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Avertible catastrophe

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

financialpost.com - By Lawrence Solomon - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out. With oil increasingly reaching the Gulf coast, the emergency construction of sand berns to minimize the damage is imperative. Again, the U.S. government priority is on U.S. jobs, with the Dutch asked to train American workers rather than to build the berns. According to Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington, Dutch dredging ships could complete the berms in Louisiana twice as fast as the U.S. companies awarded the work. "Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands," he says, perplexed that the U.S. government could be so focussed on side issues with the entire Gulf Coast hanging in the balance.

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Scientists using selective temperature data, skeptics say

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

National Post - By Richard West - Jan. 25 (News Analysis) - Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.

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Obama vs. McCain on the Middle East

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:46:11 -0700

National Post - By Daniel Pipes - Jun. 03 (News Analysis) - Parallel interviews with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who spoke in early May with Democrat Barack Obama and in late May with Republican John McCain, offer some important insights. Asked roughly the same set of questions, they went off ...

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Food crisis being felt around world

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Post - By Peter Goodspeed - Apr. 01 (News Report) - Rising prices for all the world's crucial cereal crops and growing fears of scarcity are careening through international markets, creating turmoil. Last Thursday, as world rice prices soared by as much as 30% in one day, Egypt decided to suspend rice exports for six months to meet domestic demand and to try to limit price increases.

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A colour code for Iran's 'infidels'

Fri, 19 May 2006 03:22:44 -0700

National Post - By Amir Taheri - May. 19 (News Report) - While the Iranian economy appears to be heading for recession, one sector may have some reason for optimism. That sector is the garment industry and the reason for hopefulness is a law passed by the Islamic Majlis (parliament) on Monday. The law mandates the government to make sure that all Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions reflected in clothing, and to eliminate "the influence of the infidel" on the way Iranians, especially, the young dress. It also envisages separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public. The new codes would enable Muslims to easily recognize non-Muslims so that they can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus becoming najis (unclean).

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