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In the last several years the cost of farmland in Iowa has soared. Senator Harkin, in the past, has opined on the worry over whether both corn for fuel and food could be produced. Today that argument might be seen as the last rosy glow, before the financial ember was gone.  Soaring costs of farmland at the record rate below can only be seen as anticipation of an ethanol enhanced future, spurred by the recent farm bill passage. Continue Reading »

Myanmar – Melamine

Tainted Milk Products Found in Burma
 
10 October 2008
 

 

Authorities in Burma say imported brands of milk and powdered baby formula have been contaminated with an industrial chemical involved in the latest Chinese product safety scandal. Continue Reading »

The Spine of a Problem

You are a westerner, if you know this kind of deforestation: Continue Reading »

What Quaker Dave said:

http://quakeragitator.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/get-well-soon-your-holiness/

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 In the last blog I talked about a referred e-mail, distributed by Donald Wildmon, that I received from my friend. The email contained a referenced article of 1999 from the NYT entitled “Fannie Mae Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending”. Continue Reading »

For reference:

1 kilogram = 2.204 622 621 8 pound (US)

1 milligram = 0.000 001 kilogram

A look at the list below and the articles from previous days, tells you just how far we have come in the global market place. We are all excited to buy the latest barn burning gosh-a-wally product from that nice gentleman; especially when he has such a good price for it! Continue Reading »

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Brain Burn Alert!

A deeply sardonic and racially impaired soul, Spengler is still often interesting, because his challenges present good practice on how to hear the skreee of the right wing rabid bat, but avoid the bite. Things are often partially right, but the presenter or presentation must still be rejected for other reasons.

Here, he explains “us” to “them”! Even though he is talking about “them” as Europeans, his populist explanation hit US elitist themes and I HAD to guffaw, to think he had given them breath.

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OMG!? Why try to meet with the brother AFTER you have written the book?  Can you be any more self indulgent then to try and personally promote your book in Kenya? Is there anything a writer could do more to cause himself to crash and burn, then to create an international incident, look like a fool, and bring question to his “work”?

Kenya deports anti-Obama author

Jerome Corsi, author of “Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” tried to launch his new book, but violated immigration rules, Kenyan officials say.

By Rob Crilly | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

from the October 8, 2008 edition

[Nairobi, Kenya – The neoconservative author of an anti-Barack Obama book was detained and ordered out of Kenya on Tuesday night for not having a proper work permit, said Kenyan officials….]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1008/p04s01-wogn.html

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-UPDATE- 

HERE IS THE DEBATE TRANSCRIPT!

 

I like PBS best, but whichever station you choose. have your popcorn, and note taking materials ready!

6:00 PDT go!

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