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NASA GISS: Research News: NASA Finds 2011 Ninth Warmest Year on Record
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The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92°F (0.51°C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline.
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The first 11 years of the 21st century experienced notably higher temperatures compared to the middle and late 20th century, Hansen said. The only year from the 20th century in the top 10 warmest years on record is 1998.
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Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency is telling you exactly that. In data released this month as part of the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook report, he shows that in 2010 the world spent $409 billion on subsidizing the production and consumption of fossil fuels, dwarfing the word’s $66 billion or so of subsidies for renewable energy
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I dont know about that. In an economy based on energy, there is a justice, empowerment, positive discrimination aspect to things. While it makes no sense to subsidize energy for steel or cement, it DOES make sense to subsidize heating and cooking fuel. or fuel used in (private/informal) public transport. The vast majority of such subsidy is of the nonsensical crony capitalist sort. But to say none make sense, is to fall into a typical hole of the privileged arm-chair intellectual.
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In no case do these subsidies make sense.
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f roughly half of what needs to be done can be achieved simply by eliminating economic distortions—economic distortions that would be unwise even if there were no concern about pollution—then the whole framework of a trade-off between prosperity and sustainability is largely misguided.
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At the end of the day, pure laissez faire can never meet the world’s environmental challenges. If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you need to cap them and then you need to reduce the cap. But a surprisingly large step toward that target can occur by simply allowing the market to do its work by removing the subsidies that encourage lavish and inefficient consumption of fossil fuels.
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Campaign slams IMF for ‘illegitimate’ negotiations with Egypt
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The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt held a conference Saturday to demand that the government leave the decision to accept the loan up to the incoming parliament
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“The IMF was involved over the past two decades in drawing and implementing the economic and financial policies of Egypt, which led to low living standards, high poverty rates, and deterioration of public services and human resources and human development,” Amr Adly, a political economist and a founding member of the campaign, said in a statement.
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Labeling the loan as “odious,” the group stressed that “the current government does not represent the Egyptian people … and the donors realize that the current government is not a legitimate one.”
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حصرياً : مشاهد جديدة تدين قتلة الثوار في محمد محمود – YouTube
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وأضاف الديب: «بناء عليه فإن إجراءات المحاكمة كلها باطلة، حيث إن محاكمة رئيس الجمهورية تكون أمام محكمة خاصة نص عليها دستور 1971، مكونة من 12 عضوا، بينهم 6 من أعضاء مجلس الشعب، و6 من أقدم المستشارين بمحكمتي الاستئناف والنقض، وتنعقد جلساتها في دار القضاء العالي، ويباشر الاتهام أمام المحكمة النائب العام، وإن محاكم الجنايات غير مختصة ولائيا بمحاكمة رئيس الجمهورية»
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وبرر «الديب» قوله بأن «مبارك» «تم انتخابه فى عام 2005 رئيسا للجمهورية لمدة 6 سنوات، وهذه المدة انتهت فى 18 سبتمبر من العام الماضي، وطبقا للمادة 78 من الدستور فهو لايزال رئيسا للجمهورية، لأنها تنص على أنه إذا انتهت مدة رئيس الجمهورية دون اختيار الرئيس الجديد استمر الرئيس السابق فى مباشرة مهامه، وحتى اليوم لم ينتخب رئيس للجمهورية»
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searechable index of medicines in egypt by active ingredient and price
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الجيش المصري يستطيع اسقاط دولة اسرائيل في 3 ساعات – YouTube
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Land Carvings Attest to Amazon’s Lost World – NYTimes.com
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The deforestation that has stripped the Amazon since the 1970s has also exposed a long-hidden secret lurking underneath thick rain forest: flawlessly designed geometric shapes spanning hundreds of yards in diameter.
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For some scholars of human history in Amazonia, the geoglyphs in the Brazilian state of Acre and other archaeological sites suggest that the forests of the western Amazon, previously considered uninhabitable for sophisticated societies partly because of the quality of their soils, may not have been as “Edenic” as some environmentalists contend.
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Still, the geoglyphs, located at a crossroads between Andean and Amazonian cultures, remain an enigma.
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Egyptian citizen journalism ‘Mosireen’ tops YouTube – Media – Egypt – Ahram Online
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A year later Egypt activists seek more revolution – NZ Herald
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The New Student Activism – NYTimes.com
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Mirroring the broader movement, students have taken aim at widening income disparities and the cozy symbiosis between Washington and Wall Street. But the college occupiers have also embraced a panoply of causes, localizing and personalizing their protests in a way that has lent an immediacy and urgency to their outcries.
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Ms. Ward said communitywide Occupy meetings were being held indoors, and expects the core people to remain involved for the long haul. But she also expects attendance to wane. “We have a generation that believes instant gratification is the only form of gratification,” Ms. Ward said. “This is something that’s going to take a long time.”
