Saturday, July 19, 2008
yeah, yeah..We hear some voices from Hamas military wing´s heads..
We are just listening if they comes from their own heads or from else where..Or if it´s really any voices at all..Maybe they just imagine it..We should need to find out before we answer so we don´t stands and talks to a echo..Maybe it would give us better answers but it´s not that constructive..In fact..We need to find out which we are talking to..some military wing or Hamas or who/what? "Media consumption"..So in wich part of the twilight zone does you lives in? Some planet we never have heard of?
It´s time to get reasonable..
GENEVA - A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
After all..The U.S. and troops of half the world got rid of Iran´s "enemy"..If he really was that which we wonder with the exiled psychopath under his protection and the war that Iran rejected to stop, just to sacrifice your own people and cement your dictatorship with! Just the same way as you have taking advantage of the U.S. and half the worlds presence in Iraq. We have not come here to get rid of your enemies, just so the Iranian regime can sit and "show off" with criticizing, just to sit down at a "set table" together with Turkey to keep the Kurds divided and being totally unreasonable with a maniac to president that BEGS for conflicts all over the region, in the same course of actions as Hitler or al-Qaida!
And we need actions and steps taken to assure there not will be a foreign exploitations in Iraq and Kurdistan where the U.S. is building a whole city of their own in Baghdad, which architects critizes as "a hideous modernist bunker, devoid even of the residual classical motifs favoured for totalitarian architecture"! Kurdistan is for the Kurds and a healthy exchange with the rest of the world, not to become another "Las Vegas"..Or just some tourist valley with Germany´s Oktoberfest -Beer Festivals!
We need to take steps to assure people in the region and Iraq´s neighbours that we have not come here to change their way of living and values, or to exploit their lands! Well...With the exception of we will continue working for human rights maybe..Because such violations are one of the biggest cause of conflicts and suffering!
After all..The U.S. and troops of half the world got rid of Iran´s "enemy"..If he really was that which we wonder with the exiled psychopath under his protection and the war that Iran rejected to stop, just to sacrifice your own people and cement your dictatorship with! Just the same way as you have taking advantage of the U.S. and half the worlds presence in Iraq. We have not come here to get rid of your enemies, just so the Iranian regime can sit and "show off" with criticizing, just to sit down at a "set table" together with Turkey to keep the Kurds divided and being totally unreasonable with a maniac to president that BEGS for conflicts all over the region, in the same course of actions as Hitler or al-Qaida!
And we need actions and steps taken to assure there not will be a foreign exploitations in Iraq and Kurdistan where the U.S. is building a whole city of their own in Baghdad, which architects critizes as "a hideous modernist bunker, devoid even of the residual classical motifs favoured for totalitarian architecture"! Kurdistan is for the Kurds and a healthy exchange with the rest of the world, not to become another "Las Vegas"..Or just some tourist valley with Germany´s Oktoberfest -Beer Festivals!
We need to take steps to assure people in the region and Iraq´s neighbours that we have not come here to change their way of living and values, or to exploit their lands! Well...With the exception of we will continue working for human rights maybe..Because such violations are one of the biggest cause of conflicts and suffering!
And Turkey and Iran: take your f****** military out of Iraq!
You are like vultures circulating around after al-Qaida has gone and thousands of thousands have given their lives to stabilise Iraq and for a better future for the Iraqi people and people all over the world! Which you have criticise the whole time, just to come into a "set table" and start setting conditions, dominate, destabilize, kill, destroy environment, setting conditions for parties, journalism, human rights, and behave like a disgrace for the human race with your refusing to respond on calls for solutions and laying down arms, killings, hijacking democracy, your continuing of your work to keep the Kurds divided and destruction!
Iraq, Kurdistan and the West Bank need investements.."Bilateral commercial exchanges and cooperations"
But foreign speculations in land must be regulated, so it will not be at the expense of the Iraqis, the Kurds and the Palestinians! We have seen enough of exploitations at the expense of the people and vital environments!
Wake up! Do we need to have some lessons here? It´s a LIVING planet you know..It´s LIFE!
HEART!
LUNG!
ARTERY!
LUNG!
ARTERY!
