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World Food Crisis:
Rich nations poised to tackle soaring oil, food prices
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jf0zM5MlEcMpykCl0hvScypk1AyQ
What just like they were poised to "tackle global poverty and third world debt" at the G8 summit in 2004 which coincided with the Live Earth concert? All they did was make lots of platitudes, and then proceeded to increase 3rd world debt and poverty, all in the name of greed, control and power. Don't expect anything different this time no matter what the spun press releases tell you.
Health:
Mercury fillings ARE dangerous say regulators
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1030417/Mercury-fillings-ARE-dangerous-say-regulators--British-health-bosses-refuse-action.html
Didn't you ever wonder why the dentist treated it so carefully wearing protective gloves before putting it into your mouth. If you have them remove them now, because you really don't want to digest mercury or let it hit your blood stream.
Mother's junk food 'harms child'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7481026.stm
You are what you eat, even before you are born
Environment:
Decline in bee diversity could sting crop producers
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14237-decline-in-bee-diversity-could-sting-crop-producers.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
The situation is therefore worse than previously feared. Not only are the bees dying out worldwide (due to GM Crop introductions, pesticides?) but also their diversity is reducing. Remember: No bees = No food = No us
Greenland ice offers clues to last big melt
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14178-greenland-ice-offers-clues-to-last-big-melt.html
"temperatures in Greenland rose by 10 °C in just 50 years” at the end of the last ice age eh? Damn those Neolithic ancestors having so many bonfires and giving off CO2. I know the last sentence says the usual “but this time it’s all our fault” line, but really think about it. What is more likely: the sun largely causing the current (not that rapid) climate change, as it has most previous occasions? (the other culprit has been volcanic eruptions) Or that we did it, as told to us by those who have a vested interest in us feeling guilty (prepared to pay more tax, more for fuel, guilt for breathing therefore there should be less of us etc), and the same groups who have a vested interest for us to take our eye off the ball of the real and massive environmental destruction that is taking place, every day, around the world.
Cows and coal
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20080107-17587.html
Yes indeed you read it right. Cows are causing global warming by farting and therefore emitting methane. Though this is a light hearted opinion piece plenty of such stories, in a serious, vein are being pit out all the time. It's a scam people. Much worse things are happening to the environment.
Groundwater to be studied
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chandigarh/Groundwater_to_be_studied_but_not_blood/articleshow/3186362.cms
Mercury in the water table. Coming to a glass of water near you once those "energy efficient" light-bulbs you bought break, and the mercury in them seems into the ground when you throw them out. Oh and make sure you wear protective equipment when you clear up the mess on your floor.
Pirate fishing boats target Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7485839.stm
Very soon there will be no fish left in the oceans. Do you really think this planet will sustain 8 billion human's then?
Plastic in the ocean is becoming a big problem
http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-227638-Plastic-in-the-ocean-is-becoming-a-big-problem.html
Why is the green lobby using up all it's media time on the scam that is CO2 emissions, when things covered in the last 3 articles go virtually unreported?
Science & Technology:
CERN Council looks forward to LHC start-up
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR05.08E.html
As mentioned in a previous edition the scientists behind this great (& very, very expensive) experiment to "re-create" a mini big bang have assured us that there is nothing to worry about. However if they got their long and complicated mathematical calculations wrong, when it is first fired up in August, then a quantum singularity will form and the universe will be destroyed. You (may) have about one month to get your affairs in order.
US planned nerve gas tests on diggers
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23977039-601,00.html
Just because it happened in the past doesn't mean that they aren't prepared to equally immoral things today.
Education:
Helpless rage at morally bankrupt 'sex education' that just encourages under-age flings
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028907/As-mother-12-year-old-girl-I-feel-helpless-rage-morally-bankrupt-sex-education-just-encourages-age-flings.html
The more control we abdicate responsibility to the bureaucrats of the state to educate every aspect of life to our children the worse the effects have become. Just look at the education system in your country, and its relationship with civil behavior, since the education "reforms" started in the 1960's.
Civil Liberties:
Google must divulge YouTube log
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7488009.stm
If they have to hand all that information to another company, it means that Governments will now (assuming they don’t already) access it too. Bye, bye internet privacy, hello Big Brother. More importantly have you received the subtle message here? From now on anything you search for or view on your PC is no longer private. Will you think twice next time before visiting a site that one day might be viewed as seditious?
US to get access to your personal files - bank details, visited websites, salaries...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030374/US-access-personal-files--bank-details-visited-websites-salaries-.html
Can you hear your privacy just slipping away? Probably not, that is why this process is known as the Totalitarian Tip-Toe. Step by small step the process continues before it is either too late or we stop it. Which will it be?
Spy, phone protection bill clears Senate hurdle
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2528782720080625?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10216
Another nail in the coffin of US civil liberties.
