Wednesday-Night

Dec 6, 2007
Majority of public distrusts media coverage of 2008 campaign, study says
4:10 PM
A recent report from Harvard University has found that 64 percent of Americans distrust the news media’s coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.
The report, “A National Study of Confidence in Leadership” from the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. […]

6 December 2007
Biofuels are described by some as “absolutely catastrophic” because of their potential consequences, by others as “the driving force for development in some of the world’s poorest regions”. SciDev.Net picks a path between doomsayers and utopians, and looks at the reality of biofuels research and development in the developing world.
Biofuels: Let’s look before […]

Oh the weather outside is frightful
And the news is not delightful
The pundits’ll trumpet our woes
While the country is clearing the snows.
Pierre Marc’s at the meeting in Bali
And there’s taekwondo in Cali
(We had to reach for that)
Chavez is wiping his tears
While Putin’s stoking all the world’s fears
At home, rates and loonies are […]

Eric Beauchesne, CanWest News Service
December 05, 2007
OTTAWA — The next governor of the Bank of Canada came under fire Wednesday for his role in the Conservative government’s controversial decision to tax income trusts, which also broke one of its election promises.
… Under questioning from MPs, Carney said policy changes the central bank […]

Don’t Miss Your Flight — It Could be the Last One Out for a Few Days
By BARBARA DE LOLLIS and BARBARA HANSEN
USA TODAY
Dec. 4, 2007
Responding largely to high fuel costs, the USA’s six big network airlines continue to trim their U.S. schedules despite strong travel demand.
The six carriers American, United, Delta, Continental, […]

December 5 2007
Tony Juniper
Opinion, The Guardian
For decades, the world’s major companies have been increasingly successful in telling governments to keep out of their way. They have demanded that environmental problems be dealt with on a voluntary basis using market forces, and corporate lobby groups have said over and over again that customer demand will solve […]

December 4, 2007
A new book by Bjorn Lomborg counts the millions of lives that could be saved if Kyoto’s trillions were spent on other projects
Jonathan Kay, National Post
In Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, [world-renowned Danish thinker Bjorn] Lomborg acknowledges that global warming is a serious problem. He also acknowledges that people […]

December 4 2007
Anyone in doubt about the pivotal position played by China and India at this month’s global climate change talks in Bali should glance through the latest forecasts from the International Energy Agency.
Assuming government policies remain unchanged, Chinese and Indian economic development would be the key drivers in sending annual global energy-related emissions of […]

December 4, 2007
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring
Expert to warn industry of threats to world supply
Biofuels and Chinese boom put pressure on harvests
Jonathan Watts in Beijing Guardian
The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of […]

POLITICS: 1968 and the Birth of Diversity
Analysis by Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 2008 (IPS) - The year 1968 has become a symbol, but not necessarily one that is easy to sum up. High-profile violent events involving multitudes of people marked it as revolutionary, but it is hard to define the nature of […]