September 30, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Amar es descubrimiento, es atreverse y navegar sin miedo, es duende al atardecer y disonancia que enorgullece la danza de luces del alba, es viaje al absurdo y vuelta con toda la sabiduría que ahí habita, es especia y dilatación de propósitos, esfera triangular y constancia fragmentada en la que cada pedazo quema en cada costado a los demás pedazos, una red de cantos ígneos que trata de ser un universo nuevo que brinda su propio fracaso y fragilidad…
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‘PARA LLEGAR’ es una exposición que propone juntar un grupo de artistas, algunos establecidos y otros por darse a conocer todavía, del mercado coreano, en una muestra única en Barcelona. Habrá un espacio central con la exposición principal, y algunas muestras ’satélite’ en otras galerías y espacios o culturales o de consumición. El […]
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The Elders is a humanitarian initiative led by South African archibishop Desmond Tutu and former South African pres. Nelson Mandela, designed to bring the African “village elders” concept to the global village, in an effort to defuse flashpoint crisis situations and speed responsible policy-making. Its foundations are the basic principles of human rights and […]
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30 September :: US pres. George W. Bush has approved $25 million in fuel aid for North Korea, as part of a February deal to shut down nuclear facilities, dismantle weapons and allow IAEA inspections; the Yongbyon reactor was shut down in July… Six-party talks to negotiate North Korean denuclearization have been suspended for two […]
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September 29, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
29 September :: 2 thousand gathered in Rangoon to call for end to military rule, bystanders applauding protesting students; US bars 3 dozen members of military gov’t, their families from travel to US, in response to mounting violence in Burma; pressure mounting as demonstrations thin, calls for general to cede power spread; CNN reports “British […]
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September 28, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
28 September :: Shijiazhuang, a city of 2 million on the North China Plain has seen 11% growth, construction boom, even as irreplaceable aquifers are drying up, water tables fast dropping; as IHT reports, “China is scouring the world for oil, natural gas and minerals to keep its economic machine humming. But trade deals cannot […]
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September 27, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
27 September :: Reports emerge from Rangoon military junta has raided monasteries in effort to end pro-democracy rallies; UN Security Council has urged regime to meet with special envoy, China says it views Burma crisis as “internal affair”; reports suggest 70 monks were abducted from one monastery alone by security forces; junta has warned demonstrators […]
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September 26, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Former US pres. Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative (CGI) holds a major international stakeholders’ and donors’ conference each year in conjunction with the UN’s General Assembly, in New York City. This year’s convention brings together 1,300 delegates from 72 countries. 52 active or former heads of state are participating, in only the 3rd year […]
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September 26, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Lester R. Brown, EPI :: As land and water become scarce and as competition for these vital resources intensifies, we can expect mounting social tensions within societies, particularly between those who are poor and dispossessed and those who are wealthy, as well as among ethnic and religious groups. Population growth brings with it a steady […]
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September 26, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
26 September :: Riot police in Burma (Myanmar under its military dictatorship) have fired on 10,000 Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists protesting against totalitarian rule; US has announced new sanctions against regime, Bush denouncing “19-year reign of fear”; on Monday, 100,000 marched to support the “saffron rebellion”… Global carbon footprint at 23.881 billion tons, as […]
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September 25, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
25 September :: UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-moon has called for concerted action to slow global warming, saying “I am convinced that climate change, and what we do about it, will define us, our era, and ultimately the global legacy we leave for future generations”… Discovery reports “Antarctica’s once fringe-thawing is moving well inland, say […]
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September 24, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
WAS HE ELECTROCUTED BY POLICE FOR USING OBSCENITY OR FOR ASKING UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS OF A POLITICIAN? WHICH OF THE TWO IS MORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
Last week, a journalism student attending a speech by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), at the University of Florida, was cuffed, electrocuted and detained by police while posing a series of hard questions to […]
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September 24, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
24 September :: Estimated 100,000 march in Rangoon (Yangon) to support Buddhist monks calling for end to military rule in Burma; some fear junta will impose another harsh crack-down… Iran pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his nation does not need nuclear weapons and is not headed for war with US; news comes amid heightened tensions […]
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The race to tap large quantities of underground, geothermal energy is heating up. In a recent bid to solve their country’s demand for clean energy, the Swiss are digging deep, and the Earth is responding. A scientist at MIT, in the US, says 40% of US geothermal sources could power the entire country’s energy needs in excess of 56,000 times.
