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The melting ice caps and dying polar bears seem far
away both in space and time but the reality is melting ice caps
means rising sea level means NYC and LI under water, as well as
Bombay, Shanghai, Sydney, most of Southeast Asia and lots of South
Asia - Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam would be a memory... and all by
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"America's
unwillingness to take the lead on environmental
issues may some day be regarded as one of the
country's most profound political failures. One
hopes that it changes course soon, before we all are
forced to wear swimsuits to work."
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Prof. Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard, former Chief
Economist at Int'l Monetary Fund
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Click
HERE for an article on the Stern Report, commissioned by the
British government and done by Lord Stern, UK's Finance Minister and
former Economics Chief of the World Bank. In it he says the cost of
dealing with global warming will be less than dealing with the
consequences, not just economically but morally since the loss of
life from the devastation of rising seas, droughts, and economic turmoil from
mass deaths and relocations will be greater than any in recorded
history. Click
HERE for the full Stern report. |
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Click
HERE for an article on the latest report on marine life. It
is expected that by 2048 the seas will be almost empty. Fish are the
mainstay diets of many; will they then starve? And then you also
have the issue of our use of our fresh water resources. When our
wells run dry, when we do not have enough drinking water, when we
cannot irrigate crops to feed the ever growing populations, what
then? |
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Any candidate who does not say
that the Kyoto accord should be signed and strengthened DRASTICALLY
and IMMEDIATELY does not deserve your vote! |
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THE WAR |
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Meanwhile, America's image in
the world, its capacity to persuade others that its interests are
common interests, is lower than it has been in memory. All over the
world people look at Bush and yearn for this country - which once
symbolized hope and justice - to be humbled...
There may be little Americans can do to atone for this presidency,
which will stain our country's reputation for a long time. But the
process of recovering our good name must begin somewhere, and the
logical place is in the voting booth this Nov. 7. If we are
fortunate, we can produce a result that is seen - in Washington, in
Peoria, and in world capitals from Prague to Kuala Lumpur - as a
repudiation of George W. Bush and the war of aggression he launched
against Iraq.
- The American Conservative |
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The beloved country endures a government that
merges blithering corruption with murderous incompetence.
Congress, which once spent an entire year investigating a married
man's attempt to cover up an illicit act of oral sex, has shown no
curiosity whatsoever about a war that the administration elected
to wage that has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, led our
own people to commit war crimes, squandered hundreds of billions
of dollars and degenerated into civil war.
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Garrison Keiller |
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Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii,
who lost an arm fighting in WWII, voted for withdrawing troops by
next July.[2] Any
candidate who does not say that a timetable should be set to have US
troops out of Iraq within one year does not deserve your vote! |
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THE FOLLOWING
ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY |
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ASSAULT ON THE
CONSTITUTION |
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Any candidate who backs
domestic spying and revoking the writ of habeas corpus to someone
simply suspected of being a threat without giving them due process
in a court of law does not deserve your vote! |
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ECONOMY |
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If the United States government conducts business as usual over the
next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion
could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That's
almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America -
Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and those Google guys included.
A hole that big could paralyze the US economy;
according to some projections, just the interest payments on a debt
that big would be as much as all the taxes the government collects
today. And every year that nothing is done about it, the problem
grows by $2 trillion to $3 trillion.
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David Walker, US 'Accountant in Chief', heads Government
Accounting Office |
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Any candidate who says the
federal budget deficit crisis can be solved without raising taxes is
lying and does not deserve your vote! |
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HEALTH CARE |
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For big drug
companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a
financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street
analysts had predicted.... Lilly, the sixth-largest American drug
maker, reported two weeks ago that its third-quarter sales had risen
7 percent, to $3.9 billion, and its profits were up 10 percent, to
$874 million, compared with 2005. According to Lilly's published
review of the quarter, the sales gains resulted almost entirely from
Lilly's prices rising 11 percent in the United States, while
actually falling in Europe and Japan.[3] |
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Any candidate who does not say
that America needs to have a single payer health care system does
not deserve your vote! |
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IMMIGRATION |
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Any candidate who backs
building a fence across our borders does not deserve your vote! |
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SOCIAL SECURITY |
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Any candidate who says that
social security should be privatized does not deserve your vote! |
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS |
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Abortion should be legal but
rare. With the exceptions of rape, incest, and medical emergencies,
that can only happen when birth control is taught and available and
affordable. Any candidate who wants the state to control a woman's
choices about her own body does not deserve your vote! |
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WWW - LAST BUT
NOT LEAST - NET NEUTRALITY |
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The internet has freely brought
freedom of expression to the world. The E-Zine was only possible
because access to the world wide web was available to those with a desire
to volunteer their time and resources. Now AT&T, Verizon, and
others are trying to get a bill passed through Congress that would divide
the internet into economic classes. The upper class, i.e. those with
money to pay, would get their messages sent and delivered first.
Everyone else? Well, like bulk mail, it would get delivered
sometime... maybe on time... no guarantees. |
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Any candidate so beholden to
media conglomerates s/he agrees the internet should be controlled by
big business, who is opposed to what is called "net neutrality",
does not deserve your vote! |
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THIS ALL CAME FROM FOLLOWING ARTICLES, OR ONES LINKED ABOVE |
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APIA Vote.org
http://apiavote.org
Army Times, Air Force
Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, call for
the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406Z.shtml
[1] As Drug Prices Climb, Democrats Find Fault With Medicare
Plan
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110606HA.shtml
Drastic Action on Climate Change Is Needed Now - And Here's the
Plan
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103106EA.shtml
[1] Global Warming: US Must Take Lead
on Environment
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/15947125.htm
GOP Must Go, The American Conservative Editorial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606D.shtml
[2]
Iraq Foes Would Head Democrat War-Spending Panels
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606U.shtml
Rumsfeld and Hussein: Partners in Crime
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606E.shtml
This Election Is About Bush and His Party Must
Go
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110706O.shtml
Top Government Official Says US on the
Verge of
Economic Meltdown
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102906Z.shtml
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