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nice friend:
Nothing to say but this  , Israeland and all other countries which are making war anywher in the world they are not only destrorying the peace of this world but the atmosphere as well ... do you ever think that how much oxgen suck's a dazy cutter bomb ,, how many oxgen sucks all other bombs , do u ever think that how much carbon-dioxide produce's a bomb .. and after that bomb the fire and smoke produce's the carbon-dioxide as well . do you ever think that how much ozone layer is damaged and still damagin bcoze of their bomb . do you know that a battle field of today's wars is a big reason of global warming ... dont they know that they are not killing the people only in iraq afghanistan or palestine but they are killing the whole world , they r destroying the whole world slowly slowly. ... do you  know that from which area ozone layer is got damaged and where in the world ozone layer has a hole in that ... its near America in Antartica : here is a proof of it :
it is Antarctica  its located nearby the South America :

in this pic blue is presenting the hole in ozone layer and that hole is touching some ares of South America as well : the pic below is take in august 2000 ....

 and here a some quotes from websites :

--- Quote ---The ozone hole of 2008 is larger than in 2007
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and hole is getting bigger every year : here i want to mention that ozone hole touched the south america,FalkLand Islands on the other end it is near  to touch Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania on other side Africa &  Madagaskar ...
its realy horrible ...

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030728/ozone.html

--- Quote ---Their results are to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres.

Ozone is a damaging pollutant near the ground, but in the stratosphere, it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun and cosmic rays from space, all of which can cause skin cancers.

In the 1980s, scientists detected for the first time an ozone hole forming over Antarctica each August, eventually breaking up by December or January. Another hole was discovered over the Arctic — both regions vulnerable to ozone damage.

Scientists eventually showed that chlorine released in the upper atmosphere from chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs — chemicals used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants — were destroying this ozone layer. The three scientists, Mario Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Paul Crutzen, jointly won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their finding.

Released into the atmosphere, CFC molecules "percolate" into the upper atmosphere. As they rise, ultraviolet light breaks them up, releasing chlorine, which goes on to break ozone molecules down to its constituent oxygen molecules.

The discovery eventually led to an international ban on CFC-based products, a ban which Newchurch said his findings show is paying off.

"We can say that what we're doing is working, and we should continue the ban (on CFCs)," he said.

But there is still cause for concern, he added.

Ozone is still being lost from the stratosphere. And the amount of chlorine, the chemical that does the damage in that layer of the stratosphere, has not yet peaked, though it has slowed down significantly.

When chlorine levels do peak and then begin to fall, ozone levels should continue to rise, said Newchurch. However, the amount of ozone in the upper stratosphere, where the rate of loss is slowing, is small compared to the total amount of ozone in the stratosphere as a whole.

"We don't see compelling evidence that the destruction of ozone is slowing in the lower stratosphere, where 80 percent of the protective ozone layer exists," said Newchurch.

[bgcolor=#ffff00]In the lower stratosphere, the layer of atmosphere between about 20 and 35 km (12 and 22 miles) up, the threat to the ozone layer comes not just from chlorine but also from greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. [/bgcolor]

Best known for their warming effect on the lower atmosphere, these greenhouse gases have the reverse effect on the stratosphere, said Newchurch. Here, they radiate heat out to space, cooling the lower stratosphere.


This cooling changes wind and air mixing patterns in a way that can increase ozone depletion, especially at high latitudes, although the effect tends to be mitigated in part by the fact that cooling slows the rate at which ozone is degraded into oxygen, so cooling has both good and bad effects on ozone depletion.

Unfortunately, it is proving easier to ban aerosols and refrigerants containing CFCs than to impose meaningful greenhouse gas emission restrictions on an energy-hungry world, he commented.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/antarctic-ozone-hole-massive/2006/12/26/1166895273746.html

--- Quote ---A new study shows just how dramatic the ozone loss in the Antarctic has been over the past 20 years compared with the same phenomenon in the Arctic.

The study found "massive" and "widespread" localised ozone depletion in the heart of Antartica's ozone hole region, beginning in the late 1970s, but becoming more pronounced in the 1980s and 1990s.

The US government scientists who conducted the study said that there was an almost complete absence of ozone in certain atmospheric air samples taken after 1980, compared to earlier decades.

In contrast, the ozone losses in the Arctic were sporadic, and even the greatest losses did not begin to approach the regular losses in the northern hemisphere, the researchers said.

"Typically the Arctic loss is dramatically less than the Antarctic loss," said Robert Portmann, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

[bgcolor=#ffff00]Scientists have been tracking the expanding ozone hole over Antarctica for some 20 years now.

In October, NASA scientists reported that this year's hole is the biggest ever, stretching over nearly 11 million square miles.[/bgcolor]

In Antarctica, local ozone depletion at some altitudes frequently exceeded 90 per cent, and often reached up to 99 per cent during the Antarctic winter in the period after 1980 compared to earlier decades, the researchers said.

In the Arctic, the losses occasionally peaked at 70 per cent, and some losses of 50 per cent were seen in the mid 1990s, when temperatures were particularly low, but the scale and scope of the problem was much less than what was seen in the Northern Hemisphere.

Recent studies have also pointed to large ozone losses in the Southern Hemisphere, but the NOAA researchers said their study showed that these events were rare and did not appear to signal a trend.

"We saw small to moderate ozone losses in the very coldest winters, when the stratospheric conditions are ripe for ozone loss, but they were rarer than we expected," said Portmann.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was based on more than 40 years' of ozone readings from polar observation stations and balloon-borne measuring mechanisms.

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Make Peace , say no to war , war is a destruction and disaster not only for the those who are fightin but the whole world ! ....
i hope i explained wat i wantted to tell you people : and sorry for posting out of Topic "Gaza Massacre".

