Category: The World
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The Word is Getting Out
You know my feelings about how the drive for biofuels is going to drive the price of food up and how this trade off might not be the smartest thing in the world, but I now see the larger press is picking up on this idea.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0639150720070307" title="Told you so.">As biofuels boom, will…
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Wolf Questions
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6310211.stm" >Wild wolves 'good for ecosystems'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Reintroducing wild wolves to the Scottish Highlands would help the local ecosystem, a study suggests.<br />n<br />nWolves, which were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the late 1700s, would help control the numbers of red deer, the team from the UK and Norway said.<br />n<br />nThis would…
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Talk About a Drought
<a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP107703.htm" >Drought scars Australia's land and farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Farmers battling Australia's worst drought on record are shooting cattle they can't feed, abandoning dustbowl farms to search for grass with hungry livestock and hand-feeding animals on moonscape paddocks.<br />n<br />nThe worst drought in 100 years has left farmers the length and breadth of Australia looking…
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Interesting Confluence
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-01-25T211639Z_01_N25460726_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-HOME.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" >U.S. home to set world price record at $155 mln</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=117&art_id=qw1169791923347S524" >'Beware the affluenza virus'</a><br />n<br />n<br />nThe confluence of these two stories struck me as interesting. An Article about rampant consumerism being harmful and a home being planned that is going to cost $155 million. If there is anything that…
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Useless Thoughts
Some things that quickly caught my eye.<br />n<br />nWhen did the Doomsday Clock, which was used to show the threat of a nuclear cataclysm, begin to be used to show <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_DOOMSDAY_CLOCK?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">environmental catastrophe</a>? I was not aware of this change, not that I'm in the loop on this one. It seems like an………interesting change.<br />n<br…
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Australia Drought
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21045763-421,00.html" >Cattle slaughter rate jumps as farmers battle drought</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>CATTLE are being slaughtered at rates not seen for 30 years, with almost three-quarters of a million killed a month as farmers battle the drought.<br />n<br />nFigures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday reveal a rise in the number of cattle slaughtered…
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I Versus a Y Makes A Big Difference
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/od_nm/germany_tourist_dc" >A tale of two cities for confused tourist</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.<br />n<br />nDressed for the Australian summer in t-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt…
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Thought
Ed, of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/h/blogs/citylights/">City Lights</a>, met up with his favorite person, the sage, again and had an <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/24/news/local/50-lights.txt">interesting conversation</a> with him. It all boiled down to a merry Christmas wish but there was another statement in the article that really caught my eye that was more worth noting than the Christmas wish.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Why…
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The Gods Are Smiling
You reap what you sow and the Gods smile about it.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.agweb.com/get_article.aspx?pageid=133480&src=gennews" >Beef Prices In South Korea World’s Highest</a><br />n<br />nServes the bastards right for not letting US beef into their country. Maybe once the consumers figuyre this out they will revolt and overthrow their oppressive government.<br />n<br />n<strong>Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance –…
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Expensive Burger
I occasionally read stories about expensive hamburgers and they astound me. Here's another one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Jakarta-hotel-puts-110-burger-on-menu/2006/12/19/1166290520313.html" >Jakarta hotel puts $110 burger on menu</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.<br />n<br />nThe $US110 ($A141.27) hamburger offered…