Manning on Grain, Tipping point, Chinese furniture, Chernobyl, French protests, Battle for Baghdad, America’s Secret War, Mustapha mosque

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The Scourge of Agriculture from the Atlantic Magazine
Richard Manning argues that looking back to what "nature has already imagined" could be the solution for a world ravaged by farming
Against the Grain by Richard Manning
[Atlantic magazine has trashed its free archives, so these are alternate sources
to the "wheat as catastrophe" link in http://gbruno.tblog.com/archive/2004/08/ 3Aug04
I have a copy, so if this link fails I will post the complete interview
but seeing I found 4 links easily, someone should tell "the Atlantic" that once posted free, its futile to charge $ for archives...

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Climate Chaos: The Tipping point
Time magazine "be very worried"
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Ice melting fast

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25 March 2006, 6:29 Makka Time..
Import of wood products from China by the USA and the EU have increased 9x since 1998..Forest Trends and the Center for International Forestry Research.
..China ..the leading importer from .. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea where illegal logging is common..
70% of timber imported by China is for export .. 1/3 of the trade in furniture over the last 8 years.
.."Few consumers realize that the cheap prices they pay are directly linked to the exploitation of some of the poorest people on Earth and the destruction of their forests," said Andy White..
..a community in Papua received $11 /m³ of hardwood. ..China, it is worth $240 and ..10 times more ..in the West and Japan.
.. Forest Trends ..illegal timber from Papua New Guinea was ending up in China..Japan and South Korea.
Global Witness ..illegal timber from Burma ending up in China.
.. Indonesia has lost 65% of its forests.
..70% of timber supplying the .. processing industry is logged illegally.
..Global Witness .. February .. 150 log trucks ..into China from Myanmar every night.

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PhotoJournalism awards

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Chernobyl
See this if you're still keen on Uranium

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Greatest NZ painting?

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28 March 2006, 23:24 Makka Time, 20:24 GMT

The Eiffel Tower was closed
At least a million people have marched in French cities while unions staged a one-day national strike..
Unions and student groups said three million people took part in rallies on Tuesday, including 700,000 in central Paris,
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500,000 protest in LA against anti-immigrant laws
"Organizers claimed the L.A. turnout was closer to 1 million, but no matter whom you believe, everyone agrees it was the largest demonstration California has ever seen."
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sadly here in Aus, I havnt seen a decent demo since I arrived in 88.
Back in 78 there was still life in Aus, decent demos against Uranium.
Expansion of Uranium mining, sales to India etc now seem likely
The current nuclear war in Iraq has doomed millions to be drenched in radioactive powder.
Disease, malformations, mutants, this is a terrible outcome,
for which GW , Condi, and all war apologists should be tortured then shot.
This includes Australian Alan Jones, professional RedNeck Radio ShlockJock,
who was on TV this am saying things in Iraq are peachy, its just nasty media that say its bad.
As if Jones himself wasn't the nastiest piece of journalism.
I encourage all to take up a gun and shoot the prick, guilty of encouraging radioactive war.

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counterpunch GIDEON LEVY A bullet in the head from a distance of a few meters, fired suddenly and without warning shots aimed at the wheels, which the Israel Defense Forces claims there were. This is the way undercover soldiers from the Border Police killed Akaber Zaid, an eight-and-a-half year-old, who was on her way to the doctor

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Battle for Baghdad ’has already started’
3/25/2006 Independent - By Patrick Cockburn
kurdmedia or uruknet
The Independent wants $ but the report is available free, tbtg for internet...

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In 2004, George Friedman, the founder of private intelligence firm Stratfor, released a book, called America’s Secret War...
These, and all of the other public explanations for the war were indeed lies, but necessary lies, Friedman maintains, in the face of America’s need to achieve its true goal: prove to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East that America is not a military weakling. That’s it. That’s why we’re at war in Iraq.

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USA Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws" 28/03/2006 10:37AM

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A senior aide to Sadr, in comments capable of inflaming passions among the radical cleric's supporters, accused US troops of shooting dead more than 20 unarmed worshippers at the Mustapha mosque after tying them up. The mosque's faithful follow Sadr but the aide denied they were Mehdi Army gunmen.
"The American forces went into Mustapha mosque at prayers and killed more than 20 worshippers," Hazin al-Araji said. "They tied them up and shot them."
....Baghdad provincial governor Hussein al-Tahan said he would halt all cooperation with U.S. forces.

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Manning on Grain Tipping point Chinese furniture Chernobyl French protests Battle for Baghdad America’s Secret War Mustapha mosque