Less salty oceans... ooer, just like that film The Day After Tomorrow! Ice Age cometh? The world a desert? All we know is: the whiskey glass is full...
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Thursday 31 July 2008
Web curbs for Olympic journalists
Falun Gong followers are demonised by the Chinese State as the "enemy within" - much as Al Q'aeda is used by the West - to justify authoritarian "security" measures and keep the regime free from any popular perceptions of weakness.
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Wednesday 30 July 2008
Monday 28 July 2008
BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | Fire tears through seaside pier
As the local Somerset lad points his mobile phone at the blaze which is destroying Weston Super-Mare's great pier, you can clearly hear him say, "Oh no... how many millions will I get from this?"
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Friday 25 July 2008
In hiding for exposing Tanzania witchdoctors
Brave work exposing the evil of religious murder in Tanzania.
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Wednesday 23 July 2008
'Wall Street got drunk' says Bush
Of course Wall Street got drunk. On your beer, Mr Bush. Oh, and Enron.
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Monday 21 July 2008
Israeli probes 'detainee shooting'
The BBC always make sure they put accusations against Israelis in quotes - even when the evidence is clear, as here.
The same cannot be said for their use of 'evidence' regarding Palestinians, or for their careless terminology. For example the recent attack in Jerusalem by the man in the digger - he was an arab citizen of Israel, but the BBC and newspapers referred to him as Palestinian.
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Saturday 19 July 2008
Thursday 17 July 2008
Tribe takes on global mining firm
The Dongria Kondh people of Golgola, from Orissa, India, fight Vedanta Resources who want to mine their hills for bauxite. Critics say mining the hills may cause severe environmental damage, and could disrupt the Dongria's way of life.
India's Wildlife Institute has said that mining threatens an important ecosystem with irreversible changes.
A Supreme Court committee which investigated the project said Vedanta Aluminium violated guidelines in the Forest Conservation Act when it built its refinery and should have its environmental clearance withdrawn.
And Norway's official Council on Ethics, which monitors investments for the country's huge state pension fund, said investing in Vedanta Resources, which has many mining interests, presented "an unacceptable risk of complicity in current and future severe environmental damage and human rights violations".
Norway's government sold all the Vedanta shares it held which were worth $14m. (BBC)
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Wednesday 16 July 2008
Fishing ban brings seas to life
Fish recover after a five year ban around Lundy Island, near Devon, England.
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Tuesday 15 July 2008
Obama vows to end US role in Iraq
Obamarama - the circus of promises
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First Guantanamo video released
16-year-old Omar Khadr here being asked by Canadian officials in 2003 about events leading up to his capture by US forces, Canadian media have said.
The Canadian citizen is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002.
He is seen in a distressed state and complaining that he has been tortured.
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Monday 14 July 2008
Kamikatsu: Zero Waste Town
In Kamikatsu, east Japan, residents have to compost all their food waste and sort other rubbish into 34 different categories.
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Saturday 12 July 2008
'Drunk' referee shown red card
A football referee has been suspended for allegedly being drunk while officiating a league game in Belarus. Sergei Shmolik, 43, appeared so inebriated he could hardly walk and was led off the pitch by match officials." - BBC.
I wonder whether it is acohol that's causing him to stagger so drunkenly, or in fact a more serious medical problem.
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Friday 11 July 2008
Chilean pole dancer arrested
One has to admire her committment to social freedom as Ms Monserrat Morilles performs her "happy minutes" to challenge the prudishness of Chilean society.
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Thursday 10 July 2008
Welsh Worm-eating slug found in garden
Ewwww! A carnivorous slug that eats earthworms. A brand new foul beasty.
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Monday 7 July 2008
Sunday 6 July 2008
Saturday 5 July 2008
Betancourt's Rescue
Amazing clip of the subterfuge which shows the Columbian hostages being led into the helicopter and their joy at being freed.
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Bush heckled at 4 July event
Bush - war criminal and fascist (they shout...)
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Friday 4 July 2008
WTC 7 and the 9/11 Conspiracy
There's this BBC coverage of the event, plus thousands of YouTube videos to watch...
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Thursday 3 July 2008
Wednesday 2 July 2008
BBC man witnesses Jerusalem attack
The cycle of terror continues. No coincidence that a bulldozer was used - the Israelis have been using bulldozers as weapons of war for many years. Read this Great article by Seth Freedman from Israel.
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