The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do […]

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(London, UK) Autism campaigners have urged Britain’s Social Care Minister, Ivan Lewis to launch a debate on Autism and the Elderly. Concerns have been raised over the social care of people with autism and Asperger’s syndrome.
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown speaking at the King’s Fund in London said yesterday that England was facing a […]

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That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh…
I noted that two weeks ago…
And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys.
But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that […]

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What’s wrong with everybody in Berlin these days? First tons of folks on the right side of the political spectrum fail to show up on election day and effectively sell Tempelhof down the river - and nobody even has the decency to jammern (moan) or meckern (gripe) about it later – and now the folks […]

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According to the Lancet, (an esteemed British medical journal) the high blood pressure vaccine has just gone through stage II of it’s testing, and so far so good.
There were some sore arms and “flu like” symptoms after the shot, and a few people had problems that were listed as “adverse reactions” but probably were not […]

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(London, UK) The CNN news channel recently dedicated several days to mark the first ever World Autism Awareness Day, declared by the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the recommendation of the State of Qatar.
WAAD had the full support of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who hailed the courage of children and families […]

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Tired of continually being asked “Where was the wall?” by all of those countless tourists who come to visit the city every year, a Berlin company called Mauerguide has “like had it totally up to here” or something and will start handing out hand-sized minicomputers next week which will show these annoying Quälgeister (nuisances) just […]

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(London, UK) The UK based Autism Awareness Campaign has urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling to reach out to the vulnerable and help families with autism during what is now a time of crisis. According to campaigners, the credit crunch will hurt the poor, the most vulnerable sections […]

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It’s bad enough for a straight-A wind energy Musterschuler (model student) like Germany to suddenly fall back to fifth place in class (at least when it comes to the number of turbines installed last year, that is), but to be passed up in the process by the Mother of all Umweltsünder (environmental sinners), the United […]

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The sound of bagpipes has stirred the hearts of millions, with it’s mournful dirge that tells of sorrows, glories, and the love of freedom.
But in these days of political correctness, the silencing of the pipes may become the latest casualty of the nanny state and of a large clueless European Union bureaucracy that dictates with […]

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Think the old Pink Floyd “we don’t need no education” line only replace it with democracy and that’s what you’ve got here in Germany, folks. If you trust these latest survey results, that is (which I don’t, nicht wirklich). Hey, that was from The Wall, wasn’t it? How ironic.

Anyway, according to the Leipzig Institute for […]

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Some 1,500 Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - a similar demonstration also occurred at the cable news outfit’s Atlanta headquarters – demanding that commentator Jack Cafferty be fired over these comments he made on “The Situation Room” April 9th:
“We continue to import their junk with the lead paint […]

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Everybody has doubts now and again about decisions they have made. Even politicians do, although they are always the very last to admit it. It’s understandable, it could mean your job after all.

And although Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit may haughtily dismiss Chancellor Merkel’s recent comments supporting keeping Berlin’s Tempelhof airport open as being a “transparent party […]

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Well, actually he already was, already. But Berliners just don’t want to leave him in peace or let him rest in such and it kind of goes a little like this: There’s this subway station in Berlin called Bundestag, which happens to be near the Bundestag, some here call it the Kanzler U-Bahn (the Chancellor’s […]

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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, […]

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Celebrities think they know it all (”no, I’m not a doctor, but I played one on TV”) . So actor Tim Robbins told broadcasters that they need to only report the truth:
And “just when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is,” he added, “along comes […]

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Germans can be einfach kompliziert (simply complicated) sometimes. And they don’t even seem to notice or mind all that much when they are being that way, too; which is kind of what makes all of this so complicated, which is simple enough, when you get down to it, really.

Take Oskar Lafontaine of the Left party, for […]

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Citizen involvement in political affairs is slowly dying.  Even with internet activism on the rise, mainly because it’s easier than actually going out and doing something, people are becoming more disjointed from the political process in their countries.  This leaves activism as a form which is found more towards the fringes of any given political […]

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In yet another futile attempt to overcome the decades of pacifism they and their fellow Germans have been forced to endure after that unfortunate World War II thing (and those rather unpleasant Nazi atrocities many still associate with it), a renegade and somewhat drunken German special forces unit has taken the initiative and attacked Great […]

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Damn. First it was my guitar wants to kill your mama and now it’s my mama wants to kill your guitar.

Frank Zappa’s widow Gail is suing the organisers of the German open-air Zappanale, now in its nineteenth year, claiming that the organizers must cough up $400,000 for the right to use her husband’s name and […]

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On April 12, 1961, one of mankind’s greatest achievements occurred.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, carried there on a Vostok rocket.
In those days, it was an embarrassment for the United states, and led to Kennedy’s aim for the US to be first on the moon. The ultimate result of […]

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Which will mean about eight again. You try and ignore this stuff for as long as you can, but when a German court rules that a woman who killed eight (maybe nine) of her newborn babies and buried them in flower pots in the garden of her parents’ home got sentenced to sage und schreibe […]

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Or is less gas more? The Germans call biofuel Biosprit but whether you call it that or bioethanol or biobutanol or biodiesel or whatever else kind of bio something you want to call this new poo poo power stuff, well, it’s all a bunch of gas in the end. Or at least it is whenever […]

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(London, UK) A film highlighting the call on autism by the Baroness Uddin of the House of Lords in the UK Parliament, was released in London on 2nd April. The film was released on the You Tube Channel, by Media Eye Productions, to mark the first global autism day.
World Autism Awareness Day was declared on […]

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Two years ago, Atlantic City, NJ lost its only Supermarket. IGA closed its doors in April 2006 forcing residents and tourists to shop at small markets or outside of the ocean resort.
Since the closing, attempts have been made to convince others to replace IGA, but no new supermarket has yet to open.
In late December […]

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The European Union’s carbon dioxide emissions during 2007 rose around 1.1% compared to the year before. Emissions by over 10,000 European companies who are mandated to offset pollution once they exceed industry limits, reached around 1.914 billion metric tons. Data released Wednesday suggests that 93% of the heavy industry companies had submitted their pollution numbers.
The […]

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European carbon traders are eagerly awaiting benchmark numbers on European greenhouse gas emissions during 2007. European countries ought to have submitted the data in a central system yesterday but many failed to meet the deadline.

That is why the Brussels authorities in charge of the central system have not yet released the information on the Community […]

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(Westminster, UK) In a few days time the world will be marking the first ever global day for autism. This event has huge historical implications - it is also an opportunity on an international scale for world leaders to take action on autism. The World Autism Awareness Day was declared by the United Nations General […]

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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]

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Wednesday 2nd April 2008 has been declared World Autism Awareness Day by the United Nations General Assembly on the recommendation of the State of Qatar. This global initiative is supported by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. This is the first ever World Autism Day and events are taking place all over the […]

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