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Arctic melt passes the point of no returnby Martin H. Monday, Dec. 22, 2008 at 4:11 PMArctic melt passes the point of no return *HOW MANY GM EXECUTIVES DOES it TAKE to TURN ON AN ELECTRIC CAR?* sources sites: 911videomashups.com Astronomy Pic of the Day informationclearinghouse.info WSWS.org lists: The_Maelstrom@yahoogroups.com rm-counsel@yahoogroups.com (Join The Maelstrom, companion list to this blog.) blogs: http://www.Legitgov.org http://www.Rense.com http://911tvfakery.blogspot.com/ http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com Click here for the latest (attempted) illustrated mirror: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18266/index.php
********CLIMATE CHANGE******** Arctic melt passes the point of no return: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/392416_pointnoreturnonline17.html As ice melts, Antarctic bedrock is on the move: http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/38862 The methane time bomb: http://tinyurl.com/3n4tdy Low levels of Arctic sea ice signal global warming's advance: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/52172.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/MN7K12VDEM.DTL Half the Amazon rainforest to be lost by 2030: http://www.naturalnews.com/023673.html NASA warming scientist: This is the last chance: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0 Logging Canada's boreal forest could detonate massive "carbon bomb": http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n041002A Should we be taxed for eating animals? http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A40029 "One pound of meat is equivalent to driving about 40 miles in a big SUV." Acidic seas may kill 98% of world's reefs by 2050: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/14/carbonemissions.climatechange Forests losing the ability to absorb man-made carbon: http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3115537.ece
********NEXT WORLD WAR/ESCALATION******** *SYRIA* Bush Dictatorship conducted secret ops in Pakistan, Syria: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyTh4daEIukZscHQWC558dEr3x5gD94BR7FG0 American attack on Syria "terrorist aggression": http://news.scotsman.com/world/American--attack-on-.4634447.jp CIA, Mossad behind Damascus bombing: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70815§ionid=351020206 *GEORGIA: US MILITARY* US military trained Georgian commandos: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdffd9a6-7b71-11dd-b839-000077b07658.html Webster Tarpley - Brzezinski's Georgia puppets attack Russia: http://www.rense.com/general82/indt.htm *PAKISTAN* US continues to illegally bomb Pakistan: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111900473.html *PAKISTAN'S MARRIOTT HOTEL* Pakistan correctly blames US raids for hotel bombing: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-blames-us-raids-for-hotel-bombing-938952.html What was the mysterious activity going on in the Marriott by the US Marines? http://tinyurl.com/46ydyo *PAKISTAN* US missile strike targets Pakistani school: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD93VVGV03 Pakistan says US must stop attacking it: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70832§ionid=351020401 *IRAN: ENCROACHMENT* Bush Dictatorship a step closer to Iran blockade: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JI13Ak01.html The Iran war - how it will begin: http://www.rense.com/general83/irwar.htm US navy fires at Iranian boats in Gulf: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/26/wiran126.xml http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25305335 ********UNCONSTITUTIONAL 'FEDERAL RESERVE'******** Webster Tarpley - End the Fed - End Wall St. Bankster Rule: http://www.rense.com/general84/tarr.htm Federal Reserve refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion in emergency loans: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=apx7XNLnZZlc Federal Reserve - greatest scam ever: http://www.mbpolitics.com/MBIssues_Federal_Reserve.html?T=3692 ********BLEAK ECONOMICS******** *CORPORATE POWER* Majority of corporations avoid federal income taxes: http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/index.htm?cnn=yes *US STATES* California GOP wants to cut $10bn from schools: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/16/MN0P14OGGO.DTL 41 states face serious budget shortfalls in 2009: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COO20081206&articleId=11312 HOW MANY GM EXECUTIVES DOES it TAKE to TURN on an ELECTRIC CAR?* *US AUTO INDUSTRY* GM, receiving billions from US taxpayers, opens gas-powered car factory in China: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/general-motors-opens-new-plant-in-china/399643/ Why the UAW and the Democrats are pushing economic nationalism: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/pers-d18.shtml Chrysler plants close "for a month": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7788954.stm http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/autos/chrysler_shutdown/ (meanwhile, demand never higher for electric cars.) Detroit v. Wall Street: The Trillion Dollar Class War: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/19010 *FOOD PRICES* World's hungry close to one billion: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c20b66e2-c562-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html Counterpunch - Food riots are coming to the US: http://www.counterpunch.org/kampmark05082008.html Multinational corporations profiting from the starving of world's poor: http://tinyurl.com/5pks9p *DEFLATION* Deflation strikes hard! What to do: http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/deflation-strikes-hard-what-to-do-2-28734 *PENSION FUNDS* Collapse of pension funds: The end of retirement? