EXCERPT: With a population of just 4.47 million, New Zealand has more cows (4.9 million dairy and about four million beef cows) and many more sheep (around 30 million), than it has people.
The sheer number of cows and sheep prompted a Labor government in 2003 to propose introducing a tax on flatulence – methane emitted from both ends of the animals is considered a “greenhouse gas” – but it backed down in the face of a farmer-led protest campaign under the slogan Fight Against Ridiculous Taxes, (FART).
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From the Story:
“New Mexico prosecutor has bypassed a grand jury and filed murder charges Monday against two Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man last year at his illegal campsite.
James Boyd had been camping March 16 in a restricted area in the foothills above the city after homeless shelters were closed, friends said.
Police negotiated for nearly five hours with the 36-year-old Boyd before an officer fired a flash-bang grenade at the homeless man, who appears disoriented and grabs a knife.
Boyd, who was a paranoid schizophrenic, was shot to death after taking a step toward officers.”
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An excerpt:
I was only eleven years of age, when in 1940 our family moved to Utah. Dad had just purchased a 60-acre farm at Woods Cross, a farm community eight miles north of Salt Lake City.
I had treasured my days in the Bear Lake valley of Idaho, as it was a great place to grow up. However, the Great Depression and the hard economic times had placed many challenges on us. Those times were my own “pioneer days.”
There were seven kids in our family–Maxine, myself, Ray, Roy, Edward, Frank, and Gayle in that order and we all pitched in and had our respective chores and work to do.
In my work, I came to know the value of water. Our water system came from local springs from which we filled a reservoir for drinking purposes and irrigated our crops with the remainder. The job of irrigation was mine.
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An excerpt:
We have become spectators in a theater of the absurd. Politics, religion, philosophy, materialism – all instruments of fragmentation, designed to split the world into pieces. A fragmented world needs suturing, or so we are told. For every fracture there is a ready-made poultice, even if the results are sham and fleeting.
For this surgery, they tell us that the price is right, the credit easy, the power of consensus being the implied warranty. We must only believe. And consent to relinquish who we are and accept the mantle of the New Tribe, where no one is anyone unless they are everyone.
Homogenization comes with a silent warning. To be a member of the New Tribe requires a blindness to the world-as-it-is. In return, we are afforded every fantasy. Yet, in the process, we forfeit the “awareness of wholeself.” And find ourselves adrift in the cosmos.
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An excerpt:
December 7, 1941
I was in a store in Newark, N.J. buying candy when the news of Pearl Harbor came across on the radio. I was already registered
for the draft. I’d done it the previous July and so I knew I was going to be in the Army. I decided I’d rather get in the Marines. I probably liked the uniform or something. I was a kid.
But my draft board wouldn’t release me because they had to meet their quota. Maybe they did me a favor; if I’d been in the Marines, I might’ve been knocked off at Guadalcanal. Who knows?
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