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Voting for Barack Obama.

I'm voting for Barack Obama in this election. Ok. I know I'm not legally entitled to a vote since I'm a British citizen through and through. That doesn't bother me: along with most other...

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opinion by gerrypopplestone | 2 days ago | updated 1 day ago
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Africa: winds of dangerous change!

In April 2006, two cargoes crossed the Atlantic from West Africa, landing in different parts of the American coast The boat: In Barbados, a man fishing along the coast discovered a 20-foot boat adrift...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 6 days ago | updated 3 days ago
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Agron

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The Sri Lankan-Tamil Tiger Conflict.

From The New York Times:"Both sides to this war routinely provide conflicting accounts of clashes, agreed roughly on what happened. It signaled a turning point in the prolonged conflict. The guerrilla group, the...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 6 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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Many have lost livestock in Guji, Ethiopia and are struggling to cope.

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Water - some inconvenient truths.

Forget the wrangling over Washinton's $700 billion bail out of Western capitalism. This is World Water Month, a story highlighted by NowPublic but ignored by the rest of the world's media. My bet is that, in...

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opinion by gerrypopplestone | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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The presidential candidates and climate change.

"A problem ignored is a crisis assured": Henry Kissinger. When George Bush became president in 2000, he questioned whether climate change was real or not and Washington disengaged completely from...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 4 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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Farmer working on his water wheel (ചക്രം)

Arayil

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Water - more crop per drop.

The missing factor! Ask economics students how many elements go into making any product (what economists call the 'factors of production') and they will tell you – three: land, labour and capital. They are...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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In praise of human sewage!

We Londoners are very efficient in the way we use our water. We recycle it roughly five times. What we do: To be more specific, we drink the water that has already been drunk and then excreted (yuck,...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 5 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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China: 'a global garbage dump'.

China's environment is in a mess! Its ‘global factory might be fast becoming a global garbage dump’. So said Pan Yue, vice-minister of China’s State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). Strong words from...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 5 wks ago | updated 3 days ago
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edlee83

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Turfing out Beijing residents.

Spare a thought today for all those residents of Beijing who have been forced out of their homes (often the lanes around Tiananmen Square) so that the Olympic projects could be built. In particular,...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 9 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago
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Arguing over the world's water resources

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Arguing over the world's water resources

“Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over”. Mark Twain. Wm. Mulholland will go down in history as a water engineer who was a very sharp operator. Sensing that the town of Los...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 10 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago
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gerrypopplestone

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The oily wheels of corruption.

"You can do anything you like in Bangkok as long as you pay off the police", local drug dealer. Anyone arriving at the Malaysia Hotel just off Sathorn Soi 1in Bangkok around three in the morning will find...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 11 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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By the people, from the people, with the people.....

Opinion: When Tony Blair was elected Leader of the (Labour Party) Opposition in 1994, he talked in his Sedgefield constituency about a new community politics, working closely with the local electorate, in order to re-invigorate national politics. My ears...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 12 wks ago | updated 11 wks ago
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Scavengers: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly!

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Scavengers: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly!

Scavengers or scalliwags? Emotive words for something so humdrum! Scavengers: We think of scavengers as being dirty, smelly kids who scramble around on huge dumps of toxic waste in search of anything that...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 13 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
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Singing or crying in Thailand?

Things are going from bad to worse for Thailand's government. The Bangkok Post reports today that the Supreme Court has barred Kuhn Yongyuth, (a government party boss) from office for vote buying. The...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago
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Feeding the poor in Africa.

“Masauto Fraxon, a 13-year old Malawian boy, dropped out of school in 2003 after his parents died and he was no longer being fed. He supports himself and his grandmother by doing odd jobs in other people’s...

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created by gerrypopplestone | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago
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