A couple of interesting stories in the Independent today. The first, about the report on catastrophic climate change_and Britains top scientist being gagged by no. 10. He reckons climate change has far worse implications than terrorism has or ever will. The other two links concern genetically modified maize and the EU ban being lifted (?) or not The closer it gets the harder people protest against the EU's decision to accept GM maize..Monsanto's GM maize isn't kosher and has a siniste...
February 24, 2004 by
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(Victims of violence in Israel) Yesterday in Den Hague Palestian and pro-Israel protesters gathered. The morning was for the Palestians and the afternoon was designated for pro- Israelis. Charges against Sharon's illegal barrier have been brought to the International Court of Justice. Israel does not acknowledge the trials and are boycotting the proceedings. For show, a bombed out bus, the work of a lone suicide bomber, was on display in the afternoon. They go for the shock and ...
February 15, 2004 by
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"Inaction due to questions over the science is no longer defensible" What will it take to convince the Americans? They laugh and compare present data to data in the 70's, back when they called it*Global Warming* The propaganda makers ( US Giant multi-national companies) doesn't want the truth told_it isn't good for business...once again business scores over life as we know it on this planet. Britain talks tough to Bush on Kyoto By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 15 February 2004 ...
February 6, 2004 by
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This isn't fantasy or politics but a glimpse into our not too distant future. The Ice Age Cometh By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com February 1, 2004 While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate...
January 15, 2004 by
EMacy
Herrenvolk Mentaliteit New York Times: An American Airlines pilot arriving in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, was jailed Wednesday after he protested new procedures requiring the fingerprinting and photographing of all incoming United States citizens by making what Federal Police officers described as an obscene gesture. Eleven other crew members on the same flight from Miami were refused entry to Brazil and detained after the police said that they had refused to be fingerpr...
The Killer Among Us By Michael Greger, AlterNet January 7, 2004 In October, 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address; the next, he couldn't form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn't eat. After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no longer offer any hope. "Just take him home and love him," the doctor counseled his family. ...
More profits to be made in homeland security. " Biometrics" are here! Similar to War on Drug tactics_American citizens have long given up 'rights to privacy' in the mandatory submission to urine tests for " drugs" just to get/keep a job while the Piss Test Company, Republican-of-course, get richer, this practice has become " normal". *Newsflash*_pissing to keep or get a job isn't " normal" and isn't standard practice anywhere-but..in the Safe States. The latest technology should have xe...