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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Phillip Adams

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

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