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Now this is scary
No Need For Lawmakers’ Approval of Iraq Pact, Administration ReassertsThe Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein..... more at http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/06/7513/
And in this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTqs85ES9pk
I think that Hillary is clearly 'scripting' in her description of the certainty of Saddam's WMD capabilities. I think that she knew, better than I did, that Saddam didn't have them. So why did she and her husband not speak out against the war? Because they had their eyes on her running for President the whole time, of course.
Anyhow, I've just ordered this book:
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
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Reading this, I remember that I was there that day when they shut down the freeway for the bikes...
(burro-zvobikes now have outlets across the country. Goodonya Marcus!) |
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Music Wishlist
(List is very short because, nine times out of ten, I don't catch the name of songs on the radio that I really like)
Tristan and Isolde, Berlin Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim conducting
Daniel Barenboim spoke about music in the 2006 Reith lectures. In the third lecture in the series Barenboim tells how we have lost the ability to make value judgements about public standards because of political correctness and bad education. And then, in just a few bars, Barenboim got me to like Wagner!
Bonfires of Sao Joao, Forro in the Dark
Missed the Boat, Modest Mouse
Sun Tunnels, Texas Instruments
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Strong personal associations with music are limited by experience, and are only partly dictated by tastes that can be described more or less objectively. (Is that a scientific-sounding statement or what?)
Anyhow, below is the list of songs on a compliation CD that I put together last night, with links to the album, or a wiki for the artist, or the song. Anyone who wants a copy of this CD please comment here and I will get one to you. If I send it and you like it, then please consider getting me something from my music wishlist or sending me a compliation of your own! 1. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
2. Wishbone - Architecture In Helsinki
3. My Creole Belle - Mississippi John Hurt
4. Independence Park - Fred Smith
5. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
6. Morning of the Earth - Tamam Shud
7. Say a Prayer - Fred Smith
8. Chasing Fireflies - Chasing Gray
9. Open up your heart - G. Wayne Thomas
10. Dizzy Atmosphere - Charlie Parker
11. Lullaby in Birdland - Sarah Vaughan
12. Left Standing - Lucie Thorne
13. Song so Uncertain - Fred Smith
14. Civil War - Fred Smith
15. The Infinite Ocean - Fred Smith
16. An Introduction to Indian Music - Ravi Shankar
17. Aaye hain samjhane log - Jagjit and Chitra Singh
18. Heirloom - Bjork
19. Copacobana - Sarah Vaughan
20. Havana Moon - Chuck Berry
21. California - Joni Mitchell
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Dear Congressman
Thank you for your reply. I understand that funds for the troop surge have already been agreed , and so even if you decide against the surge there is little you can do (even the the joint chiefs of staff advised against the troop increase). However, I am writing again now to urge you to put your whole weight behind a plan to leave Iraq as soon as possible.
I do not admire the successes made in Iraq, because I can only compare them to the terrible mistakes that were made at the beginning of the war, and the false way in which the war was entered into. The possibilities for the pain of the war to spread, the deaths of nearly three thousand American troops, the mushrooming cost of the war, and the fact that approximately thirty-five thousand Iraqi civilians died last year (this figure released from the UN yesterday), causes me to feel utter disgust for this war and all it stands for. Can we compare those UN death rate figures to the death rate during Saddam's regime? I don't know, but I don't want to even think about the possibility that many of those deaths are indirectly or directly attributable to our war.
Public displeasure is already at record levels. How can American troops help to reform a country during a civil war type of situation, when we don't speak the local language, don't understand the minutae of the sectarian associations, and generally don't have a clue...? Iraq needs to be sorted out from the ground up, and American troops just don't have the cultural training or knowledge of local, subdistrict and provincial levels in order to really help out with things like job creation and reforming the local police.
