Monthly Archives: February 2006

bm106 WTO Force Feeds Europe

bm106 WTO Force Feeds Europe

February 23, 2006

With the recent announcement by the World Trade Organization which finds the Europe Union at fault for stopping Genetically Modified Food from entering its markets, what will happen now? Who benefits if things continue this way and who is at risk? Where do national laws and policies fit in...

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Philippine Landslides

Philippine Landslides

February 21, 2006

As I write this the deathtoll is quite uncertain. BBC says 90 confirmed dead but that it may get as high as 1,000. An entire town swallowed up by a landslide. I was browsing around the blogosphere for Philippine blogs and first hand testimony from the...

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Dump the Jesus of Italian Politics

Dump the Jesus of Italian Politics

February 20, 2006

We all have our wishes for the world in 2006. Many of them won't come true, especially that one about world peace, I'm betting. But one wish I have, and I don't think it's unreasonable, is that the self-proclaimed Jesus Christ of Italian politics would be voted...

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bm105 Health vs Jobs in Western India

bm105 Health vs Jobs in Western India

February 19, 2006

In the town of Alang, in the state of Gujarat, India, the ship breaking industry once accounted for half of all the world's ships that are broken down. It was also once a clean and beautiful beach. Neither is exactly true anymore, and the case of...

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Bloggers Go Dutch

Bloggers Go Dutch

February 18, 2006

Despite the fact that its Saturday night and we all know people don't read as many blogs on the weekend since you're not pretending to do work at work, as you normally are; I wanted to report about the big to-do here in Amsterdam. A group of prominent US bloggers...

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