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Tony Abbott's Government wins Colossal Fossil award at UN Climate Change Talks

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 5:29pm

By Mim DiNapoli, photo by David Tong.

Australia has taken out the Climate Action Network's prestigious award of Colossal Fossil for 2013. This came as a shock to nobody following the leaderboard, as most punters had placed their bets on the land of girt by sea. You can read more here at the Climate Action Network.

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India at COP19: Whatever Happened To Fair Play? It's Just not cricket

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 5:18pm

By Mim DiNapoli, photo by David Tong.

It was hardly a surprise to see India walk away from the Climate Action Network booth last night with a Fossil of the Day certificate tucked under one arm. Much like their performance in last Ashes test match against Australia, another high-ranking Fossil of The Day performer, other candidates were no match for India in blocking progress in negotiations.

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Yeb Saño, The Rise of a Celebrity Climate Negotiator from the Philippines

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 4:39pm

By Jeppe Fischer, Photo by 350.org

The Philippines has been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan with at least four million people displaced. Haiyan has also had impact beyond the Philippines though, and in a different way, at the UN climate change summit in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of the negotiations has been overshadowed by the typhoon, and The Verb explores the impact.

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Time for a climate change: Dreams Or Numbers For Gender Equality?

Submitted by theverb on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 2:57pm

By Cécile Schneider, photo by UNFCCC.

Tuesday’s UNFCCC ‘gender and climate change’ day was unconventional in many ways. In hosting the feature event, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, did not ask panellists to talk about their countries’ achievements, their experiences of gender inequality or even their proposals.

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Civil Society stages mass walkout protest from Warsaw Climate change negotiations

Submitted by takver on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 2:24pm

Civil society organisations abandoned the COP19 climate change negotiations in Warsaw on mass. Members from Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, Actionaid, Friends of the Earth, the International Trade Union Confederation (statement) and 350.org all started leaving the conference at 2pm. This is an unprecedented action, the first time several major civil society groups have staged a mass walkout.

Friends of the Earth International highlighted that the Warsaw Climate Change negotiations were failing, with Tension high in Warsaw talks as G77+China walk out. The role of Australia and reduced ambition of Japan have been widely mentioned. Australia and Canada are seen as the major wreckers, but there has been substantial intransigence from much of the developed world to progressing the negotiations forward on finance, ambition, and a loss and damage mechanism. Poland's Coal Summit has shown the fossil fuel corporatism entwined in this COP with widespread dismay at the coal powered negotiations of COP19 and at UNFCCC official Christiania Figueres who gave the keynote speech at the coal summit

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Help us assist children in 68 countries

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 11:48am

Brother Olly Pickett was building wheelchairs for children in a tiny workshop in Cambodia when he came across one of the youngest workers in the group. Brother Pickett told ABC journalist, Stephanie Dalzell, that the 15-year-old amputee was propped up on his knees, undeterred by the rough concrete floor he was kneeling on.

He was helping construct one of a dozen wheelchairs for children on the outskirts of the town who struggled to get to the local school each day.

Brother Pickett says at the end of his trip, the group decided to give the boy his own wheelchair.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - November 23

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 10:26am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20. The Stringer comprises thirty-odd contributors, from most States and Territories of Australia, from an increasing number of locations around our world. If you would like to become a regular contributor, or contribute an article, photograph/s, a radio or video piece, we would be glad to hear from you.

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Indonesia executes fifth drug-trafficker

Submitted by ACADP on Thu, 21/11/2013 - 4:31pm

Indonesia has executed a convicted drug-trafficker - the fifth person to be put to death since March this year - in what could be a worrying sign for two Australians on death row in Bali.

Pakistani man, Muhammad Abdul Hafeez, a convicted drug-trafficker was executed by firing squad at a South Tangerang cemetery on the southern outskirts of the capital Jakarta early last Sunday morning. Hafeez, 44, was sentenced to death in 2001 for attempting to smuggle more than a kilo of heroin into Indonesia.

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War Comic Script: Mainlandia Invaded in ‘Exercise Southern Katipo 2013′ – Timaru Liberated!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 21/11/2013 - 8:02am

This article criticizes a multi-force military exercise currently taking place in New Zealand's South Island for its oversimplified 'war on terror' era, good versus bad script. It also mocks uncritical coverage by New Zealand's mainstream media for their news-lite approach. Readers are reminded that two participating country's - France and the United States - both have a history of state-sponsored terrorism. It suggests that the NZ-led military coalition has an invasion of Fiji in its sights.

By Snoopman

A spider that flies

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Singapore and the Death Penalty

Submitted by ACADP on Wed, 20/11/2013 - 5:30pm

A recent amendment in Singapore has saved one drug mule from execution. It was a pleasant surprise for many last Thursday, when the courts lifted the death penalty on a drug-trafficker for the first time in its history. Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian who was sentenced to hang in 2009, was spared after a judge ruled that Yong was merely a drug courier, rather than involved in the supply or distribution of narcotics.

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