Quick Links 4/1/08

Tensions Rise As World Faces Short Rations

Hungry Crowds Spell Trouble for World Leaders

Markets Nervous: Will U.S. Plant Enough Corn?

Farmers Expected to Plant Less Corn

Reduced Corn Crop Forecast Plants Fears

Food Price Hikes Changing U.S. Eating Habits

Hong Kong Rice Buyers Expect 30% Price Rise; Shoppers Stock Up

White Out: Asia’s Rice Price Crisis

‘New Hunger’ Felt As Food Prices Soar

Farm Drought Gloom Looms

If It’s Breakfast Time, Fork Over the Dough

Food Prices Are More Important Than Energy Prices

U.S. Food Prices Pork Out

Supermarkets — Are They on the Endangered Species List?

Impact of Biggest Ever Beef Recall Beginning to Show

Farmers Fall Prey to Rice Rustlers As Price of Staple Crop Rockets

Will Wheat-Killer Fungus Be Used to Spread GMO Wheat?

Gov’t Resorting to Double-Talk on Rice Shortage

NFA to Supervise, Directly Sell Rice to Curb Rice Hoarding

Rising Rice Prices Spark Concerns Across Asia

Jump in Rice Price Fuels Fears of Unrest

Only a Radical Change of Diet Can Halt Looming Food Crises

Is Cheney betting On Economic Collapse?

Lofty Egg Prices Showing No Sign of Cracking Soon

UN Rejects Water as Basic Human Right 

Oil execs to take heat from lawmakers Tuesday

My Way News - Congress Presses Oil Execs on High Prices

Truckers Protesting High Fuel Prices

Team Effort to Save the Planet - U.S. - CBN News

 Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate

PAPER: ‘Earth Hour’ — No Fall In Power Usage…

Delegates from more than 160 countries begin climate change talks

Poor Nations Demand Climate Money

Gore calling on youth to save the planet

CIA enlists GOOGLE’s help for spy work

Mukasey Admits Government Knew Of Call About 9/11, Before 9/11

Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’ | Danger Room from Wired.com

GOOGLE steps up eco-activism, will help flood Capitol switchboard

FACEBOOK tool turns cellphone ‘into a snoop’; electronic map showing location

Nuclear Plant Safety Criticized: Kewaunee Facility Says It’s Addressing Agency’s Concerns

Planned Parenthood 2006 - 289,650 Abortions, $112 Million Profit, $336 Million in Public Funds
Russian Farmer Sues Space Agency for Falling Rocket

Jihad Against West Well-Entrenched, Author Says

Vaccine for Ebola Virus

Is a New, Dangerous Biohazard Site Coming to Your State Soon? | AlterNet

New Chill Around the Hives
Why Canadians are Forbidden to Express Their Church’s Teaching

Researchers: Asteroid Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah

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Old Solar Cycle Returns

Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly

Brace for $1 Trillion Writedown of ‘Yertle the Turtle’ Debt

Lords of Housing: Believing in the $22.5 Trillion Housing Market.

Trying to Get the Swiss to Talk - New York Times

US demands to see Swiss-Iran contract - Yahoo! News
UBS Doubles Sub-Prime Writedowns

John Gray: Those Who Control Oil and Water Will Control the World

FT.com / World / US & Canada - Bush and Brown in push to deal with crisis

Treasury pitches regulatory overhaul: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Bloomberg.com: News

Fed eyes Nordic-style nationalisation of US banks - Telegraph

ABC News: Al Qaeda Wants to Look Like Us

Iraqi crackdown backfires, strengthens Sadrists

Court won’t review FBI’s Congress office raid

CIA enlists GOOGLE’s help for spy work…

 Cash-strapped police using civilians for responding to 911 calls…

Maggie Money! Campaign head made $200,000 with subprime lender…

U.S., Russia to sign strategic framework document | Reuters

FLASH: 59% of U.S. doctors support universal health care…

SWISS MISS: UBS Writes Off $19 Billion; Chairman Steps Down…

Deutsche Bank Expects $4B Subprime Hit

UBS Writes Off $19 Billion

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Chinese Exporters Shun Flagging Dollar
Treasury Department Making Special Agreements With Islam Over Vital U.S. Investments