KIDNEY! Separates superfluous fluid ---fluid balance
Yeah..What consequences do it have to cut off the heart, or the lungs or one thing from another? It does not "pumping" that well..Does it..Cutting off the heart gives less pumping, less freshwater, which affects the transportation of oxygen and freshwaters through the artery and over fertilizes waters which is clogging the system and slow downs the artery flooding.
Cutting off the lungs which have a absorption of carbon dioxide and transform it to oxygen and balances the moisture, gives unbalance in the whole system and gives overfloodings.
A slow down artery affects the kidney causing kidney problems with a springiness, and it gives unbalance in the fluid balance which also gives overflooding and affects the ice. And if the ice melt and to much cold waters are coming into the artery it will risk clogging the whole machinery even more and makes it stop!
And if the artery stops there will be no balance in warm and cold waters going around. And with a destroyed atmosphere (the protecting skin) by some f***** "nuclear tests" the sun actually reflects more in the ice, which hurries up the melting. And if to much cold waters comes into the artery it will show first at the American coast where the cold waters comes down (the blue line), with a icy climate and the cold waters will take over, the artery will stop all over the planet and we have another little ice age, WITH SOME LUCK! It could actually save this planet before it gets totally destroyed by idiots..
So..What would a doctor do? Well..first we need to save the heart..With balanced water flow to make it start pumping properly and contribute to keep the artery clean! Which also requires work to stop pollution of waters and tons of oil clogging the system. And save what´s left of the lungs and even recover some of it, which can be done before it´s to late! And with some balanced regulations of farming areas, better system with lesser transportations with long-distance lorry trucks, all over the globe, or/and make them running on some better fuel we can cut the carbon. Complement with solar power wherever it can be done. Distribute solar cells to Africa and where ever people use woods for cooking and have them start cooking with solar cells instead. Plant trees and recover forests. Stop tourism in sensitive areas such as the arctics and south pole. Declare sensitive areas as natural reserve. Regulate fishing and protect species. Clean up the coasts of Africa. AND STOP THE F***** NUCLEAR TESTS and sending up lots of junk, before you happens to hit someone that gets really pissed off and decide to vanish us all!
And then..A clarification ..thanks!
Around 85 per cent of the Mesopotamian marshlands - the largest wetland in the Middle East and one of the most outstanding freshwater ecosystems in the world - have been lost mainly as a result of drainage and damming, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Another reality is that the marshes will almost certainly never recover completely. In earlier times, the Tigris and Euphrates, overflowing with snowmelt from the Turkish mountains, spilled over their banks with seasonal regularity. The floods flushed out the brackish water and rejuvenated the environment. "The timing of the flooding is vital to the health of the marshes," says Azzam Alwash. "You need fresh water flowing in when the fishes are spawning, the birds are migrating, the reeds are coming out of their winter dormancy. It creates a symphony of biodiversity. "But these days, the symphony has dwindled to a few discordant notes.
Over the past two decades, Turkey has constructed 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants on the Euphrates and Tigris and their tributaries, siphoning off water before it ever crosses Iraq's northern border. Before 1990, Iraq got more than three trillion cubic feet of water a year; today it's less than two trillion. The Central and Hammar marshes, which are dependent upon the heavily dammed Euphrates, get only 350 billion cubic feet—down from 1.4 trillion a generation ago. As a result, only 9 percent of Al Hammar and 18 percent of the Central Marsh have been replenished, says Samira Abed, secretary general of the Center for Restoration of the Iraqi Marshes, a division of Iraq's Water Resources Ministry. "They are both still in a very poor state." (The Al Hawizeh Marsh, which extends to Iran and receives its water from the Tigris, has recovered 90 percent of its pre-1980 area.) meanwhile the Turks are building more upstream dams.
