A ban on materials required for their maintenance,
including cement, steel and pipes, left them in a state of disrepair.
Twitter for direct political online action « Alex Schlotzer - 0 views
MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty - 0 views
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Israeli bombs hit the already fragile sewage and water treatment systems, causing drinking water and raw sewage to mix across some of the most populated areas of Gaza.
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Tank shells hit the strip's largest wastewater plant in the Sheikh Aljeen area of Gaza City, sending sewage cascading directly into neighbourhoods, farms and into the sea.
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Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war.
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Gaza is a Kafkaesque situation that makes a joke out of rational geopolitical discussion.
YouTube - May Day Rally @ NYC 2009 - 0 views
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On Friday, May 1st 2009 despite the expected heavy rainfall broadcast people from all walks of life gathered at Union Square ,14th St. & Broadway, in Ma...
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran - 0 views
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The Iain Dale interview | LabourList.org | April 2009 - 0 views
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Boris Johnson, the test case for a Tory government. He’s overturned the tariff on gas-guzzlers; he’s only building social housing in already deprived areas, he praised the sub-prime mortgages in America; he destroyed cycle lane budgets but still called himself green. And those are the very few things he has done…Good. I like politicians who don’t legislate a lot.
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Great exchange!
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I don’t regard it as a Socialist Conspiracy, but I do regard it as a monolithic bureaucracy where not enough is spent on direct patient care. To my mind, you could break it up into smaller geographical units, decentralise it more efficiently on a regional basis.
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Is this a vote _for_ the postcode lottery?
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I was selected as a candidate by a very conservative constituency – having told them I was gay. If you’d said to me ten years ago that that could happen I’d have laughed. Margot James herself was selected in a marginal seat. I willingly pay tribute to Labour on gay rights
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I would love to increase the number of teachers by 20%. I would love to, and to be fair to the Labour government have done a lot on that. But to just say that everything's perfect and we need to spend every pound that we're spending now is just being an ostrich.
EXCLUSIVE...Pentagon Pundits: New York Times Reporter David Barstow Wins Pulitzer Prize... - 0 views
Big Cable's Internet Rip-Off -- In These Times - 0 views
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news co.'s, tv co.'s, and radio co.'s all want to make the net like the other older mediums... can't let that happen...
Cocaine and LSD found in air of Spanish cities - Telegraph - 0 views
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Spanish scientists have discovered traces of cocaine and LSD in the air in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona.
Waterboarding and Politics: Let's Play Hardball - 0 views
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Now that we've covered the legal and strategic angles of U.S. waterbording policy, it is now time to explore the political ramifications, or, in the words of Chris Matthews: "let's talk turkey".
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