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POPSThe Biggest Global Warming Crime in History The oil rush is also scarring a wilderness landscape: millions of tonnes of plant life and top soil is scooped away in vast open-pit mines and millions of litres of water are diverted from rivers . The industry, which now includes all the major oil multinationals, boasts that it takes two tonnes of the raw sands to produce a single barrel of oil. It takes about 29kg of CO2 to produce a barrel of oil conventionally. That figure can be as much 125kg for tar sands oil. It also has the potential to kill off or damage the vast forest wilderness. Licenses have been issued by the Albertan government to extract 350 million cubic metres of water from the Athabasca River every year. But the water used in the extraction process is so contaminated that it cannot be returned to the eco-system and must instead be stored in vast "tailings ponds" and there is evidence of increased rates of cancer and multiple sclerosis in down-river communities.
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POPSGlobal Peace Index "The Global Peace Index is intended to contribute significantly to the public debate and highlight the relationship between Global Peace and Sustainability. Because, how will we achieve the necessary global co-operation to reverse global warming, loss of bio-diversity, provide adequate drinking water and a sustainable population without peace?"
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POPSThe Pope Versus the President The article continues: The U.S. invasion of Iraq was similarly contentious for former Pope John Paul II, who sent a special envoy to the White House in March 2003 in an effort to prevent an attack. The papal envoy's pleas fell on deaf ears. Vatican criticisms of the Bush administration's military intervention in Iraq have continued unabated. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran "The facts speak for themselves. Alienating the international community (with the U.S. push for war) was a mistake." Tauran, who has referred to the invasion and occupation as a "crime against peace," also said that Christians in Iraq "paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship" of Saddam Hussein. Benedict failed to honor Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's urgent request for a private meeting last month. The ongoing tensions between Bush and Benedict put America's Roman Catholics in a tricky position for 2008.
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POPSUS-American conservatives' language shapes reality The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis examines the idea that language shapes our reality. The theory is that the words we use will determine how we view the world around us. hetoricians know this. Politicians know this as well. It’s the use of this knowledge that conservatives have taken to a new level. Lenin’s quote that “a lie told often enough becomes truth” appears to have become the foundation for conservative politicking. There has been a purposeful, well-choreographed, full-on onslaught of language and terms incorporated by conservatives. he declarations of patriotism and support for family values. The claim to relate to the middle class and even “compassionate-conservative” ideas Conservatives have developed buzzwords used to support their positions and debase the opposition ...]: pre-9/11 thinking, form of a mushroom cloud, Shock and Awe, slow bleed, and cut-and-run . Even support the troops has been usurped to mean support the war.
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