NYMHM: Russian bear is bullish on oil, GMO foods ride crisis, voter fraud questions

Wed Jun 11 16:18:47 PDT 2008

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   NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * June 11, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 23

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QUOTED:

     "This agreement in no way limits our ability to prosecute
     anyone or any violation of the voter fraud statute."

     -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, on the settlement of
     a lawsuit over his alleged targeting of minorities in voter
     fraud investigations (see "Elections," below).

CONTENTS:

     *Top Stories*
       Food crisis renews biotech farming debate
       A Russian bear is bullish on big oil
       U.K. faces diabetes "explosion"

     *Elections*
       When is "voter fraud" a fraud?

     *Par Avion*
       German zeppelins target London, San Francisco

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  TOP STORIES
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  > Food Crisis Renews Biotech Farming Debate

    As global food prices climb, the debate over genetically
    modified agriculture is once again heating up.

    The Christian Science Monitor reports that resistance to the
    use of modified crops is declining in some regions, as farmers
    contemplate increased profits, and governments feel the
    economic pressure.

    After the cost of non-genetically modified corn more than
    doubled, for example, Japan and Korea have "quietly" begun ...

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  > A Russian Bear is Bullish for Big Oil

    Climbing energy prices are a natural reaction to limited oil
    supplies, and are in fact necessary to "choke off demand,"
    the Financial Times of London reports.

    Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, predicts that current
    market trends will drive the price of oil over $250 per
    gallon by 2009.

    Even as costs increase, Gazprom is opening up new
    speculative fronts, particularly in the ...

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  > U.K. Faces Diabetes "Explosion"

    A new report predicts a 46 percent increase in diabetes in
    the United Kingdom by 2025, driven primarily by eating
    habits and booming obesity rates.

    As many as 4.2 million people in England, Ireland, Northern
    Ireland, Scotland and Wales are expected to have contracted
    type 2 diabetes by then, a result of junk-food diets and
    low rates of exercise.

    With this, experts foresee a parallel boom in related
    ailments -- such as heart disease, kidney problems ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005460.html

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  ELECTIONS
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  > When is 'Voter Fraud' a Fraud?

    Willie Ray, a Texas grandmother and Democrat, says had been
    helping elderly shut-ins to vote for years when she was singled
    out by the state Republican attorney general and charged
    with voter fraud.

    "All I did was mail ballots for folks who couldn't get to a
    mailbox themselves," she told her state's Democratic Convention
    last week, according to the Dallas Morning News.

    "The attorney general admitted there was no fraud, that no
    ballot was altered," she said. "But Attorney General Greg Abbott
    charged me with a ...

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  PAR AVION
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  > German Zeppelins Target London, San Francisco

    More than 70 years after the fiery crash of the Hindenburg,
    that once-mighty invention -- the airship -- has been reduced
    to little more than a floating billboard.

    But London's Guardian newspaper is reporting that a German
    company will soon send a new airship to London, where it will
    take sightseers high over the city.

    The Zeppelin NT, funded by German aviator Count Ferdinand von
    Zeppelin, is now undergoing test flights and has already ...

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Editors: Will Crain, Josh Wilson
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