Biofuels such as ethanol have been presented by alternative energy entrepreneurs and many environmentalists as a 聯clean, green聰 alternative to fossil fuels. But recently a growing chorus of scientists have warned of the dangers of biofuels.
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鈥淟iberal Senator Gary Humphries has attempted to reignite a 50-year-old political fear of reds under the bed鈥, reported the Canberra Times on Thursday October 12. The article was referring to an October 10 speech in the Australian Senate, during which Humphries launched an attack on socialist Cuba and Australian supporters of the Cuban Revolution.
On October 15 Ecuador went to the polls. Having seen eight presidents in 10 years, three of whom were overthrown by a population frustrated by the corruption, ineptitude and nepotism that characterise Ecuador鈥檚 elite, the chances of any government lasting out its mandate seem pretty slim. However, the challenge could be in getting one of the pool of 13 presidential candidates even legitimately elected.
On October 17, a US federal appeals court upheld the US State Department鈥檚 2004 designation of Kahane Chai, an Israeli-based spin-off of US ultra-Zionist Rabbi Meir Kahane鈥檚 Jewish Defence League (JDL), as a 鈥渇oreign terrorist organisation鈥.
The 鈥淲hat we think鈥 column from the US Socialist Worker, newspaper of the US International Socialist Organization, argues that although the Republican Party stranglehold on the US Congress may end in the November 7 elections, the Democrats have an abysmal record of trying to 鈥渙ut-Bush鈥 the Republicans.
In the Shadow of the Palms
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In selected cinemas now
Produced and Directed by Wayne Coles-Janess
In selected cinemas now
Marx鈥檚 Das Kapital: A Biography
By Frances Wheen
Allen & Unwin 2006
130 pages $22.95
By Frances Wheen
Allen & Unwin 2006
130 pages $22.95
In a further assault on the sovereignty of the Solomon Islands, its Australian-appointed police commissioner, Shane Castles, had Solomons immigration minister Peter Shanel arrested on October 17 over the alleged illegal entry of Fiji-born Australian lawyer Julian Moti.
On October 14, five days after North Korea announced that it had carried out its first nuclear weapons test, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution imposing a ban on trade with North Korea in 聯luxury聰 goods, some conventional armaments, and materials 聯related聰 to its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
On October 16, the UN Office of Humanitarian Assistance聮s IRIN news service reported that electricity and clean water are now 聯luxuries for most Iraqis聰. For example, Baghdad, a city with 6 million residents, gets no more than four to six hours of electricity a day.
October 12 was marked in Venezuela as the 聯Day of Indigenous Resistance聰 to the arrival of Spanish colonisers. On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus first landed in South America, beginning more than 500 years of genocide and oppression of the continent聮s indigenous inhabitants. The day is a national public holiday in Venezuela and was previously designated Christopher Columbus Day.
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