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Friday, July 20, 2007 |
PressTV: "The Iraqi government said Wednesday that Turkish artillery and warplanes bombarded areas of northern Iraq and urged Turkey to stop military operations and resort to dialogue, according to news agencies.
The claim occurred amid mounting Turkish threats to strike bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, which has been launching attacks against targets in Turkey from sanctuaries in Iraq."
It seems Turkey does not have any real intention of becoming a member of the European Union.
11:14:11 AM 
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CommonDreams: "There's an African proverb that says, 'If you want to go quick, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far quickly, former Vice President Al Gore told a packed, rapt house at the Benedict Music Tent Wednesday. With many scientists pointing to a window of less than 10 years to moderate the effects of global warming, he said, meaningful change is still possible, but 'it is a race'.
The size of the climate problem? Worldwide atmospheric carbon has jumped from 280 to 383 parts per million in the last century; the polar icecaps are melting three times faster than anyone's direst prediction; China is on the verge of surpassing the United States for greenhouse gas emissions; bark beetles and wildfires are sweeping across Western forests; temperatures are climbing, sea levels rising, glaciers vanishing. By some estimates, humans must pull 30 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere to have a shot at reversing such effects.
'What we're facing worldwide really is a planetary emergency,' Gore said. 'I'm optimistic, but we're losing this battle badly.'"
In Amsterdam there was a whirlwind a day or so ago; small tornadoes have been sighted elsewhere. This is the first time ever that this has happened in the Netherlands.
Still, our authorities are on a tree-killing spree here in the neighbourhood. What they are after is the illicit commission they get from building companies. Morons!
11:08:33 AM
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