Iraq is going to be a mess for a long time. I don't think the American people should have to pay for it. Furthermore, the following article recently came to my attention:
Future of Iraq: Spoils of War http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2007/0107spoils.htm
In that article, a controverisal new oil law is described that will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. A government that is failing to protect the lives of its citizens must not embark on controversial legislation that ties the hands of future Iraqi leaders, and which threatens to squander the Iraqis' precious, exhaustible oil resource in an orgy of waste, corruption and theft. Sincerely, Mood:  accomplished Music: telletubbies soundtrack |
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"The military action - the first U.S. intervention in Somalia since a failed peacekeeping mission that ended in 1994 - is reportedly causing new displacement in the Lower Juba area."
via AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/20316/2007/00/8-162321-1.htm
Jan. 15th, 2007 @ 10:10 am
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I am entirely frustrated by Iraq and how it is being used by Shrub. But as we know, we can't blame his administration alone! Politicians (and to some degree the American people) are pretending to forget that the authorization to use force in Iraq was obtained under false pretences.
And here is how the White House describes Iraq and implants a fear of a 'failed Iraqi state' into the American psyche -- "on one side to its east is Iran, to the west is Syria, two primary terror states who have made it clear that they're going to go after democracies throughout the region."
That part about Syria going after democracies really gets me. I'm certain that the threat from terrorism is being worsened by the current practice of US Imperialism, and I do believe that the original authorization to use force in Iraq was contingent upon its not threatening the 'war on terror'... and who is to be the judge of whether or not our presence in Iraq is making the world a more or less dangerous place? The same bright lights who told us that Iraq had WMD, who lied about Iraq getting radioactive ore from Africa, and lied about Saddam being buddy-buddy with Al Qaeda?
Jan. 11th, 2007 @ 04:48 pm
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“Our” by Joseph E. Mulligan, S.J.
If the Lord’s prayer is for all people,
then God is the God of all,
who then must be brothers and sisters of one family.
God of all nations, races, and language groups.
God of drug users and pushers
and of social drinkers and liquor dealers,
of smokers and tobacco advertisers;
of petty thieves in jail,
and of corporate criminals in country clubs,
and of the victims of both.
Of those who terrorize with chemical and bacteriological weapons,
and of those who hurt and kill by polluting the atmosphere for profit,
and of their victims.
Of those who assault and batter a person for a purse,
and of armies which attack nations for their oil and investment opportunities.
Of those who defraud with a bad check,
and of the company insiders who cheat by cooking the books
and steal by selling their stock before the crash,
and of their victims.
Of those who are in jail for perjury,
and of those who lie in advertising and governmental public relations.
Of those in prison for probation violation,
and of those in the White House, State, and Defense
who violate the rules of international law.
Of those behind bars for DUI (driving under the influence),
and of those equally reckless ones, behind desks, using and threatening WMD.
Of the drunk and disorderly,
and of the sober (or careful) executives of disorderly, rogue corporations.
Of those who fail to appear in court for driving without a license
and of those who invade without a license.
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new half-trillion dollar 2007 "war budget." While some Democratic politicians complain about Bush's management of the war, there is near-unanimous support for the war budget.
For New Years I stay at home and meditate upon the words from Portia, disguised as a lawyer in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice:
The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Jan. 1st, 2007 @ 03:14 pm
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NPR's Tom Moon provides some great listening through Shadow Classics
Including tracks from
Art Tatum's God is In the House (wow!)
Jackie Mitoo's Wishbone (another wow!)
Gregg Allman's Laid Back (very nice!)
Dec. 12th, 2006 @ 03:27 am
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This house is like a ship at sea. The wind hardly ceases blowing and the vista is ever changing even though we don't seem to get anywhere fast.
Went to the Truffle Growers Assn meeting yesterday, held at the "Goolabri Country Estate". It takes lots of money to create golf courses and huge dams and mcMansions on such marginal bushland. But anyhow, they're going to grow truffles.... I guess they may get something out in a few years. If nothing else they'll have a nice bunch of Hazelnut and Oak trees, which kinda suit this part of Australia actually. I approached the owner-man, babe in arms, and asked my questions. Got my answers. Left. Got a couple bizness cards and names to call on but I suspect the soil here may be too high in copper.
