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Fred

About Me

questions questions questions...where the hell are the answers?
Suburban sprawl in California: panoramic photos : Le Blog Exuberance //
http://leblog.exuberance.com/2006/07/suburban_spra...


Water — Food & Water Watch
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water


Update on swine flu. Oops (sorry): H1N1
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/05/update-on-swin...


Factory Farm » The Agriculture and Public Health Gateway
http://www.factoryfarm.org/?page_id=38


2 Studies Tie Disaster Risk to Urban Growth
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/world/17WebDisas...

A new U.N. report says that the level of vulnerability does not always mirror economic conditions.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/the-w...

Man experts believe that a new global assessment of countries’ exposure to inevitable hazards is a helpful window on the outsize vulnerability of a few places on the planet where the costs of calamity are highest.


balance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYIqSjNk5wA
FAONewsroom: Land acquisitions in Africa pose risks for poor
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/19974/icode/

check out http://www.richardheinberg.com/Home.html

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Orwell ...and maybe Smedley Butler. Bertrand Russell always seemed like a difficult soul too. let's tack werner herzog onto the list.

My Blog

nixonland adventures

"one of the national security council staffers on the asian trip was navy yoeman charles radford, the spy planted by the joint chiefs.  the sailor, officially a stenographer, had been copying nsc docu...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:40:00 GMT

whoretown will never see the likes of him again

"...the president called in erlichman and told him to talk to haig , to see if haig could pursuade kissinger to see a psychiatrist...he was consiously trying to seperate kissinger and haig so that the...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:40:00 GMT

like rats swarming off a doomed plauge ship

"...whenever tiberius left the senate-house he exclaimed in greek, 'men fit to be slaves!'"                             tacitus.  the annals of imperial rome"the presidient couldn't stop him."        ...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:44:00 GMT

someone's obviously been tampering with the water supply

"i think congress and the senate need to be totally revamped.  the old way of doing things in no longer working."             michael wish  a democrat in medina, ohio                                  ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:00:00 GMT

half of nothing is still nothing

"after a huge snowstorm over the weekend and another expected to roll in on tuesday afternoon, house democrats have cancelled all votes this week.  combine thst witrh the president's day recess, and h...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:02:00 GMT

an uncontrolable lust for privacy

"treasury secretary timothy geithner will press major u s allies...to maintain their stimulative aid to help the global economy rebound from the worst downturn in seven decades.  the talks begin frida...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:00 GMT

got the i don't know where it is that i'm going, but i'm going nowhere in a hurry blues

"unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromise, creates unforeseen change over the next decade, there is virtually no room for new domestic initiatives for mr. obama or his successors. ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:38:00 GMT

twelve angry men part I

"....mysterious or sinister marks against the names of imperial personages and senators were alleged by the prosecutor to be in libo's handwriting.  libo denied this.  but slaves identified his hand; ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:27:00 GMT

technology bubble

there was a glitch in the electrical grid this morning....very brief...it cut out long enough to shut off the lamp in my room...screw up the alarm clock, as well as the router and the signal amplifier...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:28:00 GMT

money talks

"if the first amendment has any force, it prohibits congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."                         justice ant...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:30:00 GMT