[Green-Activist] Information Clearing House needs sponsors

[Roy Garner]

Information Clearing House needs sponsors.  This site, which ranges 
across the media coverage of the Bush Administration's (and the rest of 
the world's) destructive and costly intervention/invasion/occupation of 
Iraq,  is sustained by the efforts of one person.

In his latest posting, Tom Feeley asks subscribers: I need your help to 
offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If 
you find this site informative please help by clicking here 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm

Much of the news on this site is not covered by the big media players 
like FoxNews and CNN, or is lost is the wash of competing stories, so 
this site is an invaluable source for anti-war activists and 
researchers who question the wisdom and challenge the unbridled power 
of politicians in the sway of powerful vested interests and 
fundamentalist ideologues who profit from the so-called "war on 
terrorism".

Behind the hypocrisy of those responsible for this grief is a struggle 
to dominate resources, especially the dwindling reserves of fossil 
fuel.  The irony of this is that warfare waged by the most powerful 
nation has accelerated the depletion of this unrenewable resource.  Who 
could forget the environmental devastation of the burning oil wells in 
Kuwait at the end of the first Gulf war?  You can read about this on 
many websites.  One chosen at random from Google has a photo with this 
caption: "An Iraqi tank rests near a series of oil well fires in 
northern Kuwait during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Hundreds of fires 
burned out of control, casting a pall of toxic smoke over Kuwait before 
firefighting companies, mostly from the United States, extinguished the 
last fire months later. AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS."
Read about the Gulf war at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

Catalyst on ABC TV (Australia) recently screened an exposé of the 
parlous state of the world's oil supplies.  The programme interviewed 
industry whistleblowers, who predict a worldwide crisis within five 
years, as alternative fuel development and research has not progressed 
far enough to meet the world's voracious appetite for fuel. They 
predict a 20-year gap, during which time the international community 
will be challenged to fast-track development of these alternatives.  It 
will take a response on the scale of the Manhattan Project, which 
developed the A-bomb during the Second World War, if we are to find a 
solution to this need, upon which the lives of millions will depend.  
You can read a transcript of the programme, the Real Oil Crisis, in the 
ABC Catalyst archive at 
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1515141.htm

One challenge will be to develop an alternative aviation fuel, because 
at present there is none.  This single fact will see governments 
prioritising who can use aviation fuel (the military, politicians, the 
extremely wealthy).  Without an alternative, international travel, and 
all who work in associated industries, will be severely affected, and 
tens of thousands will lose their jobs.  Air freight and air mail will 
become impossibly expensive.  A simple budget holiday overseas will 
become an expensive, if not near-impossible, privilege.

It won't be a matter of "Stop the world!  I want to get off!"  because, 
in a very real sense, the world will stop, or at least slow down.

There will be no rest for dedicated activists working for an 
environmentally sustainable alternative to the dominant economic 
interests predicated on fossil fuel.







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