"Penguins are among those species that show us that we are making fundamental changes to our world," she said. "The fate of all species is to go extinct, but there are some species that go extinct before their time and we are facing that possibility with some penguins."

As the world's population continues to explode and more and more people live in coastal areas, the negative effects are growing for both marine and shore-based habitats used by a variety of species. There is an urgent need to begin monitoring those negative impacts, Boersma said.

"I don't think we can wait. In 1960 we had 3 billion people in the world. Now it's 6.7 billion and it's expected to be 8 billion by 2025," she said. "We've waited a very long time. It's clear that humans have changed the face of the Earth and we have changed the face of the oceans, but we just can't see it. We've already waited too long.

6,7 billion people trying to achieve an industrial lifestyle where you consume and throw away plastic entertainment every week, is a complete disaster. Dee Boersma is right when she says that we need the penguins in real life and not just on TV. Time to change direction of where we're heading, not just in the West, but in the East as well as in continents like Australia and Africa. We don't have time to sit around and debate whether we should execute carbon farting cows or how many light bulbs each democratic citizen ought to recycle. We need to be fewer people and we can't go on living the lifestyle we're living at the moment. Until we address these two fundamental points, the penguins across the world will continue to suffer, and the oceans with them.

In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former vice president’s home energy use surged more than 10 percent, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

Anyone surprised? Al Gore's been making fame and money out of this comparable to any given movie star, since he and many others began to go public with their "climate awareness." While the perspective of this article probably is in tune with a scepticism of global warming in general, it's true that green politics is yet another trend that neither addresses the real problems, nor is anything but a fancy money machine for rich and powerful lobby puppets.

Read more:

Global Warming, Global Stupidity
Corrupt Radio: Modern Environmentalism

South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday.

The life prolonging drug Stocrin, one of the antiretroviral drugs used to fight AIDS, is reportedly crushed and mixed with marijuana and sold in the townships around the coastal city.

The health department has warned that the trend could spark shortages in the city's hospitals and health centres, in one of the provinces worst afflicted by the AIDS pandemic.

Sounds great; instead of contributing to the overpopulation in Africa, people use the AIDS medication as drugs to support natural selection. As long as we protect the people who spread the virus, we'll not only let the AIDS mania continue, but these victims will have a prolonged life and be able to reproduce, which means their offspring mosty likely carries the same virus. If Africa wants to control AIDS, it needs to prevent carriers from having children--and if it's serious about protecting its environment, it will deny aid from the West and focus on curbing its population numbers.

Read more:

Africa Is Being Destroyed By Overpopulation

A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage.

St. James Davis brought Moe home from Tanzania in 1967 after the baby primate lost his mother to poachers. He and his wife treated Moe as their surrogate son, toilet-training him, teaching him to eat with a knife and fork and letting him sleep in their bed and watch TV.

Over the Davises' protests, Moe was taken to an animal sanctuary. But in 2005, when they took a cake to celebrate Moe's birthday with him, the couple was viciously attacked by two other chimpanzees who had escaped their cages.

Chimps are just like humans: some are more aggressive and hostile than others, but what immediately strikes me about this story is how stupid it is to want to domesticate a chimp into watching TV and living like a human individual. Why do we have to turn everything into circus play? I'm sure this couple didn't mean anything bad, but the whole idea of us turning animals into entertainment is sick, especially when considering that many of these animals are going extinct because of our activities. What they need is free space and the ability to live according to their nature and environment, not to live inside cages to serve to our petty entertainment needs.

Last October, a technician at the children's hospital at Stanford University improperly connected a ventilator hose, accidentally pumping too little oxygen into a 9-day-old infant's lungs.

A month later, technicians at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz unintentionally placed a CT scan of one patient into the electronic file of another, leading physicians to remove the wrong person’s appendix.

Officially called “adverse events,” those accidents are also known as "never events" because they are considered preventable, and many safety experts say they should never happen. California patients are being injured at a rate of about 100 a month, according to data compiled by the state Department of Public Health.

While committing mistakes is human, injuring 100 patients a month is proof of idiocy and unprofessional work. A lot of this is probably a result of the import of cheap labour, as well as a population getting dumber and more reckless. Soon we might want to avoid the hospitals for the sake of health reasons!

