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03/09/10 - These events have made world news during the past 24 hours... * Anti-government protesters have planned a large protest in Thailand late in the week, Voice of America reported on Tuesday. The southeast Asian nation's capitol Bangkok saw significant demonstrations last April. * Nearly fifty-two hundred Iraqi Christians had fled the city of Mosul, Iraq as of March 4th, according to the OCHA. Violence and threats have caused many families to escape to the north. The World Food Program has provided assistance to Iraqis displaced from Mosul. * A U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization program has successfully enabled five-thousand farmers in West Africa to produce certified organic products. Not only has this reduced the environmental and health impacts of farming, but increased the farmers' income as well. * Milder temperatures have returned to the southern U.S., and warmer than usual readings persist in the north. Caribou, ME reported a high of 40F on Monday and Helena, MT reached 54F. Toronto saw a high of 57F (14C) on the same day.
03/03 (LWN) Some of the mainstream media, including ABC News, has been attributing the decline in U.S. Postal Service mail volume during the past few years to use of the Internet, particularly e-mail. However, they have neglected the facts that people didn't begin using e-mail only three years ago, and the U.S. is in a long-term recession with the following effects:
* Companies sending less advertisements, catalogs The mainstream media has remained intent upon promoting the idea that the "recession is over" in recent months. This may explain why it would rather brand the postal service as "obsolete" than acknowledge the recession's effect upon mail volume and shipping.
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