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Decade of discontent: The road to Egypt’s revolution – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online
crappy article about the history leading up to Jan25
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PIPA/SOPA Victory – End to Damn the Torpedoes – What Happens Now UPDATED | Public Knowledge
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I can obviously never know what it must have been like to be an African-American in the 1950s. I do feel, however, as though I know exactly what it must have been like to be white during that time, to live under an aura of moral invincibility, to hold unchallengeable beliefs, and to contrive illusions of superiority to avoid having to face simple everyday truths. That illusion was nice while it lasted, but I decided to pass it up. I have never been happier.
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Florida Republicans
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ey have introduced SB 2036 and SB 2038 to do just that. The measures would allow the state government to privatize prisons in secret and would also allow the government to secretly outsource the work of other state agencies
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The measures also give agencies the option of not reporting the privatization of a program until after it has already been done.
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Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses? | Molly Rants – CNET News
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Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PIPA/PROTECT-IP? | SOPA Opera | ProPublica
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I posted this video (English subtitled version) on facebook (with a snarky comment about banning the use of requiem for a dream soundtrack music), and I think twitter. But as we close in on #Jan25, I feel the need to say a little more about it.
When I was in Cairo over Christmas break, I felt this pervasive sense of a dream gone dark . Compared to the summer, when, despite all the reasons for concern, there was still a vitality and a sense of hope, there seemed to be a pervasive exhaustion, or burn out. Sure, that was a big part of it. The resisters-of-change were the same as they were on Jan24, Jan29, Feb3, Feb11 and ever since. They’re the common factor, and so they dont really enter my calculations. But I guess I felt that the 11-month conscious and intentional campaign by the powers that be (#SCAF, #felool) to co-opt the revolution; to undermine revolutionaries; to re-foster identity politics; to create a culture of fear and hate; to divert our attentions; to stall and obfuscate; to hold us economically hostage; to sow confusion had taken its toll on everyone else, revolutionaries and the silent majority included. The effects seemed visible everywhere with everyone I talked to. While I think we have lost the moment, and will have to buckle down for the long-haul (5-7 year) effort, perhaps the upcoming anniversary and the @3askarKazeboon, @NoMilTrials and other initiatives can come together to create a second chance. We shall see; history is impossible to predict.
In any case, I think this video illustrates the revolutionaries’ nightmare perfectly. It captures the confusion, the indignation, the sense of betrayal, the bewilderment at the cynicism that seems to make absolutely no sense to them, that dreamy, through-the-looking-glass sense that everything is not what it should be, that logic has been suspended. Perhaps it is indeed one of the most appropriate uses of the requiem for a dream soundtrack.
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The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser – YouTube
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Carter: Tantawi in denial over “girl in the blue bra” – Blog – The Arabist
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The generals either lied to their teeth, or more probably and more worryingly, actually believe the crap they spew. The real question is, who is feeding them that line?
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بلدنا: لا تراجع عن إقامة محطة الضبعة النووية – YouTube
gov’t insists it will go ahead.
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Despite our griping, Sims argues that Cairo actually functions quite well. Like any massive urban center, the city has problems, but they are far less debilitating than those of other equivalent global metropolises.
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The irony of Cairo is that its relative functionality is not the result of enlightened government intervention. In fact, for the past half century, the most heavily-inhabited parts of Cairo — as opposed to the virtually empty desert developments — have developed almost entirely independent of government plans. Sims describes this as “order without design.”
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he 11 million inhabitants of Cairo’s ‘ashwa’it have benefitted from virtually no government investments, whereas the 800,000 largely elite suburban inhabitants out in the desert have seen countless millions poured into their communities.
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t a time like this, the city can turn away from the discredited state-led social engineering that promoted the failed desert cities, and instead embrace a people-oriented approach that invests in real, inhabited communities.
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a people-oriented approach needs to improve the existing reality, rather than impose impractical imaginary solutions.
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Bedouin leaders threaten armed rebellion against Egyptian government – CNN.com
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Syria: beyond the wall of fear, a state in slow-motion collapse | World news | The Guardian
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Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics – The Daily Beast
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What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics.
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I realized that to understand Obama, you have to take the long view. Because he does.
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell once wrote. What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008.
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EWEA Blog » Inaccurate report disregards facts of wind energy
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Egypt demands environmental human rights | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
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what is needed now, according to Mohamed Nagi, executive director of the Habi Center for Environmental Rights, is to take things to the next level by passing binding legislation regarding environmental human rights.
“As we discuss rewriting our constitution,” Nagi says, “we need to make sure there are articles in the new constitution clearly stipulating the need to guarantee and protect environmental rights.” This, he adds, is essential for enforcing Egypt’s environmental laws, which have not been properly implemented, and also strengthen the role of civil society on the ground.
