Taking a look at my Newsvine Watchlist... not even getting any further than that first look.
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Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to "return to their origins" following this week's devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.
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According to Danish media the four Greenpeace activist who breached security and waved banners at the Danish queens dinner for world leaders during COP15 have been released.
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I was admitted into the European Journalism Center's blogging competition # 2, about climate change and COP15.
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An American appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Holocaust survivors who alleged the Vatican bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi sympathizers.
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The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
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Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the military to let Palestinians travel on the part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank, handing Palestinians their biggest victory yet against Israel's practice of banning them from some roads.
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It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.
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With the Copenhagen talks almost upon us it seems like an appropriate time to launch a scoreboard on how the world is progressing in efforts to limit global warming and the not-for-profit Sustainability Institute has this week done just that.
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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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Check out these outstanding contributions involving comics, science and alternative pornography.
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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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Students at Denmark's Technical University has just proved music festivals need not be wasteful events.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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"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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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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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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Dennis Harmon lost his job, but that doesn't mean he'll lose his livelihood.
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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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I am very impressed and will continue to read your articles and follow them along.You have interesting writing ideas.
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Benno Hansen is the Mugabe of Newsvine, if your interests are socialism, marxism and the restriction of freedom then this is the guy to add to your watchlist.
Thanks Benno, for showing your true stripes.
— ajs
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Benno is one of the most original contributors on Newsvine - and on the web. This guy actually goes places to report about them. He got himself caught in the clash between Danish squatters and police forces during a riot, and he actually went and got a haircut as a Sicilian hitman just to make a point - and write about it in his column. He does what bloggers and citizen journalists should all be doing, and by doing so he makes the web a far more interesting place to be.
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Benno knows what he's talking about. He has a true bravery of spirit and body, which informs his skillful and honest writing. If he's not on your watchlist, you're not getting smarter. Period.
— firsty
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This is the first time I've been able to use the net to get first hand, unfiltered news from abroad. Usually there is some embedded reporter or somebody with what I would consider a simple commercial deal doing the coverage;i.e. AP, Rueters et.al. Thanks for your work Benno and be safe.
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Some Pacific island nations have been evacuated. Now the Inuits are watching their ice disappear. Party on!!!!!!
It turns out that the Tea Party has more in common with the mainstream political parties than we may have realized. They too are completely and utterly dysfunctional.
With ballooning elk and deer populations eating up greenery and altering ecosystems at national parks across the country, a group of researchers is suggesting an unusual solution: Introduce small packs of gray wolves to curb the expanding herds. They acknowledge that it's a tr …
Palin gave her $115,000.00 speech tonight to an audience of less than enthusiastic Tea Partiers. [...] The Vintage Palin moment occurred when she sat down to answer questions, which apparently had been pre-screened. So, she had a chance to study up prior to this moment.
A U.S. soldier has been accused of 'waterboarding' his four-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police that he used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.