From one African activist’s insistence that family planning helps women and the environment , to asking whether voluntary birth control is the cheapest answer to climate change , population seems to be a recurring theme in the blogosphere lately. Now Trewin Restorick of Business Green is weighing in, asking how we might discover a consumption condom . His point is that many environmentalists seem to skirt around the topic of p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I gotta tell you, when Wiz came out with “Black & Yellow” I thought, wow, good marketing move, but maybe he should have waited until next season, what with the Roethlisberger suspension and all that. I figured this was going to be a lost season for the Steelers, but man was I wrong. Here Wiz Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Nah Right Discovery Date : 24/01/2011 14:15 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …WaPo Builds ‘Panic’ on Hearing on Radical Islam: ‘Some Compare Hearings to McCarthyism’
January 24, 2011 No Comment
The dominant front-page story in Monday's Washington Post is headlined “Hearings on Muslims trigger panic: Some fear that a coming House inquiry into alleged hidden radicalism will inflame prejudice.” The headline on the inside page is 'Some compare hearings to McCarthyism.” William Wan's story added in the third paragraph, smack dab on the front page: “Angry op-eds have compared the congressional inquiry to McCarthyism and the World War II persecution of Japanese Americans .” Can anyone recall the Post leading a “panic” against a hearing a Democrat had yet to begin? The target of all this “panic” is Rep. Peter King, a moderate Republican from Long Island. Nowhere in this story were mentions of Fort Hood or the Christmas Day bomber, which might define “hidden radicalism.” Wan focused his story on a Long Island mosque where King used to appear, and how those local Muslims feel betrayed by King after 9/11.
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Today is the day Oprah Winfrey reveals her big family secret . And is it any surprise that the talk show queen’s unauthorized biographer , Kitty Kelley, thinks she knows what it is? The “news that literally shook me to my core,” as Oprah called it, is that she has a half-sister,…
Continue reading …After deciding to close 491 post offices last year, the struggling US Postal Service will add as many as 2,000 additional branches to that tally beginning in March. Another 16,000 unprofitable ones will also be reviewed, as the USPS pushes Congress to allow them to close the worst…
Continue reading …Taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in fraud lawsuits since the government took over the companies in 2008. The closely guarded cost was released last week after Rep. Randy Neugebauer requested the figures last year. Some $132 million of the total went to…
Continue reading …Old/New Rob Interview with CanalPlus (France) from New Moon Promo + Translation
January 24, 2011 No Comment
You can watch the video in better quality here Translation Interviewer : “What I saw outside (the hotel) is crazy! I’ve seen that for Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt…May be Leonardo Dicaprio. But it’s really rare. What I want to know is how do you deal with all that. You are so young (23)..How do you keep calm and cool?” Rob: ” It’s not easy. I always try to separate my personal and private lives. I remind… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Robert Pattinson Life Discovery Date : 24/01/2011 13:41 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …The intern who rushed to help Gabrielle Giffords during the Arizona shooting is getting quite the 21st birthday present: He’ll be sitting with Michelle Obama during tomorrow’s State of the Union address, which happens to fall on his birthday. Daniel Hernandez Jr., will be joined by his father, reports ABC…
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‘Twilight’ and ‘Airbender’ lead Razzies with 9 nominations; ‘No Strings’ attaches to top box-office spot; ‘The King’s Speech’ is top film at producer awards. (Jan. 24)
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