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September 23, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
23 September :: Sunday Times reports “Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem”; nuclear-related material not named, report also says Israel raid carried out with US backing… Newsweek […]
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September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
22 September :: Al-Qaeda has announced its intention to recapture the medieval caliphate of Al-Andalus, which covered much of modern Spain; alleged 2nd in command al-Zawahiri says retaking Maghreb and Al-Andalus is an ‘obligation’, will begin with assault on Spanish, French interests in north Africa, threatening to kidnap westerners working or living in areas where […]
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September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Lester R. Brown, EPI :: On March 16, 2003, some 10,000 participants [met] in Japan for the third World Water Forum to discuss the world water prospect. Although they [would] be officially focusing on water scarcity, they [would also] indirectly be focusing on food scarcity because 70 percent of the water we divert from rivers […]
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September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: In the wake of Mozambique’s long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists, sponsored by Christian aid, set up the Transforming Arms into Tools (TAE) project in the nation’s capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways […]
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September 22, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: Human rights group says ‘opaque chain’ of private interests increasing shipments of dangerous arms, with little supervision…
Amnesty International (Amnesty/AI) has published a new report examining the international arms trade, and its findings indicate there is little control on the expanding web of private interests seeking to profit from a proliferation of dangerous weapons. […]
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September 21, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
21 September :: Spain has begun airing commercials in West Africa urging would-be migrants not to attempt the perilous journey by boat to Spanish soil in the Canary Islands; adverts show weeping families, drowned migrants, urge viewers to see themselves as "the future of Africa"; the 6-week, $1.4 million campaign was launched on Senegalese TV… […]
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September 20, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
20 September :: US Director of National Intelligence says China, Russia now spying on scale not seen since Cold War; claims comes as reports suggest China, India invovled in ballistic missile build-up, concerns over Asian arms race; Pentagon recently alleged its computer network was attacked by Chinese hackers… Israeli gov’t criticizes opposition leader Netanyahu for […]
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September 19, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: More than 1 billion people already face fresh water scarcity, figure expected to double in 20 years’ time
Water is one of the “fundamental building-blocks of life”, as is often said in science, in biology classrooms, in medicine, theology, environmental policy debates, and in cosmology and space exploration. It is also a commodity whose […]
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19 September :: US suspends all road travel outside Baghdad ‘Green Zone’ by its diplomats in Iraq, after Iraqi gov’t prohibits private military firm Blackwater from providing security or operating in Iraq, amid allegations Blackwater agents fired "indiscriminately" on civilians with no apparent provocation; BBC reports Blackwater operations difficult to trace, company claims to have […]
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September 19, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The world is facing a major environmental crisis, with multiple serious battles to fight on various fronts, if we are to avert crippling long-term environmental degradation. One fundamental problem is that post-industrial societies have not sufficiently divorced their economic activity from extreme contaminants like carbon-based fuels, so that special cases of exorbitant economic growth […]
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September 18, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
18 September :: North Korea’s gov’t says rumors it provided nuclear assistance to Syria are "conspiracy" designed to prevent its normalizing relations with the US… Russia, China have raised "alarm" over comments by French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner that the nation should prepare for war with Iran; Reuters reports "Kouchner sought, however, to play down […]
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September 17, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
17 September :: The "six-party talks" aimed at dismantling North Korea’s nuclear apparatus, normalizing relations with rogue regime, suspended, in move apparently linked to allegations of Syrian nuclear ties; Israel allegedly bombed, in secret, facilities in Syria it now claims contained North Korean nuclear technology, that claim has caused a heightening in tensions between Pyongyang, […]
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September 16, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
16 September :: Former US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, has said he is contemplating a late run for the presidency, to help Republican party overcome "chaos" in primary field; some see possible run as attempt to take on old foe Hillary Clinton… UK gov’t faces criticism over policy of deporting political […]
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September 15, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
15 September :: China has freed a New York Times reporter imprisoned for 3 years; Zhao Yan was detained in 2004 after reporting that Jian Zemin was likely to step down, the charge being the leaking of state secrets; Zhao had also reported on official abuses; China is currently holding 35 journalists and at least […]
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September 13, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The Crisis Policy Forum is an online community project with a view to fomenting open debate and discourse on humanitarian, political and economic crises across the world. CPF aims to highlight and bring about new research and policy-proposals, to produce viable, locally-relevant solutions to pervasive crises such as fresh-water scarcity, chronic poverty, access to technology […]
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Through the ‘Think’ project, Casavaria aims to develop major new technologies to help bring the costly aspects of everyday post-industrial life in line with what the planet, and civilization itself, can sustain. The project seeks to reduce instability in technology for communication and to develop an entirely new sort of renewable “fuel” source.
