U.S. corn soars to record as crop flooded

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. corn futures soared more than 4 percent to a fresh record high for the fifth consecutive trading session on Wednesday as flooding expanded in the U.S. Midwest, harming the 2008 corn crop.“There’s still no indication that we’re getting ready to change this pattern. Concerns continue from planting issues to emergence to [...] continue reading world news

American Inventor Presents an Answer to the World’s Water Crisis

Related article: Water crisis to be biggest world risk(NaturalNews) Dean Kamen is not a new player in the innovator’s arena. He has been inventing and innovating ever since he dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 70’s. Since then, he invented such things as the insulin pump, a mobile dialysis system, and an all-terrain [...] continue reading world news

Global Warming? Not in the Pacific Northwest

There’s rain on the grill and snow in the passesUW prof says it’s the coldest spring since 1917There’s further proof that this spring has been uncomfortably and depressingly cold — the coldest in memory, the coldest since 1917.Validation came Tuesday from the University of Washington, where Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences professor, published his new [...] continue reading world news

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENERGY SAVER LIGHT BULBS!

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Where Is FEMA?

The US Department of Homeland Security has an annual budget of $40 billion. Out of that money FEMA gets about one billion annually. FEMA was created to combine all federal services into one giant agency that was to “manage” ALL national emergencies that happen within the United States. Yet since this mega-agency was created, by [...] continue reading world news

Tens of thousands flee Iowa flooding

The governor declares 83 of 99 counties disaster areas as waters continue to rise. The weather is expected to turn foul again.DES MOINES — Officials on Friday urged tens of thousands of workers and residents to evacuate as rivers across the Hawkeye state continued to flood towns big and small.Though the National Weather Service [...] continue reading world news

Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines

If Drivers Can Fill Up, They Get Sticker ShockPeople wait to fill their tanks at a Citgo station in Charlotte, where drivers have reported gas lines 60 cars long after 11 p.m. (By Davie Hinshaw — The Charlotte Observer) Gasoline shortages hit towns across the southeastern United States this week, sparking panic buying, long [...] continue reading world news

Russia: Weather Manipulation

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.“A pack of cement used in creating … good weather in the capital region … failed to pulverize completely at [...] continue reading world news

Should Government Aircraft Spray Chemicals on Residential Areas?

Related articles:- Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues…- Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco AnnouncedNote to the government: When you unilaterally send aircraft to spray unfamiliar chemicals over residential areas, the public will get very worried.Environmental activists will pick through mounds of official documents in an attempt to make sense [...] continue reading world news

Catastrophic fall in numbers reveals bird populations in crisis throughout the world

Northern WheatearThe birds of the world are in serious trouble, and common species are in now decline all over the globe, a comprehensive new review suggests today.From the turtle doves of Europe to the vultures of India, from the bobwhite quails of the US to the yellow cardinals of Argentina, from [...] continue reading world news

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Documentary about GM killing of the electric car. It has been here since ‘96 but they killed it off.The film features interviews with celebrities who drove the electric car, such as Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Alexandra Paul, Peter Horton, Ed Begley, Jr., a bi-partisan selection of prominent political figures including Ralph Nader, Frank Gaffney, Alan [...] continue reading world news

Why Al Gore is a Hypocrite and a Fraud

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a MonthGore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to [...] continue reading world news

Vanishing Topsoil Threatens Sustainability of Human Life on Earth

(NaturalNews) Earth’s topsoil is vanishing at such a rapid rate that scientists worry about the future of human food production.“Globally, it’s clear we are eroding soils at a rate much faster than they can form,” said John Reganold, a soils scientist from Washington State University. “It’s hard to get people to pay much attention to [...] continue reading world news

Estrogen Flooding Our Rivers

The Montreal water treatment plant dumps 90 times the critical amount of certain estrogen products into the river. It only takes one nanogram (ng) of steroids per liter of water to disrupt the endocrinal system of fish and decrease their fertility.These are the findings of Liza Viglino, postdoctoral student at the Universite de Montreal’s Department [...] continue reading world news

