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ALMOST four million British homes face being flooded because of global warming. Government scientific advisers warned yesterday of "devastating" damage unless drastic action is taken to combat rising water levels. And they said people's health could be at risk from sewage pollution as Victorian drainage systems in cities crumble under the pressure of persistent and heavy downpours. The cost of water damage would rise from £1billion a year to £21billion by 2080 and the number of homes at risk of river and coastal flooding would leap from 1.6million to 3.6million, said a report by the experts. Chief Scientific Adviser Sir...

The health of millions of children worldwide is threatened by global warming and air pollution. The world's poorest kids are at highest risk, experts say, of getting caught in a growing asthma epidemic. In a report released Thursday, researchers at the Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment said the warming global climate is releasing more allergens into the air. Once floating in the sky, the allergens combine with pollutants such as ozone and soot, resulting in a recipe for a health crisis. "The combination of air pollutants, aeroallergens, heat waves and unhealthy air masses -- increasingly...

The global warming scam The British government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, has said that global warming is a more serious threat to the world than terrorism. His remarks are utter balderdash from start to finish and illustrate the truly lamentable decline of science into ideological propaganda. Sir David says the Bush administration should not dismiss global warming because: 1) the ten hottest years on record started in 1991 2) sea levels are rising 3) ice caps are melting and 4) the 'causal link' between man-made emissions and global warming is well established. Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong....

PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION TAKES PILGRIM FAMILY CASE TO THE NINTH CIRCUIT The Sierra Times PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE ASKS COURT TO AFFIRM THE RIGHTS OF ALASKANS TO ACCESS FEDERAL LANDS SAN FRANCISCO, CA; December 24, 2003: Pacific Legal Foundation filed an emergency motion and notice of appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday in a highly publicized case that pits an Alaska wilderness family against the National Park Service. PLF is asking the court to grant the Pilgrim family emergency access to the only viable road to their property, which the Park Service closed last April. The case has precedent-setting...

THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGEAs independent scientists concerned with atmospheric and climate problems, we -- along with many of our fellow citizens -– are apprehensive about emission targets and timetables adopted at the Climate Conference held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. This gathering of politicians from some 160 signatory nations aims to impose on citizens of the industrialized nations, -- but not on others -- a system of global environmental regulations that include quotas and punitive taxes on energy fuels to force substantial cuts in energy use within 10 years, with further cuts to follow. Stabilizing...

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY New York, 23 September 2003Koffee Annon*snip*I respectfully suggest to you, Excellencies, that in the eyes of your peoples the difficulty of reaching agreement does not excuse your failure to do so. If you want the Council’s decisions to command greater respect, particularly in the developing world, you need to address the issue of its composition with greater urgency. But the Security Council is not the only institution that needs strengthening. As you know, I am doing my best to make the Secretariat more effective – and I look to this Assembly to support...

Saving the Selva Maya Sunday, June 29, 2003, By JIM WRIGHT Editor's note: As part of his research for a book, Editorial Writer Jim Wright made several recent trips to the tropical forest in Belize, where until a few weeks ago a smoky haze often clouded the skies. WHAT IS THE SELVA MAYA?The Selva Maya consists of mostly contiguous jungle in three Central American nations: Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize. The three nations have created biosphere reserves, national parks, and other conservation areas to protect the jungle, conduct scientific research, and seek sustainable development. Guatemala has the 5-million-acre Maya Biosphere Reserve.Mexico's...

Sharon Votaw April 21, 2003 My husband and I bought some farmland in the California Delta over 30 years ago. This is prime agricultural land with deep, rich soils, ample water and a long growing season. In the beginning we would plant a crop; either beans or tomatoes or alfalfa, hay, wheat, corn, oats or barley. Then we hoped for favorable weather and a strong market. Farming has always been gambler’s choice. Some years were good and some years were lean, but we paid our bills and enjoyed life. Unbeknownst to us, in the early 1990’s the government again became...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Farmers are mailing parcels of sheep and cow manure to lawmakers to protest a so-called "flatulence" tax on greenhouse gas emissions from their flocks and herds, the New Zealand's postal service complained Tuesday. The service said about 20 reeking packages and envelopes had been sent to the nation's Parliament and that the protest - dubbed the "Raise a Stink" campaign - was endangering the health of postal workers. Farmers are angry that the government has levied the tax to raise 8 million New Zealand dollars (US$4.7 million) a year - about 300 New Zealand dollars (US$177)...

