“GOD CRIED”: TONY CLIFTON BOOK ON THE SIEGE OF BEIRUT IN 1982
September 30, 2010 at 9:38 pm | Posted in Arabs, History, Israel, Middle East, Military, Palestine, Zionism | Leave a commentGod Cried
Tony Clifton (Author)
Catherine Leroy (Author)
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Recounts the 1982 siege of Beirut by the Israeli Army and describes the pain and suffering caused by the fighting.
This review is from: God Cried (Hardcover)
Tony Clifton’s book “God Cried,” represents the main body of published photographic documentation of the Israeli terror-bombing of downtown Beirut, Lebanon in the summer of 1982, when clearly marked schools, hospitals and apartment blocs were deliberately and mercilessly bombed.
Tens of thousands of civilians died in this now forgotten holocaust. There is still some discussion of Sabra and Chatila, the September massacre of Palestinians by the Phalange under Israeli direction, but the far more horrid and extensive massacre represented by the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the civilian sectors of Beirut is almost completely forgotten, seemingly even by many Lebanese, and certainly by the US media.
But until the last copy of “God Cried” is stamped out, the truth will out.
–Michael Hoffman, co-author, “The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians.”
This shocking book reveals the pure, unadulterated terror the State of Israel inflicted on this sad land. Both the pictures and the prose bring home the brutality of what Israel did (and is doing) to the Palestinian people.
Some of the conclusions, written in 1982/83, hauntingly resonate today with a clarity that only those which have withstood the test of time can. Clifton, an award-winning journalist with Newsweek and photographer Cathrine Leroy (also winner of numerous prestigious prizes) have put together more than a documentary account of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent siege of Beirut and the massacres of Sabra and Shatila. With unquestionable evidence they have produced a scathing commentary on Israel‘s brutal war of terror waged against an innocent people.
This review is from: God Cried (Hardcover)
This book gives its readers a glimpse into the suffering the Palestinian and Lebanese people have had to endure, under the merciless assault of the Israeli Army, that seems to get away with all its terror with full Western backing, especially American.
· Hardcover: 141 pages
· Publisher: Quartet Books (UK) First Edition
· October 1983
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0704323753
· ISBN-13: 978-0704323759
God Cried
Tony Clifton (Author)
Catherine Leroy (Author)
CASPIAN ENERGY
September 30, 2010 at 7:59 pm | Posted in Economics, Financial, Oil & Gas, Research, Russia | Leave a commentRussia, Caspian, Eurasia:
Actionable Oil and Gas Updates
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“POLARIZED AMERICA: THE DANCE OF IDEOLOGY AND UNEQUAL RICHES” BOOK
September 30, 2010 at 12:18 am | Posted in Books, Economics, Financial, History, Research, USA | Leave a commentPolarized America:
The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
(Walras-Pareto Lectures)
Nolan McCarty (Author)
Keith T. Poole (Author)
Howard Rosenthal (Author)
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The topic of polarization—its causes and consequences—has risen to the front of the study of American politics. Nolan McCarty and his coauthors have written the gold standard against which others will be judged. Their analysis of the consequences of polarization has caused me to rethink my belief that there are no real policy consequences to the elite polarization of American politics.”
—David W. Brady, Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values, Stanford University
“In this impressive book, McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal break through the wall political scientists have inadvertently constructed between American political institutions and American society. Their findings concerning the links between mounting inequality, immigration, and the rise of political polarization are sure to generate much discussion. Their fine scholarship will enlighten that discussion as well.”
—Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Product Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.
The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization in recent decades has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes—most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces, characterizing it as a dance of give and take and back and forth causality.
Using NOMINATE (a quantitative procedure that, like interest group ratings, scores politicians on the basis of their roll call voting records) to measure polarization in Congress and public opinion, census data and Federal Election Commission finance records to measure polarization among the public, the authors find that polarization and income inequality fell in tandem from 1913 to 1957 and rose together dramatically from 1977 on; they trace a parallel rise in immigration beginning in the 1970s. They show that Republicans have moved right, away from redistributive policies that would reduce income inequality. Immigration, meanwhile, has facilitated the move to the right: non-citizens, a larger share of the population and disproportionately poor, cannot vote; thus there is less political pressure from the bottom for redistribution than there is from the top against it.
