CBC | World News
In a speech to G20 finance ministers, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocates a global tax on financial transactions to fund future bank bailouts.U.S. President Barack Obama has urged members of Congress in the House of Representatives to 'answer the call of history' and pass the health-care reform bill.
Wealthy countries came under attack at the UN climate talks in Spain on Friday for not pursuing a legally binding global treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and instead pushing for a weaker political agreement.
| Countries like Ukraine have gone too far in responding to the H1N1 pandemic, a European flu specialist said Friday. |
The Berlin Wall's longest remaining stretch has been restored to its state of nearly two decades ago after artists repainted the colourful murals they created in the aftermath of the notorious barrier's opening.
The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 10.2 per cent in October from 9.8 per cent, as non-farm payroll employment declined by 190,000.
Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists say.
Finance ministers from the G20 countries were grappling with the problem of how to allow big banks to big fail as they gathered in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Friday.
A Melbourne postal worker who discovered a case containing $100,000 AUD (approximately $96,781 Cdn) says she did not want to know what was in it.
CBC | Canadian News
Montreal's Jewish General Hospital says a full-disclosure policy regarding mistakes made during patient care is responsible for a 50 per cent drop in adverse incidents over the past three years.
The Independent - Africa
Simon Mann has been urged by Foreign Office officials to remain silent about the coup attempt that left him languishing in an African prison, and settle for a "quiet life" with his wife and family in the UK, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.UN attempts to slow the new scramble for Africa
More than 50 heads of state will gather for a summit later this month to look at ways of policing the extraordinary "land grab" that has seen richer countries buy up at least 20 million hectares of farmland in Africa in the last 18 months. The United Nations is drawing up a "code of conduct" in an effort to slow what's been described as a new scramble for Africa, while agriculture experts are calling for a new global watchdog and aid agencies are appealing for a moratorium on new deals.
British 'Indiana Jones' finds missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue
It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: an archaeology professor with little more to go on than a yellowing photograph discovers part of a 900-year-old statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process
Some of Kenya's most powerful figures could find themselves in the dock at The Hague charged with crimes against humanity after the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said he would pursue the masterminds behind the country's post-election violence last year.
Zimbabwe looks set to escape any punishment over its trade in blood diamonds after a ruthless lobbying campaign by the Mugabe regime that has included threats and intimidation of a key witness at an international summit in neighbouring Namibia.
Nearly 30,000 victims of toxic dumping in the Ivory Coast may be deprived of £30m compensation after an African court froze the bank accounts into which the money has been paid.
The smell of burning charcoal wafts from the little maasai homes made of stick and animal skins, where large families crowd around small pans taking the little food that is available.Guy Adams: 'When I climbed it, the glaciers seemed remote and shrivelled'
According to the guide who took me up Africa's tallest mountain, the name "Kilimanjaro" comes from two words. The first, "Kilima" is Swahili for "hill". The second, "Njaro", can mean "white", or "shiny", or even, depending on both the vigour with which it's pronounced and the imagination of the listener, "shimmering".
Talks to free British couple threatened by media 'circus'
Charlize Theron told: Hands off Mandela...
Bainimarama Issues Statement On Diplo Expulsions
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00107.htmThe Chief Justice has already highlighted the interference into our Judiciary, the Fijian Judiciary by the governments of Australia and New Zealand
It is a matter of great shame that Madame Justice Anjala Wati a respected member of our High Court bench was harassed and humiliated by the New Zealand High Commission in Fiji when she applied for a visa on medical grounds to take her baby son to New Zealand.
In addition to this shameful incident the Sri Lankan judges who have been appointed to serve in the Fijian judiciary were told that they would not be able to travel through and to Australia because they had taken these positions.
Again when this matter was highlighted in the media by the Chief Justice there was frenzied denial that visas had been refused by the Australian government.
However, we now know that one of these Sri Lankan judges had the foresight to tape the conversation in which she was informed by the Australian official in Colombo that travel sanctions would apply because she had taken the position in the Fijian judiciary.
The culmination of these incidents displays a consolidated effort to attack Fiji's independent judiciary. It also shows that the Australian and New Zealand Governments have been dishonest and untruthful over the matter of travel ban for judges.
Congo villagers kill 47 policemen
Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel
Amnesty International launches media network with ...
General Assembly Calls For US Cuba Embargo To End
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00440.htm
The General Assembly has voted for the 18th consecutive year to condemn the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba for the past half century and called for it to be lifted.
Member States voted overwhelmingly yesterday to adopt a non-binding resolution that voices concern that the embargo is having “adverse effects” on the Cuban people and on Cuban nationals living in other countries.
UN Reparations Panel For Kuwait Invasion Pays Out
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00435.htm
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses due to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today made $610 million available to 10 successful claimants.
The latest round of payments brings the total amount of compensation disbursed by the Commission to individuals, corporations, governments and international organizations to more than $28 billion, according to a press release issued today.
Ban Calls For Scaled-Up Funding To Ensure Peace
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00439.htm
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged international donors to step up funding of recovery and development efforts in countries emerging from violent conflict to give these nations hope of a durable peace.
