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***** The Richard Dimbleby Lecture by HRH Prince Charles, titled “Facing the Future”
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***** Documentary - 43.39 min | The Arctic - The Nature of Things, A Changing World -
CBC - December 3, 2009 - A sponsor's ad precedes film.
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Jordan Page Pendulum Music Video
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"Listen" By Jordan Page
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Imaging Life

Op-Ed | US - Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Truthout - By Henry A. Giroux - Wednesday 23 December 2009
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This is a difficult time in American history. The American people have every right to demand to live in peace, enjoy the comforts of economic security, have access to decent health care, be able to send their children to quality schools and live with a measure of security. And yet, at a time when public values are subordinated to the rationality of profits, exchange values and unbridled self-interest, politics and the institutions and culture that support it become corrupt, devoid of agents and reduced to empty rituals largely orchestrated by those who control the wealth, income, media and commanding institutions of American society. As we have just witnessed in the debate on health care reform, the interests of the vast majority of American people for a public option and the extension of Medicare have been totally lost on a Congress that has been corrupted by power and its comfortable and shameful relations with those who control the military-industrial-academic complex. Public values, public spheres and the notion of the common good are viewed by politicians of both major parties as either a hindrance to the goals of a market-driven society or they are simply treated as a drain on the society, viewed as a sign of weakness, if not pathology. Ethical considerations and social responsibility are now devalued, if not disdained, in a society wedded to short term investments, easy profits and a mode of economics in which social costs are increasingly borne by the poor while financial and political benefits are reaped by the rich. Unchecked self-interest and ruthless, if not trivial, modes of competition now replaces politics or at least become the foundation for politics as complex issues are reduced to a friend/enemy, winner/loser dichotomies. The crass social Darwinism played out on reality television now finds its counterpart in the politics of both the Democratic and Republican Parties. For instance, the Republican Party's only identifying ideology is that it is against anything that supports the common good and undercuts the profits of corporations and the rich. At the same time, Democrats have given up any vestige of a progressive politics and vision, aligning their ideals to conform to the interests of the lobbyists who now represent the not-so-invisible shadow government.

Instead of public spheres that promote dialogue, debate and arguments with supporting evidence, we have entertainment spheres that infantilize almost everything they touch while offering opinions that utterly disregard evidence, truth and civility. Politics has come under the sway of multiple forms of fundamentalism, becoming more militarized, privatized and divorced from any notion of the common good or public welfare. Violence saturates the culture, a brutalizing masculinity cancels out a respect for the disadvantaged other and a collective ignorance is fueled by the assumption that intelligence and thoughtfulness should be dismissed as a form of elitism. Populism, or at least the Sarah Palin version, has little resemblance to genuine resistance to the anti-democratic tendencies in American society and now plays out as a binge on illiteracy and stupidity. Screen culture in its many manifestations signals if not celebrates the collapse of politics and the coming apocalypse. Making the world a better place has given way to collective narratives about how to survive alone in a world, the destruction of which is just a matter of time. Death, fear and insecurity trump crucial questions about what it means to apprehend the conditions to live a good life in common with others. Not only is the issue of the good life and the conditions that make it possible often lost in the babble of the infotainment state, but the market values that produced the economic crisis have so devalued the concept and practice of democracy that Americans find it hard to even define its meaning outside of the sham of money-driven elections and the freedom to shop.

***** Breaking News

Strict new rules in place for U.S.-bound air traveller
The Globe and Mail - December 26, 2009
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Passengers going to U.S. will be searched twice and must remain seated during final hour of flight in wake of attempted attack on Northwest plane.

Global Regiona

Middle East | Ban Ki-Moon: Gaza reconstruction not being addressed
BBC - December 27, 2009
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said more must be done to repair damage done in the Gaza Strip by Israeli military action one year ago. Mr Ban said Gazans were being denied "basic human rights" and urged Israel to end its "unacceptable and counterproductive blockade" Mr Ban said Gazans were being denied "basic human rights" and urged Israel to end its "unacceptable and counterproductive blockade"

National

The Fall of Mexico
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. — Porfirio Díaz, dictator of Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and 1884 to 1911
The - Atlantic - By Philip Caputo - December 2009
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In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively under martial law. Is this evidence of a creeping coup by the military? A war between drug cartels? Between the president and his opposition? Or just collateral damage from the (U.S.-supported) war on drugs? Nobody knows: Mexico is where facts, like people, simply disappear. The stakes for the U.S. are high, especially as the prospect of a failed state on our southern border begins to seem all too real.

