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[MoJo Articles] The result: The day of action on October 24 will be the most widespread day of environmental activism ever, and quite possibly the most farflung day of action about any political issue the planet has ever seen. We're closing in on 170 countries.

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[Mutinyrural] MAHA ASHTAMI Celebrated with CHHATRADHAR Mahato Arrested ...: It was presented with particular directness more than a hundred years before Queen Victoria's complaint about "woman's rights" by the Revd James Fordyce in his Sermons to Young Women (1766), a book which, as Mary Wollstonecraft noted in her A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), had been "long made a part of woman's library." Fordyce warned the young women, to whom his sermons were addressed, against "those masculine women that would plead for your sharing any part of their province with us," identifying the province of men as including not only "war," but also "commerce, politics, exercises of strength and dexterity, abstract philosophy and all the abstruser sciences."1 Even though such clear-cut beliefs about the provinces of men and women are now rather rare, nevertheless the presence of extensive gender asymmetry can be seen in many areas of education, training and professional work even in Europe and North America.

[MoJo Blogs and Articles] 12000 Climate Activists Can't Be Wrong | Mother Jones: Look at the websites of The National Academy Of Sciences, The National Science Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The US Department of Energy (DOE), The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), The Carnegie Institution for Science, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, Science magazine, National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution. This is but a tiny fraction of the hundreds of national and international organizations representing tens of thousands of scientists worldwide who understand and support the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

[Blog About Hydraulic Truck Cranes For Sale] Blog About Hydraulic Truck Cranes For Sale » Ross Industrial Lift ...: This week, while astronauts orbited high above Earth installing new science equipment in the laboratories of the International Space Station, a team of terranauts descended into the Earth on their own mission of discovery. "We were not in outer space, but inner space," says explorer George Kouroun .

[MoJo Articles] The Department of Homegrown Security | Mother Jones: In that context, it's worth remembering that after 9/11 came Hurricane Katrina, epic droughts and wildfires, Biblical-level floods, and then, of course, economic meltdown. Despite widespread fears here, the likelihood that most of us will experience a terrorist attack is slim indeed;

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 4, 2009: 3) The most recent data point shows the level of the S&P/Case-Shiller index down by 40 pct in relative terms to the trend in outstanding household mortgage debt, with which it moved in perfect synchronization up until 2006. I.e., if the value of housing in 2006 had represented 100% of outstanding mortgage debt, it only represents maybe 60% of it at the present.

[Breaking News] US seeks to improve communication among African militaries for ...: NEW DELHI - Disturbed by rising cases of "aberrant behaviour" among its personnel on UN peacekeeping missions abroad, the Indian Army has given specific instructions to its contingent headed for Congo to maintain "personal conduct and discipline" when it moves to the war-ravaged African country June 22. "Orientation was held for troops slated to be posted in Congo and special instructions have been given to them to maintain personal discipline and conduct during their one-year tenure there," a senior army official told IANS, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

TomDispatch: Its current mission in Afghanistan, the alliance's most significant and far-flung muscle-flexing to date, might be its last. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of many an imperial power from the ancient Macedonians to the Soviets.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” Fears of APEC-style Clash in 2010: In a Q&A session with reporters several weeks ago, RCMP assistant commissioner Bud Mercer said the ISU has boosted its community relations team from three to five people over the last year and planned to double the numbers over coming months.

[SWJ Blog] 6 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): and US forces in Afghanistan completes his assessment of the situation there, a separate process would follow, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today. The Afghanistan review and reports about Russian submarines patrolling off the East Coast of the United States were among topics Morrell discussed at a news conference.

[पलाश कथा ग्लोबल प्रतिरोध] MAMATA Calls Maoists for Talk!Maoist revelation may put UPA in ...: The theoretical difference usually espoused by people in Kolkata fades when one reaches the far-flung forest hamlets. Former land reforms commissioner Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, now with Trinamool, has once justified counter-violence .

[AlterNet.org] Our Worst Enemies Aren't Terrorists: Rethinking National Security ...: Too bad so many of the old "bring Western Civilization down" gang are interferring in the positive efforts for recovery and survive from what will clearly be the next New Dark Age..brought on by the ignorant who believe that our distruction will bring in a better age for them.

[BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight] BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | "Ethical Man my a***": It was bad enough when they were simply urging the government or somebody or other to act, like some latter day King Canute, to “stop”, “tackle” or “combat” Climate Change. More recently though, we’ve been fed regular slots featuring some imbecile called “ethical man” and his crackpot wife, but Tuesday night really plumbed the depths.

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