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  • Forecast Earth : Alaska Meltdown
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How is global warming affecting the Alaskan climate?
    Global warming in Alaska?
    By Dr. Heidi Cullen, Climate Expert at: The Weather Channel
    Editor’s Note: In May 2004, Dr. Heidi Cullen, climate expert at The Weather Channel, took off for Alaska to investigate the issue of global warming first hand. The following report is a portion of what she discovered.
    It’s tempting to ask: "What does Alaska have to do with global warming?" The answer is simple. When you live in a place where there (…)

  • Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT BURNS
    The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, officials said Friday.
    Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking (…)

  • Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
    22 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friends in Deed: The United States and Iraq Before the Persian Gulf War
    The scandal that came to be called "Iraqgate" first attracted widespread public attention in 1990, in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Persian Gulf war. The invasion followed a decade in which two successive U.S. administrations had viewed improvement of U.S.-Iraq relations as an important tenet of U.S. foreign policy, and had engaged in extensive trade with that country in pursuit (…)

  • Counting the dead in Iraq
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 2004 the US-based scientist Dr Les Roberts led a survey into deaths caused by the invasion of Iraq. His results showed that approximately 100,000 Iraqis had been killed after the invasion. He spoke to Joseph Choonara about his survey
    Your research on mortality in Iraq, published in the prestigious Lancet journal, made headlines across the globe last November. What motivated you to conduct the survey?
    This is about the ninth “hot war” I’ve worked in. In most wars people are killed more (…)

  • New Pope had brief stint in the Hitler Youth Movement
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ratzinger was just elected Pope, this was written a few days before his victory.
    Justin Sparks, Munich, John Follain and Christopher Morgan, Rome
    THE wartime past of a leading German contender to succeed John Paul II may return to haunt him as cardinals begin voting in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow to choose a new leader for 1 billion Catholics.
    Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, whose strong defence of Catholic orthodoxy has earned him a variety of sobriquets - including “the enforcer”, “the (…)

  • BIODIESEL INFORMATION / prelude
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    introduction
    by Matt Lechien
    Prelude
    Before going further on this file, it’s important for you to know what’s being prepared concerning biodiesel production.
    Being a biodiesel activist is very respectful, as long as there is a logic behind it. As we will see in this prelude, there exist some very environment friendly biodiesel, but also some which isn’t at all. Politicians and industrials from ages have long shown their cynism and blindness concerning energy acquisition. It will (…)

  • UK News - 3rd People’s Assembly: the Manchester Social Forum in action
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by maciacia
    Use solar electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen then burn the hydrogen as fuel. There is no pollution. Water is plentiful and so is sunlight. This fuel cell technology was demonstrated at the Campaigners’ Fair during the 3rd Manchester People’s Assembly on the 16th of April 2005. Mike Koefman of the Campaign for a Hydrogen Economy used a small tabletop machine to demonstrate the catalytic breakdown of water and explained how this technology could supply limitless (…)

  • National Analytical Study on Racist Violence and Crime
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAXEN Focal Point for ITALY
    de Annamaria Rivera Collaboration: Paola Andrisani
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    The present report, like the former Analytical Study on discrimination and racist violence (2000-2002) is based on the theoretical supposition that “races” do not exist but rather human groups which are “racialised”, that is, socially considered and treated as “races”1.
    In our opinion, racism is part of a process of social classification so that some groups (migrants, refugees, minority (…)

  • Fire Bombs in Iraq: Napalm By Any Other Name
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Summary
    This briefing examines the continuing use of incendiary weapons by the US military in Iraq. US officials have been forced to admit using the MK-77 incendiary, a modern form of napalm, at least during the initial fighting stage of the war. In direct contradiction, the UK government continues to deny that such weapons have been used in Iraq at any time. The UK is party to an international convention banning incendiaries where they may cause harm to civilians.
    1. Napalm past
    A (…)

  • Montana oilseed processing plant to make biodiesel fuel, preserve jobs in rural community
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Seed money: Culbertson oilseed processing plant to make biodiesel fuel
    By JIM GRANSBERY
    The gap between Missoula and Culbertson is measured in more than miles across the breadth of the state. It is a cultural divide.
    The twain are getting closer.
    Montana venture capitalists and renewable fuels technologists in the Garden City are linking up with oilseed farmers in northeastern Montana to create a new industry and preserve jobs in a rural community striving to survive.
    The effort (…)