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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | yesterday

New law grants Interior Ministry greater snooping powers as privacy advocates protest

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “If you don’t have a big brother with deep pockets, like a BP, Exxon, Shell, or a Chevron, it’s going to be very difficult.”

Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday

Verenium executive vice-president William Baum: “We’ve got hundreds of biofuel companies that are trying to get to the next stage. If you don’t have a big brother with deep pockets, like a BP, Exxon, Shell, or a Chevron, it’s going to be very difficult.” National Research Council: “The report found that, in 2005, the hidden costs [...] Today in Biofuels Opinion:...

Egypt Big Brother… – Sinai University Refuses Blogger Amr Salama, A Continued Security Intervention In Private Universities Policies

Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, denounced the negative practices exercised by the ministry of higher education and the Sinai University against the blogger Amr Salama after refusing to re-register him at the university in submission to security pressures. Security has previously forced the closure of the blog in which Amr enjoys his [...]

Celebrity Big Brother: Boy George to be banged up

Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday

POPSTAR Boy George is about to be banged up again - in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Facebook friend turns into Big Brother

Sophia Sadoughi (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Facebook friend turns into Big Brother: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Adam Bauer has...

Big Brother and PC In Holland: A Mileage Tax That Varies on Car Type and Time of Day Driven

Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

[Nonetheless...] In what is presented to readers of an Associated Press report as a done deal, the Netherlands will impose a mileage tax on drivers beginning in 2012. It goes beyond most if not all other government-imposed taxes in that it will charge more during so-called peak times or if a vehicle is considered a heavier polluter. The abolition of two other taxes is apparently the mechanism for forcing...

Blogging the Offseason: Toronto Blue Jays

SimonOnSports (Free subscription) | yesterday

Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here . Today's team NL is the Atlanta Braves and our guest is Stoeten from the Jays Blog, Drunk Jays Fans . 1. The obvious question on everybody's mind surrounding the Jays is what do they do...

U.N. Nuclear Chief Urges Iran to Agree to Deal by Year End

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

The head of the U.N’s atomic agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, described the offer made to Iran by the West to process its uranium abroad as a “unique but fleeting opportunity.”

World Powers Meet About Iran Nuclear Issue

Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Yahoo! News : BRUSSELS – Representatives of six world powers met in Brussels on Friday to discuss possible measures against Tehran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities. The European Union said senior diplomats from the U.N. Security Council 's five permanent members plus Germany took part in the talks. President Barack Obama said Thursday the six nations will develop a package...

No 'final answer' from Iran on nuclear offer: IAEA

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Iran has not yet provided a "final answer" to a "unique" international nuclear fuel offer, Mohamed ElBaradei, the outgoing head of the UN nuclear watchdog, said on Friday. "I do not consider that I have received a final answer," ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in Berlin. "But I also very much hope that I will get an answer...

• ElBaradei hopes for Iran fuel deal by end of year - Reuters
• ElBaradei: Iran has not totally rejected nuclear fuel plan - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

[khabor.com] FW: Micro finance Institution Funding: BB Governor Contradicts WB Observation --Asia Post editorial dated 20.11.09

Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Micro finance Institution Funding : BB Governor Contradicts WB Observation Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rhaman on Tuesday expressed dismay over a World Bank observation regarding banking sector’s partnership with the microfinance institutions, according to report in local press. In a recent stocktaking, the World Bank observed that channeling money from the banks to farm loan projects through...

Who's Fact Checking the Fact Checkers at AP? -- By: Andy McCarthy

The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the Washington Times this morning, there is a AP story (it's not really a report, more an ill-informed supposition ) positing that a New York jury might very well spare the 9/11 bombers from the death penalty. AP reasons that "New York juries are [so] loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists," that, "in fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a...

Serial rapist trial adjourned

Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Alleged serial rapist Faizel Mohamed Sayed was yesterday "not in a good emotional state" to continue with his trial at the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

Somali Terrorist Recruiter Indicted

The Whig (Free subscription) | yesterday

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Sixth area Somali man is indicted in probe The suspect is linked to other young men recruited to train and fight in Somalia. Mohamed, of Minneapolis, is the sixth Somali man with local ties to be charged in connection with a two-year-old federal counterterrorism investigation aimed at finding out who recruited as many as 20 area men of Somali descent to return to their homeland...

• Mpls. Somali man indicted for supporting terrorists - StarTribune.com

The 22nd Weekly Sit-In for Illegally Detained Journalists in Yemen

Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | yesterday

God bless them and give them strength. I don’t know how they do it for 22 weeks in a row, but when its your friend, its hard to turn away. That much I know. The Twenty-Fourth Sit-In to Demand the Release of Alayyam Newspaper and Journalist Mohamed Almaqaleh and journalists Alsaglade and Rashid On [...]

Investorideas.com New Showcase Water Stock, Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTC BB: WSCE) Provides Solutions for ‘Produced Water’ in Oil and Gas Industry

investid | 23/03/2009

Point Roberts, WA, Delta, BC - March 23, 2009 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leading global investor and industry research portal covering water, environment and oil and gas sectors, announces a new featured showcase company, Wescorp Energy Inc.( OTCBB:WSCE ),a company providing technology based solutions for the treatment of contaminated ‘produced water’ for the oil and gas industry.

Another innovation: Allergen-Free Peanuts

kellya | 12/01/2009

Nutritionally, peanuts are very important. They are considered almost complete food , with all essential minerals and vitamins. The inventor, Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna, also developed a process that removes mold toxins from peanuts, a high-protein meat substitute, antioxidants from red peanut skins, a low-fat substitute, and an infant formula. However, the allergy-free peanut is the first peanut innovation