Mar 2006
Caribbean coral suffers record die-off
2006/03/31 11:21 EnvironmentPermalink
Earth's warming likely irreversible,
scientists say
2006/03/24 15:04 EnvironmentPermalink
Within the
next 100 years, the growing
human influence on
Earth's climate could lead to a long
and irreversible rise in sea
levels by eroding Earth's
vast polar ice sheets, according to
new observations and analysis by
several teams of scientists.
Question to Noam Chomsky: Why do you
think the US went to war against Iraq?
Answer
from Noam Chomsky: Iraq has the second
largest oil reserves in the world, it is
right in the midst of the major energy
reserves in the world. Its been a primary
goal of US policy since World War II
(like Britain before it) to control what
the State Department called "a stupendous
source of strategic power" and one of the
greatest material prizes in history.
Establishing a client state in Iraq would
significantly enhance that strategic
power, a matter of great significance for
the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski
observed, it would provide the US with
"critical leverage" of its European and
Asian rivals, a conception with roots in
early post-war planning. These are
substantial reasons for aggression -- not
unlike those of the British when they
invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years
earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.
See the full Washington Post "Chat With Chomsky"
See the full Washington Post "Chat With Chomsky"
Pill-popping society fouling our water
Pill-popping society fouling our water,
official says
Supermarkets in Britain urged to snub
Canada over seal hunt
Opponents
of Canada’s annual seal hunt urged
Britain’s big supermarket chains on
Monday to boycott Canadian fish
and seafood
products.
The star-spangled fantasyland of the fake
and home of the bogus
Sandra Day O'Connor says US risks edging
near to dictatorship
Slobodan Milosevic's road to ruin
Slobodan
Milosevic is like a character written by
Goethe. The arc of his life,
his rise and fall,
is
Faustian.
High Crimes, or A Tokin' Figure?
Senator fires back at U.S. family upset
with seal hunt
A Liberal senator has
replied to a family in
Minnesota upset about Canada's
seal hunt with a letter denouncing the
United States for executing prisoners
at home and killing people in Iraq.
Bush reaffirms pre-emptive war doctrine
Washington
— Undaunted by the difficult war in
Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush
reaffirmed Thursday his
strike-first policy against terrorists
and enemy nations and said Iran may
pose the biggest challenge for the
United States.
Thriving British private schools preserve
social rifts
Vanishing toads could portend extinction
crisis
2006/03/15 15:52 EnvironmentPermalink
OSLO (Reuters) - Exotic frogs and toads
are dying out in the jungles of Latin
America, apparent victims of global
warming in what might be a harbinger of one of
the worst waves of extinction since
the dinosaurs.
In Vermont, efforts to impeach Bush fan
emotions
Resolutions approved by
five towns to impeach U.S. President
George W. Bush are giving several
sleepy Vermont communities a new,
renegade image.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld's ratings slide:
poll
WASHINGTON:
The approval ratings of President George
W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
have fallen below 40 per
cent, according to a
poll published Tuesday.
New border ID card won't fly, study
suggests
A survey released
today suggests 68 per cent
of people in the United States and 54
per cent in Canada would be unlikely
to purchase a card to avoid showing a
passport at land crossings by the end
of next year. About a third of people
surveyed in each country who don't
have passports said they'd be less
likely to cross the border, a sign of
an impending blow to tourism that's
been estimated at nearly a billion
dollars in the U.S. and twice that in
Canada.
Google set to defend challenge to US
subpoena
2006/03/14 11:44 TechnologyPermalink
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -
Google faces off
against the U.S. Justice
Department
in federal court on Tuesday as the
Internet company seeks to quash a
subpoena for search data, including
millions of user queries, in a battle
over privacy issues on the Web.
Germany's sex industry gears up for World
Cup
2006/03/14 09:28 Life
StylePermalink
The combination of nail-biting soccer
matches and crowds of beer-swilling males
could mean hefty profits for
Germany's sex
industry.
Uncle Sam and his shrinking dollar
PART 1: Why the emperor
has no clothes
With its unique privilege of being able to print the world's reserve currency at will and at a cost of nothing but the paper and ink it is printed on, the US would seem to be in a can't-lose position economically. But even the mighty dollar is not invulnerable to the massive debt caused by over-consumption, under-production and the Pentagon's global adventures.
PART 2: The center of the doughnut
There is no doubt that a collapse of the US dollar would have far-reaching effects, even as some are abandoning Uncle Sam's formerly safe haven for euros, yen and even yuan. But while the US-dominated economy gets hollowed out like a doughnut, Uncle Sam marches forward with his global vision.
