| U.S. Is Reining In Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan |
Children related to five people, including three women, who died Feb. 12 in a night raid near Gardez in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, stood at their graves last week. |
KABUL, Afghanistan — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization among units in the field.
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| “What happens is, sometimes at cross-purposes, you got one hand doing one thing and one hand doing the other, both trying to do the right thing but working without a good outcome,” General McChrystal said in an interview. Read more at www.nytimes.com |
Each fire set may have been intended for what people thought was a good purpose, not realizing that when thousands, upno thousands do the same thing it can have unintended consequences beyond their comprehension and control. Fires in Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam |
| In the late dry season, fires—both intentional and accidental—become widespread as people turn to fire to clear and manage agricultural and residential landscapes.Read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov |
Establishment of Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council |
| The Secretaries will select remaining members from among, but not
limited to |
| Game bird hunting organizations.
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| Waterfowl hunting organizations.
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| Big game hunting organizations.
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| Archery, hunting, and/or shooting sports industry |
| Hunting and shooting sports outreach and education
organizations |
Darfur, Gaza, Congo, Honduras, New Orleans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Toledo, El Segundo, Taos, Gallup, Seattle…
This is the time, We are the people, Let’s Work Together - Now!
Gaza Kids are calling for Obama’ Change !!!!
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| Gaza Kids are Calling For Obama
The lyric writer :
Dr. Akram Habeeb
Prof. Assistant of American Literature in Gaza University
Senior composer:
Mr. Kalid Jouda, a teacher of English in Gaza
Com… Read more at www.youtube.com |
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream - it was that this dream did not have to be dreamed again and again, and again. I Thought It Was a Dream But When I Woke, I Couldn’t Walk |
I asked my mom is it possible
That my legs and my hands
will grow again?
No one
No one
No one answered me.
Everyone, including the doctor, was silent.
All were looking down
As if they were stealing from me,
As if they were criminals
guilty of doing something bad to me. |
I looked the watch on my wrist, played with a ball.
My shoes touched the ball.
Suddenly the blast took all my happiness
And its grimy smoke brought
darkness into my life. Read more at awwproject.wordpress.com |
Only humans could junk up the nest/home so badly. Take action to say - NO WAY! Tell the Obama administration to protect our seas from “ocean sprawl” |
 As demand on ocean space grows, “marine spatial planning” identifies areas where industrial activities make sense and areas that should be safeguarded. Urge the Obama administration to adopt a strong framework for effective coastal and ocean planning that will protect, maintain and restore the health of our oceans (comments are due February 12th). Learn more about this issue »
Read more at secure.nrdconline.org |
| In the Ecuadorian Amazon, it’s biodiversity versus oil |
A biodiversity assessment published today in the online journal PLoS ONE tries to bolster the case for protecting Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park, even as the government’s proposal for doing so has hit its rockiest stretch. |
Land mines, cluster bombs, unexploded heavies, the list goes on and on. 200 years to rid Vietnam of mines? How long for Cambodia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq. The cost of war is a new hell for children and their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles… for years afterward. Can’t we just stop! where i am sitting there ‘was’ a war going on. |
| the soil is very red here. it has a hi iron content |
| there are bombs in this soil. explosives which are still killing people, maiming people, blinding people, etc. people who have/had nothing to do with any conflict between north and south vietnam, or the united states |
yesterday, january 15 quang li told me 14 people have died this year in quang tri province from explosives. |
bliare (exec. director of peacetrees vietnam) said it will take over 200 years to clear all the explosives in the soil in vietnam. over 200 years. 200 years. how long will this war last exactly? |
Make a buck, make yuan, make a yen - it’s just nothing except any way to make a buck, even if it ends up corrupting and killing us in the end. Canada Harnesses Racism to use Anti-democracy Platform to Peddle Seal Pelts, Penises, and Meat |
Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea took a delegation of sealing industry executives on a taxpayer paid junket to attend a fashion show in Beijing to introduce Canada’s answer to haute couture. “Let your people wear seal skins” is the message she is trying to sell. |
Canada is hoping to peddle pelts, penises, and seal meat to the Chinese government. |
Wayne MacKinnon, one of the sealing industry executives travelling with the Minister boasted, “The Chinese will eat anything.” |
| Tell the USDA to Protect Organic and Reject Monsanto’s GE Alfalfa! |
The USDA is getting closer to approving Monsanto’s genetically engineered alfalfa. One of the biggest impacts of allowing the use of GE alfalfa is contamination of other crops, including organic alfalfa, which is used by most organic dairies. The USDA actually acknowledges the problem of contamination, but claims consumers and others in the organic movement may not care about the contamination. This is absurd, considering one of the main reasons many people seek out organic food is to avoid genetically engineered crops.
We need to let the USDA know that consumers don’t want genetically engineered foods, and don’t want organic foods to be contaminated. Tell the USDA to reject the approval for Monsanto’s GE alfalfa.
Read more at action.foodandwaterwatch.org |
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