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Following are cartoons pertinent to world affairs and events,
tragically interrupted by the September 11, 2001 attack on the
United States; the October 7 US military action in Afghanistan; the collapse of the
"swashbuckling global pioneer of energy deregulation" Enron
Corporation; collapse of confidence in Wall Street, and the Senate passes
campaign finance reform.
12/13/01 The Bush administration withdraws from the 1972 ABM
treaty.
11/10/01 165 Nations Approve Kyoto Rules on Global
Warming. United States did not sign onto such an agreement.
May 24, 2001 Vermont Republican Senator Jim Jeffords becomes
Independent, changing the balance of power in Washington, D.C. March 15,
2001 Senator Jeffords introduced the Clean Power Act which would require
specified reductions in emissions from power plants by January 1,2007.
June 6, 200l the National Science Foundation releases its
report on Global warming, and the Bush administration is forced to
recognize the existence of global warming. If the Bush energy plan as
presently envisioned were fully implemented, it would increase global warming by
35% over the next decade. (See Bush Plan at http://www.fe.doe.gov/general/energypolicy.shtml) See
Pew Center Analysis of President Bush's February 14th Climate Change Plan at http://www.pewclimate.org/policy/response_bushpolicy2.cfm;
Sierra Club's analysis of Bush dirty energy plan at http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/bush_plan/,
and an analysis of the Bush budget at http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/abudget03.asp.
Planet Earth: Pollution, Rockets, Star Wars, and Global
Warming
American High School shootings . . . .
Bush's Senior Advisor and former Campaign Manager Rove
answers a naive reporter's question.
The Bush Administration takes several foreign policy
positions.
Until September 11, 2001.
$1.35 trillion tax cut for wealthy. Surplus of prior
administration is gone. Budget deficit is now approximately $175 Billion.
The Bush Administration takes a social position:
And the Women's Groups say about the evangelical barbershop
singer Attorney General designee John Ashcroft:
June 6, 200l: Abortion rights group files suit over Bush
Family Planning.
With the ghost of James Watt looming in our Interior to
cut down our ancient trees and further pollute and rape nature's wilderness, as
wildfires still rage in the USA due to drought.
1. 11/1/01 EPA accepts Clinton Administration's
standards for arsenic in water. 2. 11/30/01 Lawsuit has been filed
against Secretary of the Interior Norton by the Native Americans (American
Indians).
A
child to ask a question about global warming . . .
and the Supreme Court to change anything or
everything of importance .
. .
2/27/01 The Supreme Court ruled in a 9-0 decision to uphold
the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
3/13/01 Bush Administration reverses its campaign promise to
cut carbon dioxide emissions citing the power crises out West. Bush
administration is also investigating the possibility of turning control of
the National Science Foundation over to NASA.
As we roll along merrily with our man created,
environmentally hazardous monster vehicles and belching smokestacks, all in the name of industrial
superiority.
. . . AND ANTHRAX.
The Media and Viagra feeds an already overpopulated, polluted
planet. . .
And the answer to a environmentally safe, nonpolluting,
renewable energy source lies at America's first national laboratory. The Department of
Energy's Argonne National
Laboratory. 7/22/02 President Bush visits Argonne, so what's going on???
The Year 2000 began with the Y2K scare.
And ends with a United States Presidential election in
question. . . . .
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Until September 11, 2001.
. . . AND ANTHRAX.
