Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:02 PM PST
Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Tied to Tinier Babies
U.S. News & World Report - Feb 6, 2013
WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women exposed to particulate air
pollution -- commonly known as smog -- have a significantly greater risk
of having a baby with a low birth weight, according to a large new
international study.
Pollution has shrunk Indian newbornsTimes of
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST
Climate Action Programme
Poll: Americans back climate change regulation, not taxes
EurekAlert (press release) - 3 hours ago
DURHAM, N.C. -- Now that President Obama has put climate change
back on the table in his second inaugural address, a new national poll
finds growing public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and
requiring utilities to switch to
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:53 AM PST
NPR
Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time
NBCNews.com - 1 hour ago
Millions
of Americans brace for a massive storm that threatens to pummel the
Northeast and dump more than 2 feet of snow on parts of New England.
Winter Storm Warning Issued for FridaySalamanca Press (blog)
Northeast Braces For Powerful Winter Storm,
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST
Climate change threatens food security
ABC Online - 5 hours ago
SARAH CLARKE: With climate scientists warning of a long term global
warming trend, the forecast across the Asia Pacific region is one of
greater variability.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:23 AM PST
Environmental Leader
Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the
21st ...
Mongabay.com - Feb 6, 2013
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge
of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"Future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:07 AM PST
Columbus Dispatch
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 9 hours ago
In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
OSU process gets 'clean coal' energyColumbus Dispatch
New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale ...Science Daily (
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:44 AM PST
Areva Studies Asia Offshore Wind Projects as Turbines Get Bigger
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
Areva, Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Siemens AG aim to expand in Asia as China plans 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2015.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:19 AM PST
Solar farm eyed for closed landfill
The Daily News of Newburyport - 5 hours ago
Mayor
Thatcher Kezer and city councilors this week confirmed there is
interest in using the former landfill at the intersection of Route 150
and South Hunt Road for solar power, which could bring a considerable amount of revenue into Amesbury. But ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:17 AM PST
Nanoantenna Solar Cell Efficiency Can Blow Silicon Out Of The Water
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Today, conventional silicon solar cells are 10% to 20% efficient (this
means that they generate 100 watts to 200 watts per square metre of
cells, respectively).
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:40 AM PST
Changing the Conversation on Climate Change. Bloomberg
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:35 AM PST
Farm Futures
Legislators' Climate Change Panel Catches Ag Industry's Attention
Farm Futures - 6 hours ago
Though
it's a controversial topic, U.S. Rep Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and U.S.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., stand firmly behind climate change as a
risk to the country - and now National Farmers Union President Roger
Johnson announced his ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST
Media Let Climate Change Off The Hook In Fishing Debate
Media Matters for America (blog) - 17 hours ago
As
government scientists and policymakers attempt to safeguard
disappearing populations of Atlantic Cod off of the New England coast
with stricter catch limits, state and national media continue to ignore
the role of anthropogenic climate change in ...
Climate change
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:32 AM PST
Straits Times
Amazon forest more resilient to climate change than feared - study
Reuters - 18 hours ago
The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels
blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects
of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.
Climate science: Global warming and tropical
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:31 AM PST
MiamiHerald.com
Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
MiamiHerald.com - 14 hours ago
...
Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
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- US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant. Yahoo
- Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas. Duluth News Tribune
- US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour. Sydney Morning Herald
- NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit. Clean Energy News
- A Manmade Island to Store Wind Energy. MIT Technology Review
- Wind Power Breaks Records In Spain — Produces More Electricity Than Any ... CleanTechnica
- Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make ...Motherboard (blog)
- Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level Kevin Bullis MIT Technology Review
- How Climate Change Impacts America's Energy Infrastructure. World Resources Institute
- IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ... ThinkProgress
- New England climate change results 'dramatic'. Eagle-Tribune
- Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor. Telegraph.co.uk
- Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture. USA TODAY
Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:12 AM PST
PennEnergy (press release)
US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant
Yahoo! News (blog) - 19 hours ago
The
U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an
agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the
country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage technology -- and dramatically
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:09 AM PST
Finance and Commerce
Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas
Duluth News Tribune - Jan 30, 2013
Minnesota Power announced Wednesday it will convert its coal-fired power
plant in Hoyt Lakes to natural gas and close one of three coal units at
its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore as the utility continues a
move away from carbon dioxode ...