Five million face hunger in Zimbabwe, UN says

The United Nations has warned that more than five million Zimbabweans could be threatened by hunger next year due to a steady drop in food production coupled with the world’s highest rate of inflation.The Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Food Program said in a joint report that [...] continue reading world news

Mississippi overflows levees, crops threatened

The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 12 more levees on Wednesday, as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, adding to billion-dollar losses and feeding global food inflation fears.Volunteers and aid workers were piling sandbags up and down the most important U.S. inland waterway to try to protect more levees and [...] continue reading world news

The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic

The best commentary I could offer is a link to a previous story:World’s Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record HarvestsBut I’ll ramble on a bit more about this, anyway.As soon as I became aware of the flooding situation in the American Midwest, I posted the story with the EMERGENCY prefix on [...] continue reading world news

Water Restoration Act May Lead to Privatization of Water Supply

(NaturalNews) The fate of the nation’s water supply is under debate as hearings in the House and Senate begin on the Water Restoration Act of 2007. Opponents claim this Act threatens to greatly expand the Federal Government’s roll in water management. This Act would define waters of the U.S. as “all interstate and intrastate waters [...] continue reading world news

The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth?

Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be [...] continue reading world news

Must See: Pictures of Iowa Flooding

June 17, 2008Pictures: Source: The Boston GlobeRelated articles:- Government “Strike Teams” Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims- Decider-Commander Goes to Iowa- Dealing With The Truth- Government Terrorists Terrorize Iowa Homeowners- FEMA: It’s Not About Floods, It’s About Martial Law- Tens of thousands flee Iowa flooding- ‘Beyond what anybody could even imagine’- The Best Farmland in the [...] continue reading world news

Floods wipe out US crops

The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved downstream yesterday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees and coped with the costs of the Midwest’s worst flooding in 15 years. “At times like these you don’t know whether to cry or laugh. But here in the Midwest we tend to favour the latter,” said Charlotte Hoerr, who, [...] continue reading world news

Nation’s Spies: Climate Change Could Spark War

Environmental groups have been warning for years that tense parts of the world could get even worse with the advent of global climate change, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, the nation’s spies are saying pretty much the same thing.The U.S. intelligence community has finished up its classified assessment of how our changing weather [...] continue reading world news

MIT group makes low-cost dish to tap solar energy

Spencer Ahrens, a 23-year-old mechanical engineer, was on MIT’s campus last week, holding a wooden plank, surrounded by onlookers.Slowly, he turned that wooden plank before a series of mirrors that had been placed inside an aluminum frame, until the wood caught fire.That was quite a moment, recalled Matthew Ritter, one of the onlookers.“Let’s just say [...] continue reading world news

FDA Considers Engineered Animals For Food

Agency Will Accept Industry Proposals To Sell The Public Animals With Mixed DNATwo featherless chickens peck around in some grass at the Hebrew University in Rehovot. Israeli scientists at the Agriculture department of the university have genetically engineered bare-skinned chickens as part of a research project to develop succulent, low fat poultry that is environmentally [...] continue reading world news

FDA Criticized Over Plastic Chemical

Groups Raise Questions About the Safety of Bisphenol AReviewed by Louise Chang, MDSept. 16, 2008 — Researchers and environmental groups attacked the FDA for concluding that a widely used plastic ingredient is safe for humans, saying the agency ignored critical studies showing potential ill health effects.The comments came at a hearing called by the FDA [...] continue reading world news

FDA Criticized Over Plastic Chemical

Groups Raise Questions About the Safety of Bisphenol AReviewed by Louise Chang, MDSept. 16, 2008 — Researchers and environmental groups attacked the FDA for concluding that a widely used plastic ingredient is safe for humans, saying the agency ignored critical studies showing potential ill health effects.The comments came at a hearing called by the FDA [...] continue reading world news

