AU 60 Minutes BP Oil Spill Video, 13 June 2010, Removed by BP Demand
Part 1 | Part 2
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+ BP Uses Outsourced Indian Company to Demand Removal of Document from Public Intelligence
+ TEDxOilSpill
Event: 28 Jun-2 July 2010, Singapore International Water Week
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The Singapore International Water Week is the global platform that brings policymakers, industry leaders, experts and practitioners together to address challenges, showcase technologies, discover opportunities and celebrate achievements in the water world.
Themed Sustainable Cities: Clean and Affordable Water, the Singapore International Water Week 2010 will focus on the need for efficiency and cost effective solutions to address water problems amidst a constantly changing environment. More than half of the earth’s population already live in cities, and the trend towards urbanisation is accelerating. As urbanisation continues to gain momentum, there is an urgency to address the water shortage issues before the situation deteriorates further and hampers economic growth.
The event’s flagship programmes comprise:
• Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize
• Water Leaders Summit
• Water Convention
• Water Expo
• Business Forums
Related:
+ First dedicated live blog from a major water/wastewater conference
+ 40 page resource of water-related links with descriptions
Online Event: June 3, noon eastern time on the Future of Water & Energy from IEEE
05 Energy, 12 Water
Online Event: E = H20, A 24-Hour Live Experiment
From the IEEE Spectrum website: By the year 2030, the 8 billion people on Earth will face an annual water shortfall of 2700 billion cubic liters, and the world will demand 45 percent more energy than it does now. We can't solve one problem without solving the other. Join thousands of IEEE members
online starting 3 June 2010 at 12 noon ET (5 p.m. UTC) in a massively multiplayer forecasting experiment dubbed E = H20. Whether
you have 5 hours or 5 minutes, you can help explore the future at the intersection of water and energy.
About This Experiment:
E = H20 is a collaboration between IEEE Spectrum magazine and the Institute for the Future's Signtific Lab, a microforecasting platform developed by the Institute for the Future to foster open discussion about the future of science and technology.
Register
Also See http://water.signtific.org
Gulf Oil Plume Video-Ticker, Maps, and Photos + PBS Suggestion-Collection from the Public
03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 12 Water, Maps, Photography, Policies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries+ Suggestions from the public on what to do being posted at PBS NewsHour's YouTube channel (over 1,700 posts)
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+ Oil Kill by Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH)
+ Remote Operated Vehicle feeds
+ Supercomputer tapped for 3D models of oil spill
+ BP Gulf of Mexico presentation
+ PHOTOS
+ BP Deepwater Horizon Situation Status Maps
Haiti Biosurveillance: Dealing with & Preventing Malaria, Meningitis, TB, Diarrhea, Typhoid, and more
01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 10 Security, 12 Water
Related:
- http://twitter.com/Biosurveillance
- Video clip Haiti: The Cursed Land (Journeyman Films)
- Haiti Rolling Directory
Afghanistan Hashish, (not only opium) Declared World’s Largest Producer
01 Agriculture, 01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 04 Education, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, 12 Water, Threats
By VIVIENNE WALT
It's hardly news that Afghanistan's huge opium crops supply more than 90% of the world's heroin. But now U.N. officials say Afghanistan is also the world's biggest producer of another drug – hashish. In its first attempt to calculate how much cannabis is grown in the country, the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime says in a report released in Kabul on Wednesday that Afghan farmers earned up to $94 million last year from selling between 1,500 and 3,500 tons of hash – the resin extracted from cannabis crops.
U.S. and NATO officials believe that at least part of this revenue goes to insurgent groups to finance their attacks against coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, where almost all of the 139 soldiers killed this year have died. The report found that farmers grow about 17,000 hectares (about 42,000 acres) of cannabis in half of the country's 34 provinces – largely in the south. That is where Afghanistan's most fertile land is, the report says, and its rich soil produces an “astonishing yield” of potent hashish of about 320 pounds per hectare – more than three times the yield from cannabis grown in Morocco, another big hash producer. “Afghanistan is using some of its best land to grow cannabis,” says Antonia Maria Costa, director of the U.N. drug office in Vienna. “If they grew wheat instead, insurgents would not have money to buy weapons and the international community would not have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on food aid.” (See pictures of cannabis culture.)
- Afghanistan Cannabis Survey (Full report) (pdf)
Income from cannabis per ha (gross/net) US$ 3,900 / US$ 3,341
Income from opium per ha (gross/net) US$ 3,600 / US$ 2,005
Income from wheat per ha (gross/net) US$ 1,200 / US$ 960
Journal: Israel’s Government a Mutant Cancer
04 Inter-State Conflict, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, 12 Water, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
If the peace settlement does not include relocation assistance (economic), the settlers who want to relocate will be left ruined–at the same time that the government has ruined them, it plans to once again ruin Lebanon. Apart from economic equity for the relocatable settlers, a regional water management treaty that is fully transparent and enforceable through international sanctions against Israel as needed, are essential elements of any sustainable regional peace plan that integrates prosperity for all.
Israel Threatens Lebanon … Again
By CONN HALLINAN, Counterpunch, 30 Mar 2010
When Israeli Minister without Portfolio Yossi Peled said recently that a war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah was “just a matter of time” and that such a conflict would include Syria, most observers dismissed the comment as little more than posturing by a right-wing former general. But Peled’s threat has been backed by Israeli military maneuvers near the Lebanese border, violations of Lebanese airspace, and the deployment of an anti-missile system on Israel’s northern border.
The Lebanese are certainly not treating it as Likud bombast.
“We hear a lot of Israeli threats day in and day out, and not only threats,” Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri told the BBC. “We see what is happening on the ground and in our airspace…during the past two months—every day we have Israeli airplanes entering Lebanese airspace.” Hariri added that he considered the situation “really dangerous.”
By Tobias Buck in Karnei Shomron
Financial Times,March 30 2010 20:06
Benny Raz put up a “For Sale” sign outside his home last year, but he admits there is little hope of finding a buyer. The house itself is a three-bedroom property on a quiet street, with a garden and terrace offering views across rolling hills dotted with olive trees.
The problem is one of location: Mr Raz’s house sits on the outskirts of Karnei Shomron, a Jewish settlement built in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He bought the house 15 years ago for $130,000 (€97,000, £87,000). Today, Mr Raz says, no buyer is willing to pay more than $70,000 for the property – not nearly enough for the family to afford another place inside Israel itself.
Like thousands of so-called “economic settlers”, the 57-year-old moved to the West Bank for the cheap housing, the tax breaks and the promise of a comfortable life. Now, many of them find they are stuck. “The government said: I will help you buy a house in Karnei Shomron, so I went with my family. I came for economic reasons, not ideological reasons. I came because I wanted a cheaper house,” says Mr Raz.
Phi Beta Iota: There is nothing wrong with Israel, or the United States of America, that could not be fixed by restoring informed participatory democracy. Right now both governments are out-of-control and totally corrupt monsters, both cancers encroaching on everything they touch.
