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The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1990.

In Singapore, $814 is spent on health care per capita. Life expectancy: 79 years
In the U.S., $4,499 is spent on health care per capita. Life expectancy: 77 years
-World Health Organization; 2000 data

45 percent of British feel that George Bush is a higher risk to world peace than Saddam Hussein.
-NBC News, Meet The Press, March 2003

80% of this year's U.S. Soybean crop will be planted using bio-engineered seed. The bio-engineering
adds a gene that confers resistance to the herbicide "Roundup". Such crops allow farmers to apply
Roundup and know that everything but the "Roundup Ready" soybean seedlings will be killed.
-USA Today, April 1, 2003.

A Pew Research Center survey of 20 nations shows an across-the-board increase in unfavorable
opinions of the United States. In 17 of the 20 nations, those who hold negative views about the
United States are more likely to say the problem is Bush rather than the country generally. The poll
portrays the United States as increasingly isolated, compared with the findings in a Pew survey last year.
- USA Today, June 4, 2003

"In the event of a chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological attack by terrorists, British
police could find themselves forced to shoot members of the public to maintain order."
- Police Federation Conference, Blackpool, England, 2003

The brain-wasting illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs when humans eat
brain or spinal matter from a cow that is infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Cows contract the disease when they are fed the brain or spinal parts of infected cows.
- Associated Press, Dec 29, 2003

Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and other potentially
cancer-causing pollutants than salmon caught in the wild. Eating more than
one meal of farm-raised salmon per month could increase the risk of getting cancer
later in life. Those salmon farmed in Northern Europe contain the most pollutants,
followed by North America and Chile.
- Science Journal, January 8, 2004.

RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tags implanted into humans -
Mexico's Attorney General, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, reported that he and
about 160 of his employees working at a anti-crime information center in
Mexico City have had chips implanted in their arms for security reasons. The
rice-grain-sized RFID chips, manufactured by VeriChip Corp. cost about $150. a person.
-InformationWeek, July 19, 2004

Due to global warming, by the year 2100 Polar Bears will be extinct.
visit http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/

DuPont uses perfluorooctanoic acid [PFOA] to manufacture teflon.
An industry study of 598 children in 23 different states plus the Discrict of Colombia
found perfluorooctanoic acid in the blood of 96 percent of them.