Coming Soon to US Pumps: Terror-Free Gasoline
The News Review:
- Coming Soon to US Pumps: Terror-Free Gasoline
- British arrests of Islamists fail to solve mysteries
- Coast Guard’s Purchasing Raises Conflict-of-Interest Flags
- Antonio Maria Costa: Cannabis… call it anything but ‘soft’
- ISRO to launch foreign satellite as primary payload first time
- The fiction of paradise
- The 100-Foot Diet
Coming Soon to US Pumps: Terror-Free Gasoline
NewsMax.com – Mar 25, 2007
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The website — www. org — identifies oil companies deemed to use home-grown oil supplies from the United States and Canada rather than the Middle East — including Amerada Hess, Sunoco Inc. , and Sinclair Oil. “Financing for terrorism comes from one place and that is the Middle East,” said Joe Kaufman, a spokesman for the group — the Terror-Free Oil Initiative. Middle East experts see creeping xenophobia in the effort, and liken it to when Dubai Ports World triggered a political firestorm when it tried to buy U.
British arrests of Islamists fail to solve mysteries
International Herald Tribune – Mar 25, 2007
But why kill someone else?” Last Thursday, three men of Pakistani descent were arrested in Beeston, a mixed-race neighborhood of whites, Asians and Africans, on suspicion they were accomplices of the July 2005 London suicide bombers. The arrests were the first in the case, and brought home to Britain the home-grown nature of its terror threat, which has been heavily investigated by the British authorities but has left a host of unanswered questions.
Coast Guard’s Purchasing Raises Conflict-of-Interest Flags
Washington Post – Mar 25, 2007
Its not perfect but it helps. The Pentagon wont even consider using it. They are only interested in handing out no-bid contracts to war contractors to spend billions developing a home-grown version. This will take years to design, test, and deliver. s continue to get maimed and killed by IEDs every day.
Antonio Maria Costa: Cannabis… call it anything but ‘soft’
The Independent – Independent – Mar 25, 2007
The global cannabis market is changing. Traditional suppliers to the UK such as Morocco – the world’s largest producer of cannabis resin – are slashing cultivation. That is more than offset by an increase in home-grown cannabis, now the main source of supply for most major markets. In Britain, demand will increasingly be met by well-organised indoor production with links to criminal networks. This represents a growing challenge for police. Drug prevention and treatment will need to change in response to the effects of more powerful cannabis varieties on cognitive capacity, memory and emotional development, as well as schizophrenia among vulnerable individuals exposed to the drug. Public attitudes also need to change.
ISRO to launch foreign satellite as primary payload first time
Hindu – Mar 25, 2007
25 (PTI): India for the first time will launch a foreign satellite — an Italian one — as a primary payload on a home-grown rocket, as space scientists prepare to further demonstrate the country’s cost-effective launch services capability. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched foreign payloads as piggybacks in the past; next month’s mission would see the space agency launching the 360-kg AGILE spacecraft as a primary payload. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), the workhorse rocket of Bangalore-headquartered ISRO, would blast-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota with AGILE and India’s Advanced Avionics Module (AAM) as secondary payload. The launch is scheduled between April 20-30. “It will send a right message to global community.
The fiction of paradise
Jamaica Observer – Mar 25, 2007
I worry about my sister, a teacher at a college, who reports about a co-worker who was recently stalked and harassed by a disgruntled student unhappy with the grades he was awarded. I have nightmares of one of my nephews innocently entering a McDonalds and, boom! The unthinkable happens. I mentally play out the danger my brother-in-law the banker could encounter if he faced home-grown or terrorist rage on his job. But is it really? Last week’s murder of the Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer, has made me wonder.
The 100-Foot Diet
Common Dreams – Common Dreams (press release) – Mar 25, 2007
Our home-grown veggies tasted fabulous — particularly super-fresh sweet corn (3 minutes from plot to pot). If we did this today, maybe we could start declaring victory over the oil companies! wilmoor March 25th, 2007 6:11 pm Growing up my family raised a huge garden. We never bought a single veggie. As long as there were kids at home, all the meat was also raised, hunted, or taken from lakes and rivers.