Azzam Alwash believes that intransigence on both sides dooms any negotiations. His group, Nature Iraq, is promoting an alternative that, he claims, could restore the marshes to something like full health with three billion cubic meters of additional water per year. The group calls for constructing movable gates on Euphrates and Tigris tributaries to create an "artificial pulse" of floodwater. In late winter, when Iraq's reservoirs are allowed to flow into the Persian Gulf in anticipation of the annual snowmelt, gates at the far end of the Central and Al Hammar marshes would slam shut, trapping the water and rejuvenating a wide area. After two months, the gates would reopen. Though the plan would not exactly replicate the natural ebb and flow of floodwaters of a generation ago, "if we manage it well," Alwash says, "we can recover 75 percent of the marshes." He says that the Iraqi government will need between $75 million and $100 million to build the gates. "We can do this," he adds. "Bringing back the marshes is hugely symbolic, and the Iraqis recognize that."For the moment, however, Alwash and other marshlands environmentalists are setting their sights lower.
In the past three years, Nature Iraq has spent $12 million in Italian and Canadian government funds to monitor salinity levels of marsh water and to compare "robust recovery" areas with those in which fish and vegetation have not thrived. Jepsen, working with the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry, is running fisheries, water-buffalo breeding programs and water-purification schemes: both agriculture and water quality, he says, have improved since Saddam fell. In addition, he says, the "maximum temperatures during the summer have been significantly reduced" across Basra Province. Jepsen recalls his first year—2003—in Iraq wistfully. In those days, he says, he could climb into his four-by-four and venture deep into the marshes with only an interpreter, observing the recovery without fear. He says discontent among the Marsh Arabs is also rising: "In the days after reflooding, they were so happy. But that euphoria has worn off. They are demanding improvements in their lives; the government will have to meet that challenge." In the marshlands, as in so much of this tortured, violent country, liberation proved to be the easy part. A small northern fringe of the Al-Hawizeh marsh, straddling the Iran-Iraq border (known as Hawr Al-Azim in Iran), is all that remains. Even this last vestige is rapidly dwindling as its water supply is impounded by new dams and diverted for irrigation purposes.
The cause of the decline is mainly as a result of damming upstream, as well as drainage schemes since the 1970s. The Tigris and the Euphrates are among the most intensively dammed rivers in the world. In the past forty years, the two rivers have been fragmented by the construction of more than 30 large dams, whose storage capacity is several times greater than the volume of both rivers. By turning off the tap, dams have substantially reduced the water available for downstream ecosystems and eliminated the floodwaters that nourished the marshlands.
We wonder what kind of information there is with the Iranian regime´s plans to destroy the Marsh lands that are left and recovers..Since they were a part of letting waters out to preserve it. In fact..Can we get some clarification here? We need very much a clarification and what plans the Iraqi government have to rescue and restore Marsh lands.. If not the EU plans to pay for more dams by Turkey as it isn´t enough with what they already have and have destroyed, the same way they did to the cedar forests and together with Saddam destroyed one of the most outstanding freshwater ecosystems in the world, and have contributed to polluted waters that is left and to desert spreading, and Iraqi´s most important ecological reserves will be lost for ever and consequences of not restoring the marshland would be enormous!
Another reality is that the marshes will almost certainly never recover completely. In earlier times, the Tigris and Euphrates, overflowing with snowmelt from the Turkish mountains, spilled over their banks with seasonal regularity. The floods flushed out the brackish water and rejuvenated the environment. "The timing of the flooding is vital to the health of the marshes," says Azzam Alwash. "You need fresh water flowing in when the fishes are spawning, the birds are migrating, the reeds are coming out of their winter dormancy. It creates a symphony of biodiversity. "But these days, the symphony has dwindled to a few discordant notes.
Over the past two decades, Turkey has constructed 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants on the Euphrates and Tigris and their tributaries, siphoning off water before it ever crosses Iraq's northern border. Before 1990, Iraq got more than three trillion cubic feet of water a year; today it's less than two trillion. The Central and Hammar marshes, which are dependent upon the heavily dammed Euphrates, get only 350 billion cubic feet—down from 1.4 trillion a generation ago. As a result, only 9 percent of Al Hammar and 18 percent of the Central Marsh have been replenished, says Samira Abed, secretary general of the Center for Restoration of the Iraqi Marshes, a division of Iraq's Water Resources Ministry. "They are both still in a very poor state." (The Al Hawizeh Marsh, which extends to Iran and receives its water from the Tigris, has recovered 90 percent of its pre-1980 area.) meanwhile the Turks are building more upstream dams.
