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As I met with the cast for the first time, being a little concerned about availability and expense of props, I asked the boys in the cast if any of them had switch blades. All but one reached instantly into pockets and pulled out a switch blade. two or three of them snapping open.
Iceland creates haven for investigative reporting
http://www.scoopit.co.nz/story.php?title=Iceland_creates_haven_for_investigative_reporting-1
http://www.independent.co.uk
Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism.
Created with the involvement of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, it increases protection for anonymous sources, creates new protections from so-called "libel tourism" and makes it much harder to censor stories before they are published.
US Money Supply Contracting at 1929 Rate
http://www.scoopit.co.nz/story.php?title=US_Money_Supply_Contracting_at_1929_Rate-1
http://seekingalpha.com
The stock of money fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc. The assets of institutional money market funds fell at a 37pc rate, the sharpest drop ever. "It’s frightening," said Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research. "The plunge in M3 has no precedent since the Great Depression. The dominant reason for this is that regulators across the world are pressing banks to raise capital asset ratios and to shrink their risk assets. This is why the US is not recovering properly."
( Requiring a set percentage of a falling market valuation as security means a constantly decreasing availability of 'money'. Coupled with 'interest' rates around zero and therefore no incentive to make loans means that risk capital and liquid assets...evaporate. )
Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all-cause and chronic-disease mortalities in Bangladesh
http://washresearch.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/arsenic-exposure-from-drinking-water-and-all-cause-and-chronic-disease-mortalities-in-bangladesh
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 19 June 2010. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60481-3.
Background
Millions of people worldwide are chronically exposed to arsenic through drinking water, including 35—77 million people in Bangladesh. The association between arsenic exposure and mortality rate has not been prospectively investigated by use of individual-level data. We therefore prospectively assessed whether chronic and recent changes in arsenic exposure are associated with all-cause and chronic-disease mortalities in a Bangladeshi population.
( Related file : Estimating the impact on health of poor drinking water interventions in developing countries )
America’s Topsoil Loss Disaster
http://fixingourfood.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/americas-topsoil-loss-disaster
Most consequences of our Industrial agriculture and food production system can be restored if we change to sustainable systems, including our obesity and diabetes epidemics, deteriorated longevity and reduced healthfulness. Even rivers and estuaries can recover their ability to support wildlife. But one consequence of industrial agriculture cannot be easily restored; the loss of our precious topsoil. This takes eons to form and minutes to erode, and it has been leaving our farms at an alarming rate for decades.
DESERTIFICATION
http://desertification.wordpress.com
Online Course Announcement: Designing & Funding Sustainable Development Projects
In an effort to make our training accessible to a larger international audience, we are inexpensively offering key courses—online—on adapting to climate change, food security, project design, community participation, and funding.
Development staff from 67 countries are now using these courses to develop community-centered, sustainable development projects to address a range of challenges.
A module of the two most popular courses is being offered online in July, 2010.
THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRISY
http://kerstis.wordpress.com
If you had to name one person who is most responsible for corn and ethanol subsidies which fuel our obesity and E.coli epidemics it would be Senator Harkin of Iowa as former chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee. To hear the Senator, who now chairs the Senate Health and Education Committee, conduct a hearing on childhood obesity on March 5th has to be the ultimate hypocrisy. A quote from the Wall Street Journal our reference #17. “ Call the 19% of kids who are obese the children of corn”.
#17 THE FAT OF THE LAND – AN OPINION ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY
But the damage caused by corn and corn production doesn’t end with processed food the focus of the above opinion.
Denuding vast areas of the US surface area to plant corn is the cause of the Nations topsoil loss disaster. See our reference # 52.
British Newspaper Apologizes to Climate Scientist
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/climate-scientist-gets-a-media-apology/?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the Amazon was vulnerable to drought as a result of trends linked to climate change.
The panel backed its conclusion with a report prepared for the W.W.F., an environmental group, demonstrating that around 40 percent of the Amazon rain forest could be sensitive to future changes in rainfall.
That the United Nations climate body cited evidence using environmental activists as a source, rather than independent scientists, added to a storm of criticism among bloggers and in the mainstream media about the credibility of climate science.
The London newspaper The Sunday Times described the authors of the W.W.F. report as “green campaigners” with “little scientific expertise” in an article that appeared in January. The article also stated that the authors’ research had been based on a scientific paper that dealt with the effect of human activity rather than with climate change.
This weekend, The Sunday Times published a correction of crucial elements of its article from January. Dr. Lewis had criticized the United Nations panel for not fully citing the relevant peer-reviewed evidence in its assessment report.
China Dwarfs U.S. in Clean Energy Investment
http://www.energyboom.com/emerging/china-dwarfs-us-clean-energy-investment
Pumping US$34.6 billion into green projects last year, double the amount invested in the United States.
‘Security’ from War?
http://blog.pdamerica.org/2010/06/security-from-war
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