Article;
Israel electric car project aims to wipe out oil
Sell them like mobile phones, kill oil by 2020

DLD08 Israel today announced backing for Project Better Place,
intended to switch motor transportation from oil to electric, and
by a massive coincidence one of the project's prime movers,
Shai Agassi of Better PLC, was evangelising at the DLD (Digital
Life, Design) show in Munich. His objective, he says, is to "take
one country off oil in a way that is repeatable." Israel is that
country
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Environment;
    Gasoline is no longer a practical
    fuel for transportation Its time to   
    look toward a new energy source.
Article on climate change:
Things Are Heating Up
Denise Kaisler
We tend to think of our Sun as a paragon of stability. While other
stars pulsate, go nova, collapse, or bubble and churn like
overheated pots of oatmeal, Sol provides us with steady,
dependable radiance. Of course there are variations, such as
the 11 year sunspot cycle, but these are predictable and benign.
Recent evidence, however, suggests that we don't know all
there is to know about the nearest star. Drs. David Gray
(University of Western Ontario) and William Livingston (Kitt
Peak) have been studying the Sun's temperature with a
technique that compares the strength of absorption lines in the
solar spectrum. Gray finds that in addition to a fluctuation of 1.5
degrees Kelvin over the 11-year cycle, the temperature of the
sun is steadily increasing by 0.014 degrees/yr.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Sun will just continue to
heat up. The observed change may just be part of a much
longer cycle. During the 17th to mid-18th centuries,
astronomers noticed a complete absence of sunspots and
geological records show that the Earth's temperature dropped
by 1 to 2 degrees during that time. This may not seem like much,
but it was enough to freeze the Thames river and shorten
Europe's growing season, causing famine in many countries.
Gray notes that other stars also show this behaviour. In fact,
two thirds of measured stars have variations an order of
magnitude larger than those of the Sun - 15 degrees over cycle
instead of 1.5 . Other stars, such as Tau Ceti and Eta Cephei,
show no detectable temperature changes.
What is unique about our Sun is that temperature, luminosity,
and magnetic activity are all linked: a drop in one means an
immediate drop in the other two. In other stars, such as Beta
Comae, the temperature begins to rise 3 years after we see the
magnetic activity pick up. Cooler Epsilon Eradini has a gap of
only 0.3 years. By this scheme, the Sun should have a lag of
about 2 years, contrary to the simultaneous changes we
observe.
Gray believes that fluctuations of this type are almost certainly
due to the activity of dynamos which power the magnetic fields
of cool stars. Researchers are currently trying to build a
database to understand why stellar dynamos sputter and cough
in this way.
What does this kind of variablity mean for the Earth's climate? It
is possible that the current trend is partly responsible for the
global warming - although this doesn't mean we can keep
polluting the atmosphere. The greenhouse gases emitted by
industry only serve to amplify any other warming effect.
However, more research is necessary before we can say
whether this small rise in the temperature of the Sun will
continue, or will have any effect on us. Gray, for one, is
interested in obtaining data over a longer time to see if this rise
continues or flattens out in the long run.
Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the
decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll,
which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the
North Pacific. The bird probably mistook the plastics for food
and ingested them while foraging for prey.  Read More!
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Environmental Issue:
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling
swath of Pacific Ocean
At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American
Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts
into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable
currents, and declares the romantic moment as a "most
beautiful thing."
To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe.
In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the
storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called
Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the
Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, as told by marine biologists.
Article:
Energy VS Environment.
Stop Mountain Top Removal:
Coal’s most catastrophic and permanent impacts are from
mountaintop removal mining. If the American people could see
what I have seen from the air and ground during my many trips
to the coalfields of Kentucky and West Virginia: leveled
mountains, devastated communities, wrecked economies and
ruined lives, there would be a revolution in this country
.
Well now you can visit coal country without ever having to leave
your home. Every presidential candidate and every American
ought to take a few seconds to visit an ingenious new website, [
iLoveMountains.org] that allows one to tour the obliterated
landscapes of Appalachia….

The amazing new website allows you to enter your zip code to
learn how you’re personally connected to the great crime of
mountaintop removal. Using this website Americans from Maine
to California can see these mountains and the communities that
were sacrificed to power their home….
The site puts a human face on the issue by highlighting the
stories of families living in the shadows of these mines…..
This new website finally exposes this national disgrace for
every American to witness.

