Essay
Links and News [2008.01.23]
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- Passing the Buck on Environmental Damage — ScienceNOW Humans inflicted $47 trillion worth of damage to the environment from 1961 to 2000, according to a new study, and poor nations are disproportionately footing the bill. Taking their estimates a step further, the researchers conclude that high- and middle-income nations owe poor nations $3.2 trillion for the damage their development has caused. (tags: environment hypocrisy)
- BBC | Thompson quits White House race Former US Senator Fred Thompson has withdrawn from the Republican presidential race, after a string of poor finishes in early voting rounds. (tags: news politics)
- Web Site Assembles U.S. Prewar Claims – NYT Students of how the Bush administration led the nation into the Iraq war can now go online to browse a comprehensive database of top officials’ statements before the invasion… (tags: iraq)
- Oops: MPAA admits college piracy numbers grossly inflated After commissioning … study … that showed collegiate file-swappers were responsible for 44 percent of movie studio "losses" to piracy, the MPAA then used the report … to bludgeon Congress into considering legislation… Now the MPAA admits … collegiate piracy accounts for only 15 percent of "losses." (tags: drm human-rights)
- Guardian | This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution (tags: palestine israel human-rights)
Humans inflicted $47 trillion worth of damage to the environment from 1961 to 2000, according to a new study, and poor nations are disproportionately footing the bill. Taking their estimates a step further, the researchers conclude that high- and middle-income nations owe poor nations $3.2 trillion for the damage their development has caused.
(tags: environment hypocrisy)
Former US Senator Fred Thompson has withdrawn from the Republican presidential race, after a string of poor finishes in early voting rounds.
Students of how the Bush administration led the nation into the Iraq war can now go online to browse a comprehensive database of top officials’ statements before the invasion…
(tags: iraq)
After commissioning … study … that showed collegiate file-swappers were responsible for 44 percent of movie studio "losses" to piracy, the MPAA then used the report … to bludgeon Congress into considering legislation… Now the MPAA admits … collegiate piracy accounts for only 15 percent of "losses."
(tags: drm human-rights)
Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
(tags: palestine israel human-rights)
