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GAIA AND HOMOSAPIENS

***** The Richard Dimbleby Lecture by HRH Prince Charles, titled “Facing the Future”
St James’s Palace State Apartments, London, 7th July 2009 - An Exceptional In-Depth Holistic Call to Wake Up and Act Before It Is Too Late
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US | Surviving the Dust Bowl - A Documentary Film on Climate Change in the 1930s
It Happened Before, It Could Happen Again - The environmental and human catastrophe in mid-America that prompted FDR's New Deal in the midst of the Depression.
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US | Did Dust Storms Make 1930s Dust Bowl Drought Worse?
Science Daily - May 4, 2008
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The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world. Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West. But the Dust Bowl drought was not meteorologically extreme by the standards of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Indeed the 1856-65 drought may have involved a more severe drop in precipitation. It was the combination of drought and poor land use practice that created the environmental disaster.

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Imaging Life

Sir Paul McCartney to tell EU: 'Less Meat means less heat"
Rearing fewer animals for food will slow global warming, says the former Beatle – and he's interrupting his European tour to tell world leaders how.
The Independent - By Jonathan Owen - Sunday, 29 November 2009
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Sir Paul McCartney will this week throw his weight behind a growing campaign to address global warming by reducing the amount of meat we eat, lobbying EU politicians for their backing. The former Beatle will interrupt a European tour to fly to Brussels on Thursday, where he will make his case at a special hearing of the European Parliament. Sir Paul said yesterday: "The message that I am taking to the European Parliament is – less meat equals less heat. I will appeal to world leaders converging on Copenhagen for the climate-change talks to remember that sustainable food policy is an essential weapon in the fight against global warming. At the same time we should not forget our individual capacity to act in ways that will help – such as limiting our consumption of meat. This simple act can help slow global warming and help to feed the world."

***** Breaking News Alert

***** World on course for catastrophic 6° rise in temperature, reveal scientists
Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true.
The Independent - By Steve Connor and Michael McCarthy - Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation.

***** The world's rubbish dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
The Independent - By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden - February 8, 2008
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A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.

Democrats in revolt over Barack Obama’s troop surge
Timed of London - By Christina Lamb in Washington - November 29, 2009
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Barack Obama's much-vaunted eloquence faces the biggest test of his presidential career this week when he takes to the stage at West Point military academy to explain to a nation that thought it had elected an anti-war president why he is escalating the conflict in Afghanistan. Obama’s toughest challenge will be to win over his most loyal political supporters. He is facing a growing revolt in the Democratic party over why the US needs to be in Afghanistan at all when the real threat — Al-Qaeda — is in Pakistan, and over the spiralling cost in both lives and dollars.

The Afghanistani and Iraqi Quagmire

UK | The Iraq war was illegal
Then Attorney General Goldsmith was 'pinned to the wall and bullied into keeping quiet' while the Prime Minister kept the Cabinet in the dark
The Independent - By Brian Brad - November 29, 2009
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Tony Blair will be quizzed over a devastating official memo warning him that war on Iraq would be illegal eight months before he sent troops into Baghdad, it was claimed last night. The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will consider a letter from Lord Goldsmith, then Mr Blair's top law officer, advising him that deposing Saddam would be in breach of international law, according to a report in The Mail on Sunday.

But Mr Blair refused to accept Lord Goldsmith's advice and instead issued instructions for his long-term friend to be "gagged" and barred from cabinet meetings, the newspaper claimed. Lord Goldsmith apparently lost three stone, and complained he was "more or less pinned to the wall" in a No 10 showdown with two of Mr Blair's most loyal aides, Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan. Mr Blair also allegedly failed to inform the Cabinet of the warning, fearing an "anti-war revolt".

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Univers-al

The good, the green and the wacky
Pumping iron into the sea, spraying poisonous gases into the sky or painting your roof white — which ideas are future winners, and which are plain barmy?
The Sunday Times - Charles Clover - November 29, 2009
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Space oddity | Too hot? Cut the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth using mirrors in space. Or send a cloud of dust into space, from Earth or the moon. Place one large reflector, or a cloud of trillions of refracting 60-centimetre diameter discs, in space to deflect the sun’s rays. Or install a ring of dust particles with shepherding satellites above the equator. Result? The tropics are shaded in winter and the summer hemisphere is lit up at night. To offset a doubling of atmospheric CO2, you need to reduce solar radiation by around 2% — for which more than 2 billion tons of dust particles would be required.

