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Fibre 101 with Steven Joyce
Published July 9, 2009, 1:04 pm, New Zealand's National Business Review
Don't know your dark fibre from your lit? These terms matter when $1.5 billion of taxpayer money is going to be spent on broadband over the next 10 years. In this (unedited, uncorrected) transcript of a June 24 meeting of the Commerce Committee, Communications and IT minister Steven Joyce schools his fellow MPs, and reveals some of his thinking. It's good to see the minister is clued up on the ...
Was The CIA Hiding Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?
Published July 9, 2009, 12:57 pm, The Huffington Post
The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas of national security policy. What program, exactly, was being kept secret?
Nationalism and Western values
Published July 9, 2009, 12:36 pm, Daily News
This is the Part VI of the serialized excerpts from a forthcoming publication titled ‘Sri Lanka - the War fuelled by International Peace’ by Palitha Senanayake. These extracts from Chapter 16 of the book are published with the kind permission of the author. Part V was published on July 7.
Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased earthquake risk
Published July 9, 2009, 12:35 pm, PhysOrg
(PhysOrg.com) -- Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably an increased likelihood of a major quake, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.
Tremors On Southern San Andreas Fault May Mean Increased Earthquake Risk
Published July 9, 2009, 12:21 pm, Science Daily
Tremors under the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault have increased with increasing stress on a nearby locked segment of the fault, perhaps signaling a greater chance of an earthquake. The tremors, like a constant, low-level rumble, increased after quakes in 2003 and 2004, and are at the end of a segment that last ruptured in 1857 in a 7.8 magnitude quake.
Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased earthquake risk
Published July 9, 2009, 11:29 am, EurekAlert!
( University of California - Berkeley ) Tremors under the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault have increased with increasing stress on a nearby locked segment of the fault, perhaps signaling a greater chance of an earthquake. The tremors, like a constant, low-level rumble, increased after quakes in 2003 and 2004, and are at the end of a segment that last ruptured in 1857 in a 7.8 ...
Survey Shows Gap Between Scientists and the Public
Published July 9, 2009, 11:27 am, New York Times
On the whole, scientists believe American research leads the world, but only 17 percent of the public agree, a new survey has found.
Jamie and Gladys Scott: Wrongfully convicted
Published July 9, 2009, 11:22 am, San Francisco Bay View
“As the social order continues, it devises other ideals of social danger, among them women. In the United States today, there are more than 90,000 women in prisons. Of that number, over 80 percent are mothers, who have left more than 167,000 children behind, living in a tenuous freedom.” – Mumia Abu Jamal, “Jailhouse Lawyers”
Scientific Achievements Are Less Prominent Than A Decade Ago
Published July 9, 2009, 10:16 am, redOrbit
A new report by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that overwhelming majorities of Americans believe that science has had a positive effect on society and that science has made life easier for most people.
CRTC net neutrality hearing: Day III transcript
Published July 9, 2009, 10:11 am, p2pnet.net
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The CRTC ‘investigation’ traffic throttling / net neutrality in Canada is now into Day 4. University of Ottawa student Yael Wexler has a report of Day Three on Michael Geist’s blog. Here are the official CRTC transcripts of Day One and Day Two, and we’ll run the CIPPIC’s Twitter reports of [...]
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