"PEOPLE OF PRIVILEGE WILL
ALWAYS RISK
THEIR COMPLETE DESTRUCTION
RATHER THAN SURRENDER ANY
MATERIAL PART OF THEIR ADVANTAGE"

John Kenneth Galbraith
"MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL
FOR WHOM HIS EXISTENCE
IS A PROBLEM
WHICH HE HAS TO SOLVE"

Erich Fromm



Because the wars over oil will be nothing compared to the wars
over water.
There are so many for whom there is no access to clean water and there are some people (and I DON'T mean the World Bank)
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/1339_WorldBankWater.htm
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30902
http://www.citizen.org/documents/IMFandWorldBankWaterPoliciesUnderminePubHealth.pdf
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/31/another_wolf_for_the_world_bank.php
trying to address the problem but the big money is on waiting for
and then exploiting disaster of epic global proportions.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/
http://www.publici.net/water/default.aspx?act=ch&nsid=Introduction
And stop drinking that damned bottled water!
http://www.fwwatch.org/water/bottled

Go Organic you say?
http://www.peacecouncil.net/pnl/03/718/718CorporateTakeover.htm Act locally, think globally. Problem is if you live in NYC as I do most food is going to be trucked in from somewhere. There are just so many farmer's markets. Hard to know what to do, isn't it?
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL307287420070531
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/focus/story/0,,961349,00.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm
http://www.iatp.org/

And if you think Big Pharm isn't trying to take away your herbs, homeopathic remedies and vitamins, think again my friend.
http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/nocodexgenocide.html
http://www.newstarget.com/020345.html
There's an online mag called New Scientist which has articles on rice with human genes, pigs that bear spinach genes and my personal favorite...goats that produce spider silk! And let's not forget about cow cloning.
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/CloningRA_ChapterI.htm
Waaaaht?
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/scientists-say-cloning.html
Oh, OK
But no stem cell research or National health plan for you missy!
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/snow-veto-ii/
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/11/rush_judgement.html


Here's a horribly wonderful book
"Trust Us We're Experts"
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
2001 Tarcher/Putnam
Find more of them here
http://www.prwatch.org

*ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL YOU KNOW WHAT*

This one's good too
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
by Jared Diamond
2005 Viking

The Class Action Fairness Act
Ha,ha,ha You've gotta love what they name these things
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2005/02/12/class_action/index.html
AND yes of course it was signed into law.

And Bill Mckibben's always great
http://www.billmckibben.com/index.html




"Boiling Point"
by Ross Gelbspan
2004 Basic Books
http://www.heatison.org/main.cfm

US opposes G8 climate proposals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6694227.stm
Wow...surprise, surprise
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/01/MNG2LQ5NMM1.DTL
Every time you read about someone nay saying global warming
like this guy...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1947248,00.html
...check this list
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.php
And if you haven't had the dubious luck of seeing these commercials
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/05/co2_we_call_it.php
And the man who coined the phrase? You know him, you...
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705?printable=true&currentPage=all
None the less, just in case...don't forget to adjust those investments
http://www.ft.com/cms/s//193150ea-f1ce-11db-b5b6-000b5df10621.html

Here's a great website I just discovered
http://www.solartopia.org







Deregulate the corporations and privatize basic services? Regulate and control personal autonomy?


 

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