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Copenhagen climate conference: Who will dare mention population growth? Inconvenient facts are being ignored in all the hot air at Copenhagen, says Charlie Brooks By Charlie Brooks Published: 6:16PM GMT 10 Dec 2009 Population is the core cause of climate change Photo: Getty Right, that's it. Next year, I'm going to reduce my alcohol intake by 40 per cent. I'm going to stop driving to the gym, and using the lift during the day....

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom, where the lawyers and clients up front outnumbered the observers seated in the back, where a forgotten Jewish Egyptian victim challenged an omnipresent multibillion-dollar multinational corporation; in a case where history itself was both on trial and being made, the Coca-Cola Company was publicly accused of being criminally enriched following the Nasser regime's Nazi-style expropriation of Jewish...

Jimmy Carter getting the facts wrong is nothing new, but you'd think the vaunted New York Times Op-Ed page would know better. He writes today about the Goldstone report into last year's Gaza war, which recommends war crimes investigations for Israel and Hamas. First off, he gets the "out" Goldstone has suggested to Israel and Hamas -- investigate yourself -- half backwards: He has called on the United States,...

Link A beautiful young woman takes the stage of a televised talent competition. In the U.S. or Britain, she would likely break into song or dance or a combination of both. But this is "Ukraine's Got Talent," and this performing artist doesn't utter a sound. Rather, Kseniya Simonova begins to weave a magical story with nothing but dark sand, background music, and her talented fingertips. Live on stage, the sand...

RAMBAM WOULD TURN OVER IN HIS GRAVE.

great post. Quote: Hasan made some anti-Semitic comments about Jews as a nation being “cursed by God” in Islam. so not only didnt he like americans, he didnt like jews to well. Dickless would love this guy .

Carter is a devout man of faith and a practicing bozo. In his case, practice made perfect.

Oil investments have always taken the fascination of the investor community. People invest in oil and gas sector as it offers a great deal of return over investments. The ROI from the oil sector is calculated to be more than 650%. As soon as an oil well is hit, it starts producing benefits, way above the cost of initial investment. Oil and energy investment can be done in two ways. First is in the form of exploration. This is a bit of a risky...

Thanks for posting this remarkable speech. It's good to know that at least some Brits are not raging antisemites.