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Experts devise bang-up cracker formula
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...6 days ago -
Bob talks to John Walthen
The Head On Radio Network —
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In case anyone missed Bob’s conversation with John Walthen last night, here it is, in 4 parts, for your listening and learning leisure. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 46 days ago -
Pair held over $4m card skimming scam
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...1 week ago -
Crew finds Centaur shipwreck
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...1 week ago -
Policy entrepreneurs
The Goat Rope —
Authority: 124
Arpad is quite the entrepreneur during deer season. This picture represents his idea of heaven. The theme at Goat Rope lately has been public policy and how it happens or doesnt, although youll also find links and comments about current events. As mentioned previously, one of the most useful explorations of this ...2 weeks ago -
Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...2 weeks ago -
Primeval soup
The Goat Rope —
Authority: 124
Lately Goat Rope is looking at the messy but interesting process of how public policy gets made (or doesnt). Youll also find links and comments about current events. If this is your first visit, please click on earlier posts. Before any major new public policy is introduced to the public or placed on the agenda, it ...2 weeks ago -
More On The ‘Climategate’ Nontroversy (UPDATED)
Democrashield.com —
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From George Monbiot at The Guardian:The denial industry, which has no interest in establishing the truth about global warming, insists that these emails, which concern three or four scientists and just one or two lines of evidence, destroy the entire canon of climate science.Even if you were to exclude every line of ...2 weeks ago -
500 Coal Mining Jobs Lost in West Virginia
EmploymentSpectator —
Authority: 135
Blaming environmental lawsuits and EPA over regulation, Consul Energy has announced that it will be laying off 500 workers next year in West Virginia. In addition to lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups, the EPA is holding several surface mining permits and subjecting them to ...2 weeks ago -
The Little Yellow Byrd in the Coal Mine Sends Warning!
Wend Blog —
Authority: 137
West Virgina politicians have long stood in the way of progress towards a clean energy future. Well, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), the infamous coal-loving nonagenarian, has recently warned his state that they might want to get with the times . We’ll see how this effects his once-thought-to-be-guaranteed NO vote ...3 weeks ago -
Award ceremony
The Goat Rope —
Authority: 124
It is not the usual practice of this blog to issue awards, mostly because nobody cares what I think, but Im making an exception in this case. The first official Goat Rope Rock On With Your Bad Self Award --the highest award I have to bestow--goes to WV Senator Robert C. Byrd for having the guts to speak some truth ...3 weeks ago -
Has Byrd Shifted Positions on Mountaintop Coal Mining?
The Washington Independent Blog —
Authority: 154
Aaron just hit this from the angle of climate change. I found Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) op-ed interesting because, as recently as March , he was attacking the administration’s moves to rein in mountaintop mining as a threat to jobs in West Virginia, where the coal industry is an economic juggernaut. ...3 weeks ago -
Driver who killed teens loses appeal
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...3 weeks ago -
100 Miles of Mirrors
Progressive News Daily —
Authority: 160
By Alex Carlin In These Times As world leaders and delegations prepare to meet in Copenhagen for the two-week UN Climate Change conference beginning Monday, it’s worth asking two basic questions: How bad is global warming? And is the world on track to fix it? To answer the first question: it’s more than just ...4 weeks ago -
Hanging day
The Goat Rope —
Authority: 124
John Brown keeps showing up on this blog from time to time, but today hes here for a reason. This date marks the 150th anniversary of his execution in Charles Town, back when it was still part of Virginia. Brown was a real Captain Ahab whose white whale was slavery. His monomania, to use a favorite 19th century term ...4 weeks ago -
Energy Exec Says ‘E-mails Helped Our Cause’
Bob McCarty Writes —
Authority: 140
Asked whether he thinks the tables could be turned on climate change alarmists after e-mail evidence of manipulation of climate change data by UK researchers surfaced last week, Mike Carey isn’t ready to declare victory. The president of the American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy does, however, see ...4 weeks ago -
Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...4 weeks ago -
Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...4 weeks ago -
Medical Group Denounces Coal in Critical Report
Progressive News Daily —
Authority: 160
by Joshua Frank The Dissident Voice So you thought smoking cigarettes was bad for your health? Try living next to a coal-fired power plant. That’s the diagnosis Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) relayed to the public in a comprehensive medical study released on November 18 called Coal’s ...4 weeks ago -
Smiley faces
The Goat Rope —
Authority: 124
El Cabrero would like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to Barbara Ehrenreichs latest book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America . I just finished listening to an unabridged recording and thoroughly enjoyed it. I havent read all her books, but the ones I ...5 weeks ago