This is a sensitive but interesting topic for a couple of reasons:

- Obama is cheered by black and white folks alike, because he's being portrayed as the new puppet leader who will end the race conflicts in America (without a clue of knowing how, of course)

- Japan is basically an ethnically homogenous nation, so it doesn't share the neurotic fear of upsetting other people

- This news report is part of the recent push for Japan to go internationalist and invite cheap labour, because of an aging population

Japan should continue to shrug over scare tactics like this and instead try to resurrect its ancient traditions. We don't need racism, but we need mutual nationalism among all people, if we want to protect our cultural heritages against the globalist hegemony.

Further reading:

Japan "Must Boost Immigration," Says Ruling Party Panel
Japan Gripped By Suicide Epidemic As Ancient Order Falls Apart

Money is worth less and less, but not just in Germany and Europe. Prices are rising, in some cases skyrocketing, worldwide. Statisticians in the United States report inflation in excess of 4 percent, while consumers in emerging nations are even worse off. Some countries are seeing double-digit inflation, including 11 percent in India and 14 percent in Russia.

There is no doubt about it: After decades of calm on the price front, a time in which monetary stability seemed assured, inflation has returned as a global problem. "An Old Enemy Rears Its Head," Britain's Economist concludes.

But now the beneficial effect of globalization is being reversed. Emerging nations, instead of bringing down prices, are suddenly driving them up. To keep their economies booming, they need more and more energy. As a result, they compete for oil and gas worldwide, constantly driving prices to new highs.

There never were any "beneficial" aspects of globalization; we knew from the start that it was a push by the global elite to extend its power paradigm, create a race of cheap labour, and exploit what's left on this planet to produce plastic crap. The effects of this would be even worse if we'd try to industrialize the third world (which many deluded people still believe in). This system serves only those who manage it and the middle class in the West is now being wiped out from the economic chart. We need to stop this madness before Europe finds itself in a serious depression. It's not only about people or money, but also about the very future of our planet and its biodiversity. Globalization is death.

Read more: Corrupt Data Document - Globalism

Families in a crime-ridden Central Florida neighborhood are arming themselves with shotguns and talking about adding electric barbed wire to stop thieves targeting their homes.

"Somebody is going to end up getting hurt," resident Andrea Fine said. "The homeowners are tense. We are all on edge. For the first time in my life I'm really scared to live in my home."

Homeowners living near and on Sanford Avenue in Sanford said crime is so bad that some of them have been robbed three times.

Corrupt has consistently pointed out that this development will occur as a natural product of loss of common values that bind people together. With the death of traditional culture, society turns into a giant shopping mall for idiots, criminals and parasites. We're feeding bad elements of society and now they're starting to take over. You want to defend yourself? You better, because they're going to target more people, figuring it's easy to rob a home where neighbours don't care. The more isolated lives we live, the easier it is to succeed with a hit.

This mayhem cannot be stopped by more policemen, guns, or nuclear bombs in the backyard. The problem is the design which allows criminals and parasites to outbreed smart, honest people. We need values that support the community above the individual, forcing people to work and help each other collectively (this is why it's hard to establish organized criminality in smaller comunities: people will instantly see bad influence and call for its removal). The best police force is that of people watching each other's houses, and a society that's composed of good-spirited people who contribute to the common welfare. In the mean time, while we rebuild our culture, these criminals will utilize any chance to get by what they need to continue raping a burning empire.

The ICM poll does throw up some other interesting results. When asked whether they thought their friends would now by cheaper groceries – rather than more expensive environmentally friendly alternatives – given the recent rises in the cost of living, a majority of nearly 60% went for the cheaper option. This suggests that in buying patterns at least, the economic downturn is indeed having a clear impact on ethical choices.

But perhaps the most fascinating result of all emerges from the small print of the different social classes of the ICM survey respondents. Environmentalists are constantly accused of being middle-class lifestyle faddists, who don't understand the day-to-day financial pressures faced by "ordinary" working people. But the number of people who thought that environment should be the government's priority rather than the economy was substantially higher (56%) among the lower income, less well-educated DE demographic than among the better-off ABs (47%). Lower-income social groups also have a much lighter environmental footprint overall: only 42% of DEs took a foreign holiday over the last three years, whilst 77% of ABs did. Better-off people also own more cars, as you might expect – only 5% of DEs have three or more cars, whilst 15% of ABs do.