LAW OF THE LAND Justice: Can Constitution make it in global age? On TV, Breyer wonders whether it will 'fit into governing documents of other nations' Posted: July 7, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In a rare appearance on a television news show, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer questioned whether the U.S. Constitution, the oldest governing document in use in the world today, will continue to be relevant in an age of globalism. Speaking with ABC News' "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos and his colleague Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Breyer took issue with Justice Antonin Scalia, who,...

With a cast of characters including a former prime minister, some of the richest executives in France and Germany, Paris' biggest-ever corporate crime trial continued this week with 37 defendants in the dock. France's largest-ever corporate corruption trial resumed in Paris this week with more drama than your average Mexican soap opera. The case offered further tales of illicit backroom dealing, a €5 million divorce settlement tab picked up by French taxpayers and allegations that a former French prime minister accepted bribes in connection with a string of acquisitions made by the state-owned French oil conglomerate Elf Aquitane in the...

Glad to hear that George Bush is still lukewarm on the United Nations. It appears that the age of bending over for this crowd of quasi-legitimate, whining third-rate bullies is fast drawing to a close. The sooner the better, for the Third World especially, since you and I can dodge the UN quite well thanks. So to George W., I say, let them hand out food and organize medical aid. Anything else? You do it, you're competent. And for heaven's sake, if there are Canadians begging to be included, like I don't know, say, Stephen Lewis, how about a nice...

(Excerpts from the Washington Post) A few months ago, Jay Garner was leading a quiet and very comfortable life in an upscale Orlando suburb not far from Disney World. Today, the retired three-star general has one of the most high-profile jobs in the world: launching the U.S. attempt to rebuild Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Named by the Pentagon to head reconstruction efforts in Iraq, the former military troubleshooter won high marks for running a very successful humanitarian relief operation in northern Iraq after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But he has also stirred controversy, particularly in the...

Peter Jennings interviewing Hans Blix doesn't ask Blix about missiles already fired by Iraq. He does ask Blix if he thinks Iraq has wmd's. Blix says yes.

<p>SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Researchers at a government-funded science organization are investigating the possibility of burying up to 1 million metric tons (1.1 million tons) of carbon dioxide to help solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.</p> <p>Carbon dioxide is among the gasses emitted by burning fossil fuels that are blamed for global warming.</p>

<p>It's a wonder President Bush even puts forth the effort.</p> <p>His administration proposes changes to the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program, and Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., calls it a "gift to polluters," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., calls for EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman to resign, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., goes Lieberman one better and says, "we don't just need a new EPA administrator, we need a new president." Of course, all three would like to be that new president.</p>

  THE U.N. PLAN FOR GLOBAL CONTROL The Habitat II Agenda by Berit Kjos Bicycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? Community rituals instead of churches? "Human rights" instead of religious freedom? The UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) which met June 3-14 in Istanbul, painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways-free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity-are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Handpicked civil leaders will implement UN "laws", bypassing state and national representatives to work...

Clinton talks on the global economy at N.Y.U. Former President Bill Clinton called on an audience of students to prepare for a future when America will no longer be "the biggest dog on the street" at the keynote address Tuesday of a New York University forum on globalization. The current globalized world is not sustainable economically, politically or from a security vantage point, Clinton said at the second annual conference co-sponsored by New York University and the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. Clinton spoke to an audience of about 450 students and guests. "On Sept. 11, 2001, members of...

Bush administration ready to approve drilling inside national park... Developing...

The Space Gen team participated in the Sept 9-12th 2002 UN/ESA Enhancing the Participation of Youth in Space Conference this week in Austria. At that event a number of youth delegates from around the world felt compelled to join together and speak out against the growing inertia in the US to put weapons in space. Here is their declaration: The Graz Declaration For Peace in Space (MS Word RTF format)12 September 2002 The US government is now planning to put weapons in space. This threatens the precious peace of space, and demands a response from the people of the world....

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Quenching the planet's growing thirst will be a gigantic task, with some experts warning that whole regions are in danger of drying up with catastrophic consequences for their impoverished populations. Water was the focus of the Earth Summit on Wednesday, with developing countries pushing for a global target on sanitation to complement the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without access to clean drinking water by 2015. South Africa is leading the charge to have a similar target hammered out for sanitation, but there is opposition on this score, notably from the United...

