Earth Hour in 2009 [PICS]

Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 29th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change

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Earth Hour 2009

Official Earth Hour 2009 video. Earth Hour is on March 28th, 2009 at 8:30pm. More at http://www.earthhour.orgSupport Earth Hour by making your own video and adding it to our Earth Hour Global group here:http://www.youtube.com/group/earthhourglobalEarth Hour images can be downloaded and shared from our flickr photostream, including Shep...

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Education reform: Let's start by burning all the textbooks

Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they're paper. Second, they're textbooks. Paper textbooks are bland, lifeless, designed-by-committee, politically correct intellectual junk food that cost five times what they should. It's time to go electronic with course materials, and let instructors (and students) choose *real* books online.

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Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus We Need

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal? Because as history shows, industrial Hemp was the REAL target when Cannabis was made illegal, but a racist reefer madness fear campaign would not have worked against it as well as it did 'marihuana'.

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Hawaii Rockstar

Unofficial Hawaii version of the music video for the song Rockstar. We produced this piece as a means to boost spirits in the State of Hawaii during tough economic times. Big mahalo to everyone that supported us with this project.

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Conservatives Against Marijuana Prohibition

Why Conservatives should insist on overturning cannabis prohibition in New York: cut wasteful spending, restore respect for law enforcement, grow a sustainable economy without large government stimulus

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Obama fires back at Cheney on 60 Minutes

Dick Cheney and the anti-terror policies of the Bush years have not "made us safer," according to President Barack Obama. -=W/ VIDEO=-

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Charting a new path for charter schools

Charter schools are the answer. Or hadn't you heard?Our president says so. Droves of students and parents say so with great enthusiasm. I hear from lots of them.

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Charting a new path for charter schools

Charter schools are the answer. Or hadn't you heard?Our president says so. Droves of students and parents say so with great enthusiasm. I hear from lots of them.

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Old age begins at 27 - scientists claim after new research

New research shows that many well-known effects of ageing may start in our late 20s, decades before our twilight years According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.

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Penn Jilette Says: Legalize Marijuana

As the one guy who's never smoked dope, Penn Says, STOP the war on drugs now! When Penn Jillette has an opinion, it's a safe bet he won't hold back.

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Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health

Cases of MRSA, a type of staph infection that is resistant to antibiotics, have raised concerns that agricultural practices in hog farms could be fueling a public health threat.

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Jim Cramer Gets PWND By Jon Stewart On The Daily Show VIDEO

Having been slammed repeatedly by host Jon Stewart over the past few days for one-sided journalism, Cramer fled any real direct confrontation in his lengthy interview and instead went contrite — absurdly contrite. His voice went high and cracked, his thoughts fragmented as they left his mouth.

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Bristol Palin & Fiancé Split

Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up. So much for a shotgun wedding.

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Thousands attend Irish murder protests

Thousands of people have attended a series of rallies across NI to show their anger at the murders of two soldiers and a policeman.

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Religion: Accident, Adaptation or Both?

Whether or not God exists, thinking about Him doesn't require divinely dedicated neurological wiring. Instead, religious thoughts run on brain systems used to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling.

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My Beef With Ann Coulter by Meghan McCain

I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time. Does she really believe all Jewish people should be “perfected” and become Christians? If figureheads like Ann Coulter are turning me off, then they are definitely turning off other members of my generation as well.

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McCain's Daughter: Ann Coulter Is a Trainwreck

Meghan McCain ripped Coulter for being "a train wreck" and called her the "biggest culprit" when it comes to perpetuating the negative stereotype of Republicans in her most recent blog post for the Daily Beast.

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