Minnesota
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:08 AM PST
San Francisco Chronicle
US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour
Sydney Morning Herald - 19 hours ago
In
its second-annual accounting of greenhouse gases, the US Environmental
Protection Agency today released details of emissions from about 8,000
factories, power plants and refineries. Two Southern Co. coal-fired power facilities topped the list ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:07 AM PST
Clean Energy News (blog)
NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit
Clean Energy News (blog) - 2 hours ago
Coal Blooded systematically studies 378 coal-fired power plants
nationwide and evaluates each plant in terms of its environmental
justice performance - how the plant affects low-income communities and
communities of color. This same type of analysis is ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:24 AM PST
MIT Technology Review
A Manmade Island to Store Wind Energy
MIT Technology Review - 20 hours ago
When the wind
farm produces excess energy for the local electricity grid, such as
off-peak times in the overnight hours, the island will store the energy
and release it later during peak times.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:23 AM PST
Wind Power Breaks Records In Spain — Produces More Electricity Than Any
...
CleanTechnica - 4 hours ago
Denmark, the US, and Germany aren't the only countries breaking wind
power records these days. Spain is also a notable leader seeing strong
wind power growth. In fact, it just saw its wind farms produce more
electricity than any other source for a 3 ...
Spanish Wind Farms'
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:21 AM PST
Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make ...Motherboard (blog)
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:20 AM PST
KOKH FOX25
Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 8 hours ago
The technology is part of a trend that's made wind power almost as cheap
as fossil fuels. In 1991, wind power cost 15 cents per kilowatt hour.
Wind War in OklahomaKOKH FOX25
Wind-farm efficiency examined at UWWyoming Business Report
See realtime
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:16 AM PST
World Resources Institute
How Climate Change Impacts America's Energy Infrastructure
World Resources Institute - 15 hours ago
As we've seen recently with Hurricane Sandy, epic drought, and
wildfires, climate change visibly impacts lives and livelihoods
throughout the United States.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:11 AM PST
ThinkProgress
IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ...
ThinkProgress - 13 hours ago
At
the World Economic Forum in Davos, she said, “the real wild card in the
pack” of economic pivot points is “Increasing vulnerability from
resource scarcity and climate change, with the potential for major social and economic disruption.”
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:09 AM PST
MPBN News
New England climate change results 'dramatic'
Eagle-Tribune - 7 hours ago
“No doubt we've seen some very important changes to the ecological
system from climate change,” said Rick Wahle, a research associate
professor from the University of Maine.
Report: Climate change affects region's wildlifeSan Francisco Chronicle
Report: Climate Change Causing Rapid
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:08 AM PST
Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor
Telegraph.co.uk - 59 minutes ago
Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, said Government and local authorities are failing to
grasp the risks to Britain for global warming.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:06 AM PST
Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture
USA TODAY - 15 hours ago
A
comprehensive USDA study concludes rising temperatures could cost
farmers millions as they battle new pests, faster weed growth and get
smaller yields as climate change continues. farming. The country was battered by the worst drought to hit in more ...
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Federal Prison Population Spiked 790 Percent Since 1980. ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress | - 9 hours ago |
The U.S. federal prison population
has increased almost 790 percent since 1980 from about 25,000 inmates
to 219,000 in 2012, according to a new Congressional Research report.
02.07.13 Cancer Update
Pet scan from base of brain to lower thighs completed on the 5th.
Brain scan the 13th.
Meeting with oncologist 18th.
