Murdering Mother Earth one forest, one species and one atom at a time
By Jason Miller
I am the earth.  You are the earth.  The Earth is dying.  You and I are murderers. 
–Ymber Delecto
What a sorry lot we humans are, particularly those of us immersed in the “American Way of Life.” Killing is indeed our business. [...]

1. A Growing Trend of Leaving America : Jay Tolson, US News

2. Can This Planet Be Saved? : Paul Krugman, NYT

3. Afghanistan: Shoals Ahead for President Obama : Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global

4. Wrong on Afghanistan : Patrick Seale, Agence Global

5. Beware: ‘Machine Zone’ Ahead : Natasha Dow Schüll, Washington Post
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By Simon Jenkins
You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the west’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big – big enough to trump Burma’s cyclone. To add to the relief, Beijing was behaving better than it [...]

By Marc Lacey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
HUNGER smashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured on to the streets, burning tyres and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.
Haiti’s hunger, that has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out [...]

*David Deming – Washington Times – December 19, 2007
TS Admin : Another view on global warming
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, [...]

“Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.”
BALI, Indonesia – The UN climate conference met strong opposition Thursday from a team of over 100 prominent international scientists, who warned the UN, that attempting to control the Earth’s climate was “ultimately futile.”
The scientists, many of whom are [...]

Damian Thompson
One view

Today we will learned that Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize. As someone who cares passionately about climate change, my little prayer that he wouldn’t win has been ignored.
The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you [...]