In “the choreography of American politics” inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality.
1.The Choreography of American Politics
2. Polarized Politicians
3. Income Polarization and the Electorate
4. Immigration, Income, and the Voter’s Incentive to Redistribute
5. Campaign Finance and Polarization
6. Polarization and Public Policy
7. Where Have you Gone, Mr. Sam [Rayburn]
About the Authors
Nolan McCarty is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Academic Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Keith T. Poole is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.
Howard Rosenthal is Professor of Politics at New York University and Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
· Hardcover: 252 pages
· Publisher: The MIT Press
· June 23 2006
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0262134640
· ISBN-13: 978-0262134644
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
(Walras-Pareto Lectures)
“FLUCTUATING FORTUNES”: DAVID VOGEL BOOK
September 29, 2010 at 6:39 pm | Posted in Books, Economics, Financial, Research, USA | Leave a commentFluctuating Fortunes:
The Political Power of Business in America
David Vogel (Author)
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From Library Journal
Within the last three decades, the power of American business to influence legislation and policy has fluctuated dramatically. According to the author (business & public policy, Berkeley), the performance of the economy and the political power of business are inversely related. Vogel traces in detail the factors influencing the fortunes of business by concentrating on four issues: the regulation of corporate social conduct; tax policy; labor-management relations; and energy policy. This impressive, well-written history is a valuable contribution. Highly recommended.
– Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Product Description
The dynamics of business-government relations in the United States between 1960 and 1988.
Product Details:
· Paperback: 352 pages
· Publisher: Beard Books
· February 2003
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1587981696
· ISBN-13: 978-1587981692
Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America
David Vogel (Author)
GLOBAL SUPPORT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
September 28, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Posted in Development, Earth, Ecology, Economics, Financial, Research, Third World | Leave a commentAT UN DEVELOPING NATIONS URGE BOOST IN
GLOBAL SUPPORT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
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AT UN, DEVELOPING NATIONS URGE BOOST IN GLOBAL SUPPORT
TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
Tue 9/28/10
Developing nations took to the podium today at the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate to press for greater global support in responding to climate change.
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Muhammad Mumuni “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634212699462656250GH_en.pdf“warned world leaders that poorer nations may soon experience a “promise fatigue” if developed countries do not carry through pledged funds, including the $30 billion of fast-track funding for developing countries through 2012 committed at December’s Copenhagen climate change meeting.
At the gathering in the Danish capital, industrialized countries further pledged to find ways and means to raise $100 billion annually by 2020.
“For developing countries, the early delivery and transparent allocation of this money will boost our confidence in the dialogue and also show that industrialized countries are truly committed to progress in the broader negotiations,” Mr. Mumuni said.
Not only must developed countries honour their commitments to provide financial and technological to poorer nations in the fight against climate change, they must also “take the lead to cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions so that the conference in Cancun could produce tangible results,” “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634211899755000000KH_en.pdf“said Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong.
The next conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“http://unfccc.int/2860.php“UNFCCC) is set to take place in the Mexican city in November.
“The fruitful outcomes in Cancun rely on efforts by all to save humankind from much more serious catastrophes,” the Cambodian official said.
Foreign Minister Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean of Barbados acknowledged that a comprehensive pact will not be achieved in Cancun, but “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634212833423281250BB_en.pdf“said the November gathering must conclude with the world committing itself to prioritizing the most vulnerable and providing the fast-track funding.
“Critical to success at Cancun is arriving at a common understanding of how, when and where an ambitious and legally-binding international climate agreement will be finalized,” she stressed.
Theodore Brent Symonette, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas, “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634212608166875000BS_en.pdf“called for special attention to be paid to the needs of small island developing States (“http://www.sidsnet.org/“SIDS) and other vulnerable countries.
The Bahamas, he said, is the fifth most vulnerable country to sea level rise. “We are a country of negligible greenhouse gas emissions, still we suffer catastrophic results of emissions are not stabilized and reduced worldwide.”
