor. The August number was much worse than had been expected - the predicted figure was an addition of about 70,000 new jobs. Overall unemployment remained ...
Atlantis: Lost Civilization, Myth Or Legend
One of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world is the lost continent / islan / civilization of Atlantis. Did it ever really exist?
More Americans Are Calling Long Stay Motels Their Home
A long way from the glossy world of Wisteria Avenue, where the Desperate Housewives lived their lives, beyond the deperation of the 'projects' (U.S. equivalents of our sink estates) featured in The Wire, further on from the glossy image America likes to present to the world than even the trailer parks featured in so many gritty novels and post modern fiml - noir movies there lies the shadow world of ...
World powers hail 'new Libya' at Axis Of Hypocrisy summit
Avoiding 'another Iraq' - a descent into civil war - was the unspoken purpose of the Paris meeting according to the communique issued to thw world's press.
The Daily Stirrer loves that phrase "Avoid a descent into civil war." Typical of the vainglorious solipsists ho style themselves world leaders. Have they not herard there is alread a civil war going on? The press release went on "Sixty countries showered blessings on the birth of ...
Are Potatoes Natural Prozac
Depressed? Try Potato Instead Of Prozac. Sdome say they can work as well to balance serotonin levels as prescribed medication and have no side effects. Needless to say treating depression naturally is not as simple as stuffing yourself with mashed spuds. Moderation is the best way to balance amino acids and insulin levels
Don't Google It
Are we becoming too reliant on computers and the internet and what is the point of having at our fingertips so much poor quality information?
Tobacco Giant's War On Science
A giant in the tobacco industry is trying to force a Scottish University to hand over confidential information about British teenagers' smoking habits. Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is using the Freedom Of Information act to force Sterling university to reveal full details of its research involving confidential interviews with thousands of children aged between 11 and 16 about their attitudes towards smoking.
Death of the Ice Cream VanThat venerable tradition of the English Summer, Ice Cream Vans have been sentenced to death by bureaucracy
Polypill
Probably the health fascists worst idea yet, the polypill plan involves prescribing for everybody over 50 a pill containing hear and circulatory system drugs including one to thin the blood (pollibly fatal if someone has a haemorrhage, and statins - the notorious anto obesity drugs the best know side effect of which is arse dribble.
Germany Rebels against Euro zone bailouts
German taxpayers have rebelled against bail outs for basket case nations. Will Frau Merkel dump the Euro or will her government coalition fall? "
What Actually Happened Before Big Bang
A look at what we actually know about the origins of the universe rather than the theory and mathematical speculation those whose have made a religion of science claim is proof. [ clear night - metaphysical love ]
The Curse Has Come Upon Me Cried The Lady Of Threadneedle Street Has the Lady Of Threadneedle Street cried 'The Curse Is Come Upon Me?'Economic news suggests the debt crisis in the western nations means the economy of the developed world is FUBAR.