
http://www.euractiv.com/en/cap/world-set-new-food-crisis-2010-un-warns/article-187695 We need to treat food as life, not as a thing to profit from...

For Rupert's Readers, from the good people at Transition Norwich: EEDA has just published an important study – the first of its kind in the UK called East of England Transport and Carbon Study: Assessing transport's contribution to a low carbon economy in the East of Engl...

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Congrats, Oz! You are the brilliant allies of your own gravediggers... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pa cific/8389909.stm Nice timing too, right before Copenhagen... Clever! [...See Jared Diamond's crucial book, COLLAPSE, for why Australia will be one of the first countries to fold as manmade climate change star...ts to hit really hard - _unless_ we rein it in.]
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Two opposition senators crossed the floor but it was not enough to secure passage of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Crucial reading here from John Vidal: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/financial-negotiations-money-copenhagen-summitMoney matters, and is welcome.But there are severe problems, because of the market-fetishism of the world today; e.g...

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Have a read of this article: it is very clear from the quotes from Goldsmith's letter that he told Blair that attacking Iraq would be illegal - but that Blair ignored this advice and silenced Goldsmith.
We are gettting closer to being able to get Bliar done for war crimes...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/ nov/30/tony-blair-lord-goldsmith-iraq
Lord Goldsmith was not bullied into declaring Iraq invasion legal, says Tony Blair | Politics | guar
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Former prime minister denies claims that then attorney general had been pressured to change stance over legality of conflict

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UKIP: will the sleaze never stop?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/ nov/29/ukip-lord-pearson-insurance-inves tigation

Rupert Read Lord Whatever, new Leader of UKIP, has a voice like he's come straight from Harold MacMillan's Cabinet (or grouse-shoot). Makes Boris J. sound common as muck. Great! That's all we need - even more toffs in high places in Britain...

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http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/ema il/the-politics-of-climate-change-managi ng-climate-risk-according-to-lord-gidden s
This is a superb skewering of Giddens's silly book on climate change...
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There's a lot of material in Anthony Giddens "The Politics of Climate Change". (Polity Press, Cambridge) Rather than attempting to cover it all, comprehensively, I take up just a few key points.

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http://www.pledgebank.com/SNorwichGreenM P Want to eject Charles Clarke from Parliament? The man who gave us tuition fees and ID cards... Want to replace him with a GREEN MP? _You_ can help make this happen! We've one month, to raise the money to do so... Clcik on the link!
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More detailsWe want YOU to help us accomplish something extraordinary...Norwich Green Party is this month launching its campaign to elect Adrian Ramsay as one of the first Green MPs. There couldn't be ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/6631000/CBI-calls-for-new-sources-of-credit.html This is quite fascinating... The CBI are basically endorsing (presumably unknowingly) OUR policy - Green Party policy - on local-business-banks! See e.g. ...















