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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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4 An adaptive gene mutation that allowed lactase to persist in adults gave a survival advantage that has been passed down for generations.
Discovery News 5 hours ago
2 Web/iPhone/Android: Manilla is an excellent personal account management tool that we liked a lot when we tried it out earlier this year when it launched in private beta. To accompany the webapp, Manilla today has launched apps for Android and iDevices, plus support for new accounts like Netflix and Groupon. More »
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A police officer stands guard in New York's Times Square as the ABC news ticker displays news of an al-Qaida terror threat, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington. It is the first "activ
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Top Secret America: Dana Priest, William Arkin
Has the Balance Tipped? FRONTLINE September 7, 2011, 3:30 pm ET by Philip Bennett On a rainy day in October 2005, Dana Priest was escorted across the immaculate marble lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia along with a pair of her editors from The Washington Post (I was one of them). We crowded into a private, key-operated elevator that opened into a study that would have seemed almost
911 Remembrance: Understanding our government leadership
Aired September 14, 2001 Early Show Video compliments of IranContraScumDid911 You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don’t Know the Official 9/11 Story TvNewswLiews Monday, Sep 05th Jesse Richard I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on t
Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglades, Says Only ‘Radical Environmentalists’ Would Oppose
GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann doubled down on her call to drill [...]/p via Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglades, Says Only ‘
Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.”
The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper.  It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national paper’s “seriously warped” op-ed policy in this extended excerpt. [R]eality becomes so [...]/p via Scie

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Celebrating International Literacy Day
4 The UN declared September 8 International Literacy Day back in ’96 in order to celebrate the achievements of activists and new readers across the world. Because literacy is a broad concept mostly centered around critical thinking, literacy is positively linked to community health, maternal health, and family health. It’s also difficult to teach in an educational setting post-NCLB, when teacher tra
Race, Heritage, & Reality
Back in 2009, I wrote a post about race & self-identification and how being Black & X is treated differently than any other form of being multiracial. (The comments were special & filled with wank from someone determined to insist that being multiracial in America is just one overarching experience.) At the time I was specifically discussing being Black & White, but really that wh
On Consent, Sex Positivity, & Cultures of Color after Colonization
16 I wrote this last night while we were talking about this NSFW picture on Tumblr and all the cultural connotations imbedded in the idea of the knowing sexually available black woman teaching the young white man. We got off into sex positivity, the racially specific messages about sex that WOC often get inside their communities as well as what is projected on them from the outside and what all of t
What Price A Black Girl’s Life?
2 A thing I’m noticing in pop culture is this idea that black women can’t be traumatized by anything that happens to them. Usually when a female character is sexually assaulted/kidnapped/abused it works to make the audience sympathetic to that character. We certainly see that trope enough in books/movies/TV shows with white characters. In fact such traumatic moments are often used to “redeem” bad g

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The Terrorists Won
THE TERRORISTS WON.This is the price we paid. Read The Rest Scale: 5 out of 5.Read more posts at Amygdala!
Barely Alive
BARELY ALIVEI'm officially back in major depression at the moment.  Severe clinical depression.  Yes, a flare-up of my lifelong problem, and part of being bipolar, combined with severe panic disorders, anxiety disorders, and a mild degree of agoraphobia.  We'll hope the current bout of overwhelming pain, triggered by certain events, is a passing trend.But right now I'm highly dysfunctional
Staying Alive
STAYING ALIVESocial media is very distracting from blogging.  So is real life social activity.  So is severe clinical recurring depression, panic and anxiety disorders. My apologies.  I'm still here. I'm still intending to get back to blogging Real Soon Now.  Trying to work on the depression and forming new habits to get back in the blogging groove.  Miss y'all!  Read more posts at A

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Innocence And Confidences
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Shimmering And White
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The Attachment Of Free Molecules
“You’re an educated man: do you know what smell is?” “A sense.” “More than that. Smell is the essence, the attachment of free molecules of the thing itself. If we could really see each other, we would see clouds of loose molecules and atoms. We’re dripping with them. Every person you meet, you exchange some with. That’s why lovers reek of each other, because they’ve joined so completely that they’
Gentleman, Start Your Engine
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Violence in Afghanistan 09/03/2011
S. AFGHANISTAN – A soldier serving with the ISAF was killed by an insurgent attack. Details and the nationality of the solider were not provided. It gave no other details. AFGHANISTAN – Afghan and foreign troops claim to have killed 21 Taliban insurgents during raids around the country over the past 24 hours. BALKH – Combined Afghan and ISAF troops killed an unarmed female civilian during a night

