2005.4.9=6[#99]:4703.3.1[#60/60]: [Earth Core] Mail 4 Property Taxes. 1)Oil Age going? 2)Iraq. 3)Nuclear Water Pollution.

[to Earth's Core?] http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/nasa_core_030514.html Rather cloudy cool: Up 7:55, write 4 checks for property taxes, 2 signed by mom amd mail them together with a certificate of mailing. Then stay at Bk of Am just for a few minutes nothing from Amy, Rebecca not in, check 3 accounts balance. Home to lunch from Mei who goes to Costco back with her pant, Jyun and Ch came and went off already. Tons of emails again after cleaned up inbox yesterday, now 6:07pm for Oil topic. Then full bath evening, now 8:27pm to finish this to go to o.h. 1) Passing Oil Age? "The Great Phase Transition: The Post-Oil Era", by Jorge Figueiredo [a specialist on energy issues. He is editor of the critically acclaimed Portuguese news and analysis website www.resistir.info]; Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) www.globalresearch.ca, 3 APRIL 2005: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FIG503A.html 2) Iraq: "Iraq's Oilworkers Will Defend the Country's Oil", by David Bacon [a California photojournalist, who documents labor, migration and globalization. His book, The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border, was published last year by University of California Press]; t r u t h o u t | Interview with Hassan Juma'a Awad; Tuesday 05 April 2005: http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/printer_040705LA.shtml "" Q: How was the Southern Oil Company Union organized? A: Two weeks after the occupying forces entered Basra on the 9th of April, 2003, Iraqi activists in the oil industry met to reestablish the union. "" 3) Nuclear Pollution in USA: "Nuclear Water", by Larry Sakin; 9 April 2005: http://www.mytown.ca/sakin/ "" It seems that some scientists from the US Geological Survey have doctored reports about the safety of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste disposal site, a little area where flowing groundwater makes its way to the Colorado River. Apparently, the site is not as invulnerable to potential leakage of waste material that can be carried off to the river. But this is not what the Bush administration wanted to hear, so the scientist created reports that were in line with administration policy. In a related matter, a toxic waste dump near Moab, Utah that sits directly at the mouth of the Colorado River is now believed to be a hazard, potentially leaking even more chemicals into the river. The US Department of Energy has been sitting on its hands on this one, no doubt trying to massage their collective brains to find a solution to this extremely dangerous situation. Well, at least it isn't nuclear waste. The US House is holding hearings on the Yucca Mountain debacle, chaired by Republican Congressman John Porter of Nevada. The subcommittee has professed shock and awe that the scientists would have the gravitas to actually lie in an official government survey while putting millions of lives at risk for cancer, brain damage and birth defects. Where have these guys been? Government scientists have been lying for years in official government reports. Anyone remember the government scientists who lied about Agent Orange? Or the health concerns caused by the Three Mile Island and Love Canal incidents? Or more recently, how government scientists allowed several prescription medications to be marketed when studies suggested that the side effects were more harmful than the symptoms the drugs were created to treat? Government scientists have been the ghostwriters for presidential administration minions like Karl Rove for close to a century. If its meant to promote or help big business, someone's gonna be on the payroll to lie about it. ""