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  • In coal we trust: Australia's voters back PM Morrison's faith in fossil fuel [barf]

    05/19/2019 9:10:48 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 19, 2019 3:37 AM | Sonali Paul
    Australia’s re-elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison once brandished a lump of coal in parliament, crying, “This is coal — don’t be afraid!” His surprise win in what some dubbed the “climate election” may have stunned the country, but voters should know what comes next in energy policy — big coal. Battered by extended droughts, damaging floods, and more bush fires, Australian voters had been expected to hand a mandate to the Labor Party to pursue its ambitious targets for renewable energy and carbon emissions cuts. Instead, Saturday’s election left them on course to re-elect the Liberal-led center-right coalition headed by...
  • Snubbed churchgoers make selves heard on every corner (of Denver "Holiday" parade)

    12/04/2004 9:59:56 PM PST · by churchillbuff · 112 replies · 2,454+ views
    Denver News ^ | Dec 4 04 | Montero and Sheeler
    Bruce Bain doesn't attend church regularly, but nothing was going to keep him from showing up on the corner of 17th Street and Tremont Place on Friday night. "How can you have the Parade of Lights without the 'light of the world'?" he asked. "Christmas is a religious holiday." So the 56-year-old Englewood man joined hundreds of Christmas carolers from metro-area churches and sang along the Parade of Lights route. They sang on 15th Street. They sang at Court Place. And they sang at Colfax Avenue and Bannock Street. What they didn't do was raise hell. Yes, it was a...