On May 4, 2007, the Clean Water Protection Act was introduced
in the U.S. House of Representatives, and is currently co-
sponsored by the 122 representatives.  Because
Representatives from around the country have received
thousands of letters from people like you, the list is growing all
the time.
Visit I Love Mountains . org (click on link below)
http://ilovemountains.org/action/write_your_rep/
Article:
Illinois Is Getting-
A Clean Green, Coal Burning Power
Plant...........But;
MATTOON, Ill. - Illinois won a battle with Texas on Tuesday for a
showcase clean-coal research project, but within hours the
Bush administration waved a caution flag about rising costs and
said it wasn't ready to sign off on the $1.8 billion FutureGen
power plant.
The quick turn of events did not dampen the party that broke
out across this town of 18,000 when an energy consortium
announced plans to use Mattoon as the site for FutureGen.

The cutting-edge plant is designed to test whether technology
can coax abundant coal into making electricity with little
pollution, burying greenhouse gases deep in the earth.

But is it and can it ever really be clean? The coal still has to
come from some place and that means destroying Americas
beautiful mountains. There have been over 400 mountains
destroyed so far.
Read the article below  
Article;
Texas is now the nation's leader in
wind-generated energy.
GE Energy Financial Services, an investment arm of General
Electric Co., said this week that they will invest in a $350 million
wind-generation project to supply the city of Austin, TX with
renewable energy.

The wind farm, developed by Renewable Energy Systems
Americas Inc., is set to begin construction this month in
Shackelford County about 30 miles northeast of Abilene.
The farm will have 72 2.3 megawatt wind turbines and is
expected to produce enough power every year to support
39,000 homes.  There will be a 15-yr power purchase agreement
in place with Austin. GE now has a stake in 79 wind farms around
the world capable of generating 2,870 megawatts of electricity.
Story source Tehran Times
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Article;
Iceland Wants to be
First Oil-Free Nation
    The U.S. takes pride in being a nation of
    firsts, but it is likely to lose out in the
    race—if  it can be called a race—to
    establish the world’s first hydrogen-
    based transportation system.

    The first market-ready fuel cell cars may
    well come from the U.S.--General Motors
    has promised retail models by 2010. But it
    is unlikely, to say the least, that a
    nationwide
hydrogen fueling system will be ready to greet them.

That first is likely  to go either to China or Iceland, and the small
island nation seems to have the lead right now.
Icelanders, who rely on expensive imports for their petroleum
products,  have been gradually cutting back on the use of fossil
fuels for half a century already. They use the waterfalls, geysers
and hot springs that abound in their volcanic country  to
provide electricity and hot water.

Now, in a land where gasoline runs about $8 a gallon,  people
are  looking  to hydrogen to fuel their cars and trucks.  The
country has become an important test-bed for fuel-cell electric
car makers, with hydrogen-fueled vehicles from Toyota,
Chrysler, Daimler and General Motors all plying the streets of
Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital.    Story Continues here!  
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Article;
Weather warfare
Michel Chossudovsky 22/05/2008

Beware the US military’s experiments with
climatic warfare, says Michel Chossudovsky

Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global
climate change, the world’s weather can now be
modified as part of a new generation of
sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both
the US and Russia have developed capabilities
to manipulate the climate for military use.

Environmental modification techniques have
been applied by the US military for more than
half a century. US mathematician John von
Neumann, in liaison with the US Department of
Defense, started his research on weather
modification in the late 1940s at the height of the
Cold War and foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare
as yet unimagined’.

During the Vietnam war, cloud-seeding
techniques were used, starting in 1967 under
Project Popeye, the objective of which was to
prolong the monsoon season and block enemy
supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

The US military has developed advanced
capabilities that enable it selectively to alter
weather patterns. The technology, which is
being perfected under the High-frequency
Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is an
appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative –
‘Star Wars’. From a military standpoint, HAARP is
a weapon of mass destruction, operating from
the outer atmosphere and capable of
destabilising agricultural and ecological systems
around the world.

Weather-modification, according to the US Air
Force document AF 2025 Final Report, ‘offers the
war fighter a wide range of possible options to
defeat or coerce an adversary’, capabilities, it
says, extend to the triggering of floods,
hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes: ‘Weather
modification will become a part of domestic and
international security and could be done
unilaterally… It could have offensive and
defensive applications and even be used for
deterrence purposes. The ability to generate
precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to
modify space weather… and the production of
artificial weather all are a part of an integrated
set of [military] technologies.’

In 1977, an international Convention was ratified
by the UN General Assembly which banned
‘military or other hostile use of environmental
modification techniques having widespread,
long-lasting or severe effects.’ It defined
‘environmental modification techniques’ as ‘any
technique for changing – through the deliberate
manipulation of natural processes – the
dynamics, composition or structure of the earth,
including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and
atmosphere, or of outer space.’

