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...elections. But red is also the color of blood, and in response to Abhisit's steadfast refusal to resign, the Red Shirts decided to shed their own. As dawn broke on March 16, hundreds lined up at medical tents, where nurses siphoned blood from their veins into 2-liter water bottles and juice jugs. The protesters then marched to Government House--the Prime Minister's official residence and office complex--and in a macabre pantomime of revolution, literally spilled their blood on the compound's gates and front steps. Ghastly? Perhaps. But certainly better than the alternative, says rice farmer...
Karabell's is the smartest approach I have seen lately. We should support national infrastructure programs like interstate highways and an integrated U.S. water program. Just a few such programs would put millions of people to work and benefit small and large businesses...
...establish the one-world order, estimates range only as high as 100,000. But if you include all the people in as many as 40 states who respond to the patriot rhetoric about a sinister, out-of-control federal bureaucracy -- all the ranchers fed up with land- and water-use policies, all the loggers who feel besieged by environmentalists, all the underemployed who blame their plight on NAFTA and GATT -- then the count soars upwards of 12 million. "People are drawn in under this soft umbrella of anger at the government and soon taken into the more violent part...
...modern Sagebrush Rebellion, a land-rights movement that is spreading rapidly in Western states. Over the past few years, offices of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have come under increasing attack by ranchers, farmers and loggers fed up with federal rules about land use, water rights and endangered habitats. In Nevada, where more than 80% of the state is public land, federal employees have been refused service in restaurants, taunted at public gatherings and harassed with vulgar gestures. In March a bomb exploded in the forest rangers' district headquarters in Carson City, shattering windows and damaging...
...number of difficult "final status" issues to be negotiated in pursuit of a two-state solution - others include where to draw the borders; the fate of settlers and of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes in Israel in 1948 and were barred from returning; security; and water rights. But the fate of the Holy City is easily the most emotive, and perhaps also the most intractable point of conflict. And the very process of trying to restart final-status talks has once again put Jerusalem at ground zero in the conflict. (See pictures of people protesting the new settlements...