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President of Worldwide Financial Resources charged $11m for fraud

David Findel, President of Worldwide Financial Resourses, had made a real estate crisis last October by bidding $400,000 for 50-yard-line season tickets to watch the Jets play in the new Meadowlands stadium. Findel...

President: "Earth has ‘right to life’"

Bolivian President promotes Earth’s ‘right to life’.  Mr. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivia's history, spoke whole-heartedly to the UN General Assembly to encourage people to put the...

Puerto Rico Exporting 2000 Monkeys to Baghdad

    What do you do with unwanted monkeys that are destroying your agriculture? Well if you're in Puerto Rico they have a one way ticket to Baghdad. Over thirty years ago a dozen patas and rhesus...

Water shortage could damage business 'more than oil scarcity'

A water shortage could hurt businesses more than the threat of oil running out, according to a new report released today. Companies that use a high volume of water to manufacture products, such as silicon chips, and...

How green is the 2009 Oscars show?

The Oscars has made an effort for the past two years to incorporate some green measures into their show and they have never been shy of displaying this information on their website - however this year that section...

Obama thanks troops after meeting with defense chiefs

WASHINGTON - In his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief, President Barack Obama today thanked U.S. troops and pledged to provide the resources they need to accomplish their missions. Obama spoke to...

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore ...

Another revealing report on the reason for Israel's attack on Gaza, besides the revelations that Israel has been testing a new form of lethal weapon, known as DIME, more toxic than depleted uranium warheads. That story is posted here, on NowPublic: Suffice it to say,...

Food police in the UK warn you not to throw leftovers away

Just as websites like coupon.com and coupon mom, help you plan your weekly shopping trip and get the most food for your budget in this time of economic recession, in the United Kingdom 'food police' will be visiting...

Russia, US in tug-of-war over Arctic resources

 .This area could become a focusof dispute between severalcountries during this century.As oil and natural gas suppliesare exhausted elsewhere it iscertain drilling will happenin the arctic. "The U.S....

From Coworking to Cohousing as a Sustainable Way of Life

Is Cohousing a way to reduce our wasteful ways and also to recover a sense of community? If the plan offered by Alex Marshall a journalist and senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association named Brooklyn Cohousing works it might enable some of us to make progress in that...

Gov Panel Says Give Delta 25% of Oil Revenue

This is a good example of classical economics approach to Resource Rent, (also referred to as land value tax or single tax) as opposed to the kind of exploitation we are currently witnessing, for example, currently in Iraq, and not long ago in Russia, where foreign...

Aspiring lunar entrepreneurs contract for help from NASA

Call this opinion an opinion piece.  The Futurists will not allow it to happen, although the X-prizes are still within bounds.      "San Francisco (AFP) Oct 30, 2008In a cosmic case of role reversal, aspiring lunar entrepreneurs based on the Isle of Man...

Eco credit crunch Earth, 2030 two planets needed to keep up life

Eco credit crunch 2030 The financial crisis should be a warning to us. If we continue to live on the Earth Ecological credit, we need 2030 the equivalent of 2 planet resources to keep up our lifestyle. The way out...

Natural Resources and Environment | University of Michigan

"Elizabeth Nysson, a second-year master's student at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment, has received a financial award from Safari Club International Michigan Involvement Committee (SCI MIC) for...

Harriet the Human covers for Super-Gordon

Over the past week the British media has taken to calling prime minister Gordon Brown 'Super Gordon,' a half-mocking reference to the world's perception that he saved the day over the weekend by coming up with the bank bailout plan that the rest of the world followed....

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