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More "best of" TH!NK ABOUT IT Climate Change blogging competition

The organizers from the European Journalism Centre have awarded five bloggers as winners of the first month and also three bloggers have now won a trip to the actual COP15 climate change summit in Copenhagen.

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Best of TH!NK ABOUT IT Climate Change blogging competition

Check out these outstanding contributions involving comics, science and alternative pornography.

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Climate activists in Copenhagen protest coal use

Hundreds of climate activists protested Saturday against the use of fossil fuels, but were blocked from entering a coal-firing plant they had hoped to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts.

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CO2penhagen - last weekend's carbon neutral music festival

Students at Denmark's Technical University has just proved music festivals need not be wasteful events.

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Arctic reverses trend, is warmest in two millennia

The Arctic is warmer than it's been in 2,000 years, even though it should be cooling because of changes in the Earth's orbit that cause the region to get less direct sunlight. Indeed, the Arctic had been cooling for nearly two millennia before reversing course in the last century and starting to warm as human activities added greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

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How Google rebooted the media and democracy itself

What is more important: Your vote in last election or your activity on the Internet? I'm not so sure any more but the the latter is beyond dispute growing in importance. And here's why.

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Blogging competition on climate change - I'm in...

European Journalism Centre is hosting blogging competitions. Last one was about the European Parliament elections earlier this year and the next one will be about the climate change summit in Copenhagen the coming December. Bookmark the blog and podcast feeds already today.

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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian fields

More than 30 Israeli settlers, some of them on horseback, set fire to fields and olive trees and stoned Palestinian cars during a rampage in the West Bank on Monday, a Palestinian official said. Two Palestinians were lightly injured.

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Israeli soldiers: 'No clear red lines' in Gaza war

Israeli soldiers who fought in last winter's Gaza War say the military used Palestinians as human shields, improperly fired incendiary white phosphorous shells over civilian areas and used overwhelming firepower that caused needless deaths and destruction, according to a report released Wednesday.

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UN: Israel must tear down West Bank barrier

Israel must tear down its West Bank separation barrier, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday, marking five years since the International Court of Justice declared the barrier illegal and a violation of Palestinian rights.

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Nestle refused FDA information, reports show

Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times in the past five years to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

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Water Wars 2009: Privatization, industrialization, pollution, exploitation... conflict

"All wars are [still not] fought over natural resources" but today I published my 20th post tagged 'water' at my Ecowar blog and I created a Google Map companion for the blog: The Ecowar Battlefields. Please chip in or criticise. Let me sum all of it up for you...

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Lawsuit brings murky West Bank land deals to light

It reads like a standard real estate contract between a Zionist institution and an Israeli couple. But it offers a rare glimpse into the bureaucratic smoke screen that helps ensure a strong Jewish presence on lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.

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Police fire tear gas in Peru protests

Riot police used tear gas to turn student protesters away from Peru's Congress on Thursday as thousands marched to back Amazon Indians resisting oil and natural gas exploration on their land.

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Danish employment model put to test in meltdown

Dennis Harmon lost his job, but that doesn't mean he'll lose his livelihood.

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NASA: Environmental disaster avoided on ozone loss

Here's rare good news about an environmental crisis: We dodged disaster with the ozone layer. A NASA study about ozone-munching chemicals from aerosol sprays and refrigeration used a computer model to play a game of what-if. What if the world 22 years ago didn't agree to cut back on chlorofluorocarbons which cause a seasonal ozone hole to form near the South Pole?

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Let's get smarter here: Confidence, not belief, please

I predict FC Barcelona will win the Spanish league this season. Do you believe me? Forget about climate change and creationism for a while and let me tell you about something "more important than life or death": Football. Or be a sucker and skip to the last part.

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Let's get smarter here: Significance, not truth, please

"Most scientists look for the truth but some believe in human caused climate change just for the funds"

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Why do we love movie Nazis?

Only at the movies (and in old “Hogan’s Heroes” reruns) is it ever permissible to enjoy the company of a Nazi. To be sure, the real Nazis were horrifying death merchants responsible for igniting World War II. But at the movies they become complex psychological portraits or loony B-movie villains or, weirder still, comic relief.

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"All wars are fought over natural resources"

Driving home from a visit to a community gardening project this controversial statement was made by the local permaculture guru. A bit over-simplified I thought to myself. Well, I've been keeping an eye open...

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I have begun a Google calendar for you

What year did Stalin hand over German Communists to Gestapo? Never again forget using our Socialist calendar at Google. This Sunday morning I punched in a couple of socialist reminders in a public Google calendar. Check it out: HTML / iCal.

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Italian soccer strategy gets a racy look

In the latest fashion statement out of Italy, soccer players are dropping their shorts to score goals.

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Norway encourages use of open source software

Norway pledged funds Monday to stimulate public sector use of the free open source software OpenOffice to reduce its dependency on Microsoft Corp. and other major software producers.

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Greatest hits of brave Danish Freedom of Speech fighting newspaper Jyllands-Posten

Defending the right to mock and disdain Muslims is far from the only battle this Jutland based newspaper has taken upon them to fight. A competitor in the Danish media has been reading their back issues.

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Serious Spanish Saturday Surprises

Real Madrid and Valencia lost their Primera Division matches this weekend. To usually unimpressive Valladolid and Gijon. Real Valladolid - Real Madrid 1-0

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M.Sc. from The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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