With its unique privilege of being able to print the world's reserve currency at will and at a cost of nothing but the paper and ink it is printed on, the US would seem to be in a can't-lose position economically. But even the mighty dollar is not invulnerable to the massive debt caused by over-consumption, under-production and the Pentagon's global adventures.
PART 2: The center of the doughnut
There is no doubt that a collapse of the US dollar would have far-reaching effects, even as some are abandoning Uncle Sam's formerly safe haven for euros, yen and even yuan. But while the US-dominated economy gets hollowed out like a doughnut, Uncle Sam marches forward with his global vision.
Inside the US's regime-change school
2006/03/13 10:40 Middle
EastPermalink
U.S. Campaign Is Aimed at Iran's Leaders
2006/03/13 10:34
Permalink
France Failing to Tackle Riots Causes
Five months
after violent riots ravaged France's high
immigration suburbs, youths still
complain of government failure to
take practical steps
to
tackle the root causes, namely
unemployment, marginalization and
mistreatment, risking a flare-up of
violent protests.
Islamophobia masquerading as free speech
2006/03/11 17:01 Middle
EastPermalink
The
caricatures of Prophet Muhammad first
published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten
then reprinted in a string of European
newspapers have exposed
the gulf separating the
West from the Muslim world.
Wireless networking baffles some
customers
2006/03/11 16:50 Life
StylePermalink
Bush Goes on Offensive To Explain War
Strategy
The public relations
offensive is being launched
amid
intense concern in the White House
about polls showing that a growing
majority of Americans disapprove of
Bush's handling of the war and harbor
growing doubts about the prospects for
success.
Troops to get java fix, Timbits
Ex-Iraq ambassador predicts civil war
2006/03/09 20:31 Middle
EastPermalink
A former Iraqi ambassador to the United
Nations has said his country was headed for civil
war and blamed the occupation
forces for the sectarian violence.
Organic foods slip into mainstream
2006/03/09 20:22 Life
StylePermalink
Organic foods are
expanding beyond the realm of health
food stores carrying unfamiliar
brand names, as products from
mainstream food companies and sales
at traditional grocery stores are
picking up, executives and analysts
said this week.
Charcuterie is très chic
2006/03/08 10:58 Life
StylePermalink
Fuse lit for total war in Mideast: U.S.
envoy
2006/03/08 09:21 Middle
EastPermalink
Warns against pulling
troops out of Iraq too soon
Country
`really vulnerable' to an all-out
civil war
Harper probe
Ottawa
— A spokesman for the federal
ethics commissioner says his boss
will press on with a
preliminary inquiry
into
Stephen Harper, despite opposition
from the prime minister's
office.
This is simply to get your attention and
make you think that there are nude photos
if you click!
2006/03/04 09:18 Life
StylePermalink
Michael Crichton invited to the White
House?
2006/03/03 10:29 EnvironmentPermalink
One of the
most discouraging morsels of news in
recent days is that President Bush was so
enchanted by Michael Crichton's
novel purportedly
debunking global warming that he asked
Crichton to the White House to chat
with him.
Not Waving but Drowning, the Plight of
Tuvalu
2006/03/03 10:16 EnvironmentPermalink
Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly
2006/03/03 06:17 EnvironmentPermalink
The Antarctic ice sheet
is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of
ice a year in a trend that
scientists link to global warming,
according to a new paper that provides
the first evidence that the sheet's
total mass is shrinking
significantly.
Business looks at VoIP phones
2006/03/02 15:30 TechnologyPermalink
"The future is VoIP,
let's be clear," Ian Livingston,
chief executive of BT Retail, told the
Reuters Global Technology, Media and
Telecom, Summit in Paris on
Tuesday.
Where Prostitutes Also Fight AIDS
2006/03/02 08:01 South
AmericaPermalink
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The Latest Bush Fantasy
The latest
fantasy ignores the facts that a
nuclear deal with
India would violate not
just international agreements but also
several U.S. laws regulating the
export of nuclear materials...... and
here is what happened -
U.S., India Seal
Historic Nuclear Energy
Deal - President Bush,
Prime Minister Singh agreed today to
share data, fuel to help spur economic
growth - and for another view
see this!
'Rapid Warming' Spreads Havoc in Canada's
Forests
2006/03/01 06:15 EnvironmentPermalink
Millions of
acres of Canada's lush green forests are
turning red in spasms of death.
A voracious
beetle, whose population
has exploded with the warming climate,
is killing more trees than wildfires
or logging.