World Food Crisis:
Biofuel use 'increasing poverty'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7472532.stm
As I have said since the very first edition. And yet more & more arable land is being used for this, and yet its supposed benefit of "reducing CO2 emissions" does nothing of the sort (irrespective of where you sit on that argument) - this is immoral and needs to be halted.
Drought-resistant wheat beats Australian heat
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19826623.500-droughtresistant-wheat-beats-australian-heat.html The PR push to get the Australian's to relax their stance on GM crops continues apace by Monsanto and friends. Articles appear nearly daily in the papers in favor, often using the "It's the only way we can end the food crisis" line. Woe betide us all if we let our food supply get patented and controlled by corporations.
Nestlé asks EU to soften line on GM
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/25020ee0-4098-11dd-bd48-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F25020ee0-4098-11dd-bd48-0000779fd2ac.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidicke.com%2Fcontent%2Fblogcategory%2F30%2F82%2F&nclick_check=1
As I said in the last edition. Problem (world food crisis) > Reaction (how will we increase food production) > Solution (GM Crops) How the previously unpopular can become the "answer to our prayers" when it goes through a corporation's PR department.
Health:
Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html
As I've said before, what does this cancer expert know. The Top 20 telecoms firms in the world (combined turnover $800+ billion) I'm sure know what is best for us all, and have our best interests at heart....
Is fructose fuelling the obesity epidemic?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826624.200-is-fructose-fuelling-the-obesity-epidemic.html
Simple answer: Yes. Refer to previous OYE editions to understand more about the dark history of fructose and its evil man-made brother, aspartame, in our food.
Tobacco giant 'breaks youth code'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7475259.stm
Hardly a surprise bearing in mind their history but at the end of the day acting no differently to any other corporation (e.g.: GM foods, mobile phones, pharmaceutical companies etc). They cannot act in any other way (legally) other than in pathological self interest. No morality is involved in decision making, and where it is, it is again for self protection nothing more, nothing less. This is not a conspiracy, this is psychology. Our civilization has created a multitude of monsters and the only thing that protects us is a strong democracy, which is why the agenda is always to roll that back. One world government & currency isn't going to be for your benefit.
TV chef loses Tesco chicken vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7476829.stm
They are a corporation and such a move, though beneficial to the health of customers and the animals, is going to cost money and therefore reduce profits. As their motto goes "Ever little helps".
Suicides linked to phone masts
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/49330/Suicides-linked-to-phone-masts- Increasingly bombarding our bodies with micro-waves and radio waves. Just like pre-1950's when it was obvious to even casual observers that smoking wasn't exactly great for people, and yet the proof was kept back for years. In years to come don't be at all surprised when the health effects of our passion for mobile phones become official.
The Dark Side of Sunscreens
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603224.html
Have you ever wondered why there is such a clear correlation between the use of sun creams and skin cancers? Cover up in the sun. Don't rub cancer causing chemicals onto your skin.
Environment:
Food prices threatened by silence of the bees
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2206897/Food-prices-threatened-by-silence-of-the-bees.html
This is an worldwide environmental disaster of monumental proportions, and yet all the media, politicians and green lobby talk about is climate - something that has always happened throughout history.
North Pole - No Ice
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=3f16c255-7c20-4024-a02d-6a93d8aca59c
Yes the climate is changing. Yes this hasn't happened in recent human history. But it is not unprecedented. In the early 14th century mariners were able to circumnavigate Greenland, something you can't do currently. Climate change has always happened (Read some of the quotes on the side bar from historians about previous rapid climate change. It is not however caused by CO2 (that rises because of climate change, not the other way round). It is the sun. However while we all fret over CO2 real environmental disasters go un-noticed, corporations make more money (nuclear power etc) and Governments make more money (carbon taxes etc) and scientists who go off message lose their funding. McCarthyism anyone?
UK plans big wind power expansion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7474592.stm
Profiteering from climate change.
Science & Technology:
Earth 'not at risk' from collider
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7468966.stm It's all very well concluding that statistically it is as safe, but what happens if one of the boffins forgot to carry the 3 when doing his sums.....oh well we'll never know because if it does go pear shaped it'll all be over very quickly.
Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'?
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19826625.000-could-nuclear-warheads-go-off-like-popcorn.html
Its not just the nut jobs with their fingers "on the button" we need to be fearful of. It’s the bureaucrats pushing paper and scrimping on expense that cause the next nuclear explosion.
Civil Liberties:
Sarkozy tightens his grip over French state TV
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/27/france.television
Three years after Tony Blair emasculated the BBC over the Kelly Affair, freedom of the media slowly dies in France too
Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/seizinglaptopsandcameraswithoutcause A message to independent journalists (who haven't been killed by "friendly fire"). Just look at what kind of societies evolved throughout history after the academics and journalists have been brought "on message". IT IS HAPPENING NOW. SPEAK UP WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
The Bush administration now wants to watch you from the sky
http://www.newsweek.com/id/143257
Meanwhile in the US the government is coming up with new ways to monitor the population.
