Reuters | Obama and other world leaders Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later.
Telegraph | Kids sent to colonies by government ended up as slaves, abused, and neglected.
MINA | Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine flu vaccine.
Telegraph | Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
AFP | The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Mail Online | A soldier facing charges of desertion for refusing to return to Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with five further offences after joining an anti-war demonstration.
Washington Post | It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon.
Times Online | Many of the world’s richest tycoons and entrepreneurs have embraced environmentalism.
Telegraph | Chancellor Angela Merkel put Berlin’s emboldened role in the international arena on display by calling on America to accept it must channel its interests through global institutions.
Telegraph | The Colombian leader has denied Venezuela’s charge saying that the military agreement with America exists to combat drug traffickers and leftist guerrillas.
CBC News | An Ottawa city councillor wants to call in the Armed Forces to help conduct swine flu vaccinations.
Guardian | A judge found Nicholson’s views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions
Recombinomics | The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago.
CNN | Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court.
Guardian | Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to “be scaled up” from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today.
AFP | “Only in cooperation with Russia and the United States can Europe play its role in the global process of creating a new world order,” said Gorbachev.
Guardian | Facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
Bloomberg | India’s central bank bought 200 metric tons of the metal from the International Monetary Fund, heightening speculation about more official purchases.
The First Post | The Lisbon Treaty is in line with the country’s constitution, and President Vaclav Klaus now has no option but to ratify it.
Recombinomics | A hotel in the mountain resort of Sinaia was closed Sunday after 40 Romanian and foreign law students meeting for a conference caught swine flu, officials said.
Bloomberg | The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine today to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people.
CNN | Observers say Karzai’s real test will be whether he can form a government that is seen as legitimate in the eyes of the Afghan people and the international community.
Wall Street Journal | The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.
Mail Online | A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death
The Age | A promising young Canadian singer and musician has died after two coyotes attacked her while she was hiking alone in a national park in Nova Scotia.
News.com.au | An outspoken Kiwi politician has proposed a new solution to the country’s child abuse problem – pay the “appalling underclass” not to breed.
Financial Times | Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the European Union’s first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday.
Bernama | One of the students, a freshman, was accused of uploading groundless rumors about flu vaccination on an Internet web site, claiming all vaccinated people, particular teens, would die.
Daily Express | A son hailed a hero for tackling two teenage burglars, stabbing one of them to death, was charged with murder.
Mail Online | One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed ’slow euthanasia’.
Daily Express | The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.
Alex Newman | Recent surveys indicate that most Americans do not believe global warming is a serious problem or even caused by human activity at all.
Shirat Devorah | Last week it was announced that George Soros (the man who helped bring us Obama) had pledged $1.1 billion to fund “Climate Change initiatives”.
New York Times | Ban Ki-Moon says we all agree “climate change is an existential threat to humankind.”
Reuters | The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.
Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country’s leaders have warned.
Anthony Gregory | The immediate threat is so-called “cap and trade,” a scam to legalize and normalize pollution, regulate industry and impose massive costs onto the American people.
Telegraph | Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is the only EU leader who has not yet completed ratification of the treaty.
Fox News | Book authors studied the carbon emissions created by pets, including the ingredients in their food and the land required to grow it.
Webster Tarpley | “I object when our leaders claim that we the people are obliged to pay debts we never incurred.”
Henry Lamb | Dissent is worse than a dirty word at these U.N. meetings.
The Sun | French leader Nicolas Sarkozy is demanding a special EU summit next month to crown Tony Blair the first President of Europe.
Sydney Morning Herald | Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man on Tuesday as he approached Middle East envoy Tony Blair, shouting “You are a terrorist”.
Telegraph | He said failure to tackle the problem would not only result in hundreds of thousands of deaths every year due to floods and droughts, but a greater economic crisis than the recent recession.
NoWorldSystem | A Total bureaucratic, technological slave-grid… in other words, hell on earth.
Infowars | It’s said a picture says a 1000 words. So I don’t think we need a “memo” to figure this one out.
NWI Times | Some cancer patients, heart attack sufferers and burn victims would be removed from ventilators and left to die if pandemic flu patients overwhelmed Indiana’s hospitals.
Brad Jacobson | Pentagon officials in charge of the press and community relations offices equivocated on the subject of whether the program has ended.
