tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.comments2023-02-28T12:46:20.040+01:00EcowarBennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-69298401080362253892013-02-28T17:24:09.166+01:002013-02-28T17:24:09.166+01:00Dear Blogger & Readers
My name is Alexandra...Dear Blogger & Readers<br /><br /><br />My name is Alexandra and I am a student in FIU’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication. I am currently taking the Communication Research course in which I work with my peers on a research project focused on environmental/green communication in the blogosphere.<br /><br />I would greatly appreciate your sharing with me and my classmates your opinions on various topics related to your blogging experience by filling out an online survey. As we want to learn about blog readers too, I would ask you to kindly distribute the survey link to your automated mailing list and/or post it on your blog.<br /><br />The survey will take you no longer than 15 minutes to complete and you can access it through the link below:<br /><br />https://fiu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_a8GgL6TnbgWbJR3&Stu=mas331<br /><br />This survey is anonymous and does not require any identifying information. <br />I really appreciate your cooperation and efforts and look forward to get your insights and ideas.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Alexandra Masihy<br /><br />School of Journalism & Mass Communication<br />Florida International University<br /><br />Amasi001@fiu.edu<br />Alexandra- FIU Studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-52336628150217188402012-11-27T22:56:36.735+01:002012-11-27T22:56:36.735+01:00its not that the danes care the less, Greenland ha...its not that the danes care the less, Greenland has a self- rule goverment that can decide on its own, and they want to decide on thier own, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17112127514619536579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-71618946444848001302012-06-08T15:00:42.055+02:002012-06-08T15:00:42.055+02:00This really isn't about the reality of the imp...This really isn't about the reality of the impact climate change and refugees (which is quite complex), it's about keeping Israel Jewish (as Soffer says himself) and keeping Arabs away. Quite frankly, it's a joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-64748478806981729062012-02-01T21:38:04.083+01:002012-02-01T21:38:04.083+01:00Climate Action Opponents Are Ensuring the Outcome ...<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/31/414155/climate-action-big-government" rel="nofollow">Climate Action Opponents Are Ensuring the Outcome They Claim to Oppose: Big Government</a><br /><br /><em>"[Climate change related] calamities, devastating for those affected, have important implications for how we think about the role of government in our future. During natural disasters, society regularly turns to the state for help, which means such immediate crises are a much-needed reminder of just how important a functional big government turns out to be to our survival. [...] To adapt to climate change will mean coming together on a large scale and mobilizing society’s full range of resources. In other words, Big Storms require Big Government. Who else will save stranded climate refugees, or protect and rebuild infrastructure, or coordinate rescue efforts and plan out the flow and allocation of resources? It will be government that does these tasks or they will not be done at all."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-73313421526939091502012-01-16T17:35:53.690+01:002012-01-16T17:35:53.690+01:00Agree about the hypocrisy.Agree about the hypocrisy.Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-11099347538468077382012-01-15T12:02:31.859+01:002012-01-15T12:02:31.859+01:00In the unlikely event that you read and liked the ...In the unlikely event that you read and liked the above post you might want to continue at <a href="http://linvsmac.blogspot.com/2012/01/musings-on-fear-vs-optimism-collapse-vs.html" rel="nofollow">Linux vs Mac / Musings on fear vs optimism, collapse vs innovation</a>.Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-4246734372278573982012-01-14T20:24:12.948+01:002012-01-14T20:24:12.948+01:00Horrible video to watch... like so many others fil...Horrible video to watch... like so many others filmed by soldiers and leaked to the internet. I agree with the caption that there are rotten apples everywhere, but we should also consider what war does to the individuals that take part in them. It turns them into "rotten apples". There is something hypocritical about us sending soldiers to e.g. Afghanistan, and then be disappointed when they turn into brutes.Maladets!https://www.blogger.com/profile/18417369862816717835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-1832211110541392232011-12-30T17:36:52.057+01:002011-12-30T17:36:52.057+01:00Arrest made in cooking oil theft<a href="http://www.11alive.com/news/article/217624/40/Arrest-made-in-cooking-oil-theft" rel="nofollow">Arrest made in cooking oil theft</a>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-25423434064729070382011-12-29T14:11:46.651+01:002011-12-29T14:11:46.651+01:00Awesome, Benno. Congratulations and I look forwar...Awesome, Benno. Congratulations and I look forward to reading it.robbrownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-22410660003022674922011-11-29T18:46:18.070+01:002011-11-29T18:46:18.070+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Barclay Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000253357841715869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-85557961516541176182011-11-22T18:17:37.623+01:002011-11-22T18:17:37.623+01:00I'll take a look at your sites, promise.I'll take a look at your sites, promise.Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-63702237417507758252011-11-21T19:01:01.687+01:002011-11-21T19:01:01.687+01:00I am requesting that you place my website url on y...I am requesting that you place my website url on your links page.<br /> <br />Title: Goodlucks Eco Friendly Earth<br /><br />link url: http://goodluckjohnathan.info <br /> <br />Occupy Dead Earth<br />http://ows.host22.com<br /><br /><br />Occupy Green Earth<br />http://greenearth.wealthynigerian.com<br /><br />Let me know what page the link can be found<br /><br /><br />In return I will place a link on my site if you desire.<br />send me the info<br /><br />Anthony JohnathanAnthony Johnathanhttp://goodluckjohnathan.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-81579412849223921152011-09-22T19:37:18.668+02:002011-09-22T19:37:18.668+02:00High food prices world wide may be an artifact of ...High food prices world wide may be an artifact of US monetary policy efforts to combat the Great Recession.<br /><br />When USA central bank (The Fed) buys treasuries on the open market, that puts astronomical new money into the banks, which invest it to earn interest. From other indicators, we know borrowing is way down for businesses and home owners, so where is that new money going?<br /><br />Hedge Funds are a topic I don’t pretend to have a good understanding of, but this much appears to be a correct story: The Futures market connects farmers forecasting how much crop they will have, weather etc. permitting, to food retailing projecting how much they will ultimately need, and in between is a kind of stock market gambling, which can create an artificial bubble of pricing.<br /><br />The farmers get paid their usual, the end consumer food prices go way up, and the profits on this deal go to the bankers, thanks to US monetary policy.Alister Wim Macintyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03036778963327617313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-91870823454055368342011-09-18T09:33:25.293+02:002011-09-18T09:33:25.293+02:00Climate Progress / Global Food Prices Stuck Near R...<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/09/17/321698/global-food-prices-stuck-near-record-high-levels" rel="nofollow">Climate Progress / Global Food Prices Stuck Near Record High Levels</a>: <em>"In over two decades of tracking world food prices, the U.N. Food and Agricultural organization index has never stayed so high for so long. This represents true suffering for hundreds of millions of people who live on the edge, for whom food is a large fraction of their income like, say, North Africa [...] And this year’s warming-driven extreme weather is likely to help keep food prices high for a while"</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-32255891429637564262011-08-26T23:32:34.536+02:002011-08-26T23:32:34.536+02:00Now Guardian has also written about this study: Ar...Now Guardian has also written about this study: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/aug/25/food-price-arab-middle-east-protests" rel="nofollow">Are food prices approaching a violent tipping point?</a><br /><em>A provocative new study suggests the timing of the Arab uprisings is linked to global food price spikes, and that prices will soon permanently be above the level which sparks conflicts</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-29694770084296471722011-07-02T06:27:57.553+02:002011-07-02T06:27:57.553+02:00Indeed, copper thefts are a very serious problem. ...Indeed, copper thefts are a very serious problem. I have a friend who is a victim of those thefts. He doesn’t want it to happen again that is why he gets security guards to protect his properties.Maryland Copper theftshttp://bluelinesecurityservices.com/coalition-against-copper-theftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-20542727948705853322011-07-02T06:25:15.618+02:002011-07-02T06:25:15.618+02:00That is problem that needs solution.That is problem that needs solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-8020474880749700802011-06-26T15:29:24.186+02:002011-06-26T15:29:24.186+02:00FP / The brinkmanship in the South China Sea