Azzam Alwash believes that intransigence on both sides dooms any negotiations. His group, Nature Iraq, is promoting an alternative that, he claims, could restore the marshes to something like full health with three billion cubic meters of additional water per year. The group calls for constructing movable gates on Euphrates and Tigris tributaries to create an "artificial pulse" of floodwater. In late winter, when Iraq's reservoirs are allowed to flow into the Persian Gulf in anticipation of the annual snowmelt, gates at the far end of the Central and Al Hammar marshes would slam shut, trapping the water and rejuvenating a wide area. After two months, the gates would reopen. Though the plan would not exactly replicate the natural ebb and flow of floodwaters of a generation ago, "if we manage it well," Alwash says, "we can recover 75 percent of the marshes." He says that the Iraqi government will need between $75 million and $100 million to build the gates. "We can do this," he adds. "Bringing back the marshes is hugely symbolic, and the Iraqis recognize that."For the moment, however, Alwash and other marshlands environmentalists are setting their sights lower.
In the past three years, Nature Iraq has spent $12 million in Italian and Canadian government funds to monitor salinity levels of marsh water and to compare "robust recovery" areas with those in which fish and vegetation have not thrived. Jepsen, working with the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry, is running fisheries, water-buffalo breeding programs and water-purification schemes: both agriculture and water quality, he says, have improved since Saddam fell. In addition, he says, the "maximum temperatures during the summer have been significantly reduced" across Basra Province. Jepsen recalls his first year—2003—in Iraq wistfully. In those days, he says, he could climb into his four-by-four and venture deep into the marshes with only an interpreter, observing the recovery without fear. He says discontent among the Marsh Arabs is also rising: "In the days after reflooding, they were so happy. But that euphoria has worn off. They are demanding improvements in their lives; the government will have to meet that challenge." In the marshlands, as in so much of this tortured, violent country, liberation proved to be the easy part. A small northern fringe of the Al-Hawizeh marsh, straddling the Iran-Iraq border (known as Hawr Al-Azim in Iran), is all that remains. Even this last vestige is rapidly dwindling as its water supply is impounded by new dams and diverted for irrigation purposes.
The cause of the decline is mainly as a result of damming upstream, as well as drainage schemes since the 1970s. The Tigris and the Euphrates are among the most intensively dammed rivers in the world. In the past forty years, the two rivers have been fragmented by the construction of more than 30 large dams, whose storage capacity is several times greater than the volume of both rivers. By turning off the tap, dams have substantially reduced the water available for downstream ecosystems and eliminated the floodwaters that nourished the marshlands.
We wonder what kind of information there is with the Iranian regime´s plans to destroy the Marsh lands that are left and recovers..Since they were a part of letting waters out to preserve it. In fact..Can we get some clarification here? We need very much a clarification and what plans the Iraqi government have to rescue and restore Marsh lands.. If not the EU plans to pay for more dams by Turkey as it isn´t enough with what they already have and have destroyed, the same way they did to the cedar forests and together with Saddam destroyed one of the most outstanding freshwater ecosystems in the world, and have contributed to polluted waters that is left and to desert spreading, and Iraqi´s most important ecological reserves will be lost for ever and consequences of not restoring the marshland would be enormous!
Yes! And Welcome. May unity, peace and prosperity come your way
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shi'ite-led government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts.
Getting the Accordance Front to return after it quit a year ago in a row over power sharing has been seen as key to healing divisions between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs. Sunni Arabs have little voice in the current cabinet, which is dominated by Shi'ites and ethnic Kurds. "Today, parliament voted to accept our candidates ...
This means the Accordance Front has officially returned to the government," a senior lawmaker in the bloc, Salim al-Jubouri, told Reuters after the vote. "It is a real step forward for political reform." Jubouri, who is also the bloc's spokesman, said the Front's approved candidates would attend the next cabinet meeting. Parliament questioned candidates for 10 vacant cabinet jobs, including five ministries and a deputy prime ministerial post that had previously been allocated to the Accordance Front. The other portfolios were left largely vacant when separate Shi'ite and secular factions quit Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government last year. They will be filled by politicians from other parties.
