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awicaks
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Good Science, Bad Politics
Climategate' reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda. By HANS VON STORCH |...
 
awicaks
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The Story of Cap & Trade (2009)
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Carlos
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The Copenhagen Debacle’s biggest failure?
Copenhagen Fallout: Carbon Prices Fall on Weak Accord – Environmental Capital – WSJ.Suddenly, the carbon market...
 
Trouble
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Health Care: Dear Senator Reid
Dear Senator Reid:We write to thank you again for your leadership in the Senate health reform deliberations. We greatly appreciate the important elements of fiscal sustainability that are included in the Manager’s Amendment.Among the features that...
 
awicaks
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Climate Secretary admits Copenhagen failures
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Sydney K
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Africa Buries Her Head in Sand as Looters Drain Coffers
The most momentous news to come out of Kenya these past few days was not the celebratory roar by supporters of the winners of...
 
awicaks
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Copenhagen Climate Conference: Obvious evident showing the global development model and the UN system fail
Arief Wicaksono Climate change convention has successfully provided us the most expensive learning curve ever. First lesson...
 
Karl Ramjohn
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[environmental-sustainability] Why wait?
Don’t wait for Copenhagen deal, says Nobel winner | Reuters.The recent Nobel Prize in Economics recipient, Ms Elinor Ostrom,...
 
Carlos
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Why wait?
Don’t wait for Copenhagen deal, says Nobel winner | Reuters.The recent Nobel Prize in Economics recipient, Ms...
 
awicaks
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So, what does this accord add up to? Key issues explained
The last-minute agreement is a major setback, and the world will have to regroup in its struggle to contain climate change By...
 
awicaks
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The Story of Cap & Trade (2009) - Teaser
Freerange Studio@Youtube Boiling Spot is a news & thoughts aggregator on world's catastrophes
 
awicaks
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A Copenhagen Accord it is
An agreement drawn up Friday night by leaders from the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa has been recognized Saturday...
 
awicaks
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World leaders deny Copenhagen 'failure'
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awicaks
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"This is a wake-up call for us": Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo in Copenhagen
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awicaks
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COP 15 closing press briefing
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awicaks
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Africans angered by climate deal - 19 Dec 09
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engin
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What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
Tony JudtNew York UniversityNew York Review of BooksDecember 17, 2009The following is adapted from a lecture given at New York...
 
awicaks
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Yudhoyono holds bilateral talks with Norwegian PM
ANTARA News | December 17, 2009 Copenhagen  - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on Wednesday at 6 pm local time...
 
awicaks
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Kyoto proponents win first round
After the climate conference agreed on the procedure for further negotiations, the Danish hosts re-launched UN climate talks on...
 
awicaks
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China willing to detail emission effort
According to Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei China is ready for "dialogue and cooperation that is not intrusive, that does...
 
awicaks
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COP15 – day 10 roundup
A compromise proposal to be presented by the Danish presidency Wednesday was held up as the negotiating process, according to...
 
Jay Jay
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Digital labour bibliography
Participants in the conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory“, New York 12-14 Nov 2009, submitted this list of  readings about digital labour.Adorno, Theodore. “Free Time.” The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Ed....
 
Workers Bush Telegraph
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Communique from an Absent Future
Pamphlet associated with the occupation movement at universities in the state of California.An introduction was included in...
 
Workers Bush Telegraph
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Communique from a Past Vanished
by Ian CurrThere are truths so evident, so much a part of people’s knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them. —...
 
Linda Wainman
Linda Wainman posted a blog entry
Valuable forex revelations in the News
As you almost certainly well know, the actual exchange rates that form the foundations of the foreign exchange market are...
 
awicaks
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UN lambasted over forest negotiations
OneWorld.net | 07 December 2009 Dangerous flaws in proposed deforestation deal, Global Witness warns ahead of UN climate talks...
 
Nico Macdonald
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Epoch #HothousePanel: Mason: These huge economic ructions all happened since Ross divorced Rachel. Entering the decade of political economy.
 
awicaks
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Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments
Rhett A. Butler | mongabay.com | November 29, 2009 A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing...
 
awicaks
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World requires radical new economic models to fight poverty and mitigate global warming
Jeremy Hance | mongabay.com | November 30, 2009 A new report calls for a radical re-envisioning of current economic models in...
24 days ago Boiling Spot | Topics: globalwarming, political-...
 
awicaks
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Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
Farmers who cut and burn trees in Brazil's part of the Amazon River Basin cause less environmental destruction, than rich...
 
awicaks
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Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended several countries for human rights reasons. Now, campaigners, politicians and...
 
awicaks
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Kyoto protocol about to bite
Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent | Reuters in Tiscali.co.uk | 15/02/2005 16:36 OSLO (Reuters) - Rejected by the United...
 
commonpreyr
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I enjoyed deep-fried turkey with friends on St. Cecilia Day
Yesterday was the feast day of St. Cecilia, the virgin and martyr who died at the hands of the Romans 1,800 years ago. For the...
 
commonpreyr
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Foxes assure us they are doing great things for the hen house
Today, in the U.S., there are more than 1.2 million nonprofit organizations. In dollar terms alone, the nonprofit sector...
28 days ago once more with feeling | Topics: political-...
 
commonpreyr
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ClimateGate: Not a smoking gun but a mushroom cloud
The evidence of scientific dishonesty supplied by these communications is so copious it’s hard to know where to begin an...
30 days ago once more with feeling | Topics: political-...
 
commonpreyr
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A post making a small but necessary contribution to Biblical literacy
Pleas read the following two sentences:Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the...
 
commonpreyr
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Sign Me Up – Manhattan Declaration
Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting...
 
commonpreyr
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Voting for candidates and being their cheerleaders
It has occurred to me that this post is not as clear as it could be.By “support” I’m referring to cheerful...
 
commonpreyr
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Not going to support Palin anymore, but I still think she is impressive
This is all over the blogosphere already.  I didn’t bother to track down the original source.By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan...
 
commonpreyr
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Fighting statism with myth?
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.But life...
 
The Open Villager
The Open Villager posted a blog entry
The Party of “NO”?
It's just over a year since President Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential elections. A full year, you would assume, for the...
 
commonpreyr
commonpreyr posted a blog entry
Does state help the poor or does it help businesses?
Following up on my last post, I started reading this paper.  It looks quite good but it brings up an idea that I think needs...
41 days ago once more with feeling | Topics: political-...
 
awicaks
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REDD discussions in Barcelona
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 9th November 2009 On the final day of the UN climate change negotiations in Barcelona,...
 
awicaks
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What hope for Copenhagen now?
A US refusal to commit to carbon emission cuts and developing countries' demand for greater cuts by rich nations leaves a...
 
awicaks
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Timeline of world's fight to tackle climate change
A global deal on climate change now looks to be delayed by up to a year. Telegraph.co.uk | 05 Nov 2009 Here is a timeline of...
 
awicaks
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Painful death of the American economic dream
This crisis has been a long time in coming, and history suggests that the period of upheaval will be long and painful, just as...
 
Robbie Clarken
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What's Really Rotten in the City-State of Singapore?, by Bryan Caplan
Singapore is widely regarded as a dictatorship.  Even the contrarian Gordon Tullock joins in the chorus; in Autocracy, he remarks that, "The dominant form of autocracy has been the non-totalitarian type presented by Franco, Lee of Singapore, or...
 
Workers Bush Telegraph
Workers Bush Telegraph posted a blog entry
Capital refined
by Humphrey McQueenIntroduction Developing policies in the interests of working people calls for the precision about our...
54 days ago Workers BushTelegraph | Topics: Recent, political...