The Culture of Green and the Culture of Death converge in James Jay Lee, the Discovery Channel eco-terrorist J.J. Lee was an Earther … a True Believer that humanity comprises a nefarious conspiracy to destroy Gaia, our Mother Earth. By now we have...
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E.P.A. to Study Chemicals Used to Tap Natural Gas The Environmental Protection Agency sent letters to nine drilling companies on Thursday requesting detailed information about the chemicals contained in fluids used to crack open underground rock formations...
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by RL Miller. I’m tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and Governor who claims that global warming is a hoax, doubts the science of climate change, and wants a new Dark Ages for America. First, a brief note on why....
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Grist | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Terrific ad campaign by the World Wildlife Fund in South Africa and SASSI, the South African Sustainable Seafood Foundation to encourage people to eat fish caught in an environmentally friendly manner that avoids bycatch. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger...
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People with ample blood on their hands suddenly find anger over blood-spilling when the culprit is powerless
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It’s been a dream of scientists, interrogators and law enforcement professionals for years: Strap a terrorist suspect to a couple of electrodes, start asking him questions, and watch his brainwaves rat him out. In a recent paper, a Northwestern University...
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Every religious scripture has questionable ideas.To say the Quran promotes terrorism because of violent passages is as wrong as saying the Jewish and Christian faiths are evil because of the way God is portrayed sometimes gets a little nasty.
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Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people are conducting – primarily on themselves – to understand their own bodies and behavior. In...
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A major U.S. union came out swinging against China on Thursday, saying in fiery terms that the Asian giant was using illegal trade tactics to strong-arm Americans out of clean-tech jobs. The United Steelworkers filed a 5,800-page petition with the...
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The decision to short-circuit the trial process is more than a misreading of the law; it's an egregious miscarriage of justice. ... The Supreme Court should reopen the door that the 9th Circuit slammed shut.
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The all-powerful marketing machine that is Oprah’s Book Club will add another author to its list of the fortunate on September 17th, when Oprah Winfrey announces her latest pick during a live broadcast. Though the...
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Mortada Mansour was hosted in 2X2 show yesterday and his interview was too provoking , too rude and too .. that forced me to post his especially he crossed all the lines when he spoke about the opposition figures like Buthayna Kamel , Ayman Nour and...
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Especially when it involves a Koran United States - Saudi Arabia - Islam - Religion - Florida...
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Two years ago, Samuel Peter's boxing career flatlined on a stool in Berlin. His reign as WBC heavyweight champion was over, with Vitali Klitschko having battered the bulky Nigerian for eight rounds until Peter could no longer summon the strength to continue....
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Tropical Storm Igor, located about 350 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, is expected to regain tropical storm strength in the far eastern Atlantic....
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South Africa's president says international news agencies and media rights groups should not fear that press freedom is under attack by his government....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Officers from the southern Sudanese Army allege the Khartoum government is supporting the Lord's Resistance Army in return for launching attacks in the south....
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Spread on pita bread or use as a dip for raw vegetables or pitas. From The Bean Harvest Cookbook -- posted by Charlotte J
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A witness says a lightning strike has killed four people at a wedding in a village in Mauritania....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is predicting a quick knockout in his rematch with Nigerian fighter Samuel Peter on Saturday....
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Many South Africans worry that the African National Congress, which is considering a restrictive new media law, has lost sight of its founding principles....
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This December, 194 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico to continue negotiations on international efforts to address climate change. My colleagues and I are in Mexico City this week for a series of discussions with key government officials,...
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South African emergency officials say 31 people were injured when a passenger train crashed into a stationary goods train east of Johannesburg....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Kacem who's a Moroccan blogger and activist openly writing about his atheism, says he received death threats on his Facebook inbox. Whilst the blogger insists he's not against Islam, he is calling for the right to freedom of conscience in his country....
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Officials say 17 people in Ghana have died after neighboring Burkina Faso opened the spillways of a dam that was filling amid heavy rains....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Video: A Nigerian seeks to solve Mozambique's energy problems with sun, wind and car parts.
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UN report: Rwandan troops committed "genocide" against Hutus in Congo.
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The widow of independent Mozambique's first president says the debate over food in her impoverished homeland does not end with the government's reversal on bread prices....
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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Hong Kong customs officers seized 384 elephant tusks packed in two shipping containers that came into the city’s port from Tanzania.
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The World Bank appointed UC Berkeley professor Daniel Kammen to the organization’s newly created “energy czar” position. The bank stirred controversy early this year with a series of loans for large fossil fuel energy projects, including one for...
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Two senior voting officials have been charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before Guinea's crucial presidential vote, in a court proceeding that not even their ......
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Fox News | Friday, September 10, 2010
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- Two senior voting officials have been charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before Guinea's crucial presidential vote, in a court proceeding that not even their lawyers were informed of and which...
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Butterflies are gentle, swift creatures, who unfailingly leave us in awe of their beauty and captivated by their teasing flight, an up-and-down, unpredictable dance through the air. Carried by the whim of the wind, these delicate beings floated carefree...
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Two Libyan men, identified only as 42-year-old Adel Ab. and 46-year-old Adel Al., have been charged with spying on members of Libya’s opposition in Germany....
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Crist complains Meeks is misrepresenting him on choice, Rossi needs to appeal to anti-choice voters, and one Delaware House candidate rails against abortion after rape or incest.
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New Sunderland signing Asamoah Gyan has promised fans he would take a red card for the team if he had to, claiming he has forgiven Uruguay striker Luis Suarez for doing just that to dump Ghana out of the World Cup....
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When the press covers one extreme, it always feels a need to find someone, anyone, at the opposite extreme. For once, I’m with Hillary Clinton. Regarding the Rev. Terry Jones, the would-be Koran igniter who has at last backed down, the secretary of...
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The fight over Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides. In a conference call with news media Thursday, former...
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I like to tell people that my job requires me to read the entire Internet every day, and I only write about a minute percentage it. That means you're spared the multitudes of cute animal videos that I have to watch just to recover from writing posts...
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan made headlines by replacing the leaders of his security forces on Wednesday. He's not the first Nigerian political leader to have an auspicious name: Lucky Igbinedion was the governor of Edo state. Jonathan's wife...
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Egypt and solar power have a long history together, as befits a nation that advertises its sun as a tourist attraction. In 1912, the US engineer and inventor Frank Shuman built one of the world's first solar arrays at Maadi in Egypt, consisting of five...
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Globe faces shortage of rare earth elements
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Renewable energy and how to improve world’s energy supplies were the focus of the recent World Energy Forum held at the European Union in Brussels last Tuesday....
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by Stephen Hale. There is nothing more fundamental about our relationship with Nature than the species we eat. One evening, while trying to discern exactly what was in the bean casserole my traveling wife had kindly left in the fridge, I wondered: What...
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Grist | Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, which focuses on the current state of international reporting. There are lots of interesting articles — check out the whole issue — but we're highlighting a few that line up with...
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Ted Koppel thinks our actions since 9/11 have helped Osama bin Laden fulfill his goals. He couldn't be more wrong.
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NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenyan children in acute and chronic pain suffer needlessly because of government policies that restrict access to inexpensive pain medicines, a lack of investment in palliative care services, and inadequately trained health workers,...
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The correct response, for someone in Goldsmith's position, would be to say, "stop being such cynical assholes, Republicans, this is about law, not your political stunts!" But instead, he wrings his hand and invents a new legal system to work around the...
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The disclosure was made in a court filing that seeks a new deadline to challenge evidence against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The deadline to file motions is Friday. The Nigerian is accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight last Christmas Day....
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NPR | Thursday, September 9, 2010
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