www.guardian.co.uk
Carbon finance experts told firms with high-carbon emissions must be re-evaluated by stock markets
10.10.2011
Right Wing GOP Reporter incites Occupy D.C. riot–to write about it news.yahoo.com
news.yahoo.com
A reporter for the American Spectator--who says he "infiltrated" a Washington, D.C., faction of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, "in order to mock and undermine" the demonstrators' "cause" in his magazine--claims he helped incite a riot at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday afternoon an...
At 22, Tennessee woman is mom to 13 Ugandan children
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Five years ago, Katie Davis left home to go on a one-year adventure in Africa before college.
Mitt Romney calls for INCREASE US GLOBAL RAPE! - new ‘American century’ with muscular foreign polic www.washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
Calling for a new “American century,” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out a muscular agenda for promoting U.S. interests abroad.
Lawmaker’s hunger strike likely to reopen Afghanistan dispute www.thechronicleherald.ca
www.thechronicleherald.ca
KABUL, Afghanistan — It was the eighth day of ousted Afghan parliamentarian Simeen Barakzai’s hunger strike. Through chapped lips and in a roug
Amazon Drought Released 1.8 Billion Tons of CO2 in 2010 www.treehugger.com
www.treehugger.com
Photo: Stephen Messenger Last year, the parts of the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragil ecosystem to the brink. And even more troubling
10.09.2011
2010 Amazon drought released more carbon than India's annual emissions news.mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com
The 2010 drought that affected much of the Amazon rainforest triggered the release of nearly 500 million tons of carbon (1.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere, or more than the total emissions from deforestation in the region over the period, estimates a new study published in the ...
Extremist Jews Break into an Islamic and a Christian Cemetery in Jaffa - International Middle East M www.imemc.org
Extremist Jews Break into an Islamic and a Christian Cemetery in Jaffa - International Middle East M
www.imemc.orgOn Friday night, a group of Jewish extremists broke into both Islamic and Christian cemeteries in the city of Jaffa, destroying them and writing anti-Arab and Muslim slogans on their walls, the Palestine News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent ...
10.08.2011
Did Ahmadinejad really say Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’? www.washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
Everyone says he did, but the translation is murky.
'Carbon footprint' info can lead to wiser choices seattletimes.nwsource.com
seattletimes.nwsource.com
If you think your impact on the environment matters, then you probably want to know how, when and why it matters. That's where "carbon footprints" step in.
10.07.2011
The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99% www.guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
Naomi Klein: Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society's values we must stay together for years
Europeans fear climate change more than financial turmoil, poll shows www.guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
Respondents said climate change was the second most serious issue facing the world, after poverty
Swedish academics call for boycott of Israeli institutions | JTA - Jewish & Israel News www.jta.org
www.jta.org
More than 200 professors and students from Sweden have signed on to a call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
10.06.2011
Social Entrepreneur Shows Solar Power is Cheap | Social Enterprise www.justmeans.com
www.justmeans.com
Indian social enterprise shows the way how cheap solar power can fulfil the electricity needs of poor.
Is Israel Again Weighing an Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities? - Global Spin globalspin.blogs.time.com
globalspin.blogs.time.com
"I think the most effective way to deal with Iran is not on a unilateral basis," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Israel on Tuesday, stressing that the Israeli government needed to act in concert and consensus with the international community.
Supporting Netanyahu’s policies imperils Israel www.jpost.com
www.jpost.com
To be sure, Israel has legitimate security concerns, perhaps now more than ever.
NY Times: Netanyahu's policy on West Bank settlements is 'national suicide'
 | Ha'aretz - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stance regarding continued construction in West Bank settlements is a "national suicide policy," a New York Times op-ed said on Wednesday, adding that Israel's leaders seem to be the country's worst enemy. |
Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians wish to live like other peoples en.trend.az
en.trend.az
Palestinians wish to live like other peoples, in freedom and dignity, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sated in his speech at the autumn session of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
UN reports alarming increase in Israeli violence — RT www.rt.com
www.rt.com
The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has become increasingly hazardous to Palestinians, with attacks by settlers and heavy-handed tactics on the part of Israeli security forces on the rise, according to the latest UN statistics.
Climate change eradicating Arctic's oldest ice www.vancouversun.com
www.vancouversun.com
The Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice — much of which used to survive the year's warmest months — had all but disappeared by the end of this summer's near-record meltdown, according to new U.S. analyses that vividly show how the circumpolar region is being transformed by warmer temperatures and othe...
First Lady Michelle Obama tours Secret Service to say "thank you" www.globalpost.com
www.globalpost.com
First family, including Barack, Malia and Sasha, fight over which Secret Service agent gets assigned to protect them, Obama jokes.
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