Big payday for race pimps on Ewart Brown's plantation

"Government consultants' high pay is revealed/ The Premier's race relations consultant Rolfe Commissiong ...

Marijuana Growers Beware - Google Earth is Watching

"ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software." The find led to the...

Michelle Obama: A Distant Daughter of Slavery

Michelle Obama, born in 1964, will be America's next first lady. When she moves into the White House in January, a mansion built partially by slaves, "she will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather, who...

Is this the begining of a green revolution in Africa?

With the sharp rise in global grain prices, many affluent countries with limited arable land have begun looking to Africa for food security. Countries like Angola, Tanzania and Ethiopia have already shown...

“Songbird” McCain got sex, drugs and cigs from his North Vietnamese capto...

John "Songbird" McCain and his followers are in feigned huff about "character".  Whilst John McCain may indeed be a character, he is more than lacking in character.His "heroic" time as a prisoner of war...

Florida: Janitor Rescues Abandoned New-Born Baby from Trash Pile

An observant janitor in Kendall, Fl., has rescued a newborn baby from a garbage dumpster after hearing a cry.  The little baby boy was still attached to the placenta and umbilical cord and was found wriggling...

Archaeologists find remains of Washington's boyhood home

"From Eric Marrapodi CNN Washington Bureau FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- After nearly three years of excavation, archaeologists have confirmed the discovery of the site of George Washington's boyhood home near the banks of the Rappahannock...

Soybean plantations-the new "Amazon forest" spurs changes to environmental pr...

As second largest soy bean producer, Brazil is beginning step in the right direction regarding environmental policies. The new environmental minister has extended the agreement to ban purchases from soy produces...

€60 dung coffee not to be sniffed at

"A cup of coffee touted as the most expensive in the world has gone on sale for about €60 (£50).The brew is a blend of Jamaican Blue Mountain and the exclusive Kopi Luwak bean, which is collected from cat...

Almost Oldest Church in Florida - Historic Site

Wherever you live I think an appreciation of and a sense of place is important.  By luck I found this little church in my little burg.  This church is one of the 5 oldest wooden church structures still...

Indonesia`s First Resources rises on Singapore debut

"From the net proceeds of about 185.3 million from the sale of new shares, the company will spend 89.5 million dollars on expanding plantations, constructing more mills and acquiring additional production facilities.It will spend 81.2 million dollars to buy additional stakes...

Forestry Ministry organizes parallel events during UNFCCC

"The ministry would launch the Readiness of the Reducing Emission from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD) on Thursday (Dec. 6), a statement of the forestry ministry said here on Tuesday. A workshop on forest policy and conservation, reforestation, plantation,...

Indonesia forstry minister to meet with Greenpace

"It said expansion plans in Riau province alone had the potential of triggering a `climate time bomb`. Riau`s peatland forests store a massive 14.6 billion tonnes of carbon - equivalent to one year`s global...

Five state firms expected to go public in 2008

""Actually, sixteen state firms ate the target of our revitalization and privatization program. But at present only five of them have sufficient potential to enter the capital market," Djalil said on Monday. He said his office would select which state-owned companies were...

Elephants attack plantation areas in Aceh

""Many crops were damaged in the wild elephants rampages," he said. Meanwhile, Teungki A. Rani Ulele Lhok, a local village head, said the elephants` behavior had made the villagers restless. They had tried to drive the animals away by using a traditional method but it did not...

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