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Senin, 16 April 2012
Minggu, 15 April 2012
Global race for 'rare earths' metals
Korea's effort to find new sources making little headwayGlobal tension over rare earth metals — often identified as rare earths — has intensified as the United States, European Union and Japan recently teamed up and took it up a notch in pressuring China over persistent trade disputes.Last month, the trading power players filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization challenging the world’s largest...
Joseon: Korea’s Confucian kingdom
The statue of King Sejong the Great sits at the Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul. / Korea Times fileBy Kim Tae-gyu and Kevin N. CawleyThis is the sixth of a 10-part series on Korean history from its mythological, ancient beginning until the present day. This project is sponsored by several companies and public agencies including Merck Korea, eBay Korea, Daewoo Securities and Korea Post. —...
What the Laws of War Allow Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes -- Or the Poverty of International Law? By Chase Madar
Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war -- that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by jurists, humanitarians, and soldiers, a body of rules that is now an essential, institutionalized part of the U.S. armed forces and indeed all modern militaries -- should simply click here and watch the video.Wait...
Collapsing Seas Infographic by ZACHARY SHAHAN
Collapsing Seas Infographic (via Planetsave) Here’s a not-so-fun but highly informative infographic I thought you could get something from. Basically, I think many of us assume that the oceans are so vast that we can’t do too much harm to them. But oh, how we underestimate the impact of billions of humans....
Tech Talk - Extracting the Attic Oil From Abqaiq
Figure 1. Extent of Proved Reserves Depletion in Select Fields (Baqi and Saleri, 2004) Current figures suggest that world liquid fuels production is running at around 90 mbd, of which roughly 74 mbd is crude. A reasonable estimate of the annual decline in existing well production lies at around 5%, so that each year new sources of oil must be brought on line to generate 5% of 74 mbd (3.7 mbd) to cover...
National Security Assessment: Water Scarcity Disrupting U.S. and Three Continents
In a new report, the U.S. State Department finds a global confrontation between growing water demand and shrinking supplies, in addition to predictions for the next 30 years of water security.On World Water Day, March 22, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton introduced a new State Department report on the world’s water crisis. Fourteen of Circle of Blue’s photographs were featured at the State...
Infographic: Timeline of American Water Infrastructure Development (1651-2011)
From small water-supply systems in the Colonial Era to massive investments in reservoirs, pumps, pipes, and treatment plants in the 20th century, America’s water infrastructure has become more complex. Now, at the start of the 21st century, many of those systems need maintenance and repairs.In the United States, turning on the tap and receiving clean water is viewed as so basic to the quality of life...
Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan
The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks inside their country.As well they should.The United States hasn’t declared war on Pakistan.he U.S. has no right to rain bombs down from the sky on this country that it’s not at war with.This is against the U.N. charter, against international...
Taliban launch raids on Kabul and other Afghan targets
BBC News - Taliban launch raids on Kabul and other Afghan targe...
Sabtu, 14 April 2012
Shades of 1984 Emerge in Broadcast TV Copyright Flap
READ MORETens of thousands of dime-sized broadcast television antennas line Aereo's datacenter in Brooklyn, New York. Photo: Ae...
A New Breed of Islamist By Ahmed Charai
Following the adoption of a new constitution last summer, Moroccan voters delivered their verdict: the current government is in the hands of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD). The party enjoys a commanding majority in the present ruling coalition, a third of all parliamentary seats, while its secular, leftist and royalist opponents are divided—at least for now.Yet the situation...
Airlines cancel Israel flights for over 60 percent of pro-Palestinian fly-in protesters
Is Israel a democracy? Or is it a paranoid rogue state? Let the world see how Israel is treating the Palestinian people. Show the world how Israel has stolen their land, water, dignity and pride. Israel's motto should be - The persecuted have become the persecutors. - By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Jack Khoury and Yaniv Kubovich Among the airlines that notified activists...
Israel's Lawless Settlement Project
by Stephen LendmanSince June 1967, Israel maintained total domination over Occupied Palestine. Lawlessly, it includes controlling essential resources, air space, Gaza's coastal waters, borders, who's allowed to cross them, political, economic, and financial activities, internal movement, public assembly and speech, Palestine's population registry, private property by seizures or demolition, and,...