The Citizens / Civil Organizations / Activism

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"All suffering is caused by an obstacle in the path of a force. See that you are not your own obstacle." - Elbert Hubbard

UK | Todmorden's Good life: Introducing Britain's greenest town
'Grow your own' fever has gripped the Pennines community, which is aiming for self-sufficiency.
The Independent - By Joanna Moorhead - Sunday, 29 November 2009
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It's an ordinary small town in England, but its residents claim they've discovered the secret that could save the planet. And with world leaders preparing to gather in Copenhagen in just over a week's time to debate how to do just that, the people of Todmorden in the Pennines this week issued an invitation: come to our town and see what we've done. In under two years, Todmorden has transformed the way it produces its food and the way residents think about the environment. Compared with 18 months ago, a third more townspeople now grow their own veg; almost seven in 10 now buy local produce regularly, and 15 times as many people are keeping chickens. The town centre is dotted with "help yourself" vegetable gardens; the market groans with local meat and vegetables, and at all eight of the town's schools the pupils eat locally produced meat and vegetables every lunchtime.

Topical Sections

The Arts and Culture

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Civil Organizations and Activism

Mexico / US | The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement
The drug cartels extend their corrupting influence northward.
City Journal - By Judith Miller - Autumn 2009
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Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers.

But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well. Most press accounts focus on the drug-related violence that has migrated north into the United States. Far less widely reported is the infiltration and corruption of American law enforcement, according to Robert Killebrew, a retired U.S. Army colonel and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security. “This is a national security problem that does not yet have a name,” he wrote last fall in The National Strategy Forum Review. The drug lords, he tells me, are seeking to “hollow out our institutions, just as they have in Mexico.”

Communities and Species

"Produce great people - the rest follows." - Epigram that graces the front door of the Roycroft Inn

Corporate "Crooks"

"The manner in which a man lies about a fact may be more interesting than the fact itself. - Elbert Hubbard

India | Bhopal: The victims are still being born
Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial.
The Independent - By Nina Lakhani November 29, 2009
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Bhopal is a calamity without end. On 3 December 1984, clouds of poison leaking from a Union Carbide pesticides plant brought death to thousands in this central Indian city. Today, fully a quarter of a century later, victims of this, the world's worst industrial disaster, are still being born. Here, in neighbourhoods where people depend on water contaminated by chemicals leaking from the abandoned factory and to mothers exposed to the toxic gas as children, brain damaged and malformed babies are 10 times more common than the national average. Doctors at Bhopal's Sambhavna Clinic say that as many as one in 25 babies are still born with defects and developmental problems such as a smaller head, webbed feet and low birth weight.

Those who were mere children when the fumes overcame this city of a million are suffering, too. Painful skin lesions, stomach problems and raw, itchy eyes are common complaints among thousands of families, some of whom moved to Bhopal only in recent years. And the clinic says that Bhopal now has some of India's highest rates of gall bladder and oesophageal cancers, TB, anaemia and thyroid abnormalities. Young girls start menstruating much later than normal and experience painful gynaecological problems, which often lead to hysterectomies at a young age.

These problems, say campaigners such as the Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA), are linked to the continuing pollution of parts of the local water supply by chemicals such as chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. Families have no choice but to use ground water for washing, cooking and drinking when safe sources run dry, according to new research that will be published by the BMA on Tuesday. The study found higher levels of several carcinogenic chemicals in water sources this year compared with last year – strongly suggesting that future generations will be poisoned unless the area is decontaminated. This flies in the face of recent claims by state and national ministers that the site is clean.