The IMF, boat people and a better way Lawrence Minard, 04.06.98 A great deal has been written about the International Monetary Fund in the past few months. So why offer more, as we do in this issue? Because most of the coverage has accepted the IMF's opinion that it must take on ever bigger and more expensive responsibilities to supervise the world economy. Globaloney, say our three contributors to the debate. Each looks at the IMF from a different perspective, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Forbes Global Deputy Editor Nigel Holloway, who covered the world's financial markets for 18...

Globalists are maneuvering America into a merger with the rest of the Western Hemisphere via "free trade" agreements. Their goal, as with the EU, is regional government. > America is being hijacked, but the hijackers don't go by names like Mohamed,t Omar, and Osama. The hijackers to whom we refer bear prominent names, such as Bush, Clinton, Kissinger, McLarty, Greenspan, Rubin, and Rockefeller. They don't use box cutters and bombs or commandeer airliners to create towering infernos; their weapons of choice are instruments such as the WTO, NAFTA, the IMF, and the FTAA. They hijack entire nations, stealing sovereignty and...

The Trial of Marwan Barghouti Louis Rene Beres When the victorious allied powers established a military tribunal at Nuremberg on August 8, 1945, they reaffirmed an ancient principle of law: Nullum Crimen Sine Poena - "No crime without a punishment." In 1946, this reaffirmation was codified at Principle I of the legally binding Nuremberg Principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment." These Nuremberg Principles, later formulated by the United Nations International Law Commission in 1950, stipulate: "Offenses against the peace and security of mankind... are crimes...

Please use this thread to make comments, jokes, jibes, jabs and jousts at the anti-American, anti-Semitic commies and fascists supporting Palestinian terrorism.

The good news about Oxfam International's new report on international trade and third world poverty is that it isn't a piece of completely thoughtless anti-capitalist, anti-American baloney. The study, titled "Rigged Rules and Double Standards," makes several important points about both the limits and potential of conventional trade liberalization to raise third world living standards. It's full of useful data as well. The bad news is that the study shows once again that Oxfam's agenda is not promoting balanced, realistic reforms of the global economy. Instead, the humanitarian organization continues to agitate for ever larger, better disguised international handouts for...

US dollar hegemony has got to go By Henry C K Liu There is an economics-textbook myth that foreign-exchange rates are determined by supply and demand based on market fundamentals. Economics tends to dismiss socio-political factors that shape market fundamentals that affect supply and demand. The current international finance architecture is based on the US dollar as the dominant reserve currency, which now accounts for 68 percent of global currency reserves, up from 51 percent a decade ago. Yet in 2000, the US share of global exports (US$781.1 billon out of a world total of $6.2 trillion) was only 12.3...

UNITED NATIONS: A new and potentially more powerful anti-terrorism measure, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, will come into force on Wednesday, after being ratified by more than the required 22 countries. The convention is aimed at impeding the flow of cash to terrorists by coordinated global action. Countries have to bring their national laws into agreement with the Convention's provisions and are expected to develop and implement mechanisms to meet the standards it sets out. For example, they must take measures that would allow "legal entities" to be held liable for actions taken by...

The debate about what to do to help poor countries is hampered by the politically correct pretense that all of them, with a little help, will or might succeed. In fact, this is not so. The two countries that include most of the world's really poor people -- China and India -- are both growing rapidly and even developing impressive high-tech industries. Both have done this without incurring unpayable foreign debts: Indeed, both have large gold and dollar reserves, China actually topping the world list in this respect. On the other side lie dozens of countries -- mainly, though not...

Powell Talks to Trilateral GroupBy VANESSA PALO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON(AP) — Between celebrating his 65th birthday and embarking on a trip to the Middle East, Secretary of State Colin Powell found an hour Saturday to outline U.S. diplomatic policy at the annual meeting of The Trilateral Commission. Characterizing Powell's private remarks, a senior member of the commission said he gave a ``commanding sense of U.S. diplomacy and the importance of its diplomatic role.'' Delivering unprepared and off-the-record remarks, the secretary gave a review of the problems facing the Western world and discussed some details of the Mideast tour, the...

