Dr. Oz leaving Oprah Winfrey for his own talk show

A young production staffer at "The Dr. Oz Show" wasn't buttering up her boss when she took a bite out of a carrot as he approached in an elevator lobby recently.

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Oprah Winfrey to say goodbye to Dr. Oz

Oprah Winfrey's in-house medical and health expert is leaving his spot as a regular on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for his own syndicated program.

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End of the yellow brick road for Ind. Oz Festival

An annual Wizard of Oz festival that once attracted 75,000 fans of the classic film to see the actors who played Munchkins has been cancelled, its organizers announced Friday.

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The Great Oz...The Great Ozbama..I'm a very good man, I'm just a very bad president

When Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz discovered that the Wizard of Oz was a Charlatan and a fraud..she remarked that you sir are a very bad man, leading people on to believe in something they want or desire(paraphrased), they could have...to which the Wizard replied..O no my child, …

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ABC News: "Up to 90,000 environmental campaigners turned out for the Walk Against Warming ... biggest crowd by far was in Melbourne, where according to the Nature Conservation Council, 40,000 people took part"

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''Secret'' US, Australia, Danish draft climate agreement has sparked angry accusations that wealthy nations are trying to railroad the impoverished developing world into an unfair deal at the climate summit in Copenhagen.

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Australia (one of the world's worst per capita GHG polluters) has backed the creation of a [derisory] $US10 billion a year green fund to help vulnerable countries cope with First World-made climate change

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Pre-Copenhagen Chevron-Tokyo Electric Power deal: 4.1 million tonnes (Mt) of LNG exported pa (11.5 Mt CO2); WA's position as the world's second largest LNG producer by 2020; sales contract amounts to ~ A$90 billion.

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Ken Davidson: " The flawed CPRS (Australia's Emission Trading Scheme or ETS) should be replaced with a broad-based carbon tax. If it was set initially at $10 a tonne it would be hardly noticed, it would raise $5 billion a year".

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John Pilger: "Australia's apartheid...There is to be no compensation for those thousands of Aborigines wrenched from their families as children, known as the stolen generation.... "intervention"...being consolidated."

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MSM ignore Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan & Climate Genocides

The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.

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According to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."

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Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.

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The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.

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Home to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.

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The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach

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Fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.

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24 Oct 350 Day - scientists say return air CO2 to 300-350 ppm

24 October is UN Day but also 350 Day for activists around the world demanding a return of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to no higher than 350 parts per million (ppm) - Scientists say 300-350 ppm CO2.

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Greenpeace activists arrested at NZ port; Greenpeace said that clearing rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to plant palm plantations is causing 'massive carbon emissions,' which are blamed for global warning.

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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz", the five surviving "munchkins" sing some familiar songs and share their memories from set.

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Global Letter re war crimes & climate genocide accountability

A Letter re US Alliance war crimes and worsening climate genocide crimes sent to EVERY Australian Federal MP and indeed to everyone worldwide ensures that they cannot say, like many Germans in 1945, "We didn't know".

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A private company has won a new five-year contract to transport prisoners in Victoria, Australia, despite being implicated in the death of a man in custody early last year in WA (an imprisoned Aboriginal elder was cooked to death)

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Child died weighing just nine kilograms; .the parents, who cannot be named, stood trial charged with their daughter's murder; jury found mother, 36, guilty of murder, while her husband, 48, was convicted of manslaughter.

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'Billionaire Clive Palmer: "What he's [FIRB's] doing is illegal, it's against the World Trade Organisation, it's against the [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] and it's against our constitution as it was amended in 1966.''

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Sixty per cent of the population in Australia's remote communities are still affected by the eye disease trachoma, a century after it was eradicated in most developing countries ...Indigenous blindness 6 times that of Whites .

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Oz PM Kevin Rudd has delivered a strongly worded warning to the UN that reform is necessary in global institutions and declared the G20 --which includes Australia - should be at the heart of a new international system.

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Top scientific report: catastrophic and irreversible environmental damage will be caused by crossing ''nine planetary boundaries''; 3 have already been exceeded - climate change, species loss and nitrogen cycles.

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Atmospheric CO2 has increased from pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm to 385 ppm, now rising at a rate of 2.5 ppm per year -> loss of Arctic sea ice by 2020, loss of most coral reefs by 2040, 1.4m sea level rise by 2100

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