[Biofuel] [corp-watchers] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly News of 2012

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
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[Biofuel] Back to the future for Japan?

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
Goal of no new reactors in jeopardy Kyodo http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a4.html NRA has final reactor say-so: Motegi http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a9.html U.S. nuke crisis team's Fukushima findings wasted http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a3.html Summer

[Biofuel] We Call This Progress

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13631-we-call-this-progress We Call This Progress Monday, 31 December 2012 10:48 By Arundhati Roy, ZCommunications | Op-Ed From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion. I don't know how

[Biofuel] Rosy Forecast of Cheap Oil Abundance, Economic Boom a Myth

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13629-age-of-cheap-oil-abundance-a-myth Rosy Forecast of Cheap Oil Abundance, Economic Boom a Myth Monday, 31 December 2012 00:00 By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed , Truthout | Op-Ed Headlines about this year's World Energy Outlook (WEO) from the International

[Biofuel] The Financial Elite's War Against the US Economy

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
Longer version: America's Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff How today's fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I's economic misunderstandings By Michael Hudson December 29, 2012 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33471.htm The Top 12 Political Fallacies of 2012 by Richard Eskow

[Biofuel] Obama Quietly Signs Abusive Spy Bill He Once Vowed to Eliminate

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31-1 Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Common Dreams Obama Quietly Signs Abusive Spy Bill He Once Vowed to Eliminate After Senate rejects oversight amendments, bill sails into law - Lauren McCauley, staff writer Under the cover of holiday

[Biofuel] Story of the Year: It's Global Warming, Stupid

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-9 Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by EcoWatch Story of the Year: It's Global Warming, Stupid by Stefanie Penn Spear My favorite headline of 2012 was It's Global Warming, Stupid, which appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek on Nov.

[Biofuel] Chuck Hagel's big problem: being a realist about American power and Iran

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
Hagel, the Lobby and the Limits of Power The former Republican senator is guilty of a cardinal sin which has cut short many promising careers in Washington. By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad December 31, 2012 Al Jazeera http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33486.htm --0--

[Biofuel] Gang Rape in India Galvanizes Nation

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
India Marks Somber New Year's Eve After Rape Victim's Death VOA News December 31, 2012 http://www.voanews.com/content/india_marks_somber_new_years_eve_after_rape_victims_death/1575287.html --0-- http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31-6 Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Common

[Biofuel] Fraud, Money Laundering and Narcotics. Impunity of the Banking Giants. No Prosecution of HSBC

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fraud-money-laundering-and-narcotics-impunity-of-the-banking-giants-no-prosecution-of-hsbc/5317406 Fraud, Money Laundering and Narcotics. Impunity of the Banking Giants. No Prosecution of HSBC By Tom Burghardt Global Research, December 31, 2012 Antifascist

[Biofuel] Afghans angry at US soldiers who drove away in the night leaving rent unpaid

2013-01-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/30/afghanistan-us-military-rent-land-dispute Afghans angry at US soldiers who drove away in the night leaving rent unpaid Only sign of huge US base is pile of rubbish and broken vehicles - and a festering land dispute in a volatile province Emma