April 24, 2008
Good news. – Grimgold
Camelina: Montana’s next cash crop?
By TED SULLIVAN Chronicle Staff Writer
If the government approves the use of camelina in food products and the biodiesel industry takes off, Montana farmers could plant a million acres of the crop and sell it as fuel, animal feed or sandwich spread, local agriculture experts say.
DEIRDRE EITEL/CHRONICLE This camelina plant is one of thousands being cultivated and studied at Montana State University. “I see a huge potential for it. The size of the markets that it could be used in is gigantic,” said Bruce Wright, who grows camelina north of Bozeman and is in charge of the Great Northern Growers Cooperative. “There’s a huge potential for it in biodiesel. That one market alone could use everything we grow in Montana.” (more…)
Please read and understand this! – Grimgold
The euro went up again today in relation to the dollar. When the euro was first floated it was about $0.75 and a joke. Now, with the euro at $1.60, the dollar is becoming the joke.
About $58.00 of the $118.00 price of a barrel of oil is due to the weak dollar.
Bush and Bernake think you don’t understand this stuff well enough to figure out what’s going on.
Remember that the Fed with its airs of great authority and vast knowledge are allowing the economy to slowly go down the toilet.
We shouldn’t be heading into recession!
Their policies are what’s causing this!
Please, please read this quote from this economics book and understand it: (more…)
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US Catholics Call for Action from Pope Ratzo Against Predator Priests
AFP April 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Days before Pope Benedict XVI was due to begin a historic visit to the United States, a support group for some 9,000 Americans who say they were sexually abused by Catholic clergymen on Tuesday urged the pontiff to act against pedophile priests.
“We are looking for the holy father to hold the enablers and wrongdoers accountable,” Barbara Blaine, head of the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP), told reporters outside the papal nuncio in Washington, where Benedict XVI is due to begin his first visit as pope to the United States next week.
In January, SNAP sent a letter to the pope calling on him to meet with victims of predator priests when he visits Washington and New York, “to assist in the unfinished healing that needs to occur,” Blaine said, reading from the letter.
“We didn’t hear back. We believe the pope will meet with victims, but those victims will have been hand-picked by US bishops,” said the 51-year-old, accusing the bishops of protecting priests who abuse children.
“We are fearful that the pope is only given information that is filtered through the US Catholic bishops, and these are the same bishops who have enabled and promoted and covered up for child abusers,” said Blaine, who was sexually molested by a priest when she was 12.
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