By
2040, the world population of more than six billion will have
been culled by floods, drought and famine. We will, he says, have
to set up encampments in this country, like those established
for the hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the conflict
in East Africa.
The
Federal Reserve and Treasury are playing a dominant day-to-day
role in overseeing Wall Street following this week’s rescue
of Bear Stearns, raising the prospect that the central bank might
be given more permanent authority over securities firms.
Alex
welcomes Larry Elliott, economics editor of the Guardian, to
talk about his article, America was conned -- who will pay?
In the article Elliott writes that it is "somewhat surprising
that there is not already rioting in the streets."
Wearechange
confronts Fox Correspondent Carl Cameron who is famed for reporting
on the Israeli spy ring shortly after the events of 9/11. Fox
News, alone of all the media, actually ran the story as a four
part broadcast, and put the story up on its web site. Then,
without explanation, erased the story from their web site and
have never mentioned it again.
The
reason is that McCain is not a dumb politician. Like both President
Bush and Vice-President Cheney, he knows the visceral and emotional
reaction he is able to arouse within many Americans the minute
they hear the words "Al-Qaeda," words that McCain
knows immediately tend to short-circuit any reasonable and rationale
thinking.
President
Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a cut in France's nuclear arsenal on
Friday but warned most of the weapons will remain as "life-insurance"
against new threats from states such as Iran.
My
attempt to confront McCain, I asked him about the North American
Union and the destruction of our sovereignty, he can clearly
hear me, but ignores me, turns his head and walks away. The
camera's a bit wobbly when I talk to him.
Homeland
security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving
deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new
driver's license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved,
could cause big air travel headaches.
You
didn’t have to be a rocket scientist in the 1990s to figure
that speculative investment in dot-coms with no revenues would
be disastrous. The same goes for lenders giving mortgages to
borrowers with no job, no income and no assets. So after surviving
the tech bubble and while trying to extricate the economy from
the housing bubble, why are we bent on heading into the global
warming bubble?
George W. Bush graphically demonstrates
his personal effort for combating the War in Iraq, which
includes a technique perfected while dodging service in
Vietnam.
