Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists:
Joe McCarthy is alive and living in the body of Joe Barton, the chairman of the House and Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. If you read here, you will see McCarthy - sorry - Barton (the motives and morals are so similar) has demanded complete details and the history of the research of three senior climate specialists. This includes all their sources of funding and everything they have ever published.
This is enormously blatant political pressure from a representative of the fossil-fuel lobby of the US against science everywhere. It doesn't stop in the US. All research into climate change is linked internationally. If Farton falsely disproves any of the scientists facts - the same way the petroleum lobbyists continue to attempt it with their propaganda, that 'proof' will insinuate itself through the rest of international research.
Power corrupts; it's time to add your voice against the Bush Government of America because this previously unsuccessful businessman now has absolute power over our earth. He on the other hand is only interested in short-term oil profits that he can use to carry on living his life in as much comfort as possible; maybe he'll buy a $3000 saddle to go with his $3000 pedal bike.
While Barton bullies and threatens the scientific community of America - all the others will be looking over their collective shoulders now - John Bolton, another of Bush's henchmen, has the UN in a panic using almost the same tactics. While telling them to repeal the Kyoto Agreement, he is demanding that no Americans will ever get punished for the unjustifiable slaughter they inflict on the citizens of other Countries.
Meanwhile, we sincerely hope Joe Barton gets his body and his morals back soon.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Friday, August 26, 2005
How long before...
The Estimated Lifespan of a South American President
How long before the US Government does the usual and invades Venezuela - or starts sending its proverbial military observers and advisers of which it has so many?
On August 22, THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman wrote here: "The US military is building a new base and conducting secretive operations in Paraguay ... our Embassy there refuses to acknowledge a base exists and describes the military activity as routine."
How long before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shuffles, or is shuffled off, this mortal coil?
Never mind about Holy Man Pat Robertson's paranoid if telling rant - he being as close to the White House as he is. In between slandering Cindy Sheehan and protectiong Carl Rove this major gaff is just one more problem for the White House elite to sort out.
No, what I'm referring to here are the more recent actions of President Chavez, one of which is offering to use Venezuela's abundance of oil to benefit his own people while selling it at $40 a barrel to his other South American neighbour's, including his close friend, Cuba's Fidel Castro. See here for full story.
What with oil in the US touching $3+ a gallon at the pumps and rising while supplies diminish because of his actions in Iraq, this will be particularly disturbing to Bush.
Traditionally, uppity South American Presidents who refuse to toe the US line have a habit of either being bought off, moved off (Haiti being the latest case), or their lifestyle - read life here - is severely curtailed.
How long before the US Government does the usual and invades Venezuela - or starts sending its proverbial military observers and advisers of which it has so many?
On August 22, THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman wrote here: "The US military is building a new base and conducting secretive operations in Paraguay ... our Embassy there refuses to acknowledge a base exists and describes the military activity as routine."
How long before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shuffles, or is shuffled off, this mortal coil?
Never mind about Holy Man Pat Robertson's paranoid if telling rant - he being as close to the White House as he is. In between slandering Cindy Sheehan and protectiong Carl Rove this major gaff is just one more problem for the White House elite to sort out.
No, what I'm referring to here are the more recent actions of President Chavez, one of which is offering to use Venezuela's abundance of oil to benefit his own people while selling it at $40 a barrel to his other South American neighbour's, including his close friend, Cuba's Fidel Castro. See here for full story.
What with oil in the US touching $3+ a gallon at the pumps and rising while supplies diminish because of his actions in Iraq, this will be particularly disturbing to Bush.
Traditionally, uppity South American Presidents who refuse to toe the US line have a habit of either being bought off, moved off (Haiti being the latest case), or their lifestyle - read life here - is severely curtailed.
Monday, August 22, 2005
All about my Impatience
Support Cindy - or maybe not
Will Cindy Sheehan return to Camp Casey? I don't know, but from all the reports I avidly read I don't think it matters anymore: not after reading this
Do you?
During a small anti-war demonstration in Pittsburgh, police pepper sprayed and Tasered one woman while another 68-year-old woman was bitten by a police dog. Police spokeswoman Tammy Ewin initially said no pepper spray was used on protesters, but Sgt. Clint Winkler, a supervisor on duty, told The Associated Press he tried to use pepper spray on one woman who would not leave, but it hit her glasses. She was then subdued with a Taser, Winkler said.
So he was aiming for her eyes, was he?
No one paper in Britain seems to accept any of this as Big News. Yet this could eventually topple Bush and his neo-con cabal - or shouldn't I even suggest such a thing.
Suddenly, all because of Cindy Sheehan - and in spite of the Bush/Rove Slander Machine - people in America are publicly taking sides and that has got me wondering. Why the paucity of news reports emanating from the UK Press about Bush v Sheehan stand-off?
It's not just because the UK is much like the US in that there is no evidence of any War Effort; no Falkland or Bosnia effect, no regular Government reports from the Front Line. Oh, for the days of honest, unbiased, reporting. The majority of our Press is just about as timid as the US media when it comes to being straight about anything to do with Iraq, while the British public seems to react to any rare Government statement with the same amount of bored disinterest as my canary, Sarah, would to a used up millet spray.
If the American level of support for Bush's War on Terror has shrunk to 38% I wonder what level of support does that translate into for Mr Blair and his friends?
Will Cindy Sheehan return to Camp Casey? I don't know, but from all the reports I avidly read I don't think it matters anymore: not after reading this
Do you?
During a small anti-war demonstration in Pittsburgh, police pepper sprayed and Tasered one woman while another 68-year-old woman was bitten by a police dog. Police spokeswoman Tammy Ewin initially said no pepper spray was used on protesters, but Sgt. Clint Winkler, a supervisor on duty, told The Associated Press he tried to use pepper spray on one woman who would not leave, but it hit her glasses. She was then subdued with a Taser, Winkler said.
So he was aiming for her eyes, was he?
No one paper in Britain seems to accept any of this as Big News. Yet this could eventually topple Bush and his neo-con cabal - or shouldn't I even suggest such a thing.
Suddenly, all because of Cindy Sheehan - and in spite of the Bush/Rove Slander Machine - people in America are publicly taking sides and that has got me wondering. Why the paucity of news reports emanating from the UK Press about Bush v Sheehan stand-off?
It's not just because the UK is much like the US in that there is no evidence of any War Effort; no Falkland or Bosnia effect, no regular Government reports from the Front Line. Oh, for the days of honest, unbiased, reporting. The majority of our Press is just about as timid as the US media when it comes to being straight about anything to do with Iraq, while the British public seems to react to any rare Government statement with the same amount of bored disinterest as my canary, Sarah, would to a used up millet spray.
If the American level of support for Bush's War on Terror has shrunk to 38% I wonder what level of support does that translate into for Mr Blair and his friends?
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