"business as usual"

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excerpt of film McLibel
sprword.com/inspirational.html
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World Cancer Research Fund
wcrf-uk.org/research_science/recommendations.lasso
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From:
Shocking Facts That Should Change the World
by Jessica Williams
indypendent.org/2008/01/12/shocking-stats-a-review-of-50-facts-that-should-change-the-world-20
...cars kill two people every minute...global warming kills 150,000 every year...one in five of the world’s people live on less than $1 a day...Americans discard 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour...a world wildly out of balance...BBC journalist Jessica Williams...provide history and context...there are 44 million child laborers in India...
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edibleallegheny.com
mcspotlight.org
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From:
Bush's Blood-Orgy in Somalia: "They Are Slaughtering Somalis Like Goats"
by Mike Whitney
...millions of Somalis have been forced to flee their homes and relocate to tent cities in the south because of Bush's support for the Ethiopian army's invasion...It should be no great surprize that the western media has stubbornly refused to report on the rising death-toll in Somalia, choosing instead to focus all of their attention on America's "villain du jour", Robert Mugabe. Mugabe is next on the neocon's list for regime change...At least 2.6 million Somalis are now facing famine due to acute food shortages spurred by a prolonged drought, violence and high inflation... The real motives behind the invasion were oil and geopolitics. According to most estimates 30 per cent of America's oil will come from Africa in the next ten years. Bush's new warlord-friends in the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) have already indicated a willingness to pass a new oil law that will encourage foreign oil companies to return to Somalia. The same oil giants that are now lining up in Iraq will soon be making their way to Somalia as well. The Horn of Africa is also critical for its deep-water ports and strategic location for future military bases. It's all part of the Grand Schema for reconfiguring the region to accommodate America's hegemonic ambitions.

Humanitarian Catastrophe: "The Ethiopian invasion has destroyed all the life-sustaining systems"

Heavy fighting and artillery fire have reduced large parts of Mogadishu to rubble. More than 700,000 people have been forced to leave the capital with nothing more than what they can carry on their backs. Entire districts have been evacuated and turned into ghost towns. The main hospital has been bombed and is no longer taking patients. Ethiopian snipers are perched atop rooftops across the city. Over 3.5 million people are now huddled in the south in tent cities without sufficient food, clean water or medical supplies. It is without question the greatest humanitarian crisis in Africa today...