On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:59:59 -0600, "Carl R. Osterwald" wrote:

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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:16:26 -0600, "Carl R. Osterwald" wrote:

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On 13 Apr 2004 11:02:41 GMT, John Griffin
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I doubt Lockheed will change its mind about controlling
nearly all of the US government.

I do too, Alexa. They have enough trouble controlling their
unions without trying something like that.

Controlling unions is a piece of cake when Lockheed is the driving force
behind the PNAC:

I hearby nominate Alexa Cameron for the AFA-B Angstrom Award and Medal.

Seconds?

Only your sock puppets!

Excellent, you accept the nomination!

Congratulations you win!

Relatively speaking, time is 'nearly up' for future of human race

James Meek
Wednesday September 13, 2000
The Guardian

The human race is set to vanish from the earth much sooner than it would
naturally as a result of its destruction of other species and use of fossil
fuels, a leading investigator into the history of extinction predicted
yesterday.
Michael Boulter, professor of palaeobiology at the University of East
London, told the British Association that without a catastrophic event such
as the comet or asteroid strike which killed the dinosaurs 65 million years
ago, mammals as a group could have expected to live for hundreds of millions
of years before fading from the evolutionary scene.

But the rate at which humankind has made other mammal species extinct since
the end of the last Ice Age, argues Prof Boulter, amounts to the beginning
of a catastrophic event in its own right.

"Humans are adding to the pace of the present mass extinction which will
involve all large mammals and many other groups. We will be one of the
extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover
and peace will return to the environment."

Prof Boulter and his group have produced a mathematical model of how groups
of living organisms emerge, peak and become extinct. Typically, groups of
animals diversify into multiple species rapidly, then slowly decline into
extinction.This fits in with the records of fossils.

But the recent rate - recent in geological terms, at least of large mammal
extinctions was more typical of the sudden mass extinctions which have
occurred five times in the earth's past.

The two key periods in humankind's contribution to the extinction of the
mammals were its hunting activities in the aftermath of the Ice Age and its
recent use of fossil fuels. Asked whether humankind's unique ability to
influence its destiny could be turned to save itself, Prof Boulter said:
"Look at the news. There's anger over the high price of fossil fuels.
Cutting back on fossil fuels is the one thing human beings must do to stop
extinction happening, but they won't do it, will they?"



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To rely on government bailouts from corporate oppression is tantamount to
seeking judicial
redress from the accomplice to the swindler who robs us in the first place.
In this regard,
Nader reminds us that ". . .there has emerged a fundamental change in our
political
economy. The arms-length relationship which must characterize any
democratic
government in its dealing with special interest groups has been replaced,
and not just by ad
hoc wheeling and dealing, which has been observed by generations. . ." but
by . . .the
institutionalized fusion of corporate desires with public bureaucracy--
where the national
security is synonymous with the state of Lockheed and Litton, where career
roles are
interchangeable along the industry-to-government-to-industry shuttle, where
corporate
risks and losses become taxpayer obligation." 27

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