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Rainforest Action Network Defends Support for Old-Growth LoggingRAN indicates industrial first time logging of centuries old trees in primeval forests the best that can be expected, censors further discussion on their web site, and faces renewed global call for members to cancel until withdraws from FSC After six months of evasions and personal recriminations, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has

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Last year, the Heartland Institute (a US climate-change denial thinktank) published a list of 500 scientists they say disagree with the central theses of anthropogenic global warming (that the climate is changing and that it's our fault)... The five New Zealand scientists listed today took the extraordinary step of issuing a joint press release demanding to be removed: \Associate Professor Chris

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nasa Nargis Burma floods - a huge amount of Burma underwater _____ ABSENCE OF CLOUDS CAUSED PRE-HUMAN SUPERGREENHOUSE PERIODS In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to Penn State paleoclimatologists. .. the Cretaceious and Eocene

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Global Warming has been cancelled: ...just kidding, folks. What this may mean is that absent record high temperatures soon, Climate Change campaigns may well falter. Which leaves us with the much more immanent Peak Oil crisis, the fear of which is causing food riots right now, even after a high global grain crop. It seems civilization will fall due to fear of oil shortages, long before the

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Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the country’s third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. It’s

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Meanwhile, Tumbo nonchalantly continues on her way, stopping frequently to eat (as is typical for her - I swear she eats more than any chimp I know!), seemingly without a care in the world for these 8 guys following her around. She does pay them a bit of attention at times, if you get my drift, but I wanted to write today about something else the males were very interested in. One thing that

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Anzac Day 2008 Why glorify those young men who followed Churchill's Anatolian adventurist folley? For that matter why are we now so chummy with Turkey, no mentioning of April 24,Armenian Genocide Day Why glorify those thugs who volunteered for USA's invasion of Vietnam? Did the 39-45 affair produce freedom? The two men who did most to win it were hounded to death. Without the code-breaking of

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Somebody set us up the Olympics. All your torch are belong to us, for great justice. _____ Wind Globally, wind-power capacity rose 27 in 2007 to 94,100 mW, according to the report from the Washington D.C.-based Worldwatch Insti%tute. The U.S. led the charge with a record-breaking 5,244-megawatt increase for a total of 16,818 mW—enough to power 4.5 million U.S. homes. ... Germany currently leads

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Another human being to be elected in SouthAm Mr. Lugo shrugs off easy comparisons to populists like Mr. Chávez or Evo Morales of Bolivia and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa. “Chávez is a soldier, I am holy man,” he said in an interview Thursday at his home. “Evo is an Indian, I am not an Indian. Correa is an intellectual, I am not an intellectual. I am simply an individual that feels for the people,

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April 17, 2008. NYT The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once processed enough grain to meet the needs of 20 million people around the world. But six long years of drought have taken a toll, reducing Australia’s rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December. ..The collapse of Australia’s rice production is one of several

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NZ Climate Change Deniers get Listener journalist fired, abject apologies from blogger under threat. Dave Hansford canned for outing disgusting corporate CCDs Fat Cat right-wing USA think tanks threaten free speech in NZ ...the environmental writer for the New Zealand Listener was fired after Heartland demanded he be silenced, and: Gareth Renowden has the full story. Well not any

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Argo floats show Oceans are cooling - is this an old story being beat up by BOD Big Oil Denialists? the 2003–2005 cooling is largely an artifact of a systematic change in the observing system, with the deployment of Argo floats reducing a warm bias in the original observing system. the main contribution to the large global OHC decrease over 2003–2005 is from the Southern Ocean, where Argo

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After five years of massive US training and equipment, the Iraqi armed forces weren't even able to take control of Iraq's second-largest city. Adding to Bush's utter humiliation, the Iranian-negotiated truce was mediated by the commander of the so-called Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, who brought Sadr's representatives together with Hadi