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Arctic sea ice levels plummet
An analysis by the University of Bremen has show that extreme melting has pushed arctic sea ice levels to the lowest it has ever been in recorded history - and things could get worse. The record of 4.24 square kilometres could be pushed even further. There is a close link between arctic August air temperatures and sea ice melting. Temperatures this August were among the highest recorded, higher t
Businesses call for action on climate change
London: A summit of world leaders and global businesses closed yesterday with recognition that “failure is not an option” at climate talks in Durban later this year. NJ Mxakato-Diseko, ambassador at Large for COP 17/CMP 7, Department of International Relations & Cooperation South Africa, who spoke on the closing day of the Business for the Environment Climate Summit (B4E) in London, said that
Nature and religion come together in Nepal
Lumbini, Nepal: WWF has celebrated the planting of 108,000 tree saplings in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, the holy birthplace of Lord Buddha. WWF-Nepal reached its target of planting 108,000 trees within 2011 as part of a key project to plant a million trees in Lumbini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounding areas over a period of 10 years. Organized by WWF-Nepal and partner organizatio
Gold mine could get go-ahead as Romanian parliament considers land grab rights for miners
Bucharest, Romania: Proposed changes to Romania’s Mining Law to be voted soon by the Romanian Parliament would threaten not only sustainability of the region, but would also allow private interests to overtake state interest, according to WWF. Under the new provisions, private investors who obtain a license for exploitation would also gain the right to expropriate the concerned properties in the
New President for WWF-UK
London, UK: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has been announced as the new President of WWF-UK. His Royal Highness takes up the role at a key time in WWF’s history - our 50th anniversary - and as we look to the future. Prince Charles succeeds Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra as President, a post she has held for nearly 30 years. In his new role with WWF, the Prince will be working with
WWF applauds joint US-EU efforts to combat illegal fishing
Washington DC, USA: WWF has applauded an agreement signed between the United States and the European Union to work together in the fight against illegal fishing. Together the US and the EU command over half of global seafood imports and both have control over significant fishing fleets. Joint EU-US action against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing can make a real difference. Maria

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Ideas abound . . .
BRANDS OF THE WORLD is a neat site, where one can find company logos in various formats, for use in printing and web sites. They have posted the winning entries in their 2010 Logo Design Contest, and the entries are entertaining. Some, like the winner, below, are excellent. Take a minute, and check 'em out. Sometimes, finding a font can be frustrating. For the intrepid, there is Font Yukle. Logo c
Portrait of power . . .
IF YOU'VE NEVER WATCHED CITIZEN KANE, now's a great time. According to Slate's Fred Kaplan, the new Blu-Ray DVD of Citizen Kane is superb:In September 2008, I wrote a Slate column urging all film-lovers to go buy a Blu-ray player so they could watch the new digital restorations of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II in a format that looked—in clarity, color, and detail—remarkably close to the
9/11 . . .
TEN YEARS ON, AND HERE WE ARE. It's a different world, with a different future. And what will that be? My opinion, my guess, is that, 300 years from now, historians will say that 9/11's prime importance was that the resultant fixation on internal security delayed the advent of the Second American Revolution by some 75 years. I hope I am wrong, that Revolt in 2100 will become reality — a lot sooner
Did you know . . .
Marijuana harvesting in Kyrgyzstan sometimes involves naked horseback riding? According to io9, it does.
THE FETUS FREAKS JUST KEEP AT IT. Liberty Counsel is a site run by hard-core eva...
THE FETUS FREAKS JUST KEEP AT IT. Liberty Counsel is a site run by hard-core evangelicals. According to them, "Mississippi Supreme Court Rules that Citizens May Vote on the Personhood Amendment". Which means?If passed, the law would amend the Mississippi Constitution to include an unborn child in Mississippi as a “person” and thus protected under the Constitution. Liberty Counsel represents Person
Omg . . .
Cherokees expel slaves’ descendants from tribe, cutting medical care, housing, other services.According to the Washington Post —The tribe never owned black slaves, but some individual members did. They were freed after the Civil War, in which the tribe allied with the Confederacy. An 1866 treaty between the tribe and the federal government gave the freedmen and their descendants “all the rights of

