| Cartoonists Discuss the Freedoms and Responsibilities of Their Craft
The panel also included Palestine's Baha Boukhari, Algeria's Ali Dilem, New York's Liza Donnelly, Turkey's Piyale Madra, The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Mike Luckovich, Israel's Michel Kichka and Japan's No-rio Yamanoi.
According to Kichka, a cartoon has two lives, one created by the cartoonist and the other manifested through audience reactions. These two lives, he said, can take on very different characters.
“Cartooning is an art that asks questions," Kichka said, adding that these questions incite discussions that could promote international peace and understanding.
Boukhari pointed to the many rioters who “blindly" protested the Danish cartoons without even seeing the drawings as an example of the ignorance that hinders a constructive discussion.
Business in Bali
After all, emissions are related to wealth and power. Who will rock this boat? It is convenient to play the cop and villain game. The rich nations know the Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, South Africans and the rest are all in the race to become rich and powerful. They want to be on the same boat. Sinking it then is just not possible. It is a mock fight. But we are all getting hurt. Energy is the key It is the world's need for energy-to run everything from factories to cars-that is the cause of climate change. After years of talk, no country has been able to delink growth from a rise in CO2 emissions. No country has shown how to build a low carbon economy or re-invent the growth path-as yet. This then is the challenge. After years of talk, new renewable energy-wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels-comprises just about 0.5 per cent of the world's primary energy supply.
Government cuts budget on backs of poor
Calling Korea "a failure" is inaccurate. Our armed forces were sent over there to defend South Korea from being over run by North Korea, not to reunite the two. Also, saying that the "liberals stopped us from winning" is absurd. With the horrors of World War II still fresh in our memory, fighting a prolonged and bloody war against the massive Chinese army in order to win would have been morally reprehensible and politically impossible.Finally, his claim that liberal ideology has caused "pain," "suffering," "death to innocents," and "costs lots of money" is illogical.Liberals freed the slaves, ended apartheid, passed civil rights laws, ended child labor, gave women the right to vote, ended abusive working conditions, made our food safer, our air cleaner and our lives better. Conservatives tried to stop all of those things.
Open Letter To George W. Bush
Your Secretary of Labor ignores it where she does not actually operate to keep it asleep. Yet, on average, every week over 1000 Americans die from the workplace exposures. Under the Reagan Administration, the White House rejected an urgent request by the physicians at the Centers for Disease Control for a three million dollar budget to send certified letters to 250,000 workers found in a lengthy field study to be exposed to significant hazards-chemical and particulate-in their factories, foundries and mines. The letters were to urge the workers to have their doctors check them out for actual or incipient diseases. Instead, the workers were left defenseless. Last week, an explosive fireball imploded the century-old Dixie Crystal sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, taking, at latest count, seven lives and causing many serious injuries.
Sun to unveil stackable data-centre boxes
Giving a new meaning to the term "portable computer", Sun plans to sell a working data centre packaged in a stackable shipping container. On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox", which tucks several racks of computing gear, along with the necessary power and cooling equipment, into a standard shipping container 8ft wide, 8ft tall and 20ft long. Jonathan Schwartz, the server and software company's new chief executive, is scheduled to promote the idea in a car park outside the company's California facilities. Sun believes the technology will appeal to customers who are running out of space in their current data centres, providing backup computing gear for disaster recovery services, or setting up operations in remote locations, said Dave Douglas, Sun's vice president of advanced technology.
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