Met with Dr. that did the colonoscopy today. Asked him, 'what stage is my cancer?' We don't know yet. It depends on what the PET scan showed about that spot on your liver. If that is spot is cancer, uh, not so good - stage IV - it has spread. If that spot is NOT cancer, then maybe not so bad. Depends on what else the PET scan shows.
Given the current issues, Pr. Obama likely to make global warming center to his SOTU, Organizing for Action... I'd be of more use to our kids if this less than stage IV. However, not business - Creator's business. I'm fine with whatever She He It decides [but my preference is as long as I can be given.]
If it is Stage IV, might not be worth the resources for the chemo - too little upside. I'll inquire on the 18th, and reevaluate then.
Brain scan the 13th.
Meeting with oncologist 18th.
Met with Dr. that did the colonoscopy today. Asked him, 'what stage is my cancer?' We don't know yet. It depends on what the PET scan showed about that spot on your liver. If that is spot is cancer, uh, not so good - stage IV - it has spread. If that spot is NOT cancer, then maybe not so bad. Depends on what else the PET scan shows.
Given the current issues, Pr. Obama likely to make global warming center to his SOTU, Organizing for Action... I'd be of more use to our kids if this less than stage IV. However, not business - Creator's business. I'm fine with whatever She He It decides [but my preference is as long as I can be given.]
If it is Stage IV, might not be worth the resources for the chemo - too little upside. I'll inquire on the 18th, and reevaluate then.
nd 'Hypocrites: Actors. NOT the real deal. Ex: Catholic Bishops; Boy Scout Admin.' Loving
nd 'Hypocrites: Actors. NOT the real deal. Ex: Catholic Bishops; Boy Scout Admin.' Loving
Pedophile Club says Pr. Obama's Offer falls short (like their Decency). Reuters
Reuters | - 45 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON
| Thu Feb 7, 2013 2:58pm EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Roman
Catholic leaders on Thursday said the Obama administration did not go
far enough toward their issues in the offer of compromise offered last
week over health care ...
Finkelstein slams Harper, predicts resolution to Israel-Palestine conflict
Finkelstein slams Harper, predicts resolution to Israel-Palestine conflict
Varsity-Jan 30, 2013
Controversial author, scholar and activist Dr. Norman Finkelstein visited the ... In his speech, Finkelstein was sharply critical of the Conservative ...
Netanyahu Exercises Israel's Right to Build Despite Bias Criticism Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post (blog) | - 2 hours ago |
Do
those who continually attempt to bully and threaten Israel ever rest?
Israel is moving forward with plans to build approximately 1500 housing
units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank--all the while the European
Union is condemning the construction ...
Can Fox News restore its credibility? The Week Mag.
The Week Magazine | - 50 minutes ago |
Climate-change denial? Opposition to gay marriage? "Self-deportation"? Railing against food stamps? Supply-side economics? …Moderate Republicanism is a secret creed - a set of beliefs that is expressed anonymously, but lacks any public standing to ...
***** Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the 21st ... Mongabay.com
Mongabay.com | - Feb 6, 2013 |
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Over 90 percent of Americans support gun background checks: poll. Reuters
Reuters | - 1 hour ago |
Thu
Feb 7, 2013 8:35am EST. (Reuters) - More than 90 percent of U.S. voters
supported background checks for all gun buyers, while much smaller
majorities were for stricter gun control laws such as bans on assault
weapons and high-capacity magazines, ...
Immigration poll: 72 percent back citizenship path Politico
Politico | - 7 hours ago |
President Barack Obama is enjoying a career-high approval rating of his handling of the immigration issue, according to a Wednesday poll.
2.06.2013
nd 'It is a duty to NOT Dignify a malevolent, or brainless question with a response.' Loving
nd 'It is a duty to NOT Dignify a malevolent, or brainless question with a response.' Loving
Sally Jewell is environmentalist, business exec. USA TODAY
USA TODAY | - 13 minutes ago |
President
Obama set to tap CEO of outdoor gear and clothing retailer as Interior
Secretary nominee. sallyjewell. Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) CEO
Sally Jewell at the outdoor gear retailer's Seattle flagship store.
