Image: ShopNothing How was your “buy nothing” day? Did you really buy nothing? Did you miss that rush, the unmistakable high of exchanging your musty old cash for something you can brag to your friends about, or for the gift that will simply take the breath away when your intended recipient discovers your thoughtful extravagance? Are you forced to face the facts that you have a consumption addiction? That you may have honored buy nothing day, only to push the next consumption “fix” off until another day? Then you need to check out ShopNothing. Where you can “buy nothing”, or buy “not… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Christian Wulff’s visits Yad Vashem with daughter, says security achievable with two-state solution. Peres: Remember past, care for future
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Despite two Shas ministers’ objection, ministerial committee approves bill stating that military conversions cannot be annulled. Minister Margi: Current government decision awakens yearning for Olmert days
Continue reading …Liberal Democrats would like to use the lame-duck session of Congress to squeeze out passage of the “DREAM Act” to provide a “path” for citizenship to illegal-alien students. So The Washington Post ordered up another round of sympathetic press-release coverage for Sunday's paper with the tableau of a Thanksgiving dinner, complete with a beautiful “exemplary student” named Anngie Gutierrez who wants to be a medical examiner. The headline was “Undocumented youths chasing a dream.” The story used the favored liberal word “undocumented” seven times (including headlines and captions). Reporter Shankar Vedantam relayed: Gutierrez attended Thanksgiving dinner last week at the home of one of her high school teachers, Elias Vlanton. A group called United We Dream organized 300 to 500 events where DREAM Act-eligible students could share Thanksgiving dinner with citizens – and also perform various acts of service – according to Jose Luis Marantes, a senior organizer at the group. read more
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Photo: FearfulStills Recent University of South Carolina (USC) studies have outlined two important tools in cancer prevention. The studies, which were carried out at USC’s Arnold School of Health and the South Carolina Cancer Center, found that seaweed and sunlight both had a huge impact on cancer prevention, according to The State . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio police say they have taken control of a shantytown complex long held by traffickers after…
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The ballot is as crowded as the earthquake-ravaged capital itself, and a collapsed presidential palace is the prize. The voter rolls are filled with the dead, and living citizens are still struggling to figure out if and where they can vote while worrying about political violence and a spreading cholera epidemic. It’s Election Sunday in post-quake Haiti. Ninety-six contenders are competing for 11 Senate seats and more than 800 more are seeking to fill the 99-seat lower house. There are local and municipal races…
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YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) – China tried Sunday to defuse tension over a recent North Korean attack on South Korea by proposing an emergency meeting in Beijing, hours after the U.S. and South Korea launched naval war games in a united show of force. Beijing’s top nuclear envoy called for the meeting among the six nations involved in the stalled North Korean nuclear disarmament talks to calm tempers over North Korea’s artillery barrage last Tuesday that killed four people on South Korea’s front-line island of Yeonpyeong. Nuclear envoy Wu Dawei said in a statement issued in Beijing that the international community, particularly members of the six-party talks – the two Koreas, Japan,…
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Shulamit Aloni, Nathan Zach and others object appointment of new IDF deputy chief of staff, claiming he’s ‘not morally suitable’. In High Court petition, they accuse him of illegal targeted killings while serving as central command chief
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A young Cambodian student wears Cambodian Threads’ silk scarf. Photo: Cambodian Threads For Cambodian Threads , a small, socially responsible company that sells fair trade silk scarves , they’re set set on making a difference in the small Cambodian village that inspired the founding of their company: for every silk scarf they sell, they purchase basic school supplies for ten chi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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