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Archived material from historical editions of The Generator

Glaciers continue to speed up

admin /18 August, 2007

We now know that not only are the edges melting fast, but the surface melt is seeping through the ice to lubricate the junction between the glacier and the rock underneath. This is the unexpected factor that has turned scientific attention onto this escalating problem.

It appears that the Greenland ice is shot through with crevices, tunnels and faults through which the melting upper surface can penetrate right through the glacier, and threaten to break the attachment between the ice and the rock base.

When this happens much of this mountain of water will flow into the sea. Already twenty-one of the great glacial masses are moving seawards eight times faster than ten years ago and disintegrating three times faster than in the preceding five years.

It would seem we are on the verge of a major tipping point in climate change, if we have not already reached it. The latest US Navy survey suggests there will be no sea ice left in the Arctic summer by 2016. This has been unprecedented within the entire record of human species.

Privatisation of water a long term goal

admin /18 August, 2007

Written by Citizens Electoral Council Research Team

Prime Minister John Howard has presented legislation to the Parliament, authorising the Federal Government to seize control of all of the water of the Murray-Darling Basin from the states, and to put it under a new Federal agency with dictatorial powers. Just before Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and his Water Minister John Thwaites suddenly resigned on Friday, July 27, Bracks charged that Howard’s actual intent was to privatise all of the Basin’s water. Caught, Howard bellowed that Bracks was "desperate, stupid, inaccurate and just totally wrong."

It is Howard who is desperate. The global financial system is now crashing down, and the financial oligarchy which owns Howard is attempting to grab control over such vital assets as raw materials, food, and water, so as to maintain their political power when their paper, and even their banks vaporise. Howard’s legislation will give his owners control over the Basin’s water for which they will charge whatever they want, and, by bankrupting most of the farmers there, in Australia’s food bowl—as this legislation assuredly will—will make us dependent on multinational agribusiness for our food.

Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain

admin /16 August, 2007

from the June 20, 2007 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0620/p01s03-woeu.html Spurred by a filmmaker’s documentary, the English town of Modbury became the first in Europe to ban them outright. By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor   LONDON – It was watching sea creatures choke on plastic bags in the Pacific Ocean that finally Continue Reading →

Congress considers US collapse

admin /15 August, 2007

By Jeremy Grant in Washington

The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned.

David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”.

These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.

Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”.

“Sound familiar?” Mr Walker said. “In my view, it’s time to learn from history and take steps to ensure the American Republic is the first to stand the test of time.”

Indepth: Genetic Modification

admin /14 August, 2007

INDEPTH: GENETIC MODIFICATION Percy Schmeiser’s battle CBC News Online | May 21, 2004 http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/genetics_modification/percyschmeiser.html It was billed by some as a classic David-and-Goliath confrontation between a Saskatchewan family farmer and biotech giant Monsanto Canada – a case of the rights of the small farmer to continue a traditional way of farming. Others saw it as Continue Reading →

States review GM crop moratorium

admin /14 August, 2007

Feds urge States to allow GM canola Posted Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:16pm AEST Updated Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:38pm AEST Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has accused the states of holding back opportunities in genetically modified canola for Australian farmers. Mr McGauran has released a new report, which he says proves the states should Continue Reading →

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