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- Your Toxic Wedding!
From the UK’s independent:
Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life, but scratch beneath the glossy surface and it’s immediately apparent that it also causes substantial environmental damage.
According to Climate Care, an organisation that offsets harmful carbon dioxide emissions, the average wedding emits around 14.5 tons of CO2, markedly more than [...]
- Elections in Former Soviet States
Two former Soviet states recently held elections. You’d be hard pressed to find a common theme.
First, Ukraine. Yulia Timoshenko, who was fired as Ukraine’s prime minister by President Viktor Yushchenko six months ago (see original CA post here), may return to power at the head of a coalition government. Yushchenko’s party came [...]
- The Mongol Conquers
Mongolian grand Sumo champion Asashoryu is congratulated by Mongolian Prime Minister Mieagombo Enkhbold after winning his 16th career tournament victory.
Sumo has long been one of Japan’s more stalwart conservative institutions. Strongly linked with Shinto religious rites, it has slowly opened its doors to foreign competitors. During the 1990s, such colorful characers as American [...]
- Canadian Soldiers in Iraq
As far as I can tell, this hasn’t been widely reported in the big worldwide news agencies but the recent rescue of Christian Peacemaker Teams involved not only US and UK special forces, but also Canada’s JTF2. Prime Minister Harper :
“At every phase of these particular events of this hostage-taking, Canadian government officials, the government [...]
- Discussion on Oil Company Social Responsibility, Part 2
In a follow-up to a post from a few weeks ago (Exxon Sued for Allowing Indonesia Troops to Torture), look at this latest from Central Africa.
Exxon gets bad rap and is often seen as the epitomy of the big bad oil company. In truth, the oil company is one of the few in the [...]
- How to destroy the Earth
We talk a lot about anarchy all over this great planet of ours, but do you know what the worst type of coming anarchy could be? Geocide. But beware “[d]estroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.”
You’ve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. [...]
- Did Russia play both sides?
U.S. Inquiry Finds Russians Passed Spy Data to Iraq in ‘03
Captured Iraqi documents describe a Russian spy operation that was aimed at the United States Central Command in the early days of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new American military report. The report says information on war plans and troop [...]
- Malaysia’s Ethnic Strife
Racism Rife in Malaysia’s Melting Pot, Survey
Malaysia’s first serious survey of race relations, in 50 years, shows that behind the façade of outward unity and peace, racism runs deep in this multi-ethnic ‘melting pot’.
It found that more than half the population does not trust each other. For a nation that claims to be a ‘melting [...]
- Medical Leave
Today your faithful blogging friend has to go under the knife. Although ambulatory, I’ll be in bed for a bit probably in pain-killer induced bliss and thus unable to blog. However, I’d like to take this moment to note that although I ultimately prefer life in the United States to that in Europe, one thing [...]
- Profile in Ancient Courage
On a voyage to study in Rhodes in 69 BC, a 24-year old senator by the name of Julius Caesar was taken hostage by pirates. The pirates sent a ransom letter to his family in Rome demanding 20 talents of gold, equivalent to the annual wage of a senator. Caesar, upon hearing [...]