NY Daily News | The declaration allows health care professionals including pharmacists, dentists and midwives to administer vaccinations for the H1N1 virus so long as they receive proper training.
Los Angeles Times | Of the nation’s five biggest daily papers, four reported circulation declines.
Bloomberg | The money lost to taxpayers is enough to buy health care for everybody in Minneapolis; Orlando, Florida; and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
CNSNews | Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005.
Guardian | The number of people who believe that human activity is causing global warming fell to just 36%.
Joan Swirsky | As Obama’s poll numbers continue to plunge, more and more people are waking up to his unique lack of qualifications and inability to lead the greatest nation in the world.
The Star-Ledger | John Brek was charged yesterday with a third-degree count of making terroristic threats after two airport employees alerted police to comments Brek made about Obama on Tuesday afternoon.
Washington’s Blog | The financial system collapsed last year due to looting and fraud.
KETV 7 | In Nebraska, if a child is a state ward, Medicaid will pay for treatment continuously, without interruption.
Subprime Blogger | The Federal Reserve Bank continues to print money at will.
NBC Philadelphia | Veteran was suspended without pay Thursday after he refused to peel a sticker of the American flag from his locker.
Las Vegas Review-Journal | The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.
David Kaiser | I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
WFLD | A Chicago alderman is taking a hard look at whether mandatory swine flu vaccines for children could stop the spread of the virus.
ABC 7 | A huge crowd of protesters also turned out to deliver messages of their own.
Big Hollywood | Another good reason to turn off the idiot rube.
readMedia Newswire | The Continental United States NORAD Region will conduct a three-day homeland defense exercise, Falcon Dart, beginning Oct. 14 along the eastern seaboard and in New England.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Pittsburgh City Council today took a first vote toward outsourcing the job of collecting delinquent property taxes.
CNSNews | If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV.
CNN | A celebrity gossip Web site has caught Maria Shriver a third time apparently violating California’s law against using a cell phone while driving.
New York Times | The vote was 14 to 9, with all of the other Republicans opposed.
ABC 7 News | Police are still looking for clues after a prominent economist was shot in the garage of his upscale home.
Wisconsin State Journal | Gore has been criticized for not publicly debating his position since the release of his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
My Budget 360 | The American family over the past decade has maintained the illusion of middle class living by going deeper into debt because of stagnant wages.
TollroadsNews | It is reported the Texas Department of Transportation has recommended the No Action Alternative on the TTC-35 environmental study to the Federal Highway Administration.
Billings Gazette | Becky Shay, spokeswoman for American Police Force, said Friday that her company withdrew its offer to operate the 464-bed facility.
Fightin’ Words | This story stands as another example of the state interfering in a private medical and religious matter.
Independent | At 84, the writer and activist may be confined to a wheelchair, but his rage — at his country, its leaders and citizens — burns as fiercely as ever.
Eric Sinrod | This power is akin to the power President Bush exerted when he grounded commercial aircraft in the wake of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, according to a reported Senate source.
ABC News | Park Police arrested Sheehan and 60 other protestors yesterday, after Sheehan chained herself to the fence on the North Lawn.
WISHTV 8 | The group donated 162,000 kits that will go out to kindergarten and first grade students.
AmmoLand | The bill is “An Act prohibiting certain firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition from being subject to Federal law or Federal regulation.”
Fox News | Liberty County sheriff deputies are meeting with the FBI and FAA to discuss this incident.
Infowars | Court records from Orange County, California indicate Michael Hilton has a lengthy criminal past including a six year prison sentence for a dozen counts of grand theft and other charges.
Huffington Post | Mayor James (Jim) D. Kalb of Portsmouth, Ohio called blogger Robert Forrey a “worthless piece of s**t” and a “lonely, jealous old man” in an email response to Forrey’s public record request.
WKYT 27 | A Marine Corps officer said it was part of an urban training exercise where the Osprey aircraft land in tight spaces.
Bob van der Valk | The American Police Force should get packing quickly before a real posse is formed to tar and feather, then run them out of town on a rail.
The Pittsburgh Channel | Several groups upset over the police response at the University of Pittsburgh during the G-20 economic summit plan a rally today in Oakland and want an