Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Subscribe now Webster defines corruption as: a: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people b: inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means c: a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct d: decay or decomposition In regards to politics, corruption is word heard all
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The FT has a piece on a spouse of a Rupert Murdoch kid pushing democratic reform. There's a long tradition of disreputably gained wealth's philanthropic efforts to leave a shinier legacy. A most recent example is convicted monopolist Bill Gates, though Chairman Bill's charity
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Subscribe now The Covid virus revealed much about the American healthcare system. The pandemic is, fortunately, a not common, though certainly massive event. When such events occur, they test established processes and institutions, laying bare their faults and deficiencies. These can be either acknowledged and reformed or ignored and papered
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Subscribe now Viruses are interesting little things. Some say they aren't even alive, though seems more logical to expand our definition of life. Viruses have been around for a long long time, billions of years. There are bits and pieces of viruses in our cells from way before
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Subscribe now For the first time in a long time, I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, a strikingly beautiful film, that is also very much meant to be heard, not just for the classical music, but for the long segments of white noise that accompany several scenes. Afterwards, I looked
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows Lord, writing about money, you should be making a lot of it to write about it, just like writing about oil. Funnily enough, when I was at a young impressionable age, both were on the front pages,
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The Adams family played a prominent role in the first century of the American republic. Founders John and Abigail's son, John Quincy, following his father's prescribed destiny would also become president, infamously losing reelection to the great unwashed Andrew Jackson. That election was a passing of
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Subscribe now Yesterday, it was Aramco's CEO joking, today one of America's shale revolutionaries, Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources. Sheffield scolds Joe Biden for asking the Saudis, not the shale boys to increase oil production. Most amusing, Sheffield simultaneously states he wants oil in
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Subscribe now Yesterday in Houston, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser “said there was an assumption that the world could transition to cleaner fuels 'virtually overnight', but that this was 'deeply flawed.' 'I understand that publicly admitting that oil and gas will play an essential and
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“In these early French enterprises in the West, it was last degree difficult to hold men to their duty. Once fairly in the wilderness, completely freed from the sharp restraints of authority in which they had passed their lives, a spirit of lawlessness broke out among them and a violence
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Modernity destroyed history. The technologies of industrialism buried the past, building atop it an always not quite graspable future. Nonetheless, historical knowledge remains freeing. It gives understanding of how the present world came to be, and maybe more importantly, an appreciation that everything that is, never necessarily had to be.
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You Africans, please listen to me as Africans And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind Here we go...* Nigeria richly illustrates human life at the end of modern era. The most populous country on the African continent, Nigeria combines hundreds of languages and cultures. It is a meeting