<p>MADRID, Spain (AP) The predictions are almost cataclysmic: In 50 years, if trends continue, the number of people older than 60 will triple. Those 2 billion seniors would outnumber the world's youths.</p> <p>By 2150, one-third of the world's population would be older than 60.</p>

The Trilateral Commission — long viewed by critics and conspiracy theorists as a secret world-government-in-waiting — will begin its annual meeting today in Washington to discuss the future of the world's three main industrialized continents post-September 11. Under the chairmanship of former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, the conference will gather 250 political, business and academic leaders from Europe, North America and Japan, who will analyze the global response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States' foreign policy and the situation in the Middle East. "The running line at this meeting is definitely going, 'What do we do...

APRIL 20 IN WASHINGTON DC GATHER AT THE WHITE HOUSE @ 11 AM !!!! - come to the Ellipse, on the south side of the White House - SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE: - Mumia Abu-Jamal (taped message) - Fadia Rafeedi, representative of Palestinian youth - Elias Rashmawi, Free Palestine Alliance - Tariq Ali Pakistani playwright & author - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee - Ed Brown, Iman Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin?s (formerly H.Rap Brown) brother - Martin Espada, performance artist - Representative from Bayon USA (Filipino organization) - Macrina Cardenas, Mexico...

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday ridiculed efforts by rich nations to reduce global poverty, saying they were masters of a "genocidal" economic system that condemns billions to misery and deprivation. In a brief visit to a major U.N. aid summit, Castro said the West now lorded over the rest of the world because it had plundered entire continents during centuries of colonial rule. "The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history," a combative Castro said in an unusually short speech. The communist leader then excused himself...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. NORTHFIELD, Ill. (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc., the largest North American food maker, said it is cutting about 7,500 jobs as it folds cookie and cracker maker Nabisco into its operations. The job cuts, which had reached nearly 2,700 through early March, call for the payout of $373 million in cash for severance and related costs. So far, Kraft has spent about $74 million on those costs, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Thursday. Through December, Kraft employed 114,000 workers. Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft, the...

To many people, the thought of a global tax sends goose bumps down the spine. In mid-March the United Nations – in conjunction with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization – will host a global conference entitled, "Financing For Development" in Monterrey, Mexico. For the past seven years, the United Nations has been raising the idea of a global tax on an unofficial basis at numerous global conferences. My knowledge of a global tax goes back to 1994 when I covered my first United Nations meeting in Cairo. I went there for a ...

‘WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT ALL POLITICS –- IN OUR ERA -– IS GLOBAL, Following is the text of an address on 28 February by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: I would like to thank you for inviting me to be with you here today, and for honouring me in such a gracious way. I am particularly pleased to be recognized by this distinguished and venerable institution, which I understand was actually the first college chartered in the United States. To receive the Benjamin Rush Award for Humanistic Values in Corporate and Government Life is certainly ...

The logic of aggression is at work in Third World solidarity, and this has made it a continuation of the Cold War by other means. Being non-European is enough to put one on the side of right. Being European or being supported by a European power is enough to make one suspect. The bloody messes in banana republics, and butchery of political opposition and the dictatorial lunacy by their petty chieftains are all brushed aside. Such trifles will not restrain the progress of these peoples toward socialism. What seems criminal in Cuba, Angola, and Guinea has the real purpose of ...

The founding fathers, maybe Feb 26th 2002 From The Economist Global Agenda This week European notables launch what has been grandly dubbed the European Union's constitutional convention. The EU faces big challenges, not least enlargement to the east, that seem to demand a big overhaul. But winning agreement on these will not be easy. PAST it? Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has a riposte to those who say he is too old to preside over the European Union’s constitutional convention, which gets under way in Brussels on February 28th. He is 76; Benjamin Franklin was 81 when he played a leading role ...

Born Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor in 1948, crowned Prince of Wales in 1969, the future King George VII, as he will be known, has an abundance of titles reflecting his wealth and power. He is related to all of the royal houses of Europe and his lineage goes back to Charlemagne, the titular kings of Jerusalem and the ancient kingdoms of Persia and Babylon. Though the media has continued to paint Britain's Prince Charles as a polo-playing two-timer, his long list of accomplishments include musician, recognized painter, horseman, man of war and businessman. He holds the rank of ...

This could be the year This could be the year © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com This may be the year from which there is no turning back. Global governance advocates have been relentlessly advancing their agenda for a generation. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, their progress has been astounding. Most of the recommendations of the Commission on Global Governance are nearing implementation. The events scheduled to occur this year may push the world beyond the point of no return. The Euro became the coin-of-the-realm for 12 European countries on January 1. Ten years in the making, this event homogenizes the ...

