Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: The World

  • Quite A Change

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/lf_nm/cities_dc" >In epochal shift, half humanity to become urban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.<br />n<br />n"You can choose city life with televisions and…

  • Murdering The Future

    <a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…

  • Sad News

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_sc/china_dolphin_extinction" >Rare white dolphin declared as extinct</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.<br />n<br />nThe baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting…

  • South Korea Acts Up Again

    You might remember my rant about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">South Korea's unofficial, official</a> trade barrier to US Beef. Well I see South Korea has again threw up it's unofficial, official trade barrier for the world to see.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/06/asia/AS_GEN_SKorea_US_Beef.php" >South Korea says banned bone pieces found in third U.S. beef shipment</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea said Wednesday…

  • Drought And Despair

    Farmers and Ranchers are the same all over the world when it comes to drought.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,20860040-5006029,00.html" >Drought, despair and the farmer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Behind us is a tin shed with bales of feed piled to the roof. There's little left for the stock, and he's forked out $8000 for the hay, the first time…

  • A Disturbing Problem

    <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/01/africa/web.1201madagascar.php?page=1" >Sex abuse of girls is stubborn scourge in Africa</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Thirty miles outside this down-at-the-heels seaside town, Justin Betombo tends his vanilla plants and cheers the local soccer team as if he had not a care in the world. And in fact, what was once his greatest worry has been almost magically lifted…

  • Baucus Stands Up

    A little more information on my rant yesterday about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">South Korea's unofficial, official</a> trade barrier to US beef.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/04/news/state/50-baucus.txt" >Baucus sets condition to support pact</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The next chairman of the Senate Finance Committee sliced into a T-bone steak here Sunday and said he cannot support a free-trade agreement between the United…

  • South Korea’s Trade Barrier

    I posted a while ago that South Korea had <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2036-Good-News.html">opened up its market to US beef</a> and how the news made me happy. It turns out I was wrong. While <strong>technically</strong> opening its market to US beef, South Korea has has rejected almost every shipment of beef into its country for one reason or…

  • A Movement

    Are we beginning to get a movement here?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061020/people_nm/germany_fashion_schiffer_dc" >Claudia Schiffer says models are too thin</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Claudia Schiffer believes models are now too skinny to be attractive even though the German supermodel may herself be slightly underweight despite a voracious appetite and predilection for chocolate.<br />n<br />n"It doesn't really look good any…

  • Evil Americans

    Those Evil Americans are at it again, polluting the planet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_as/china_river_pollution" >Chinese river mysteriously turns red</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A half-mile section of China's Yellow River turned "red and smelly" after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday.<br />n<br />nThe incident in Lanzhou, a city of 2…