Video shows shocking farm cruelty to pigs

UNDERCOVER animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs.The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows’ hindquarters.Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed as workers between June and September [...] continue reading world news

Video shows shocking farm cruelty to pigs

UNDERCOVER animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs.The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows’ hindquarters.Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed as workers between June and September [...] continue reading world news

California: The War On Wildfires

Articles:- Wildfires force firefighters to pick their battles - California Firefighters Battle More Than 1,400 Blazes!- Firefighters in Stalemate Against Calif. Blazes- Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California- Map of California’s Major Fires continue reading world news

North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer

Related article: NASA data shows thickest and oldest Arctic ice is meltingArctic sea ice could break apart completely at the North Pole this year, allowing ships to sail over the normally frozen top of the world.The potential landmark thaw - the first time in human history the pole would be ice-free - is a stark [...] continue reading world news

Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup

The Defense Department, the nation’s biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose “imminent and substantial” dangers to public health and the environment.The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that cover 12 [...] continue reading world news

California: The War On Wildfires

Articles:- Wildfires force firefighters to pick their battles - California Firefighters Battle More Than 1,400 Blazes!- Firefighters in Stalemate Against Calif. Blazes- Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California- Map of California’s Major Fires continue reading world news

Floods may boost world food prices for years

Related articles:- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic—————————————————————————————————————————————————————LEVEES on the cresting Mississippi River held today as the worst US Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.Water levels on the [...] continue reading world news

After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas

HOUSTON - Emergency officials pursued their rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike barreled across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston with a wall of water, flooding coastal towns and leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston.Across the Gulf Coast, rescue workers scoured waterlogged neighborhoods and struggled to race down streets that [...] continue reading world news

After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas

HOUSTON - Emergency officials pursued their rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike barreled across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston with a wall of water, flooding coastal towns and leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston.Across the Gulf Coast, rescue workers scoured waterlogged neighborhoods and struggled to race down streets that [...] continue reading world news

Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs - like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse - are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also [...] continue reading world news

Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs - like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse - are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.Federal narcotics regulators impose strict rules meant to keep controlled pharmaceuticals out of the wrong hands. Yet those rules also [...] continue reading world news

L.A. County sees an upward trend in West Nile infections

The year is shaping up to be the worst in Southern California since 2004.Jack Austin doesn’t remember a mosquito biting him. The 72-year-old Duarte resident also doesn’t remember the nine days he spent in the hospital in July or much of the 20 days he spent in rehab in August, recovering from West Nile neuroinvasive [...] continue reading world news

L.A. County sees an upward trend in West Nile infections

The year is shaping up to be the worst in Southern California since 2004.Jack Austin doesn’t remember a mosquito biting him. The 72-year-old Duarte resident also doesn’t remember the nine days he spent in the hospital in July or much of the 20 days he spent in rehab in August, recovering from West Nile neuroinvasive [...] continue reading world news

Chicago seeks aid after worst rain in at least 137 years

Chicago received more than 6 inches of rain Saturday, breaking a 1987 record.CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago authorities asked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to issue a disaster declaration after rainfall Saturday in the Windy City broke a single-day record that had stood for more than two decades.The deluge flooded streets and stranded residents in their [...] continue reading world news

Chicago seeks aid after worst rain in at least 137 years

Chicago received more than 6 inches of rain Saturday, breaking a 1987 record.CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago authorities asked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to issue a disaster declaration after rainfall Saturday in the Windy City broke a single-day record that had stood for more than two decades.The deluge flooded streets and stranded residents in their [...] continue reading world news

Pentagon Fights EPA On Pollution Cleanup

The Defense Department, the nation’s biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose “imminent and substantial” dangers to public health and the environment.The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that cover 12 [...] continue reading world news

