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Mubarak Says Iraq War Will Produce
"100 bin Ladens"
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CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Monday the U.S.-led war on Iraq would produce "one hundred new bin Ladens", driving more Muslims to anti-Western militancy.
When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences," Mubarak told Egyptian soldiers in the city of Suez.
"Instead of having one (Osama) bin Laden, we will have 100 bin Ladens," he added. Osama bin Laden is the Saudi-born fugitive Islamic militant leader blamed by the United States for the September 11, 2001 attacks on
New York and Washington.
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Wolf Advocates Resist Downlisting
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes that gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states have recovered to the extent that they should no longer be considered endangered, a decision that conservationists contend threatens one of the nation's greatest conservation success stories. Gray wolves, except for those in the Southeast, will now be considered "threatened" instead
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of "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act.
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Nigerian Oil Company Chided
Over Pipeline Rupture
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By Adetokunbo Abiola
A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization, Environment
Rights Action (ERA) has called on the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company (NNPC) to take urgent
steps to clean up the environment at Imasabor
Village, near Ologbo, in South Nigeria,
where a major pipeline rupture occurred.
ERA made this demand in Benin City, the capital
of Edo State in Nigeria, following a field report it conducted
in the village after a March 6 pipeline rupture
which has prevented the people of the village from going
to work in their farms.
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Senate Votes Against Drilling
in Arctic Refuge
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The U.S. Senate rejected a provision to allow oil drilling within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Wednesday, despite an intense lobbying effort by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership to approve the measure.
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Conservationists, who have expended considerable effort lobbying against drilling
in ANWR, called the vote a victory
for wildlife and all Americans.
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Biotech Wheat may Cut US Exports in Half
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AMES, Iowa - There is a "high risk" that the U.S. wheat industry will lose
30 percent to 50 percent of its business with foreign markets for spring
wheat if Monsanto Co. releases its controversial genetically modified wheat
in the next few years, according to new research by an Iowa State University
economics professor.
The research report, released Tuesday, said the near-term impacts on prices
and exports is decidedly negative if Monsanto proceeds with its plans to
introduce its "Roundup Ready" wheat.
Monsanto's biotech wheat, which would be the first genetically modified
wheat in the world, has been engineered to withstand herbicide so weed
control is easier for farmers. Monsanto is nearing the end of the regulatory
approval process and could have the wheat available within
the next two years.
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Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute
Land, Air and Sea
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The Pentagon is quietly seeking exemptions from some of America's main environmental laws, which would give the military free rein to dump spent munitions, pollute the air and poison endangered species at its bases without risk of liability for any damage.
The proposal, slipped into the fine print of the 2004 military budget last week, is enraging environmentalists and some senior figures on Capitol Hill, who say the Pentagon is taking shameless advantage of the 11 September attacks and the looming war against Iraq to wriggle out of its responsibilities to public health and the country's natural heritage.
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Tide Turns Against Bush
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by Thomas Walkom
The Iraq crisis is no longer about stopping Iraq.
It is about stopping the United States.
This is the real significance of what is going on now at the United Nations, of the peace marches around the world, of the political turmoil that rocks staunchly pro-U.S. leaders such as Britain's Tony Blair and Australia's John Howard.
Most countries outside the U.S. are no longer worried about rogue Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. They are worried about rogue American President George W. Bush.
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Bush Seeks Sweeping Changes
to Public Land Policy
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February 28, 2003 (ENS) - Conservationists and environmental groups believe the Bush administration is pushing the broadest and most aggressive effort in history to undermine the
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environmental regulatory regime that protects the nation's public lands. Never before, they say, has the nation faced such an all encompassing assault on environmental protections coovering the nation's forests,
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Dick Cheney is Still Paid by
Pentagon Contractor
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Bush deputy gets $1m from firm
with Iraq oil deal
Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.
The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure statement, are in the form of "deferred compensation" of up to $1m (£600,000) a year.
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Millions Worldwide Rally
Against Iraq War
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Millions of protesters — many of them marching in the capitals of America's traditional allies — demonstrated Saturday against possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
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The World Erupts in Hope
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People around the world defied their borders, defied false divisions, and defied the Bush administration's demands for obedience, to join together in city after city as millions marched around the world today to say "No War Against Iraq." As the day began in the earliest time zones, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in a wave of protest that spanned the entire world throughout the day
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Conservationists Warn
of Bush Budget Tricks
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By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2003 (ENS) -
Conservationists are warning that the Bush administration's new budget proposal is littered with broken promises, and dramatically under-funds the agencies responsible for managing the nation's public lands and natural resources. Environmental
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groups said today they believe the administration's rhetoric of increased spending for the national park system, for land conservation efforts and protection of the nation's forests, oceans and wildlife, is disingenuous and does not match the budget's reality. full story
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INDIGENOUS KUNA LEADERS (PANAMA) ASSASSINATED BY
COLOMBIAN PARAMILITARIES
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This past Saturday 50 Colombian insurgents tore apart the Paya Community, closed in the community, asked for the indigenous authorities to present themselves and then took them outside the community to torture them, and slash their throats. Upon hearing the various detonations from the Paya community the paramilitaries fled leaving the Pucuro community in flames.
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GM Agribusiness Collapses
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Desperate biotech corporations are deserting academic research despite massive bailouts from our governments. It is high time to redirect public investments away from this financial and intellectual dead-end, says Dr. Mae-Wan Ho.
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The ingredients are hidden, but
the companies can't hide
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Genetically engineered food products will not be able to hide much longer in the largest food market in the world. Many Chinese do not even know they are being sold GE products, but a new poll shows they want a
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choice and some are even willing to pay more for non-GE products. Already consumers in China have turned on companies like
Nestle for selling GE products not labelled. The unrest will grow as a local group and Greenpeace take to the road to promote food safety. more
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Shell's Ruptured Pipeline Causes
Panic in Niger Delta
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An ERA report was occasioned by a November 2002 incident which occurred
at Maroko when one of Shell Petroleum Development Company's rusty and ill-
maintained 24 inch pipeline burst and spewed over two hundred and fifty barrels
of crude oil directly into the homesteads and surrounding
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