***** Memo to President Obama: Bypass Netanyahu - reach Israelis' hearts. Haaretz
Haaretz (blog) | - 1 hour ago |
A
large proportion of Israelis are more similar to the liberal Jews who
informed Obama's formative years than to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Altert Schweitzer: "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing."
Altert Schweitzer: "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing."
nd William Lloyd Garrison: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt."
nd William Lloyd Garrison: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt."
nd 'Selfish - Of the Self; NOT of the Other(s).' Loving
nd 'Selfish - Of the Self; NOT of the Other(s).' Loving
nd 'Fleshly spirit 'knows,' I am ME! Loving Spirit Knows, I am a Joyfully Dutiful Cell, of the Body of ALL of Creation.' Loving
nd 'Fleshly spirit 'knows,' I am ME! Loving Spirit Knows, I am a Joyfully Dutiful Cell, of the Body of ALL of Creation.' Loving
2.05.2013
We find something 'believable' in inverse proportion to what believing it would cost us. Anonymous
We (our Fleshly Spirit) find something 'believable' in inverse proportion to what believing it would cost us. Anonymous
2.04.2013
nd "God desires good for all. If you wish for goodness for all as well, then God lives in you." Leo Tolstoy
nd "God desires good for all. If you wish for goodness for all as well, then God lives in you." Leo Tolstoy
Israel arrests Hamas activists, lawmakers in West Bank. Haaretz
Haaretz | - 11 hours ago |
Ramallah
based human rights group says Israeli arrest campaign intends to
undermine Palestinian reconciliation efforts between Hamas and President
Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party.
Malala: 'I want every girl, every child, to be educated' Daily Beast
Daily Beast | - 6 hours ago |
"Today
you can see that I'm alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see
everyone and today I can speak and I'm getting better day by day.
Obamas climate team appears primed for action. Politico
Politico | - 3 hours ago |
By DARREN GOODE | 2/3/13 11:02 PM EST Updated: 2/4/13 10:33 AM EST. Who will help President Barack Obama meet his ambitious promises to tackle climate change?
2.03.2013
***** nd 'Hypocrite - 'One acting a part, cultural role (r, c, lft).' From the Greek. 99.999999% of us all. 'True Being,' is the alternative.' Loving informed by Tolstoy.
***** nd 'Hypocrite - 'One acting a part, cultural role (r, c, lft).' From the Greek. 99.999999% of us all. 'True Being,' is the alternative.' Loving informed by Tolstoy.
'The Scribe, the Pharisee, the Priest... asked themselves, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me. The Good Samaritan asked himself a different question, 'If I do NOT stop to help this man, what will happen to Him.' MLK Jr. (MORE)
TOTALLY UNREASONABLE what the Good Samaritan did on that dangerous road, but presumably, it was the stuff of Life, to the wounded man on the side of the road. THE WAY YOU SWOOPED IN LIKE A BANSHEE, WHEN YOUR DEAREST FRIEND WAS IN DIRE NEED, WAS UNREASONABLE, by all measures. NO ONE ELSE LIFTED
A FINGER. But your unreasonableness Saved them; possibly
their very life. SHOULD YOU HAVE DONE WHAT YOU DID!!?!?! Well, who
knows. But you DID, and it was Life Giving, Saving, to them, of all that they are, and all that they could be.
That's a fact.
"We are not dying from lack of Love. We are dying from the presence of Tribal Love(love that has limits - one level foer Immediate Family, the few that are DEAREST to us, and a different level for others, no matter how kind it may seem). Ashley Montagu quote.