Markets brace for slump in Japanese business confidence

My Way News - Investment Firms Tap Fed for Billions

Bush seeks financial regulation overhaul

Bush Plan May Forgive Some Mortgage Loans

Treasury regulatory blueprint hobbled from the start

German watchdog eyes $600 bln global bank losses

McDonald’s signs onto ‘gay’ agenda

 Food Stamp Use at Record Pace as Jobs Vanish

One in 6 West Virginians is on food stamps 

LEHMAN raises $4B to quell critics…

France Eyes Bigger Afghan Deployment…

The Day the US Declared War on Iran

Iranian Navy Receives Stealth-Capable Submarine - National TV

War with Iran May Have Begun with Offensive in Iraq

Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for “Sudden Nuclear Hazards” After Cheney Visit

McCain seeks distance from Bush…

Bush Pushes NATO Membership for Ukraine, Georgia

Iraqi PM: Basra Operation a ‘Success’

Sadr loyalists warn of end to cease-fire

Turkey and democracy; The American model

Zimbabwe Election Results Delay Heightens Fears of Rigging

Congress grills oil execs on pump prices

Bush to Meet NATO Allies Divided Over Adding Troops in AfghanistanCongress Will Battle Over Iraq, Economy

Poll: Iran, Iraq, China Top US Enemies…

UK to announce delay in Iraq troop cut

How U.S. lost Basra

Mahdi Army holds firm as Iraqi PM risks all in battle of Basra

My Way News - Al-Sadr Pulls Fighters Off Streets

Reuters AlertNet - Aide to Iraq’s Sadr: “No handover of arms”

Another defendant in Haditha case cleared
Jordan: Collapse of Israel-Palestinian Talks ‘Threatens Region’

Confirmed: Israel, Syria ‘Talking’

Israel Removes West Bank Checkpoint Following Rice Visit

Injunction sought against Large Hadron Collider - Science

Try This Headline: Black Hole Eats Earth

Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built | the Daily Mail

Laser Plane Could Destroy Tanks From 10 Miles

Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’

ELECTION NOTEBOOK Clinton wants to create 3 million infrastructure …

Former Pentagon official pleads guilty in China spy case

Brown rejects cap on immigration

AP NewsBreak: Federal agencies fighting over fence laws

Intelligence Director McConnell is cast as a lobbyist

Moderate Quake Hits Northeast Nevada

Archaeologists Start Stonehenge Dig - AOL News

From a Burial Pit in Southern Peru, a Golden Oldie

Bridge-building Vladimir Putin wants tunnel to US - Times Online

AFP: Bush off to Europe to rally Afghanistan support, farewell Putin

Bush and Putin Will Sign a Paper in Sochi

Pentagon staffer guilty of handing secrets to China agent…

PELOSI: CHINA SHOULDN’T HAVE GOTTEN THE OLYMPICS

Merkel says she will not attend opening of Beijing Olympics

China advances on U.S. trucking

My Way News - Olympic Torch Arrives in Beijing

Tibetans Plan Suicide Attacks on Olympics, China Says

China: Tibetans Planning Suicide Attacks

BELLEVUE SUITES: FAMED NYC LOONEY BIN MAY BECOME LUXE HOTEL

Pentagon balked on gay partner travel; Pelosi intervened

Hitchens: Hillary ‘flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying’.

No. 1 ‘Clinton hater’ may endorse Hillary

Projection: Clinton Wins Popular Vote, Obama Wins Delegate Count

Bill Clinton Woos Calif. Superdelegates

Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day massacre - International Herald Tribune

Senior Democrats mull Al Gore’s nomination - Telegraph

At Cafe Diana, theories of princess’s death die hard

Carla Bruni, a perfectly lovely predator

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Hidden-camera series reveals nationwide cult

YouTube - KBR Electrocutes a Dozen U.S. Troops, One Green Beret Dead

British team makes mixed human animal embryos

Cybercrime Law Enforcement Debated: Financial News

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