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• 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 ...
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• Watch the bond spread.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  If the FED is ending its buying of long term debt and only buying short term through the various scams they have with primary dealers and other central banks, we could see the carry trade continue using the low or almost zero short term money. Where do they borrow this money from, AP, that they use for the carry ...
  4 days ago

• Attacking the Global Food Crisis in Guatemala

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 466
  Tall green mountains, healthy crops, rain right after noonday, wholesome soils. This used to be what people pictured when they thought of Guatemala. But not anymore. The food crisis in Guatemala has become so severe that the president has declared a state of calamity, and the rate of undernutrition in children under ...
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• Third World Under Attack From Genocidal Climate Change Policy

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 112
  The implementation of policies arising out of fraudulent fearmongering and biased studies on global warming is already devastating the third world, with a doubling in food prices causing mass starvation and death – a primary reason why the climategate crooks and their allies should be criminally investigated and hit ...
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• Important News - Dec. 14

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  1)  Congress Sends Obama Measure With 12% Average Budget Increases “Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Congress gave final approval to a $450 billion spending bill for government agencies providing an average 12 percent budget increase for many programs amid what polls show is mounting public concern over federal deficits. ...
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• 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. ...
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• H is for Hunger

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 466
  Here’s a sad bedtime story: One out of seven people in the world go to bed hungry every night, victims of extreme poverty. You can help them have a happier ending – compassion.com/youcan My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates
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• Edible City: faces of the food revolution

  
  Cluster — Authority: 118
  Above is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary from East Bay Pictures : Edible City which unfolds the story of the people who, in response to the global food crisis, have initiated a grassroots movement of growing a local and sustainable food system in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Edible City is currently ...
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• H1N1 comes from pigs

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 136
  The H1N1 flu virus that triggered the first influenza pandemic in 40 years seemed to come out of nowhere, but, of course, that wasn’t the case. The virus mutated inside a pig before making the leap to human beings, and scientists have traced it back to a strain that first emerged in U.S. factory pork farms back in ...
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• You Give Them Something to Eat

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 466
  Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.  – Matthew 14:16-17, NIV It seems we, as humans, are always passing the buck, or bucking the responsibility. Jesus saw the multitude and that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientists find key to creating drought resistant crops

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, December 4 (ANI): Scientists have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold, which could lead to the development of drought resistant crops in the future. VARI (Van Andel Institute) ...
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• An Embrasure Into An Alternate Reality

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 557
  I hop into the car to spend the night in San Antonio, my former home and still hometown. It’s late Thanksgiving Evening and even now I am full. A day of corn-based, over sucrosed food and now apathy. After an hour on the road I am greeted on the outskirts of San Antonio by one of those newfangled high-def ...
  2 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 ...
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• Bourgeouis American Hypocrisy

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 557
  Lets get one thing straight up front: I am not saying everyone needs to go out and eat dog meat. Nor am I saying that Americans should--or even shouldnt--allow for dog meat to be served. Im a big believer in communities deciding for themselves. But the smug, superior tone of this article is really obnoxious. I ...
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• India, US will initiate landmark steps to arrest climate change: Roemer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): Following Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington, US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer has held out hope for both countries to initiate landmark steps to arrest the threat of global warming and climate change through the new bilateral Green Partnership.In an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finding Local Solutions to Weather the Ongoing Global Food Crisis

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 466
  The entire world is going through a severe economic crisis, and these difficult conditions have also produced a food crisis in many countries around the globe. México’s economy is not in good shape, and although México has not had a major food shortage; the main problem has been the constantly rising food cost ...
  3 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 ...
  3 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 ...
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• Thanks and Giving

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 131
                                                                                  Yesterday, the United Natio ns World Food Program (WFP)received a donation of $400,000 from the government of South Africa to aid foodsecurity in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Warming Means Rain But No Crop Boost For NE China

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 582
  Emma Graham-Harrison, PlanetArk 25 Nov 09;BEIJING - Climate change is likely to bring more rain to Chinas northeastern bread basket, but too late in the year to benefit crops, seriously threatening a major region for wheat, corn and rice, a report said on Tuesday.Climate change-driven water scarcity in the countrys ...
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