"...<a href="http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/13/the_brinksmanship_in_the_south_china_sea" rel="nofollow">FP / The brinkmanship in the South China Sea</a><br /><em>"Vietnam is conducting live-fire drills in the South China Sea in a show that it won't be intimidated in a push-and-shove dispute with China over waters suspected of containing significant oil reserves. Over the weekend, Hanoi urged its former enemy -- the United States -- to help pull the row back from the flashpoint, reports the Financial Times' Ben Bland. In this case, the U.S. will oblige -- to a degree.<br /><br />Last Friday, the U.S. State Department said it is "troubled" by the rise in tensions. Though for the last year the U.S. has met a request by southeast Asian nations to resist its instincts to defend them, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last summer suggested the nation was prepared to do, one can imagine a sturdy U.S. response in the Vietnam situation. Not to say that President Barack Obama would dispatch an aircraft carrier square into the disputed zone -- the U.S. will stay well back from rattling its war sword. But there could be stern new warnings from Clinton among other steps, under the presumption that Beijing will temper its behavior accordingly."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-50688049221541209832011-06-21T05:37:34.090+02:002011-06-21T05:37:34.090+02:00nice photo!nice photo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-58338547338705365182011-06-20T18:03:15.357+02:002011-06-20T18:03:15.357+02:00Another Amazon activist killed in logging conflict...<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hFl51xINfcEYx0tCsWboDkpLjgTw?docId=ad5466bd08164f8fbee806ba81b29f16" rel="nofollow">Another Amazon activist killed in logging conflict</a><br /><em>"RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A landless peasant activist was killed by a gunshot to his head outside his home in Brazil — the fifth murder in a month likely tied to the conflict over land and logging in the Amazon.<br /><br />The body of the victim, Obede Loyla Souza, was found over the weekend in the dense forest surrounding his home in the landless settlement of Esperanca, near the town of Pacaja in the Amazon state of Para, said Hilario Lopes Costa, coordinator for the watchdog Catholic Land Pastoral in Para."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-90675325517809577142011-06-16T03:30:42.148+02:002011-06-16T03:30:42.148+02:00Read more about “China claims Spratly Islands over...Read more about “China claims Spratly Islands over Philippines” at http://paidcritique.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-claims-spratly-islands-over.htmlChina claims Spratly Islands over Philippineshttp://paidcritique.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-claims-spratly-islands-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-19235946348908256062011-06-12T09:52:48.954+02:002011-06-12T09:52:48.954+02:00These cables chosen as one of the top five leaks o...These cables <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/151232/5_wikileaks_hits_of_2011_that_are_turning_the_world_on_its_head_--_and_that_the_media_are_ignoring/?page=entire" rel="nofollow">chosen as one of the top five leaks of the first half of 2011 by Alternet</a>...<br /><br /><em>"4) World leaders are practically lighting a fire under the Arctic.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The leaks illustrate a frightening reality, where world leaders are greedily awaiting the opportunity to exploit the oil and natural gas that lie beneath the melting Arctic ice, even arming themselves for possible resource wars. A least that's what the Russian Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin hinted in a 2010 cable that reads, "The twenty-first century will see a fight for resources. Russia Should not be defeated in this fight."<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Clearly, banking on the melting of the polar ice caps has taken priority over halting or even reversing the catastrophic effects of climate change. The Arctic contains as much as one quarter of the world's gas and oil reserves, once hidden under huge masses of ice and inaccessible through frozen seas. However, ice is melting faster than predicted, presenting profitable business opportunities which are leading the Arctic countries to lose sight of longer-term climate issues."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-40362610101669128902011-05-29T21:48:01.131+02:002011-05-29T21:48:01.131+02:00Hello Benno, i just found your blog and already i ...Hello Benno, i just found your blog and already i read some interesting things. I have a solar power blog, which is quite new and i'm trying to populate him. If you like it you can give a comment. ThanksRaduhttp://www.solarbenefits.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-24038655233388689892011-05-26T23:36:06.023+02:002011-05-26T23:36:06.023+02:00Sudanese town of Abyei still tense after burning a...<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38507&&Cr=abyei&Cr1" rel="nofollow">Sudanese town of Abyei still tense after burning and looting, UN reports</a><br /><br /><em>"While the Sudanese town of Abyei is now empty with its residents having fled the recent violence, the situation there remains tense, according to the United Nations, which called on both sides to cease their hostilities and return to negotiations.<br /><br />The disputed town, which is contested by both north and south Sudan, has witnessed renewed clashes in recent days, including looting and burning earlier this week, following the takeover of the area by Sudanese Government forces. The violence has led thousands to flee their homes."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-15874153848133093102011-05-20T15:01:25.520+02:002011-05-20T15:01:25.520+02:00CDC / Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apoca...<a href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp" rel="nofollow">CDC / Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse</a>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com