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...that if public demand can be met by farms then wild tigers won't be poached. But conservationists believe these same facilities fuel demand and fatally undermine conservation efforts. Steven Galster, director of the Bangkok-based wildlife and human-rights group FREELAND, says the SFA is using the reintroduction scheme "to justify captive-tiger breeding operations in China, some of which are actually selling tiger bones. Those sales are sending very mixed signals to Chinese consumers, perpetuating demand for tiger parts, which in turn sends a signal to poachers across Asia that this lucrative business is still taking orders." (Watch...
...plane of the nation's President, a Hutu, in 1994 - an attack that sparked the genocide, which, in turn, allowed the Tutsis to reclaim power. The judge's inquiry, which seeks to determine if the Tutsi militias could have engineered the massacre of their own people in a Machiavellian scheme to take control, is what prompted Kigali to break ties with Paris...
...longest of the animated shorts, this Wallace and Gromit creation follows a well-known scheme. Wallace is a baker who saves the life of the Bake-O-Lite and her pretty poodle. They fall in love, Gromit feels lonely, many pastry puns and euphemistic baking scenes ensue. Of course, the Bake-O-Lite girl turns out to be a crazy serial killer out to get her “Baker’s Dozen.” Luckily, Gromit is around to let that fruitcake know her time...
Gates wasn't impressed by the scheme. "After more than a decade of research and development, we have yet to achieve a laser with enough power to knock down a missile ... more than 50 miles from the launchpad - thus requiring these huge planes to loiter deep in enemy airspace to have a feasible shot at a direct hit," he noted after he axed the program. "Moreover, the 10 to 20 aircraft needed would cost about $1.5 billion each, plus tens of millions of dollars annually - each - for maintenance and operations," he added. "The program and operating concept were fatally flawed...
...more likely reason this may have occurred, some sources said, is the same reason the DOJ balked at granting Birkenfeld immunity in exchange for his cooperation: he apparently violated the cardinal rule of not being completely truthful with investigators about his own role in the tax evasion scheme...