"Okeydoke"
History
1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1903, Spock, Benjamin McLane (1903-1998), American pediatrician, author, and political activist. His best-selling book, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), sharply redefined the course of child care during the baby boom after World War II. Author of "Sam I Am."
1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth)
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in the year he hit over .400
1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma 1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York NY (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
1945 Allies occupy Wismar
1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1965 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred
1975 Apple records closes down
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1994, South African President F. W. de Klerk concedes defeat and Nelson Mandela claims victory in the country's first multi-racial presidential election.
1997 Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating
1997 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1997 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
Missing in Action1966 WOOD WALTER S. FORT BRAGG NC
1968 ENGLANDER LAWRENCE J. VAN NUYS CA
1969 MASCARI PHILLIP L. CALDWELL NJ
1970 CROWSON FREDERICK H. PENSACOLA FL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1970 GRIFFIN RODNEY L. CENTRALIA MO "HELO FOUND, NO TRACE OF SUBJ"
1970 MASLOWSKI DANIEL L. CHICAGO IL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1970 PRICE BUNYAN D. JR. BELMONT NC "HELO FOUND, NO TRACE OF SUBJ"
1970 RICHARDSON DALE W. CASHTON WI "HELO FOUND, NO TRACE OF SUBJ"
1970 VARNADO MICHAEL B. FERRIDAY LA "09/70 DIED IN CAMBODIA, ON PRG LIST" REMAINS RETURNED 07/25/89
1970 YOUNG ROBERT M. NEW ALEXANDRIA PA 09/72 ON PRG DIC LIST (EGRESS MURDRD BY LACK OF RR 12/07/97 MED TREAT/COLD/CONVUL/DEATH/BURIED
1972 BERKSON JOSEPH MIKE CHICAGO IL 07/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 JESSE WILLIAM CLIFTON LAWTON OK 07/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 MORGAN CHARLES VERNON WARSAW KY 07/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 PETRILLA JOHN JOSEPH JR. PHILADELPHIA PA 07/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 PORTERFIELD DALE KYETTE LOS ANGELES CA 07/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
The DeLay Times
Desperate White House Wife, Episode 1: The Ranch Hand
ASHINGTON
When Laura Bush wisecracked at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night that she was a "desperate housewife" married to a president who was always sound asleep by 9 p.m., the popular first lady accomplished two things. She brought down a very tough house, and she humanized her husband, whose sagging poll numbers are no match for her own.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/politics/02letter.html?hp
Golfing with Tom DeLay
Playing through campaign finance laws, corporations are buying time with the House leader by donating to his foundations for abused kids. Meanwhile, the charities are spending more on the golf fundraisers than on the children.
By Mark Benjamin
May 2, 2005 In the fundraising empire that has come to be known as "DeLay Inc.," few figures have been more central to filling the coffers than Warren RoBold. Last September, a Texas grand jury indicted RoBold and two other DeLay aides on charges of illegally raising political funds from corporations and funneling them through one of DeLay's political action committees.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/02/delay/index_np.html
Court date near for 3 DeLay associates
By Jay Root
Star-Telegram Austin Bureau
AUSTIN -- U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay can't go anywhere in Washington these days without a storm of ethics controversy hanging over him.
But next week in Austin, when a long-running criminal investigation of GOP fund-raising spills into state court for the most significant hearing to date, the Sugar Land Republican will be noticeably absent.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/11540093.htm
House ethics committee -- No delay
For political reasons or not, it's great to finally see some Congressional bipartisanship
A wave of cooperation over ethics issues appears to have swept over the nation's capital, and the country is better off for it.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, though, might get caught in the undertow.
There has been gridlock on the House Ethics Committee as Republicans have rallied around the embattled Texan to thwart Democrats' demands for an investigation into whether some of his overseas travel was financed by a lobbyist and his clients -- in violation of House rules. Also at issue are DeLay's fund-raising activities.
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/050205/opi_houseed.shtml
So DeLay set the standard for the Republicans to continue to abuse by permission of the majority leader who had payed off half the Ethics Committee.
