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  1. Karlin

    Hottest Year - Climate Change

    K - Here are a few startling facts that will help keep our priorities straight, and for any lingering doubts as to global warming reality. ----------------- There is more -{ " in the Palaeocene epoch, which caused a massive reduction in life...."} here...
  2. Karlin

    Global Warming - Wind Farm Killed by US Congress

    http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/121505EC.shtml A great start, a certain reduction in greenhouse gasses emissions. Economically sound, profitable, less intrustion than oil rigs. This viable project that would be the kind of answer we need to slow global warming, the biggest threat to our...
  3. Karlin

    Health Canada bans Bextra

    - http://tinyurl.com/7k95k "cox-2 inhibitors" - they are all the same in their deadly ability to cause heart attacks and stroke, no study or results from the field has shown any difference. Celebrex, Vioxx, Bextra... cox-2 inhibitors. Vioxx has killed more people than the other two...
  4. Karlin

    Harper's GST at 5% - not until 2011 ??

    According to "the Rick Mercer Report", the GST cut that Harper is proposing won't come into effect until 2011. Where else can I get honest news from? That will be AFTER the NEXT 2 Elections, so if Harper gets in now, he will have to win a second election before this cut takes place, because if...
  5. Karlin

    Day Care is for KIDS!!

    This election issue has the core of political values attached to it - social, corporate, etc. The kids need a decent place to spend the day. We've neatly arranged things so a lot of Moms and Dads go to work and are not there to take care of the kids, but somehow the cost of kidcare is...
  6. Karlin

    Corporate Looting of Iraq

    "Executives from ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and Halliburton and Iraqi expatriate conmen, described in the West as Iraqi "technocrats," have reached a deal to carve-up Iraqi oil, despite opposition from Iraqi oil workers and union leaders" "Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration...
  7. Karlin

    Burning Question -garbage

    When my neighbor sets his burning barrel alight with garbage - including plastics - I wonder if I have a right to go into his yard and fill it with snow, to put it out. Clearly, I would be trespassing. Clearly also is the smoke pall covering the town, well beyond the borders of his yard...
  8. Karlin

    Green Party ?

    From what I heard, the leader Jim Harris of the Greens is an ex-corporate hump, and an ex-Conservative Party member. he is said to be "not much of a policy guy", but is good at organising people. Some of the Green's most important members have quit the party, citing differences with the...
  9. Karlin

    Iraqi Ministry - Our Monsters In Iraq

    note on title - {America's monsters that is, not "ours"] K - Good and honorable Iraqis who would create a stable and prosperous Iraq for all its citizens, Shia and Sunnis alike... are totally kept out of the loop of power there. Bad ones, the Iraqis who will help the USA...
  10. Karlin

    Sweet Misery - Aspartame turns to formaldehyde in body

    Ok, so maybe its just people wanting to get at Donald Rumsfeld, that warmonger from America. Apparently, he has major holdings in the company with the patent for Aspartame. But if it is true, and I lean to that side, then it will help to be aware of the reports of dangers of Aspartame...
  11. Karlin

    Montreal Global Warming summit - agreement

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4515898.stm Well its not much is it? America continues to be a Fossil Fool, but even they are agreeing to move ahead with non-binding targets. We can have some hopoe that the USA, and its corporations, will "just do it" without singing anything...
  12. Karlin

    Health Implications of Junkfood and Kids

    http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/120705HA.shtml The evidence does show advertising causes children to eat more high-calorie foods and that television viewing in general is linked to weight problems for children and teens. The new report by the National Academy of Sciences is considered...
  13. Karlin

    Harper: "Global Warming? -wait for China and India...&a

    "'Wait". Thats the conservative answer to global warming. Funny how close that is to the AMERICAN attitude towards global warming. Harper and Bush are both deniers of the scope of the problem, and of the urgency of action needed to combat global warming. Yesterday on TV, Candidate...
  14. Karlin

    Nobel Prize for Literature blasts Bush and Blair

    K - I am glad to see some more support for arresting Bush, and Blair too sure why not. You may remember I said Canada should be the one to arrest Bush if he steps into Canada again. Pinter lists the dictators the USA has installed: "... Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti...
  15. Karlin

    Ozone hole optomism

    What this article does not mention is that BROMIDE is still being produced and used in the USA , in HUGE quantities. Bromide is another Ozone depleting chemical, and used in fertilizer. NOTE to Consumers, and People who eat Food - go organic, and you won't be supporting the industries that...
  16. Karlin

    New York gets Venezuela cheap oil

    New York gets Venezuela cheap oil http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4505936.stm Is it a jab at Bush by Chavez, the people's hero of Venezuela? Or is it more, something about bringing down this 'artificially high' price of oil these days? Remember the stories about refineries being...
  17. Karlin

    Chavez people's Hero - election Sabotage

    Intro - Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela : Hugo Chavez is the leader of Venezuela, and he is "a man for the average poor people" there. Elites get no quarter with this guy, which makes him the hero of many around the world. Chavez stands up to Bush and American imperialsim and to the...
  18. Karlin

    Saddam Trial - Gen.Ramsey Clarke defends Saddam

    Gen. Ramsey Clarke, former general in the USA army, takes the defense stand for Saddam. He has been 'smeared' with the LEFTIST label by western media, as if that would throw a bad light on his choice to defend Saddam. Not to me... His presence there cannot be a comfort to BushCo's United...
  19. Karlin

    American fugitive - Corporate crime

    "former CEO Warren Anderson is a fugitive from the law" : http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20051202.dv.html Today, former CEO Warren Anderson is a fugitive from the law. Wanted on charges of manslaughter, he has students, nuns, investors, and an enraged fisherwoman from Texas...
  20. Karlin

    Global Warming - scientific consensus - media misled us

    http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec05/Adams1202.htm [I found a new news outlet!] The propoaganda that led the public to believe that global warming is not real is guilty of conspiracy in the greatest crime of all time against the planet earth. By definition, a "scientific consensus on...