If I got livestock I'd have to fix the fences, especially the north fence if I got goats they'd bolt right through it. I don't have as many friends and connections here as one ought to if one is to go about the business of running a property... but when I bought this place I was pregnant and thought I needed the stability of being in one place for a while, and yet I was not sure whether to leave the region or what! Why did I even stay in Canberra as long as I did? The people?
Apart from a very few (you know who you are)... well... where are they?
Dec. 10th, 2006 @ 08:21 am
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Australian Climate Forum -- Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting eCarbon news
Nov. 10th, 2006 @ 08:29 am
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I want to find out how much "per watt" it would cost me to get a solar PV system installed, given a short payback period during which time I say to myself... 'this is the investment timeframe, I can afford to be out of pocket for x number of months'....
The payback period is whatever investment timeframe I find acceptable -- it will be shorter than the lifespan of the solar PV system. Let us have a paypack period of one year.
I can get 4 kilowatt hours/day (or 13652 Btu/day) for an investment cost of just under 10k Australian (that includes the installation, grid inverter, everything), or a 6.5kWatt/hrs per day (22184.5 Btu/day) system for a cost of just under AU$ 17k
Assuming I have the 17k floating around, what is my cost per watt for the 6.5 kWh system with a payback period of one year? And how does that compare to my grid electricity, which costs me an average of just over AU$ 0.18/kWh ?
My peak energy use (during mid-winter, with electric heaters going full boar) is 38 kWh per day! My botttom energy use is about 5 kWh per day.
The watt-hour is equivalent to one watt of power expended for one hour of time
(So ten 100-watt light bulbs on for an hour, is 1 kWh)
So a solar system providing 924 Btu / hour is equivalent to 271 Watts (924.354 Btu x 0.293 = 270.835)
Baby waking up, have to finish this later -- anyone want to do the last few steps for me?
Oct. 31st, 2006 @ 10:00 pm
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The most comprehensive review carried out so far on the economics of climate change was published today. The report's description of climate change as "the greatest market failure the world has seen" puts the argument in the economic basket, not just the environmental one.
And a few days ago at Australia's National Press Club, visiting speaker David Suzuki said of Australia's PM, John Howard... "I'm not calling him an asshole, but if I were to ...call him an asshole..."
And today I heard on the radio that John Howard said that all this fuss about signing Kyoto is an "inane mantra"
tit for tat I suppose
And I also heard today on the same radio channel, that the US Ambassador to Australia, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., has said that terrorism is a biger threat than climate change! He then boringly told us what we already know -- that US-AUS diplomatic relations are more focused on national security issues than they are on environmental ones. So tell me something I don't know.
Even the latest issue of Scientific American "Beyond Carbon", is a disappointment. Of course they award solar photovoltaics the prize for the technology with the largest untapped potential. I know, I know... it has to get cheaper than 50 cents / watt before it'll compete. But I just wonder where I can lay my hands on that really comprehensive comparative analysis of R&D spent vs. return for the various electricity generation methods (solar vs. nuclear --- begin!)
Australia really sells itself short -- as if this place were only good for minerals. For example, Australia led the way in solar photovoltaic technology, but you never hear about it. Even this year a pioneering project at CSIRO developing solar-based turbine technology had to go overseas to find money, and that wonderful Chinese-Australo scholar went back to China with all his solar knowledge because he couldn't get a job here! And the Australian solar energy billionaire who made his money by investing in China because there was no capacity for him to do the same in Australia. (see http://www.christinemilne.org.au/500_parliament_sub.php?deptItemID=65 ) The environmental technology invented here lies neglected, left for production and sale in China and elsewhere.
