blessed britons

When the East India Company was first established on new year’s eve 1600, Mughal India commanded 22 per cent of global GDP, with Britain producing less than a tenth as much. By the time Britain finally departed India’s shores three and a half centuries later, its national income was more than 50 per cent greater than its former colony.

— Nick Robins

mad world

* Junk mail in the U.S. accounts for one-third of all the mail delivered in the world
* More than 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail are delivered each year (that’s more than 800 pieces per household)
* The greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the manufacturing of the 6.5 million tons of paper required for junk mail annually is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of 3.7 million cars
* More than 100 million trees a year are cut down and made into paper for junk mail. Those trees come from endangered forests like Canada’s Boreal and Indonesia’s rainforests

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no access for red cross

Submitted by antarchi on February 29, 2008 - 01:10.

HRW: Was there any discussion of the Red Cross coming?
"Yeah, they said that the Red Cross would never be able to get in there at all."
Jeff explained that the colonel told them that he “had this directly from General Mc Chrystal? and the Pentagon that there’s no way that the Red Cross could get in.”... He explained that they were told: “they just don’t have access, and they won’t have access, and they never will. This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating. Even Army investigators.”

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blessed britons

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no access for red cross