Image by sanspareille69 via FlickrSolving the Deficit: Interactive Calculator allows you to see how different choices affect the deficit in the US
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Events Worth Examining
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crikey
As housing credit collapses, carbon tax an even tougher sell
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/20/as-housing-credit-collapses-carbon-tax-an-even-tougher-sell/#comment-133269
opit
There have been ‘Doom and Gloom’ assessments of the future of the economy all along. In a world economy now afflicted with what Canadians have been accustomed to for years - “If the Yanks catch a cold we get the Flu”, the Germans are busy killing nuclear tech in a time when wind power proponents have managed to hide the downside of their faulty technology prone to subsonic vibrations which cause sleep deprivation, kill bats and birds, and is prone to catastrophic failure - especially of gearboxes. And the EU has afflicted itself with artificially high energy prices compared to China and the U.S.A….who haven’t signed on to reduce co2 emissions while being the world’s most prolific users of the energy on which it is proposed the UN receive the trillions in largesse - an international tax on the use of fire subject to massive swindle and fraud.
If I pointed you at SourceWatch the article on Coal Ash from electrical generation should be more than enough proof of a problem which has only become more intractable through the use of atmospheric scrubbers - even as acid rain has been controlled.
Uranium mining is the ignored ‘fly in the ointment’ of uranium use - even more than disposal of depleted ores. Elliott Lake in Canada lost 50% of its mining staff to radiation caused diseases ‘in the day’. You can bet Workers Compensation…didn’t.
I won’t bother pointing up in this column the questionable logic of proving one can forecast the future by forecasting the past. If you can’t see the flaw in that argument there’s no cure for your gullibility. ‘Climate in Contention’ is a source of both lamentation of the awful lies put out by presumed industry bought-and-paid for shills ( CFACT strikes me as an excellent candidate ) and the demagoguery which posits all alternative analysis is not only defective by disregards obvious physical phenomena.
Sorry to burst your Bubble. ‘Water -Wealth & Power’ includes dangers of fracking a poisonous gas for household fuel while polluting the aquifer with toxins and crazing the integrity of underground domes. ‘Uranium’ includes articles that I expect would never see the light of day in mainstream reporting.
Too much suspect information from one source ? No problem.Watch ‘Gasland’ or “Home - by the Home Project” on the homeprojectchannel on YouTube. Then you can zip over to BlueDaze - a Texas Progressive Blogger - for an overview of what’s destroying the aquifer worldwide with dangerous chemicals and gases.
After all that, my snorting about the proposition that the usual criminals have anything in mind from flogging Anthropogenic Global Warming ( re-titled Climate Change ) other than filling their pockets may seem a little more realistic.
Gas giants flex muscles in carbon tax fight
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Deaths in custody: medical warnings on suicide risk weren’t delivered
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A strange absence in the palm oil labelling controversy
Syria to lift state of emergency
Syria has officially been in a state of emergency for decades, but that is set to end and laws allowing peaceful protests have been approved,Maley: gold glitters as America dwindles
Are Australian governments ponzi merchants?
Everybody is against the carbon tax because they don’t know what it means.
