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Former premiers Tobin and Williams tapped for leadership panel
2014-06-20 23:00:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Former Newfoundland and Labrador premiers Brian Tobin and Danny Williams are participating in a panel discussion at the Noia conference today in St. John's.
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More Kuwaiti MPs resign in protest over premier's corruption scandal
2014-05-05 09:02:56| IT Services - Topix.net
Five Kuwaiti MPs have now resigned as of Sunday over the parliament's refusal to question the premier on corruption allegations, according to Agence France Presse.
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mark Kitchells 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committees hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at Peoples Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part Youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all...
Showtime Premiers Star-Studded Climate Change Documentary
2014-03-28 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: I've been saying for a long time that to communicate science effectively, we need to connect with people. Scientists have a habit of just relaying facts to each other, since that's how nature itself works. But people don't work that way at all, and just reciting facts doesn't work. If we want to connect with people, especially over the sound and fury of the anti-science noise machine, we need to be passionate. We need to be emotional. And we need to tell the human story. That's exactly what...
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2 Former Premiers Try to Use Tokyo Election to Rally Public Against Nuclear Power
2014-02-08 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Waging an impassioned political campaign, two retired prime ministers, including one of Japans most popular political figures, have tried to turn a local election in Tokyo into what they call Japans first referendum on the future of nuclear power since the accident in Fukushima nearly three years ago. But as the vote on Sunday approaches, polls and political analysts say the two aging leaders have not yet been able to persuade enough voters to back their quixotic bid against nuclear power. Analysts...
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