bnox (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 1970, my birth year "the Nobel prize for Literature that year went to [Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . The Nobel Peace prize went to [American agronomist, humanitarian] Norman E. Borlaug . The Nobel prize for physics went to [plasma physicist] Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén from Sweden for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics...
FoundationforPluralism (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Obama'a confusion. I am a great fan of Rabbi Lerner and I can relate with him in this article, he looks at the situation as though he loves both sides and want them to understand each other and learn to co-exist. I would like to add my comments to this article; we cannot be safe unless others around us are, and we cannot have peace if those who surround us are not in peace, it is in our interests to...
SchansBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Excerpts from book reviews by Ronald Bailey in Reason on efforts by two of the key leaders in the environmental movement-- a proponent and an opponent of nuclear power. The proponent is Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto ; the opponent is Al Gore, author of Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis . Environmentalists fiercely disagree about the role nuclear...
PWW Daily Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is global warming a conspiracy concocted to destroy private property and freedom? According to a powerful lobby of ultra-conservatives, oil and coal corporations and a shadowy network of climate change deniers it is. And these voices alarmingly seem to be gaining credibility. What is going on? Ever since Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has put together about fifty Nobel Prize winners who have signed a full-page ad to appear in major newspapers that denounces Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wiesel has his head on straight. The prolific author has put together a petition denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signed by some 50 other Nobel prize winners, which will run as a
LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Chris Smith has nominated three Chinese human rights activists, including opponents of the forced abortion population control campaign in China, for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. President Barack Obama, an ardent abortion advocate, won the prize last year.
Micky's Muses (Free subscription) | yesterday
...with the sound of dissent. An anonymous comment a few days back led me to post about Norway, and its bizarre AGW fetish. A fetish that has led the Nobel peace prize committee to give its once respected award to the embarassed and untested President Obama; to honour the IPCC, whose reputation is being shredded every day, and even to award the disgraced and pitiful Al Gore, whose humiliation is
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gore, Carville, Bush guests at Panetta Institute Lecture Series - MontereyHerald.com : The lecture series finale is tentatively set for May 17 and will feature former Vice President Gore in a discussion about the environment with moderator Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. After serving as vice president and following his unsuccessful...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Michael Muskal That billboard in Mnnesota picturing former President George W. Bush asks the world: "Miss me yet?'' Well, now we have the world's answer: Not so much . President Barack Obama has had a tough first year dealing with domestic issues, but according to the latest polls, he has chalked up a success in how the rest of the world sees the United States. The U.S.-Global Leadership Project,...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore. But Dr. Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are now under intense...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since it was first created 40 years ago , the internet has had a huge impact on the world: it's helped connect millions of people around the globe, reshaped industries and changed the way many of us live and work. But should the internet win the Nobel Peace Prize? I've just noticed this report suggesting that the net is one of the contenders for next year's prize, along with some other gambles. Since...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
Yet another government office to fund, at the direction of the Obama administration. Taxpayer monies will now flow to a new office created to "educate people about the difference between the climate and the weather." Today's official announcement was delayed due a blizzard. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, will "unify"...
L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
The tiny club of female presidents in Latin America will grow by one with the election in Costa Rica of Laura Chinchilla. She won the presidency in a landslide victory Sunday and takes office May 8. The socially conservative, pro-business former vice president hails from the party of incumbent President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work in the 1980s to end Central America's wars....
Dlisted (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
We all need a break from the long-haired dead rat on Brad Pitt's chin, so here's a picture of Brangelina back in the olden days before they were Brangelina. And waaaay before the News of the World caused the ozone layer to melt by reporting two weeks ago that the super force known as Brangelina was dead. That story was picked up by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and every single one of your family members who...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
08Feb10 Invitation to Tribunal Dear all The Nobel Women’s Initiative is launched in 2006 by six women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Mench Tum, Wagari Maathai, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams. Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi is an honourary member of the organization. The Nobel Women’s Initiative and Women’s League of Burma are [...]
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parth | 01/22/2010
Famous Inspirational Quotes By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr | Martin Luther King Speeches Enjoy our collection of Martin Luther King quotes. A famous person Martin Luther King, Jr was born in 1929 and died in 1968. A man with a strong personality and determination. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was a civil rights leader, and a clergyman in the US. His life ended to early when an assassin's
eprnetwork | 12/22/2009
Is the current president truly the person to bring real change to America or is there another? Is all the animosity against him truly a derivative of racism or can some of it be a response to his performance? Can the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize truly bring peace to America? Is Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin the one who is being called to bring divine integrity into the White House?
oderah755a | 12/17/2009
Download Ladder 49 Full Lenght movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, PDA quality! >>> Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a Baltimore firefighter who was trapped in an inferno, in a blazing high rise. His life starts flashing before his eyes as he remembers fighting his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, falling in love with a beautiful local girl (Jacinda Barrett), getting married, and having...
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