Police `torture' videos cause uproar in Mexico
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mexico-Police-Torture.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
America has been training Latin American regimes this kind of stuff for 50 years now at the School of the America's, Read the history of Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, Chile etc and you'll see why this is not an isolated incident
ID cards: aviation industry a political pawn say airline bosses
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/02/idcards.theairlineindustry
You don't say!
Freed Sudan terror suspect angry at Britain
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKMCD13381220080703?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
I can't imagine why he would be angry. Seems perfectly reasonable behavior from a "strong democracy" like Britain.
France terror laws 'flout rights'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7484587.stm
As do most Western “anti-terror” laws. It always saddens me how politicians on one hand say “We won’t let the terrorists win by changing our way of life” and then go and change it for the worse anyway. Stand up and do your own little bit to peacefully reverse this process, wherever you live, while you are still able to.
Finance & Economics:
Iran optimism steadies oil price
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490485.stm
Don't get too optimistic folks. The agenda is $200+ per barrel and there is far too much money to be made for that day not to come sooner, rather than later. As for Iran, well if I was an Iranian leader I would be doing everything I could to delay the inevitable bombing. But it will come and probably not in the too distant future either.
Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Obama’s Money Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/opinion/01brooks.html?_r=4&hp&o&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
So Obama is being bankrolled by The Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and the Rockefeller's. I think it is fairly safe to say that the agenda will continue even once Dubya has left the White
Forget slump, Americans get hot goss
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23969664-2703,00.html
As the Roman's used to say, give the proles Bread & Circuses. That way they don't see what is really going on. The dumming down of Western "civilisation" continues apace. Just look at your TV News reports now compared to a decade ago, or the amount of political satire of the calibre of Yes Minister there is today.
China resists US push for UN to punish Zimbabwe
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23969664-2703,00.html
The real reason why the West hasn't acted over the inhuman farce that is Zimbabwe - China. The Chinese not only have been selling weapons to Robert (while we were all fretting about their earthquake the other month - see earlier OYE editions) but also they have a number of key deals to pillage what natural resources Zimbabwe has left (much as they have in that other haven of freedom, Burma). The US won't act therefore as they will need tacit Chinese support when they (or Israel on their behalf) start bombing Iran. You scratch my back, I scratch yours...shame about all the human's dying but ce la vie.
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly One World Government in disguise
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3774
Once all the of the 4 Union's are in place (Europe, America, Africa, Asia - all at different stages of development, but all coming along nicely) then we shall have a single currency (great for business - bad for democracy) and a UN army to impose it's will on naysayers. For those who go "it'll never happen", just remember back to the 1970's when you were told that the EEC was just going to be a free trade area - and now look where it is.
By-election fails to excite voters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7487908.stm
Though I sincerely hope that David Davis is legitimate in his stand against a creeping Big Brother state, we should remain vigilant that he is not in fact a Trojan Horse. As he will become the face of civil liberties in the UK now, and eventually Home Secretary most probably, it is not inconceivable that he will be much more able to sell you a reduction in your civil liberties when the time comes as you will trust him.
Spin doctor behind Davis's campaign promotes ID cards
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/spin-doctor-behind-daviss-campaign-promotes-id-cards-856590.html
As I mentioned on the previous item. A Trojan horse?
The War on Terror:
Iraq seeking help to develop oil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7480674.stm
The plundering of Iraq’s wealth moves into a new phase. Despite the assurances and guarantees, expect reality to be a little murkier with back hander's galore and foreign oil companies gaining massive oil assets on the cheap.
British and US companies win Iraq oil contracts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/30/iraq.oil?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Ker-ching goes the cash register
Unfulfilled promises haunt Afghanistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7451165.stm
The reality of the "liberation" of Afghanistan
The Next War:
Iran Vows to Pursue Uranium Enrichment Program http://voanews.com/english/2008-07-05-voa35.cfm
Seeing as The Voice of America has long been the voice of the CIA since it started up in the 1940's I think it is fairly safe to say that bombing Iran is still very much on the agenda.
Quote of the Week:
"The corporation itself may not so easily escape the psychopath diagnosis, however. Unlike the human beings who inhabit it, the corporation is singularly self interested and unable to feel genuine concern for others in any context....The corporation is irresponsible, because in an attempt to satisfy the corporate goal, everybody else is put in risk....Corporations try to manipulate everything, including public opinion.....(they display) a lack of empathy and asocial tendencies....corporations often refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions and are unable to feel remorse...Corporations relate to others superficially - their whole goal is to present themselves to the public in a way that is appealing to the public but in fact may not be representative of what the organisation is really like. Human psychopaths are notorious for their ability to use charm as a mask to hide their dangerously self-obsessed personalities."
- The Corporation, Joel Bakan (Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia)
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