So perhaps anti-environmental class warriors like the editors of Spiked need to find a new cause to champion. The working-class people who they claim "can't afford to be concerned about climate change" actually care more about the future of the planet than the rich – and are doing a lot less damage to boot. So next time you hear someone defending motorway expansion or cheap flights on behalf of the British poor, ask yourself the question: whose side are they really on?

The rich love this green fad, because they can switch to fancy "green" products, be photograped using them, and turn up in the latest magazines as "caring" and "sexy" climate fighters. The middle class is getting increasingly annoyed with the climate propaganda, partly because the price on food and oil is rising again. What this editorial fails to mention is that the low-income class people want to ascend to the middle class segment of society, and consume just as much as everyone else. We can't escape this loophole unless we cut back on world population and simplify our lifestyles, the latter assuming we need a change in values.

Hawaii has become the first state to require solar water heaters in new homes. The bill was signed into law by Governor Linda Lingle, a Republican. It requires the energy-saving systems in homes starting in 2010. It prohibits issuing building permits for single-family homes that do not have solar water heaters. Hawaii relies on imported fossil fuels more than any other state, with about 90 percent of its energy sources coming from foreign countries, according to state data.

The new law prohibits issuing building permits for single-family homes that do not have solar water heaters. Some exceptions will be allowed, such as forested areas where there are low amounts of sunshine.

That's great news and just the kind of action we need to migrate to alternative energy sources. We can't depend on common folks to adopt "green lifestyles" and thereby magically save the environment. It's a societal design that's causing the destruction and that is what needs to be changed, not detail-fiddling to please the corporations and media empires. The more we force green alternatives on people, the better we'll do--but ultimately, we also need to be fewer people and live a much more simple lifestyle. Solar energy is a step in the right direction though and every house should use it as main energy source in the future. We have the skills necessary to develop it - we can do it.

People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say.

“A sense of entitlement sets in,” said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, “I deserve anything I want, I can have anything I want — and I can afford it.”

To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein’s defenders counter that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections.

The problem with wealth for people who can't control it is that it promotes a false sense of entitlement. It offers power benefits to people whose abilities may not match that power, which is what we're seeing in politics and finance today: powerful but neurotic and corrupt sales people take over our society and abuse their position for personal reward. Most of them should pick turnips out on the fields and not deal with money at all. Even more, when we're able to satisfy all of our needs (and all of them are materialistic, which is deficient in the first place), we lose the will to strive toward goals in life and fulfill our destiny, which makes us restless and and leads to us finding interest in the extremities that wealth offers. Ever wondered why the richest people also have the most deranged of sexual perversions?

A runner will sprint through a gallery every 30 seconds for the next four months in the latest art installation by artist Martin Creed.

Creed, who won the coveted Turner Prize in 2001 with an installation that was a light bulb going on and off in an empty room, explained in a statement: "I like running."

"Running is the opposite of being still. If you think about death as being completely still and movement as a sign of life, then the fastest movement possible is the biggest sign of life. So then running fast is like the exact opposite of death: it's an example of aliveness."

Setting aside the art exhibit itself, which lacks the poetic dimension to make me interested on a deeper level, the message is great. The contrast against death by running is a good idea and it communicates a subtly heroic stance: we feel alive when we engage in active, productive activity, such as working to succeed with a project. The best cure against fear of death is positive involvement with life, and running is one such everyday activity that I suggest all of you try out 2-3 times a week.

A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.

The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.

"It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying.

A neurotic decision by a teacher that fails to see context: rewarding stupid behaviour increases it. The teacher should have directed the phrase back to the student by simply ignoring it and moving on to the next exam. When we become bureaucratic robots or tired enough to accept stupidity, we create a negative loop that parasites abuse to gain attention and move up in the societal ladder. If you're ignorant enough to write "f-ck off" on exam, you're probably a peasant and should pick up trash as a future job.

Almost everyone seems to agree: governments now face a choice between saving the planet and saving the economy. As recession looms, the political pressure to abandon green policies intensifies. A report published yesterday by Ernst & Young suggests that the EU's puny carbon target will raise energy bills by 20% over the next 12 years. Last week the prime minister's advisers admitted to the Guardian that his renewable energy plans were "on the margins" of what people will tolerate.

