The Cooke Report
On the X Zone Radio Show
For
December 17, 2007

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Strange Stuff

Jingle-Bang! Santa's Chopper Shot Up Over Slum
            Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Santa to a children's party, apparently mistaking it for a police helicopter, police said Tuesday. 

U.S. Refuses any "Wounded Soldier Mail"
            Hundreds of thousands of holiday cards and letters thanking wounded American troops for their sacrifice and wishing them well never reach their destination. They are returned to sender or thrown away unopened.  

Suit Over Socks Costs School $95,000
            Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers' fees to five families who sued the school over its dress code.  

McDonald's Drive-Through Customers Face £125 Fine for Taking too Long to Eat
            Customers of fast food chain McDonald's are used to getting their food served up in minutes. Now, however, the firm appears to be expecting them to eat and digest it almost just as fast. Motorists are being given a 45-minute limit to finish their food in some drive-throughs before they have to leave the car park - or face a £125 fine.

The Environment 

Some Important Excerpts from Gores Speech in Bali Concerning the Arctic:
● I remember years ago listening to the scientists who specialise in the study of ice and snow express concern that some time towards the end of the 21st century we might even face the possibility of losing the entire north polar ice cap.
● I remember only three years ago when they revised their estimates to say it could happen halfway through the 21st century, by 2050.
● I remember at the beginning of this year when I was shocked to hear them say along with others that it could happen in as little as 34 years
● And now, this week, they tell us it could completely disappear in as little as five to seven years.

Gore Completes Renovations to Tennessee Home
            Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion, has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation's most environmentally friendly.

Arctic Sea Ice Cold Melt By Summer of 2013
            Melting in the Arctic is occurring faster than most scientists predicted, according to research presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.   Both Greenland and Arctic sea ice are melting at record rates, with Greenland's ice sheet losing 19 billion more tons of ice than ever recorded and summertime Arctic sea ice volume declining by 50 percent over the past four years

Food vs. Fuel
            If people can't eat, they can't do much else. One of the great achievements of the past century has been the enormous expansion of food production, which has virtually eliminated starvation in advanced countries and has made huge gains against it in poor countries. But the world food system may now be undergoing a radical break with this past. "The end of cheap food" is how the Economist magazine recently described it.

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