Philippines: Fighting to survive on mountain of trash

Thousands of Manila’s poorest scavenge for recyclables daily at the city’s main waste disposal site in a smouldering district known as “Smokey Mountain.” Rice price spikes have caused greater hardship.A spike in rice prices means increased hardship for millions of Filipinos living on less than $2 a dayMANILA - Amid the sprawl and stench of [...] continue reading world news

USDA Cuts US Corn, Soy Estimates; Grain Mkts Up (2nd UPDATE)

(Updates with closing grain prices; additional analyst comments)CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday cut its projections for 2008 U.S. corn and soybean production, keeping supplies of the commodities tight and helping lift grain prices.The reduction in crop size, which was the result of poor growing weather in August, could be the start [...] continue reading world news

USDA Cuts US Corn, Soy Estimates; Grain Mkts Up (2nd UPDATE)

(Updates with closing grain prices; additional analyst comments)CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday cut its projections for 2008 U.S. corn and soybean production, keeping supplies of the commodities tight and helping lift grain prices.The reduction in crop size, which was the result of poor growing weather in August, could be the start [...] continue reading world news

Floods may boost world food prices for years

Related articles:- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic—————————————————————————————————————————————————————LEVEES on the cresting Mississippi River held today as the worst US Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.Water levels on the [...] continue reading world news

Philippines: Food Shortage Looms - Arroyo Adviser

Related article (Typhoon Fengshen):- Fishing industry suffers after ferry tragedy:“The government suspended all diving operations to recover bodies inside the vessel and banned fishing around the island on Friday after it was revealed the ferry was carrying a highly toxic pesticide.”“Should the chemicals leak into its pristine waters the impact on local marine life would [...] continue reading world news

More than 1m people at risk as hurricane Ike heads towards Texas

America’s largest refinery and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre could be at risk of damageA sign in Port Aransas, Texas. Photograph: Eric GayMore than a million people in Texas have been warned they should leave their homes as hurricane Ike heads across the Gulf of Mexico towards the Texan coast, home to America’s largest concentration of [...] continue reading world news

More than 1m people at risk as hurricane Ike heads towards Texas

America’s largest refinery and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre could be at risk of damageA sign in Port Aransas, Texas. Photograph: Eric GayMore than a million people in Texas have been warned they should leave their homes as hurricane Ike heads across the Gulf of Mexico towards the Texan coast, home to America’s largest concentration of [...] continue reading world news

Two strong Earthquakes hit Japan and Indonesia, but no tsunami

Two strong off shore earthquakes have struck Asia, triggering tsunami alerts and evacuations in coastal towns.Separate earthquakes hit off the coasts of northern Japan and Indonesia, but neither ultimately produced damaging waves and there were no reports of damage or casualties.The most powerful tremor, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off the coast of [...] continue reading world news

Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.Jurors accepted defence [...] continue reading world news

Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.Jurors accepted defence [...] continue reading world news

Two strong Earthquakes hit Japan and Indonesia, but no tsunami

Two strong off shore earthquakes have struck Asia, triggering tsunami alerts and evacuations in coastal towns.Separate earthquakes hit off the coasts of northern Japan and Indonesia, but neither ultimately produced damaging waves and there were no reports of damage or casualties.The most powerful tremor, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off the coast of [...] continue reading world news

Philippines: Fighting to survive on mountain of trash

Thousands of Manila’s poorest scavenge for recyclables daily at the city’s main waste disposal site in a smouldering district known as “Smokey Mountain.” Rice price spikes have caused greater hardship.A spike in rice prices means increased hardship for millions of Filipinos living on less than $2 a dayMANILA - Amid the sprawl and stench of [...] continue reading world news

Thousands in Texas Flee Hurricane Ike

Tens of thousands of people fled coastal areas of Texas on Wednesday after Hurricane Ike spun off Cuba, roared into the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the state with growing strength.After pummeling Haiti, Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean, Ike refueled in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward landfall near Corpus Christi, [...] continue reading world news

