OpEdNews - Diary: WHO'S FUNDING GLOBAL WARMING

Find out which banks are part of the problem, and which are part of the solution, in the fight against Iran from the Bush White House and the neocons is just the latest installment of a long-term plan for another preemptive war.

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... Who's Funding Global Warming? By Tara Lohan, AlterNet Find out which banks are part of the problem, and which are part of the solution, in the fight against Iran from the Bush White House and the neocons is just the latest installment of a long-term plan for another preemptive war. http://snipurl.com/1a0av -----

Vegetarian Is the New Prius By Kathy Freston, HuffingtonPost.com Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal. http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47668/ -----

ExxonMobil's War on Science By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HuffingtonPost.com With an elaborate network of phony think tanks and slick public relations firms, ExxonMobil has become today's Big Tobacco, defrauding the public and waging a war on science. http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47371/ -----

For Neocons, an Attack on Iran Has Been a Six-Year Project Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story The escalation of war rhetoric against Iran from the Bush White House and the neocons is just the latest installment of a long-term plan for another preemptive war. --- The Media Escalates Its Lies about Iran ... David Swanson, davidswanson.org MediaCulture: Reporters from the New York Times and others are trying to convince us that this time around, we can trust the U.S. intelligence community's evidence of Iran's bad intentions, but where is the evidence? http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47924/ _________________________________