UK | 1,500 injured soldiers could face discharge
MoD memo reveals plan to get rid of the severely wounded instead of finding them other army jobs.
The Observer - By Mark Townsend - Sunday 27 December 2009
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The scale of army casualties sustained in Afghanistan has been exposed in an internal memo discussing the possible discharge of 1,500 troops whose injuries are so severe that they cannot return to the front line. The Ministry of Defence document, dated 30 October, identifies the equivalent of about three infantry battalions of injured soldiers that the army "may not be able or wish to retain".

UK | Lord Mayor denied knighthood after backing bankers' bonuses
The Government is to distance itself further from the City by breaking with tradition and declining to knight the Lord Mayor of London, Ian Luder.
The telegraph - By Philip Aldrick, Banking Editor - December 27, 2009
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United States Government

U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion<
Yemeni protesters staged a demonstration in the southern part of the country on Thursday after a raid against Qaeda militants.
The New York Times - By Eric Schmidt and Robert F. Worth - December 27, 2009
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WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top agency official. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in
counterterrorism tactics, senior military officers said.

Elliott Abrams and 'Neoconning' Obama
Consortium News - By Robert Parry - December 18, 2009
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For the eight years of the Bush-II administration, a key behind-the-scenes architect of U.S. strategy in the Middle East was Elliott Abrams, a neoconservative whose devotion to Israel is hard to overstate – and who is now engaged in what looks like a PR campaign to bend Barack Obama’s Mideast policies in the direction favored by Israel’s hard-line Likud government.

However, unlike many neocons, Abrams has been surprisingly frank about his devotion to Israel as a Jewish state. He has even expressed resentment toward Christians who hold nuanced views about Israel or who show sympathy for the Palestinians uprooted from their ancestral homes.

Candidate flip, president flop
Obama crushes a medication policy he'd vowed to endorse. Such bogus election-year promises undermine democracy
Salon - By David Sirota - December 18, 2009
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Every now and then, an insider inadvertently exposes the hideous rationalizations that run the American political grotesquerie. The best known of these statements are memorialized on TV as "gaffes." But the ones that never become famous tend to reveal the ugliest assumptions of all.

Case in point is the comment the pharmaceutical industry recently let fly in the Washington Post. The newspaper this week examined how the Obama administration crushed legislation that would have allowed Americans to purchase lower-priced FDA-approved medicines from abroad -- legislation that President Obama promised to support as a presidential candidate; legislation that would have reduced drug profiteering and saved the government and consumers $100 billion.

"It's about being a candidate as opposed to being president," said the drug industry's top lobbyist in defense of Obama's flip-flop.

This explanation is common among politicos -- we last heard it when the New York Times' John Harwood quoted an administration aide attacking those demanding Obama fulfill his campaign pledges. Disenchanted activists, said the White House, "need to take off [their] pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated."

Commentary | Life and premature death of Pax Obamicana
Asia Times - By Spengler - December 24, 2009
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Opinion | For Obama, No Opportunity Is Too Big to Blow
No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. Is he blowing it?
The Nation - By Naomi Klein - December 21, 2009.
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Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but there was one country that possessed unique power to change the game. It didn't use it. If Barack Obama had come to Copenhagen with a transformative and inspiring commitment to getting the U.S. economy off fossil fuels, all the other major emitters would have stepped up. The EU, Japan, China and India had all indicated that they were willing to increase their levels of commitment, but only if the U.S. took the lead. Instead of leading, Obama arrived with embarrassingly low targets and the heavy emitters of the world took their cue from him.

(The "deal" that was ultimately rammed through was nothing more than a grubby pact between the world's biggest emitters: I'll pretend that you are doing something about climate change if you pretend that I am too. Deal? Deal.)

I understand all the arguments about not promising what he can't deliver, about the dysfunction of the U.S. Senate, about the art of the possible. But spare me the lecture about how little power poor Obama has. No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. He has refused to use each and every one of them. Let's look at the big three.

Iowa governor touts 4-day workweek
Stateline.org - Staff Reports - December 29, 2009
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Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) is touting Utah’s first-in-the-nation move to a four-day workweek for most state employees in the executive branch, and he is pushing the proposal as a way to cut costs in his own state. Overall, the Utah experience has been a positive one,” Culver said, according to Radio Iowa. Culver predicted that the four-day week — which was adopted in Utah to cut the state’s energy expenses while saving commuting costs for workers — “will get a lot of support” in Iowa.

