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The solutions to curbing Canada's global warming emissions are available, and ready to go, but politicians are in the way. Even at this late date, as climate change effects are being seen all around us, Canada's emissions continue increase. We could have at least stabilised them by now.... For...

Full Version of White House "Edited" CDC Climate Report - with highlights! - http://tinyurl.com/ytxa3u The full report from last week on the health effects of global warming and climate change [GW/cc] is there at that link , with all the RED being what was edited OUT by the White House...

this in news from CNBC - Now that our PM Harper has shown his "can't do" attitude towards Kyoto, I guess this will include Canada. Karlin link to story at CNBC [it was also on Yahoo news] - http://www.cnbc.com/id/21484265/for/cnbc

Canada's exports to the E.U. could be hit with a special tax to punish the nations that have not met Kyoto targets. This could mean problems for some manufacturers and exporters. Of course, it is somewhat confused by the fact that we, Canada, have signed on to Kyoto but then Harper...

"Trickle-up economics - The rich are getting richer — and we're all helping" http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=508 K - Tax cuts might sound good, but actually they are putting the poorer Canadians further behind: The richest Canadians taxes dropped by 11%, but for the rest of...

Weapons Left By US Troops 'Used as Bait to Kill Iraqis' By Kim Sengupta - October 4, 2007 US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by scattering military equipment on the ground as "bait", and then shooting those who pick them up, it has been alleged at a court martial. The highly...

Oil at $87 and rising - still no alternative energy I remember that we understood that as the price of oil went higher it was going to be balanced out against alternative energy becoming more affordable The high price of oil was supposed to [hoped to] make alternative energy more...

"Hurt People Hurt People" is a saying that means the afflicted, abused, and damaged among us tend to hurt other people. Maybe it is 'all they know', or some kind of retribution, but violence in our world could be reduced if we had some way to reach out to them before they do hurt someone...

The news has a constant stream of advice for pregnant women to eat more fish, but then there are the warnings about the dangers from mercury in fish - especially ocean fish, and especially canned tuna. Canned tuna is the cheapest way to get fish into the diet. Pregnant women are often young, in...

The oil and gas corporations operating in Alberta have been getting windfall profits out of the publicly owned resources there, due to the higher oil and gas market prices. The energy department workers had been screaming for higher royalties for several years, since about 2003, but the Energy...

The reality of the US War on Terror, and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is well stated in the article at Alternet called - The Mega-Lie Called the "War on Terror": A Masterpiece of Propaganda" http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63632/ Bush is using his last year in power to shovel money...

Well sticky, can we talk climate change here? Move it if you like.... ----------------- http://tinyurl.com/38exhn The BC premier announced plans to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by 33% below current levels by 2020, promising it will be legistlated to be done. Thats fantastic, putting...

It seems that the conservative media has spun Iranian President Dr. Ahmadinejad into a wildeyed warmonger bent on destroying all things Jewish and American. I have heard him state that he only has issues with the leadership and military aggressions of those two nations. I have also heard him say...

I recieved an e-mail from a distraught mother who claims that her son's high school is demanding that student's personal info is given to the USA military. This sounds like preparations for a draft eh? I would not like this to happen in Canada, and I would dispute that any "free nation" would...

Mainstream medicine does not like the helpfull substances that cannot be patented - not as much profits to be made from them - and so there is an effort to malign all the products that use naturally occuring substances, no matter how effective they are. Colloidal Silver [CS] is one of those...

No War, No Warming, Rise Up! [By Ted Glick] http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091907O.shtml FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT WARS FOR OIL: http://www.nowarnowarming.org/ This humanist movement is resonating with people more and more. Supporters of it see climate change as a very real threat, much...

Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece K - it is good to hear someone 'important' tell it like it is. So many Americans still believe that invading Iraq had something to do with 9/11 or the War on Terror. Or, that...

Animal rights go beyond the animals - consider the effect we have on ourselves when we subject other living creatures to pain. To do so devalues life, and that might rub off onto relations between people [if thats our only concern]. Ya ya, call me idealistic, but whats the alternative to...

Dr. David Doidge wrote a brilliant book that is easily understandable despite the scientific nature of the topic - our brain. It is called "The Brain That Changes Itself" . He starts out with an example of a miraculous bit of science that helped a woman overcome the loss of here balance...

Not everyone likes to listen to opera music, but to say you do not feel some emotion when Pavoratti sings, when he hits the high notes... is like saying you do not feel wet when in the shower, or that you do not feel warm when standing in the hot sun. We human beings are capable of things...