Our recent work in the NYT on loose arms, unexploded ordnance and errant air strikes in Libya resulted in the repeated filling my Twitter DM file and my email accounts with tips and helpful comments.
Among the many interesting items are the photo above, and the two images immediately…
Geeks vs. Nerds Infographic
Check out this Infographic for the other ways we don’t seem to live on the same planet.
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About a year from now, Qatar will host the next United Nations Climate Change Summit, in close cooperation with South Korea. In the interim, the two countries will “make joint efforts to globally promote and implement the green growth agenda.”
That announcement was made at the current UN summit in Durban, South Africa. Says the press release:
The State of Qatar, as one of the world’s main energy exporters, expressed its eagerness in Durban to secure progress in the UN climate change negotiations, and support to the endeavours of developing countries… in adapting to the inevitable effects of climate change.
But the obtrusive fact missed by the press release and highlighted by the New York Times is that Qatar has the highest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions in the world, according to UN figures.
So it might be a good idea to tidy up the house a bit, before inviting the world over to talk about climate change… no?
Section27, a South African watchdog group, has accused Al Jazeera and its host state Qatar of human rights abuses against people living with HIV.
In specific, the group calls out an incident involving a South African journalist who joined Al Jazeera as a senior editor in October 2010…
Qatar’s first lady Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser has pledged to help the United Nations’ cultural agency in fulfilling its education goals after the group lost 22 percent of its funding from the United States last month.
The U.S. froze $65 million in contributions to the United Nations…
I didn’t realize how in-tuned my flowchart was with this blog until I finished it. Basically sums up everything I ever thought about writing and never did.