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Topical News

Activism at the Groud Level

In Industrial Thailand, Health and Business Concerns Collide
Dozens of projects in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, have been halted in a landmark environmental case. A court found that they did not comply with the Constitution.
The New York Times - By Thomas Fuller - December 18, 2009
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MAP TA PHUT, Thailand — Villagers here avoid walking in the rain because they say it burns their skin and causes their hair to fall out. They have trouble breathing at night when, they say, factories release toxic fumes. And they are terrified by what studies show are unusually high cancer rates.

Map Ta Phut is the heart of Thailand’s industrial underbelly, an area rarely seen by the millions of tourists who visit the country every year. Jutting out into the Gulf of Thailand, the industrial zone is on the scale of a midsize city — only instead of office buildings and apartments, there are block after block of tangled tubes of steel, vats of chemicals and towering, fire-breathing gas flares.

Two years ago, a group of residents decided to take their health grievances to the courts, a relatively rare move in Thailand, where street demonstrations are the preferred form of civil action. The lawsuit, filed by 27 villagers, has become a landmark in Thailand’s environmental movement, leading to a cascade of decisions that halted $9 billion worth of industrial projects, including at Japanese steel factories and German-owned chemical plants.

The judgments stunned foreign investors, infuriated powerful Thai companies and jolted an already shaky Thai government. The Thai Chamber of Commerce has warned that if the injunction against dozens of projects is not lifted soon, the Thai economy could suffer for the next decade.

But from the perspective of Srisuwan Janya, the lawyer who won the case, the injunction signaled a new dawn in the country’s development and the end of an era in which Thailand’s paramount objective was bolstering gross domestic product. “From now on, industries will not only care about making money,” said Mr. Srisuwan, who comes from a family of rice farmers. “They have to care about the environment and the well-being of the people in the community.”

US | Peace Activists to Set Up Encampment in Washington
Truthout - By Scott Galindez - Tuesday 22 December 2009
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In August of 2005, Cindy Sheehan, who had lost her son in Iraq, set up camp outside George Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Texas. She had a simple question; she wanted to know what the "noble cause" was for which her son had died. Thousands of people joined Cindy in Crawford, and Camp Casey became a national story that breathed new life into the antiwar movement. In March of 2010, Cindy Sheehan and other activists from a group calling itself "Peace of the Action" will be converging on Washington, DC, to set up a camp on the National Mall.

Climate Change - As the World Turns

Carbon Dioxide and the Climate
A 1956 American Scientist article explores climate change; two contemporary commentaries illuminate its relevance to the present
American Scientist - By Gilbert N. Plass, James Rodger Fleming, Gavin Schmidt - January-February 2010
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Scientists have long been fascinated with the problem of explaining variations in the climate. For at least nine-tenths of the time since the beginning of recorded geological history, the average temperature of the Earth has been higher than it is today. Between these warm epochs there have been severe periods of glaciation which have lasted a few million years and which have occurred at intervals of roughly 250,000,000 years. Of more immediate interest to us is the general warming of the climate that has taken place in the last sixty years.

Constitutional and Legal Issues

Microjustice: Helping those who are excluded from the legal system
More than 4 billion people don’t have access to even the most basic legal protections. The microjustice movement is giving them a voice.
Ode Magazine =y Carmel Wroth - April 2009 issue
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Corruption / Criminality in Government

Southeast Asia | Tsunami Recovery Hit by Corruption, Apathy
Inter Press Service - By Marwaan Macan-Markar - Saturday 26 December 2009
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Bangkok - Questions that have dogged the tsunami recovery effort through 2006 coalesced in a crop of media stories and critical reports as affected countries remembered in prayer and reflection the over 220,000 people killed in that December 2004 natural disaster.

The Dec. 24 headline in the lead story of a Thai English Language daily, "The Nation," could not have expressed this concern more bluntly. "Where did our tsunami cash go?" it asked, referring to a letter written by seven Western countries to Bangkok's authorities, alleging that money sent to help this South-east Asian nation's victims "had been stolen".

Economy and Finance

Bloomberg Economic News
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Bloomberg Current Worldwide Financial News
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UK | Gordon Brown’s untimely decision to sell cost the UK billions
The Times Online - By David Robertson - December 28, 2009
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In what might be regarded as the definition of calling the bottom of the market, Mr Brown, who was then Chancellor, sold nearly 400 tonnes of the Bank’s gold at an average price of $275 an ounce. The sale raised about $3.9 billion between 1999 and 2002 but had he sold the metal this year, he would have raised $13.8 billion, based on an average price of $978 an ounce. With the Treasury frantically trying to cut spending and raise debt, the disposal of the UK’s bullion a decade ago looks to be a misjudgment. The Conservatives have called it a “spectacular display of economic incompetence”.