N/Korea: The Kim dynasty's satellite of love By Pepe Escobar
.................................The North Korean leadership's Big Picture is actually crystal clear; with our nuclear capability firmly established, Washington's only way out is to negotiate a peace treaty with us to end the Korean War (for the moment there's only the July 1953 armistice). That would imply the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea. Over the Pentagon’s collective dead body - of...
Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, and Benefits Access a Struggle, for Veterans of Falklands/Malvinas War
Argentine Air Force Pilots in San Julian Airbase in May 1982 during the Falklands War. (Photo:Wikimedia)The battle for the British-controlled Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina continues to kill, even 30 years after Argentine troops landed there on April 2, 1982. The struggle for a group of windblown islands in the South Atlantic has claimed more lives since the fighting ended than when battle...
Uranium - Double Standard: The U.S., Kazakhstan and Iran
Iran’s alleged "nuclear threat" has taken center stage among diplomats, military men, and politicians in Washington, Tel Aviv, and the West at-large.Despite the fact that investigative journalists Seymour Hersh, Gareth Porter and others have meticulously documented the fact that Iran, in fact, poses no nuclear threat at all, the Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress have laid...
Jumat, 13 April 2012
It never stops: A few words of clarity for an insane world.
....................Yes, it is not all just Syrians fighting other Syrians. There ARE many outside forces at work there. Not just jihadis from the Iraq, Afghan, Libyan wars either. Reports have stated that there are various "special ops" types from Britain and France there along with the al-Qaeda types. No doubt there are a few mercenaries as well, hey, they fight for the highest bidder,...
This New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military Buildup
Looking a bit like an old Civil War Ironclad, the $7 billion DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt will focus on land attacks, relying heavily on its advanced stealth technology to slip in close to shore before unleashing its massive onboard arsenal.Originally estimated to cost about $3.8 billion, the Zumwalt has so much technology crammed on board that its cost has nearly doubled, and after the...
Israel's Other Temple: Research Reveals Ancient Struggle over Holy Land Supremacy By Matthias Schulz
Clad in gray coat, Aharon ben Ab-Chisda ben Yaacob, 85, is sitting in the dim light of his house. He strikes up a throaty chant, a litany in ancient Hebrew. He has a full beard and is wearing a red kippah on his head.The man is a high priest -- and his family tree goes back 132 generations. He says: "I am a direct descendent of Aaron, the brother of the prophet Moses" -- who lived perhaps over 3,000...
US-Israel deal for Iran threatens progress By Gareth Porter
The last thing Israel wants is for there to be some type of meaningful deal. Israel would rather keep the status quo.Threat after threat, after threat.The U.S. [multinational corps.] want regime change in Iran so that it can be privatized.Lets not forget the coup against a freely elected government of Mossadegh in 1953 by the U.S. and Britain.Israel wants regime change in Iran so it can do as it likes...
Karzai ain't walking into the sunset
By M K BhadrakumarAfghan President Hamid Karzai took a big step last Sunday to fulfill his part of the deal with the United States to conclude a strategic pact that would provide for long-term American military presence in the region. And as quid pro quo he would expect to get an extended lease of political life beyond 2014 when his second and final term as president is due to end.Karzai has proved...
Kamis, 12 April 2012
This Just In: North Korea Still Sucks at Launching Rockets
North Korea's Workers' Party representatives applaud during the party's conference in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: APCongratulations, North Korea. You have just failed to put a satellite in orbit for the fourth time in fifteen years. Exhale, America: Pyongyang will not be able to attack you at home.The North Korean rocket launch that gave the world heartburn is a dud. Again. CNN reports...
How to Evacuate 100,000 Israelis From the West Bank
By ZVIKA KRIEGERThe two-state solution is still practically feasible -- if only the political leadership could deliver it.A Jewish settler walks near temporary homes in the unauthorized Jewish outpost of Migron near the West Bank city of Ramallah. ReutersA two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still possible. As part of my debate on this question with Robert Wright, who...
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