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Developing Countries are Awash in E-Waste
BANGALORE, India — Once considered a problem that affects only industrialized nations, e-waste — pollution from the disposal of unwanted electronic and electrical equipment — is fast becoming a bane of developing countries.Most e-waste in India is dumped in landfills or incinerated, releasing toxins into the air and soil that can cause cancer, birth deformities and arrested brain development, health experts say.“We’re sitting on an e-waste time bomb,” said Shetty Sreenath, who built Asia’s first eco-friendly e-waste disposal facility in 1995 in Bangalore, a southern city known as India’s Silicon Valley.Basel Action Network, a global watchdog on toxic trade based in Seattle, estimates that 75 to 80 percent of older machines from the United States wind up in Asian countries such as India and China, where recycling costs are much lower. The number of electronic products discarded globally has skyrocketed in recent years — 50 million tons annually — and now makes up 5 percent of municipal solid waste worldwide, according to Greenpeace.. » read more
Colonia Dignidad: Welcome To Hell
As we’ve noted several times, American horror films are taking a disturbing nose dive towards snuff flicks. The past five years have seen a rapid escalation of the sadism and torture quotient, notably movies like Hostel and the Saw series. Although I should probably just chalk it up to the Kali Yuga, it bothers me a lot because frankly, there’s very little fiction in these movies. (It also bothers me because these films are all pretty weak: after Passolini’s film Salo, there is absolutely nothing more that can be done with onscreen brutality. Don’t believe me? Watch it.. » read more
The Vaulting Ambition of America's Lady Macbeth
Hillary Clinton's shameless political reconstructive surgery You can measure the scale of an American president's troubles by the number of skutniks he deploys during his State of the Union address. Every year during his big set-piece speech to Congress, the president will digress from the main thrust of his remarks to offer fulsome praise to some member of the audience in the gallery. This person will have been carefully selected in advance by the president's speechwriters as an exemplar of some virtue and placed there for the purpose. The television producers will have been alerted in advance so that at the right moment, as the president talks about the heroics of this American Everyman, he or she can rise self-consciously and receive the praise of a grateful nation. This now obligatory part of a constitutional ritual is called a skutnik after the name of the first person so honoured.. » read more
Bethlehem and the Gaza Strip: 'two of the largest open prisons in the world'
I have just returned from visiting two of the largest "open prisons" in the world - Bethlehem and the Gaza strip. Travelling to Bethlehem even with a western passport is like entering a prison. There is a high wall surrounding the city. This is the security wall or fence that the State of Israel has built. There are armed guards at the border who always seem suspicious of your purposes and reasons for visiting.. » read more
Congress: Are you ready to be occupied?
Dear Spirit,Last weekend was a truly inspiring show of public support for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq. An eye-popping 500,000 peace voters and activists from across the country gathered in Washington, DC to rally, sing, march and lobby for an end to the occupation of Iraq. More than 1,000 people stayed through Monday for what was one of the largest congressional lobby days in our Capitol's history. To everyone who attended an event in DC or your hometown, thank you for making it a success!If you missed last week's rallies, there is still plenty for you to do. Nationwide acts of civil disobedience are set to begin the first week of February; read below to find out how to get involved! We also have an update on legislation that is moving through Congress and we discuss the potential of a US war on Iran.. » read more
Iran Shoots Down U.S. Spy Drone Amid Growing U.S. Military Pressure
Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival --the United States. The aircraft was brought down when it was trying to cross the borders "during the last few days," Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the parliament, was quoted by the local Fars News Agency as saying. The lawmaker gave no exact date of the shooting-down or any other details about the incident, but he said that "the United States sent such spy drones to the region every now and then.. » read more
It's All About Iran ....Washington Wants War....
January 15, 2007 It's All About IranWashington wants war… by Justin Raimondo As American troops storm what is, or was, an Iranian consulate – at least that's what the Iraqi government calls it, in spite of American denials – and the president accuses Tehran of arming and aiding Iraqi insurgents, the answer to the question "Why are we in Iraq?" should begin to dawn on even the dullest. The answer: Iran. We're in Iraq so we can go after the mullahs in Tehran, and, perhaps, those other Ba'athists in Syria.All indications point to a strike at the Iranians before Bush leaves office. The appointment of a Navy guy, Adm.. » read more
U.S. Special Forces In Somalia
[NOTE: Somalia has oil, too! PHB]WASHINGTON — U.S. special operations forces are in Somalia hunting suspected al-Qaida fighters, but Pentagon officials dismissed the idea they are planning to send any large number of ground troops to the African nation.U.S.. » read more
The Timely Death of Gerald Ford
Our long national nightmare in Iraq, far from being over, is about to get a second wind.THE very strange and very long Gerald Ford funeral marathon was about many things, but Gerald Ford wasn't always paramount among them. Forty percent of today's American population was not alive during the Ford presidency. The remaining 60 percent probably spent less time recollecting his unelected 29-month term than they did James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." Despite the lachrymose logorrhea of television anchors and the somber musical fanfares, the country was less likely to be found in deep mourning than in deep football.. » read more
Invasion USA
Volunteers 'with heat' to support National Guard Response set up after soldiers forced by attackers to retreat from border Gun-carrying volunteer members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have launched patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona in support of National Guard troops who just 48 hours earlier were attacked by gunmen and had to retreat, according to officials."We cannot allow this to happen," Minuteman spokeswoman Carmen Mercer told WND. "They were being attacked and had to retreat [because] they do not have permission to defend themselves.. » read more
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