Recent articles:
- mediamatters.org shows us that conservatives in America, not unlike their mental relatives in Iran, come in various gradations, but their relevance to their country’s standing in the world are of comparable questionability. (July 31st, 2009)
- After displays of insanity, a hint of sanity is rejected by an array of Ayatollahs steeped to differing degrees in the musty books. Nepotism is part of the picture. A great people need reformation but none of those in the limelight – Khamenei and his son, Jannati, Rafsanjani, Khatami, Ahmedinejad and his relative-in-law Mashaei, Mousavi, qualifies to answer Iran’s needs. The Economist keeps watch of Tehran and the world of the spinning centrifuges. (July 31st, 2009)
- The UN – if it were honest – should say: When it comes to free journalism – DO NOT DO AS WE DO – BUT FEEL FREE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AND IGNORE THE POWER-IN-CAPITALS TO WHICH WE DO BOW OUR HEADS. Any other statement of the UNDPI, on the Middle East or otherwise – is dishonest. (July 31st, 2009)
- From Martha Shaw of earthadvertising.com about Walter Cronkite – “the Jounalist explorer” – having been a “Spokesperson for the Planet” after having had his career of discussing in our living rooms the matters of the world. Whatever we think about him – a Walter Cronkite is needed for Climate Change these days of “The Age of Stupid.” (July 31st, 2009)
- Oil has monetary value when it is not produced and the forest is preserved untouched. The YasunÃ-ITT Initiative Picked up June 2007, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa proposal to save the Amazon Rainforest from the vampires of oil. (July 31st, 2009)
- “The AGE of STUPID – Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance” Premiere in Australia & New Zealand with its Oscar nominated star and others – Wednesday August 19th, 2009 – with special events in tents, theatres and Parliament. (July 31st, 2009)
- Go Invent Something – That is how America became great. Remember Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla… (July 31st, 2009)
- merica became an economic powerhouse when it made things. China is now an economic powerhouse because they make things there. The US economic meltdown has been coming with Reaganomics. (July 30th, 2009)
- Reuters updated Green Investment news from the US – the promise and the recession facts. (July 30th, 2009)
- Seemingly, Greece is like the US sold to the oil, coal, and gun-owners’ interests and it can be said that it will trail the economy of the more advanced members of the EU. (July 30th, 2009)
- Portugal, Denmark and Israel are the front-runners on renewable-energy battery powered cars: Portugal will have recharging stations for electric cars – the first one was opened in Lisbon July 2009 and by 2010 Portugal will have 320 such stations. (July 30th, 2009)
- Update:Toronto Climate Change Conference Date Amended! November 9-10, 2009 (changed from Sept 21-22). (July 29th, 2009)
- Obama’s renewed pressure for an Israeli-Arab deal. The Arab world needs another Sadat, and Saudi Arabia must start accepting the idea that the US will eventually look seriously at climate change and start diversifying its energy sector away from oil. (July 29th, 2009)
- A Washington US-China Framework to the Bonn Framework Will it be enough to jumpstart Copenhagen so that it produces more then another framework? We remain incorrigible optimists if the larger frame will turn out to hold a collection of smaller frames… (July 29th, 2009)
- The GUAM states and their potential breakaway ministates. (July 29th, 2009)
- Israeli-American High Tech Entrepreneur Shai Agassi, with his “better place” project is after making money from real novel technologies rather then from the trading-in-pollution concept. His “Better Place” project intends to bring to fruition real ideas. Amnon Samid, another clean technology proponent is pushing in his blog Agassi and his backers to do even more. (July 29th, 2009)
- Culture Change brought to our attention the Ben Williams article “Why Nuclear Energy Is Not The Answer To Climate Change. It is rather extermely uninformed to think otherwise. (July 29th, 2009)
- “COMPRENDRE LA COMPENSATION CARBONE” – a French title that explains carbon trading to the uninitiated these days when you can buy your conscience on the internet. Is it efficient in fighting global warming? (July 29th, 2009)
- LENY ANDRADE RETURNS THIS AUGUST FROM RIO TO NEW YORK. (July 29th, 2009)
- Convinced that climate change represents a serious threat to national and global security, the administration of President Barack Obama has proposed spending one dollar on addressing the challenge for every nine dollars it intends to spend on the U.S. military – this as compared to the 1:88 dollar ratio allocated by the George W. Bush administration, but it may be difficult to sustain because most of the increase in climate-related spending is included in the new administration’s one-time stimulus package. (July 29th, 2009)
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