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The Aztec Solution

Tuesday, June 30 2009

Michael Kile Climate modelling of new data from the Aztec Codex Cihuacoatl has identified a relationship with important implications for global warming mitigation. The research suggests a strong causal pathway exists between climate change and Aztec rituals of “nourishing the gods” with blood sacrifice. The evidence supports a revival of (humane) human sacrifice (HHS) as a mechanism for retarding environmental degradation and reducing dangerous climate change. HHS also would improve crop yields by allowing more effective control of surface temperature…

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A Day Of Infamy

Monday, June 29 2009

Forget Iran. Forget North Korea. Forget the Financial Crisis. Forget the Stimulus Package. You can even forget the entire Bush administration. June 26 will shape the future of this world more than all of those issues and events combined. June 26 signified a shift from the US administration that is on par with the abolishment of slavery. It will start one of the greatest economic transformations in the history of the US. Sensationalist you say? I think not. The impact…

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Brooklyn

Friday, June 26 2009

This was a brilliant read. Set in the 50s, a young Irish girl leaves her home town for a job in Brooklyn arranged for her by her sister Rose who will stay home with their widowed mother. Homesick and lonely living in a boarding house for young spinsters Eiris slowly builds a new life and finds herself a Brooklyn boy to love but when she is called home to cope with a family tragedy she has to make some very…

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The Lovers

Friday, June 26 2009

When Charlie Parker loses his investigators licence he ends up working in a bar to get by. But he is also working on an unsolved case that involves his father who was also a cop who one night killed two young people and then committed suicide.Connolly writes a tough crime story with poetical overtones that hook you right into the middle of a vey nasty crime scene. If you haven't read a John Connolly read The Lovers and I will…

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The Last Child

Friday, June 26 2009

A young girl goes missing and her twin brother suffers a double blow when their father leaves home too. From this simple premise John Hart has created a thriller that you will find hard to stop reading until you have read the last word on the last page.Johnny the young boy meets with corrupt cops, neighbours who know more than they tell the police and very few grown ups who he can trust himself to.I rate this better than a…

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Vogue Living Houses, Gardens, People

Friday, June 26 2009

A beautiful book looking at 36 different houses and gardens whose owners are from the world of fashion, art, music and society. From the absolutely sumptuous to the modern art gallery with living accommodation this is more than a book of just pretty pictures as each subject is accompanied by a well written article. Great for inspiring you to redecorate or just to read and see how others live.

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