A National Madness.
Just wanted to make sure you didn't miss this article! Thanks, Disaffected Lib (aka Mound of Sound), for adding this gem to the blogosphere!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Rick Westhead: Pakistan in peril (in the Toronto Star)
Scary portrait of a nuclear power on the brink.
"'There used to be a hope that there was a silent, liberal majority,' says Hoodbhoy [Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani nuclear scientist and peace activist], a professor at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. 'Now we know that there’s still a silent liberal group, but it’s no majority.' ...
"Hoodbhoy ... spent the past year working with students to secretly record and transcribe sermons at hard-line mosques across Pakistan.
"'Despair and grief are really the capital that these militant groups trade in, and there is a lot of it in Pakistan right now,' says Hoodbhoy."
Full article: Pakistan in peril.
"'There used to be a hope that there was a silent, liberal majority,' says Hoodbhoy [Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani nuclear scientist and peace activist], a professor at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. 'Now we know that there’s still a silent liberal group, but it’s no majority.' ...
"Hoodbhoy ... spent the past year working with students to secretly record and transcribe sermons at hard-line mosques across Pakistan.
"'Despair and grief are really the capital that these militant groups trade in, and there is a lot of it in Pakistan right now,' says Hoodbhoy."
Full article: Pakistan in peril.
Haroon Siddiqui: Shia-Sunni schism explained from Lebanon to Bahrain (in the Toronto Star)
Haroon Siddiqui explains the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism, and what some of its implications are for the future.
Siddiqui: Shia-Sunni schism explained from Lebanon to Bahrain.
Siddiqui: Shia-Sunni schism explained from Lebanon to Bahrain.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tyler Hamilton: Overcoming solar panels’ winter problem (in the Toronto Star)
Good questions about how solar panels can work best in northern climates.
Full article: Overcoming solar panels’ winter problem.
Full article: Overcoming solar panels’ winter problem.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Carol Goar: Harper is cutting off ‘lifeblood of democracy’ (in the Toronto Star)
Goar: Harper is cutting off ‘lifeblood of democracy’.
Canada is a democracy?! Carol Goar tells a pretty sad story.
Canada is a democracy?! Carol Goar tells a pretty sad story.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Steven Hawking: Move to new planet (BBC News)
Move to new planet, says Hawking.
I have been saying this for a while as well (although I am not in Hawking's league - except that we are both Cambridge men :-) ). If the governments of the developed world would put a few of the trillions they are wasting into this effort, the species might survive (albeit in a much altered form). Write your MP, congressman, etc.! We can't afford to wait much longer!
I have been saying this for a while as well (although I am not in Hawking's league - except that we are both Cambridge men :-) ). If the governments of the developed world would put a few of the trillions they are wasting into this effort, the species might survive (albeit in a much altered form). Write your MP, congressman, etc.! We can't afford to wait much longer!
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