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The only change over the decades has been the particular resource snatched for Western consumption - rubber under the Belgians, diamonds under Mobutu, coltan and cassiterite today.

There is an official story about the war in Congo, and then there is the reality, uncovered by a trilogy of bomb-blast reports from the UN Panel of Experts on the ( Read more... )

So I have been working out in HMF, and there are a ton of invasive plants there (as some of you may know). Lonicera japonica, Japanese honeysuckle, is a pretty big pest there (along with a ton of other things, but im not getting into that right now). Normally the leaves are round and opposite, growing along the vine. however when the plant is young ( Read more... )

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I got the following as a response to a previous post and decided to just go ahead and make another journal entry on it...

hmm I agree.
I can say that there is a way around the diamond thing. There are some pretty good "lab created" diamonds that are molecularly speaking, diamonds, though they will have 0 florescence which a small amount can be neat ( Read more... )

1. Ever kissed a blonde haired, blue eyed person?
hmm… maybe. I don’t know. Is that sad? I don’t remember.

2. Can you see a phone right now?
two, haha.

3. What are you listening to?
the fan

4. Where is it coming from?
the window

5. Last thing you ate?
string cheese

6. What was the last thing you saw on TV?
Gilmore Girls on dvd

7. Who was the last person other ( Read more... )

i just got a discount for using a canvas bag instead of a plastic bag at the grocery store! =DDD

two whole cents!!!

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oh i found it! the manta tube!!
i already watched it like 98578937692387459237489040327587 times

soooo awesome.

ok so one, i was reading some headlines and i came across a story that a baby Manta ray had been born in a Japanese aquarium. The story said that a Manta has never been born in captivity and that the mother Manta's pregnancy lasted 374 days. the baby is more than 6 feet across and was born rolled up like a tube! i don't know why, but i think that a ( Read more... )