india kerala boat people (Photo credit: FriskoDude)
English: Changuch (6322 m), Uttarakhand, India. Français : Changuch (6322 m), Uttarakhand, Inde. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Temples of Baijnath, Uttarakhand, India. Français : Temples de Baijnath, Uttarakhand, Inde. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Driving through a section of flash flooded road (not recommended!). I took this photo whilst driving (also not recommended!). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Top of the Morning: 4,000 Missing After Indian Floods
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Indian Floods: 4,000 Remain Missing, to be Declared Dead in One Week
Authorities have sharply revised upward the estimated number of people
still missing from flooding in northeastern India. “With more than 4,000
people still reported missing after flash floods hit Uttarakhand three
weeks ago, the state’s chief minister said that those who have not been
found by Jul
Drawing the Wrong Lessons from Egypt
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
The military coup that removed Egypt’s elected President Mohamed
Morsi from power last week marks a significant setback for Islamist
movements in the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood—to which Morsi
belonged—is the most prominent and important. But, the coup also returns
the Brotherhood to a position they are quite used to, that of the
unfairly marginalized voice of the si
University of Wisconsin Student Journalists Turn the Tables on Campus NSA Recruiters
BRAD BLOG commenter "Arias" recently asked...
[H]ave you seen this Guardian article yet that provides a recording of
University of Wisconsin students taking their campus NSA recruiters to
school?
I couldn't be more proud of how calmly and logically they destroyed
every argument the recruiters put forth.
No, we hadn't! But we have now. And it's great listening. Always enjoy
citizens smartly challen
State of the carbon market in 2013 is so sick the World Bank cancelled the report
State of the Carbon Market: Started in 2003, but wiped out in
2013 Each year for nearly a decade The World Bank has published “The
State and Trends of the Carbon Market” in May or June with great
fan-fare and press releases. It’s the definitive guide telling the world
how many dollars are turning over in the global markets (which really
means “the EU market plus a few other bits”). I’ve been quot
'Green News Report' - July 9, 2013
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Death and destruction in Canadian oil train
explosion; Record rain, floods paralyze Toronto; State Dept. doesn't
know the Keystone XL pipeline's route; GOP opposition to EPA nominee
softening?; PLUS: The Dutch solution to air pollution ... All that and
more in today's Green News Report!
Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)...
Case Closed: 'Dead People' STILL Not Voting in SC According to 18-Month Law Enforcement Probe
At the beginning of 2012, the Executive Director of the South
Carolina State Election Commission demolished the claim, put forward by
the state's Republican Attorney General, that some 953 votes in the
state had been cast in recent elections by "dead people".
They hadn't, of course, and the claim was little more than a transparent
ruse to try and "stuff the ballot boxes" in support of polling plac
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