From nymhm at lists.artsandmedia.net Wed Jun 4 16:41:53 2008 From: nymhm at lists.artsandmedia.net (nymhm@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Wed Jun 4 16:43:17 2008 Subject: NYMHM: Ye olde credit crisis; Will pond scum save the planet?; Earthquake parents protest Message-ID: <090783c22e9daddad57124c17cdb97af@artsandmedia.net> ======================================================================== NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * June 4, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 23 Important but overlooked news from around the world. NYMHM is a free service of Newsdesk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - DONATIONS: http://artsandmedia.net/contribute/ - ONLINE: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005449.html - RSS: http://newsdesk.org/news/atom.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTED: "This is not a good place to do interviews. In a disaster like this, there will be a lot of opinions. The government will solve their problems." -- A Chinese official on protests by the parents of earthquake victims who blame shoddy school construction for the deaths of their children (see "Top Stories," below). CONTENTS: *Top Stories* A merrie olde credit crisis Earthquake parents protest China schools collapse Local music thrills to new community radio station *Culture Clash* Less than virginal, a French-Muslim marriage goes awry *Biofuels* Will pond scum save the planet? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORIES ........................................................................ > A Merrie Olde Credit Crisis Aftershocks from the mortgage and credit crises are rattling nerves around the world -- particularly in England's banking and lending sector. The Telegraph reports that investors have pulled more than 2.77 billion pounds (approximately $5 billion) from the British lender Bradford & Bingly, following the revelation of a cash crunch resulting from declines in its mortgage business. Faced with a shortfall from low-rate mortgages, the bank had apparently been hoping for ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005450.html > Earthquake Parents Protest China Schools Collapse About 100 parents of children killed in schools by China's recent earthquake have been turned back from a protest at a court in the Sichuan province. Approximately 7,000 schools collapsed in the 7.9 magnitude temblor, The Guardian reports, and in some cases were the only buildings to crumble in a given district. Some of the protesting parents called for ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005451.html > Local Music Thrills to New Community Radio A new, noncommercial FM radio station -- one of the first to be approved nationwide in 15 years -- is coming to Portland, Oregon. The Oregonian reports that MetroEast Community Media in Portland successfully petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for the license during an unusual weeklong application period last October. The licenses were only accepted if it could be proved that the new station wouldn't ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005452.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CULTURE CLASH ........................................................................ > Less than Virginal, a French-Muslim Marriage Goes Awry France has been rocked in the past week by news that a court allowed a Muslim groom to annul his marriage because he found out on his wedding night that his bride was not a virgin. The wedding took place two years ago and the annulment was granted last month, but once the story was revealed in a legal journal it caught fire with the media. Many French politicians and activists have strongly condemned the state's ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005453.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIOFUELS ........................................................................ > Will Pond Scum Save the Planet? With corn-based fuels being blamed for the global food crisis, biofuel supporters are looking for non-food crops to be the next energy source. This includes algae, a plant that few people would rather see on their plates instead of in their gas tanks. According to Biomass magazine, a commercial wild algae harvesting operation is now under way in New Zealand ponds, with the slimy stuff going toward the production of so-called biocrude ... 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If you aren't in the SF Bay Area, you can listen to the KQED audio stream live on the Internet: http://kqed.org/ Thanks! Josh Wilson Newsdesk.org Independent Arts & Media p.s. We welcome your support of independent news media! https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=695 -------------------- PROGRAM DETAILS for KQED BROADCAST Innovations in Journalism Expo 2008 A showcase for breakthroughs in business, technology, media and democracy Keynote Panel: New Money, New Media, New Hope ROSE AGUILAR hosts the daily public affairs show Your Call on KALW-FM. Her forthcoming book, Red Highways, will be out in September. The book collects political interviews with people living and voting in so-called "red states," and calls for a more thoughtful and productive dialogue in the media and between people with differing views. PERSEPHONE MIEL is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she directs the Media Re:public project, examining the impact of participatory journalism on the information environment. Prior to joining Berkman, she spent more than 12 years with Internews Network, an international NGO supporting independent media around the world. GENEVA OVERHOLSER is the newly appointed director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications. She previously held the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington, D.C., bureau. She is a frequent print, broadcast and online media critic, and the author of On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change. DAVID TALBOT, the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, is also the author of New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. He recently launched a media and entertainment company called, The Talbot Players, with his brother, Steve, executive producer of PBS' Frontline World. He is also helping develop the San Francisco Free Press, a nonprofit Bay Area news engine that aims to combine the best of professional and citizens' journalism. MODERATOR: CYNTHIA GORNEY is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley, a magazine writer (with regular contributions to National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Oprah, Runners World and Harpers, among others), an occasional radio host of KQED-FM's Forum, and the author of Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. From nymhm at lists.artsandmedia.net Wed Jun 11 16:18:47 2008 From: nymhm at lists.artsandmedia.net (nymhm@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Wed Jun 11 16:21:59 2008 Subject: NYMHM: Russian bear is bullish on oil, GMO foods ride crisis, voter fraud questions Message-ID: <9f6762e77db0d6f6fedd9b21e77b4bef@artsandmedia.net> ======================================================================== NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * June 11, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 23 Important but overlooked news from around the world. NYMHM is a free service of Newsdesk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - DONATIONS: http://artsandmedia.net/contribute/ - ONLINE: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005457.html - RSS: http://newsdesk.org/news/atom.