Consolidating his efforts to make globalization work for the world's people, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will convene next Tuesday a meeting of senior business executives, international labour leaders and civil society activists who together will comprise the new Advisory Council for the Global Compact - an initiative which promotes action in support of internationally agreed principles on human rights, labour rights and the environment. The Secretary-General decided to form the Advisory Council - the first governing body in UN history to bring together activists and corporate administrators to deal with a wide range of issues - in response to the growing ...

Green Global Tribunals on the Way "The rights of victims of environmental disasters worldwide are to be formally recognized by the Permanent Court of Arbitration," reported a BBC News dispatch on November 26th. On that date the Hague-based international court signed "an agreement with the Cousteau environmental society as a basis for settling international environmental disputes between organizations and individuals. The Cousteau Society is placing a ship, the Alcyone, at the court’s disposal to carry out fact-finding commissions. It is the first time a court will give legitimacy to environmental disputes between individuals and organizations in an international context." The ...

Anthrax scare gives UN pact a fresh edge By MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS Earth Times News Posted November 25, 2001 NITED NATIONS - Here's a sobering thought. If the United States, with its superior resources in technology and medicine and all the other advantages that come with being the most powerful country, is thrown into a panic by a relatively few cases of bioterrorism and still hasn't been able to track down the killer, how could the rest of the world cope with a similar situation? Tibor Toth, chairman of an international bioweapons conference, asks the question and has disappointingly few answers ...

Bush Calls for World Bank to Increase Grants WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Tuesday called on the World Bank and other development banks to make up to 50 percent of its cash disbursements to the world's poorest countries in grants rather than loans. "I ... propose the World Bank and other development banks dramatically increase the share of their funding provided as grants rather than loans to the poorest countries," Bush said in a speech at the World Bank. "Specifically I propose that up to 50 percent of the funds provided by the development banks to the poorest ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For&nbsp;Immediate&nbsp;Release July&nbsp;17,&nbsp;2001 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE WORLD BANK Washington, D.C. Listen to the President's Remarks 9:40 A.M. EDT &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE PRESIDENT:&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you all very much.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much for your distinguished years.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you for your service.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you for your kind comments.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm honored to be here today with the Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neill.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you for being here, Mr. Secretary.&nbsp;&nbsp;As well as our Trade Ambassador, Bob Zoellick.&nbsp;&nbsp;I appreciate the leadership that these two men have shown.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their steady advice, their standards, their adherence to principle make my job ...

Shadow Government of the United States and the Decline of America In spite of the difficulties facing America, there is still no other place I would rather live; however, our nation is at a crossroads, not unlike the difficulties faced by our forefathers. Many of the same conditions that prompted the Declaration of Independence prevail in America today. Of the indictments against the King of Great Britain, our Founders declared: "He has erected a Multitude of new offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance." There are literally hundreds of thousands of ...

Sustainable Development: A Snowball Bound For Hell By Henry Lamb 12.08.01 Like a snowball barreling down a mountainside, the WSSD is gathering momentum, size and power, racing toward its ultimate destination - hell. WSSD is the acronym for "World Summit on Sustainable Development." It is scheduled for September 2 - 11, 2002, in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A major objective of WSSD is to create the machinery for IEG - International Environmental Governance. The fourth ...

SUNDAY Q&amp;A Is global government inevitable? Geoff Metcalf interviews &quot;New World Order&quot; expert Tal Brooke Editor&#146;s note: Is global government a &quot;right-wing paranoid delusion&quot; as the establishment press typically portrays, or is it the inexorable wave of the future? Tal Brooke, a recognized expert on globalism and president of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project, a Berkeley think tank, has authored nine books, including &quot;One World&quot; -- which focuses on the various forces working toward a unified world system. He was interviewed by WorldNetDaily.com staff writer and talk-show host, Geoff Metcalf. Metcalf's daily streaming radio show can be heard on TalkNetDaily ...

&nbsp; November 29, 1999 The New Global Media It's a Small World of Big Conglomerates by ROBERT W. McCHESNEY Three charts accompany this article: "Global Media Moguls" "Who Owns the Movies" "Who Owns the Music" The nineties have been a typical fin de si&egrave;cle decade in at least one important respect: The realm of media is on the brink of a profound transformation. Whereas previously media systems were primarily national, in the past few years a global commercial-media market has emerged. "What you are seeing," says Christopher Dixon, media analyst for the investment firm PaineWebber, "is the creation of a ...