Recent articles:
- David Benjamin writes to the US Senators to spend now $111/year for each UN citizen in order to avoid huge losses from climate change that future generations will incur if we do not act now. (June 30th, 2009)
- For Healthcare and Social Security – further suggestions from Harry L. Langer. (June 30th, 2009)
- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is facilitating a self selection process for private sector observers to several committees of the Climate Investment Fund (CIF). (June 30th, 2009)
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – a leader who changed a Muslim nation – an input from Turkish film actor Yavuz Hekim as published by The Malta Independent. (June 30th, 2009)
- Long List Of Jobs Available in the Climate Sector. (June 30th, 2009)
- New book “Agenda for a Sustainable America” by John Dernbach. (June 30th, 2009)
- Since Obama’s opening himself to the world – indeed a new America was born. This article provides two such new examples: the Jewish Japanese American breed and the undoing of the Latina concept as proven by the Sotomayor elevation to the point that we can say there never was really such a concept as Latina in the US. (June 30th, 2009)
- Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, will you step in the limelight and lead? Your office does not make available information about what you say by yourself? (June 29th, 2009)
- Four Israelis, four Jordanians, three people from the Palestinian Authority, some Norwegians, some Americans, on a Norwegian on a cow farm near Oslo, spend ten days to learn to sing for Middle East true peace before a 1000 strong Oslo audience. (June 29th, 2009)
- Denied the reins of the office of UN Secretary General by the Bush Administration Dr. Shashi Tharoor went back to his roots in the Kerala village of his grandmother and to Delhi, and who knows, maybe some day will come back to the New York Building on First Avenue. Who knows, it looks like next UNSG will still be from Asia – in a similar way as when Africa had one failed term of Butros Butros-Ghali followed by the two more successful terms of Kofi Annan. (June 29th, 2009)
- Landrum Bolling presents the findings of Jimmy Carter, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski who colectively believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be resolved with a comprehensive U.S. presidential initiative. (June 29th, 2009)
- Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce today that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics. We wish to remind of “The Alga Dunaliella” that we wrote about in the past – as per Professor Ami Ben-Amotz of Israel. (June 29th, 2009)
- Obama Reacts to the House Energy and Climate Bill vote as an “extraordinary first step” and Opposes the Trade Sanctions addition; Paul Krugman finds that of the 212 that voted against the bill most of them are accused of treason against the planet – the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial; advocates of renewable energy find that with the only funding awailable comming from the stop gap stimulus there is a funding roadblock reality ahead for clean energy. (June 29th, 2009)
- The Financial Times does not think much of the US House of Representatives Fenergy and Climate Bill. (June 29th, 2009)
- Onto the war for Wake-Up America. Only three years ago, both houses of congress and the Presidency were dominated by “government-is-the-problemâ€, anti-science politicians – Now we want to see the Senate Improve on the House Bill. (June 29th, 2009)
- President Obama’s Waxman-Markey 2009 Energy and Climate Bill passed in the House, but so did President Clinton’s 1993 B.T.U. Tax Bill with a very similar vote – but that one lost out in the Senate. Did America’s intelligence grow sufficiently since those days of old? Perhaps it will be the 2008-2009 decrease in the hold of the Republican party on the concept of values that will carry the day this time? (June 28th, 2009)
- Nazila Fathi from Tehran, Michael Slackman and Mona el-Naggar from Cairo, Trita Parsi and Reza Aslan from the US, and Uri Avneri from Israel, tell us that the Iranian goose was cooked and for now it is to be expected that Ahmedi-Nejad will be sworn in for another term which he might, or he might not, consumate in full. How will the rest of the Middle East react? (June 27th, 2009)
- The Israeli Center has moved to the right and is ready to stand up against an Obama Administration push for serious negotiations intended to remove thorns from the Arab-Israeli conflict. Perhapse we should see in this another reason to disengage from the addiction to oil? (June 27th, 2009)
- CONTINUING – Last of the 5 IPS artcles – FBI Chief Louis Freeh Became “Defence Lawyer” for Saudis on Khobar – this must have influenced lack of security defense to 9/11 by having directed suspicion to Iran and away from the Saudis. Do present political efforts warrant an investigation of the presented allegations? (June 26th, 2009)
- China may decide that they do not need the Hummer after all! (June 26th, 2009)
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