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Daily Dig: A Simple Move That Could Save Us $89 Million
• If buses were subsidized instead of planes in some areas, it could save taxpayers $89 million. (Bloomberg) • Can cities ever become 100% self-reliant for food? (SmartPlanet) •Monsoon rains in Karachi, Pakistan killed 216 people and left 300,000 homeless Read more ›
Bonus Round! U.S. Transportation Secretary Takes More of Your Questions
This is a guest post by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. A heartfelt thanks to readers of The Infrastructurist for submitting some terrific questions to “On the Go with Ray LaHood.” As you know, the President is putting a spotlight Read more ›
The New 9/11 Memorial: What Do the Critics Think?
After the nation solemnly marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks this weekend, a new memorial at Ground Zero opened to the public on Monday to mostly good reviews. More than 400 swamp oak trees surround the two Read more ›
Ray LaHood Answers Your Questions On Street Signs, Politicians, Ports & More
A few weeks ago, we asked for your questions for U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The responses were plentiful, widespread, and fantastic – even the DOT had to admit that Infra readers had outdone themselves. Now, here’s the man himself Read more ›
Daily Dig: Stunning Photos of Rebuilding in Fukushima
• Six months later, a look at the devastation of the earthquake in Japan through pictures. (Atlantic) •What does the future look like to an optimistic environmentalist? Futurist James Cascio gives three possible outcomes to this effect. (FastCompany) • What Read more ›
Rush Hour Read: Does Urban Density Lead to More Jobs?
As President Obama and his economic advisers desperately try to figure out how to get millions of unemployed Americans back to work, the relationship between job creation and urban density hasn’t exactly been on the radar. But maybe it should Read more ›

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Another Thought on Deterrence
It's often the most Cold-War-conventional thinkers who claim that Iran, if it had nuclear weapons, would not be deterred from attacking Israel. But Tony Judt put the counterargument very nicely: If Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. and Israel would wipe out large sections of that country. Tehran is a sophisticated place that knows this perfectly well. Most Iranians I know think
No New Information on Al Kibar
Jeffrey Lewis has posted again about that Syrian site sometimes known as al Kibar that the Israelis bombed in September 2007. He seems to think that the recent Bush and Cheney books, along with an article by Bob Woodward, provide some new insights. I disagree.I agree with his opening statement: Something about the whole Syria nuclear reactor story has never seemed quite right to me.Jeffrey has gen
At Long Last, Have You No Sense of Decency?
I keep wondering when an adult Republican is going to suggest to the rest of his (yeah, his, the guys are still in charge) party that it is one of two major political parties in the country, and both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution suggest that one of the country's values is that we can hold differences of opinion on governance and still respect each other.Or, perhaps, in a mo
Reconsidering Nuclear Deterrence
I’ve been wanting to write on nuclear deterrence for a long time. Part of why I haven’t is that too many of the arguments make my head spin. But another one showed up last week, and my head isn’t spinning yet.The article is mostly an argument against some of the things that the estimable Ward Wilson has written, and I’ll leave it to him to respond to that. What I’d like to do is to look at the det
Democrabs
Sure, there's reason to be concerned that any president's reelection chances might be poor in an economy like ours. The empirical realities of a crappy economy and disgruntled citizens, including Obama supporters, are unavoidable. But the Democrats really don't help themselves. After a Thursday address that recaptured momentum on the side of President Obama and even optimism in some corners, here
Macaúba
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Movie "Fordson": New English-speaking patriots
On a personal level, the most surprising aspect of Rashid Ghazi's new documentary, "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football," is that he managed to keep it a secret and even managed the time to make it. An old friend, he personally funded and directed this portrait of a week in the life of a tightly-knit Detroit community at the beginning of their 2009 school year. A husband, a father, and tireless exec
Remembering 9/11: A familiar yet unique story
I was walking west through Midtown Manhattan’s urban canyons and admiring the cloudless September day when I met a small, disparate group of distressed pedestrians looking skyward. They told me a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. It was such a clear day, but could it have been an accident? Minutes later when I came to Madison Avenue, I found people lining both the sidewalks. They were
The US economy: Lessons from the last caliphate
The U.S. Postal Service is a mess, drowning in debt and nearly done in like Hosni Mubarak by social media. One of its own plans to rescue itself calls for the elimination of 220,000 jobs, which is like shoving the entire population of Reno, Nevada, into a job market already overfull and desperate. Little wonder the country waits so eagerly for President Obama’s jobs plan. Except that what ails u
Uncommon alliances: Muslim and Jew, left and right
In October, the Dutch Senate will consider the ban on ritual slaughter enacted by the parliament’s lower house in June 2011. Self-described as “an institution that pays little heed to ideas which happen to be fashionable at the time,” the Senate has no one party that holds a majority. It will therefore be interesting to see whether it is able to protect religious freedom or succumb to the pressure
Sharing Ramadan: Breaking bread (not signs) in Murfreesboro
The voice of a young Middle Eastern man echoed through the room as he sounded the call to prayer amidst a crackling microphone; the time to break the Ramadan fast had arrived. Water and fresh dates are offered to the primarily non-Muslim crowd and the Iftar dinner is served. While the Muslim hosts are busying themselves setting the buffet tables for the ensuing feast, I find myself noticing that
Poll analysis: Taking stock of Muslims in America
Last year, during a raging controversy over the building of an Islamic centre in Lower Manhattan, Time Magazine ran a cover story titled, "Is America Islamophobic?" Shortly thereafter, a poll released by Time showed nearly six in ten Americans held an unfavorable view of Muslims. A Gallup poll released the same year revealed four in ten Americans admitting to “feeling at least ‘a little’ prejudice

