Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Neeta Lal
21st January, 2010
India’s environment minister, having faced accusations of practicing “voodoo science”, has been vindicated with the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate body’s prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 being exposed as inaccurate speculation.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Lee Sustar
19th January, 2010
THE TIMING couldn’t have been better for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which held its first public hearings on January 13-14.
With their top employees set to enjoy huge bonuses thanks to taxpayer bailouts, the CEOs of the country’s big banks should have been in the hot seat for their role in the financial panic of 2008. The Obama administration’s proposed levy on banks seemingly would have upped the pressure, too.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
19th January, 2010
The controversy over the IPCC observations on melting of Himalayan glaciers by 2035 took a new turn with glaciologist Syed Hasnain contending that he has never mentioned the time in his research papers which the UN body had included in its climate change report.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Michael Jansen
12th January, 2010
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq Edited by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, and Tareq Y. Ismael. Pluto, 296 pp. $34.95
THIS BOOK argues convincingly that the post- war cultural cleansing of Iraq is intentional rather than random and haphazard, the result of chaos and anarchy.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
BRENES: DANGERS IN THE SCHOOL PLAUGROUND
The school that is cursed
Fernando Perez Avila
18th January, 2010
Fear! Fear of cancer, fear of death, and the daily fear of finding another case among the pupils. Every morning, the fear of disease that might affect the person next to you because of the phone mast that has still not been removed … Two children ill, one dead and more than 100 people suffering from various kinds of cancer, all in a short space of time – a tally that shows something is dreadfully wrong. So much so that even the doctors in the main hospital in Seville are surprised, and ask each new patient if they live anywhere near the phone mast in Brenes.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
You want to hear about chutzpah? You want to hear about sheer gravity-defying audacity? Well, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, prepare to catch your lower jaw. Forget Rush Limbaugh’s racist anxieties. Forget about Pat Robertson drooling about Haiti’s “pact with the devil.”
He’s a senile old bigot and his sick provocations are familiar by now. This is the Heritage Foundation on the Haiti earthquake, which is estimated to have killed 100,000 people.
Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the US, the piece is entitled.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Cynthia McKinney
President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working–saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Daily Mail
19th January, 2010
The UN must step in to ensure the U.S. is not occupying Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake that may have killed 200,000 people, a French minister has said.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Rami G. Khouri
Middle-East Online
19th January, 2010
Several symbolic or rhetorical gestures in recent weeks indicate that the European Union wants at least to raise its voice and its profile on Arab-Israeli peace-making. But to have impact it must transcend verbal commitments or admonitions and venture into the realm of actions and sanctions, argues Rami G. Khouri.
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2010
18th January, 2010
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.
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Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2010
Richard K.Moore
16th January, 2010
Science and models
True science begins with observations and measurements. These lead to theories and models, which lead to predictions. The predictions can then be tested by further measurements and observations, which can validate or invalidate the theories and models, or be used to refine them.
This is the paradigm accepted by all scientists. But scientists being people, typically in an academic research community, within a political society, there can be many a slip between cup and lip in the practice of science. There are the problems of getting funding, of peer pressure and career considerations, of dominant political dogmas, etc.
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In These New Times 