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PrairiePundit: Disrupting Taliban's dope business
The nexus between the Taliban insurgency and the Afghan drug trade has made drug eradication central to the war in Afghanistan, especially to the strategy of curtailing the Taliban’s ability to raise funding. The joint forces operations …
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Bjørn Lomborg on global warming | MetaFilter
September 2, 2010 - 8:24 pm
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Global warming skeptic Bjørn Lomborg changes position, saying global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must confront.” He says in a new book forthcoming this year that …
Energy and Global Warming News for September 2nd: Banks Grow Wary …
September 2, 2010 - 8:24 pm
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Accessing that oil has long been prohibitively expensive because of the perils of floating ice in the region. But global warming has drastically increased the number of ice-free days each year off the coast, making drilling far more …
Joel John Roberts: Resolving Homelessness: Why Do We Make It So …
September 2, 2010 - 8:24 pm
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Ten year plans, multiple-year homeless initiatives, homeless management information systems – that’s billions of dollars invested to addresses homelessness . Seems a bit excessive when I know the steps toward housing hurting people are …
Marine general says Taliban treasury cut in half as blight …
September 2, 2010 - 8:24 pm
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… trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general said Thursday. The assessment by Maj. Gen. Richard Mills is a bright spot in an otherwise difficult war involving some 100000 U.S. troops. …
Energy Industry, Environmentalists Up Ante in Washington's Global …
August 24, 2010 - 8:59 pm
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(Aug. 24) — The simmering Washington debate over global warming is set to heat up this fall, fueled by environmentalists’ determination to squeeze climate-change legislation from the current Congress and the oil and gas industry’s …
KI Media: New Book Examines China's Policy Toward Cambodia
August 24, 2010 - 8:12 pm
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But Hun Sen was “also aware that China is big and strong, peaceful and cooperative, does not interfere, and can help Cambodia out of its poverty , so the past must be forgotten to win China’s support.” In the end, mistrust on both sides …
Al Gore: the Gift that Keeps on Giving | GlobalWarming.org
August 17, 2010 - 4:41 pm
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Former Vice President Al Gore is the gift that keeps on giving to opponents of global warming alarmism and energy rationing policies. He leads what I think of.
Hogwarts Professor · Suzanne Collins: Writing “War Stories”?
August 17, 2010 - 4:40 pm
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Obviously, we’re not in a position at the moment for the eradication of war to seem like anything but a far-off dream. But at one time, the eradication of slave markets in the United States seemed very far off. …
China's War On Disposable Chopsticks
August 17, 2010 - 5:05 am
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China’s Ministry of Commerce, together with five other ministries, issued this warning in June: “Companies making disposable chopsticks will face local government restrictions aimed at decreasing the use of the throwaway utensil.
Beyond The Call Trailer
August 15, 2010 - 1:44 pm
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In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three middle-aged men – former soldiers and modern-day knights – travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors. Ed Artis, James Laws, Walt Ratterman inspire through deeds not words, in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, [...]