For once most the world's media actually focused on real news stories this week coming from Burma & China. However they still spent plenty of time talking about the Indiana Jones movie premiere and the Champions League Final. All the while other major events went virtually unreported. Here are just some of them:
The World Food Crisis
Ethiopian millions 'risk hunger'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7409623.stm
Instead of paying for the Ethiopians to invade Somalia on their behalf, why don’t the American’s instead help pay of their massive debts to 1st world countries (mainly incurred to buy arms) so that they can afford to feed their population?
SA leader orders army to deploy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7412128.stm
Though this is partly caused by the chaos in Zimbabwe it's main trigger has been the massive rises in food prices & the hunger and concern that has created turning men against his fellow man.
Food imports 'to top $1 trillion'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7412817.stm
The vast economic cost of the world food crisis, and as usual it is the poorest that will bear the brunt
Health & Science:
First-ever government review of fluoride/thyroid toxicology shows risk .
http://www.pr-inside.com/first-ever-government-review-of-fluoride-thyroid-r596428.htm
First-ever government review of fluoride/thyroid toxicology confirms risk - go figure, putting an industrial waste product into the water supply could be dangerous to health (not balance sheets)
Mobile phone danger to unborn child: Use could cause behavioural problems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-567125/Mobile-phone-danger-unborn-child-Use-cause-behavioural-problems.html
Future generations will look back our love of radio receivers constantly blasting our heads with incredulity.
Mobile phone danger to unborn child: Use could cause behavioural problems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-567206/Thousands-children-DOUBLE-jab-MMR-emergency-tackle-measles-epidemic.html
I think what they meant to say is it "is an emergency move to tackle falling profits". Since the MMR "scare" one child in the UK has died of measles, and they were living in squalid conditions on gypsy camp and had many other health issues. It is not a fatal illness except to those with very compromised nutrition and immune systems already. In the same period thousands of children who have had the jabs have been diagnosed as autistic.
'Asbestos warning' on nanotubes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7408705.stm
Nano technology may not be the great leap forward that it is being marketed as
Education:
16% of US science teachers are creationists
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13930-16-of-us-science-teachers-are-creationists.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Excellent. Hundred’s of years after “The Enlightenment” we are still teaching children bronze age religious dogma over scientific investigation and reason.
Environment:
The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html
As we've reported on a number of previous occasions, this is real man-made environmental destruction on a global scale that will, as the plastics break down at the molecular level and enter the food chain, effect us all. And unfortunately it is not just a problem in the pacific, but in all the worlds oceans.
Tim Flannery's radical climate change 'solution'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23724412-2,00.html
Here is Australia's most famous scientist coming up with a "solution" to a "man-made" problem that doesn't exist anyway. Funnily enough a/ he has very strong links to the government, b/ he has very strong links to the nuclear industry, c/ this is the country that destroyed a large part of its eco-system by introducing the cane toad, rabbits, foxes, etc d/ this was essentially the plot of the film Highlander 2, from 1991 and it was deemed a very stupid idea then too!
Labor's green cred thrown into doubt
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23711627-11949,00.html
Irrespective of whether "it's all CO2's fault" surely investing in genuine renewable energy sources is a good idea from a practical level (look at Iceland as a case in point). Funnily enough politicians are good at talking green, but when it comes to parting with cash (except to their friends in the nuclear industry) things become very different.
Anger over climate change loans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7407528.stm
And another case of political immorality (and showing it's true colours) when it comes to "helping the 3rd world" deal with climate change....yes make them even more in debt to us than they already were.
Persistent loss of bees having sour effect on economy
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051808.8B.BusinessBees.38986d3.html
Another major environmental disaster that is unfolding, largely unreported, before our eyes (and possibly caused by GM crops - see previous issues). No bees = No pollination = No Food
Warmer planet may mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13921-warmer-planet-may-mean-fewer-atlantic-hurricanes.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Another inconvenient truth about global climate change and the guilt trip of the “disaster that we have caused”. As it has been forever on this planet climate is always changing. Sometimes the effects are benign, sometimes they are not. Some species will thrive, some will die out.
Politics & Democracy:
EU treaty opponents eye Irish vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/ireland.eu
The future of European democracy depends upon how Ireland votes. However as the EU bureaucrats know, the people can vote no as many times as they like. They only need vote yes once and the next phase of the project will be complete (as can be seen by the second referendum on Masstricht Treaty which the Irish originally got "wrong" and so were told to vote again to get the "right" answer. Democracy, EU style.
Balkenende to Meet Bush in Washington
http://www.nisnews.nl/public/200508_2.htm
Bilderberg Group to meet in the USA in June?
Technology:
Laser Gunship Blasts Beams, Preps for '08 Flight Test
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/laser-gunship-c.html
The military holy grail. A destructive weapon that only kills people and doesn't damage much surrounding "collateral"
Civil Liberties:
Why the police now have to ask teenage muggers: 'Do you eat chips?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=567003&in_page_id=1770
The British Big Brother state creeps ever closer
Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece
Can you hear your privacy and civil liberties just tip toeing away? All off the back on an EU directive.
In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the FBI is soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups
http://articles.citypages.com/2008-05-21/news/moles-wanted/
The ten steps to a closed society. Number 5 - Infiltrate citizens groups
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1 Say goodbye to freedom of speech Britain. A 15 year old to be prosecuted for calling a cult “a cult”. These are the corrupt practices that lead to this ridiculous act How the Scientologists woo City police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/nov/22/freedomofinformation.religion
International Relations:
Mugabe regime 'gets arms', accused of murder plot
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/mugabe-regime-gets-arms-accused-of-murder-plot/2008/05/19/1211182702212.html
While the world rightly looks on with sympathy at the plight of the Chinese people this week, its government happily sells arms to Mugabe so to make the plight of the Zimbabwean people a hell of a lot worse
Finance & Economics:
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A.
http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040467-060,00,00.html
A very interesting hypothesis detailing the manipulative influence of a few big banks over world affairs in the last 200 years, and where it is all leading too (next step Iran, ultimately one world government)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23748409-5005200,00.html
As I have said before the goal is $200+ a barrel and that is coming sooner than you think. Now top economists are saying it too. Remember this will not all be cost of production. Most of it will ever bigger profits.
Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3964957.ece
What a result for the USA.......sorry I mean the Iraqi people
The War on Terror:
Habib 'vomited in Gitmo interrogation'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23735414-2702,00.html
Just some of the lovely techniques used to interrogate at Guantanamo
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5799578.html
Even Texan's are beginning to question the use of torture by their Government
US strike 'kills Iraqi civilians'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7414155.stm
Ooops. More collateral damage
The Next War:
US 'violated Venezuela airspace'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7409244.stm
Maybe Iran isn’t next after-all and it’ll be their South American friend instead?
Israel 'would consider strike' amid fears over Iran's weapons programme
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Israel-39would-consider-strike39-amid.4118482.jp
But the smart money is on Iran being next. And possibly the Israelis doing it on the American's behalf?
Quotation of the week:
"Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don't dare to express it"
Sophie Scholl (Member of the German "White Rose" resistance group. She was executed by the Nazi's in 1943)
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