“As countries come out of conflict, they need basic services: water and sanitation, health and primary education, and sound food and agriculture systems,”
Poison Free New Zealand’s Nationwide Protest Day
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00070.htm
The group Poison Free New Zealand are organizing nationwide rallies to protest the continuous, indiscriminate aerial dropping of the poisons 1080 and Brodifacoum on our so-called 100% Pure Clean Green Country.
The aerial dropping of poisons has undesirable side effects for our environment, health and native wildlife. There are better, safer, cheaper and more humane methods of protecting our environment.
Five-year phase out for insecticideAZM
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00061.htm
Ban on domestic use or aerial application of the substance, relabelling, creating buffer zones to protect bystanders and the environment, a requirement that protective equipment be worn by workers re-entering an area that has been sprayed, and limiting the number of applications per year.
Approach To Methyl Bromide Branded Reckless
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00060.htm
“Releasing a gas that seriously depletes our ozone layer and is a known neurotoxin, and allowing bystanders to be as close as 50 metres from the release of up to 1000kg of that gas is outrageous. This has to be one of ERMA’s worst,” said Soil & Health spokesperson Steffan Browning.(2)
Poor to polluters: Help us deal with the damage
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00047.htm
Today Oxfam releases a new report documenting how Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change.
The report, ‘Climate Change, Adaptation and Poverty in Bolivia’, shows how glacial retreat, natural disasters, disease, forest fires, and erratic weather patterns could devastate a country which has done little to cause the climate crisis.
It also shows how Bolivian communities are fighting to adapt to a changing climate despite a lack of international support. For example, poor communities in Beni are reviving an ancient practice of building raised fields called camellones to protect crops from flooding. Rich countries have yet to commit anywhere near the new money which poor countries need to develop projects like this.
Dinosaur Footprints Discovered In The South Island
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00011.htm
Scientists have found 70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints in northwest Nelson.
They are the first dinosaur footprints to be recognised in New Zealand and the first evidence of dinosaurs in the South Island. They were discovered by geologist Greg Browne of GNS Science.
Dr Browne found the footprints while investigating the properties of the rock and sediment formations in the northwest Nelson region.
There are six locations over an area about 10km in length where footprints appear. At one location there are up to 20 footprints.
GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00010.htm
Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.
Evolutionary research featured in Nature
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00008.htm
Research by Professor Paul Rainey shedding new light on the origins and genetics of adaptive traits is the cover story in the latest edition of the prestigious science journal Nature.
A paper by Professor Rainey’s team from the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study at Albany, entitled Experimental Evolution of Bet Hedging, investigates the way organisms hedge their bets when faced with an uncertain, changing environment, by switching randomly between forms suited to different environments.
Evolution essential knowledge for medical students
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00005.htm
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, former Director of The University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute, is one of a number of eminent international medical scientists and educators calling for evolutionary biology to be a core subject in medical schools.
The recommendation, published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, follows from the Academy’s Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on ‘‘Evolution in Health and Medicine’’ held in April 2009 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
NZ Exports and Health at Risk from GE Corn
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00004.htm
Calls for New Zealand Food Authorities to withdraw approval of a new form of GE corn demands urgent action, or risks harming New Zealanders and the New Zealand quality brand name.
As well as impacting consumers directly, New Zealand exports could be damaged if manufacturers using 'local and imported ingredients' end up incorporating the GE corn in foods marketed internationally as 'coming from New Zealand'.
Monsanto's high-lysine GE corn (LY038) has been the subject of stark warnings by independent scientists that the product when cooked could create compounds linked to serious disease.
The GE corn has been withdrawn in Europe having been developed by Monsanto as a new form of animal feed. But lack of effective separation of this form of GE corn from human food has prompted Monsanto to gain approval for human consumption.
There is a cost to New Zealand public in trying to avoid this GE corn on top of the unknown health effects that may affect susceptible people. GE Free NZ believes this cost far outweighs the benefit that this untested, unsafe corn is approved for.
"There are clear indications the corn, when heated, presents a health risk to people and on that basis alone its approval should be rescinded," says Jon Carapiet from GE Free NZ in food and environment.
( 'Health Risk' ! Do we have a contender for 'Understatement of the Day' ? )
Power up without plugging in
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00001.htm
The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology is currently supporting research projects around inductive power transfer (IPT) technology in novel applications, and the Foundation’s business arm, Technology New Zealand, has invested in several of the eight New Zealand companies that are licensed to adapt the technology for wide-ranging applications.
Cloud computing just got another green light
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00006.htm
Cloud computing is all about accessing your information using any computer anywhere by saving all of your software and data online.
And according to Technology Wise Director Michael Doerner, Karmic Koala, released by Canonical, is the first operating system that makes this possible.
He says many other products talk about cloud computing but only Karmic Koala, a linux-based operating system based on the popular Ubuntu free open source operating system, has produced the goods.
( Dr. John [ Nepmak 2000 ] was blogging about it. There should be more to come...if My Opera gets going again ! Opera itself is working.
O.K. That was weird. RSS Update coming up.)
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