. . . and says the obvious, I should add. Last week, it was retired General Sanchez, who blasted the Bush Administration, calling it "incompetent" in the way it has run the Iraq occupation. This week, it's Retired General John Abizaid, former CENTCOM Commander, who spoke about Iraq: During a…
According to this article from Salem-News.com, it makes much more sense to filter your own water and reuse your bottle. What is the downside to buying bottles of water? Around the world, factories are using more than 18 million barrels of oil and up to 130 billion gallons of fresh…
All of your suspicions are true and you can now find them in an article that is intensely compelling and distressing. It’s the current edition (June 28, 2007) of Rolling Stone.
It’s not every day after all that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell. But the Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science–especially when it comes from international experts. So after the report became public in February, Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to offer his own, competing assessment of global warming
We’re going to see a big debate on it going forward,” Cheney told ABC news, about “the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it’s caused by man.” We know today, he added, is “not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy is going to” solve the problem.” Even former White House insiders were shocked by the vice president’s see-no-evil performance.
The Rolling Stone article argues that the White House has actively worked to distort the findings of climate scientists, playing down the threat of global warming. This investigation by Rolling Stone goes further, however. It reveals that
…these distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, and a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on environmental quality and enforced by none other than
The U.S. consumes 400 million gallons of gasoline every day. That amounts to almost 5,000 gallons every second. More than half of that oil is imported. Everything we do is affected by oil. In addition to keeping us warm and transporting us, we eat oil. Not literally, but the average American meal travels an about 1500 miles to get from farm to plate. If there were an interruption in the oil supply, we would look to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That much-cited U.S. reserve, however, holds only a 60-day supply of oil. It is official U.S. policy, then, that We the People shall always remain only small one incident from a major oil crisis.