links for 2009-06-30

Death penalty debate rages as hundreds await gallows – The National Newspaper (tags: egypt humanrights) Google chief: Iran can't control the net | Media | guardian.co.uk (tags: google internet censorship technology BigBrother iran IranElections2009)

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links for 2009-06-29

Creating a 'Pollution Casino': Why the Energy Bill May End Up a Boon for Our Dirtiest Industries | Environment | AlterNet "Offsets literally provide massive incentives for polluters. Rather than transforming their business practices, they can simply write a small check to an Indonesian farmer, whose activities may not offset their industrial emissions," says Slocum, [...]

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links for 2009-06-28

NewNet News – US and Chile to collaborate on clean energy issues (tags: chile united-states energy alternative latin-america) Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis | Page 6 | Fast Company Very useful and informative. "The microgrid is all about consumer control — aligning monetary incentives, with the help of information [...]

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links for 2009-06-26

House Democrats strike deal on climate bill – Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor – POLITICO.com (tags: united-states policy politics energy climate-change) Slaughterhouse blues (tags: unemployment SwineFlu egyptian) Artificial Trees: Could They be Better Than the Real Thing? : TreeHugger fake tree that captures carbon?! (tags: carbon environment) T. Boone Pickens: Propane and the Pickens Plan [...]

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links for 2009-06-25

BBC NEWS | Europe | France sets up burka commission (tags: veil france islamophobia islam muslim women) BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jazzing up the abaya (tags: uae fashion arab women muslim veil) The Arabs’ Forlorn Envy of Iranians – Tehran Bureau Arab regimes and leaders have worked themselves into a lose-lose situation whereby [...]

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Arabs Lose In Any Iran Outcome

I couldnt let this one by with just a delicious bookmark. Rami El Khouri comments on Arab (regime and popular) perceptions of and reactions to the events unfolding in Iran. I think he hits a crucial point whith this article in highlighting that they’ve trapped themselves in a lose-lose situation regardless of the outcomes in [...]

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links for 2009-06-24

Mojtaba Khamenei: gatekeeper to Iran's supreme leader | World news | The Guardian (tags: iran IranElections2009 politics) BM News: Sexual harassment continues unabated in Egypt « Bikya Masr (tags: sexual-harrassment egypt)

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AUC adds Israeli to Trustees

Here’s the announcement from the AUC website: Retired U.S. Diplomat Named to AUC Board of Trustees June 21, 2009, Cairo, Egypt – The American University in Cairo announced today the appointment of former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel C. Kurtzer as a member of its Board of Trustees.  Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of [...]

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links for 2009-06-23

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egyptians look to military 'saviour' (tags: egypt politics military) BM News: Egypt’s Brotherhood lashes out over recent arrests « Bikya Masr (tags: egypt muslim-brotherhood politics humanrights) Green Economic Development in the Middle East – Arab Environment Watch (tags: energy green sustainable alternative environment energy-policy MiddleEast) Aqaba sea life hurting [...]

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links for 2009-06-22

"Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet (tags: financial-crisis finance economic-crisis banks) Op-Ed Columnist – A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets – NYTimes.com (tags: iran IranElections2009 politics police protests) Jordan to implement first Climate Change adaptation [...]

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links for 2009-06-21

BBC NEWS | Business | Egypt faces real estate collapse mid and high end real estate prices falling but low-income still struggling (tags: egypt economy) BM News: Timeline of 30 H1N1 cases in Egypt – 18 June 2009 « Bikya Masr (tags: SwineFlu egypt) International Crisis Group – Privileged Partnership offers… "In short, "privileged partnership" [...]

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links for 2009-06-19

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arabic blogosphere begins to bloom study of 35k active blogs including mapping networks etc. (tags: blogs arab MiddleEast statistics resource) GreenAdvertizing.com » Green Advertising Network | GreenAdvertizing.com GreenAdvertizing.com is a green affiliate network providing specialist advertising services to green advertisers and publishers. Publishers of popular blogs and green [...]

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links for 2009-06-18

On the rebound on tourism in global econ crisis (tags: egypt economy economic-crisis) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Fusion falters under soaring costs (tags: nuclear energy science) BBC World Service – News – Fusion reactor threatened by costs (tags: nuclear energy research science) Daily Kos: Ahmadinejad Rally Photoshopped to Appear Larger (tags: iran [...]

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links for 2009-06-17

How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments « iRevolution (tags: web2.0 censorship technology internet howto politics privacy security activism ICT) MBAs, Media & the Middle East. | Web’s Dead Baby, Web’s Dead. on how our uses of ICT for communication are evolving including the demise of email (tags: web2.0 internet ICT) More than just medicine [...]

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links for 2009-06-16

Emerald: Journal Issue List International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (tags: gender women business sme development) BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Iran 'to hold election recount' recount (tags: iran elections) Communities at risk, but coal ash sites secret (tags: coal environment united-states) Stimulus packages trigger climate outperformance, according to research companies working on climate [...]

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