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Beauty Contest
This looks a lot like the Georgian front row in the Rugby World Cup. It is however the gallery of “stars” being lined up to front the “No to independence” campaign in the coming referendum. The No campaign will have plenty of money behind it. Scotland’s remaining oil reserves are currently estimated at £3 trillion. London won’t let that go without a massive fight. I hope Alex Salmond doesn’t
Disgusting War Criminals Squeal
The New Labour Torture and War Crimes Party is squealing at the boundary commission changes. I hate their rank hypocrisy. Anyone with the remotest interest in psephology knows that a combination of shire constituencies being historically larger, and recent drift from city centres, gives New Labour an advantage over the vicious Tories. I do not favour First Past the Post at all, but the electora
Hague Protects Straw on Torture
2 duffieldminute mcDonald Something is, obviously to anybody, missing from this document series and something else is also missing obviously to anybody who has been a Whitehall civil servant. For earlier documents in the series see here. But the crucial missing documents relate to these two above, labeled duffieldminute and mcDonald. What is, obviously to anybody, missing is a communication from
World’s Largest Shoplifting Centre
The world’s largest shoplifting centre has been opened next to the Olympic stadium in Stratford. This will be the most enjoyable epic fail by the Australians since the Ashes. I walked a few months ago along a street in nearby Leyton, off Francis Rd. Something caught my attention, and I started looking at tax discs. Of sixty two cars parked on one side of the street, twenty one had no valid tax
SM, Drugs, Osborne and Coulson
One good thing about the Aussies is that they are not deferential. http://bit.ly/nEH6P2 Thanks jonangus for flagging this up to me in comments. I should say that I have no objection to Osborne taking cocaine, but I do object to his subsequent hypocrisy in defending its criminalisation. Nor do I care about his masochistic practices in subsequent sexual activity with a prostitute, though I do obje
Simon McDonald
I keep linking a lot to the Daily Mail lately. Their coverage of the revelations of security services complicity with the Gadaffi regime has been outstanding. Yesterday they showed that Libyan dissidents in the UK were made victims of control orders at the request of Colonel Gadaffi – not because they posed any particular threat of terrorism in the UK, but to handicap their anti-Gadaffi activitie