Sizeable minority in U.S. condone torture
http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN25481397.html
Slowly but surely the general public is conditioned into thinking that torture is okay.
CCTV cameras with an ear for trouble
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/CCTV-cameras-with--an.4214414.jp
As well as see and talk at you, Big Brother can now hear you too. The next generation of CCTV brings Orwell's nightmare vision fully into the realms of reality.
Plight of the Roma: echoes of Mussolini
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/plight-of-the-roma-echoes-of-mussolini-855436.html
A major European nation. A leader who has strong links to the mafia and controls the media, troops on the streets, and finger printing of ethnic minorities for "their protection". Sounds like an all too familiar a tale from history, and yet it is happening right now.
Finance & Economics:
Oil price still near record $142
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7476910.stm
The plan has always been $200+ per barrel, caused by disruption of global supplies (e.g.: switching off Iraq) and changing the public's perception on how much they should be paying (e.g.: guilt over "man made" global warming). That way profits are (and stay) considerably higher than the dog days of pre-911 when prices were $20 per barrel. Remember it is not about gaining oil supplies worldwide to keep prices low, it is so that you can control supply and therefore keep prices high.
Food prices drive China inflation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7395416.stm
And that inflation will be exported to the rest of the world due to the artificially low level of their currency and the massive impact of their consumer goods the west purchases. Time to put your savings into gold.
Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve's credibility crumbles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/27/cnbarclays127.xml
Remember historically the private banks that own the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England (Yes you read that right - they are not owned by the state) never lose during these downturns. They always come out bigger and richer than before by picking up bargains amongst the chaos that they have created. It is as though they own the casino, made up the rules of the game, and fixed the decks just to be certain.
Gold back above $US900
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23930510-20142,00.html
You just watch that price go northwards as the economic turmoil continues, particularly when the US starts bombing Iran.
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
'Over 100 MPs' in multi-million tax dodge over second homes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030239/Over-100-MPs-multi-million-tax-dodge-second-homes.html
Just when you need your Members of Parliament to do their utmost to protect and strengthen democracy, they go and further discredit themselves by getting caught with their snouts in the trough.
Senior Labour officials 'to escape prosecution' over secret donors row
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2200728/Senior-Labour-officials-'to-escape-prosecution'-over-secret-donors-row.html
And yet again the controls in place to protect us fail.
Briton loses high court bid to block EU treaty
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23922184-2703,00.html
And so the single European super-state (and eventually the world government) gets another step closer.
EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2200026/EU-Constitution-author-says-referendums-can-be-ignored.html
How dare the little people upset the grand plan for a state called Europe (which is a stepping stone to the ultimate goal - one world government)? Democracy? What democracy?
Gore Vidal - On the U.S. and the Bush presidency
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=123750
Why on earth would the USA's foremost man of letters for the last half a century believe that the US is no longer a democracy and 9-11 was in effect a coup d'état? I wonder.
The War on Terror:
How To Lose Iraq
http://www.newsweek.com/id/143674
The intention was never to "win". Chaos is great for business if you are in the armaments, reconstruction or oil industries.
Afghanistan drug trade hits $4 billion a year
http://www.theage.com.au/world/afghanistan-drug-trade-hits-4-billion-a-year-20080627-2y43.html
Didn't we go in there to stop this (oh and catch Osama)? It was always to build a pipeline (see last edition), and anyway the CIA used to have a nice little sideline in drugs didn't they back in Vietnam?
The Next War:
Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/2212934/Israel-has-a-year-to-stop-Iran-bomb,-warns-ex-spy.html
The daily worldwide bombardment of articles softening public opinion up for the inevitable continues apace. The question is will it happen in August (while the world watches the Olympics) or between Novembers US election and the inauguration in January (so the McCain or Obama don't have to get the blame)?
G-8 Calls for Iran Diplomacy, Damping Speculation of Attack
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aPdLgWSAZ3LA&refer=canada
But don't take my word on when the bombing will start. John Bolton is one of Dick Cheney's closest confidants so I suspect he should know (see the 2nd paragraph of the article).
Quotation of the week:
"The Bush administration's desire (in 2007) to give India....nuclear fuel and technology despite it not signing the NPT (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) and despite the fact that under the deal only 14 of its 22 nuclear reactors are subject to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency - sparked criticism in Europe" - Hmmm I wonder why? Anything to do with the double standards when demanding Iraq and now Iran's (possible) nuclear programs are subject to inspection under the NPT perchance??
Rivals - How the power struggle between China, India & Japan will shape our next decade,
by Bill Emmott (editor of the Economist 1993-2006)
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