Rafie al-Esawi from the Front was approved as one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers. Iraq's other deputy prime minister is Barham Salih. Government crackdowns against Shi'ite militias in the southern city of Basra in late March and then in Baghdad were welcomed by the Front and helped spur its return. "There's a new and more welcome spirit of unity." The political rapprochement has also been a factor in the warming of ties between Baghdad and Sunni Arab states. Until recently, Arab capitals maintained only low-level ties with Baghdad partly because they believed of minority Sunni Arabs in Iraq were victims of sectarian policies.
By Waleed Ibrahim, Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, Writing by Tim Cocks, Editing by Dean Yates and Jon Boyle
For the Iraqi people to become healed and move on there is need for Freedom, Equality and Fraternity.
Getting the Accordance Front to return after it quit a year ago in a row over power sharing has been seen as key to healing divisions between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs. Sunni Arabs have little voice in the current cabinet, which is dominated by Shi'ites and ethnic Kurds. "Today, parliament voted to accept our candidates ...
This means the Accordance Front has officially returned to the government," a senior lawmaker in the bloc, Salim al-Jubouri, told Reuters after the vote. "It is a real step forward for political reform." Jubouri, who is also the bloc's spokesman, said the Front's approved candidates would attend the next cabinet meeting. Parliament questioned candidates for 10 vacant cabinet jobs, including five ministries and a deputy prime ministerial post that had previously been allocated to the Accordance Front. The other portfolios were left largely vacant when separate Shi'ite and secular factions quit Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government last year. They will be filled by politicians from other parties.
Rafie al-Esawi from the Front was approved as one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers. Iraq's other deputy prime minister is Barham Salih. Government crackdowns against Shi'ite militias in the southern city of Basra in late March and then in Baghdad were welcomed by the Front and helped spur its return. "There's a new and more welcome spirit of unity." The political rapprochement has also been a factor in the warming of ties between Baghdad and Sunni Arab states. Until recently, Arab capitals maintained only low-level ties with Baghdad partly because they believed of minority Sunni Arabs in Iraq were victims of sectarian policies.
By Waleed Ibrahim, Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, Writing by Tim Cocks, Editing by Dean Yates and Jon Boyle
For the Iraqi people to become healed and move on there is need for Freedom, Equality and Fraternity.
Well..It´s the same here..Don´t have to hurry in your rebuilding!
BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say they have approved plans to build a five-star hotel in the Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone
Don´t do the same mistakes as so many else have done with just running over the old and losing their culture for newer buildings instead of trying to integrate it and plan after what´s already stands. Take time to think about it properly, when you are going to rebuild. It´s need to integrate the new with the old ..Not run the old over! It´s need to do everything possible to save and preserve old parts of both Baghdad and in other places and to keep what´s characteristic for Baghdad and cities. It´s already a huge embassy along the river. What were you thinking? Big..As usual..Check yourselves..
And it´s the same in parts of Kurdistan. Foreign speculations in land must be regulated so it not will run over the old culture that is left or take over the Kurds future to rebuild! You need to do a regulation so you will not end up being just a tourists valley that takes over the Kurds future of their own cities!
Don´t do the same mistakes as so many else have done with just running over the old and losing their culture for newer buildings instead of trying to integrate it and plan after what´s already stands. Take time to think about it properly, when you are going to rebuild. It´s need to integrate the new with the old ..Not run the old over! It´s need to do everything possible to save and preserve old parts of both Baghdad and in other places and to keep what´s characteristic for Baghdad and cities. It´s already a huge embassy along the river. What were you thinking? Big..As usual..Check yourselves..
And it´s the same in parts of Kurdistan. Foreign speculations in land must be regulated so it not will run over the old culture that is left or take over the Kurds future to rebuild! You need to do a regulation so you will not end up being just a tourists valley that takes over the Kurds future of their own cities!
Sahwa fighters on Friday arrested al-Qaeda leader
SALAH EL-DIN, July 18 (VOI) – Sahwa fighters on Friday arrested al-Qaeda leader who was wearing women’s clothes and seized explosive belts and weapons in east of Samarra, a police source said.“Sahwa fighters in al-Jabieriya region, east of Samarra, arrested this afternoon Ahmed al-Sameraei, al-Qaeda leader, who was wearing women’s clothes. The detainee is wanted for killing several army and police elements as well as many civilians. The fighters found also explosive belts and medium and light weapons. Sahwa councils were set up in a number of Iraqi provinces, these councils are usually led by tribal chiefs or notables in the provinces.Samarra, Salah el-Din, is 120 km north of Baghdad. The province also contains the significantly larger city of Samarra. Before 1976 the province was part of the governorate of Baghdad. It is named after Saladin (written Salah ah Din in modern Arabic), an ethnic Kurd and hero of the 12th century. Salahuddin province is a variant version of the province's name.