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Pre-Crime Face Scanner to Be Used For 'Security Interrogations'
Pre-Crime Face Scanner to Be Used For 'Security Interrogations' Dubious technology could frame thousands of innocent people as terrorists or criminals Paul
Ron Paul DOUBLES His National Support In Just 2 Weeks
Ron Paul DOUBLES His National Support In Just 2 Weeks CNN poll confirms Congressman is top tier candidate Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday,
"Credible" Terror Alert Turns Into Feamongering Farce
"Credible" Terror Alert Turns Into Feamongering Farce Ludicrous overreaction to airplane bathrooms visits underscores the fact that the terrorists have won
Ron Paul: Border Fence Could Be Used To "Keep Us In"
Ron Paul: Border Fence Could Be Used To "Keep Us In" Congressman warns militarized border policies could be turned inwards during economic turmoil Paul Joseph
UBS: Euro Collapse Could Lead To Martial Law, Civil War
UBS: Euro Collapse Could Lead To Martial Law, Civil War Hank Paulson-style fearmongering is desperate effort to save single currency, preserve plan for
Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School Curriculum
Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School Curriculum Government-supported effort to 'encourage critical thinking' actually encourages obedient regurgitation

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Uniform (or, always back to Dawn of the Dead).
Covering 1.9m square feet – five times the floor area of Tate Modern, 20 times that of St Paul's Cathedral – Westfield Stratford City contains multitudes of chain shops: Apple, Bose, Lego, Primark, Tommy Hilfiger, Zara. There are "exciting" food options: KFC, Krispy Kreme, McDonald's, Mr Pretzels, Starbucks and Subway. There is a "state of the art", 17-screen cinema, Vue, where you can book "
100 years ago.
Thomas L. Friedman, 10 years ago:We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules, and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. It won't be easy. It will require our best strategists, our most creative diplomats and our bravest soldiers. Semper Fi. Both ourselves and the US managed the first part. The second, not so much.
Bones.
Justice at long last for Baha Mousa.
When the Saville inquiry into Bloody Sunday finally reported, I asked whether the forthcoming report into the death of Baha Mousa, coming just 7 years after his death could shine a similar light onto the excesses of the military. To the great credit of Sir William Gage and the team whom worked with him both on the report and during the inquiry, it does. It also asks a lot of questions which have
Scum-watch: What a difference 4 years makes.
The Sun's editorial the day after the collapse of the court martial against six of the men accused of being involved in the abuse of Baha Mousa:COMMON sense prevailed when two British soldiers were cleared of abusing Iraqi prisoners.Major Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies served with courage and bravery in the most difficult conditions.This ludicrous show trial ? which has already se
Sympathy for Lady Dorries.
You can't help but feel a little sorry for Nadine Dorries tonight. Only a little sorry, as it's difficult to remain sympathetic for long towards someone who has proved time and again to be their own worst enemy. After all, it would have been a bad enough day for Dorries if she'd only been insulted by David Cameron at prime minister's questions, having asked the leader of her party when he was go

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Fire At George Bush Park In Harris County—Take Steps To Avoid Being The Cause Of Any Fires
There is a wildfire at George H.W. Bush Park in Harris County. Here is a non-ideological assessment of the presidency of G.H.W. Bush.  Though this is not the main subject of this blog post, it is always the right time to learn about and to think about new things. Here is a report on the fire from Houston TV station KTRK.    (Update—9/14/11—Progress was made overnight in figthing the fire.) The pi
Driver’s License Renewal—Peace & Blessings To All Our Fellows
I’m at the DMV right now getting my driver’s license renewed. I’m happy to be with all my fellow citizens. And non-citizens. All people must visit the DMV to get a driver’s license. The picture here is of my shoes as I wait in line. Some of our fellow citizens don’t look very friendly. I’m concerned that somebody might shoot me if I took a picture in which they felt they had been included. On th
Cheering Death—Tea Party/Republican Party Candidates Tell You Who And What They Are
Let us appreciate some folks in the crowd at the Republican debate last night cheering the idea of an uninsured person dying just as we welcome Rick Perry’s lack of concern – and the crowd’s roaring approval—that any of the 234 people he has executed may have been innocent. Let the American people have clear choices in 2012 and we can decide as a nation what we want. If you think that Social Secur
Industry Approved License Plate—Can’t We All Just Have The Same Message On Our License Plates?
Here is an industry approved license plate I saw on my travels in Cincinnati and Kentucky last week. Here are some basic facts about coal in Kentucky.  I wish we could just go back to license plates that had a nice tourism related saying on them– or some type of state motto—that everybody can support. I don’t like thoughts expressed on license plates that I agree with anymore than ideas I do not
Choices Made Since 9/11/01
I’m sorry for the people who died on 9/11. I’m sorry we were told to shop after 9/11 and that many of us chose to consume beyond our means. I’m sorry that some of the financial firms in Manhattan chose to cheat people and to rip people off. I’m sorry we sometimes used 9/11 to scapegoat Muslims and torture people. I’m sorry we used 9/11 to start wars based on lies, kill civilians, and then treat o
Rick Perry Skips Scheduled Wildfire News Conference—Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up
Here is the most recent Texas Progressive Alliance round-up. The TPA is a confederation of the best political bloggers in Texas. TPA membrs are citizen-bloggers who are working everyday for a better Texas. With the round-up this week is news that Texas Governor Rick Perry did not show up at a scheduled news conference to address the Texas wildfires. This despite the fact that Mr. Perry had been ab

