ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …
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16 May 2011 BAHRAIN: How radical are Bahrain’s Shia? EGYPT: Could Egypt’s revolution become mirage in the desert? IRAN-BAHRAIN: Iranian ships carrying aid to Bahrain turned back in Persian Gulf IRAN-SYRIA: ‘Nakba’ clashes: Iran, Syria trying to turn Arab Spring fury into attacks on Israel? ISRAEL: The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel’s door LEBANON-SYRIA: …
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Bottom line: ignorant government policies, and particularly the mandating of corn’s use to make ethanol, have driven the price of corn up for real people who want to each corn and products containing corn (which turns out to be just about everything). It’s Getting Harder to Bring Home the Bacon By MARY KISSEL, April 30, …
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Updated 1 June 2017 Below in two columns are righteous sites and professional sites of note. RIGHTEOUS SITES OF NOTE 9/11 Archive.org AbundanceHub.com Academic Earth Adblock Plus (add-on) A Force More Powerful AfricanFossils.org Afrigadget A Human Right (Internet Access) Aid Data Akshaya Trust (feeding & housing) ALEC Exposed Alliance for Separation of School & State …
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2014-07-03 Tip of the Hat to Joe Hudson & Bill for catching Robert Steele’s typo (fuel is grams vice gallons, a convention used to integrate varying forms of measuring fuel) As created by Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz, visit Re-Configure See Also: Data-Hacking the Cotton T-Shirt: True Cost (water,energy,travel,emissions,toxins,import costs,child labor,fertilizer) As First Used in HOPE 2010 …
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Subject: AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga By Joe Bageant Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can …
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Bahrain, Egypt-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Lebanon, Libya, Libya-India, Comment on No-Fly Zones, Special Comment on Aid to Uprisings and Mercenaries