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The ‘new look’ of Cairo train station | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
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As a result, the original neo-Mamluk style has effectively been replaced with a style that is ostensibly pharaonic but which actually seems closer to that of Las Vegas casinos or Abu Dhabi glass malls.
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NYC’s deadly deal with Israeli apartheid | SocialistWorker.org
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A few days before Christmas last year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans for a $2 billion research campus to be constructed in partnership with Cornell University, Technion and the City of New York.
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With rare exceptions like WBAI’s Law and Disorder and the website Mondoweiss, the media neglected to mention Technion’s extensive military and political connections to apartheid Israel.
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Shir Hever, an Israeli researcher, explains that Technion “has all but enlisted itself in the [Israeli] military.”
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under the guise of research, this deal would cement a lucrative bond between the financial capital of the U.S. empire and Israel’s military-industrial complex.
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WikiLeaks: More Evidence of Monsanto’s Bullying and Influence-Buying
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Egypt’s revolution has been misread | Khalid Abdalla | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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video footage of the cavalry riding in from maspero on #feb2. also the moment of attack including the man on top of the museum who signaled the attack.
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Speaking to the London based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper Saturday, Abul Hassan argued that “When a woman marches to defend her rights, this affronts her dignity.”
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This march was a sectarian one, because all the groups of Egyptian society should defend women.
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“Tahrir is no longer purely for revolutionaries.
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Egypt: The Mayhem by Yasmine El Rashidi | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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Egypt | Country Profiles | NTI
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As of June 2011, Egypt’s transitional government is planning to invite international companies to bid for the reactor construction project, a process that is expected to take place in mid-June.
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ننشر نص بيان البرادعي الذي يعلن فيه انسحابه من الترشح للرئاسة | الدستور
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لقد خاضت سفينة الثورة طريقاً صعباً تقاذفتها فيه أمواج عاتيه وهى تعرف مرفأ النجاه جيدا وتعرف طريقة الوصول اليه، ولكن الربان الذى تولى قيادتها – دون اختيار من ركابها ودون خبرة له بالقيادة – أخذ يتخبط بها بين الأمواج دون بوصلة واضحة، ونحن نعرض عليه شتى أنواع المساعدة، وهو يأبى إلا أن يمضى فى الطريق القديم، وكأن ثورة لم تقم، وكأن نظاماً لم يسقط
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فيها الحريات ونفتح النوافذ لإدخال الهواء النقى وتطهير العقول والنفوس من مخلفات الاستبداد، ونمنح أنفسنا المدة اللازم
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الربان
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أدخلنا هذا الربان فى متاهات وحوارات عقيمة في حين انفرد بصنع القرارات وبأسلوب ينم عن تخبط وعشوائية فى الرؤية
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فلم أجد موقعاً داخل الإطار الرسمي يتيح ذلك
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وفي ضوء هذه الظروف فقد قررت عدم الترشح لمنصب رئيس الجمهورية. وقراري هذا ليس انصرافاً من الساحة، بل استمرار لخدمة هذا الوطن بفعالية أكبر، من خارج مواقع السلطة ومتحررا من كل القيود
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George W. Bush cancels Switzerland visit over fears of arrest on torture charges | Mail Online
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In Translation: Samer Soliman on revolution and reform – Blog – The Arabist
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Latin America’s lessons for the SCAF | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
meh. not much meat in here. essentially: transitions took a long time; officers need guarantees of safety once they let go of power
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Buying Congress in 2012 – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
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Far from showing any shame, the big players boast about it: the US Chamber of Commerce, front outfit for a consortium of corporations, has bragged on its website about outspending everyone in Washington, which is easy to do when Chevron, Goldman Sachs, and News Corp are writing you seven-figure checks.
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It would be relatively easy to change this: you could provide public financing for campaigns instead of letting corporations pay. It’s the equivalent of having the National Football League hire referees instead of asking the teams to provide them.
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however, we may have to change the Constitution, as we’ve done 27 times before. This time, we’d need to specify that corporations aren’t people, that money isn’t speech, and that it doesn’t abridge the First Amendment to tell people they can’t spend whatever they want getting elected.
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أغنية الطنبورة الجديدة للثورة – YouTube
شلنا الرأس ولسة الديل
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I want this.
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inventory committee finds 43k rare books in abdeen library
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stamps for dollar bills on income disparity, 99v1% etc
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E-waste, Egypt and the Digital Divide | The Majalla
On e-waste incl Egypt
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Rising sea levels endanger the Delta | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
poor article on delta vulnerability to sea level rise
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The Cool Hunter – Dr. Seuss Told By The People of Burning Man 2011
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