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Monday 6 August News Articles and Observations

Here are a few news articles from Monday 6 August and a few brief observations about them.


A. Further Signs of Deteriorating American Economy


Additional statistical and other data will continue to emerge in the coming months that will demonstrate the downturn, now underway.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0806/p02s01-usec.html


http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0730/p15s02-wmgn.html


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B. Where Are All the Good Paying Jobs ?


Many of them are now in India and China where the workers doing them are making pennies and nickels on the dollar for what Americans would have earned. And corporations greedily abscond with the "savings" and line the pockets of CEOs, Boards of Directors, Executives, and Management with obscence and immoral amounts of pay, compensation, benefits, and perks.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003822411&zsection_id=2002119995&slug=jobspay05&date=20070805


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C. Significant New Taxes Required to Undertake Infrastructure Repairs and Upgrades


Wealthy Americans with earnings in excess of $500K, and America's 10,000 largest businesses and corporations need to be accessed additional income and revenue taxes to largely fund this growing necessity with higher diesel fuel taxes, additional sales taxes on automobile parts and services, and a special federal excise tax on all motor vehicle sales in excess of $25K to fund the remaining balance.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20095291/


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D. Income Tax Reform Desparately Needed


A return to income tax structures that existed prior to the Reagan Years is really called for, with America's 10,000 largest corporations to be responsible for 50 % of all federal, state, and local revenue requirements; a nine to eleven step progressive income tax system; and elimination of all federal income taxes on incomes beneath $21,ooo. Additional matters such as tax simplification, changes in tax credits and deductions, and other reforms are also in order for change.


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/06/3003/


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E. How Much More Expensive Will Food Get ?


This article is very troubling and disturbing, but is probably somewhat overstated in its conclusions.


http://www.countercurrents.org/james040807.htm

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F. The Peril of the Bush Junta Continuing Past January 2009


It is not impossible, but probably unlikely... lets hope...


http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/004


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G. Major Changes Expected Across Siberian Ecosystems


This is to be expected with Global Climate Change underway, but the consequences to wildlife and civilizations will be greater than expected with increases in releases of CO2 and other warming gases and a loss of habitat and wilderness.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070731191203.htm


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H. Book Recommendation


RFK Jr is a highly respected attorney and environmental thinker and policy formulator. His recent book is clearly fully on target identifying the greedy hoods sacrificing our environment so they can line the pockets of themselves and their cronies.


http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/715


http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Against-Nature-Corporate-Plundering/dp/0060746882/ref=sr_1_3/102-6914101-2451320?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186469944&sr=1-3


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I. Some Nice Good News


Far too often, my focus in these posts are on mostly negative articles. I must strive to include some positive items more often such as this upbeat article.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0807/p02s01-sten.html


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J. Old, Historic, "Quaint" Magazines to be Made Available in a New Way


The contents of these publications are better than 35 years old and in some cases, over a half-century. Excellent sources of cultural and social history and in better forms of delivery and presentation now than they were originally.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/business/media/06playboy.html?em&ex=1186632000&en=f5ae3e6d5da0760b&ei=5087%0A


http://www.bondidigital.com/


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