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• China’s coal country under pressure – video news report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  China’s coal country under pressure (10 Dec 2009) – Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera English News reporting. For years critics have blamed China – the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases – for not doing enough to prevent global warming. But recently Beijing has ramped up efforts to improve its ...
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• Sifting through theories of climate change – news video report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Sifting through theories of climate change (08 Dec 09) – news video report from Al Jazeera English: Barack Obama, the U.S. president, has announced steps that could lead to new emissions controls from the United States that does not require approval from the Congress. The recent ruling by the U.S. Environmental ...
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• China’s Coal Country Under Pressure

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  recently Beijing has ramped up efforts to improve its environmental record, closing coal-fired power plants and shutting mines that had kept tens of thousands employed. (2:29 min)
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• Baghdad security chief demoted after attacks

  
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  Baghdad, Dec 10 (DPA) The chief security officer of the Iraqi government was late Wednesday demoted to deputy chief after a series of bomb attacks in the capital killed more than 120 people.Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki removed Lieutenant General Abbud Kanbar Haschem Khayun as head of the organisation, the Iraqi ...
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• "If its not here, its not important"

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  kinda says it all doesnt it...? 127 die and over 500 are wounded in baghdad bombings and thats the reaction on the street in d.c... juan cole comments on our "nationalist" media where "news" is what the corporatocracy defines as news... Aljazeera notes that some US media outlets did not bother to cover these ...
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• U.S. declares greenhouse gases health hazard

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  On December 7th on the opening day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, being attended by 192 countries to December 18th, the U.S. government delivered a jolt of fresh optimism by formally declaring six greenhouse gases harmful to public health, strengthening President Obama’s push for a new climate ...
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• Bali’s Dark Side - The Mentally Ill

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 128
  Bali is known as a tropical paradise but there is a hidden side to the Indonesian island - Balis mentally ill. Most of them have never received proper treatment. Instead, their families often keep them chained up or in makeshift cages. (20 min, 2 segments)
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• Al Qaeda claims it kidnapped Spanish aid workers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Madrid, Dec 9 (EFE) In an audio tape sent to the Al Jazeera channel, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has claimed responsibility for last month’s kidnapping of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania.“Two units of the valiant mujahideen managed to kidnap four Europeans in two distinct operations: the ...
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• Richard Branson unveils civilian spacecraft & commercial spaceflights

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  British billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson unveiled his plan to allow any one of us regular folks with dreams of space travel and to experience the thrill of weightlessness to do so. Branson announced the roll-out of the Virgin Galactic spaceliner in California’s Mojave desert on Monday, December 7, ...
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• Kidnapping AQIM

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  AKI, Terrorism: Al-Qaeda tape claims kidnapping of four Europeans, 8 Dec 09 "Al-Qaedas North African branch on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping last month of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a French citizen in Mali. The Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghrebs spokesman Salah Abu ...
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• More than 100 killed in Baghdad blasts (Lead)

  
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  Baghdad, Dec 8 (DPA) At least 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in four powerful bomb explosions in central Baghdad Tuesday morning. It was one of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq this year.Panic reigned on the streets of the capital after the blasts shook several districts in the city centre, strewing ...
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• Bombings rock Baghdad, over 100 said to be dead

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 524
  Remember the latest waves of Operation Happy Talk last week ( Betty was confronting them just last night)? Well the press has to stop pimping US government claims and, poor babies, yet again deal with actual realities. Martin Chulov ( Guardian ) reports multiple bombings in Baghdad today which "have again ...
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• Dozens killed in Baghdad bombings

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Baghdad, Dec 8 (DPA) At least four bombs exploded in central Baghdad Tuesday morning, killing dozens of people, according to reports.Initial accounts from witnesses reported 42 dead and 90 wounded. The al-Arabiya broadcaster reported up to 65 deaths.The explosions took place near a market in the centre of the Iraqi ...
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• Arctic’s ecology feeling the heat

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Arctic’s ecology feeling the heat - news video report from Tania Page (Al Jazeera English News – 07 Dec 2009), reporting from inside the Arctic circle, off Norway’s coast. Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the Arctic Circle with melting ice caps threatening to raise sea levels by up to seven ...
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• The best of Faultline - from AlJazeera

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 153
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mms1_noA86I
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• Iranian students chomping at the bit?

  
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  Interesting dynamic in the Student Day protests in Iran noted by Alireza Ronaghi, Al Jazeeras correspondent in Tehran: "Opposition leaders are trying to calm them [the students] down and prevent any kind of violent clash that could harm the movement in a way that could be irreversible... it seems like the ...
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• Al Jazeera | “China’s Empty City” Of Ordos

  
  Dorks And Losers — Authority: 115
  Al Jazeera has a segment (10 November 2009) on Ordos, China where GDP is sustained through constant building. While Ordos is actually a thriving city in inner Mongolia, the “new” Ordos is filled with vacant suburban development and an I Am Legend -like atmosphere. This is actually pretty scary to think that ...
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• What I learned about the Bolivian elections

  
  Abiding in Bolivia — Authority: 422
  BBC: "President Morales" easily crushed his adversary in the ring Tomorrow is election day in Bolivia and everyone knows that Evo Morales and his MAS party are going to win big time , oh yeah. But how should we understand such political success? Lets consult our trusty English language press sources to find ...
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• The Latest from Iran (4 December): The Weekend Before

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  1010 GMT: Tehran Politics. Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf steered an interesting course in a long video interview with Al Jazeera this week. He defended the “democracy” of the Presidential election but criticised both President Ahmadinejad and his opponents for post-election behaviour that fuelled conflict. Qalibaf say ...
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• Malaysia battles tiger extinction – video news report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Malaysia battles tiger extinction – news video report from Al Jazeera English (28 Nov 2009) with Laura Kyle reporting from Malaysia to find out why poaching is rife and why efforts to stop it are failing. Conservationists are warning tigers will become extinct in the wild within the next 20 years unless a major ...
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