UK | Property firms draw up 'living wills' to survive market crashCommercial property prices have fallen by 40pc over the past two years.
The Telegraph - By Graham Ruddick, City Reporter (Property) - December 27, 2009
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Some of Britain's biggest commercial property companies have drawn up contingency plans – effectively "living wills" – to try to ensure they can survive any future crash in the market without turning to shareholders or banks for help. The plans involve identifying a list of assets that would be swiftly and decisively sold during a crisis to bolster battered balance sheets. Leading global banks are under political pressure to produce so-called "living wills" to set out how, in the event of their collapse, they could be broken-up orderly without taxpayer support. The move by property companies has been made after they were forced to go cap-in-hand to investors for more than £5bn this year with deeply-discounted and highly-dilutive equity raisings.

Activism at the Groud Level

In Industrial Thailand, Health and Business Concerns Collide
Dozens of projects in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, have been halted in a landmark environmental case. A court found that they did not comply with the Constitution.
The New York Times - By Thomas Fuller - December 18, 2009
- LINK ^

MAP TA PHUT, Thailand — Villagers here avoid walking in the rain because they say it burns their skin and causes their hair to fall out. They have trouble breathing at night when, they say, factories release toxic fumes. And they are terrified by what studies show are unusually high cancer rates.

Map Ta Phut is the heart of Thailand’s industrial underbelly, an area rarely seen by the millions of tourists who visit the country every year. Jutting out into the Gulf of Thailand, the industrial zone is on the scale of a midsize city — only instead of office buildings and apartments, there are block after block of tangled tubes of steel, vats of chemicals and towering, fire-breathing gas flares.

Two years ago, a group of residents decided to take their health grievances to the courts, a relatively rare move in Thailand, where street demonstrations are the preferred form of civil action. The lawsuit, filed by 27 villagers, has become a landmark in Thailand’s environmental movement, leading to a cascade of decisions that halted $9 billion worth of industrial projects, including at Japanese steel factories and German-owned chemical plants.

The judgments stunned foreign investors, infuriated powerful Thai companies and jolted an already shaky Thai government. The Thai Chamber of Commerce has warned that if the injunction against dozens of projects is not lifted soon, the Thai economy could suffer for the next decade.

But from the perspective of Srisuwan Janya, the lawyer who won the case, the injunction signaled a new dawn in the country’s development and the end of an era in which Thailand’s paramount objective was bolstering gross domestic product. “From now on, industries will not only care about making money,” said Mr. Srisuwan, who comes from a family of rice farmers. “They have to care about the environment and the well-being of the people in the community.”

US | Peace Activists to Set Up Encampment in Washington
Truthout - By Scott Galindez - Tuesday 22 December 2009
- LINK ^

In August of 2005, Cindy Sheehan, who had lost her son in Iraq, set up camp outside George Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Texas. She had a simple question; she wanted to know what the "noble cause" was for which her son had died. Thousands of people joined Cindy in Crawford, and Camp Casey became a national story that breathed new life into the antiwar movement. In March of 2010, Cindy Sheehan and other activists from a group calling itself "Peace of the Action" will be converging on Washington, DC, to set up a camp on the National Mall.

Climate Change - As the World Turns

Carbon Dioxide and the Climate
A 1956 American Scientist article explores climate change; two contemporary commentaries illuminate its relevance to the present
American Scientist - By Gilbert N. Plass, James Rodger Fleming, Gavin Schmidt - January-February 2010
- LINK ^

Scientists have long been fascinated with the problem of explaining variations in the climate. For at least nine-tenths of the time since the beginning of recorded geological history, the average temperature of the Earth has been higher than it is today. Between these warm epochs there have been severe periods of glaciation which have lasted a few million years and which have occurred at intervals of roughly 250,000,000 years. Of more immediate interest to us is the general warming of the climate that has taken place in the last sixty years.

Constitutional and Legal Issues

Microjustice: Helping those who are excluded from the legal system
More than 4 billion people don’t have access to even the most basic legal protections. The microjustice movement is giving them a voice.
Ode Magazine =y Carmel Wroth - April 2009 issue
- LINK ^

Corruption / Criminality in Government

Southeast Asia | Tsunami Recovery Hit by Corruption, Apathy
Inter Press Service - By Marwaan Macan-Markar - Saturday 26 December 2009
- LINK ^

Bangkok - Questions that have dogged the tsunami recovery effort through 2006 coalesced in a crop of media stories and critical reports as affected countries remembered in prayer and reflection the over 220,000 people killed in that December 2004 natural disaster.