Both of these […]
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September 10, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
9 September :: US pres. George W. Bush has said the US would consider a formal peace treaty with North Korea, if the DPRK agrees to give up entirely its nuclear program, in an effort to "end the Korean war"… Basque separast group ETA has said it will "continue to strike the structures of the […]
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September 9, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Si Café Sentido fuera un bar, ¿qué os interesaría ver? qué nivel de entrelazamiento entre la cultura y el ocio apetecería más? Solicitamos vuestros consejos y sugerencias acerca del tema, para poder montar el bar-galería Café Sentido de la forma que más dinamismo y atractivo tenga para un público interesado, diverso y persistente.
Vuestros comentarios […]
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September 8, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Nada es estable, todo es por decisión : solemos pensar que las circunstancias nos exculpan de la problemática de la decisión, que “no tenía opción” o “no había remedio”, que “no tuve la situación adecuada”, como si vivir en lo óptimo fuera un derecho, y cuando llega a tanto, ya hemos ido bastante lejos en nuestras expectativas…
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8 September :: Gen. Michael Hayden, head of US CIA, has publicly defended detention and "extraordinary rendition" practices used by CIA in treatment of those captured in association with terror investigations; EU courts investigating abductions, illegal transport of prisoners, detention without judicial review, with evidence suggesting hundreds of clandestine flights related to such practices; lawsuits […]
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September 7, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
7 September :: US intel analysts "skeptical" about Al-Qaeda claim of forthcoming video of Bin Laden; agencies suggest threat of "gift" to commemorate attacks refers to video, which would be Bin Laden’s first appearance in 3 years… Family of missing Madeleine in shock as Portuguese police name mother as suspect; Kate McCann says she is […]
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September 6, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
6 September :: European Central Bank has injected another 42.245 billion € into the euro-zone markets, via monetary auction with minimum interest of 4%; at least 46 banks and financial institutions are reported to have participated in the bidding for extra cash; the move is intended to shore up the euro against increasing ‘volatility’ as […]
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September 5, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
5 September :: Sudan gov’t announces it has successfully produced military-use drone aircraft and is seeking ballistic missile capabilities; the Khartoum-based gov’t of Pres. al-Bashir has said Sudan can now manufacture enough conventional weapons to be "self-sufficient" in defense-related production; observers say the announcement is disconcerting primarily because it is not clear against what perceived […]
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September 4, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
4 September :: Greece political climate soured by nationwide fires; 67% of those polled believe fires started deliberately by arsonist conspiracy, 31% say foreign entities, while 26% suspect property developers; Christian Science Monitor reports "European Commission’s European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) estimates that 469,000 acres burned between Aug. 24 and 28 alone. The financial […]
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September 3, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
3 September :: US assistant sec. of State Hill says North Korea has agreed to verifiably shut down its nuclear fuel production facilities, including an alleged secret program "purchased from Pakistan"; the DPRK will also allow UN inspectors to enter all such sites and carry out ongoing long-term inspections to insure compliance; the move reportedly […]
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2 September :: Former head of the British Army, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Gen. Sir Mike Jackson, has created a political firestorm in Britain by saying US post-war planning was "intellectually bankrupt"; while current cabinet officials (Foreign and Defence secretaries) seek to cool the furore, saying the UK pullout of Basra will occur […]
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September 1, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
1 September :: Russia plans to send manned missions to the Moon by 2025, with a subsequent goal of establishing a permanent base there between 2027 and 2032; initiative comes after US space agency NASA, in December 2006, announced plans to establish a permanently occupied base on the Moon, with manned missions beginning in 2020; […]
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