In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be fighting to repeal.

* National and international campaign of epistolary solidarity with trade unionist Rubén
González * On 7 May, a court in the industrial city of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, denied
the possibility to the Union Secretary-General of Ferrominera (state-owned mining iron
company), Rubén González, to be judge out ofnjail.

The Chief Executive Officer of insurance giants Lloyds is warning that the world is facing a “period of deep uncertainty” over the decline of fossil fuels – and may soon be coping with $200-a-barrel oil.

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JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (Reuters) - South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesting security workers in the coastal city of Durb...

National and international campaign of epistolary solidarity with trade unionist Rubén
González ---- On 7 May, a court in the industrial city of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela,
denied the possibility to the Union Secretary-General of Ferrominera (state-owned mining
iron company), Rubén González, to be judge out of jail.

The ongoing economic collapse will not reach completion while the television remains on. Viewers are simply too easily and chronically manipulated by the irresistible medium. Resistance is futile.

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In a world where energy supplies are much more constrained than most international agencies assume, it is almost certain that refrigerated shipping will be too costly and energy intensive for many people - thus, the industrialized and centralized meat industry that we've created is not likely to be a long term success.

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