blessed britons
[In 1924], Squadron Leader Arthur "Bomber" Harris of the Royal Air Force ruthlessly bombed the Kurds and Iraqis. In March of 1924, Harris reported the following to his superiors (the text of which was added to ... a report to Parliament, thereafter expunged from the record): "Where the Arab and Kurd had just begun to realise that if they could stand a little noise they could stand bombing - they now know what real bombing means, in casualties and damage; they now know that within forty-five minutes a full-sized village (vide attached photos of Kushan-Al-Ajaza) can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured by four or five machines which offer them no real target, no opportunity for glory as warriors, no effective means of escape.
mad world
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed to in 1992, and ... has been accepted by 181 governments... The developed nations committed themselves to 1990 levels of emissions by the year 2000, but this commitment was not legally binding. For the United States and several other countries, that was just as well, because they came nowhere near meeting it. In the US, for example, by 2000 carbon emissions were 14% higher than they were in 1990. Nor was the trend improving, for the increase between 1999 and 2000 was 3.1%, the biggest one year increase since the mid 1990s.