So...What plans, measures and help does the Iraqi government intend to take?
Is there something that can be done for those areas that are left?
The heart..
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect3/Iraq1972.jpg
http://ismrd.friendsofdemocracy.net/
http://ismrd.friendsofdemocracy.net/default.asp?mode=photoalbum&item=762097
Yeah..We thought so..The last destruction..by psychopaths and maniacs.. WHAT THE HELL HAVE THE IRANIAN PSYCHOPATHS TO DO WITH IRAQ'S MOST IMPORTANT ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES?
And the Iraqi government will just sit there like idiots?
The Mesopotamian marshlands of southern Iraq - a rich centre of biodiversity devastated by damming and draining under Saddam Hussein - are showing renewed signs of life.
However, the most important area for continued recovery - the northwest Al-Hawizeh marsh - faces a new threat as the Iranian government plans to build a dyke on its border with Iraq, diverting water away from recovering land. "It will cut off a vast amount of water and remove some of the recovering marshes," says Curtis Richardson of Duke University, US, who is monitoring the recovery with colleagues from the University of Waterloo in Canada, the University of Basra in Iraq and the Iraq Foundation.
Richardson told New Scientist that maintaining the Al-Hawizeh marsh will crucial to reseeding other areas of the marshland. He says it would be impossible to restore the marshlands entirely but thinks 30% could be salvaged. "The ecological consequences of not restoring the marshland would be enormous," he warns. Shortly after end of Saddam's regime in 2003, local Marsh Arabs returned to the area and destroyed dams in an effort to reflood the region. Around 20% of the marshland has now been reflooded.
Richardson told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC, US, that these efforts have just begun to breathe life back into the marshes. The flooding has brought the return of thousands of birds to the marshlands, as well as smooth-coated otters, Curtis says. "Immediately after the reflooding we saw just a dozen birds in the marshes," Richardson says. "A year later, there were hundreds and now they are talking about many thousands." Barry Warner, a plant ecologist from the University of Waterloo in Canada, adds that many plants have begun to thrive once again in the region. "We're getting a formidable response in the newly reflooded areas," he says. But the scientists remain concerned that indiscriminate reflooding could do more harm than good and may cause lasting environmental damage. For example, areas where there is no outlet for the water are becoming increasingly saline, through evaporation of the water. This makes them inhospitable to plant and animal life.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7044
The heart..
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect3/Iraq1972.jpg
http://ismrd.friendsofdemocracy.net/
http://ismrd.friendsofdemocracy.net/default.asp?mode=photoalbum&item=762097
Yeah..We thought so..The last destruction..by psychopaths and maniacs.. WHAT THE HELL HAVE THE IRANIAN PSYCHOPATHS TO DO WITH IRAQ'S MOST IMPORTANT ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES?
And the Iraqi government will just sit there like idiots?
The Mesopotamian marshlands of southern Iraq - a rich centre of biodiversity devastated by damming and draining under Saddam Hussein - are showing renewed signs of life.
However, the most important area for continued recovery - the northwest Al-Hawizeh marsh - faces a new threat as the Iranian government plans to build a dyke on its border with Iraq, diverting water away from recovering land. "It will cut off a vast amount of water and remove some of the recovering marshes," says Curtis Richardson of Duke University, US, who is monitoring the recovery with colleagues from the University of Waterloo in Canada, the University of Basra in Iraq and the Iraq Foundation.
Richardson told New Scientist that maintaining the Al-Hawizeh marsh will crucial to reseeding other areas of the marshland. He says it would be impossible to restore the marshlands entirely but thinks 30% could be salvaged. "The ecological consequences of not restoring the marshland would be enormous," he warns. Shortly after end of Saddam's regime in 2003, local Marsh Arabs returned to the area and destroyed dams in an effort to reflood the region. Around 20% of the marshland has now been reflooded.
