Economics

SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair ~

Meridian Park School ~
175th and Meridian Ave N
Shoreline WA ~
July 19, 2008 ~ 10AM – 8PM

This story is an email I recieved that actually seems helpful in the event of an economic depression.

The entire US financial system is to come under the scrutiny of the IMF. Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power. For seven years, US President George W. Bush refused to allow the IMF to conduct its assessment. Even now, he has only given the IMF board his consent under one important condition. The review can begin in Bush's last year in office, but it may not be completed until he has left the White House.

In the Oval Office ceremony Tuesday morning, which was attended by nine Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the world and a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid who serves as a New York City middle school principal, Bush also inscribed a Passover Haggadah that will be sent to Jewish troops stationed in Iraq.- Joshua Runyan

It is time the U.S. "steps-up to the plate" and starts "swinging" aggressively at the oil cartel.

Over the past three weeks, 45 families and 31 individuals -- approximately 200 people -- entered Canada at the Detroit River crossings and applied in Windsor for shelter and social assistance after filing refugee claims with the Canada Border Services Agency. Municipal agencies dealing with the sudden influx of mainly Mexican refugee applicants are renting out hotel rooms and bracing for predicted thousands more to come...the average processing time for a refugee claim in Canada is currently 14.2 months, said Hawkins, a period during which the applicant is eligible for financial and other support. A failed claimant then also has the right to seek leave to appeal his or her rejection to federal court.

WHEN: Fri eve - Sun aft , Jun 27-29, 2008
WHERE: Webster University, 420 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119

The effects of climate change, peak oil and toxic production are here. We know it every time we see news of weather disasters and disappearing species. We feel it every time we buy gas. We hear it every time a child uses an asthma inhaler.

Solutions are here, also. But meaningful changes are being stubbornly ignored by government, big business and big enviro:

• A genuine effort at reducing greenhouse gases would require food to be grown within 100 miles of where it is eaten.
  
• A serious climate change program would stop funding the 800 military bases which ensure a continuous flow of oil to the US.
  
• The most energy efficient homes are homes that have no heating system at all.
  
• The most energy efficient cars are those that are replaced by trains, buses, bicycles or feet.

APRIL 28, 2008 -- The Peaceful Civil Resistance Movement in Mexico has entered a new stage in their struggle against the U.S.-led offensive to privatize Pemex, Mexico's national oil corporation. On Friday, April 25, the deputies of the three political parties that make up the Broad Progressive Front (FAP) ended their 16-day takeover/occupation of the Senate and National Assembly chambers in Mexico after a deal was worked out with the legislative coordinators of the two ruling parties in Mexico: the PRI and the PAN.

The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s.