According to science, a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius will result in the sea level rising two metres, Mr. Symonette said. “Such an occurrence will submerge 80 per cent of our territory.”
Also calling for urgent action for SIDS today was Arvin Boolell, Foreign Minister of Mauritius.
With climate change inextricably linked to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (“http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/“MDGs), the SIDS should be given simplified access to both fast-track and longer-term resources, he “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634212729543281250MU_en_fr.pdf“emphasized.
“Those adaptation fundings should be in the form of grants and not loans,” Mr. Boolell added.
President Desiré Delano Bouterse of Suriname, in his address to the Assembly on Saturday, “http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634211870689687500SR_en.pdf“said that climate change will have a “devastating” effect on developing countries.
His country, he said, can serve as an example for the world “as its laws to save [forests] and biodiversity date back from the middle of the past century.”
It is called the “greenest country on Earth” for its 90 per cent forest cover, Mr. Bouterse said.
“It seems that the standing forest and the wealth of Suriname’s biodiversity are being taken for granted by the global community as there are no structures in place to provide incentives to continue on the path of sustainability,” he said.
For his part, Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas “http://gadebate.un.org/View/SpeechView/tabid/85/smid/411/ArticleID/209/Default.aspx“called for climate change, which is already undermining small economies, to remain at the top of the global diplomatic and negotiating agenda.
Fast-track funding has only reach a small percentage of developing countries, and “clearly, this has to be corrected,” especially for SIDS, he said.
Sep 28 2010
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FEDERAL RESERVE UPDATES
September 28, 2010 at 10:21 am | Posted in Economics, Financial, Research, USA | Leave a commentCredit quality of the Shared National Credit Portfolio
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GLOBAL AGRO-ECOLOGICAL ZONES (GAEZ)
September 28, 2010 at 1:05 am | Posted in Earth, Ecology, Economics, Financial, Globalization, History, Research | Leave a commentGlobal Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ)
Measuring the potential of farmland
FAO’s GAEZ system produces an outlook for world food production – and reveals limits to growth in several regions
Over the next three decades world food supply will grow faster than population, although undernourishment will remain widespread. That was the main conclusion of Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030, an FAO report released in July 2000.
Underpinning the report’s widely quoted forecasts were months of serious number-crunching by a joint project of AG’s Land and Water Development Division (AGL) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Using a new land resources evaluation tool called the Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) system, the project was able to a combine massive climatic, soil and terrain data sets covering most of the Earth’s land surface. The result: crop suitability and land productivity assessments for the entire globe.
About one-quarter of the global land surface is “sufficiently suitable” for crop cultivation, but only 3.5% is problem-free
What is the GAEZ system? With IIASA, AGL has developed over the past 25 years an Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ) methodology, which provides a standardized framework for characterizing climate, soil and terrain conditions relevant to agricultural production. AEZ has been used in several countries – including Bangladesh and Canada – to evaluate crop production potentials. What’s now made the AEZ approach global is the information revolution – the availability of digital global databases of climatic parameters, topography, soil and terrain, land cover and population distribution. These data have enabled us not only to revise and improve AEZ calculation procedures, but extend its crop suitability and land productivity assessments to temperate and boreal environments. We can now produce global assessments of agricultural potential.
In simple terms, what is the GAEZ methodology? The AEZ framework contains three basic elements. The first is what we call LUTs – Land Utilization Types – which are selected agricultural production systems with defined input and management relationships, and crop-specific environmental requirements and adaptability characteristics. The second is geo-referenced climate, soil and terrain data which are combined into a land resources database. The vital third element is the procedure for calculating potential yields by matching crop/LUT environmental requirements with the environmental characteristics captured in the database.
What went into the GAEZ land resources database? We used the FAO/UNESCO Digital Soil Map of the World (DSMW) for building a land surface database with more than 9.2 million grid-cells, plus soil association and attribute tables, a slope distribution database, and a layer providing distributions in terms of eleven aggregate land-cover classes.
