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Racist Obama billboard in Denver?
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No. In bad taste, maybe. Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The billboard features cartoons that show a caricatured President morphing from a suit-wearing politician into a turban-wearing ...20 hours ago -
Brazil – US$16 billion a year from Amazon carbon credits
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| Sourced From Meattradenewsdaily.co.uk | Brazil could make up to $16 billion (£9.5 billion) every year to put towards the cost of Amazon rainforest protection and emission cuts if it takes steps to sell on its carbon credits, it has been reported. According to extracts from an interview published by Reuters, ...20 hours ago -
Burkha Barbies
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This should unite the Islamic Extremists and the western feminists but the feminists wont say a work about this.. One of the worlds most famous childrens toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in ...21 hours ago -
The Global Carbon Market 2009: Trading Thin Air
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| Sourced From Prlog.org | Global climate change and reduction of greenhouse gasses (GHG) are an important concern for many US businesses and throughout the world, and are shaping policies and initiatives. The United States is responsible of 23% of the world’s GHG emissions but as of 2009, there are no federal ...23 hours ago -
John Blakeley: Carbon trading an indulgence we can’t afford
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| Sourced From Nzherald.co.nz | Michael Kinsley, writing in Time magazine in an article entitled “Credit for bad behaviour” in July 2007, suggested that the purchase of carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions could be compared with the Middle Ages practice of buying indulgences for the forgiveness of ...1 day ago -
Reid ramrods Obamacare to next step with bribes
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Conservatives need to descend on DC on the 30th to stop this asinine socialized HC bill. A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. ...1 day ago -
Singapore on track to start carbon credit trades by year-end
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| Sourced From Businessgreen.com | A new commodities exchange planned for Singapore is on schedule to start trading in carbon credits by year-end, according to a senior government official. In a speech yesterday at the Carbon Forum Asia conference, senior minister of state for trade and industry S. Iswaran said ...1 day ago -
World Energy and SOCIALCARBON Standard Partner to Streamline Voluntary Global Carbon Trading
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| Sourced From Money.cnn.com | SAO PAULO, Brazil and WORCESTER, MA, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES; TSX: XWE), an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced a new partnership agreement with SOCIALCARBON(C) Standard, one of the ...2 days ago -
Nicolas Cage dances with Somali pirates
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Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, seems more concerned about the pirates than the crime victims. Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Inmates danced for the movie star and shook ...2 days ago -
Is Obama dissing jews with WH Hanukkah party?
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He doesnt want to offend his Muslim “friends”. As the White House prepares for its annual Hanukkah party and candle-lighting, many previous attendees are going to find themselves left in the dark as the number of invitations is set to shrink to half of last years. Though several Jewish leaders expressed ...2 days ago -
NY Gitmo trails may not start for a year
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but where are the terrorists going to be kept before and during the trail. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he thought there was little chance that Mr. Mohammed would be acquitted. But he argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake for a different reason: in the future, he said, ...2 days ago -
S2781: The “Don’t call them retarded” Act
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More political correctness because someone was offended by the term of mentally retarded. S. 2781 To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual ...2 days ago -
HR4111: The ‘Don’t 7-11 captured Islamic Terrorists” Act
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Don’t mirandize enemy combatants caught on foreign soil. Don’t treat them like they robbed the local 7-11. H. R. 4111 To prohibit the prosecution of unprivileged enemy combatants by the Department of Justice. Source: Thomas LOC Don’t allow enemy combatants caught on foreign soil tried on US Soil in the ...2 days ago -
Canberra Ag credits welcomed by Wool Carbon Alliance
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| Sourced From Fibre2fashion.com | The newly formed Wool Carbon Alliance today welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement to recognise the positive role that farming and wool growing play in the carbon cycle. ‘We applaud the Federal Government and Opposition for taking this stance and look forward to ...3 days ago -
South Korea to buy post-2012 ADB carbon credits
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| Sourced From Strategyeye.com | South Korea is committing to purchase USD20m worth of post-2012 carbon credits from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Future Carbon Fund. The fund was set up in July last year to ensure the continuation of investment in renewable energy projects in developing countries when the ...3 days ago -
Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study
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Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...3 days ago -
Opinion: Carbon credits are a big swindle
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| Sourced From Nrc.nl | The Kyoto protocol allows rich countries to meet their greenhouse gas reduction commitments by investing in projects abroad. But research shows that many of these projects would have happened anyway. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate change summit the European Union likes to portray ...3 days ago -
Pepsico to enter carbon trading business
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| Sourced From Economictimes.indiatimes.com | PAITHAN: PepsiCo India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the US beverages and snack food major, is looking at monitoring its carbon footprint and entering the carbon trading business. This follows its initiative to increase the use of renewable energy sources, like ...4 days ago -
The Practical Gentleman’s Guide to Urban Insolence no.8
Toronto City Life —
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Warmest welcome once again, dear reader! It’s so nice to have the pleasure of your company for another instalment of the Guide. I do hope that life has treated you kindly and that during the odd times when it hasn’t that you’ve had some opportunities to practice being practical. And, more importantly, that that ...4 days ago -
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Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. —
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Peer-reviewed academic journal article shows that climate models don’t offer even remotely accurate predictions Comments by By Lubos Motl: In this dose of peer-reviewed skeptical literature about the climate, we look to the Hydrological Science Journal. D. Koutsoyiannis, A. Efstratiadis, N. Mamassis, and A. ...4 days ago
