By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com.
In a culture where credit rating is the key measure of self-worth, the increasing response to huge debts is “Just shoot me!”
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Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis
Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2008
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Burma and Zimbabwe witness the last gasps of the supreme global sheriff
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2008
The west can no longer impose its will on the increasingly powerful and self-confident nations of the developing world
Martin Jacques
We are but halfway through 2008 yet it has already born witness to a sizeable shift in global power. The default western mindset remains that the western writ rules. That is hardly surprising; it has been true for so long there has been little reason for anyone to question it, least of all the west. The assumption is that might and right are invariably on its side, that it always knows best and that if necessary it will enforce its political wisdom and moral rectitude on others. There is, however, a hitch: the authority of the self-appointed global sheriff is remorselessly eroding.
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No smoking hot spot
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2008
David Evans
18th July, 2008
I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.
FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I’ve been following the global warming debate closely for years.
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.
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Will the Economic Crash Wake People Up?
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2008
21st January, 2008
Preface: I am truly sorry for the suffering of those Americans who will lose their home, their job, or their life savings as a result of the economic crash. This article focuses on one potential silver lining — an opportunity to promote truth and justice.
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Speculators Trying to Buy Control of Food Supply
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2008
George Washington’s blog
28th July, 2008
According to the New York Times, Financial Times, and others, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.
According to the New York Times, Financial Times, and others, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.
Given the meltdown in the housing and financial sectors and the weakness in the U.S. economy, large investors figure that everyone has to eat, and so investing in food production is a sure thing.
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How Wall Street Wrecked Your Retirement
Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2008
Howl
Nicholas von Hoffman
23rd July, 2008
Our disfunctional financial system hit a new low last week when Citigroup, the hopeless wreck of Wall Street, announced it had lost $2.5 billion in the past three months–a cheer went up, and so did the Dow. Only $2.5 billion; people were afraid the losses would be much higher. Happy days are here again
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Russia takes control of Turkmen (world?) gas
Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2008
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By M K Bhadrakumar
30th July
From the details coming out of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and Moscow over the weekend, it is apparent that the great game over Caspian energy has taken a dramatic turn. In the geopolitics of energy security, nothing like this has happened before. The United States has suffered a huge defeat in the race for Caspian gas. The question now is how much longer Washington could afford to keep Iran out of the energy market.
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No British Honey By Christmas As Bees Suffer
Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2008
Remember that the British authorities still deny the presence of CCD in Britain and are, therefore, able to atribute the virtual elimination of the bee to the varroa mite. The reality is ,of course, that CCD is present, as has been widely reported by beekeepers and that varroa is not a credible explanation.
See The disappearing bees: CCD and electromagnetic radiation
29th July, 2008
ENGLISH honey will run out by Christmas because pests have decimated the honey bee population, shoppers were warned last night.
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Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic
Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2008
Thierry Meyssan
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One should judge Nicolas Sarkozy according to his actions, and not according to his personality. Yet when his doings surprise even his own constituents, it is legitimate to take a detailed look at his biography and question the bonds that brought him to power. Thierry Meyssan has decided to write the truth about the French Republic’s president background. All the information included in this article is provable, except for two assertions signalled by the author who alone takes full responsibility.
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Venezuela agrees to sell Spain oil at $100 a barrel
Posted by seumasach on July 28, 2008
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) – OPEC member Venezuela agreed Friday to sell Spain 10,000 barrels of oil per day at $100 a barrel in exchange for medicine and other goods, a Spanish government source told AFP.
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The Abbreviated
Posted by seumasach on July 28, 2008
July 27, 2008 — Stefan Fobes
Seen as a victory by American anti-vaccine advocates and as an historic admission by the US government that vaccines cause autism,the Department of Health & Human Services recently conceded in a lawsuit that five vaccines simultaneously given to a Georgia girl, Hannah Poling when she was 19 months old, “aggravated a rare underlying metabolic condition that resulted in a brain disorder with features of autism spectrum disorder”. The sick crap about these vaccine cases is that you cannot sue the manufacturers directly. They are held in a special vaccine “court” and the best outcome possible even in there is to get some money from a federal vaccine fund. Even if a person believes the government is good and loving, and of course, there are people who do lie to milk some payments for themselves, but this unreasonable scorched earth policy is the smoking gun proof in this pudding of the Siamese twin style relationship between the government and the drug companies.
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