But these fears are based on a false assumption: that there is a cheap alternative to a green economy. Last week New Scientist reported a survey of oil industry experts, which found that most of them believe global oil supplies will peak by 2010. If they are right, the game is up. A report published by the US department of energy in 2005 argued that unless the world begins a crash programme of replacements 10 or 20 years before oil peaks, a crisis "unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society" is unavoidable.

If the world is sliding into recession, it's partly because governments believed that they could choose between economy and ecology. The price of oil is so high and it hurts so much because there has been no serious effort to reduce our dependency. Yesterday in the Guardian, Rajendra Pachauri suggested that an impending recession could force us to confront the flaws in the global economy. Sadly it seems so far to have had the opposite effect: a recent Ipsos Mori poll suggests that people are losing interest in climate change. Opportunities for energy populism abound: it cannot be long before one of the major parties abandons the pale green consensus and starts invoking an oil cornucopia it cannot possibly deliver.

If we upheld different values, this issue would be a non-issue; it's insane to place profit over our planet. Money is a human invention but the resources and the habitat we're currently destroying will not return in its original form, if it ever does. Millions of species are literally dying, and we're debating whether we should keep the golden coins or the birds? Stop. We need to cut back on the world population, preferably down to 1 billion people, change lifestyle, and reduce the technological overhead that's destructive to both human psychology and nature.

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Genetically modified crops will not solve the current food crisis, according to the head of one of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies.

Martin Taylor, chairman of Syngenta, said the current industry focus on farmers in rich countries meant it would take 20 years to launch crop varieties designed to address the problems of the developing world. He told the Guardian: "GM won't solve the food crisis, at least not in the short term."

His words appear to contradict statements from UK politicians, industry bodies and the European Commission that GM technology should be considered as a way to address chronic shortages and soaring prices of basic staples across the world.

The problem isn't just about time; except the fact that we don't know how the ecosystem will respond to these crops, they've consistently proved to be less effective than organic crops, which defeats the whole purpose of GM in the first place. The reason why the multinational corporations are lobbying this through is because it will give them power over our food, and consequently, over us.

Read more about GM crops on Corrupt:

Dissecting the lies about GM crops
Efficacy of GM crops a myth
How Corporate Giants Are Taking Over: Control The Food And You Control The People Who Eat It

Well the lisbon treaty vote has come and gone, the result being a "no" (which by now you should be more than aware of).

So where are we now? "Unchartered Territory" as we continuously are hearing? No, actually we haven't gone anywhere. We're in the same stagnant waters we were before the Lisbon vote and were only ever likely to be in afterwards. European nations are in disarray as the bureaucratic overlords who direct our fates squabble with one another over the precise legislative nature of a scheme that will unite us within a single state but simultaneously and unwittingly castrate us of the last bit of genuine willpower we can draw upon.

Our leaders it seems are incapable of constructing a basis for European co-operation that doesn't involve handing over all notions of sovereignty and control to a petty and detatched quango. Meanwhile, over on the other side of the Eurasian divide, the Russians, Chinese and Indians are getting smart, getting organised and getting restless.

The power play between the West and East described here is real: if the West doesn't shape up soon and restore its empire, the Chinese will gladly overthrow it and use the remains as slave labour. We're fighting for natural resources and world power, and this time the Anglo-American alliance is not as powerful as it was during the first Cold War.

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.

"From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.

We should have thought of this earlier before we began to overpopulate and overindustrialize the planet. It's as if we were incapable of thinking ahead in the future of what the consequences of our actions will amount to. At least now, it's receiving media coverage. We will not be able to change course in a new direction unless we change the values on which our society is founded. Dethrone the Profit God!

The U.S. Navy is challenging Hawaii's authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military representatives say.

In February, U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra barred the Navy from conducting its undersea exercises within 12 nautical miles, or 13.8 miles (22.2 kilometers), of Hawaii's shoreline. Hawaii wants the Navy to follow Ezra's rules during all warfare drills near the islands and not just undersea exercises.

The Navy responded last week that doing so would prevent it from training its sailors properly. It also questioned whether Hawaii has the authority to use state law to enforce federal marine mammal protections.

You know you live in a bureaucracy when you have so many laws that you have to appeal to a court to save the environment. Why don't we skip the formal crap and do what's necessary to protect the whales? The law machine doesn't save species, it makes us inefficient and neurotic. With the risk of sounding like a hippie, I wish independence to Hawaii and fredom to the whales!