Richardson told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC, US, that these efforts have just begun to breathe life back into the marshes. The flooding has brought the return of thousands of birds to the marshlands, as well as smooth-coated otters, Curtis says. "Immediately after the reflooding we saw just a dozen birds in the marshes," Richardson says. "A year later, there were hundreds and now they are talking about many thousands." Barry Warner, a plant ecologist from the University of Waterloo in Canada, adds that many plants have begun to thrive once again in the region. "We're getting a formidable response in the newly reflooded areas," he says. But the scientists remain concerned that indiscriminate reflooding could do more harm than good and may cause lasting environmental damage. For example, areas where there is no outlet for the water are becoming increasingly saline, through evaporation of the water. This makes them inhospitable to plant and animal life.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7044
Forests?
Brazil and Venezuela are promising US$530 million in low-interest loans for Bolivia to complete a highway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Brazil is pledging a 20-year, US $230 million loan to pave 510 kilometers of roadway, while Venezuela is promising US $300 million for the rest. Presidents from all three countries inked the deal Friday in rural Bolivia. The 6,100 kilometer road stretches from the Brazilian port of Santos to Arica in Chile, boosting cross-continent trade. More than half the highway's path through Bolivia is still unpaved. The aid could bolster Bolivian President Evo Morales ahead of an August recall referendum.
The lung...
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/samerica/brlarge.htm
The lung...
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/samerica/brlarge.htm
This is a collective-Suicide-genocide-"war-fare" on several fronts!
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Kurdish rebels say Turkish warplanes have bombed abandoned guerrilla camps in northern Iraq. They say there were no casualties.
Yeah..We have made up our minds..Not responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms time after time is a crime! It´s a GENOCIDAL "war-fare", that have been going on for decades and Germany should really try to negotiate the release of the climbers and make a income on other ways than contributing with weapons sales to be used in this genocidal "war-fare" against the Kurds that have been going on for decades, at the same time that border is used for decades to destabilize the whole region by the Iranian regime in the same course of actions as Hitler, while the Palestinians death toll raises in parallel with the Kurds and Lebanon is occupied by terrorism as they have been just as long time as that border have been used!
Yeah..We have made up our minds..Not responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms time after time is a crime! It´s a GENOCIDAL "war-fare", that have been going on for decades and Germany should really try to negotiate the release of the climbers and make a income on other ways than contributing with weapons sales to be used in this genocidal "war-fare" against the Kurds that have been going on for decades, at the same time that border is used for decades to destabilize the whole region by the Iranian regime in the same course of actions as Hitler, while the Palestinians death toll raises in parallel with the Kurds and Lebanon is occupied by terrorism as they have been just as long time as that border have been used!
18 newspapers have been suspended. Students are being tortured and hanged.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the 11 April decision of a criminal court in Sanandaj, in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region, to close the Kurdish-language daily Rouji Ha Lat for good on the grounds that it had received money from abroad. The court took the position that it broke the law by selling copies across the border in the Kurdish part of Iraq.“It seems that any pretext will do in order to silence independent news media,” the press freedom organisation said. “The Iranian judicial system undermines its own credibility each time it hands down such absurd and iniquitous decisions. A total of 18 newspapers have been suspended since the start of the year in Iran, each time for obviously political reasons.”The Sanandaj court ruled that, by selling copies in Iraqi Kurdistan, Rouji Ha Lat had acquired an “illegal” foreign source of income since, in Iran, the national news media are not allowed to receive foreign financial assistance. Three of the newspaper’s journalists who had been charged with “activity against national security” - Farhad Aminpour, Reza Alipour and Saman Solimani - were fined 300,000 toumen (300 euros). They were detained for a month in 2006 before being freed on bail.