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11379 *DERIVATIVES* The $600 trillion derivatives emergency meeting: http://tinyurl.com/6s3mrv *US DOLLAR* Bye bye dollar, bye bye Treasuries: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/maund121608.html Un-Constitutional "Federal Reserve" sets stage for Weimer-style hyperinflation: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11401 Milwaukee neighborhoods could print own money: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-talk_moneydec03%2C0%2C2902061.story The hyperinflationary depression: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article7539.html Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_26765.shtml *REAL ESTATE* Home values seen losing over $2 trillion during 2008: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4B84A420081215 Record 10% of US homeowners in arrears or foreclosure: http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-fi-foreclose6-2008dec06%2C0%2C892360.story *FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS* Bank of America to cut 35,000 jobs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/11/bank-or-america-cuts-jobs *GREAT DEPRESSION, II* Hunger and homelessness grow across US cities: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/hung-d18.shtml New unemployment claims surge unexpectedly: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081211/financial_meltdown.html US companies announce more mass layoffs: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/jobs-d09.shtml Fears of a million layoffs a month in corporate America: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/07/recession-job-losses Tent cities spring up around the country: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htD-5rvP6yK7RZ008IAiqfAI5ZGgD9398LEG0 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26776283 http://tinyurl.com/4rr74c *GREAT DEPRESSION: ANALYSES* The worst is not behind us: http://www.rense.com/general84/worldd.htm Nearly 30% of US families subsist on poverty wages: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21032.htm US economy in rapid freefall: http://tinyurl.com/5angm3 The final destruction of the Middle class: http://www.rense.com/general83/class.htm *CITIGROUP* Bailed-out Citibank goes on foreign toll road buying binge: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2613.asp *BAILOUTS* Obama team considers $850 billion stimulus: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28278398/ The real cost of the bailouts: $8.5 trillion: http://www.kitcocasey.com/articles/2436/the-real-cost-of-the-2008-recession-12-9-08/ Bail-out is the biggest bank heist ever: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45826%2Copinion%2Cbail-out-is-the-biggest-bank-heist-ever Kirwan - The long disputed war is over: http://www.rense.com/general83/long.htm "...this amount of money represents a power so vast that it actually dwarfs the 'powers' of the presidency or the dictator of the USA..." The bankers' 9/11: http://www.rense.com/general83/bankers.htm Bush Dictatorship officials refuse to provide details on secret previous bailout: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5930875 Still alive in outlaw territory: http://www.rense.com/general83/alive.htm *FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS* you Own Junk Bonds, Like it or Not http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6350.html Parasitic bankers achieve the end of capitalism and the sacking of America: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5480.html Global stock market crash warning and loss of American financial privacy: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5158.html ********ENDANGERED SPECIES******** Bush Dictatorship blocks crucial polar bear protections: http://defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases_folder/2008/12_11_2008_bush_administration_finalizes_rule;_blocks_crucial_polar_bear_protections.php Bush Dictatorship dramatically alters endangered species protections: http://tinyurl.com/5vqvzw One in four mammals faces extinction: http://tinyurl.com/6cwd3j ********WAR AGAINST WILDLIFE******** Bush Dictatorship extends legal protections to oil companies as they decimate the polar bears: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-bear.artjun23,0,3754385.story Polar bear decision delay meant to protect oil leases: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080418-AP-polar-bears.html Blood-sucking oil companies move forward to destroy Alaskan wilderness: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5887819.html ********GENERAL NEWS******** *RAPING INNER CITIES - NATIONAL PHENOMENON* Idiotic, insane Read Street demolition is the destruction of our city: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18259/index.php http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18117/index.php Just look at what they're doing in Baltimore! They're destroying great architecture and replacing