Thousands in Texas Flee Hurricane Ike

Tens of thousands of people fled coastal areas of Texas on Wednesday after Hurricane Ike spun off Cuba, roared into the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the state with growing strength.After pummeling Haiti, Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean, Ike refueled in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward landfall near Corpus Christi, [...] continue reading world news

DROUGHT-STRICKEN CYPRUS GETS WATER FROM GREECE

NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Greek tanker carrying about 1.76 million cubic feet of water arrived in the Cypriot port of Limassol on Monday to help the drought-stricken island replenish its dwindling water reserves.The tanker is the first in a fleet of ships chartered by the Cypriot government at a cost of $65 million to provide [...] continue reading world news

Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years

Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years as 30 per cent of the country’s grain lies in waterlogged or sodden ground. Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is expected to give the go-ahead today for farmers to salvage what is left of their crops by using heavy machinery on wet fields.European [...] continue reading world news

Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years

Britain is facing its worst harvest for at least 40 years as 30 per cent of the country’s grain lies in waterlogged or sodden ground. Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, is expected to give the go-ahead today for farmers to salvage what is left of their crops by using heavy machinery on wet fields.European [...] continue reading world news

Summer has been one of Alaska’s coldest

High temperatures this season were 3rd lowest on recordSummer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.“Those temperatures occurred [...] continue reading world news

Summer has been one of Alaska’s coldest

High temperatures this season were 3rd lowest on recordSummer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.“Those temperatures occurred [...] continue reading world news

Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away

The northern section of Ellesmere island is seen in a 2003 photo from NASA. OTTAWA (Reuters) - A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a “massive and disturbing” rate, the latest sign of [...] continue reading world news

Ike roars over Cuba; 900,000 evacuated

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Hurricane Ike tore across Cuba with 100-mph winds Monday, sending 50-foot waves crashing over buildings and forcing the evacuation of 900,000 people.Fallen bricks crushed a van Monday in Camaguey, Cuba, as Hurricane Ike struck the island.At 2 p.m., Ike’s eye had moved back over water off Cuba’s southern coast. Ike was [...] continue reading world news

Ike roars over Cuba; 900,000 evacuated

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Hurricane Ike tore across Cuba with 100-mph winds Monday, sending 50-foot waves crashing over buildings and forcing the evacuation of 900,000 people.Fallen bricks crushed a van Monday in Camaguey, Cuba, as Hurricane Ike struck the island.At 2 p.m., Ike’s eye had moved back over water off Cuba’s southern coast. Ike was [...] continue reading world news

Environment: Solar plant yields water and crops from the desert

· Green energy glasshouses may transform arid areas· Fresh water will end need to dig wells, say architectsThe Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration ArchitectureVast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide [...] continue reading world news

Environment: Solar plant yields water and crops from the desert

· Green energy glasshouses may transform arid areas· Fresh water will end need to dig wells, say architectsThe Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration ArchitectureVast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide [...] continue reading world news

Ike begins to hit Bahamas, heads toward Cuba

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.Obenson Etienne walks to his house Sunday in Providenciales, one of the isles in the Turks and [...] continue reading world news

Who Wants To Be CEO of a Red, White and Blue Kakistocracy*?

*Kakistocracy is government by the very worst, least principled, and most incompetent people. You will be forgiven for thinking that the word, kakistocracy, perhaps derives from the word, “caca”, itself derived from the Latin, “cacare”. In fact, kakistocracy derives from the Greek, kakos, meaning “bad”.)Let me make myself clear from the outset: I am not [...] continue reading world news

Who Wants To Be CEO of a Red, White and Blue Kakistocracy*?