On 16 April, a Tehran court ordered the suspension of the newspaper Rah Ayandeh in response to a complaint brought by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation’s press department. The newspaper’s next issue, its ninth, was to have been about Labour Day and the struggle of labour unions in Iran. Finally, Reporters Without Borders hopes that the weekly Ashtai and the daily Rouzegar will soon be on sale again following court decisions in the past few days lifting the bans that had been placed on them. On 3 April, the high court of justice overturned the decision of a Sanandaj court on 3 December to order the definitive closure of Ashtai, which had been suspended since August 2005. And on 5 April, a Tehran court rehabilitated Rouzegar, which was suspended by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation on 20 October 2006 for violating its restricted licence by covering political matters.
20.04.2008
People took to the streets on Saturday to protest against detention of Mamousta Ayub Ganji, the Imam of Qaba Mosque, by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in the northwestern city of Sanandaj.The participants demanded the immediate release of Ganji. The State Security Forces (SSF) -- mullahs' suppressive police-- cordoned the gathering fearing that the demonstration might get out of hand but people, in particular the youth, continued with their protest.
In a sermon on January 25, Ganji lashed out against the clerical regime for the death of a student from Sanandaj under torture. Subsequently, he was arrested and brutally tortured by the agents of the MOIS. Fearing widespread riot by the local residents over Ganji's detention, the MOIS released him briefly. However, he was detained for the second time. A large number of youths participated in the demonstration outside Qaba Mosque, where Ganji preached, and it spread to other parts of Sanandaj. The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief and all international human rights organizations to condemn the mullahs' medieval regime and adopt necessary measures to secure Ganji's release.
20.04.2008
On April 18, two former students of Gachsaran University, a city in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwestern Iran, will soon face gallows on the murder charges. However, families of both young men, 26-year-old Mohammad Kishavarz and 25-year-old Hamid Nargose-Nejad, have good reasons to believe that they have been framed by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Both students are held in a prison in Yasuj the provincial capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad. The families said that in a rear visit to the prison they were informed by their sons that they will soon be executed."Both students were very active in anti-government protests during the past year," said one of the family members. Such conducts have not been isolated by the MOIS in the past in Iran. There have been many reported cases of the similar nature when political prisoners have been arrested on bogus charges.
On 16 April, a Tehran court ordered the suspension of the newspaper Rah Ayandeh in response to a complaint brought by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation’s press department. The newspaper’s next issue, its ninth, was to have been about Labour Day and the struggle of labour unions in Iran. Finally, Reporters Without Borders hopes that the weekly Ashtai and the daily Rouzegar will soon be on sale again following court decisions in the past few days lifting the bans that had been placed on them. On 3 April, the high court of justice overturned the decision of a Sanandaj court on 3 December to order the definitive closure of Ashtai, which had been suspended since August 2005. And on 5 April, a Tehran court rehabilitated Rouzegar, which was suspended by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation on 20 October 2006 for violating its restricted licence by covering political matters.
20.04.2008
People took to the streets on Saturday to protest against detention of Mamousta Ayub Ganji, the Imam of Qaba Mosque, by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in the northwestern city of Sanandaj.The participants demanded the immediate release of Ganji. The State Security Forces (SSF) -- mullahs' suppressive police-- cordoned the gathering fearing that the demonstration might get out of hand but people, in particular the youth, continued with their protest.
In a sermon on January 25, Ganji lashed out against the clerical regime for the death of a student from Sanandaj under torture. Subsequently, he was arrested and brutally tortured by the agents of the MOIS. Fearing widespread riot by the local residents over Ganji's detention, the MOIS released him briefly. However, he was detained for the second time. A large number of youths participated in the demonstration outside Qaba Mosque, where Ganji preached, and it spread to other parts of Sanandaj. The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief and all international human rights organizations to condemn the mullahs' medieval regime and adopt necessary measures to secure Ganji's release.
20.04.2008
On April 18, two former students of Gachsaran University, a city in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwestern Iran, will soon face gallows on the murder charges. However, families of both young men, 26-year-old Mohammad Kishavarz and 25-year-old Hamid Nargose-Nejad, have good reasons to believe that they have been framed by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Both students are held in a prison in Yasuj the provincial capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad. The families said that in a rear visit to the prison they were informed by their sons that they will soon be executed."Both students were very active in anti-government protests during the past year," said one of the family members. Such conducts have not been isolated by the MOIS in the past in Iran. There have been many reported cases of the similar nature when political prisoners have been arrested on bogus charges.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