State's politicos like to travel
And they like other people to pay for it
Saturday, April 30, 2005
By Bruce Alpert
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- Under normal circumstances, the 2003 trip that Rep. Jim McCrery's chief of staff took to Scotland wouldn't have garnered any more attention than the other 5,410 privately financed congressional junkets in the past five years.
What sets Bob Brooks' journey apart is that the itinerary for him, Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla., and another House staffer, Mark Zachares, was almost identical to a trip taken three years earlier by Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Questions about who paid for the DeLay trip are a focal point of criticisms raised in the media and by Democrats against DeLay, now the House majority leader.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1114840838244340.xml
DeLay-linked lobbyist defends self publicly
2 interviews break months of silence
By David Finkel
The Washington Post
Published May 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Jack Abramoff, the Washington lobbyist who is under federal investigation for his lobbying activities on behalf of Indian tribes and is a central figure in separate probes into alleged ethical improprieties by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), has begun publicly defending himself after months of silence.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505010254may01,1,2642080.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
End Tom DeLay's power trip
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
(KRT) - The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, April 28:
X X X
The House Republican majority, which is full of honorable people, can do better than Tom DeLay.
A majority of Americans tell pollsters they've never heard of DeLay, the House majority leader from Texas. And he'd rather keep it that way. DeLay operates most effectively as a behind-the-scenes enforcer of party discipline, fund-raiser for GOP colleagues and engineer of the conservative agenda.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/11522199.htm
Do donations sway DeLay's GOP investigators?
REPUBLICANS ON PANEL SAY THEY CAN BE IMPARTIAL
By Carl Hulse
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., vigorously cultivates his low profile in the House, but as chairman of the Ethics Committee, he is about to become much more recognizable: The committee is about to embark on an investigation into the activities of Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, after the House on Wednesday overturned rules that had kept the panel in limbo.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/11535609.htm
DeLay ally says fees for tribes were fair
10:57 PM CDT on Friday, April 29, 2005
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close associate of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, says his efforts on behalf of American Indian tribes were well worth the multimillion-dollar fees he charged.
Mr. Abramoff is under investigation for his work involving the tribes' casino interests.
In an interview with Time magazine, he also said he regretted the language he used to describe his Indian clients in e-mails, saying the words were "more common to a drill sergeant or a football coach."
In the messages, he referred to his Indian clients as monkeys, troglodytes, morons and the "stupidest idiots in the land."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/043005dnnatabramoff.5e17c8f9.html
The Korea Times
South Downplays N. Korean Missile Test
By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter
South Korea on Monday played down the significance of Sunday’s missile test by North Korea, saying it was a common end-of-winter military drill, involving a short-range missile without nuclear capabilities.
The missile test is also unrelated to the dispute over the North’s nuclear ambition, a high-ranking government official said.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005050216223610220.htm
Opposition Sweeps By-Elections
Ruling Party Fails to Regain Majority
By Ryu Jin
Staff Reporter
The main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) scored a resounding victory in Saturday's by-elections, sweeping five parliamentary seats out of the six up for grabs. The ruling Uri Party failed to win a single seat, yielding the remaining one to an independent.
While the ruling party retains control as the single largest force with 146 seats, the polls reshaped the general configuration of the 299-member National Assembly as the combined number of seats held by the opposition parties and independents exceeded the majority.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005050115062811950.htm
Visitors Asked Not to Damage Dokdo
By Kim Ki-tae
Staff Reporter
The head of the Cultural Heritage Administration on Monday called for visitors to the Dokdo islets to cooperate in preserving the environment of the nation’s easternmost outcropping.
``After making the Dokdo islets more accessible, some visitors have damaged the environment by violating a few rules. It is deplorable,’’ said Yoo Hong-joon, head of the administration, in a statement released to the media.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005050215481910230.htm
Bill to Punish Marital Rape to Be Submitted
By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter
Lawmakers of the ruling Uri Party plan to submit a revision bill on domestic violence to punish marital rape, party officials said Monday.
The bill will include sexual violence between husbands and wives under the definition of domestic violence, they said.
