http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html# The World News Bulletin is updated fresh each Sunday. During the week we will add pertinent news articles and publish them here as well. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:14:47 -0700 “If you attempted to run today’s world without money, billions of innocent people would starve to death.” The graduate student looked at me coldly and said, “So what?” The theory of Communism,” wrote Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “may be summed in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” When the Communists took over Russia in 1917 they attempted to practice Marx and Engel’s “theory.” By the spring of 1918 the Russian economy had reached a state of collapse and civil war broke out. Vladimir Lenin later admitted his mistake. He didn’t know how to build a Communist economy, so the Soviet regime retreated into “state capitalism.” The theory of Communism, plain and simple, signified economic collapse.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#editorial2Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:14:47 -0700CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new round of storms dumped a half foot or more of rain across parts of the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, dealing fresh trouble to a region already struggling with billions of dollars in flood damage.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#leveeThu, 26 Jun 2008 15:14:29 -0700People of the Western world would be stunned — dumbfounded— if they knew! The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australasia, South Africa would set in motion gigantic crash programs — if they knew! They could know! But they don’t! Why?http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#biblicalThu, 26 Jun 2008 15:14:00 -0700The global economy would collapse if oil hit $200 a barrel, said the top energy analyst at Germany's largest bank.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#collapseThu, 26 Jun 2008 15:13:28 -0700Music selectionhttp://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#songsThu, 26 Jun 2008 15:11:21 -0700Today's solstice marks the northernmost point of the Sun's annual motion through planet Earth's sky and the astronomical beginning of the northern hemisphere's summer. But only two days ago, the Full Moon nearest the solstice rose close to the ecliptic plane opposite the Sun, near its southernmost point for the year. Astronomer Anthony Ayiomamitis recorded this dramatic picture of the solstice Full Moon rising above Cape Sounion, Greece. The twenty-four hundred year old Temple of Poseidon lies in the foreground, also visible to sailors on the Aegean Sea. In this well-planned single exposure, a telescopic lens makes the Moon loom large, but even without optical aid casual skygazers often find the Full Moon looking astonishingly large when seen near the horizon. That powerful visual effect is known as the Moon Illusion.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#picThu, 26 Jun 2008 15:10:41 -0700John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#boltonTue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:41 -0700This past week, the Royal Bank of Scotland credit strategist Bob Janjuah warned of a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets. He anticipates a 300 point drop within the next three months. Janjuah as a lot of credibility because his warnings of credit troubles last year, came to fruition this year. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#marketTue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:39 -0700MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pushing and shoving broke out Monday among some of the 2,500 people hit hard by recent floods who lined up outside a county office in hopes of collecting free food vouchers.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#scufflesTue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:38 -0700WASHINGTON - Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#spinningTue, 24 Jun 2008 10:24:38 -0700New Government Report Details Impacts of Extreme Weather on the U.S. In Burlington, Iowa, the rain-swollen Mississippi has swallowed part of downtown. It's the second record-breaking flood in the past 15 years — and the second time Dennis Standard's riverfront restaurant has been ruined. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#extremeSat, 21 Jun 2008 10:48:48 -0700While most of the American population is oblivious to the rapid and aggressive military build-up of Communist China, readers of this blog are now well aware of it. Another milestone in China’s march to military superpower status was reached recently when China test fired its new ICBM missile which will be placed on China’s new ballistic missile submarines. In his “Inside the Ring” column in the June 16, 2008 issue of the Washington Times National Weekly Edition (see attached link), Bill Gertz reports that China’s test firing took place on May 29 from a Chinese submarine in Bohai Bay.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#chinaSat, 21 Jun 2008 10:33:10 -0700Paul Roberts says the global food shortage is already here. HOLLY NOTE: As you read through today's "food articles", a distinct, unmistakable picture forms. Crops plantings were delayed due to a cool Spring, and if they are sowed as late as June 20, it reduces harvest by 50%. Where crops were already planted, cold stunted their growth and left them unable to cope with the flood. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#famineSat, 21 Jun 2008 10:32:39 -0700"An indispensable book. . .the best analysis of the global food economy you are likely to find." —Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemmahttp://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#endoffoodSat, 21 Jun 2008 10:32:06 -0700The Israeli government no longer believes that sanctions can prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. A broad consensus in favor of a military strike against Tehran's nuclear facilities -- without the Americans, if necessary -- is beginning to take shape.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#iranSat, 21 Jun 2008 10:31:13 -0700After thousands of years in the ground, the date palm can at last reach for the sky (Image: Guy Eisner/Science)Forget cryopreservation – hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old – preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions – has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#JesusSat, 14 Jun 2008 21:44:49 -0700Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#alienSat, 14 Jun 2008 21:44:32 -0700Most theologians and scientists do not believe that catastrophic weather means the end of the world is coming. But many scholars do think the world is in for some kind of disaster, be it meteorological, ecological or geopolitical.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#apocalypseSat, 14 Jun 2008 21:43:28 -0700GRIFFIN, Ind. — In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#harvestTue, 10 Jun 2008 10:30:24 -0700Endless Energy from Algae Biofuel: Closed-Loop Photo Bioreactor from Valcent. Imagine 20,000 barrels of oil each year from one acre of land! http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#biofuelSun, 08 Jun 2008 16:46:59 -0700The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" are killing our children. The act to kill is unpremeditated. It is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#editorial3Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:14:43 -0700BEIJING, Jun 4 (IPS) - Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute. http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#scarcitySun, 08 Jun 2008 15:14:26 -0700Scores of countries are overpumping aquifers as they struggle to satisfy their growing water needs. The drilling of millions of irrigation wells has pushed water withdrawals beyond recharge rates, in effect leading to groundwater mining. The failure of governments to limit pumping to the sustainable yield of aquifers means that water tables are now falling in countries that contain more than half the world's people, including the big three grain producers--China, India, and the United States.http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#aquiferSun, 08 Jun 2008 15:13:51 -0700The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people."http://worldnewsbulletin.com/index.html#bookreviewSat, 07 Jun 2008 13:53:11 -0700