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$1 billion allocated for batteries

World Net Daily

January 22, 2009

How about spending a billion dollars on batteries? After all, they are advanced. That's a proposal in the proposed $850 billion economic stimulus plan being considered in Congress.

...and one of the reasons for the establishment of a new website, ReadTheStimulus.org, which is trying to collect volunteers to analyze the dollars and cents written into the 300-plus-page plan. The organization says the website was set up to help citizens read and understand the 2009 bill.

Rescue trio aims for Yosemite peak

grough.co.uk

January 5, 2009

Three mountain rescuers will tackle a 27km (13-mile) fundraising walk to a mountain peak - in the Yosemite national park in California.

The three, all aged 60, will make the ascent of Half Dome in June. The route, involving 1,463m (4,800m) of both ascent and descent, is classed as very strenuous. The trio say they may also walk to the top of El Capitan, the 2,307m (7,569ft) famed climbing face.

How garden moss that smells like cannabis attracted police raid on pensioners... and the local drug gang

dailymail.co.uk

December 5, 2008

As a retired engineer in his late seventies, Ivor Wiltshire makes an unlikely drug fiend. But the smell of cannabis around his semi-detached home was unmistakable.

It was so strong that his nextdoor neighbour was even threatened by a drug gang who broke in and demanded: 'Give us the weed, man'. Days later Mr Wiltshire and his wife Margaret returned from a holiday in Madeira to discover that the drugs squad had battered down their front door and searched their property. All of this was a mystery to the 77-year-old grandfather, who has had no sense of smell since a nose operation 30 years ago.

Visiting Yosemite in the fall

The Record-Courier

November 10, 2008

We recently went on a day trip over Tioga Pass to Yosemite. On our way there we stopped in the ranger station at Mono Lake.

It is one of the oldest lakes, formed by melting glaciers, and is surrounded by volcanoes. The two small islands in the lake are volcano domes. Since the lake has no outlet, the streams that flow into it have left salts and minerals over the years.

Hedgehogs may not be problem for birds

UPI

October 18, 2008

EDINBURGH, Scotland, -- Removing hedgehogs from islands in the Scottish Hebrides appears to have had little effect on bird populations, conservationists say.

Scottish National Heritage has spent close to 1 million pounds ($1.73 million) in the past five years on the program. The hedgehogs were killed until last year, when the agency agreed to work with Uist Hedgehog Rescue to move the small spiny mammals elsewhere.

Wall Street Bailout: What Else Can $700 Billion Buy?

The Consumerist

September 24, 2008

A while back the New York Times was concerned about the cost of the Iraq War and published some estimates of what else we could have bought with that money.

We didn't find that very interesting at the time, but now, while trying to wrap our minds around just how effing huge the $700 billion proposed bailout of Wall Street really is. For $35 Billion you can get universal preschool. Half-days for 3-year-olds and full days for 4-year-olds.

Mortgage Bailout Bill Funds Eminent Domain

Liberty Matters News Service

August 6, 2008

President Bush just signed another taxpayer-funded piece of constitutionally challenged legislation to bail out 400,000 home buyers who face forclosure in the failing Bush economy.

The government's latest intrusion into market issues, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, may have far-reaching ill effects on private property, however. Among other provisions, "it creates a new regulator for ailing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and establishes a $300 billion program to expand the Federal Housing Administration's ability to guarantee mortgages."

Booted by Forest Service, Scouts now help fight fires

World Net Daily

August 2, 2008

Members of the honor society for the Boy Scouts of America who had to change their service project plans in Wyoming when the U.S. Forest Service instead allowed the Rainbow Family hippie group to use a location the Scouts had sought...

According to a report in the Casper Star-Tribune the Scouts, some of an estimated 1,000 members of the Order of the Arrow in the state, have "stepped in" to help firefighters in the Bridger-Teton National Forest fight the New Fork Lakes fire, about 19 miles north of Pinedale.

How the Government is Causing the Global Food Crisis

Mercola

July 26, 2008

Thirty countries have already experienced food riots this year. Tens of millions of people are being pushed into abject poverty and starvation. And to a large degree, this crisis is man-made -- the result of misguided energy and farm policies.

Some nonconventional media outlets even point the finger directly at the similarities between our current situation and previous man-made famines for the end purpose of mass genocide and calculated population control. In spite of what you have likely heard, a large shift to organic agriculture -- which by definition is non-GM -- could not only protect and improve the environment, but help end world hunger too.

Hunger bites in Haiti as emergency food aid from US and UN fails to get through

Cape Times (Haiti)

July 21, 2008

DESCHAPELLES - Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition ward that his mother no longer tried to console him.

After soaring food prices led to riots in April, the US and the UN promised millions of dollars in aid to poor families like Rivilade's, as well as help for farmers to break Haiti's dependence on imported food.

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