If the bill is passed, those who commit rape or indecent assault against their spouses could be subject to court punishment.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200505/kt2005050216020268040.htm>
Hasty Defense Reform
Long, Sufficient Debate Needed before Fixing Plan
Post-cold war global political changes and technological renovation have made military reforms major pending issues for most countries. The Roh Moo-hyun administration’s answer to this national task is the legislation of ``French-style’’ military reform by October. It is not certain whether the government would benchmark either the content or form _ or both _ of France’s model. In any case, however, the Defense Ministry’s plan unveiled last week seems to have persuasion in little more than the need for reform.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200505/kt2005050116070554050.htm
The Los Angeles Times
Bush 2.0
It seems like just yesterday that George W. Bush was bragging about all the political chips he'd accumulated on Nov. 2, and about how he was going to go about spending them. But in holding the first prime-time news conference of his second term on Thursday, just shy of its 100-day mark, the president was remarkably subdued. He came across as humble even, maybe on account of his plunging approval ratings. Or maybe it was because NBC made the president of the United States defer to "The Apprentice" and change the time of the conference.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-bush1may01,0,3453913.story
Peacekeeping's a Bargain
The U.N.'s peacekeeping operation has been dogged by scandals for years. Often, as in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica a decade ago, the scandal has been the timidity of the mission. More recently, in the inaptly named Democratic Republic of the Congo, the key distinction between the undisciplined blue helmets and the roving militias is that the peacekeepers pay young girls for sex with scraps of food, while the militias simply rape. In the early 1990s, the U.N.'s top official in Cambodia notoriously shrugged off allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers by saying, "Boys will be boys."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-peacekeep1may01,0,6772398.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
Bomb Attacks Persist in Iraq
Six explosions shake the nation, including one at a funeral that kills at least 25. A video is released showing an Australian hostage.
By Ashraf Khalil, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber on Sunday plowed his vehicle into a tent packed with mourners at a Kurdish funeral in the northern city of Tall Afar, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others as insurgents continued their campaign of violence.
The onslaught has included more than 20 car bombings since Thursday, when Iraqi lawmakers concluded months of tense negotiations by approving a Cabinet of three dozen ministers. It is the country's first elected government in decades. At least 100 Iraqis and 11 U.S. troops have been killed in the last four days.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-iraq2may02,0,4325651.story?coll=la-home-headlines
A Town's Hidden Threat
Asbestos, a mineral with lethal qualities found in veins throughout the Sierra foothills, may alter the future of an affluent community.
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. — The boys of summer they were not. On a baseball diamond in this upscale suburb east of Sacramento, a federal team in blue and marshmallow-white moon suits gathered last October for a different sort of game.
Respirator masks jiggling, the oddball squad hit the diamond — batting, fielding, sliding into third. They also rode bikes and played hopscotch, kicked soccer balls and shot baskets. As dust rose, little air monitors quietly sampled what the earth dished up.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-asbestos2may02,0,6065015.story?coll=la-home-local
Haaretz
IDF soldier killed in gun battle near Tul Karm
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed and another lightly wounded in a gun battle with wanted Palestinians near the West Bank city of Tul Karm before dawn Monday. An Islamic Jihad leader suspected of involvement in a February suicide bombing in Tel Aviv was also killed in the clashes.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/571284.html
Minister Sharansky resigns in protest over disengagement plan
By Haaretz Service
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky announced his resignation from the government Monday due in protest over the disengagement plan, Army Radio reported.
Sharansky submitted a letter of resignation with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday morning.
"We are standing before a terrible rift in the nation and to my regret I sense no effort by the government to prevent it," Sharansky wrote in his letter of resignation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/571302.html
Cabinet may okay declaring West Bank college a university
By Tamara Traubman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
The cabinet Monday may approve conferring university status on Judea and Samaria College in Ariel, less than two weeks after a major British lecturers union sparked wide controversy by declaring a boycott against Bar-Ilan University for its links to the West Bank college.
The decision to act to upgrade the status of the Ariel college is twinned with a proposal to combine a number of northern colleges into a Galilee university.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/571290.html
Government likely to drop Nitzanim relocation plan
By Yuval Yoaz and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
A government forum is due to convene Monday evening for a "defining meeting" with settler representatives on the plan to relocate evacuees to the Nitzanim dunes near Ashdod and areas around Ashkelon.
