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Did You Hear! Experts warn oil production to Peak within fifteen years. Most international oil industry analysts say the oil gusher will turn into a trickle, oil demand will exceed supply, 11/24/03. Response: Woman Trampled In Wal-Mart Rush, ORANGE CITY, Fla., Nov. 29, 2003 CBS News A mob of shoppers rushing for a sale on DVD players trampled the first woman in line and knocked her unconscious as they scrambled for the shelves at a discount department store. “She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants,”......

Did You Hear! Billions May Suffer Severe Water Shortages as Global Warming Melts Glaciers: Billions of people will face severe water shortages as glaciers around the world melt unless governments take urgent action to tackle global warming, the environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said, ahead of a UN conference on climate change. - MILAN -- Published on Friday, November 28, 2003 by the Agence France Presse Response: In small towns and big cities alike, football is something like a religion. It's preached in your household, in the playgrounds, in the stores, in the corporate cubicles and boardrooms from the time you know what's going on." "It's ingrained in America's kids and adults, male and female.... Nearly two dozen children were arrested for "mob action" Thursday in an attack on students at a neighboring school that left 18 children cut and bruised, authorities said. MOM TRADING BABY FOR Chow Chow WITH 5 MINUITES OF NEWS AND 25 MINUITES OF COMMERCIALS EVERY HALF HOUR, WE ARE FILLED WITH INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE.

Did You Hear! "Energy profoundly impacts the environment, the economy, and foreign policy".......Energy Giveaway: Senate pulled the plug on the energy bill - obvious the only entity being made secure was Big Oil. Russia, China, combining to outflank US in Central Asia Worried about American intentions, Moscow woos former Soviet republics and restores military bases on their territories. Things seem to be unraveling rather badly these days: Iraq and Saddam Hussein’s elusive weapons of mass destruction, Arab-Israeli peace efforts, North Korea’s nuclear posturing, the economy, credibility and authority of the U.S. administration itself....... And far away Central Asia, an energy-rich region once ruled by the Soviet Union where the Americans are now extending their imperial footprint, is starting to emerge as Russia starts to flex its muscles there once again. Back to Doomsday clock: The Nuclear Arms Race is re-ignited. Published on Sunday, November 30, 2003 by the Observer/UK by Paul Harris in New York U.S. Plans New Nuclear Weapons 'Bunker-buster' bombs set to end 10-year research ban The United States is embarking on a multimillion-dollar expansion of its nuclear arsenal, prompting fears it may lead the world into a new arms race. Response: The Empty Heartland Across the rural Great Plains, towns are running out of people — and hope. Among teenagers, there is now a higher level of illicit drug use in rural areas than in cities or suburbs, recent surveys indicate. The middle class is dwindling, leaving pockets of hard poverty amid large agribusinesses supported by taxpayers.................................. Polls show a quiet crisis in confidence, the one thing that had seemed a part of rural American DNA. More than ever, people feel powerless to control their lives and pessimistic about the future, according to the annual University of Nebraska poll of rural attitudes..................... Government attention has only consolidated the trends, people in the small towns of the plains say, by subsidizing mega-farms that rarely create local jobs or contribute to merchants in the region. Arguments about the miracle of the American breadbasket — harnessing market efficiency and technology to produce cheap food in stunning abundance — may resound globally, but they ring hollow locally. The rueful view here is that subsidies, however sensible in the macroeconomic sense, are gutting the plains ever more. The Hungry Cities: There’s a new kind of homelessness in the in U.S. cities, and a new kind of hunger, and a new kind of need and humiliation. America is a country that now sits atop the precarious latticework of myth. It is the myth that work provides rewards, that working people can support their families. It’s a myth that has become so divorced from reality that it might as well begin with the words “Once upon a time.” In New York City alone, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1.6 million New Yorkers, or the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia, suffer from “food insecurity,” which is a fancy way of saying they don’t have enough to eat.

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