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offsite link Why War Trumps Peace Sun Apr 27, 2025 17:29 | Ramesh Thakur
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Several people are dead and multiple others injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Filipino street party in Vancouver. The suspect was known to the police.
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Moderna could face suspension from Britain's pharmaceutical trade body because it offered children ?1,500 and teddy bears to take place in Covid vaccine trials.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 17: Butterflies Sun Apr 27, 2025 09:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter 17 of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: Theo watches others leave re-education camp but he's stuck 'for his own good'.
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Taleban hiding from Canadians in Marijuana Plantations.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Sunday October 15, 2006 23:11author by o as if Report this post to the editors

"behold the craftiness of the evil-doer."

Apparantly ten foot high cannabis plants planted close to together for strictly medicinal export purposes are
difficult to burn.

Not even White phosophorus (the soldier's friend) will clear a field of grass. This is bad news for Canadian troops attached to NATO in Afghanistan as they must resort to burning the areas with diesel. A very smelly & nauseating noxioum ambience resulting.

This is exactly what the Taleban fellow wants of course. These plucky insurgent manaics lurk in the vegetation taking advantage of its heat's keeping properties to foil the infra-red & motion detectors of the Allied army.

& then they pounce.

stirring stuff.

Oh yep & a carnivorous plant ate a mouse in Lyons France.
http://www.wlwt.com/news/9981163/detail.html

Related Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/12/canada.troops.marijuana.reut/index.html
author by Replypublication date Tue Oct 17, 2006 16:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

doesnt really make much MORE of a difference,
the Afghans are used to terrible air quality in the cities because they use diesel for EVERYTHING there.

author by Yusufpublication date Thu Oct 19, 2006 03:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sir, Yes Sir! We has checked all the ding dang whacky backy fields hereabouts and am sorry to report Sir but ain't none of them there Taddy-ban good ole boys in here. I think yer damn cheese done slid off yer cracker Sir coz there ain't nobody here but US chickens. What was that!
More propaganda to link Taliban with drugs, yes Sir!

"Ain't nobody here but US chickens"
"Ain't nobody here but US chickens"

Related Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrWErKA7DLE
author by Mountie Watchpublication date Thu Oct 19, 2006 03:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 15 — Two Canadian soldiers in the NATO force were killed and three were wounded in an ambush in southern Afghanistan on Saturday afternoon, and an Afghan provincial council member was assassinated Sunday on his way to work, officials said.

The Canadians were killed when their convoy came under fire by rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire in Kandahar Province, forcing their unit to call in airstrikes, according to a NATO news release. Thirty-four Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year, and 42 since November 2001.

author by iosaf - :-) "signing in"publication date Thu Oct 19, 2006 21:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I am of course referring to the carnivorous plant which ate a mouse in Lyons (France). Is it too much wonder that someday the US will genetically modify the small range of carnivirous plants provided us by Mother Nature in all her quirks (& possibly divine delusion) to attack humans in the battle field?

if you go to the link I left in the original article you will be able to watch a video! & the good news is that that video is not part of the "you Tube" network or even the rumoured video download imperialistic ambitions of "Yahoo".
http://www.wlwt.com/news/9981163/detail.html

Others amongst the readership will just want the facts.
for we have to realise that the order of vegetatious organisms previously referred to by different & often mutually hostile traditions or biologists as insectivorous plants have now demonstrated mamiferous munching potential . But...... they only do it once. Strangely enough no plant has yet evolved that ate flesh of either bug or rodent kind twice. It's a once off phenomona, & one which doesn't even provide energy only nutrients. This of course means we don't need to measure the calorific value of either the mouse eaten or common or garden housefly.

here endeth the lesson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plants

author by Yusufpublication date Fri Oct 20, 2006 02:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The UNICAL pipline from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean is looking less likely now as the plan to control Afghanistan is falling apart with the reat of the Bush Plan. British have run from their base in Helman and the Canadians who were supposed to be looking for Taliban are really to busy burying their dead here are some of them....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvi-sovgVD4

 
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