It appears likely that the plan will be dropped, as the settlers and the panel, headed by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister's Office director general Ilan Cohen, have failed to reach an agreement. The government is opposed to establishing new towns on the Nitzanim dunes, which will then entail the establishment of a new regional council.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/571010.html
COUNTDOWN / Grieving for Gaza
By Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent
In Gush Katif, the death of a dream foretold
There is something charged and irrevocable in the air this month. A point of no return has been crossed without anyone moving an inch.
Nothing in Gush Katif has been touched, and yet nothing will ever be the same.
It is a sensation that Israelis know deep in their bones, a sixth sense of loss.
It is grief for the slow death of a dream.
Perhaps, as settler leader Pinchas Wallerstein has suggested, it is only fitting that the disengagement should be conducted close to Judaism's traditional three-week mourning period for national tragedies. The evacuations are seen as likely to begin on August 15, just after the solemn fast of Tisha B'Av.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=570260&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0
Putin: Abbas can't fight terror with slingshot and stones
By Aluf Benn and Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised to provide the Palestinian Authority with helicopters and other equipment and training to help maintain order after Israel's promised withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank this summer.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/570211.html
Barghouti: Israel's Gaza pullout is partial, won't bring peace
By The Associated Press
ROME - Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip this summer won't be total and won't bring about peace and stability in the region, jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti told an Italian newspaper.
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Barghouti, a leader of the Fatah movement, also said that militant groups did not get much in return for observing a truce with Israel that was declared in February.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/570550.html
Kofi Annan to meet with world Jewish leaders Monday
By Shlomo Shamir
NEW YORK - World Jewish leaders will meet for the first time Monday with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at his offices.
Some 40 leaders and Jewish activists from 24 countries are expected to meet with Annan at UN headquarters, as part of a joint project of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), and the UN Foundation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=570873
The New York Times
This is propagandizing PBS. If conservative cable stations flourish in bigotry and bias then liberal stations can exist as well. This is Bush's paranoid Nazism of the media. It further illustrates 'Journalism at Risk' and the sought after minds will ultimately be children. Where is Lion's Gate when you need them? I saw a commerical that was rather 'disturbed' to say the least during some 'cartoon' programming. It was a commerical for parents to be vigilant regarding the television their children watch with an undertone regarding drugs when all of a sudden at the end the 'punch' line is and this was about public schools, "Do you know the films they are showing in your child's Science Class?" That is a direct assault against Evolution. I don't regard American Television Media as reliable anymore. Much rather BBC.
Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases
WASHINGTON, May 1 - The Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias, prompting some public broadcasting leaders - including the chief executive of PBS - to object that his actions pose a threat to editorial independence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/arts/television/02public.html?hp&ex=1115092800&en=1085de148e09623c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Bush's White Americana give permission for much.
The Sun Sentinel
Racist tabloid puts police on alert in West Palm
ADL seminar follows March incident
By Peter Franceschina
Staff Writer
Posted May 2 2005
West Palm Beach -- The tightly rolled cylinders of hate arrived one morning and residents in the north end of the city who found them on their driveways and lawns had never seen anything like it.
No doubt a number of the newspapers ended up in the trash without being read. Those who pulled off the blue rubber band and unwound the small tabloid in late March saw on the cover, "WAR, The Newspaper for Discriminating White People, Tolerance is Suicide!"
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pracist02may02,0,4850037.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
The Washington Times
Iran Plans Defense of Nuclear Program
U.S. Is Set to Deliver Ultimatum at Meeting
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 2, 2005; Page A01
Iran is planning to mount a staunch defense of its nuclear energy program at an international conference beginning today and will insist on rights to the same technology afforded to all members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a senior Iranian official said in an interview yesterday.
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Doubts About Mandate for Bush, GOP
By John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 2, 2005; Page A01
The day after he won a second term in November, President Bush offered his view of the new political landscape.
"When you win there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view," he said, "and that's what I intend to tell the Congress, that I made it clear what I intend to do as president . . . and the people made it clear what they wanted, now let's work together."
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Toward a Nuclear Strategy
By John J. Hamre
Monday, May 2, 2005; Page A17
America is sleepwalking through history, armed with nuclear weapons. The Cold War left us with a massive inventory of weapons we no longer need, an infrastructure we can no longer use or maintain, and no thought of where our future lies. A shrinking community of nuclear experts holds on to a massive and aging inventory as a security blanket for a future they cannot define. That same community now advocates the development of a weapon (the so-called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, or RNEP) that commands no conviction from either the military or the broad policy community. In short, we are nowhere.
