Denmark "Technology King"

The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.

The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said. The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden.

more: BBC News

Carbon-energy taxation

When taxes are introduced on energy and CO₂ emissions, and the income is used to reduce other taxes, a positive effect is achieved both for the environment and for the economy. Economists from Cambridge Econometrics have, in an EU research project coordinated by the National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, shown that the ’double dividend’ theory can no longer be rejected in practice. In five EU countries, CO₂ and energy taxation over the last 17 years has made a small but positive contribution to economic growth of up to 0.5 per cent, at the same time as CO₂ emissions have been reduced.

more: NERI

Copenhagen hit by riots

A police operation to evict squatters from a building in Denmark's capital triggered a major riot.

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Retroactive cause and effect?

According to quantum mechanics, light can be either a graceful rippling wave or a hail of bulletlike particles, depending on how you look at it. Now, an experiment shows that an observer can make the choice retroactively, after light has entered a measuring apparatus. The result shows that reality is truly in the eye of the beholder.

more: ScienceNow

War on Science

The theory of evolution is under attack from a controversial new idea called intelligent design. But is it science?

War on Science

(50 min. video)

Censored?

Brasscheck TV seems to have some problems with the videos.

Of course it might just be a technical problem, or a misunderstanding, I don't know.

But you can get more information by clicking the link in my previous post:

Conspiracy-theory?

At the time I posted that link, the film was there, and I saw it.

Science, Religion - and Global Warming

In the wake of the most significant scientific report to date on the potentially dire consequences of global warming, a ray of hope has emerged. Ironically, it emanates from the convergence of forces that have often been at odds. One force, the world of science, has long been on the forefront of the issue of climate change. Another equally powerful force, religion, has often remained on the sidelines -- until recently.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of more than 2,000 of the world's top scientists from more than 100 nations, stated in a Feb. 2 report that global warming is "unequivocal," that it is rapidly changing the nature of our planet and its ecosystems, and that it is "very likely" being caused by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.

In the course of the last decade, a significant movement within the faith community has been mobilizing around the call to care for God's creation, the web of life that sustains us all. This calling is the essence of religious life, and people of faith are beginning to hear it, even as scientists sound the alarm that we may be nearing a climactic tipping point.

We view science and religion as powerful potential partners. The hope is that the clarity of the science will inspire a concerted effort by the leaders in both communities and thus avoid the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.

more: San Francisco Cronicle

Brzezinski

The major national newspapers and most broadcast outlets failed even to report Thursday’s stunning testimony by former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, is among the most prominent figures within the US foreign policy establishment. He delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the policy of the Bush administration was leading inevitably to a military confrontation with Iran which would have disastrous consequences for US imperialism.

Most significant and disturbing was Brzezinski’s suggestion that the Bush administration might manufacture a pretext to justify a military attack on Iran. Presenting what he called a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran,” Brzezinski laid out the following series of events: “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in, quote/unquote, ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran...” [Emphasis added].

Thus Brzezinski opined that a US military attack on Iran would be an aggressive action, presented as though it were a defensive response to alleged Iranian provocations, and came close to suggesting, without explicitly stating as much, that the White House was capable of manufacturing or allowing a terrorist attack within the US to provide a casus belli for war.

more: CASMII

Conspiracy-theory?

There are lots of theories about 911, many of them are probably just conspiracy theories, but in my opinion it is necessary to at least take a look at them, for three reasons:

1) We all know today, that the Bush-regime is totally unreliable.

2) The official story is the story told by the Bush-regime itself.

3) If you look at the official story as a whole, too many circumstances fit each other in a rather unlikely way (a sign that the chain of events are not "natural").

Now there is another theory, based on the role of the media - immediately after the basic event.

See a video about it on: Brasscheck TV

update:
alternative link: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2823171
restored link from Brasscheck: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/92.html

Anti-terror

In the fight against terror, new kinds of technology are of course invented. But it is a serious problem, that most techology is specific, and can only be used against certain kinds of terror. A tecnological method to detect explosives might be useful, but it couldn't have prevented 911, since explosives was simply not used in this act of terror.

Technology is clearly not enough to fight terror.

Not that I would just say: Let it bee!