it with urban sprawl. *US NEWSPAPERS* US media giant considers bankruptcy: http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=77812§ionid=3510213 *WAR AGAINST the POOR* Utilities cut off 1 in 20 US households in 2007: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/util-d18.shtml One in five households fell behind on utility bills last winter: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122947913590112885.html *PRES-ELECT OBAMA* Obama names more cabinet secretaries - a continued march to the right: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/obam-d18.shtml Obama picks Wall Street insider to head main regulatory agency http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/sec-d19.shtml Kirwan - Transitions: http://www.rense.com/general84/transs.htm *FCC* FCC opens free "white space" spectrum to parasitic, spying entities like NSA-run Google: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10082505-94.html *ABORTION* "Right of conscience" rule issued for health workers: http://tinyurl.com/4q43ce *SUPREME COURT + BIG PHARMA* Big Pharma may be handed blanket immunity for all drug side effects, deaths! http://www.naturalnews.com/024688.html *COAL PLANTS* EPA ruling will speed up approval of coal plants: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/business/19coal.html?_r=1 "Officials...cannot consider their greenhouse gas output..." *YUCCA MOUNTAIN* DOE says Congress needs to expand Yucca Mountain's capacity to store nuclear waste: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4B87I520081209 *COASTAL WATER DEAD ZONES* "Dead Zones" multiplying fast: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-dead-zones.html *SONAR* Noisier oceans may be a disaster for marine animals: http://tinyurl.com/64mbvb Whale killing war games: http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/11/WhaleKilling/ "Baffling" rise in beached whales: http://tinyurl.com/4dal97 Defying court orders, Navy resumes wildlife-killing sonar training off coast: http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8095464?nclick_check=1 *CELLPHONES* Generation X'd out: http://proliberty.com/observer/20081120.htm Are EMFs killing insects, frogs, birds and us? http://www.rense.com/general81/emfs.htm *POLAR BEARS* Melting ice imperils polar bears: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94118802 Polar bears plunge into melting Arctic: http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/7/1/polar-bears-plunge-melting-arctic/ *OTHER ANIMALS* Zooplankton populations plunge 70% in four decades: http://www.naturalnews.com/024798.html North American freshwater fishes fading into extinction: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2008/2008-09-09-02.asp 90% of pandas in jeopardy after HAARP-induced China "earthquake": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article4129591.ece Epidemic of extinctions taking place: http://tinyurl.com/56t2n7 Bleak future for Antarctic penguins, report warns: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/11/endangeredspecies.conservation European birds in decline: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/02/eabirds102.xml Pacific walruses dying from climate change: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/343704_walrus15.html Primates in danger of extinction: http://www.enn.com/animals/article/24099 *ENVIRONMENT* Industrial plants, pollution cause health problems in students: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/school-air1.htm *WEATHER MODIFICATION: CHINA* Fulford vs. HAARP: http://youtube.com/watch?v=InV0cVH6KZc *WEATHER MODIFICATION* Michel Chossudovsky - Beware weather warfare: http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1215 Navy research paper calls for using man-made floods and droughts to "disrupt the economy" of an enemy state: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/navy-research-p.html *DEPOPULATION/FOOD SUPPLY* Crisis in food prices threatens worldwide starvation. Is it genocide? (Yes!): http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19796.htm How business starves the world's poor: http://tinyurl.com/5ahl3o *BIOWARFARE/DEPOPULATION* $1 billion biowarfare center being built in Fort Detrick, MD: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.detrick19nov19,0,1939796.story *FORCED VACCINATIONS* Insane NY bill makes all Federal vaccines mandatory: http://www.rense.com/general82/mandi.htm *MANDATORY BIO-CHIPPING* HIV carriers face microchip implants in Papua province: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/24/indonesia-aids Microchips everywhere: a near-future vision: http://www.katu.com/news/tech/14453392.html http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/Jan31/3171.html Microchip implants, mind control and cybernetics: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm The plan to create a North American Union and bio-chip the world: http://www.youtube.com/v/vuBo4E77ZXo&rel=1&border=0 Microchip implants cause malignant tumors in lab animals: http://www.citizensadvocate.net/newsletters/albrechtVeriChipAP.html *ILLEGAL WAR/PERMANENT OCCUPATION BUDGETS* Pentagon wants $450 billion more over next five years: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002973555 Runaway Pentagon spending is the reason the US has gone broke: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19817.htm |
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