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTED: "This agreement in no way limits our ability to prosecute anyone or any violation of the voter fraud statute." -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, on the settlement of a lawsuit over his alleged targeting of minorities in voter fraud investigations (see "Elections," below). CONTENTS: *Top Stories* Food crisis renews biotech farming debate A Russian bear is bullish on big oil U.K. faces diabetes "explosion" *Elections* When is "voter fraud" a fraud? *Par Avion* German zeppelins target London, San Francisco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORIES ........................................................................ > Food Crisis Renews Biotech Farming Debate As global food prices climb, the debate over genetically modified agriculture is once again heating up. The Christian Science Monitor reports that resistance to the use of modified crops is declining in some regions, as farmers contemplate increased profits, and governments feel the economic pressure. After the cost of non-genetically modified corn more than doubled, for example, Japan and Korea have "quietly" begun ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005458.html > A Russian Bear is Bullish for Big Oil Climbing energy prices are a natural reaction to limited oil supplies, and are in fact necessary to "choke off demand," the Financial Times of London reports. Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, predicts that current market trends will drive the price of oil over $250 per gallon by 2009. Even as costs increase, Gazprom is opening up new speculative fronts, particularly in the ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005459.html > U.K. Faces Diabetes "Explosion" A new report predicts a 46 percent increase in diabetes in the United Kingdom by 2025, driven primarily by eating habits and booming obesity rates. As many as 4.2 million people in England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are expected to have contracted type 2 diabetes by then, a result of junk-food diets and low rates of exercise. With this, experts foresee a parallel boom in related ailments -- such as heart disease, kidney problems ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005460.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ELECTIONS ........................................................................ > When is 'Voter Fraud' a Fraud? Willie Ray, a Texas grandmother and Democrat, says had been helping elderly shut-ins to vote for years when she was singled out by the state Republican attorney general and charged with voter fraud. "All I did was mail ballots for folks who couldn't get to a mailbox themselves," she told her state's Democratic Convention last week, according to the Dallas Morning News. "The attorney general admitted there was no fraud, that no ballot was altered," she said. "But Attorney General Greg Abbott charged me with a ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005461.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAR AVION ........................................................................ > German Zeppelins Target London, San Francisco More than 70 years after the fiery crash of the Hindenburg, that once-mighty invention -- the airship -- has been reduced to little more than a floating billboard. But London's Guardian newspaper is reporting that a German company will soon send a new airship to London, where it will take sightseers high over the city. The Zeppelin NT, funded by German aviator Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, is now undergoing test flights and has already ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005462.html ======================================================================== Editors: Will Crain, Josh Wilson ........................................................................ 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NYMHM is a free service of Newsdesk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - DONATIONS: http://artsandmedia.net/contribute/ - ONLINE: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005465.html - RSS: http://newsdesk.org/news/atom.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTED: "They're a hate group. We're trying to drum up charges against them, but, unfortunately, we'll probably have to let them go." -- A Philadelphia police spokesman on four people who were detained without charges after criticizing security cameras in their neighborhood (see "Law & Justice," below). CONTENTS: *Top Stories* Philippines: Activist deaths persist Pa. militia allegedly threatens blacks, candidates Doctors resign as life-support lawsuit drags on *Africa* Africa's double dip of global warming *Law & Justice* Philly police raid raises hackles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORIES ........................................................................ * Philippines: Activist Deaths Persist A human rights activist warned that the extrajudicial killing and disappearance of activists in the Philippines could spike again in 2008, following steep declines last year. Aurora Parong of Amnesty International said that poor witness protections, inadequate forensics and slow prosecution may threaten gains made against the killings, which claimed 33 lives last year, down from as many as 96 in 2006. Parong also said that extrajudicial killings should be a separate class of crime from ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005466.html * Penn. Militia Allegedly Threatens Blacks, Candidates A self-professed militia member in Pennsylvania has allegedly threatened to shoot African Americans and public officials, and said that if Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama were elected a revolution would ensue. However, a federal judge declined to jail Bradley Kahle, 60, of Clearfield County, citing lack of evidence that he was going to carry out those threats. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Kahle was one of several people ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005467.html * Doctors Resign as Life-Support Lawsuit Drags On A Canadian hospital is facing a shortage of doctors, who are resigning rather than continue to care for an elderly man on life support. Samuel Golubchuck, 84, has been on life support since last fall; physicians say his brain functions are minimal and his chances of recovery are slim. This, along with destructive surgery to remove infected ulcers that one doctor likened to "torture" ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005468.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AFRICA ........................................................................ * Africa's Double Dip of Global Warming Africa is already the continent hardest hit by the worldwide food crisis, but according to a new report it's also the one most threatened by global warming. "The Atlas for Changing Environment in Africa," published last week by the United Nations Environment Program, is a 400-page publication detailing how climate change is expected to affect the continent -- and the outlook is chilling. According to the Atlas, food production is expected to be cut in half by 2020, and a quarter of the continent's ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005469.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LAW & JUSTICE ........................................................................ * Philly Police Raid Raises Hackles After four residents of a North Philadelphia home passed out petitions criticizing surveillance cameras in the neighborhood, police raided their house and detained them without charges for 12 hours, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. After the police search last week, the house was reportedly inspected by several government agencies -- including the Department of Homeland Security -- and finally sealed off by the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections. "This leaves me homeless," Daniel Moffat, a co-owner of ... 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Message-ID: ======================================================================== NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * June 25, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 25 Important but overlooked news from around the world. NYMHM is a free service of Newsdesk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - DONATIONS: http://artsandmedia.net/contribute/ - ONLINE: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005576.html - RSS: http://newsdesk.org/news/atom.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTED: "We don't look at it through the prism of Democrats and Republicans. We look at it in terms of those who support free market policies and those who don't." -- A pharmaceutical industry spokesman on record-breaking lobbying expenses aimed at Congressional Democrats (see "Top Stories," below). CONTENTS: *Top Stories* Big year for (Democratic) drug deals U.K. jouralist gets some source protection Australia's billion-dollar land grab *Transportation* Who resurrected the electric car? *Refugees* Somali refugees: Out of the frying pan, into the fire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORIES ........................................................................ * Big Year for (Democratic) Drug Deals The pharmaceutical industry spent $168 million lobbying Congress in 2007 -- a record sum that helped influence legislation and prevented new restrictions on drug advertisements, the Center for Public Integrity reports. Industry spending on lobbying has tripled since 1998, adding up to more than a $1 billion total in that time. CIR reports that 90 percent of the spending was by 40 companies and three industry groups, including ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005575.html * U.K. Journalist Gets Some Source Protection A freelance journalist in Manchester, England, may reveal some, but not necessarily all, of his source material on a book about al-Qaida terrorists to police, a panel of judges said today. The panel ruled the police order for Shiv Malik to hand over all materials, including an interview with a suspected British operative, was too ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005577.html * Australia's Billion-Dollar Land Grab Never mind the aboriginal land battles that followed the colonial era -- turf wars in today's Australia are for billionaires. The richest man Down Under, Andrew Forrest, is squaring off against the nation's wealthiest woman, Gina Rinehart, in an epic conflict over access to the iron-rich Rhodes Ridge territory in Western Australia, Bloomberg News reports. Forrest's Perth-based Fortalescu Metals Group is claiming improper lease renewals by Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting, and according to The Australian may also be favored by a "use it or lose it" policy that ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005578.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSPORTATION ........................................................................ * Who Resurrected the Electric Car? With gasoline prices climbing ever higher, private companies and government agencies are giving the electric car another look. Even Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is getting in on the act, telling supporters this week he would offer a $300 million government prize to whoever invents a better battery for electric vehicles. More timely are plans by the city of Paris for a 4,000-car fleet of electric vehicles to drive a new ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005579.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REFUGEES ........................................................................ * Somali Refugees: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire Several new reports reveal that Somali and Ethiopian refugees, fleeing drought and violence at home, often face renewed danger crossing the ocean to Yemen and in South African refugee camps. According to the aid group Doctors Without Borders, 20,000 such refugees crowded into overloaded boats during the first five months of 2008. They endure beatings and abuse by smugglers, and at least 400 ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/005580.html ======================================================================== Editors: Will Crain, Josh Wilson ........................................................................ 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