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********CORPORATE POWER********



*FOOD SHORTAGES*

Despite bumper grain crop, 33 countries in food crisis:
http://tinyurl.com/3d76ov
--or--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070403/hl_afp/unfaofood_070403180427%3B_ylt%3DAm1LWFIiDTNWs01iaxoHip2JOrgF

(there's no profit in saving lives, so we can't do it.)




*AUSTRALIA*

Birds fell out of the sky as a whole town was poisoned by lead dust from mining:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2422658.ece




*NEW JERSEY: FOR SALE*

Corzine to sell off New Jersey's toll roads!!!
http://counterpunch.org/cowell12282006.html

(is there any easier way to make money? giving those roads to corporations is unbelievably cancerous to civilized society. corporations have absolute power today.)



********ELSEWHERE********




*ISRAEL*

3 Israelis accused of training Columbian hit-men:
http://tinyurl.com/2wbdj7
--or--
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-03-colombia-death-squads_N.htm?POE=NEWISVA

(only three this time?)




*IRAQ*

25% of UK Iraq "aid" goes to "security" firms:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2048009,00.html


Bush's land mine: if the Iraqi people get revenue sharing, they lose their plundered oil to Exxon:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/30/201/


Iraq forced to pay for its own destruction:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/opinion/?id=20110

"...Even when the Nazis brought destruction to Europe during WWII, no country alone suffered such human losses..."


The human costs of four years of war
The US invasion has caused nearly three-quarter million Iraqi deaths
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/iraq-m20.shtml






******AUTOMOBILES******




*HYDROGEN*

US cities hot for hydrogen:
http://tinyurl.com/2foj6z
--or--
http://news.com.com/U.S.+cities+hot+for+hydrogen/2100-11392-6172986.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703

(imagine if the public only knew that electric cars were possible--today.)





*NEWS*

Bankrupt GM tried to kill its electric car! Fans of the electric car trying to fight back:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21991-2005Mar9

(when do the US auto manufacturers begin to pay the American people back for decades of subsidies? The public is craving electric cars. Meanwhile, GM is losing money faster than it can be printed. When does GM stop holding us hostage with fossil-fuel burning cars that suck?

just how many GM executives does it take to turn on an electric car?)



******HEALTH, SCIENCE and LIVING******




*CASSINI HOAX*

"Saturn's Hyperion: a moon with odd craters":
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070128.html

(APOD's illustration at the link above is so utterly ludicrous it makes me cry with laughter. doesn't NASA have any quality control regading the fake images it produces of the "Cassini probe of Saturn"?)




*ASTRONOMY*

panorama from the top of Mt. Everest:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070408.html


Mystery of red space glow solved:
http://tinyurl.com/2ah2ky
--or--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070406/sc_space/mysteryofredspaceglowsolved




*MARIJUANA: WONDER DRUG*

Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteers:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-05-army-experiments_N.htm

(this blogger is willing to test anyone's pot. just bring it by.)


Proteins change as pot cleans up soil:
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=16011&type=Feature&chId=10&page=1





********MISC********



*TENNIS: DAVIS CUP*

Bryan twins put US into Davis Cup semifinals vs. Sweden:
http://tinyurl.com/yuxn4q
--or--
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_ylt=Ah5Am3VG447ZFI2hAP7wnfI4v7YF?slug=ap-daviscup-spain-us&prov=ap&type=lgns

(go Sweden!)




*CINEMA: the NAMESAKE*

Mira Nair's 'The Namesake' (1996):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433416/

The Namesake is one of those multi-generational "stories" where years pass by as seconds. meanwhile, the storytellers throw birth, death and betrayal at you. You're supposed to feel something, even though the characters are living such sped-up lives that attachment is hard to feel.

too bad the screenplay makes a couple of references to America's social decay but doesn't follow up on them. So, early on Ashima (played by Indian actress Tabu) mentions what a lonely country America is. The point is forgotten. While in Calcutta later on, Gogul (Kal Penn) refers to the exploitation of the masses. However, this idea is swiftly dropped as no one in the film has any money worries.

Is this another CIA film? The CIA is clearly manufacturing cinema with the intention of lowering the expectations that audiences have regarding what used to be the great movie experience. The Namesake, where characters grow up, marry, give birth and get betrayed in minutes might be an example of a CIA film that is trying to undercut the emotional involvement audiences feel for such dramatic turns.

The Namesake is a diversion for those with a couple of hours to kill. Beyond that, I don't recommend it.



NJS



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