From Exxon's US production chief, Otto Harrison, on Valdez: "Admit it; the oil spill's the best thing to happen" to the Natives.:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18035

and

"If I had a machine gun, I'd shoot every one of those white sons-of-bitches":
www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/1henrymakarkatatitleknative.jpg

72 mpg Dodge sedan:
www.allpar.com/model/intrepid-esx3.html

First convert to diesel, then plant algae farms--9.5 million acres of algae farms could replace U.S. petroleum:
www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

Algae farm yields 5-8,000 g/acre (10x greater output than best food-crop):
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/03/19/

Algae at $20/g need to be at $2/g:
deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695237893,00.html

Ethanol and Biodiesel Yield per Acre from Selected Crops
www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2006/Update55_data.htm

Reset your assumptions:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102555.html

Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone':
www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/20050408.html
www.news.wisc.edu/14875

Engdahl--perhaps 60% oil price on speculation:
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_Speculation/oil_speculation.HTM

Gov. Crist Oct '07, "...and that we not have somebody in the White House who thinks we need to drill off the coast of our state"; and the impacts of off-shore drilling in hurricane country:
cbs4.com/defedecolumn/offshore.drilling.fact.2.752174.html

Hurricane Katrina and oil platforms:
www.mms.gov/tarprojectcategories/hurricaneKatrinaRita.htm

Average coal plant is 667 MW:
www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/factsheet.pdf

250 MW coal plant in Montana cost $700 million:
commerce.mt.gov/energy/Includes/NewsArticles/2007Articles/102207_Regional_Power_Supplier_Plugging_Into_Wind_Energy.pdf

Klondike III near Wasco will use 124 turbines to generate 221 MW:
www.ecmag.com/index.cfm?fa=article&articleID=7136

Klondike II cost est. $260 million:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biglow_Canyon_Wind_Farm

Cost of nuclear plant in South Carolina--$4.9 billion--produces 986 MW:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station

List of windfarms:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms

Hoquiam biodiesel plant:
greensmart.construction.com/features/archive/0710_Feature1.asp

Solarworld buys Hillsboro plant to invest $400 million in PVC:
www.nwlaborpress.org/2007/10-5-07Energy.html

Solar could provide 69% of U.S. electricity by 2050 with $420 billion in subsidies:
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan&ec=su_solar

India's changing food crops; the consequence of importing wheat:
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/business/22indiafood.html

Pesticides chart:
www.foodnews.org/fulldataset.php

Autos replaced railroads, and led to explosion in miles traveled--"but one example of where the introduction of a more fuel-efficient mode, not only failed to decrease fuel consumption but substantially increased it":
www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/fuel-eff-20th-1.html

Rebound effect in energy conservation:
www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/energy/eng-80.cfm?&CFID=9099400&CFTOKEN=48978816

Poncho-tent and soldiering:
www.geocities.com/equipmentshop/tent.htm

Bill Moyers Doc--Iran-Contra, modern govt control:
here

U.S. Rice-- $1.3 billion out of $1.4 billion is subsidized:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14895

100 mpg hybrid:
www.globalexchange.org/update/press/5161.html

Cargill burns rainforest:
www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/photos/the-us-based-cargill-corporati-2

Fed reserve and the Mandrake mechanism:

Types of inflation:
1. Demand-pull - demand outpaces supply. This would not be expected to persist over time due to increases in supply, unless the economy is already at a full employment level. ...increase in output will eventually become so small that the price of the good will (have to) rise.
2. Cost push - rise in core goods or services, e.g. oil crisis in 70's; it is argued many prices are sticky downward or downward inflexible (thus when money supply decreases, these prices do not decrease. What are potential factors? a) Money reserves? Corp. pulls money from investments/slows new developments to make up for lost capital/profit. b) Decrease in production? Corp. lays off workers and shuts down least cost-effective factories, mitigating decreasing sales, i.e. go with what's most profitable. But does this cycle ever see its end? Is that why these short-term solutions pan out? That is, corps. ride the waves of recession with these two strategies instead of decreasing price of their good. Whenever you hear recession you hear layoffs, falling investments, RARELY deflation, and only starting with non-core goods, e.g. clothing, or goods with highest profit (can afford to decrease price) and not directly linked to raw materials, e.g. pharmaceuticals.)

