Nathan

Bloomberg.com: U.K.: "``Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world: access to water, food production, health, and the environment,'' Nicholas Stern, the government's chief economist, said in a 600-page report published in London today. ``Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.'' "

Bloggermann: Bush owes us an apology - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "'Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”"

Truthdig - Reports - After Pat’s Birthday: "It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice: "

Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF - Yahoo! News: "'People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.'"

Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF - Yahoo! News: "Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday. "

Of course it is true. While people bicker and discuss cars that run on air the real problem is readily apparant: there are just too many of us apes. We need to get ourselves down, perhaps within a generation or two, to sustainable population levels.

AG: Voter warning linked to GOP campaign - Yahoo! News: "State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

'We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained,' said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer."

Why the Frogs Are Dying - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com

First our troubles in Afghanistan were hidden from our view and now the most pressing issue facing humans and our fellow species is also not front page newsweek news, at least here in America.

Think Progress » Intel Officials: Rice’s July 2001 Briefing Described Urgent Threat, ‘10 On a Scale of 1 to 10′: "One official who helped to prepare the briefing, which included a PowerPoint presentation, described it as a “10 on a scale of 1 to 10″ that “connected the dots” in earlier intelligence reports to present a stark warning that al-Qaida, which had already killed Americans in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and East Africa, was poised to strike again…

“The briefing was intended to `connect the dots’ contained in other intelligence reports and paint a very clear picture of the threat posed by bin Laden,” said the official, who described the tone of the report as “scary.”"

Falling on His Sword - washingtonpost.com: "The session ended with a cordial handshake, and the secretary returned to the State Department. 'That was really strange,' he reported to Wilkerson. 'The president didn't know why I was there.'"

HE IS NOT DUMB! Its just that our real government apparatus doesn't keep him totally in the loop - even about meetings he is to take.