The Beer Barrel

Viktor Bout (j00) was arrested on charges of trying to sell armaments to South Americans. These arms allegedly might be used against American forces down there, hence the "Terrorism" charge. A Russian (j00) named Ludwig Fainberg did the same thing in the '80s and got away with it. In fact he once tried to sell an entire Russian nuclear submarine...

http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/04/04/how-the-corn-lobby-will-kill-your-older-car/

April 4, 2012
By eric

They may not need to ban old cars outright. Instead, they’ll just kill them off quietly – by poisoning them internally.

With ethanol.

Modern cars – cars built since the early ’90s - can stomach the stuff . They have...

Via iSteve:

Whatever happens, it's the white man's fault

From the NYT, a classic statement of how only white people possess moral and empirical agency, and everybody else today is just a puppet of how white people felt generations ago. It's...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-do-you-sell-a-car-to-a-millennial/255415/

By Jordan Weissmann

Twenty-somethings are unemployed, living with their parents, and driving less. But Chevrolet's youth guru still sees a big market in generation stuck.

The auto industry is facing a conundrum. The Millennial...

Looking Back on the Limits of Growth

Forty years after the release of the groundbreaking study, were the concerns about overpopulation and the environment correct?

Chart Sources: Meadows, D.H.,...