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This Always Seems to Happen ...
Post Date: 2010-06-09 12:26:26 by Original_Intent
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...when important issues are breaking. The growing awareness of the true magnitude of the Gulf Oil Event is now hitting the pages and I suspect someone is trying to keep a lid on it.
India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation’s Growth
Post Date: 2010-05-28 15:08:15 by X-15
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Until May 2007, Meera Devi rose before dawn each day and walked a half mile to a vegetable patch outside the village of Kachpura to find a secluded place. Dodging leering men and stick-wielding farmers and avoiding spots that her neighbors had soiled, the mother of three pulled up her sari and defecated with the Taj Mahal in plain view. With that act, she added to the estimated 100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians. Devi looks back on her routine with pain and embarrassment. “As a woman, I ...
Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-08 19:47:37 by christine
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The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals. The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of ...
Limos and Private Jets for Climate Dignitaries
Post Date: 2009-12-08 18:22:13 by X-15
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As self-described “world leaders†gather in Copenhagen to lecture the Earth’s population about carbon-dioxide (plant food) emissions, international news reports have revealed that the COP15 Climate Summit ringleaders are arriving in the Danish capital on hundreds of carbon-spewing private jets and riding around in more than 1,200 gas-guzzling limousines once there. Copenhagen’s international airport reported that just during the peak period of the climate-change summit, it is expecting almost 150 private jets — so many luxury planes, in fact, that they will have to fly to other nearby airports to wait ...
This $17 Trillion Divorce Won’t Be a Pretty One:
Post Date: 2009-07-10 11:35:04 by Horse
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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Returning from China last month, U.S. Congressman Mark Kirk had a bearish take on a high-level visit by American officials. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner claimed the U.S.’s biggest creditor voiced great confidence in its debt. Kirk, an Illinois Republican, came back with the opposite impression. “China is beginning to cancel Congress’s credit card,†he told Fox News on June 10. It “doesn’t want to lend much more money to the United States and especially is worried about the Fed’s policy of printing money to buy new ...
Australian TV Exposes 'Stranded Polar Bear' Global Warming Hoax
Post Date: 2009-07-10 07:27:38 by Horse
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Remember that wonderful picture of stranded polar bears on an ice floe that were used by folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore to demonstrate how dire the man-made global warming issue is? Well, ABC television in Australia, on a show called “Media Watch,†recently debunked the entire issue (video available here, h/t NB member dscott). It turns out -- as NewBuster Jake Gontesky reported on March 20 -- the picture was taken in August, “when every year the fringes of the Arctic ice cap melt regardless of the wider effects of global warming.†The photographer, Australian marine biology student Amanda Byrd, ...
G-8 Leadership Wants to Regulate Climate, Finance
Post Date: 2009-07-09 22:24:33 by farmfriend
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I'll post this over at 4um too once it is back up. G-8 Leadership Wants to Regulate Climate, Finance Written by Charles Scaliger Thursday, 09 July 2009 11:00 The G-8 — the Group of Eight leading industrial nations (plus five other add-ons: China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa), meeting in the earthquake-ravaged Italian city of L’Aquila this week — have seldom looked more magisterial. As the global economic crisis continues to exact a devastating toll on jobs, savings, and (to the dismay of politicos everywhere) tax revenues, the leadership of the world’s strongest economies, refusing to bow to ...
George W Bush’s $300m library in danger of becoming white elephant
Post Date: 2008-12-28 13:40:32 by Original_Intent
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George W Bush’s $300m library in danger of becoming white elephant His critics see it as a monument to a failed presidency that may not even hold all his key documents Sarah Baxter As President George W Bush eyes his legacy, his presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, threatens to be a white elephant. Bush has bought a $3m (£2.05m) house in a Republican enclave 10 minutes away from his proposed library and hopes to play an active role in the policy institute that will be established there. With his approval ratings at a record low of 20%, according to a CBS poll, he is keenly interested in shaping the verdict of history. ...
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