*Kakistocracy is government by the very worst, least principled, and most incompetent people. You will be forgiven for thinking that the word, kakistocracy, perhaps derives from the word, “caca”, itself derived from the Latin, “cacare”. In fact, kakistocracy derives from the Greek, kakos, meaning “bad”.)Let me make myself clear from the outset: I am not [...] continue reading world news

Ike begins to hit Bahamas, heads toward Cuba

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Hurricane Ike moved past the southern Bahamas on Sunday, carrying high winds and heavy rain as the Category 4 storm surged forward on a track that could take it toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.Obenson Etienne walks to his house Sunday in Providenciales, one of the isles in the Turks and [...] continue reading world news

Massive floating generators, or ‘eco-rigs’, to provide power and food to Japan

Battered by soaring energy costs and aghast at dwindling fish stocks, Japanese scientists think they have found the answer: filling the seas with giant “eco-rigs” as powerful as nuclear power stations. The project, which could result in village-sized platforms peppering the Japanese coastline within a decade, reflects a growing panic in the country over how [...] continue reading world news

U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate

(NaturalNews) According to a report by the Organic Consumers Association, a toxic chemical that is a byproduct of rocket fuel is rapidly poisoning the food and water supply in the United States. Known as perchlorate, this chemical has been found in 93% of the nation’s milk and lettuce supply in a recent FDA study. It [...] continue reading world news

Hanna death toll rises to 500 as storm nears hurricane status

Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.Hurricane Hanna as it nears the US coast Photo: APHanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast [...] continue reading world news

Hanna death toll rises to 500 as storm nears hurricane status

Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.Hurricane Hanna as it nears the US coast Photo: APHanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast [...] continue reading world news

U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate

(NaturalNews) According to a report by the Organic Consumers Association, a toxic chemical that is a byproduct of rocket fuel is rapidly poisoning the food and water supply in the United States. Known as perchlorate, this chemical has been found in 93% of the nation’s milk and lettuce supply in a recent FDA study. It [...] continue reading world news

Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops

· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says CastroFriday September 5 2008Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the [...] continue reading world news

US: Collecting Rainwater has become Illegal

Added: September 04, 2008Source: YouTube continue reading world news

US: Collecting Rainwater has become Illegal

Added: September 04, 2008Source: YouTube continue reading world news

Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops

· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says CastroFriday September 5 2008Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the [...] continue reading world news

The U.S. is getting pounded this season

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Hanna skirted the Bahamas after killing dozens in Haiti and threatened to strike the U.S. Southeast as a hurricane by the weekend.Farther out to sea, the “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Ike was packing 140-mph (225-kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Hanna’s eye was about 205 miles (400 kilometers) east [...] continue reading world news

The U.S. is getting pounded this season

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Hanna skirted the Bahamas after killing dozens in Haiti and threatened to strike the U.S. Southeast as a hurricane by the weekend.Farther out to sea, the “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Ike was packing 140-mph (225-kph) winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Hanna’s eye was about 205 miles (400 kilometers) east [...] continue reading world news

Massive floating generators, or ‘eco-rigs’, to provide power and food to Japan

Battered by soaring energy costs and aghast at dwindling fish stocks, Japanese scientists think they have found the answer: filling the seas with giant “eco-rigs” as powerful as nuclear power stations. The project, which could result in village-sized platforms peppering the Japanese coastline within a decade, reflects a growing panic in the country over how [...] continue reading world news

Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away

The northern section of Ellesmere island is seen in a 2003 photo from NASA. OTTAWA (Reuters) - A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a “massive and disturbing” rate, the latest sign of [...] continue reading world news

US: Citrus Crops Under Siege From Unknown Bacterium

(NaturalNews) Citrus greening is blazing through the Florida citrus groves like wildfire. Scientists don’t know how long it will take to find a treatment or cure for this contagious bacterial disease. One scenario projects that within nine to ten years, all the citrus trees currently in the ground will be dead.Citrus greening, caused by a [...] continue reading world news

