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Going Green?

Fifty years ago ninety percent of our food was grown or produced locally. Today ten percent of what you find at most big grocery stores is locally grown or produced and the rest comes from great distances.

Western lifestyle unsustainable, says climate expert Rajendra Pachauri

Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the Observer.

The Climategate Affair

Letter to Editor from MP Scott Reid

On November 23, Lanark Village residents were sent a letter from the Regional Medical Officer of Health, informing them that they should either boil their water before using it, or else install a water treatment system in their wells.

Harper Urged to Raise Human Rights on China Visit

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcement of his China trip came within days of the release of a book by two prominent Canadian human rights defenders that concludes that over 40,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China have been killed so their organs could be harvested and sold.

Stolen Promises

-Ralph W. Eckard The purpose of this article is to address what has become a much debated and argued issued regarding land that was gifted and deeded to our nations veterans. It is intended that this will be the first of a number of articles addressing this matter. Articles will continue until such time that our elected officials and individuals employed by the Depart of Veterans Affairs to protect the interest of our nations veterans do their duty and at honorably.

Penn State scientist in hot seat over global warming e-mails

A Penn State University science professor is at the center of the firestorm over an anonymous hacker's release of more than 1,000 once-private e-mails sent by global warming scientists.

Blind sled dog to retire after 4 years

CHURCHILL, Manitoba, (UPI) -- A blind Canadian sled dog who continued pulling for four years in northern Manitoba is retiring to move closer to her doctor, her owners said.

Madeleine McCann detective who ‘fleeced £300,000 in public donations’ arrested in hotel

A private detective suspected of stealing £300,000 from the Madeleine McCann search fund has been arrested. Kevin Halligen, a self-styled security consultant, is alleged to have been paid £300,000 from the fund to help find the three-year-old.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fort Hood: Death by Political Corectness

Soon after the mass murder of September 11, 2001, Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain emerged as early advocates for the invasion of Iraq. In response to that provocation, both men routinely cited "intelligence" that has since been proven false, flawed or "fixed" around an agenda sought by Jewish nationalists in pursuit of an expansive Greater Israel.

Even Monbiot says the science now needs “reanalyising”

Climate Fear Promoter George Monbiot Concedes Devastating Impact of UN's ClimateGate: 'I'm dismayed and deeply shaken' -- 'It's no use pretending that this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging' – November 24, 2009

The Hockey Stick was never accurate—and CRU knew it

The infamous "hockey stick" temperature graph purporting to show a runaway acceleration in global temperatures beginning in 1850 was never accurate--and the Climatic Research Unit knew it wasn't accurate when they published it.

Dems already gloating!

Begin forwarded message: From: "Sen. Bob Menendez" info@dscc.org Date: November 21, 2009 10:35:15 PM GMT-05:00 To: judi@canadafreepress.com Subject: Tonight's vote Reply-To: info@dscc.org

Canada: The Killer H1N1 Vaccine – Michel Chossudovsky

A new development in the H1N1 Vaccine Saga is unfolding in Canada. Whereas health officials are pushing for an acceleration of the vaccination program, there is evidence of so-called “unusual adverse reactions” including three recently recorded deaths directly resulting from the vaccine.

Re “Duncan her doughnut.” (letter, Nov. 19):

The mobsters who used to Run the numbers game, control the liquor business and shakedown the buyers and the sellers of restaurant meals got tired of being hounded by the police and decided to redirect their talents.

County conducts first ceremony in new program to honor homeless veterans

- Maritza Velazquez, Staff Writer When they died, they may not have had a home. But at their funeral, they did have a family.

U.N. Cover-Up on Iran?

By Joseph Klein Israel’s United Nations ambassador, Gabriela Shalev, accurately described the Islamic Republic of Iran, in her remarks at Yeshiva University last week, as a “convergence of terrible elements,” including aggressive nuclear ambitions, sponsorship of terrorism, and Holocaust denial.

Galileo silenced again

Willie Soon and David R. Legates Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with religious orthodoxy risked being burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a fiery end. In 1633, the astronomer Galileo Galilei may have come within a singed whisker of the same fate, for insisting that the sun (and not the Earth) was at the center of the solar system. In the end, he agreed to recant his “heresy” (at least publicly) and submit to living under house arrest until the end of his days.

A bubbling ball of gas

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all.