[NEWSDISSECTOR] MEDIA DEBACLE IN WASHINGTON http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/02/12/obama-is-off-and-running-hard/ _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net Is Barack Obama really the "anti-war" candidate? No, he's not. Excerpt: "... unlike Clinton, who actually cast a 'yea' vote in 2002 authorizing Bush's invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama was not yet a Senator. Had he been in the Senate, would he have voted no? We have only his word on that. A look at Obama's actual record hints that he may not be as anti-war, or even as liberal, as the public assumes. For example, an exhaustive Harper's profile: http://www.harpers.org/BarackObamaInc.html entitled "Barack Obama Inc." reveals that Sen. Obama supported Joe Lieberman over the clearly anti-war Ned Lamont, both with a personal endorsement and with money from his "leadership" PAC. That same PAC --the Hopefund-- donated $10,000 to Tammy Duckworth in her primary battle with the vocal war opponent, Christine Cigelas. Duckworth squeaked out the primary win, but lost in the general election. As a Senator, Obama's record on the war is tepid at best: "Since taking office, Obama has become far more measured in his position. After Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha called for withdrawal from Iraq last fall, Obama rejected such a move in a speech before the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, saying the United States needed 'to manage our exit in a responsible way-with the hope of leaving a stable foundation for the future.' " In 2007, Sen. Obama voted against : http://snipurl.com/19ynu, a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. In that same speech: http://snipurl.com/19ynz, to the Council on Foreign Relations, which I watched on C-SPAN, Obama said that the military played an important role in Iraq. He called for a "...more effective counter-insurgency strategy.. [to] take steam out of the insurgency. ... I believe that U.S. forces are still a part of the solution in Iraq." How is that anti-war? Then there's his Hillary Clinton-like knee-jerk support for Israel: http://snipurl.com/19yo8 [snip] Continued: http://joesschool.blogs.com/olsononline/2006/12/is_barack_obama.html --- On YouTube.Com - Elizabeth Kucinich Speaks Out http://snipurl.com/19yly --- Time to change culture that makes astronauts crack Inner human turmoil is not indigenous to a particular profession, i.e., The Presidency. By Homer Hickam Excerpt: As a training manager, I was aware that many astronauts felt as if they were powerless, stressed-out peons within the organization. I observed their daily competition with one another to get a seat into space. In many cases, this trial by fire changed enthusiastic young astronauts into bureaucratic combatants with warped personalities and shaken confidence. For a long time, I also have been aware of the corrosive resentment many NASA engineers and scientists feel toward the astronauts. The astronauts have a sense of entitlement, and what they want, they get - or so it seems. I was in a meeting once in which an astronaut with only a few years of NASA experience constantly interrupted and belittled a 20-year space engineering veteran. [snip] Full article: http://snipurl.com/19ym8 --- Cars That Run On Water : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGaraPrEo8 _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org Greg Mitchell | "NYT" Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Highlights Iran Claims http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207L.shtml "Saturday's New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the 'deadliest weapon aimed at American troops' in Iraq.... What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than 'civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies.' Sound pretty convincing? It may be worth noting that the author is Michael R. Gordon, the same Times reporter who, on his own, or with Judith Miller, wrote some of the key, and badly misleading or downright inaccurate, articles about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the 2003 invasion," writes Greg Mitchell. --- Michael Schwartz | Baghdad Surges Into Hell http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207F.shtml Michael Schwartz writes: "The 'surge' strategy was actually initiated one day before the speech was even given - in an offensive on Baghdad's Haifa Street that briefly dominated the headlines." --- Veterans Face Consecutive Budget Cuts http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207T.shtml The Bush administration plans to cut funding for veterans' health care two years from now - even as badly wounded troops returning from Iraq could overwhelm the system. --- Iran Tempted to Suspend Nuclear Activity; US Could Provoke War http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207G.shtml Liberation reports possible Russian diplomatic success in persuading Tehran to stand down on nuclear enrichment; while Reporterre highlights the most damning of Zbigniew Brzezinski's recent statements before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. --- Dissent Takes Center Stage at the Grammys http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207H.shtml The Dixie Chicks got the last laugh Sunday night. "Not Ready to Make Nice," the group's defiant answer to the angry country fans who'd criticized the group for criticizing Bush, won song of the year, the industry's top songwriting award. "I am, for the first time in my life, speechless," Natalie Maines said. Earlier, the protest singer Joan Baez had introduced the Dixie Chicks as "three brave women who are still not ready to make nice." --- Bush's Budget Alarms Safety Advocates http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021207WA.shtml Buried inside President Bush's 2008 budget resolution released last week is a provision that would shift control over how anti-violence programs are funded from the legislative to the executive branch. The provision would give the Department of Justice, rather than Congress, discretion over how to spend federal dollars earmarked to combat domestic violence and sexual assault. --- Libby Trial Sheds Light on White House http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207N.shtml Sworn testimony in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has shone a spotlight on White House attempts to sell a gone-wrong war in Iraq to the nation and Vice President Dick Cheney's aggressive role in the effort. --- Jason Leopold | Wolfowitz Emerges as Key Figure in Intel Manipulation http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207A.shtml --- Pincus Reveals Fleischer as Leak Source http://snipurl.com/1a0df --- Report: Cheney Snubbing Japan Official Over Anti-War Remarks http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207C.shtml Vice President Dick Cheney will not meet with Japan's defense minister during his trip to the country next week, a decision Japanese media characterized as a snub over the official calling the US-led invasion of Iraq a "mistake." --- The New York Times | Passing the Buck on Health Care http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207O.shtml The New York Times writes: "President Bush's new budget would extend the administration's warped priorities deep into the realm of federally supported health care programs. The administration long ago sacrificed any meaningful domestic agenda to finance tax cuts for the wealthy and its reckless war in Iraq. The White House's reckless determination to make the tax cuts permanent is now driving it to slash domestic spending in health and other vital programs." --- Told to Wait, a Marine Dies http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207P.shtml Jonathan, an Iraq war veteran with two Purple Hearts, neatly packed his US Marine Corps duffel bag with his sharply creased clothes, a framed photo of his new baby girl, and a leather-bound Bible and headed out from the family farm for a 75-mile drive to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Family and friends had convinced him at last that the devastating mental wounds he brought home from war, wounds that triggered severe depression, violent outbursts, and eventually an uncontrollable desire to kill himself, could not be drowned in alcohol or treated with the array of anti-anxiety drugs he'd been prescribed. He wanted to be admitted to a psychiatric ward. But, he was told that the clinician who prescreened cases like his was unavailable. --- Budget Slates Education, Health Programs for Hefty Cutbacks http://snipurl.com/1a0ds --- William Fisher | Jim Crow Remembered http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207J.shtml William Fisher writes: "...I was a cub reporter for a newspaper in Central Florida - then known as the state's Bible Belt. One of my beats was what my managing editor called 'C&C' - cops and courts. They gave me the grand title of Bureau Chief and sent me twenty miles away to the county seat. There, covering the local police, the county sheriff and the county court offered an eye-opening - and terrifying - glimpse into the abyss of the Jim Crow South. For a young Yankee reporter from New York, it was a never-to-be-forgotten education." --- GOP Expects Defections as House Debates Iraq Resolution http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207M.shtml Three days of intense debate over the Iraq war begins in the House today, with Democrats planning to propose a narrowly worded rebuke of President Bush's troop buildup and Republicans girding for broad defections on their side. --- Colonel Ann Wright (Retired) | Watada Follows Military Rules on Dissent http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207S.shtml --- $25 Million Offered in Climate Challenge http://snipurl.com/1a0dm --- Environmentalists Rally to Stop New Coal-Fired Plants http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021207EB.shtml Carrying signs with slogans of "Stop the Coal Rush" and "Shame on Texas," about 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Sunday to call for lawmakers to slow down a plan to build up to eighteen new coal-fired power plants. Environmentalists fear the new plants will pump millions of tons of pollutants into the air every year. _________________________________

...NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 Bombs "The whole time you're hearing boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I think I know an explosion when I hear it" Prison Planet | February 10, 2007 ... Paul Joseph Watson http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/nypd_officer_heard_building_7_bombs.htm _________________________________

Lunar Eclipse NASA Science News Mark your calendar: On March 3, 2007, the Moon will turn red during a total lunar eclipse visible from parts of all seven continents, including the eastern half of the United States. FULL STORY at http://snipurl.com/1a050 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! _________________________________ http://www.radio4all.net | http://www.wolfbritain.com | http://www.antiwar.com _________________________________ ****** Forget about some money? ****** I'm good about watching where my money goes. After all, I worked hard to earn it. So I don't let much of it slip past me. I check for unclaimed property regularly with the state of Arizona. See, each state keeps a database of unclaimed property. The unclaimed property can come from a variety of places. It could come from a forgotten bank account, royalties, utility deposits or other places. NAUPA (National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators what a mouthful!) provides links to states' databases of unclaimed property. Enter your name to see if you have a little cash awaiting you. And don't forget to check regularly! TO VISIT TODAY'S COOL SITE, GO HERE: http://www.unclaimed.org Be sure to listen to me Monday through Friday. Use my map to find me near you http://www.komando.com/listen/index.aspx _________________________________ eHEALTHY NEWS Speak to Attract Life's Riches - The words and phrases you use may be the reason you are unhappy and in debt. Learn how to speak to change your life. http://snipurl.com/19zav ----- Fish Oil, Exercise Keep the Weight Off - A daily dose of fish oil combined with exercise could be your quick ticket to weight loss. http://snipurl.com/19zb0 ----- Stay Away From This Common Breakfast to Avoid Stomach Cancer - Forty years' worth of research indicates a strong and clear link between these breakfast foods and cancer. http://snipurl.com/19zb4 _________________________________ Korean Madness | Korean TV | 2 min 31 sec - Jan 23, 2006 This video shows some weird korean girl singing and dancing in a TV karaoke show http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=168357023475999650 _________________________________ NationalGeographic.com http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/ _________________________________ NASA Astronomy picture of the day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html _________________________________ Submitted by: http://eddiestinson@gmail.com

A George Carlin New Rule for 2007: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the U.S. Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They're already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show." _________________________________ Link to: Diane's News Clips http://www.opednews.com/author/author2300.html?entry=