links for 2006-11-28

• McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/27/2006 | EPA OKs spraying pesticides over waters
  WASHINGTON – The Bush administration pleased farmers and frustrated environmentalists Monday by declaring that pesticides can be sprayed into and over waters without first obtaining special permits. The heavily lobbied decision is supposed to settle a dis
  (tags: EPA pesticides environment)
• In the Crossfire, The Fat Lady Sings | The Dark Wraith Forums
  Before proceeding to the next phase of the Land of Bad Weirdness through which The Fat Lady Sings has just journeyed, I must take this opportunity to state in no uncertain terms that Lou Dobbs presents me with no conundrum at all. His advocacy for meat-an
  (tags: Dobbs Aztlan Fascism blogging links Minutemen)
• FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific – War on drugs strengthens Afghan mafia
  Afghanistan’s war on drugs has been marred by corruption that has strengthened the grip of an increasingly powerful mafia on the country’s narcotics trade, a report by the World Bank and United Nations said.
  Over the past five years, the British-led
  (tags: drugs Afghanistan failure Taleban)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Carbon emissions show sharp rise
  The rise in humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis.
  The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year.
  It sa
  (tags: articles climate climatechange economy emissions energy environment globalwarming pollution science News)
• Fence plan alarms landowners – USATODAY.com
  “They’re not gonna build it,” Moody says flatly. “We darn sure don’t need a wall. Everybody knows the Great Wall of China wasn’t worth a damn.”
  Most everyone here agrees that more border security is needed to curb illegal immigration. Ranchers such as Mo
  (tags: immigration fence Mexico USA Bush stupidity)
• Sending African troops into Somalia ‘would trigger war’ | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
  A US-backed proposal to send African troops into Somalia to support the weak government raises the risk of triggering an all-out war with the Islamic courts that could destabilise the entire region, a leading thinktank said yesterday. The International Cr
  (tags: Somalia war stability Africa USA)
• Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity
  An international research team has discovered that forest fragmentation poses an even greater threat to Amazonian biodiversity than previously thought. Their findings, to be published next week (27 November – 1 December) in the journal Proceedings of th
  (tags: Amazon biodiversity environment rainforest)
• TomPaine.com – CNN’s Dangerous Blowhard
  Turn on CNN Headline News—a supposed “news” channel—on weekday nights and you’ll be subjected to the lectures of a loudmouthed, factually-challenged, occasionally funny know-it-all whose shtick is that he’s “just a regular American schmoe.�
  (tags: wingnuts crazy CNN)
• Report: States need to step up on higher ed
  States must take the lead in the movement to fix the higher education crisis, a report released Monday by a commission of state legislators said.
  “Higher education is a national imperative, there’s no question about that, but it has been and remains
  (tags: education universities state)

~ by SAP on 28 November 2006.