Best Regards
Take Care
Umair

Andy Battaglia:
Also,think about the billions and billions of dollars the world spends on war and preparing for war and what that money could do for humanity. The human race is pretty messed up.

Manal:
Why do i get the feeling that the Palastenian government does not want to solve that issue and face their colonizers? I am not talking about refusing negociations in the 70s but their attitude now in spliting their forces in civil war between them (hammas) and Fattah. They are accusing and killing each other and at the same time asking others to help them. Shouldn't they start to unit first, just a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!

manal

T @ r ! Q:
The easiest way to rule a nation specially muslims, divide and conquer. And that is the main strategy that they make. But they never do it themselves, rather they use traitors from among the nation or deploy there own people in government and use them for the purpose. We have many examples:

In Afghanistan, they strengthen Kurd groups and finance them against taliban government (to start unstability in region and then come and save the day).
In sub-continent partition, they gave some muslim majority areas to India, the result is there are more muslims in India than in Pakistan. Then they made a successful attempt to break east and west pakistan.
In palestine as Manal rightly pointed out, they would never let Hamas and Fatah unite, bcoz when that happens, problem will be solved.
In Pakistan: they are backing up Baloch Liberation Army and so called Pakistani Talibans (who are CIA and RAW agents in disguise.) to create law and order situation,

I am not that good in history otherwise i am sure there would be many examples from the past,

I strongly believe that they are afraid of muslim unity. They are such cowards that they fear from some verses of Quran (Surah Tauba) and thats why some of these verses were being removed from our school curriculum. But what they don't know that Quran is in our hearts, how will they remove that from our memory..


I am sorry but i am so in control of my emotions, i can't stop saying harsh things, sorry for that.

nice friend:

--- Quote from: Andy on January 04, 2009, 10:56:14 PM ---Also,think about the billions and billions of dollars the world spends on war and preparing for war and what that money could do for humanity. The human race is pretty messed up.
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Hi All ,
if you want to talk about waste of money on war , and to talk about the waste of money on defense budget then here is something i found for you people :

for compplete article : http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/47773/

--- Quote ---[bgcolor=#f5ff00]The Bush Administration will ask Congress for $100 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan this year -- on top of the $70 billion already allocated -- and $145 billion for 2008. Why ask for the money if you're not planning to use it?[/[/bgcolor]quote]

for complete article : http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/09/26_poor.html

--- Quote ---[bgcolor=#ffff00]If the U.S. spent just $18 billion - which is what America spends in three months to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan - the country could wipe out hunger and homelessness completely for ten years, Shaft wrote. If the US took just 25 percent of its annual military budget, which is expected to top $450 billion for fiscal year 2004, the largest by far (Russia is a distant second at $60 billion, according to the non-partisan Center for Defense Information), that would go a long way towards wiping out hunger and homelessness around the world. "Just 10 percent of our military budget spent yearly on America could give every high school graduate a college education for four years," [/bgcolor] Shaft wrote.

"[bgcolor=#ebff00]It seems like it is not a priority to protect our children from starvation and living on the streets[/bgcolor]," Shaft wrote. [bgcolor=#ffff00]"Our education system is crumbling and the school breakfast and lunch programs are being slashed mercilessly... If this crisis continues, we are in danger of actually having worse hunger and homelessness than some third world countries. The military expansion and occupation must stop so that we can salvage our future before it is too late to stop the landslide of poor and starving[/bgcolor]."

These harsh trends of the poor multiplying and getting poorer, while the rich get richer, are exactly what many of us knew would happen under Bush-Cheney. It's happening faster than many predicted.

Did you see Fox's "conversation" between Republican butt-kisser Brit Hume and Bush on Sept. 22? That was about as much a "conversation" as any of Bush's staged press conferences, as Bush continually looked off-camera for the cue cards. I thought I was watching actors playing Bush and Hume in a Saturday Night Live skit

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for complete article : http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/global/trade/wsf/peoplesbudget.html

--- Quote ---Pain, loss of human dignity, and grief are part of what hunger means. There is, however, another dimension.

I met Jon Pedro who is with the MST in June 2000. MST works with the landless poor here in Brazil to secure idle land so they can grow food for their families and their communities. [bgcolor=#ffff00]I hear from him regularly about the brutal attacks on MST activists and how many of their leaders have been assassinated. Their crime is that they are mobilizing for the human right to feed oneself. Whether it is Brazil or India or Thailand, the fourth dimension of hunger is repression and living in fear[/bgcolor].

If we think of hunger in terms of numbers, the solution also appears to be in numbers. In 1996, the Second World Food Summit action plan declared the intention to reduce the number of malnourished by half by the year 2015. This expectation was a result of governments thinking in terms of numbers! But if we understand hunger as real people and real families coping with the most difficult human emotions, or if we have ever felt these emotions ourselves, we realize that its then that we have felt powerless to protect ourselves and those we love.

Hunger is the ultimate symbol of powerlessness and violation of our basic human rights.

[bgcolor=#ffff00]A true war on terrorism would have launched a war on hunger and poverty. Instead, it has proven to be a war on the poor themselves. As the White House warmed up the war machine, President Bush proclaimed, "Afghanistan is just the beginning." Washington is now considering continuing this war on terrorism in other states that allegedly harbor terrorists such as Somalia and Iraq, while American troops are already in the Philippines. The U.S. government does not seem to care that indiscriminate bombardment of countries whose populations are already brutalized by war, economic sanctions and repressive governments - destroy fragile infrastructure, kill civilians, and escalate the cycle of hunger, poverty and violence.[/bgcolor]

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i hope i explained wat i want to say ....

Best REgards
TaKe Care
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