"We are not dying from lack of Love. We are dying from the presence of Tribal Love (love that has limits - one level foer Immediate Family, the few that are DEAREST to us, and a
different level for others, no matter how kind it may seem). Ashley Montagu quote.
"Ecocide's not unleashing because of the Good we do; but the Good we don't do - the completely unreasonable, personally massively disruptive, costly steps we don't do." Loving (MORE)
"Ecocide's not unleashing because of the Good we do; but the Good we don't do - the completely unreasonable, personally massively disruptive, costly steps we don't do." Loving
"We are not unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we don't Love. We are unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we Conditionally Love, we 'Reasonably' Love, we Love except when it is massively, massively, massively... Inconvenient!" Loving. And that will be the epitaph on Earth unless and until an immediate, raging, Painful, Fire of Unreasonable, Unconditional, Massively Inconvenient Loving is unleashed. Now. To This, BEING IT first myself, my every breath is, and will remain devoted. That is for certain. And that at times the few making the mistake of traveling near me will feel Joy, Meaning, Goodness by our interchange, is fairly sure; and that they will feel Searing Pain, Agony, such as you are now feeling, me being the catalyst, also will be certain.
"We are not unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we don't Love. We are unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we Conditionally Love, we 'Reasonably' Love, we Love except when it is massively, massively, massively... Inconvenient!" Loving. And that will be the epitaph on Earth unless and until an immediate, raging, Painful, Fire of Unreasonable, Unconditional, Massively Inconvenient Loving is unleashed. Now. To This, BEING IT first myself, my every breath is, and will remain devoted. That is for certain. And that at times the few making the mistake of traveling near me will feel Joy, Meaning, Goodness by our interchange, is fairly sure; and that they will feel Searing Pain, Agony, such as you are now feeling, me being the catalyst, also will be certain.
'We are wise to tightly bound our Hearts, as unleashing them would Destroy our life; tho in saving our 'normal' life, we Destroy our True Life - Loving. (MORE).' Loving
'We are wise to tightly bound our Hearts, as unleashing them would Destroy our life; tho in saving our 'normal' life, we Destroy our True Life - Loving. (MORE).' Loving
From a note to a Good Friend:
From a note to a Good Friend:
* "We are smart to keep sensible limits on our Hearts, because if we
didn't, our lives would be destroyed! But what we don't face in that
is that in keeping sensible limits on our Hearts our Lives (capital L),
our Spirit of Loving, IS DESTROYED, or at best Crippled, and near
all
of us, down very, very, very deep... know that our Spirit of Loving
IS, =, IS our Life! "He who would hold onto his life, will lose it; he
who would lose their life for the neediest, gains their Life." Now, that
Jesus said it proves nothing, anymore than Einstein saying something
proves anything. But they are usually correct, in both cases.
nd 'Christ-likeness, Loving: One of the Two Modes of Life you can select - Selfishness, Lusting, Satan-likeness being the other.' Loving
nd 'Christ-likeness, Loving: One of the Two Modes of Life you can select - Selfishness, Lusting, Satan-likeness being the other.' Loving
nd 'The "Daily Bread:" An every waking moment ration of Helping our Global Neediest Family.' Loving on Jesus Gospel
nd 'The "Daily Bread:" An every waking moment ration of Helping our Global Neediest Family.' Loving on Jesus Gospel
nd 'Christ-like, Christ-ian: Fully Human, Healthy. That's all.' Loving
nd 'Christ-like, Christ-ian: Fully Human, Healthy. That's all.' Loving
Israel's settlement building must stop, says UN. Sydney Morning Herald
CBS News | - Jan 29, 2013 |
GENEVA
Israel became the first nation to skip a U.N. review of its human
rights record without giving a reason - and then won a precedent-setting
deferral Tuesday.
nd Joe Biden on Friendship, "If you have to ask (what someone needs) it is already too late.' according to John Kerry
nd Joe Biden on Friendship, "If you have to ask (what someone needs) it is already too late.' according to John Kerry
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