US: Citrus Crops Under Siege From Unknown Bacterium

(NaturalNews) Citrus greening is blazing through the Florida citrus groves like wildfire. Scientists don’t know how long it will take to find a treatment or cure for this contagious bacterial disease. One scenario projects that within nine to ten years, all the citrus trees currently in the ground will be dead.Citrus greening, caused by a [...] continue reading world news

Genetically ‘improved’ oysters behind France’s shellfish plague

Genetically “improved” oysters could be behind the worst plague of the shellfish to hit France in 40 years, it has been reported.Last month farmers around France announced that they had lost between 40 and 100 per cent of their oysters aged one to two years old.According to oysters farmers cited by weekly magazine Marianne, the [...] continue reading world news

Genetically ‘improved’ oysters behind France’s shellfish plague

Genetically “improved” oysters could be behind the worst plague of the shellfish to hit France in 40 years, it has been reported.Last month farmers around France announced that they had lost between 40 and 100 per cent of their oysters aged one to two years old.According to oysters farmers cited by weekly magazine Marianne, the [...] continue reading world news

Philippines: Food Shortage Looms - Arroyo Adviser

Related article (Typhoon Fengshen):- Fishing industry suffers after ferry tragedy:“The government suspended all diving operations to recover bodies inside the vessel and banned fishing around the island on Friday after it was revealed the ferry was carrying a highly toxic pesticide.”“Should the chemicals leak into its pristine waters the impact on local marine life would [...] continue reading world news

Gaza: A modern concentration camp run by Israel

Related articles:- A human rights crime in Gaza by Jimmy Carter- Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newbornsGAZA CITY, Jul 2 (IPS) - Gaza is being forced to pump 77 tonnes of untreated or partially treated sewage out to sea daily due to the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. The fear is [...] continue reading world news

DROUGHT-STRICKEN CYPRUS GETS WATER FROM GREECE

NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Greek tanker carrying about 1.76 million cubic feet of water arrived in the Cypriot port of Limassol on Monday to help the drought-stricken island replenish its dwindling water reserves.The tanker is the first in a fleet of ships chartered by the Cypriot government at a cost of $65 million to provide [...] continue reading world news

Why Floods Bring America To Its Knees

Related articles:- Floods may boost world food prices for years- Floods wipe out US crops- The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic- The Price Of Food: 2007 - 2008- The U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves- Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a [...] continue reading world news

New Orleans marks Katrina, braces for Gustav

NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - New Orleans residents paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow even as they faced a possible evacuation order ahead of another potentially powerful storm.City residents, many still recovering from the destruction of Katrina, could be ordered to evacuate early on Sunday to escape [...] continue reading world news

New Orleans marks Katrina, braces for Gustav

NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - New Orleans residents paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow even as they faced a possible evacuation order ahead of another potentially powerful storm.City residents, many still recovering from the destruction of Katrina, could be ordered to evacuate early on Sunday to escape [...] continue reading world news

New Orleans Orders Mandatory Evacuation

AP changed the title to “New Orleans residents get out of Gustav’s way”__________________________________________________________________________(AFP/Matthew Hinton)NEW ORLEANS - As dawn broke Sunday over a city under siege, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in nearly every direction as residents heeded orders to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans. Police and National Guard troops were on the streets, preparing [...] continue reading world news

New Orleans Orders Mandatory Evacuation

AP changed the title to “New Orleans residents get out of Gustav’s way”__________________________________________________________________________(AFP/Matthew Hinton)NEW ORLEANS - As dawn broke Sunday over a city under siege, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in nearly every direction as residents heeded orders to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans. Police and National Guard troops were on the streets, preparing [...] continue reading world news

Gustav May Hit Gulf Platforms Harder Than Katrina

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Hurricane Gustav threatens to hurt U.S. oil and natural-gas production and refining more severely than hurricanes Katrina and Rita did three years ago.Gustav, downgraded to a Category 3 storm by the National Hurricane Center in Miami this morning, may strengthen to Category 4 later today and will make landfall as a [...] continue reading world news