April 2008
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April 22nd 2008
Bread With Circus Radio Show #5
Every Day is Earth Day
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
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April 16th, 2008
Hypocritical Protests?
I like Tibet, but shouldn't we really get our own houses in order first?
...the Brits, for instance, don't want anybody to know they invaded Tibet in 1904 and slaughtered
a whole bunch of Tibetans for no reason except they were bored.
The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol.
That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres"
unless the biofuel policy is halted.
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon,
and the American struggle in Iraq,"
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April 14th, 2008
Bread With Circus Radio Show #4
Don't Be Evil
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
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Are You On FaceBook? - youtube video
I just got myself a facebook page, so that I might do a better job of keeping in touch with old friends
and long lost family members. I signed on because there seemed to be no alternative way to talk to lots of
these folks. Everyone seems to be on there. I wonder if they know about this?
The American oil wars are being launched out of weakness, not strength. The American economy is
teetering and without control of the remaining oil it will collapse. There will be massive chaos in any
case, when only enough oil remains for the American elite and whomever they choose to share it with.
A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase
by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis. In recent weeks, mass hunger
has spawned violent rioting in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique,
Senegal and Haiti.
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April 8th, 2008
Bread With Circus Radio Show #3
The Fascist Shift
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Sadr won big. Iran won even bigger. Maliki, Petraeus and Cheney lost.
The review of lawmakers' 2006 financial disclosure statements, by the Washington-based Center for
Responsive Politics, suggests that members' holdings could pose a conflict of interest as they decide
the fate of Iraq war spending. Several members who earned the most from defense contractors have plum
committee or leadership assignments, including Democratic Sen. John Kerry, independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman
and House Republican Whip Roy Blunt.
"Because of high oil prices, oil companies have excessive earnings that go beyond reasonable levels
of profitability," Angel Rodriguez, a Venezuelan parliamentarian, told ABN, the country's state news agency.
"One way to distribute them to our people, who are the owners of the oil, is to create this tax."
Until recently, the pain of the US housing market had not spread to our own fair land. Much of the
economic data here has been, if anything, surprisingly healthy. But such figures are generally
backward-looking and often look fine until suddenly they don't.
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April 1st, 2008
Bread With Circus Radio Show #2
Consumerism
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We don't know what the Saudis told Cheney in private -- or even more to the point, what he told them.
But the release of this story now, just after his departure, would seem to be a clear indication that the
Saudis have good reason to fear a looming attack on Iran's nuclear sites and are actively preparing for it.
The climate expert said that if global temperatures increased by a further 4-5 degrees Celsius
rising sea levels would lead to mass migration, affecting up to 130 million people from India,
Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The conflict doesn't conform to the analysis of the roots of Iraqi instability as briefed by U.S.
officials in the heavily-fortified Green Zone. It also doesn't fit into the simplistic but popular narrative
of a country wrought by sectarian violence, and its nature is obscured by the labels that the commercial
media uncritically apply to the disparate centers of Iraqi resistance to the occupation.
Venezuela is sending to China all the oil it previously shipped to a U.S. refinery jointly owned
with Exxon Mobil amid a legal battle between the OPEC nation and the U.S. oil giant, Energy Minister
Rafael Ramirez said on Friday.
Tent Cities For California's New Homeless - youtube video
I can sense the ghost of Tom Joad
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