The Adventures Of A Progressive In Redland - Chapter 1: Flushed
By : Progressive Democrats of Illinois - Saturday December 18, 2010 I always knew that the Greedy Red Trolls would try to drown us in sorrow and financial misery, I could see it in their beady little glowing red eyes, and don’t ask me about the foul smoke they continually blow out their posterior extruders! I’ve heard it said that Red trolls have no heartbeat - if you put a stethoscope near their chest, it will freeze so badly your hand will turn to ice and fall off. There’s a money-sucking black hole in there, powered by corporatite! (...)
read more, comments... The Global Crisis, Food, Water and Fuel By Michel Chossudovsky*
Friday June 27, 2008 Global Research, June 5, 2008 The Global Crisis: Food, Water and Fuel Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy * Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" are killing our children. The act to kill is unpremeditated. It is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. (...)
read more, comments... Decorate, Water
By : Dan Stafford - Saturday April 12, 2008 I really wanted to write about this first episode a week ago, before it first aired on The Sundance Channel, but it was just impossible to get to. Still, you can view it online at - the episode is entitled "Decorate." (Next Television Showing: Sun day, April 13, 3:00PM on the Sundance Channel) Decorate follows the base format of the "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" series, using three examples of people following the principles it teaches. First, we see an interior designer who utilizes (...)
read more, comments... UN rejects water as basic human right
By : blacklistednews.com - Sunday March 30, 2008 OTTAWA - The Harper government can declare victory after a United Nations meeting rejected calls for water to be recognized as a basic human right. Published on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Source: CanWest News Service Instead, a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. The countries also chose to scrap the idea of creating an international watchdog to investigate the issue, (...)
read more, comments... one of africa’s most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed
By : Emily - Saturday January 19, 2008 One of Africa’s most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed by a hydroelectric project in Gabon, according to reports from a Gabonese NGO and the Inter Press Service (IPS). Kongou Falls, a 184-foot (5 6m) two-mile-wide (3.2 km) cataract on the Ivindo river in the Congo rainforest, will be flooded by a dam to provide power for a $3.5 billion plan to mine iron ore at Bélinga in northeastern Gabon. The project — financed by a Chinese consortium led by CMEC, a Chinese company (...)
read more, comments... Fire, water and denial
By : Neal Peirce - Tuesday November 6, 2007 by Neal Peirce Could there be a pattern here? The San Diego and Los Angeles areas are hit by a raging series of high-impact wildfires — the worst in the state’s history. Many of the blazes coincide with areas already scorched in 2003 by fires that themselves were declared California’s worst ever. But is there any move to get away from the areas where a century of firefighting has left many forests choked and overgrown, thick underbrush creating tinderbox conditions? (...)
read more, comments... IRAQ : Engineers Confirm a Real Surge Would Drown Half A Million People
By : Emily - Monday November 5, 2007 Gen. Petraeus & U.S. Engineers Confirm a Real Surge Would Drown 500,000 People The Most Dangerous Dam in the World By PATRICK COCKBURN A catastrophic failure of the largest dam in Iraq would send a wave 65ft high hurtling down the valley of the river Tigris, killing up to 500,000 people, US engineers warned yesterday. The dam, which is near Mosul in the north of the country, was built in 1984 on a bed of water-soluble rock and is in imminent danger of collapse. "In terms of the (...)
read more, comments... Georgia declares drought emergency
By : CUMMING - Sunday October 21, 2007 Georgia declares drought emergency White House says it will review Perdue’s request for federal assistance Updated: 4:46 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2007 CUMMING, Georgia - With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of the state of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area. Georgia officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre reservoir that (...)
read more, comments... War for Water on the Golan Heights
By : T Schuh - Sunday August 26, 2007 QUNEITRA, Syrian Golan Heights— Trucks of every size were queued up for miles and some hadn’t budged in days. At the end of the line, drivers resigned to a long, hot ordeal set up camp waiting for inspections. At the border checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway, each industrial vehicle must be searched in compliance with UN Resolution 1701 to insure it isn’t smuggling missiles or weapons into Lebanon. Israel and the US repeatedly charge Syria with rearming (...)
read more, comments... South Asia Monsoon Crisis Presents An Opportunity To Learn And Prepare For Future Crisis.
