Katie Mills Giorgo, contributor wrote a new blog post: Madeleine Albright’s famous serpent pin,...
Katie Mills Giorgo, contributor wrote a new blog post: Madeleine Albright’s famous serpent pin, others in Cedar Rapids Throughout her diplomatic career and in the years since then, Madeleine Albright’s brooches have been more...Read more...
Human Disaster Looms
Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached New research claims global temperature rise will peak at 4C. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian...Read more...
Blocked! Request to list rebels as terrorists
Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are a year or, for monthly trials, just .95 per month for credit...Read more...
LBT: Sharad Pawar to meet Prithviraj Chavan on May 24 – Daily News & Analysis
LBT: Sharad Pawar to meet Prithviraj Chavan on May 24 Daily News & Analysis Traders are up in the arms against the new tax, fearing cumbersome account-keeping process and potential official harassment. Sharad Pawar. Federation...Read more...
UNESCO fact-finding mission to Jerusalem next week
See on Scoop.it – Palestine Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki announced that a fact finding mission from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will visit Jerusalem from May 20,...Read more...
Republicans owe Rice an apology on Benghazi, Obama adviser says - Fox News
Vanity Fair Republicans owe Rice an apology on Benghazi, Obama adviser says Fox News WASHINGTON – White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday Republicans owe Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an...Read more...
Should California's cap and trade use forestry offsets? Yes
Sacramento Bee: We love our forests in California. After a century of rapidly losing them to farming and logging, we finally succeeded in virtually ending deforestation in California. We were driven by our interest in the...Read more...
Analysis - Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline
Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's...Read more...
Israel says no ‘compromise’ should be made with Iran
Israeli President Shimon Peres says no “compromise” should be made with Iran in the course of the negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of world powers. At a Friday meeting with German Foreign Minister...Read more...
Comment on “RECONSTRUCTING” CLIMATE CHANGE by model railroad accessories
September 7, 2010 By 21wire 358 Comments “The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further...Read more...
Labor agencies trafficking migrant domestic workers into Syria
Dozens of migrant domestic workers are being trafficked over the Lebanese border into Syria every month, despite the war raging there and official bans by Syria and several major source countries against bringing in new labor.Read more...
World Record US lottery prize won in Florida
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world ...Read more...
Colombia peace deal to include redistribution of 11.5 million square miles
Colombia will redistribute farmland of some 11.500 square miles — an area larger than Massachusetts, as part of an eventual peace deal with the country’s largest rebel group FARC, newspaper Full Article » The post Colombia...Read more...
UC Santa Barbara scientist studies methane levels in cross-continent drive
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 20, 2013 After taking a rented camper outfitted with special equipment to measure methane on a cross-continent drive, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has found that methane emissions across large parts...Read more...
Comment by 'Anzhelika' on The 2012 Election and Global Climate Change: This is Why We Fight.
Steven McAllister and Greg Rose Climate change is an irrefutable fact of our time. The monthly average temperature worldwide has been higher than the twentieth century average for 329 straight months. Global annual mean...Read more...
Debate: Oxford Students should be pursuing social justice projects whilst at University
Proposition – Tyler Overton Here are some facts about injustice: according to UNICEF’s 2012 report on child mortality, 1 in 9 children in Sub-Saharan Africa die before age five (as opposed to 1 in 152 in developed regions)....Read more...
Ban concerned about DPRK missile test
Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has voiced his concern about provocations and tensions on the Korean Peninsula on Sunday after a media report said that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)...Read more...
Locusts About to Fly and Devour Crops
Keith Cressman of the locust-fighting unit of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said, Sunday, that the locusts crawling around Israel's southern border will start flying in two weeks and be most destructive...Read more...
Jlem to vie for 2019 UNSC seat despite Berlin bid
J'lem to vie for 2019 UNSC seat despite Berlin bid Jerusalem Post Sunday 19th May, 2013 Israel will go ahead with its candidacy for an unprecedented seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 despite Germany's determination to run...Read more...
UN push for North Korean talks – The Age
The Age UN push for North Korean talks The Age RAW VISION: In response to North Korea's recent missile launches, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Pyongyang to avoid further provocation. 19/05/13. North Korea tests another...Read more...
Blog (and I am waiting to hear from the vet – she is in surgery right now with another dog)
PRES OBAMA DELIVERING THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TODAY AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ** ABOUT 500 STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMAS AT THE ALL-MALE, ** IT'S OBAMA'S SECOND GRADUATION SPEECH THIS YEAR ** HIS THIRD AND FINAL...Read more...
Arab Israelie conflicts Why you should be careful about the information out there. (FIN STAFF...
I'm going to point this out now that Yes, I am a Jew for Israel. It is my home away from the States. My pride. Yes. my pride so take what I say or not I don't care. Just listen. I'm going to start with how the media is biased...Read more...
Baroness Amos to visit Sudan ‘at a crucial time’: SPLM-N
KHARTOUM The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Baroness Valerie Amos, will visit Khartoum from Monday 20 to Wednesday 23 of May. This was announced in a statement to Radio...Read more...
Dar es Salaam counts over 5000 homeless children
The Dar es Salaam region had a total of 5,580 children living and working on the streets as of June 2012, according to research conducted by the country’s health ministry in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund...Read more...
GOV DOCS: CHILDREN IN SMALL AFRICAN VILLAGE, LOCKED IN SCHOOL & FORCED TO BE GUINIA PIGS FOR...
2 0 In December 2012, vaccine tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being...Read more...
Eat insects to mitigate deforestation and climate change
A new 200-page-report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urges human society to utilize an often-ignored, protein-rich, and ubiquitous food source: insects. While many in the industrialized west might turn up...Read more...
Finding local solutions in a regional food crisis
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Burkina Faso By Shantha Bloemen DORI, Burkina Faso, 16 May 2013 - After 35 days at Dori Hospital, 15 of them in a coma, 2-year-old Mariama now weighs 6.5 kilograms and is on the road to...Read more...
The Real Face of Poverty in Ghana – As I
The Real Face of Poverty in Ghana – As I sit watching Channel 4 television here in London, UK, on the screen appears a harrowing woman of African extraction sitting on a raffia mat with legs stretched forward on the floor in a...Read more...
Oxford says rate of warming has slowed
James Ihaka at NZ Herald reports: New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously. The paper, “Energy budget constraints on climate response”, to...Read more...
Medicinal plants value chain empowers rural women
Medicinal plants value chain empowers rural women A project in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is empowering rural women by increasing and diversifying income through the production of medicinal and aromatic plants. Effective...Read more...
