Tag: holidays
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portland giving back on christmas: “we’ve seen need skyrocket this year”
from katu: Many Portland residents spent their Christmas serving the homeless, hungry and needy. Fred Gartner says he’s been coming to the Union Gospel Mission for almost 40 years. He says the holiday meal isn’t just food for the body, but food for the soul. “For people who don’t have families, companionship is very important,”…
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on corbett report radio – dec22
on thursday nights, media monarchy joins corbett report radio live on republic broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health … this week we go over north korea crises, fanta santa, the good food news of 2011 & more… previous: dec15 episode
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12/22 binge & purge: balls, falls, crackdowns & food carts
2011 in food: less gluten, more kale & schweddy balls* the good food news of 2011* food inflation falls to 4yr low of 1.81% in india* cardamom auctions to resume in india on dec26* feds claim food is safer* fbi: activists investigating factory farms can be terrorists* frito-lay sued for labeling gmo snacks as ‘all…
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12/22 newspurge: sometimes you have to work on christmas
biowars/envirohealth: japan pm says fukushima nuclear site finally stabilised* video: ‘statistically meaningful increase’ in west coast cancer from fukushima* philippines sends coffins, flood toll nears 1000 dead; president declares ‘state of national calamity’* river in china turns red; illegal workshop dumps dye in pipe network* drought has killed up to 10% of texas woodland trees*…
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menorahs lighted in new york, nation’s capital
from cnn: From big balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a big Christmas tree at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, the Big Apple is known for going big around the holidays. And on Tuesday, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, New Yorkers went big again, lighting a massive menorah outside the south…
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ground zero: last rites, last christmas
listen/subscribe to @clydelewis on @kxlnews weeknights 9-12 last rites* cytogeneticide: plausible deniability & the final solution* gnome for the holidays* last christmas* der krampen: the return of satan’s claws* previous: paranoid anxiety & quantum santa
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ground zero: paranoid anxiety & the quantum santa
listen/subscribe to @clydelewis on @kxlnews weeknights 9-12 ground zero tv: dec9 – is it wrong to report bad news?* paranoid anxiety: you better watch out* the quantum santa* city from heaven* if you see something, say nothing* previous: liquid jackboot, new world odor & more
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obamessiah says we leave iraq with ‘heads held high’
not counting those without heads… from cbsnews: President Obama marked the end of the United States’ almost nine-year war in Iraq on Monday, saying at an appearance with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the final U.S. troops leave Iraq this year “with their heads held high.” Mr. Obama is taking something of a victory…
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rural farmers unite to feed occupy protestors
from brasscheck tv: We missed this story a while back, but it’s such an inspiring story it’s worth going back. How rural farmers, an unemployed chef and a protestor named Heather are getting 1,000 dinners served at Occupy Wall Street every night.
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‘stuff a bus’ campaign helps out edmonton food bank
from inews880: The Edmonton Food Bank still has a long way to go in its goal of raising 225,000 kilograms of food for the Christmas and Festive Campaign, but the ETS Stuff a Bus campaign has sure helped out. Food Bank Executive Director Marjorie Bencz says they spent several hours unloading over 20,000 kilograms of…
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…
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food banks face peanut butter shortage for the holidays
as peanut prices soar, supply goes down from time: Peanut butter may be too expensive for impoverished families this Christmas. Happy holidays, America! The miracle staple that saves the starving and goes ever so well with jelly is in short supply. A spell of hot weather in Texas and Georgia this year, combined with a…
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reducing holiday food waste
from upi: Food wasted in the United States annually could satisfy the hunger of the estimated 1 billion malnourished people worldwide, a food waste expert says. Tristram Stuart — a food waste expert and contributing author to State of the World 2011 of the Worldwatch Institute — said some simple changes in food responsibly and…
