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  • Wednesday-NightAuthority Authority: 133
    2 days ago
  • Kenya Post-Election Violence To Be Investigated By ICC


    Trends UpdatesAuthority Authority: 599
    The post-election violence in Kenya from December 2007 to February 2008 in which more than 1,000 people lost their lives has caught the eye of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the chief prosecutor for the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo has requested the judges to permit an investigation into the violence. Soon ...
    5 days ago
  • The Elders’ Climate Change Picnic With Their Grandchildren (Video)


    TakePart Social Action NetworkAuthority Authority: 622
    myklroventines Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The Elders, a independent group of eminent global leaders , gathered with their grandchildren last Thursday for a picnic to show the importance of uniting generations to address the threat of climate change. More than just a charming photo-op, the get together ...
    1 week ago
  • Mugabe renders United Nations useless


    The Zimbabwe TimesAuthority Authority: 143
    ROBERT Mugabe, like Adolf Hitler, incites research on how a simple, nondescript individual can just melt onto a nation’s psyche and make a horrific impact on an awe-stricken world. Decades from today, academics will still be digging to excavate explanations as to how a man, a father, a husband, a teacher of our ...
    1 week ago
  • “Across the world, the threat [of diabetes] is ignored and under-funded”: Kofi Annan


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 725
    By Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service (CNS)Diabetes Leadership Forum 2009 seeks solutions to reduce long-term public healthcare costs“A recent survey showed that the age-standardized rate of diabetes among adults living in urban areas is up to 9.7% in China,” said Prof. Yang Wenying, chairman of Chinese Diabetes ...
    1 week ago
  • Lord Stern’s zany warning: Is this the silliest statement ever on Climate Change?


    Telegraph.co.uk News BlogAuthority Authority: 814
    There must be some sort of global competition at the moment to see who can come up with the most ridiculous dire warning about the effects of climate change. Up until today Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Ban Ki-Moon and Gordon Brown were all leading contenders. Former Secretary General Annan claims that 300,000 people a year ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Nadav Kander wins the 2009 Prix Pictet Prize


    Photography for a Greener PlanetAuthority Authority: 91
    Chongqing XI, 2007, Chongqing, China The Prix Pictet is an annual search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance under a broad theme. This year that theme was “Earth”. Nadav Kander was nominated for his series of photos, Yangtze, The Long River Series, 2006-07, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • No Ibby For Africa This Year


    NewsflavorAuthority Authority: 428
    Llewellyn Kriel Editor at Large — TopEditor International Snubbing recent African ex-presidents such as South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki and in a loud wake-up call to current heads of state such as Jacob Zuma, the multimillion-dollar prestigious Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been withheld ...
    2 weeks ago
  • African ’good Leadership’ Award Committee Unable to Select a Winner


    Net News PublisherAuthority Authority: 155
    The annual ‘African Good Leadership’ prize given to an African leader for good governance has failed to find a winner this year. The committee of the £3 million Mo Ibrahim award for achievement in African leadership, which includes Kofi Annan and Mohamed El-Baradei, said that : “Despite considering some ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Forget Al Gore: Gordon Brown is the new Scaremonger in Chief


    Telegraph.co.uk News BlogAuthority Authority: 814
    Gordon Brown has officially ousted Al Gore as Scaremonger in Chief on global warming. Even the former Vice President would be hard pressed to better Brown’s apocalyptic warning earlier today to the Major Economies Forum in London.In his speech the Prime Minister warns that “we cannot compromise with the earth. We ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: My Nobel Prize, Please!


    Big HollywoodAuthority Authority: 815
    I am one conservative who is happy the President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. First, the 1.4 million will help level our negative trade deficit with Scandinavia. All those Saabs and Volvos add up. Secondly, it shows what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become just in case you weren’t convinced when the greatest ...
    3 weeks ago
  • WMO says early warning of extreme weather does save lives


    GenevaLunchAuthority Authority: 448
    Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Eight countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus and five in Southeast Asia are implementing early warning systems to protect against weather-related events, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Today 14 October is International  Day for Disaster Reduction, ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Nobel Prize for good intentions


    Moonage Political WebdreamAuthority Authority: 118
    President Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize.  Although some are scratching their heads over why, I’m not.  It’s quite obvious and the Nobel peeps even said why:“for his extraordinary... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
    4 weeks ago
  • Obama Would Have Been Better Off Saying Simply "I Am Not Worthy" or “Nolo Episcopari”


    The New Republic - The Spine FeedAuthority Authority: 116
    Which is Latin and means "I do not want to be bishop." That is how every Anglican designee for that office demurs ... but most then take on the miter anyway and with it the bishopric itself. President Obama could have said "I am not worthy," a true response that would also have kept him from the ridicule this Nobel ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Barack Hussein Obama was President for 10 Days when the Deadline for the 2009 Nobel Prize Closed. He Did The Same Thing in those 10 Days That He Has Done in the Last 10 Months NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!


    Right Wing DogAuthority Authority: 113
    The following was written by John Fund of the WSJ. It is right on the money! My comments follow in bold type! “This year’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama can only hasten the decline in prestige of an award that has already gone to people like Yasser Arafat, UN General Secretary Kofi Annan ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Mixed world reaction to Obama’s Nobel


    American Conservative DailyAuthority Authority: 457
    After recovering from their initial shock, leaders around the globe applauded Fridays surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, saying they hoped the prize would spur his efforts on nuclear disarmament and peacemaking in some of the worlds most violent places. Calling the honor "well-deserved," NATO ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Mixed world reaction to Obama’s win


    American Conservative DailyAuthority Authority: 457
    After recovering from their initial shock, leaders around the globe applauded Fridays surprise award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, saying they hoped the prize would spur his efforts on nuclear disarmament and peacemaking in some of the worlds most violent places. Calling the honor "well-deserved," NATO ...
    4 weeks ago
  • What Are They Smoking In Oslo?


    StupidicaAuthority Authority: 163
    A prize for not being George W. Bush. This years awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama can only hasten the decline in prestige of an award that has already gone to people like Yasser Arafat, UN General Secretary Kofi Annan (who presided over the Iraqi oil-for-food scam) and the fabulist Guatemalan ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Time For Climate Justice: Beds Are Burning (Video)


    TakePart Social Action NetworkAuthority Authority: 622
    In 1988 “Beds Are Burning”, Midnight Oil’s infectious rocker, brought the issue of reparations for indigenous peoples to the global spotlight, and now Time For Climate Justice has gathered musicians and movie stars to transform the song into an anthem that demands action for the upcoming climate conference in ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Live from New York: The Age of Stupid


    Featured States NewsAuthority Authority: 157
    Original Author:  xoff The Age of Stupid Live from New York on Monday 9/21 at a theater sort of near you Will people in the future call our time the age of stupid? Or will humanity find a solution to the world’s most urgent problem? You decide! EVENT OVERVIEW Join audiences ...
    8 weeks ago

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