Corporate Crime and Government - The Linkage

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
--- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-Nov-21, in a letter to Colonel E. Mandell House

Economy and Finance

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Dubai | Commentary - Dubai needs to stop the contagion, fast
The Sunday Times - November 29, 2009
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The crisis in Dubai has been a sharp reminder that there are still more aftershocks of the credit crunch to ripple around the globe. When Dubai World announced it was seeking a six-month debt standstill, the fear was this was a Lehman Brothers of the Middle East ushering in a dangerous second phase of the financial crisis. Just as economies were beginning to recover from the biggest shock since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it looked as if we were teetering again on the edge.

Dubai is a monument to the excesses that gave us this global financial crisis. The boom in the former British protectorate was spectacular and so has been the bust. Property prices went as high as its famous skyscrapers before plunging back down to earth. The 1.2m expats who went there in search of a new life, including 120,000 Britons, have known that the good times had ended, although most have chosen to stick it out.

If banks had an excuse for their reckless behaviour during the credit boom, it was that many of the assets they created that turned toxic were highly complex. In the case of Dubai there is no such excuse. Even casual observers could see this was a boom built on sand. Yet the banks kept lending, and some will suffer big losses.

Energy

Powering India: Feeding an insatiable need
The Independent - By Grace Boyle - November 27, 2009
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Like most countries, India's electricity is distributed to its population via a large, centralised grid system. Through the construction of thermal power plants and large hydroelectric dams, the Government has added 150MW of installed generating capacity to this grid in the 62 years since Independence, yet such priority is given to feeding the insatiable demands of the cities that 78 million people in India are still living without an electricity connection.

Yet a connection to the electricity grid far from assures a dependable supply of power for those living in rural areas. A recent report by Greenpeace India, Still Waiting, surveyed a tier A city, a tier B city and three villages in five states across India, and found that, while the cities received between 22 and 24 hours of electricity supply per day, all the villages surveyed had a power supply of less than 12 hours a day on average. In the villages, electricity is used for pumping drinking water, irrigating crops and keeping wild animals at bay, in addition to lighting and for small industry.

To compound their problems, the rural population are often the ones who must suffer the local environmental and health impacts of centralised power plants, such as the choking grey ash produced by burning coal, or the inhospitable and marshy land created by impounding large water bodies.

Humor in Humorless Political Times

"The man who says, " Money isn't everything," is probably in arrears to his landlady. - Elnert Hubbard

"Lovers: Unconscious comedians. - Elbert Hubbard

Journalism and Media\

"Who's making all that dam noise - Elbert Hubbard

US | WaPo to Close NY, LA, Chicago Bureaus
Columbia Jour nalism Reviiew - By Greg Marx - November 24, 2009
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Erik Wemple and Michael Calderone report that as of the end of this year, The Washington Post will close its bureaus in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Reporters in those bureaus will be offered positions in D.C.; the three news aides will be let go. In a memo to staff, the paper’s top editors say the Post “will continue to cover events around the country as we have for decades, by sending reporters into the field.” But, as Calderone notes, this move is in keeping with a long-term trend of orienting the Post’s coverage of both national and international news “through the prism of how it affects Washington.”

Legal and Constitutional Issues

Bloomberg Index of Current Legal News
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Life Style

"Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. - By Elbert Hubbard

"Fear not that your life should come to an end, but rather fear that it may never have a beginning. - Elbert Hubbard

"Don't be a passenger - get busy helping this craft along! - Elbert Hubbard

Religion and Philosophies

"Churches, like Department Stores, carry the wares that are asked for." - Elbert Hubbard

Rights and Freedom

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians."
--- Angelica Grimke - (1805-1879) Source: Anti-Slavery Examiner, September 1836

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction."
--- Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), Source: in a letter to John Adams as quoted in John A. Stormer, None Dare Call it Treason (Florissant, MO: Liberty Bell Press, 1964)

Science & Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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The Cyber-Threat Grows
We’ve got a lot of catching up to do before we’re secure.
City Journal - By John P. Avlon - Autumn 2009
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First your cell phone doesn’t work. Then you notice that you can’t access the Internet. Down on the street, ATMs won’t dispense money. Traffic lights don’t function, and calls to 911 don’t get routed to emergency responders. Radios report that systems controlling dams, railroads, and nuclear power plants have been remotely infiltrated and compromised. The air-traffic control system shuts down, leaving thousands of passengers stranded or rerouted and unable to communicate with loved ones. This is followed by a blackout that lasts not hours but days and even weeks. Our digital civilization shudders to a halt. When we emerge, millions of Americans’ data are missing, along with billions of dollars.