Last year Congress, led by Rep. Dave Hobson (R-Ohio), chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee, rejected the administration's plan for RNEP. Hobson rightly asked, "What is the administration's overall plan?" and he has yet to get an answer that makes any sense. The plan he seeks is not some micro-agenda for testing components of a new design but rather a comprehensive plan for keeping America a credible nuclear power in the future. We have now gone a decade without one.
Before we decide what new things to buy, the country needs a national debate about the role of nuclear weapons and their contribution to our security. The global security environment has changed dramatically, and we need new thinking, thinking that is not mired in the battles over nuclear forces that date from the 1980s and 1990s. To stimulate that national debate, I offer these points.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100833.html
Society's Toxins, Caught on Tape
By William Raspberry
Monday, May 2, 2005; Page A17
It's funny how the videotapes have divided us. Some of us saw the footage of the 5-year-old girl gone berserk in her St. Petersburg, Fla., classroom and decided we'd been too harsh in our judgment of the school officials for calling the police. Others saw the cops handcuffing the tiny child and decided it was the grown-ups who had gone nuts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100830.html
The Sierra Club
Save the Arctic Wildlife Refuge Now!
By narrow margins and in spite of strong bipartisan opposition, both the House and Senate last night passed a budget outline that opens the door for drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for future generations. There might still be a chance to keep the Refuge out of this budget. Now is the time to make your voice heard. Sign the Sierra Club's petition to protect our nation's largest intact wilderness.
http://www.sierraclub.com/
Climate Change
India, China discuss climate change related issues
May 1, 2005 01:33:00 PM
.BEIJING FGN8
Anil K Joseph
Beijing, May 1 (PTI) India and China, the fastest developing nations with spiralling energy needs, have recognised the importance of sustainable development and innovative technologies in addressing the issue of climate change, a key topic for discussion at the upcoming G-8 plus Five Summit in UK.
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, S K Joshi, and Deputy Director General, Department of Treaty and Law under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Gao Feng, held in-depth consultations on climate change here on Friday, official sources said here today.
The aim of the bilateral consultations was to discuss ways in which India and China could coordinate their stands at the G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, UK, in July where climate change has been identified as a major topic for discussion, the sources said.
The two sides also exchanged views on their respective activities relating to climate change since the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP10 to UNFCCC) held in Argentina.
They recognised the importance of sustainable development and innovative technologies in addressing the issue of climate change and discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in areas related to climate change, the sources said. PTI
Climate change poses threat to food supply, scientists say
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:54:49 -0500
Summary:
Global warming, still not accepted as reality by the U.S. government, seems to affect crops moreso than previously believed. In light of Monsanto’s genetically modified crops, which work to eliminate diversity and are effectively changing the agricultural landscape, the results of global warming on our own food supplies could be catastrophic.
[Posted By alpinestar]
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Republished from The Independent
Grim news regarding food supplies as the earth heats up and it becomes a contest of Man vs. Mother Nature.
Worldwide production of essential crops such as wheat, rice, maize and soya beans is likely to be hit much harder by global warming than previously predicted, an international conference in London has heard.
The benefits of higher levels of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, will in fact be outweighed by the downsides of climate change, a Royal Society discussion meeting was told yesterday. It had been thought that the gas might act as a fertiliser to increase plant growth. Rising atmospheric temperatures, longer droughts and side-effects of both, such as higher levels of ground-level ozone gas, are likely to bring about a substantial reduction in crop yields in the coming decades, large-scale experiments have shown.
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2594/Climate_change_poses_threat_to_food_supply_scientists_say
Ben & Jerry's Launch Campaign to Tackle Climate Change
By John von Radowitz, PA Science Correspondent
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s are hoping to lick global warming by launching the world’s first Climate Change College, it was disclosed today.
Over the next three years, 18 young people aged 18 to 25 from Britain and the Netherlands will graduate from the College to promote the cause of tackling greenhouse gas emissions.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4474792
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