The Dec. 24 headline in the lead story of a Thai English Language daily, "The Nation," could not have expressed this concern more bluntly. "Where did our tsunami cash go?" it asked, referring to a letter written by seven Western countries to Bangkok's authorities, alleging that money sent to help this South-east Asian nation's victims "had been stolen".

Economy and Finance

Bloomberg Economic News
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Bloomberg Current Worldwide Financial News
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UK | Gordon Brown’s untimely decision to sell cost the UK billions
The Times Online - By David Robertson - December 28, 2009
- LINK ^

In what might be regarded as the definition of calling the bottom of the market, Mr Brown, who was then Chancellor, sold nearly 400 tonnes of the Bank’s gold at an average price of $275 an ounce. The sale raised about $3.9 billion between 1999 and 2002 but had he sold the metal this year, he would have raised $13.8 billion, based on an average price of $978 an ounce. With the Treasury frantically trying to cut spending and raise debt, the disposal of the UK’s bullion a decade ago looks to be a misjudgment. The Conservatives have called it a “spectacular display of economic incompetence”.

UK | Property firms draw up 'living wills' to survive market crash
Commercial property prices have fallen by 40pc over the past two years.
The Telegraph - By Graham Ruddick, City Reporter (Property) - December 27, 2009
- LINK ^

Some of Britain's biggest commercial property companies have drawn up contingency plans – effectively "living wills" – to try to ensure they can survive any future crash in the market without turning to shareholders or banks for help. The plans involve identifying a list of assets that would be swiftly and decisively sold during a crisis to bolster battered balance sheets. Leading global banks are under political pressure to produce so-called "living wills" to set out how, in the event of their collapse, they could be broken-up orderly without taxpayer support. The move by property companies has been made after they were forced to go cap-in-hand to investors for more than £5bn this year with deeply-discounted and highly-dilutive equity raisings.

Legal and Constitutional Issues

Bloomberg Index of Current Legal News
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Pollution

Canadian Cities Leading the Charge Against Bottled Water
Seventy-two municipalities from 8 provinces and 2 territories have implemented restrictions on bottled water.
Polaris Institute - By Joe Cressy - December 17, 2009
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Exactly one year ago on December 2, the City of Toronto became the largest city in the world to pass a comprehensive ban on bottled water, setting off a wave of backlash against bottled water that continues today. Since Toronto's decision many news articles have been written, municipal resolutions passed, university clubs formed, and stainless steel bottles sold. To put it bluntly, the last 12 months have not been kind to the big three bottled water manufacturers Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, whose bottled water sales are down while the number of bans continues to increase. Finally, after years of steady bottled water growth, the past year has demonstrated strong public support for the reemergence of the tap.

Religion and Philosophies

Jesus Hated War -- Why Do Christians Love It So Much?
By Gary G. Kohl - Consortium News - December 28, 2009
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There are no "blessed wars". Yet virtually all evangelical, conservative and many mainstream church leaders were active supporters of the Bush wars.

Book | “How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most’’ by Marietta McCarty
Tips from grannies, other great thinkers
Boston Globe - Review by Caroline Leavitt - December 27, 2009
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McCarty divides her book into 10 chapters, each dealing with one of the big ideas she feels are necessary for a good life: simplicity, communication, perspective, flexibility, empathy, individuality, belonging, serenity, possibility, and joy. Full of personal anecdotes, each chapter explores the topic at hand with the help of two or more philosophers.

Ashoura and Shi'ite beliefs
Jerusalem Post - By Rachel Liger - December 27, 2009
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Science & Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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Social Issues

UK | Call for universities to charge well-off students £30,000 a year
The Observer - - By Anushka Asthana and Ian Tucker - Sunday 27 December 2009
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Former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee says poor have been subsidising the rich for too long. A leading economist has called for students from well-off families to be charged the "market rate" of up to £30,000 a year to go to university. David "Danny" Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, said the "poor have been subsidising the rich" for too many years. Writing in today's Observer, he called for the cap on student fees to be raised, allowing universities to charge the richest students large fees while providing financial aid to the less well off. It comes days after Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, told universities they faced a £135m funding cut next year.

Violence - Civil

Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
UNICEF
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An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour - one in six children in the world. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops, hidden from view in plantations.

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