Month February 2006

Tensions…

Thu. Feb. 23, Things are not good in Baghdad. We woke up this morning to news that men wearing Iraqi security uniforms walked in and detonated explosives, damaging the mosque almost beyond repair. It’s heart-breaking and terrifying. There has been…

Clinton: global warming biggest problem

Former American president Bill Clinton told 600 of New Zealand’s top business people their greatest worry in the world was global warming. The Bush Adminstration, in an apparently related move, hinted darkly that global warming scientists were willing dupes of…

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You do a great job. One minor point: S.F. may be confusing about its street #s but all over New England the problem is roads that change names with little or nothing by the way of signs. For example, in…

Private rivers

Will Transnational water companies swallow El Salvador’s water supply? The office of SETA, El Salvador’s water workers union, sits like a mouse at the elephant’s feet. The union’s plain, two room office sits next door to the huge, block-long two…

Rumsfeld used 9/11 to attack Iraq

Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to…