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Happy New Year. Probably.

With only hours left in 2011, John Stoke’s apocalyptic prediction that global warming would kill 4.5 billion of us by tomorrow looks unlikely.

I just checked the news and Australia is still there (with minutes of 2011 left). I think we’re gonna make it.

You can count-down the last moments of mankind on Gaia in [...]

Hippie of the Year

Julia Gillard

on ya, Jules*

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has won the inaugural and almost-coveted Hippie of the Year Award.

Ms. Gillard won for her unswerving devotion to power and breaking her campaign promise that there would be “no carbon tax under the government I lead”:

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From the original Hippie [...]