And on the educational front... I do wish more money was going into TAFE, which is being sold short (even though the govt claims it likes TAFE).
Oct. 31st, 2006 @ 10:20 am
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I love the internet
I was seeing that my mother's water bill was rather expensive .... so into Google I typed
rainwater tank san bernardino
and I got a ref to Toowoomba City Council YES CASE Councillors Named It could have provided up to 500 property's fitted with rain water tanks ... the Anderson v PG&E case - Superior Court for the County of San Bernardino, ...
www.thorley.blogspot.com/ - 149k - Cached - Similar pages |
so I went there and the reference to San Bernardino was to the famous Anderson vs PG&E case, and I was curious because I didn't realize it had been in San Bernardino County, so I then did a search for
San Bernardino Superior Court file BCV 00300
And found this neat website:
http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/soundscience/ALF_Science.html
But now it's getting late so I'll leave it to another night to find out how much rainwater tanks are for residents of San Bernardino County...
Oct. 21st, 2006 @ 07:05 pm
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Notes from http://www.lacan.org/Antigone.htm
The Freudian psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, in his seventh seminar, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, explores those considerations which could lead to a "definition" of what an ethical position from the psychoanalytic or Freudian perspective would be for both the practicing analyst and as the patient. Lacan considers Sophocle's Antigone as manifesting the only ethical position available to psychoanalysis.
Lacan focuses on the repeated statements made by the Chorus that Antigone has gone beyond Ate. To have gone beyond her fate, to go beyond rash action, and to be beyond owing a fine, penalty or debt for being on the wrong side of the law is the position Antigone inhabits.
"In some irreducible way, I am unique and alone, and who I have become has had little to do with who I set out to become but more with whom others saw me as."
Oct. 19th, 2006 @ 08:03 am
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Some problems should be relatively simple to solve, but too often become terribly complex...
Here are a few examples
* Sustainable electricity generation (E.g., for my locality, which is very windy, could be solved by one of those new Hush wind turbines.)
* The manufacture of cheap (<$US 100) reusable, recyclable computers with network connectivity, upgradeable parts, and appropriate options for non-Latin-character languages (see this article at worldchanging.com for a discussion of the hundred-dollar computer dilemma, and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for a 2005 Computer Report Card).
* Getting rid of weeds without toxic sprays
Oct. 18th, 2006 @ 05:37 pm
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Yea, I know...
Huh?
Well, I found out about these things because I was about to sign an agreement for a trial music subscription from www.emusic.com and noticed a point that I didn't understand:
13.9 To the extent it may be applicable, you agree with us to opt out from and expressly exclude any applicability of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.
So before clicking "I agree" I made it my mission to understand the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. Sigh.
I don't have time to read what the professors on intellectual property rights have to say about it...
Soon however I discovered, through reading this fine article by Pamela Samuelson - Legally Speaking: Does Information Really Want To Be Licensed? that the UCITA is a good thing to opt out of.
Pamela talks about the Universal Commercial Code Article 2B, but that's really the same thing as the UCITA. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) renamed UCC2B to UCITA and recast it as a stand-alone act.
Anyway, thats enough for now. I guess www.emusic.com gets kudos for this, no?
Oct. 13th, 2006 @ 01:39 pm
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First a technological one:
Nanomech in Photovoltaics: An interdisciplinary exploration of third generation photovoltaics, environmental technology, and scientific philosophy.
(see also http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008F6E7-3C92-137E-BC9283414B7F0000&pageNumber=2&catID=9 and http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/669.htm )
Then two political blogs:
a Left-Libertarian political blog - http://libertarianoid.blogspot.com/
a self-described "conservative" blog - http://doctor-horsefeathers.com/
Oct. 6th, 2006 @ 10:52 pm
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A wake up call about the illusion that country life is quiet: After waking up incredibly early to the sound of trucks roaring past, RW Von Stieglitz from Laguna Point in Tasmania, decided that enough was enough and sent this ascerbic bit of prose to Viewpoint at Radio National's "Bush Telegraph" program.
