Consumers beware: oil and gas prices may double our even triple this winter, according to Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency (a recent Dreamland show) agrees.

A cold winter has been predicted. Like most energy experts, he thinks gas prices are actually cheap, despite the fact that commuters are still reeling from price hikes at the gas pump. But oil is a precious and limited commodity and should be price accordingly so that it is no squandered. In a speech in Ottawa, Simmons said that gas prices “need to go a lot higher.”
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In 1974, farmers digging wells in China discovered a vast army of over 8,000 life-sized terracotta figures, mostly soldiers, buried with the body of the first Emporer around 200 BC. Now it’s been discovered that they were guarding more than an emperor’s body?they were guarding a vast treasure.

Karla Adam writes in the Independent that archeologists using special X-ray equipment have discovered a large number coins inside the sealed tomb, leading them to conclude that the emperor was buried with his state treasure. This means that his death effectively bankrupted the country. It’s also likely that the coins are made of gold or other precious metals and are a still worth a fortune today.
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It’s been just a little over a year since October 16, 2004, when an aneurysm suddenly burst inside my head and I was rushed to the hospital. Whitley and my son Andrew, who were constantly by my side, were told that I would be fully healed in a year. I am writing this on October 20, 2006, 4 days after my one-year "anniversary."

Physically, I am healed. I have a little glitch in my peripheral vision, but even that is healing up. I’m very lucky. But there’s another problem, a psychic problem, that I rarely spoke of, but now that’s finally healed as well, and I want to tell you how it happened. It all has to do with the incredible saga of the Green Man.
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In her new diary Anne writes: “It’s been just a little over a year since October 16, 2004, when an aneurysm suddenly burst inside my head and I was rushed to the hospital. Whitley and my son Andrew, who were constantly by my side, were told that I would be fully healed in a year. October 16, 2005, was 4 days ago. Physically, I am healed. But there?s another problem, a psychic problem, that I rarely spoke of?but now that’s finally healed as well, and I want to tell you how it happened. It all has to do with the incredible saga of the Green Man.”

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