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Developing Countries' Designs for the Green Climate Fund
With its coffers largely dry and its management being contested, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) remains a hot topic among African civil society. Ahead of the upcoming international climate change meeting in South Africa, African ministers have already met to set their agenda and civil society is looking to do the same.
Q&A: Africa Keen to Ensure Kyoto Protocol Survives
Durban should not be the burial ground for the Kyoto Protocol, says Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, about his expectations from the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change happening in his hometown in South Africa later this year.
Citizen Actions Turn Up the Heat for a Warming Planet
Civil society leaders meeting here for the 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly are looking ahead toward next year's Rio+20 summit – a milestone anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and a crucial meeting of U.N. member states and non-governmental organisations to work towards a greener future.
MEXICO: Climate Change Drives Migration
"We planted our seeds, but the earth is no longer productive. We've had too much rain, even more than last year, and the harvest was ruined," says Ermelinda Santiago of the Me'phaa indigenous people, who like everyone else in the village of Francisco I. Madero has been affected by the impact of extreme weather on agriculture in southern Mexico.
MEXICO: Traditional Maize Can Cope with Climate Change
Maize, Mexico's staple food as well as a symbol, has the potential to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects without any need for genetically modified seeds, according to agricultural scientists.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal's women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.

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Reporting to the Board of Governors
It’s mid-September, so it must be Vienna, and that means it’s time for another spin on the Prater with the IAEA Board of Governors followed by the annual IAEA General Conference. After that there’s one more board meeting on Sept. 26, and, and before you know it, the Riesling vines in Alsace are turning yellow, and I’ll be ready after all this IAEA stuff in Vienna for a quick swing back through the
Revisiting Bush’s Decision on Al Kibar
4 Something about the whole Syria nuclear reactor story has never seemed quite right to me. When anonymous US officials began to hint that the facility struck by Israel was in some way nuclear, I wondered how solid that intelligence was. Why couldn’t they just call the damned thing a reactor? I noted that “we haven’t heard from the people who … were ‘cautious about fully endorsing Israeli warnings’
9/11 + 10
The retrospectives and forecasts about 9/11 keep on coming, but little has been written about that day’s impact on the Bomb, arms control, and new nuclear weapon programs. Here’s my take, subject to rebuttals: 1. The most important and obvious repercussion has been the shift in focus from nuclear threats posed by major powers to those from weakened states and messianic militants. Russian and Chi
Preview of a Coming Attraction
If you somehow missed the Asan Plenum back in June, here’s your chance to catch an encore performance. Of one presentation, anyway. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is holding a breakfast roundtable featuring yours truly with the University of Pittsburgh’s Dennis Gormley. The subject is — you guessed it! — the rise and fall of North Korean missile exports. And since there was n
Debating the CTBT in 2011
Monitoring for nuclear tests: an IMS infrasound station array at infrasound station IS49, Tristan da Cunha, U.K. (Image Credit: CTBTO Preparatory Commission. Click to enlarge.) Two weeks ago, I noticed that the conversation about the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) seemed to be picking up the pace. This was among people on the Hill, so I set about interviewing several policy analysts, essent
IAEA DG Reports on Iran, DPRK
Here are the IAEA Director-General’s, entitled Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2011/54) and Application of Safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (GOV_2011_53).

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