-So far this year, consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 4 percent, compared with a 4.1 percent increase for all of 2007.
-Energy prices are rising at a 16.5 percent annual rate.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080613/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy

United States Notes vs. Federal Reserve Notes:
www.fdrs.org/federal_reserve_system.html

Foreign govts. own $2.2 trillion of U.S. debt, rising from 15% to 46% of debt since '86; U.S. pays $300 B/yr interest on debt:
911review.org/Media/National_Debt.html

Unemployment thru the decades:
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us34.cfm

In '04 Bush, Dean and Kerry opted out of Fund money:
www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/presfin04.html

'04 financing raised during Primary season:
-Kerry: $215.4 M
-Bush-Cheney: $258.8 M

As of May 1 '08 Romney had raised $100 M to McCain's $96 M, but lost candidacy 46% to 22%:
www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008

Stephen Heller, whistleblower of electronic voting machines:
www.bradblog.com/Docs/StephenHeller_Hust1106.pdf

Diebold in Ohio '04:
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

Voter caging:
www.gregpalast.com/bill-to-oulaw-voter-caging-introduced-in-us-senate/
www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5038/show

Sproul & Associates, defrauding voters:
judiciary.house.gov/OversightTestimony.aspx?ID=1400

Ohio '04:
www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud_ohio.html

Trade is ...by far the healthiest segment of the U.S. economy:
www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=13602

1968 electoral college map:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1968_Electoral_Map.png

Ohio campaign money to Democrats has doubled since 2000, and increased 66% since '04:
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2000
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2004
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2008

Michigan campaign money up 38% since '04
Virginia same 38% increase
Wisconsin has doubled since '00
Missouri is stagnant
Iowa doubled since '00, huge contributors to Obama and Clinton
Indiana up 57% since '04

Texas swung to Democrats with LBJ in 1960, was less than 2% victory for coming Dem. wins in Texas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

Cocoa, gold, rice--the great African scandal:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6756318286045228473&q=cocoa&ei=VLVMSND2JZTqqgPE7fzGDA

"In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent":
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

U.S. has greatest inequality of wealth, wealth taxes in Europe:
www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03may/may03interviewswolff.html

U.S. billionaires more than doubled since '95 (129 to 292):
bostonreview.net/BR21.1/wolff.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_billionaires

McCain changes tune:
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akmiLiXK6KgE&refer=home

McCain receives $61,650 from Swift boaters:
www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/hayes

In 2000, Rush won 61 percent of the vote, Obama won 30:
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/12/early_defeat_launched_a_rapid_political_climb/

Electoral fusion:
www.nwlaborpress.org/2005/5-20-05Cantor.html

Clinton healthcare reform:
www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_hillarycare_mythology

1 gallon of ethanol for $1.75:
www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080423/BUSINESS01/804230389&s=d&page=3#pluckcomments

gas w/o ethanol would be $3.70/g instead of $3.25/g (Merrill Lynch advisor):
domesticfuel.com/category/price/

-housing bill-
two main clauses:
1. lowered principal, to compensate for falling house prices
2. fixed interest rate, vs. hybrid adjustable
money.cnn.com/2008/05/15/real_estate/Dodd_Shelby_announcement/

hr 634-- 500,000 would benefit:
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/hous-m21.shtml

Foreclosure Prevention Act-- $2 billion to homeowners, $6 billion to corporations:
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/16bailout.html

newshour--barney frank interview:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/housing_05-08.html

"doing nothing would have caused a more prolonged recession (thus not benefiting tax-payers in the long run)"

-eligible mortgages may be reduced to 85% of appraised home value, e.g. a $100,000 loan will only have to be paid back as $85,000

to the question of why should the defaulters be bailed out, and liability be placed on tax-payers, the answer is it benefits everyone, including tax-payers, because it maintains status quo, a functioning society where those tax-payers need people to go in to work, maintain productive role in society.