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The Cadiz water scheme: How political juice kept a bad idea alive for years
2015-10-08 08:59:33| Agriculture - Topix.net
It has never been a great idea to count Cadiz entirely out of the race to sell its costly water deal to the public, considering its long history of lining up powerful political friends. Yet it hasn't been a great idea to bet on the company either, since its stock, after spending a few quarters around the turn of the century in the $200+ stratosphere, more recently has been snuggled down in the single-digit cellar.
The Relevance Of Gandhian Political Economy
2015-09-29 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Countercurrents: To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self respect and oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true....Truth has drawn me into the field of politics.--M. K. Gandhi. Another Gandhi Jayanti arrives and it will be 'celebrated' with usual platitudes. But it is high time we went beyond the meaningless rhetoric, and grasped the real spirit of Gandhian politics in order to save not only India but the world...
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Political posturing while Asian forests keep burning
2015-09-18 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Indonesian government appears to be taking a tougher line on forest fires, but the haze is worse than ever. Southeast Asias haze is back. Forest and peatland fires in western Indonesia are causing clouds of thick smoke full of unhealthy particles, which blow north across Malaysia and Singapore, disrupting daily life and causing a health hazard. The Pollutant Standards Index reading in Singapore reached 249 on 14-15 September, far exceeding the safe level of 100. Indonesias government is under...
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How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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Dangerously Political Americana With a Touch of Saccharine
2015-09-09 15:06:39| Beverages - Topix.net
Choco Pie with Communist Cream ; Choco Pie Wrapper and Choco Pie with Capitalist Cream by Jin Joo Chae from "The Spaces We Know" at Octavia Art Gallery For a glimpse of some dangerously political work, veiled as Americana with a touch of saccharine, be sure to check out Jin Joo Chae's piece, The Sweet Taste of Capitalism with Communist Cream III in ... (more)
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