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• Feast or Famine?

  
  Permaculture & Regenerative Design News — Authority: 123
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• METS: Kelvim Escobar….sigh

  
  ...gettingpaidtowatch — Authority: 127
  
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• Who is Jinx in Pakistan? Why No Rain?

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 450
  Drought is going on in Pakistan and despite of chilling weather, there is no rain in sight. Dark clouds come, give hope and then leave without a droplet of blessing. Grounds are cracking, crops ruined, dams dry, and people are suffering from many diseses of the dry weather. The growing season is passing by quickly ...
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• Kindleberger C. (1991) An early manic episod

  
  Economic History Blog — Authority: 111
  Kindleberger, Charles P. (1991) The economic Crisis of 1619 and 1623. The Journal of Economic History, 51/1 : 149-175.IntroductionThe early European 17th century has commonly been described as the troublesome transition from a medieval to a modern economy (p.149). The multi-layered crisis of 1619-23 is a perfect ...
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• Future Famine: It’s Not Only About Food

  
  All Articles About Everything Blog — Authority: 157
  Socialists in our government have decided that they will not let this crisis go to waste. This crisis (our economy being rolled into a socialist mud hole) is the vehicle through which they hope they can tighten the loops and make their control over the American people permanent. When the common man [...]
  5 days ago

• Propaganda Technique: Card Stacking

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 572
  Card stacking is one of the primary principles of effective propaganda. It involves heavy bias in favour of one side of an argument and the undermining of the opposing side of an issue, if not deliberately omitting it altogether. It is called card stacking after a magic trick conjurers perform of “stacking” a ...
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• Little donkey saving lives

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Kids for Kids is a charity that helps children in remote villages in Darfur. Through providing water, goats and donkeys, and training midwives, a lasting impact is being made
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• Behold a Black Horse: The Global Food Crisis

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 150
  From Koinonia House Archives BEHOLD A BLACK HORSE: THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS - In recent weeks you might have noticed your grocery bill go up. If so, you’re not alone. Food prices are soaring worldwide. Consumers in many western nations are just beginning to notice the change, however in many parts of the world the ...
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• Behold a Black Horse: The Global Food Crisis

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 150
  From Koinonia House ArchivesBEHOLD A BLACK HORSE: THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISISIn recent weeks you might have noticed your grocery bill go up. If so, you’re not alone. Food prices are soaring worldwide. Consumers in many western nations are just beginning to notice the change, however in many parts of the world the rising ...
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• Overpopulation and Food Shortages

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 482
  I’ve made my views on overpopulation abundantly clear  on this blog. In short: I think it’s a silly and simplistic explanation of the world’s problems, hysterical at best and damaging when it inspires public policy. I don’t deny that it can cause problems when we look at local areas: there can be too many ...
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• December Flood Update

  
  Voice in the Desert — Authority: 109
  Another letter from Alan Dixon in Ouagadougou. If you would like to make a donation which will benefit homeless families and/or reconstruction, you can make a secure online donation here . In the box titled Missionary or Project Name, please type BF General 93918 Ouagadougou Flood Relief. Thank you so much. ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Kim Jong Il’s Trickle-Up Economics Starve North Korea’s Poor

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 578
  After the Great Confiscation was announced, the Daily NK had supposed that the poorest or North Korea’s poor wouldn’t be hurt as badly as those with more savings to lose. To its credit, the paper is now correcting that supposition, having grasped a concept that probably isn’t taught in North Korean schools — ...
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• Darksiders A World in Ruins Trailer

  
  Windows Operation System — Authority: 170
  xbox 360 microsoft ps3 playstation3 playstation sony bible book revalations four horsemen apocalypse devil god angels demons war death famine pestilence vigil games thq action adventure ign rpg yt:quality=high … TAGS: Darksiders Heads Will Roll Trailer [HD] machinima video game xbox360 xbox 360 microsoft ps3 ...
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• CHAD: Malnutrition in east persists into harvest season (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 142
  Read at : IRINhumanitarian news and analysisa project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsCHAD: Malnutrition in east persists into harvest season ABÉCHÉ, 16 December 2009 (IRIN) – Well into the harvest season, severe malnutrition has not yet dropped in the eastern city of Abéché based on ...
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• MALI: Missing egg in food security basket (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 142
  Read at : IRINhumanitarian news and analysisa project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsMALI: Missing egg in food security basket BAMAKO, 17 December 2009 (IRIN) – Mali had some 30 million chickens, ducks, guinea fowl and turkeys in 2005, but not enough protein-rich poultry products are ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (21): The North Korean Famine

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 482
  The North Korean famine ( source ) From 1995 to 1997, famine raged in North Korea. According to a report by North Korea’s Public Security Ministry, up to 3 million lost their lives ( source ). As this isn’t the most neutral observer, real numbers are probably much higher. (See an older post here about not ...
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