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Dr Cecil Rickets provides you with some helpful handy hints to credit crunch cooking and cutting down on weekly food costs. Hoorah !
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And the crisis continues in Haiti over soaring food prices. Over the weekend, the Haitian Senate voted to oust the country’s Prime Minister, and one U.N. peacekeeper was shot dead. Here’s more:
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Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis is the first political victim of the week long riots in Haiti. 16 out of 17 senators voted to fire him in a special session on Saturday, in spite a of a new government plan to reduce rice prices.
Senator Rudolph Goezil said they were quote “Responding to the call of the people.”
Meanwhile, on the same day and in the same city, a U.N. peacekeeper from Nigeria was shot dead. A Haitian police officer, who did not want to be named, said the peacekeeper was shot near the city’s main Catholic cathedral.
At least five people died last week during the riots over food prices, but the capital had been relatively calm since last Wednesday, when President Rene Preval called on the rioters to stop.
The President’s new plan will lower the price of a sack of rice $8 dollars, from $51 to $43, but he said he would not lower taxes on food because they need that money for long-term projects.
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We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, forcing up oil and gasoline prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. Teacher Aaron Wissner, highlights the impacts, underlying problem, and solutions. This is part 5 of 5 in a one-hour presentation. See the full one-hour video at LocalFuture.org. Also, at YouTube, see the summary with great resources, web sites, video clips, and detailed background on Peak Oil and its impacts.
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What is peak oil? How will it impact the future? How can we prepare for this challenge?
In this uncut video clip, Aaron Wissner of the Local Future Network interviews Megan Quinn Bachman of Community Service, Inc. about peak oil and the future.
We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, driving up oil and gasoline gas prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. We are reaching Peak Oil and we are unprepared.
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We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, driving up oil and gasoline gas prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. We are reaching Peak Oil and we are unprepared. Teacher Aaron Wissner, in a compact 10 minutes video summary, details Peak Oil, the evidence, the impacts, and the solutions. See the full one-hour video at LocalFuture.org. Also, at YouTube, see the conclusion, of that presentation, part 5 of 5, which highlights the impacts, underlying problem, and solutions to Peak Oil.
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