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A bend in the road, and the whole place disappeared." KM the Woman at the Store _____ haddock __________________________________________________ usatoday I keep promising myself to ignore Iraq, but... In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by the Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets and other protective gear if they must venture outside

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When I lived in the purple house in Grafton Gully 1974 with Tony Fomison, I had no idea his dark paintings would become so famous. Perhaps Frank Pound, now eminent art historian, who lived two doors down, made Tony famous? Its an old story, but why didn't I give Tony $20 for a pic? I seem to recall a time of poverty, fantastic sex, Mr Asia alarmingly pure shit. I walked away from that flat,

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This device is inserted under the skin, talks to your phone via bluetooth, runs on blood glucose. Rather similar to the gadget in "A Beautiful Mind" except not radio-isotope based. In the movie you were supposed to realise that such a device was so obviously impossible that Nash was evidently suffering from delusions. I confess I realised it was impossible, and merely thought 'what a crummy

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Senate Amendment No. 4882, an amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill that would have banned the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. Senator Obama of Illinois voted IN FAVOR of the ban. Senator Clinton of New York voted AGAINST the ban. _______________________________________________________ nationalgeographic for Antarctica overall, the ice loss increased about 75 percent over the

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Relatives of renegade soldier Maj. Alfedo Reinado and his bodyguard Leopoldinho da Costa mourn over they coffins in Dili, East Timor, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. Reinado was killed during an attack on East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta Monday which left Ramos-Horta seriously injured - there is a school of thought that claims Reinado was a defender of Timor against the Australian oil thieves.

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George Habash -Born in Lyd, Palestine, on August 1, 1925 to a Christian family --In 1944 enrolled at the medical school at the American University Beirut (AUB) -In 1948, shocked by the 1947 United Nations partition plan, returned to Jaffa and started a small business. --Witnessed the fall of Palestinian towns under Jewish control as he volunteered at an emergency centre to help the wounded. --He

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"Well George, we’ve knocked the bastard off." Ed Hillary 1919-2008 ... oddly NZ TV news has been featuring a pic of Tensing on top of Everest, in their tributes to Ed. __________________________________________________ from an economist at Massey University's Centre for Energy Research .. Using biomass fuel on a massive scale in combination with carbon sequestration could return atmospheric

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Soccer as root cause of Trrrism edge "Farhin, in all those years, after you and the others came back from Afghanistan, how did you stay a part of the Jihad?" I asked. I expected him to tell me about his religious fervor and devotion to a Great Cause. "The (Indonesian) Afghan Alumni never stopped playing soccer together," he replied matter-of-factly, "that's when we were closest together

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fresh carcase seen on the red rocks track was a stoat, not a ferret: A beautiful beast, that occupies a big part in the NZ psyche, as they kill many birds. It has been discovered here that rather widely spaced traps can eliminate stoats totally on islands. They swim 500m readly, and occasionally swim 1200m, so constant vigilance is required. _________________________________________________

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June Pallot , one of the great defenders of New Zealand Democracy. June Pallot nominated one of the 100 “Great Teachers of the Century” at VUW when that university celebrated its centennial in 1999. __________________________________________________ Pallot, J and S. Newberry, S. 2004. “Every Trick in the Book to Rush Bill Through.” The Independent May 26: 8. Two common techniques, called

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listener Why the world is cooked This Lawson chap, supposedly good at sums, probably better at ancient greek. He reckons that: since Singapore is 20° warmer than Finland, and they get along alright, the world can handle a few degrees warming. What a fatuous, dangerous fart. Some Northern climes may benefit from the first 1.5° ,, while reefs and jungles wither, so some rich countries may

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Zeppelin, who I saw at Western springs 1972, under orange barrel, perhaps the last of the Owsley acid. (by 72 it probably wasnt AOS3?) 707 full of speakers, before sound restrictions had been imagined, the peak of something - the 70s - eco-feminism-gay-indigenous-human liberation ?? such a beautiful vision that I remain damaged to this day by its brightness. Since then I have learned to work

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