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Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Despite the release of dozens of emails between British climatologists discussing how to fudge their data to keep the myth of global warming alive, the New York Times chooses to keep the faith, albeit blindly: The documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists. But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution...
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Sepia Mutiny (Free subscription) | yesterday
W hile on the topic of why India didn't liberalize sooner , an article posted to the SM's News column points at one important factor. In his "Letter from India" column in the NYT, Akash Kapur reflects on the 20 yr anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the impact it had on India - Most of the media coverage has, quite understandably, focused on Europe. But the tremors from Communism's...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Back in the summer, Twitter announced that it was working on an API to give developers the ability to geotag tweets. The company has now made that available. There is no geotagging on Twitter.com yet, but Twitter apps will now be able to support it. So potentially, you will be able to geotag tweets and show the location from where you tweeted. "The added information provides valuable context...
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | yesterday
If the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of communism in eastern Europe ushered in an era of unparalleled US dominance, Mr Obama’s first visit to China 20 years later arguably marks another once-in-a-generation revolution in...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Earlier this spring, Twitter announced it would soon be adding location-based information to tweets . Typical of what we like to think of as the company's "mysterious charm," the feature has been unveiled six months later with a brief post on the Twitter blog. The new geotagging capabilities can already be seen in certain third-party apps and might even come to the web interface sometime...
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Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By contrast to Czechoslovakia, it would be fair to say Bulgaria is for many a “far off country of which we know little”. Today it is a member of NATO and the EU, which would have been almost impossible to conceive 20 years ago. However, Bulgaria’s importance is underestimated, being one of those countries on the “frontline” of the Iron Curtain bordering Greece and therefore...
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Bulgarian Parliament officially declared August 23 a Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes Committed by Communist and other Totalitarian Regimes. The Thursday discussion to support the European decrees to condemn the crimes of Communist regimes, however, triggered heated debates among the parliamentary left and right wing. Maya Manolova, from the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party,...
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halls of macadamia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Look who's getting a taste of good ol' fashion democracy... The new act will allow Nisga'a citizens to own residentially zoned property in fee simple, the common way in which land is sold in Canada. Holding land under such a title allows owners to take out mortgages and leverage the land for other loans, things they previously couldn't do. They can also lease the land and build equity in their homes....
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SIR – Although much of the developing world now benefits from declining fertility (“Go forth and multiply a lot less”, October 31st), the demographic prospects for sub-Saharan Africa are grim. Its average fertility is more than double that of Asia and Latin America and its population is expected to grow by one billion over the next half century. Pervasive poverty causes parents to...
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b4teanews (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
19 November is Celebrated International Men's Day 2009 | 19 November International Men's Day | International Men's Day 2009 | International Men's DayThere are many days we celebrate like women, children, father, mother and millions other things. But the idea of a toast to men on a particular day was not high on anybody’s agenda. But in 1999, the former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev came
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A look at walls that have gone up since the Berlin Wall came tumbling down 20 years ago
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Drawing from a recent event that he attended that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, the libertarian economics professor opines about how the world's liberals excuse the horrors of communism and socialism : "Alan Kors, University of Pennsylvania history professor, gave the evening's keynote address. What he revealed about the dereliction and character weakness of academics,...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As I argue in my recent print story on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the prevailing view in Washington foreign policy circles is that Gates, as an anti-Soviet hardliner at the CIA in the late 1980s, misread the import of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and failed to see the USSR's collapse coming. But here's a dissenting view, via email, from Andrew Hamilton, a former national security council...
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