A little bit of good news for the starving
Leaked: 30,000 BP oil spill memos, emails and transcripts
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/20/leaked-30000-bp-oil-spill-memos-emails-and-transcripts/#comment-133266
In the middle of last year, Greenpeace started submitted a string of Freedom of Information requests to US government agencies in relation to last year’s disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
As a result the environmental group have obtained some 30,000 memos, emails and transcripts which document the worst oil spill in American history. Taking cues from WikiLeaks, Greenpeace has begun to leak its considerable cache online for all to see
opit
Your comment is awaiting moderation. I won’t say your Wikileaks entry didn’t give me a bit of a start ( goofed. s/b Greenpeace in Wikileaks style )- but this article doesn’t scratch the surface of the real information suppression going on re:
Continued spraying of Corexit by the U.S. Coast Guard
Residual oil in depths over 10’ ignored
Evidence of an affect where dispersant spread up the water column to fall as rain miles from initial application
Chronic sickness of cleanup crews and residents of the coastal area
Reports by Dr. Riki Ott describing mysterious diseases and so many more items covered by the RSS aggregators at Florida Oil Spill Law
Reports of disruption of the ocean currents warming Europe with flow from the Gulf of Mexico
Most recent leak being another well cemented by Halliburton
More than one hole drilled by the Deepwater Horizon in the affected area - including through a salt dome
Here’s only one of the many posts I have made on this. The “My Yahoo! RSS” routinely includes updates from Florida Oil Spill Law, which has an infosite including a multiplicity of aggregation feeds.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/04/5-april-actions-in-oil-water-wars.html
Food and the Domination of Finance
Jomo (UN Chief Economist): Speculation and lack of global cooperation are factors in creating global food crisishttp://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6597
Gas Industry Admits Water Contamination in Pennsylvania, Drillers Told To Stop Fracking Wastewater Delivery To POTWs
http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-industry-admits-water-contamination-pennsylvania-drillers-told-stop-fracking-wastewater-delivery-potws#comment-715581
The president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition has admitted publicly that fracking has contaminated local drinking water supplies in Pennsylvania.
And PA governor Tom Corbett has ordered gas drillers to stop taking fracking wastewater to public water treatment
Masters of illusion tell deceiving tales
http://www.redress.cc/global/pjballes20091218
Paul J. Balles looks at Western illusions about the Arabs – illusions created by media that vilify Arabs and portray Israel in the most favourable light and compounded by Westerners' "failure to recognize the deceptiveness of the chimera and subterfuge manufactured by Hollywood and the TV studios of New York and London".
”The propagandists have known there was little chance of their myth-making becoming exposed, primarily because few Westerners live among Arabs long enough or close enough to discover the reality.”
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel Boorstin)
Many people think they know something about Arabs; but many of those thoughts are as divorced from reality as genies emerging from bottles. Not many Westerners, other than expatriates who have lived in the Arab world, know much about the customs, traditions, language or cultures of the Arab world.
When I first travelled to the Middle East for a university teaching job, I knew very little about Arabs. That trip into a land of mystery happened more than 40 years ago; and Kuwait and Bahrain have been my hosts since.
During that time, I learned a great deal about many Arabs. I also learned that it’s dangerously misleading to think that Arabs are alike. Yet, many Westerners do just that. I remember how easy it was, as a child, to develop standardized images of people belonging to a particular ethnic group or culture. Part of this comes from the illusionists.
Magicians perform as masters of illusion, and artists have fascinated viewers with optical illusions. Filmmakers qualify as experts at creating illusions. As illusory as the magician's trick and the optical mirage, the history of both film and TV has been as full of deception as a dry desert lake appearing full of water.
The problem with the illusions created by the media comes from our failure to recognize the deceptiveness of the chimera and subterfuge manufactured by Hollywood and the TV studios of New York and London.
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Image via WikipediaThe Egyptian army’s weapons problem
Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinians?
Universal Jurisdiction: a major tool for justice
The desperate race to cobble together a Palestinian state
Raymond A. Davis is not Raymond A. Davis: American terrorism is a plague on the world
Turning against Mu’ammar Gaddafi of Libya
Mind-sets and revolutions
An empire of lies: why our media betrays us
Bahrain bleeds for liberty
Rebranding Egypt's revolution
More blood for oil?Libya and the UK
Britain cherry-picks which war criminals to prosecute and where to impose no-fly zones
Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gaddafi and the Libyan uprising
Where might the “wrong track” lead?
The West is doing the right thing in Libya
Playing the sectarian card: the Arab dinosaurs
Libya and the conspiratorial veil of Western racism
The left’s double standards on Libya
Will NATO protect unarmed humanitarian activists sailing to Gaza?
Alternative strategy for liberation of Libya
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