This scenario may sound like the latest doomsday blockbuster to come out of Hollywood. But each of the elements described above has occurred over the past decade as the result of a cyber-attack. Cyber-attacks are an accelerating threat, still without generally accepted terminology, effective deterrents, or comprehensive legal remedies. They are weapons of mass disruption, used by adversaries cloaked in anonymity, that could prove at least temporarily crippling to the digital infrastructure of modern society. This kind of attack is attractive to America’s enemies, not only because it allows weaker entities to take on far stronger ones but because it turns our technological strength into a weakness.

Marine marvels found in the darkness of the deep
Scientists reveal thousands of extraordinary creatures at bottom of Atlantic
The Independent - By Steve Connor, Science Editor - Monday, 23 November 2009
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A rich and surprisingly diverse array of marine animals has been discovered living in total darkness in the deepest parts of the Atlantic where no sunlight ever penetrates. They range from a giant octopus-like creature with eight legs and fins that flap like an elephant's ears to tiny crustaceans that shine like gold-encrusted jewels. Marine biologists have been astonished by the range of animals they have found during an underwater expedition that that took them down 5,000m (three miles), where they have now identified 17,650 deep-sea species.

Social Issues

US | Housing as Busing
With a Westchester decision, the feds decree that neighborhoods must seek minority residents.
City Journal - By Howard Husock - Autumn 2009
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The leafy towns and villages of central and northern Westchester County, New York, with their large-lot zoning, stone walls along winding lanes, and the wooden stables of horse country, are among the wealthiest in the United States. From Pound Ridge to Scarsdale, from Chappaqua to Bedford, they might seem remote and insulated from Washington policy disputes. But thanks to a legal settlement announced on August 11, they have become the testing ground for a federal social policy that seeks a dramatic change in the organizing principle of American residential life: that where a family lives is based chiefly on where it can afford to buy or rent a home.

The settlement, approved by the county’s legislature in late September, is the result of a lawsuit filed in 2007 by a New York City–based nonprofit called the Anti-Discrimination Center. The suit argued that when Westchester County applied for federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) for, among other things, affordable housing, it inaccurately claimed to have identified racial as well as income-related barriers faced by poorer residents seeking better housing—and to have taken steps to counter those barriers. This February, a federal judge agreed. To resolve the suit, Westchester has pledged to use $50 million of its own, along with HUD money it receives, to build some 750 units of new subsidized housing—including 630 units in some of its wealthiest enclaves, where less than 3 percent of the population is black and less than 7 percent Hispanic—and to market them especially to those groups.

Violence - Civil and Governmental

US | Anthraxing New York City
City Journal - By Peter W. Huber - Autumn 2009
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Government-controlled vaccine development has left us scarily vulnerable. Socialized medicine’s finest hour arrived on October 16, 1975, by the marshes of Bhola Island off the coastBangladesh. There, in the frame of three-year-old Rahima Banu, the World Health Organization finally cornered smallpox, the most dreadful killer on the planet. Then as now, there was no known cure for the highly contagious smallpox, but vaccinating others on Bhola Island kept the virus from skipping to new human hosts, and little Rahima was the last one left.

We have been slouching down the road to pharmaceutical serfdom ever since. Where that has left us will become clear one windless summer evening, when a low-flying Cessna scatters 200 pounds of anthrax over the rooftops of Manhattan from Harlem to Battery Park. Anthrax is the smallpox movie played in reverse. It isn’t very contagious at all, and its spores are ordinarily quite sticky and easily contained, but when deliberately coated with silica, they disperse like ragweed pollen in spring. They can thus be used to kill New York without endangering Islamabad. As the spores germinate, bacterial toxins drill through your flesh, gangrene sets in, organs collapse, lungs fill with fluid, and you die within a week. One Cessna’s worth could easily kill a million people. The threat, numerous intelligence assessments have concluded, is all too real.

