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• Scotland to assist Maldives efforts to go carbon-neutral

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  Scotland has decided to assist Maldives in its plans to go carbon-neutral by 2020. Speaking from Scotland Ahmed Shafeeg, Special Envoy for Science and Technology said that Scotland is a country which already operates large wind farms and a country which had already got green technology. He also said that Scotland’s ...
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• Review of Paradise Postponed By John Mortimer

  
  KNIFE TRICKS — Authority: 123
  Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer (U.K. 1985). The book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil begins with the famous “WASP rot” speech, an explanation, by an arriviste, of why he collects the houses and ornaments of high society but is thankful he was not born into it. “What I enjoy most,” he ...
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• Happy Boxing Day from Passive-Aggressive Notes!

  
  passive-aggressive notes dot com — Authority: 514
  Now, if you wouldn’t mind taking a moment out of your busy schedule of sport and/or shopping to bestow a bit of charity on those you live with? (Cheers to our submitter Victoria, her mates at Oxford , and their disgusting flatties.) related: ceci n’est pas une note passif-agressif
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• 2010: The U.K.’s first Anglican woman bishop?

  
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  The Rev Canon Dr Alison Peden is the first Scottish Anglican woman to make the shortlist for a bishopric since June of 2003, when the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church voted overwhelmingly in favor of the “Motion to Allow Women Bishops.”She is one of three shortlisted for the post of Bishop of Glasgow ...
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• Looking for Home Office Ideas? What About a Shed?

  
  Mommy Works Online — Authority: 129
  Okay.  I was looking around for some telecommuting news to share during the Holidays, when I found this site .  Apparently, its all the rage in the U.K., and its called Shedworking.  I love it, and wish I had one of these sheds for my home office.  Right now, Im stuff into my bedroom.  Go have a look! Other ...
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• Caine loves u.k. christmas films

  
  Cinefundas.com - One Stop Cinema Portal — Authority: 150
  SIR Michael Caine gives movie studio bosses a holiday boost by agreeing to star in films released during the Christmas season. The actor, who was born and raised in London, is trying to revive the U.K. economy by searching out the best British films to star in – and he picks projects that will be shot during autumn ...
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• Notes on The Queens Christmas Message 2009

  
  KNIFE TRICKS — Authority: 123
  Sherman Oaks, California 1. The footage includes shots of coffins. There was a time when the U.S. media was interested in photographing the coffins of servicemen, but that was when someone else was president. 2. President Obama sold himself on eloquence, gravitas and oh-so-deep thought. Yet, in the first minute of ...
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• Break the CIA in Two By Ray McGovern

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  http://consortiumnews.com/2009/122209a.html Break the CIA in Two By Ray McGovern December 22, 2009 Editor’s Note: Exactly 46 years ago, President Harry Truman looked back on the still-young CIA, which he had helped create, and was alarmed at how its original purpose – to provide unvarnished information to top ...
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• Markit, C-Questor launch new carbon standard

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  LONDON (Reuters) – UK-based financial information provider Markit and clean energy project developer C-Questor have launched a new carbon standard for low-carbon energy projects, the companies said on Monday. Continue Reading at  Reuters
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• Canada, Christmas, and the Commonwealth

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 425
  What topics will make their way into this year’s Christmas message from the Queen to the Commonwealth? Any predictions? When I was a child, we’d watch the Queen on our  black and white TV, post Christmas lunch. Like this poet , I may have blurred many such occasions, but HM often cited the Commonwealth in ...
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• U.K. Army Halts Soldiers’ Training To Cut Costs

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  From Times Online: The Ministry of Defence has cancelled dozens of army training exercises as it struggles to cut costs. The savings affect the regular Army as well as the Territorial Army and have forced Britain to withdraw from a major Nato exercise alongside the United States, The Times has learnt. Fifty-six ...
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• Cockup or conspiracy?

  
  Grains of Sand — Authority: 430
  Some will always believe that Tony Blair took the country to war in Iraq on a lie, but the most damning charge emerging from the Iraq war inquiry so far is that Britain went to war on a wing and a prayer. -- Patrick Wintour summarizes the Chilcott inquiry so far.
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• Filming News Wrap-Up: Megan Fox Filming in L.A., Jennifer Carpenter joins Nic Cage in NOLA, ‘A Couple Of Dicks’ becomes ‘Cop Out’ & more!

  
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  - Remember the debate over the Kevin Smith movie that was filming in NYC this summer? Was it A Couple of Dicks or A Couple of Cops? It turns out Smith didn’t go with either, the movie’s official title is now Cop Out.- Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter has joined Nicolas Cage and Mad Men’s January [...]
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• Lotus Exige S Type 72 celebrates legendary F1 car

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 500
  A commemorative edition of the Lotus Exige, dubbed S Type 72, will soon be released. The British carmaker said that the car has been built to celebrate the black and gold Lotus Type 72 livery which was driven by Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and Jacky Ickx. The car, which is considered by [...]
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• Volkswagen launches entry-level Scirocco

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 500
  Starting January 4, the Volkswagen Scirocco will be available. The two-door compact coupe, which boasts an efficient new entry-level engine, is equipped with the 1.4-liter TSI 122 PS engine. Prices start at £18,860 RRP on the road.The 1.4-liter TSI 122 PS unit develops 147 lbs ft of torque channeled via a six-speed ...
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• Eyesight Restored with Stem Cells

  
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  Russell Turnbull from Consett, County Durham lost his sight in a chemical attack on his way home following a night out in Newcastle in 1994. On his bus journey home he tried to intervene in an altercation between two men which eventually spilled into a fight. When Turnbull attempted to break up the scuffle, one of ...
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• Rumor: Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe to debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 500
  For those who can’t wait anymore for the brand S-Class Coupe a.k.a. new CL, we have a good news: Mercedes-Benz is going to reveal the new car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, in June 2010.According to AutoBild, the new vehicle will also debut with a brand new V8 engine which will replace the current [...]
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• Meet the Aga Louts: We pay for MPs’ pricey carbon-creators

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  It is the latest battlefield in the ongoing row over MPs’ expenses. After the moat, the duck-house, the flipping and the plasma televisions, the many Agas maintained by politicians at public expense are in the firing line. Continue Reading at   Independent
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• Dukes of hazzard car

  
  Artistic Things :: Life + Art + Music + Fashion + Film + Technology + Inspiration — Authority: 136
  At first glance, this looks like a collaboration between MTV’s Pimp My Ride and Toys R’ Us, that was put together by someone with an O.C.D. However, it’s actually the handiwork of  James R Ford , an artist with a background in the Fine Arts. Originally from the U.K., he currently resides in Wellington, New ...
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• Africa: conflict and governance

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Africa, China, the United States, and Oil ; Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Policy Forum A thoughtful article that goes a long way towards explaining conflict in and between nations - in Africa and many other parts of the world. The Revenge of Geography : People and ideas influence ...
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