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staffjam | 6 hours ago
The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future global oil production. The Bush administration’s actions in pressuring the IEA to underplay the rate of decline
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
MANCHESTER.- Manchester Art Gallery will present an exhibition of major contemporary works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection. Facing East showcases eleven groundbreaking paintings and sculptures by some of the world's leading artists, many of which have rarely been on public display. Frank Cohen is one of Britain's leading collectors of contemporary art, often referred to...
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Goodnight London (Free subscription) | yesterday
Am reading JG Ballard's The Drowned World at the moment, which has turned out to be a deeply prophetic read, particularly after the floods in Cumbria that have happened in the last few days, the latest in what feels like an annual event in England, as well as the omniprescent advertising for disaster movies like 2012 (something that I touched on with a previous post about Ballard here ). You could...
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The Orstrahyun (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Muslim activist Mal Mac Rae on Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party : '....the vilification of the Islamic community in the party continues behind closed doors.'' And in a busive emails to Rae from a CDP campaign manager's son : ''stupid moslem c---'' ''muslim scum are too busy stacking ALP branches and raping Aussie chicks''. '(Muslims) 'who habitually engage in child molestation, incest, pack rape...
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Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The leaders of Turkmenistan don't need to worry about human rights -- they have a trump card : "There is a risk that the Turkmen regime is learning to play to Europe's need for 'progress' on human rights by making small cosmetic reforms that could be reversed in the future," the Global Witness report said. Western nations' plans to tap into Central Asia's vast gas supplies hinge on the success...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox and MSNBC. Bewkes’ response, paraphrased: We are not limiting ourselves to the center, we are a wider platform...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Future of global carbon market is uncertain
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Future of the global market is clouded in uncertainty
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Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Millions of people will go hungry when future global food crises strike unless the world’s half a billion small-scale farms receive urgent support from the UK and other governments, says development agency Progressio.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jonathan Watts reports from a boom area where the industry's past and future are on show The world's newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province. Ordos is a city that few outside China know. But the future of global emissions, and global warming looks increasingly more likely to be set in industrial powerhouses like this...
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The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
President Obama is in Asia, talking with various trading partners about the future of the global economy, the topic of America's biggest exports - U.S. dollars and asset bubbles - likely to come up during these discussions unless, somehow, they've all missed comments coming from last week's APEC gathering as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Bubble Fears Surface at APEC Gathering The U.S. has limited...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Added November 03, 2009 Authored by Lieutenant Colonel Brian K. Hedrick. SOURCE: Strategic Studies Institute United States Army War College Brief Synopsis India’s transformation to modernize its military, obtain “strategic partnerships” with the United States and other nations, and expand its influence in the Indian Ocean and beyond includes a shift from an emphasis on the former...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Laboratory measurements of the response of reactive N gas emissions and soil respiration to changes in soil temperature in ( A ) dry soil from beneath L. tridentata , ( B ) dry soil from plant interspaces, and ( C ) wetted soil from beneath L. tridentata . In arid environments such as deserts, nitrogen is often the most limiting nutrient for biological activity. The majority of the ecosystem nitrogen...
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SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Went to hear Will Hutton speak last night on “Them and Us: how capitalism without fairness is capitalism without a future”. It was a lecture at the LSE in the “Ralph Miliband series on the Future of Global Capitalism” (yes, he is related to the two Labour Cabinet ministers; he was their father though he’d probably disown their political views). Former Guardian and Observer...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Each year, the International Energy Agency prepares a report on the current state and likely future of the global energy economy. In recent decades, there's been a bit of monotony: energy use has grown and, as large areas of the developing world are developing rapidly, future energy demand is likely to stretch our abilities to obtain new sources of fossil fuels. This year has turned out to be a significant...
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staffjam | 6 hours ago
The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future global oil production. The Bush administration’s actions in pressuring the IEA to underplay the rate of decline from...
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