Aug. 29th, 2006 @ 04:04 pm
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Ugh. I am sickened by the way that journalism, academia and political analysis so often breaks everybody up into discrete categories. But it is useful.
Here is something: According to this article by Steven Sailor in "The American Conservative", on How birthrates color the electoral map, voters are picking their parties based on differing approaches to having babies. The white people in Republican-voting regions consistently have more children than the white people in Democratic-voting regions. So apparently, the more kids whites have, the more pro-Bush they get. Among the 50 states plus Washington, D.C., white total fertility was highly correlated (at r2 = 0.86) with Bush’s percentage of the 2004 vote. This helps to explain the culturally divided map of the US, with the sprawling but thinly populated “red” expanse of Republicans broken up by small but densely peopled “blue” archipelagos of Democrats. (Let me note here that I think that the two-parties-only, first-past-the-post political system sucks the big one.) It is true that singles generally seek out higher density living whilst families seek the suburbs, and that small cities (e.g. Cedar City) are more affordable than large ones (e.g. San Francisco). The author then explains why he thinks that the blue-region white Democrats’ positions on school vouchers, gun control, and environmentalism is partly motivated by fear of urban minorities and a desire to insulate themselves from the surrounding poverty.
This brings me to think about an important aspect of the global environment -- the environmental impact of a woman giving birth to just one child in the U.S. is equivalent to a women in India giving birth to 35 children; in Bangladesh it's 140 children; in Haiti it's 280 children. Of course, parents in these countries don't have anywhere near this many children and consequently don't impact the environment like the parents in the U.S. and other developed countries. The fertility rates for these countries actually hover at about: US ~2; India ~3; Bangladesh 3.3; and Haiti 4.7
Now I'm trying to figure out how it will be to go back to the US, and where to live... I don't really want to go back to LA... unless it was to work full time on community & ecological developments downtown, and I don't have any connections there (I suppose I could make some if I got really devoted!). As it is now, if I went back to LA it would be to a closer return to my current job
But how am I gonna make where I live fit with what I value? I've tried living in "the bush" out here in the coldest driest part of Australia you'll ever come across, but being a full-time mom I don't have the capacity to care for this windswept land which has such an incredibly low population density. I'm not saying it was a mistake to buy this place, because it has been very pleasant in many ways, but ... I feel that I am "going back the way I came" and thinking to myself "why didn't I just make this decision in January?" (I do know why now, but I didn't in January. Doh!)
And I don't mind going backward once in a while -- but I am making a resolution to learn to listen to my inner voice. In this case, my inner voice says, rather loudly, that I should quit my job and make the move on a clean slate. Only I'm scared to do that. Momma, help me?
Aug. 20th, 2006 @ 08:41 pm
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To some extent, rather than repeat the takes and mistakes of the two previous generations, I think that each generation learns from the past. Now I'm not saying that each generation definitively improves upon the previous one, as if there were certain evolutionary progress. (Because truly, in many ways our great-grandparents were better able to deal with their environments than we are ours.) But children don't usually repeat the mistakes of their parents -- they make new mistakes, influenced by the previous generation surely, but the mistakes themselves are somewhat altered. It is my hope that each generation learns from the previous ones, and improves upon them in some key way. But this last bit is just that -- a hope.
For many years now I've heard people contrast two basic emotions: Joy and Fear. Often people say that those are the two basic polarities, and that all emotions can boil down to that dichotomy. I'm not sure about all that, but I do appreciate the following interpretation of emotions from Steve Biddulph, the popular author on parent-child communication.