By : Brian McAfee - Wednesday August 15, 2007 by Brian McAfee. Is the South Asia monsoon a harbinger of things to come and will we be ready next time around? The perennial monsoon floods that have devastated parts of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are said to be the worst in 30 years. The death toll has surpassed 2,200. meanwhile, the event has made over twenty million people homeless and has resulted in massive crop failure, ensuring hunger, poverty and homelessness for millions of men, women and children in South Asia for some time (...)
read more, comments... Swollen rivers still threaten millions of Chinese lives
By : Xinhua - Friday July 27, 2007 27/7/2007 9:55 Continuous rainstorms have continued to raise the water levels of many rivers across China, putting the lives of millions of people at risk and causing huge economic losses. The water level of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river has continued to rise quickly with many sections exceeding the danger line. Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is on high alert as the level of the Hanjiang river, a main tributary of the Yangtze that (...)
read more, comments... Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurie
By : Johan - Wednesday June 20, 2007 World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurier 20 June 2007 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author For more than 30 years, residents of Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, were exposed to contaminated water. From 1957 to 1987, Marines/Naval personnel, family members and civilians drank and used water (...)
read more, comments... The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
By : Ann - Tuesday June 12, 2007 The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 11 June 2007 America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still. From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which (...)
read more, comments... Asia’s river systems face collapse
By : Alan Boyd - Friday March 23, 2007 Asia’s river systems face collapse By Alan Boyd Water in the Indus River is so clouded that the native dolphin has in effect lost its eyesight and has to detect prey and other objects through sound waves. More than half of all the industrial waste and sewage in China flows into a single waterway, the Yangtze. And tributaries of the Ganges, one of Asia’s greatest cultural and religious treasures, are running dry because of the crippling burden of irrigation. Such has been the (...)
read more, comments... Water shortages may affect two-thirds of World by 2025, UN Says
By : pakistan - Thursday February 15, 2007 UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 15 (APP): Two-thirds of the world’s population may be living in areas where there are water shortages by 2025... http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?...
read more, comments... Israel’s Aquifer that provides 20% of water could become unusable
By : Zafrir Rinat, - Saturday February 10, 2007 Israel’s Aquifer that provides 20% of water could become unusable 09/02/2007 By Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent One of Israel’s three sources for fresh water, the coastal aquifer, is in danger of becoming unusable because of contamination, according to data collected by the Water Authority and the Health Ministry. The data shows that over the past decade, 160 wells were shut down (because of various kinds of contamination) from an overall figure of 1,000 wells, which (...)
read more, comments... We Can Stop Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis
By : obie - Monday October 9, 2006 Iraq is Having a Humanitarian Crisis! - What We Must Do The situation in Iraq is a full blown humanitarian crisis. Water and food supplies are either foul or insufficient. Lack of sanitation has produced an environment that supports disease. The people suffer from cold, heat, lack of light, clean water and food. Their medical system is in desperate need of medical supplies and clean, safe facilities. Since the US invasion, 3 1/2 years ago, they have lived the trauma of a 9/11 (...)
read more, comments... Canada fights to keep its water
By : Linda Duffin - Thursday September 14, 2006 Canada fights to keep its water By Linda Duffin Business Reporter, BBC World Service, Calgary, Canada One country has abundant fresh water, far more than it needs. Across the border there is simply not enough and it has yet to find a solution to the problem. This is the situation Canada and the US find themselves in. Canada has, by some estimates, up to 20% of the world’s fresh water supplies and only 0.5% of the world’s population. You would think there would be (...)
read more, comments... Israel’s Water Wars
By : Jason Godesky - Saturday August 19, 2006 Israel’s Water Wars Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 by Jason Godesky The stated rationale for Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was nonsense. Ostensibly, Israel invaded Lebanon because Hizb’allah captured two IDF soldiers that violated the Lebanese border.1 Later reports in Western media were changed so that Hizb’allah was entering Israel in an unprovoked attack; this is the generally understood scenario in the West, though it conflicts with the original reports and Lebanese (...)
read more, comments... China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
By : china - Monday August 14, 2006 China drought leaves 17 million without water -media 13 Aug 2006 04:03:41 GMT Source: Reuters BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - About 17 million people in southwest China don’t have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday. Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of 9.23 billion yuan ($1.15 billion), the Beijing News and (...)
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