For climate, we used a recent global climatic data set compiled by the University of East Anglia‘s Climate Research Unit. This database contains climate averages for the period 1961-90, as well as year-by-year data of the period 1901-1996. These are used to characterize each half-degree grid-cell in terms of thermal climates, temperature profiles, accumulated temperature sums, length of growing periods and moisture deficits. Terrain slopes were derived from the Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Database developed at the USGS Eros Data Center. At IIASA, rules based on altitude differences of neighbouring grid-cells were applied to compile a terrain-slope distribution database with seven average slope range classes.
How did you assess crop productivity? For rain-fed land, we used a water-balance model to quantify the start and duration of the period when sufficient water is available to sustain crop growth. Soil moisture conditions together with other climate characteristics – such as radiation and temperature – were used in a simplified crop growth model to calculate potential biomass production and yield. For the assessment of irrigated land productivity the duration of the period with temperatures conducive for crop growth was used for matching the crop cycle length and for the calculation of biomass production and yield.
The calculated potential yields are then combined in a semi-quantitative manner with a number of reduction factors directly or indirectly related to climate (like pest and diseases), and with soil and terrain conditions. The reduction factors, which are successively applied to the potential yields, vary with crop type, climate, soil and terrain conditions, and assumptions at the level of inputs and management. For determining irrigated land productivity potentials, we assumed that water resources of good quality are available, and that irrigation infrastructure is in place. In other words, the procedures identify areas where climate, soils and physiography permit irrigated crop cultivation, but do not assess availability of sufficient water supply. But the Global AEZ could easily be linked to watershed data to define limits to water availability.
(Climate change. The GAEZ study estimated the potential effects of global climate change on rainfed agriculture. A temperature increase of 3°C, paired with a 10% rainfall increase, would lead globally to about 4% more cultivable rain-fed land. The beneficiaries, however, would not be evenly distributed – while the increase in cultivable land in developed countries might exceed 25%, in developing regions there would be an 11% drop.)
What were the main findings of the GAEZ study? Considering current climate and the main crop types modelled in Global AEZ – and optimizing across low, intermediate and high input levels – we conclude that a little more than one-quarter of the global land surface can be regarded as “sufficiently suitable” for crop cultivation. For the developed countries this amounts to about 20% and for developing countries to about 30% of their respective land surfaces. This gross estimate of land with cultivation potential is twice the area that was actually in cultivation in 1994-96, according to FAO statistics. From this, we concluded that the Earth’s land and climate resources are adequate to meet the food needs of for a world population of 8.9 thousand million, as projected for the year 2050.
However, we don’t expect the area of cultivated land – at global scale – to increase very much. Most of the increase in future food production will come through improvements in input use and technology, especially in developing regions where the gap between actual and potential yields is still very wide. In fact, a major expansion of cultivated land would be undesirable for environmental reasons, because of important implications for biodiversity and global biogeochemical cycles.
Globally, at least, the outlook is optimistic… Globally, yes. But there are several regions where rain-fed cultivation potential has already been exhausted, notably in parts of Asia. On the basis of currently available data, the GAEZ approach estimates that 10.5 thousand million ha – which is more than three-quarters of the global land surface – suffer rather severe constraints for rain-fed cultivation. Assuming availability of water resources, only about 1.8% of arid and hyper-arid zones was assessed as prime land for cereals under irrigation. Overall, the analysis concludes that only 3.5% of the land surface can be regarded to be entirely free of constraining factors. Only for some parts in Europe did the share of essentially constraint-free conditions reach 20% and more.
What plans are there for GAEZ? There is now rich experience with the application of AEZ at national, regional and global levels, and we see it as a source of comprehensive information for decision-makers, especially national and international organizations dealing with agriculture, land and water, food security, climate variability and climate change. Apart from general refinement of the basic methodology and data, we want to add water resources data in the GAEZ database, and use IIASA’s Climate and Human Activities-sensitive Runoff Model (CHARM) to enhance the assessment of irrigation production potentials at watershed level. We are also planning specific AEZ studies on the effect of climatic variability on food security in the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, Bangladesh and China.
Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ)
Measuring the potential of farmland
GREEN GROWTH
September 27, 2010 at 5:14 pm | Posted in Development, Earth, Ecology, Economics, Financial, Globalization, Research, Science & Technology, Third World | Leave a commentGREEN GROWTH CAN HELP ASIA-PACIFIC OVERCOME
RECESSIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE — UN
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GREEN GROWTH CAN HELP ASIA-PACIFIC OVERCOME RECESSIONS,
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Mon 27 Sep 2010
Green growth can simultaneously promote environmental sustainability and development in Asia and the Pacific, a senior United Nations official has said, urging stepped up investment in natural capital, clean energy and ecological efficiency.
In a “http://www.unescap.org/mced6/ES%20message/ message to a high-level “http://www.unescap.org/mced6/index.asp gathering kicking off today in Astana, Kazakhstan, to identify a roadmap for environmental protection and development in the region, Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (“http://www.unescap.org/ ESCAP), stressed that environmental sustainability need not be a trade-off for economic growth.
But for this to happen, there will need to be a fundamental transformation of our economic structure by integrating ecological costs in market prices, investing in sustainable infrastructure, promoting green business and technology, pursuing sustainable lifestyles and by developing climate resilient societies, she said.
The ESCAP gathering in Astana, which runs until Saturday, will assess how to improve the quality of economic growth through addressing environmental challenges.
Green growth offers the unique opportunity for developing countries and emerging economies to leapfrog from the conventional and costly “pollute first and clean up later” trap to an ecologically efficient, inclusive and sustainable growth paradigm, said Rae Kwon Chung, Director of ESCAP’s Environment and Development Division.
Such an approach will help the region tackle the threats posed converging economic, resource and ecological crises, according to the UN.
Sep 27 2010
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BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS “BIS REVIEW NO. 122”: STRUCTURAL REFORMS
September 27, 2010 at 10:57 am | Posted in Economics, Eurozone, Financial, Globalization, Research | Leave a commentBIS Review
Bank for International Settlements
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Please find BIS Review No 122 attached as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. Alternatively, you can access this BIS Review on the Bank for International Settlements’ website by clicking on http://www.bis.org/review/index.htm.
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BIS Review No 122 (27 September 2010)
Axel A Weber: Macroeconomic imbalances in the European Monetary Union – causes and policy challenges
Guy Quaden: Modernising IMF surveillance
Ilmārs Rimšēvičs: Structural reforms to pave the way to prosperity in the future
Sada Reddy: Promoting microfinance in Fiji
Spencer Dale: Inflation, inflation, inflation
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INDIA NEWS: PIB SEPTEMBER 23 1010
September 27, 2010 at 10:27 am | Posted in Economics, Financial, India, Research | Leave a commentPress information Bureau (PIB)
Latest Releases from PIB
Government of India
PIB releases
Thu 9/23/10
Requested Ministry-wise PIB releases
· Home Minister Reviews Security of Commonwealth Games
· Conference of AR Secretaries of States/UTs Begins Tomorrow
· FII Investment Limit in Government Securities and Corporate Bonds Increased by US $ 5 Billion
· I-T Returns Filing Date Extended to 30th November in J&K
· Wholesale Price Indices for Primary Articles and Fuel & Power in India (Base: 2004-05 = 100)
· Implementation of BS-III Auto Fuels Completed Ahead of the Schedule
· First Advance Estimates of Crop Production Release
· BIS Certification Mandatory for Packaged Drinking Water
· RD Ministry Releases ` 60 Crores to NPCC for Construction of Rural Roads in Bihar
· RD Ministry Releases ` 4.19 Crores to IRCON International for Construction of Rural Roads in Bihar
· RD Ministry Releases ` 46.80 Crores to CPWD for Construction of Rural Roads in Bihar
· RD Ministry Releases ` 88 Crores to NHPC for Construction of Rural Roads in Bihar
· RD Ministry Releases ` 18.37 Crores to NBCC for Construction of Rural Roads in Bihar
· Full Text of the Pledge for Commitment Towards Safe & Honourable Tourism and Sustainable Tourism