Steve writes in his book, The Secret of Happy Children, that in the adult world no one is ever, or would want to be -- continually happy. So for our children, such an aim would actually be wrong. Instead, joy is the goal, but experiencing all the emotions life brings is the way to get there most often. He says that in order to experience joy there must be a balance amongst the negative emotions of anger, fear and sadness. Anger is important because it keeps us free (without it we would be slaves, doormats, mice -- even more so than we are at present). Fear keeps us from taking risks, and thereby slows us down, forces us to stop and avoid danger. Whilst sadness is the emotion that helps us grieve -- only by being sad can we 'let go' and make new contact with people and life. So he says, joy, the fourth emotion, is what we experience when these needs are fulfilled.
I've also been thinking about weakness -- being a mother is one of the most frightening and confronting things that has occurred to me -- amidst all the joy -- because I am confronted with my weaknesses, and I worry about them, anew. In trying to keep the baby happy I am being washed in a sea of emotion -- though thankfully there is neither time nor reason for too much worry.
Nevertheless, staring into the woodfire of a night, contemplating a 5-year plan, it struck me that a lack of community was the central lack in my childhood/early adulthood, and that the central strength was a good sense of self-concept. Presently, I am more highly sensitized to those aspects of myself and others that relate to weakness rather than those that relate to strength.
As Ursula K. Le Guin spoke in her 1983 speech on the language of women; "Maybe we've had enough words of power and talk about the battle of life. Maybe we need some words of weakness. Instead of saying now that I hope you will all go forth from this ivory tower of college into the Real World and forge a triumphant career or at least help your husband to and keep our country strong and be a success in everything - instead of talking about power, what if I talked like a woman right here in public? It won't sound right. It's going to sound terrible. What if I said what I hope for you is first, if -- only if -- you want kids, I hope you have them. Not hordes of them. A couple, enough. I hope they're beautiful. I hope you and they have enough to eat, and a place to be warm and clean in, and friends, and work you like doing. Well, is that what you went to college for? Is that all? What about success?"
Yes, indeed, what about it.
a-goo
Aug. 15th, 2006 @ 07:13 pm
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Am just now reading former ASIS man Andrew Wilkie's book (Axis of Deceit) and found this little Orwellian tidbit concerning the publication review process for the book before it came out... Anyway, the book itself is worth reading, even for non-Australians, who are interested in so-called "human intelligence" (humint)
Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 04:17 pm
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Clash of Civilizations ...? Or is it a Clash of the Desperate Against the Established
EDIT: In this entry I'm just collecting tidbits that strike chords, not writing my own thing.
Radio National show "Perspective", featured Toby Miller taling about Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntinton: "... In the post-Soviet 1990s, these influential intellectuals turned to culture for geopolitical explanations. Lewis coined the expression 'clash of civilizations' to capture the difference between the separation of church and state that he argued had generated the economic and geopolitical success of the United States, versus their unity in Islamic nations, which he thought had produced those countries' subordinate status. .... Huntington appropriated the 'clash of civilizations' to argue that future world-historical conflicts would not be 'primarily ideological or primarily economic,' but 'cultural.' .... The "clash twins'" theory-of-almost-everything has gained immense attention over the past decade, notably since September 11 2001. .... Not everyone was so taken with these ideas. UNESCO's Director-General, Koichiro Matsuura, prefaced the Organization's Declaration on Cultural Diversity with a rebuttal, and the cartoonist Máximo constructed this dialog alongside the tumbling World Trade Center: 'Choque de ideas, de culturas, de civilizaciones' [Clash of ideas, of cultures, of civilizations] another say's 'choques de desesperados contra instalados' [the clash of the desperate against the established]."
and ...
And on Background Briefing: Given the role of carbon emmissions on prosperity for low-lying Pacific Island nations, Imrana Jalal talks about Australia's role in the South Pacific.
Aug. 8th, 2006 @ 08:24 pm
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“It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. And the alternative to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution
Aug. 3rd, 2006 @ 05:01 pm
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Food transport has significant and growing impacts (exerpt from http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FMAS.php )
Aug. 2nd, 2006 @ 10:36 am
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