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*HOW MANY GM EXECUTIVES DOES it TAKE to TURN ON AN ELECTRIC CAR?* ********CLIMATE CHANGE******** Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up/ North Pole ice could be gone in 5 years: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.arctic Climate change: prepare for global temperature rise of 4C: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange For second year in a row, melt may open Northwest Passage: http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/37833 Half the Amazon rainforest to be lost by 2030: http://www.naturalnews.com/023673.html California first state to require a green building code: http://www.enn.com/green_building/article/37708 Stop US Senate Bills S2191 & S3036: http://newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind9.htm Arctic thaw threatens Siberian permafrost: http://tinyurl.com/4g44cc NASA warming scientist: This is the last chance: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0 New Zealand faces power crisis amid drought: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/09/alternativeenergy.energy Researcher outlines coral's future in an increasingly acidic ocean: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060220231628.htm EPA head reversed stand on greenhouse gas: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7527080 Can we be as smart as bats? (Deforestation.) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/01/opinion/edkristof.php Logging Canada's boreal forest could detonate massive "carbon bomb": http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n041002A Should we be taxed for eating animals? http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A40029 "One pound of meat is equivalent to driving about 40 miles in a big SUV." Release of methane protested: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/21/plan-to-release-methane-protested/ Global warming to worsen malnutrition: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/071212_warming.htm "'The Arctic is screaming'..." Acidic seas may kill 98% of world's reefs by 2050: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/14/carbonemissions.climatechange Forests losing the ability to absorb man-made carbon: http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3115537.ece
********NEXT WORLD WAR/ESCALATION******** *AFGHANISTAN* Pentagon seeks to double the size of the army occupying Afghanistan: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkjBJvjxdhuS7KvheR8-W7SYBr3g "...from 65,00 to 122,00 active duty soldiers by 2014..." So, six more years is a done deal? *ARCTIC* US ship heads to Arctic to "define territory": http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1138192220080811 *GEORGIA: ANALYSES* Webster Tarpley - Brzezinski's Georgia puppets attack Russia: http://www.rense.com/general82/indt.htm War in the Caucasus: Towards a broader Russia-US military confrontation? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9788 War Alert! http://www.rense.com/general82/wwiii.htm BBC deliberately distorting the news (again): http://www.infowars.com/?p=3874 the Chessboard: http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/08/chessboard.html *GEORGIA* Israel has $1 billion invested in destabilizing Georgia: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/151211 US attacks Russia through clients state Georgia: http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-attacks-russia-through-client-state-georgia.html Israel backs Georgia in Caspian oil pipeline battle with Russia: http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1358 1,500 reported killed in Georgia battle: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/world/europe/10ossetia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Bush Dictatorship says Russia uses "disproportionate force": http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09481523 *PAKISTAN* Bush Dictatorship backing terrorism in Pakistan: http://tinyurl.com/65rspv *IRAN: ENCROACHMENT* Massive US Naval Armada heads for Iran: http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html Iran threatens to shut Gulf shipping lanes: http://tinyurl.com/5wlhye US Navy won't let Iran shut Gulf: http://tinyurl.com/68aj5z US navy fires at Iranian boats in Gulf: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/26/wiran126.xml http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25305335 ********BLEAK ECONOMICS******** *DE-CARBONING* http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041208Y.shtml "...We know that nations that 'decarbonize' their economies reap immediate rewards..." *WORLD ECONOMY* Rising oil and food prices push inflation in eurozone to record high: http://tinyurl.com/5klrhx *STATE WORKERS* Thousands of CA state workers laid off: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=6298399 Schwarzenegger threatens to reduce state workers' pay to minimum wage: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/cali-j28.shtml *PENSIONS* GM, which won't sell the prototype electric cars and trucks it makes, slashes pensions: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.bz.gm16jul16%2C0%2C4246037.story *US "MANUFACTURING"* China to overtake US as largest manufacturer: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2aa7a12e-6709-11dd-808f-0000779fd18c.html *US DEFICIT* Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/most-companies-in-us-avoid-federal/128782 "...Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress..." Massive US deficit spells austerity policy for next administration http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/defi-j30.shtml *BIG OIL HEGEMONY* China's gas-fueled cars accelerating a global demand for fuel: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701911.html Bankrupt-Ford won't sell the electric truck it made: http://www.pluginamerica.org/rangerev/ *BIOFUELS* Burgers or biofuels? http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/whittelsey Ethanol carries huge cost to the environment, people: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5908297.html The great biofuels con: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/12/eabio112.xml&page=1 Biofuel caused food crisis: http://tinyurl.com/6e3tew *FOOD PRICES* UK food price inflation spirals to 9.5% http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article4469846.ece Counterpunch - Food riots are coming to the US: http://www.counterpunch.org/kampmark05082008.html Multinational corporations profiting from the starving of world's poor: http://tinyurl.com/5pks9p *AIRLINES* LAX sees drastic schedule cuts: http://tinyurl.com/5mtukg Rising fuel costs could "devastate" airlines: http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/23/news/economy/airlines/index.htm *FUEL PRICES* Blood-sucking Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51 bn in all: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080801/D929NPKG2.html Gas lines coming this Fall: http://seekingalpha.com/article/84966-gas-lines-coming-this-fall Sky-high oil will make US go broke: http://tinyurl.com/638bvy *US DOLLAR* High inflation trumps tax rebates: http://tinyurl.com/6p3j8t Debate over: It's hyperinflation: http://tinyurl.com/6yrv8j Manipulations in time of war and hunger: http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/item.php?topicId=2&articleid=243 Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_26765.shtml *GREAT DEPRESSION, II* banking crisis, mortgage crisis, credit card crisis: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26101238/ US financial break point soon: http://www.rense.com/general82/podint.htm Commercial bankruptcies soar, reflecting widening economic woes: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/44717.html Economic collapse: http://www.hermes-press.com/collapse.htm Down and out in Las Vegas: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/down-and-out-in-las-vegas-860513.html Tent cities being built around most cities, 10,000 Americans have fled to Canada: http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1631 http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/ Find-Freedom. htm?At=031337 *BAIL-OUTS* US Mortgage crisis: Fannie and Freddie. Give away the farm: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BRO20080807&articleId=9764 "...why are we bowing to the interests of foreign investors to the point of driving our own government into bankruptcy?..." *FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS* Morgan Stanley freezes home-equity credit withdrawals: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afQ0PVYvOgzI The last hurrah for the banking system: http://www.rense.com/general82/bank.htm US taxpayers to fund banking losses to prevent US bond market collapse: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5476.html Parasitic bankers achieve the end of capitalism and the sacking of America: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5480.html Global stock market crash warning and loss of American financial privacy: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5158.html *REAL ESTATE* Stocton California: California dreaming turned sour: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/10/subprimecrisis.arnoldschwarzenegger Housing lenders fear bigger wave of loan defaults: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/04lend.html?_r=1&src=linkedin&oref=slogin US Congress approves government bailout of mortgage giants: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/econ-j28.shtml US foreclosures bring homelessness to the middle class: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/25/usa.subprimecrisis The subprime trump card: standing up to the banks: http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/subprime_defense.php ********WAR AGAINST WILDLIFE******** Bush Dictatorship to relax protected species rule: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080811/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_endangered_species_2 Army shoots live pigs (to condition them to get used to mass slaughter): http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/army_shoots_pigs Bush Dictatorship extends legal protections to oil companies as they decimate the polar bears: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-bear.artjun23,0,3754385.story Arctic oil rush begins: http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/25545 Polar bear decision delay meant to protect oil leases: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080418-AP-polar-bears.html Dictator Bush lifts ban on offshore drilling: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a362RHmsy71s Blood-sucking oil companies move forward to destroy Alaskan wilderness: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5887819.html ********GENERAL NEWS******** *HAARP-INDUCED FLOODING* Why [HAARP-induced] floods could bring America to its knees: http://www.moneyweek.com/file/49669/why-floods-could-bring-america-to-its-knees.html "...These are 500-year floods..." US flooding ruins crops and threatens food prices: http://tinyurl.com/5dwmqa *CONTAMINATED IRAQ SAND Contaminated Kuwait sand lands in Idaho: http://1984usa.com/higherlearning/?p=439 Crews moving contaminated sand from Iraq to US: http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/04/29/area_news/doc4816651072f72767559743.txt contaminated Iraq sand has high levels of lead, DU: http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/04/25/area_news/doc48115f17af5cd759120435.txt *GULF DEAD ZONE* Scientists predict Largest Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” on Record This Summer http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080715_deadzone.html The Gulf's growing "Dead Zone" - now the size of Massachusetts: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1815305%2C00.html?cnn=yes *SOLAR ENERGY* £37bn plan to power EU with the Saharan sun: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/23/solarpower.windpower1 *SONAR* Whale killing war games: http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/11/WhaleKilling/ "Baffling" rise in beached whales: http://tinyurl.com/4dal97 Defying court orders, Navy resumes wildlife-killing sonar training off coast: http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8095464?nclick_check=1 *BARBARIC, FOR-PROFIT US 'HEALTH CARE'* Prices for some drugs [sold for profit] skyrocket: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2008-08-07-costlydrugs_N.htm Ranks of underinsured US adults increases 60%: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/BUD1114PTO.DTL *STATE BUDGETS* 29 States faced total budget shortfall of at least $48 billion in 2009: http://www.cbpp.org/1-15-08sfp.htm *INSECTS* Persistent loss of bees having sour effect on economy: http://tinyurl.com/5hlru4 Insects will be climate change's first victims: http://tinyurl.com/48k7re *CELLPHONES* Two billion may suffer from mobile cancer by 2020: http://tinyurl.com/5gwcay Are EMFs killing insects, frogs, birds and us? http://www.rense.com/general81/emfs.htm *TOLL ROADS PRIVATIZATION* Bush Dictatorship calls for more highway tolls, more privatization of public assets: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121737711076695281.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Foreign ownership of toll roads: http://www.newsmax.com/weyrich/leasing_infrastructure/2008/05/28/99424.html Toll hikes used to boost foreign company profits: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2364.asp *WATER POLICY* The poisoning of America's water supplies: http://www.naturalnews.com/023565.html Seizing water - the water restoration act of 2007: http://waronyou.com/2008/04/siezing-waterthe-water-restoration-act-of-2007/ "...gives the federal government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake, aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that runs off your roof..." *UN-TAPPED OIL* Coal to liquid plan means a Kentucky fried Earth: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/coal-to-liquid-plan-means_b_112898.html 40 billion barrels of crude oil in Montana: http://tinyurl.com/5q2g7c *CORPORATE POWER* America's heartland about to be gutted: Multinational corporate takover of North America: http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1729 *POLAR BEARS* Alaska sues over listing polar bear as threatened! http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i536jfOol1gh7ago3QLE3rrEvhZgD92BSE780 Polar bears plunge into melting Arctic: http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/7/1/polar-bears-plunge-melting-arctic/ *CRUELTY to ANIMALS* Like the little Satans we are: |
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