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Dealing with the Growing Consequences of Urban Flooding: Floodplain and Stormwater Management in the face of Climate Change, Aging Infrastructure, Lack of Funding and Apathy
Lauren Wood speaks of the consequences at home in order to have President Obama keep fossil fuels in the ground at the White House, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2015.
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Beyond the N-deal: India in Imperial Bandwagon .
Euphoria over, it's time the nation settled down to a level-headed assessment of the backdrop and consequences of the Bush visit. .
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The Core Accord .
How was the much-hyped nuclear deal clinched and what did India gain from it? .
New Delhis foreign policy exercises in recent years have been marked by two opposite urges or contrary pulls: (a) to grow powerful as the most obedient ally of the sole superpower and (b) to exercise multiple options and improve relations with many countries. The former did predominate, but we also saw enhanced arms purchases from France, Russia and others; improved relations and growing trade with China; and the steps, however hesitant, towards the Iran-Pakistan-India "peace pipeline". The fierce US opposition to the last-named project is well-known, and the big brother could not digest our upcoming energy understanding with China either. In January this year, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah visited Beijing, ushering in an era of increased cooperation and investment between the two countries in oil, natural gas and investment and the same month an agreement was signed in Beijing between India and China to collaborate in hydrocarbon exploration and production. This move was especially unacceptable to the US in the backdrop of developments like Venezuela and China coming closer and a euro-based Asian oil market being contemplated. Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who was taking much interest in the China initiative, was removed from his post well before the Bush visit. That India would prefer to depend on the superpower rather than to play an active role in the emerging Asian energy gird was conveyed also by the treacherous vote against Iran in the IAEA in February. Such was the context in which the Indo-US n-deal was signed and in effect it signalled a major setback to the welcome attempts at diversification of our energy sources. (Talks on the Iran pipeline project have already fallen through, at least for now.) .
What India has gained from the accord is not the status of a recognised nuclear power (this, by the way, also implies that the coveted permanent membership at the UN Security Council remains as elusive as ever) but only a promise of steady supply of nuclear fuel and technology from the USA. The quid pro quo is that she must open up nearly two-thirds of her nuclear facilities (deemed civilian) for strict inspection by the IAEA, a body dominated by the USA. As US under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns pointed out in Washington, India has agreed that all future civilian reactors, whether they are thermal reactors or breeder reactors, shall be placed under international safeguards. And before the whole thing becomes operative, three additional conditions are to be met. For one, the US President must procure congressional ratification. India on her part has to negotiate with the IAEA to arrive at "India-specific safeguards" and Additional Protocol agreement and also satisfy the nuclear suppliers group (NSG) that she would faithfully follow the norms of nuclear non-proliferation. In both these forums, India will be pressured to accept stringent conditionalities including an inspection process that intrudes into our indigenous nuclear development programme. Finally, in the years to come our country will be subjected to "safeguards in perpetuity" in respect to the reactors placed on the civilian list. This means India will not be allowed to shift any reactors from the civilian to the military list as the recognised nuclear powers are entitled to do. There is thus no end to discrimination as India is rewarded for her loyalty to the big brother with second-class membership in the elite nuclear club. .
The US President says, and the Indian establishment agrees, that "clean energy" from the atomic power plants will help our country improve the pace of economic growth. But the US itself meets only some 20% of its energy requirements from this source and even for oil-poor UK the figure is less than 25%. In the developing countries, China included, the contribution of nuclear power ranges between 1 to 3 per cent, and even lower. Opposition to n-power on environmental grounds is growing worldwide and in an especially accident-prone country like ours the risks involved are all the more real. There is only one gainer here: the limping nuclear power industry in .
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Internet Freedoms and Their Consequences - An Evening Debate with Andrew McLaughlin & Evgeny Morozov
November 16, 2011
On April 16, the Brookings Institution and Miami Dade College convened to discuss how the next administration and Congress can responsibly manage tax policy and spending priorities while limiting the economic costs of rising public debt. The event opened with remarks from Miami Dade College’s President Madeline Pumariega and featured a keynote from Brookings President Cecilia Rouse. Following President Rouse’s remarks, a panel of experts and local leaders reflected on the policy choices and consequences ahead and responded to questions from the in person audience.
James Baumgardner, Anup Malani, and Casey Mulligan shared their views on how health care costs affect the federal budget and how health care policy changes set in motion forces that ripple through the economy as a whole.
Taken about five seconds after this picture. And no, I still haven't learned my lesson. Not even remotely.
During a working trip to the Chernihiv region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany Robert Habeck and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić saw the consequences of the occupation of the village of Yahidne by Russian troops and the war crimes committed by them.
The Head of State, together with foreign guests, visited the school, in the basement of which the occupiers kept 367 civilians in unsanitary conditions, without water and food, from March 3 to March 30, 2022. Among the hostages were 50 children, including several babies - the youngest was one and a half months old. 11 people died, unable to withstand the inhumane conditions. Ten were shot by Russian invaders.
The President of Ukraine and the European guests talked with the villagers who were kept in the basement of the school.
"Thank you for the fact that you survived, managed to wait for our warriors and to tell the whole world about the tragedy that the Russian Federation, the Russian military, together with their leadership, their President, have brought to our land," Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized.
The Head of State noted that the residents of Yahidne have lived through terrible ordeals. According to him, about 400 people lived in this village before the occupation, and almost 370 people were kept in the school basement with an area of less than 200 square meters.
"They have been kept in the basement for 27 days. They survived – standing and sitting. 11 people, unfortunately, died. And all these people somehow lived in the dark and waited for the return of Ukraine," he said.
The President said that the prisoners wrote the names and dates of death of fellow villagers on the walls in the dark so as not to forget. And the children wrote the lines of the national anthem of Ukraine.
"It is extremely important that these people survived. It is extremely important that our troops de-occupy such settlements with real heroes every day," added Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Head of State emphasized the importance of the presence of representatives of our partners in the liberated territories of Ukraine, who can see everything with their own eyes.
"It is important to be in such basements in order to understand, in order to help Ukraine. To think about how to find a way to talk with the Russian Federation," the President noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also thanked the local residents and the authorities who fought for their lives every day during the Russian occupation.
As a result of military aggression, all 173 houses in the village of Yahidne were damaged, 16 of them were destroyed. In addition, the communal property was destroyed - a cultural center and a first aid station. The school building was heavily damaged.
According to Vyacheslav Chaus, Head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration, thanks to funding from the state and regional budgets, thanks to volunteers and the Latvian government, which allocated funds for building materials and reconstruction, more than 100 houses were reconstructed last year.
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Brussels , Belgium , 25 May 2011 - Green Week 2011 - Land use choices , chances and consequences © EU
Site-specific installation in Greenwich Lake Park, NJ, an abandon toxic waste area transformed into a public park. Vinyl lettering on plexiglass. Size varies.
Never thought I'd see the day. As I type this Stuart Maconie is playing tracks from my copy of Consequences on BBC 6music. Find out more on my site www.suppertime.co.uk/blint/