US | Book | By Rachel Hope Cleves, Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery
Common Place - Review by Tim Roberts - The French Origins of American Perceptions of Violence - December 2009
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As a prototype for many subsequent American reactions to foreign liberation movements, Americans embraced the first, liberal phase of the French Revolution but recoiled in horror and condemnation when news of Jacobin bloodletting began to arrive in 1792. This story is familiar to historians of the early modern Atlantic world. Rachel Hope Cleves, however, takes the tale further, showing why notable Americans in the Northern states grew obsessed with French revolutionary violence, and how these obsessions surfaced in American society and politics from the 1790s through the Civil War.

Revolutions in France and Haiti, or at least antislavery writers' use of them, hastened calls for immediate emancipation, the association of the South with violence and depravity, and the rise of American sectionalism.
Initially, Cleves observes, anti-Jacobinism circulated among Northern Federalists and Congregationalist and Presbyterian clerics who together doubted the orderly, Christian possibilities of popular sovereignty. Instead, they shared a Calvinist sense that strong rule—political authority as well as restraint of one's own emotions and passions—was necessary to contain human depravity. We are familiar with John Adams's fear of American Francophiles' adoption of "the very stile and language of the French Jacobines" (67), and his administration's adoption of the Alien and Sedition Acts as countermeasures to suppress potential red republican violence. Cleves links Adams's opinion and policies with the preaching of such ministers as Elijah Parish, who warned against "parties and cabals" arising in America while in "the theatre of nations you see armies wallowing in their own blood" and predicted that "a shower of blood seems just ready to crimson our fields … [and] corpses will float [and] feed the wild beasts" (68, 69). Through graphic depiction of radical upheaval abroad Parish sought to shock his readers into opposing mob (that is, democratic) violence in America.

Cleves traces these sanguine sentiments across the Northern states, as inherited fear of revolutionary violence sparked literary works, social reform, and radical politics. She locates anti-Jacobinism in Gothic novels and pamphlets, which insisted that French revolutionary violence—cannibalism, infanticide, mass rape, beheadings of both the living and already dead—was "too disgusting to hear, too horrid to relate," yet paradoxically called readers to "fix your eyes on this theatre of carnage!" (98, 97).

Reflecting how Americans' discourse about controversial foreign events can often facilitate debate about important domestic issues, Cleves argues that this early Francophobic Gothic literature migrated towards condemnation of American slaveholding because "anti-Jacobinism and antislavery were connected by a common concern: unrestrained violence could destroy civil society" (107). The slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint Domingue, now Haiti, was essential to abolitionists' adoption of "the violent language of anti-Jacobinism," once white Haitian refugees spread accounts of "Dominguan bloodshed throughout the Atlantic" (146, 147). Such accounts, Cleves writes, "should have produced revulsion" among conservative anti-Jacobins. Instead, she argues, antislavery authors excused the Haitian slaves and blamed the uprising on slaveholder violence, focusing on "graphic descriptions of bloodshed, tortures, murders and rapes" that paradoxically served to compel antislavery readers to react (146). By the turn of the nineteenth century, macabre literary descriptions appeared of American slaveholders' use of slave corpses for crop fertilizer and of slaves' skin for shoe leather. In this way, revolutions in France and Haiti, or at least antislavery writers' use of them, hastened calls for immediate emancipation, the association of the South with violence and depravity, and the rise of American sectionalism.

Nepal | Slaughter of the innocents (200,000 of them)
Animal welfare protesters fail to halt ancient but 'barbaric' Nepali ritual
The Undependent - By Binaj Gurubacharya in Kathmandu - Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals that has infuriated animal welfare protesters. A Nepalese minister said it was the largest sacrifice of animals in the world. Protests by animals rights activists and other religious groups have occurred in recent weeks in towns near the Gadhimai Temple and in the capital, Kathmandu, but the organisers refused to halt the slaughter, saying it is a centuries-old tradition. More than 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed over two days at the temple in the jungles of Bara district, about 100 miles south of Kathmandu, to honour the Hindu goddess Gadhimai.
Editor - One more example of violence engendered by the priests of religion.

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