While the substance of the 1977 Convention was
reasserted in the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992
Earth Summit in Rio, debate on weather
modification for military use has become a
scientific taboo. Military analysts are mute on the
subject. Meteorologists are not investigating the
matter and environmentalists are focused on
greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto
Protocol. Neither is the possibility of climatic or
environmental manipulations as part of a military
and intelligence agenda, while tacitly
acknowledged, part of the broader debate on
climate change under UN auspices.

The HAARP Programme

Established in 1992, HAARP, based in Gokona,
Alaska, is an array of high-powered antennas
that transmit, through high-frequency radio
waves, massive amounts of energy into the
ionosphere (the upper layer of the atmosphere).
Their construction was funded by the US Air
Force, the US Navy and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Operated jointly by the Air Force Research
Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research,
HAARP constitutes a system of powerful
antennas capable of creating ‘controlled local
modifications of the ionosphere’. According to
its official website, www.haarp.alaska.edu,
HAARP will be used ‘to induce a small, localized
change in ionospheric temperature so physical
reactions can be studied by other instruments
located either at or close to the HAARP site’.

But Rosalie Bertell, president of the
International Institute of Concern for Public
Health, says HAARP operates as ‘a gigantic
heater that can cause major disruptions in the
ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long
incisions in the protective layer that keeps
deadly radiation from bombarding the planet’.
Physicist Dr Bernard Eastlund called it ‘the
largest ionospheric heater ever built’.

HAARP is presented by the US Air Force as a
research programme, but military documents
confirm its main objective is to ‘induce
ionospheric modifications’ with a view to altering
weather patterns and disrupting communications
and radar. According to a report by the Russian
State Duma: ‘The US plans to carry out large-
scale experiments under the HAARP programme
[and] create weapons capable of breaking radio
communication lines and equipment installed on
spaceships and rockets, provoke serious
accidents in electricity networks and in oil and
gas pipelines, and have a negative impact on the
mental health of entire regions.’

An analysis of statements emanating from the US
Air Force points to the unthinkable: the covert
manipulation of weather patterns,
communications and electric power systems as a
weapon of global warfare, enabling the US to
disrupt and dominate entire regions.

Weather manipulation is the pre-emptive
weapon par excellence. It can be directed
against enemy countries or ‘friendly nations’
without their knowledge, used to destabilise
economies, ecosystems and agriculture. It can
also trigger havoc in financial and commodity
markets. The disruption in agriculture creates a
greater dependency on food aid and imported
grain staples from the US and other Western
countries.

HAARP was developed as part of an Anglo-
American partnership between Raytheon
Corporation, which owns the HAARP patents, and
British Aerospace Systems (BAES). The HAARP
project is one among several collaborative
ventures in advanced weapons systems
between the two defence giants.

The HAARP project was initiated in 1992 by
Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI), a
subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Corporation
(ARCO). APTI (including the HAARP patents) was
sold by ARCO to E-Systems Inc, in 1994.

E-Systems, on contract to the CIA and US
Department of Defense, outfitted the ‘Doomsday
Plan’, which ‘allows the President to manage a
nuclear war’. Subsequently acquired by
Raytheon Corporation, it is among the largest
intelligence contractors in the World.

BAES was involved in the development of the
advanced stage of the HAARP antenna array
under a 2004 contract with the Office of Naval
Research. The installation of 132 highfrequency
transmitters was entrusted by BAES to its US
subsidiary, BAE Systems Inc. The project,
according to a July report in Defense News, was
undertaken by BAES’s Electronic Warfare
division. In September it received DARPA’s top
award for technical achievement for the design,
construction and activation of the HAARP array
of antennas.

The HAARP system is fully operational and in
many regards dwarfs existing conventional and
strategic weapons systems. While there is no
firm evidence of its use for military purposes, Air
Force documents suggest HAARP is an integral
part of the militarisation of space. One would
expect the antennas already to have been
subjected to routine testing.

Under the UNFCCC, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) has a mandate ‘to
assess scientific, technical and socioeconomic
information relevant for the understanding of
climate change’. This mandate includes
environmental warfare. ‘Geo-engineering’ is
acknowledged, but the underlying military
applications are neither the object of policy
analysis or scientific research in the thousands
of pages of IPCC reports and supporting
documents, based on the expertise and input of
some 2,500 scientists, policymakers and
environmentalists.

‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future
of humanity, but has casually been excluded
from the reports for which the IPCC received the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Michel Chossudovsky is
a Professor of Economics at the University of
Ottawa and an editor at the Centre for Research
on Globalization, www.globalresearch.ca
Video;
Owning the weather / PLAY NOW
Documentary that looks at the history of
weather modification and its use by the
military. Among the topics covered are: cloud
seeding, HAARP and declassified experiments