From [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40670/story.htm Reuters]:
The recent decision by Texas utility TXU Corp. to scrap eight of 11 planned coal-fired plants to gain environmental support for its leveraged buyout, has thrown the growth prospects of the coal-mining industry into doubt.
And from [http://alternet.org/envirohealth/48681/ AlterNet]:
The board of TXU agreed Monday to the terms of the buyout (although they are considering other offers) and environmental groups have hailed the deal as a "watershed moment" in the fight against climate change -- for good reason.
TXU agreed to immediately drop eight of the 11 proposed coal-burning plants; they canceled plans to build coal plants in other states; they came out publicly in support of federal legislation to set limits on CO2 emissions; they agreed to reduce their CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 (the terms of the Kyoto Treaty that the U.S. did not sign); and they pledged to double the amount that they spend on wind power and energy efficiency -- agreeing to shell out $400 million to help lower demand through conservation.
I am a final year PR student, studying Public Relations and i find this very interesting. I think there needs to be truth and integriety in PR but it has become so far removed from what it should be that the indstry has accepted that employees will lie to get what their client wants.
I am currently undertaking research about the ethical implications surrounding celebrity endorsement of charities so if anyone is interested please email me lucy_brown1@hotmail.com
Carbon offset is surely not the ultimate solution to global warming problem, but then to wait indefinitely for a perfect solution will worsen the problem even further. Constructive criticism will help in improving the situation but to write off carbon offsetting completely will definitely not help the cause.
Climate change is not an overnight phenomenon but takes years before it shows its adverse effects, and no solution can improve the situation in one day. The good thing is we have started taking the problem more seriously because of the financial impacts it has on organizations.
Some of the methodologies mentioned in the Kyoto protocol for carbon offset are debatable and should be addressed asap, but the concept behind it, is a step in the right direction.
To clean the environment with the rate with which we are polluting it, is not an achievable goal. For us to make a positive impact on the environment, will require a complete change in mind set, and it’s not just the governments, but the people who need to be actively involved.
You and your readers should be made aware as that which Congressmen Becerra and Lungren did not say in their bill.
In addition to forcibly removing Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry from Latin American republics, the United States also brought an estimated 5,000 German Latin Americans and an unknown number of Italian Latin Americans for internment in several camps including Crystal City, Texas.
Furthermore, the German Latin Americans were used as for prisoner and civilian internees of war exchanges with the Third Reich. It is a matter of record that women and children, citizens of a Latin American republic who had never set foot in Germany, were exchanged with the Third Reich.
To learn more regarding the internment of German Latin Americans please visit http://www.foitimes.com/internment/latina.htm
Despite the fact that German and Italian Latin Americans were treated exactly as the Japanese Latin Americans the Becerra-Lungren bill, H.R. 662, excludes persons of European ancestry from the bill. This is in my opinion is a violation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution of the United States.
This is a very perceptive article. Bruckheimer's connections to what some call the Military Information Media Entertainment (MIME) complex are even deeper than the article indicates. And Bruckheimer, along with with Bertram von Munster (Amazing Race and 'Cops') have teamed up with Diseny and the Pentagon on another important occasion: the creation of Profiles from the Frontline, which began in 2002, at least as a concept, and began airing around a year later, I think. Bruckheimer also helped design Centcom Media Briefing Centres in Doha and advised the military on how to spin the bogus heroic "story of Jessica Lynch". The connections to psychwar is, thus, perceptive and does fit within the notion of 'information operations', which includes everything from monitoring and 'correcting' blogs (see the Austin American Statesman article above), to Bruckheimers movies and tv programmers, to creating and running media networks (e.g. Iraqi Media Network -- see article Variety referred to in these pages about SAIC) to the destruction of Al Jazeera bureaus in Kabul and Baghdad in 2001 and 2003, respectively. The fact that this stuff is appearing in Variety, as well as, say, Rolling Stone, is also interesting in and of itself, suggestings rifts at the centre of the media entertainment system. Another rather famous media, well, at least Literary Star, Mark Twain, also had some interesting things to say, but in exactly the opposite way, when he condemned American military and imperial ventures in the Philippines just over a 100 years ago (In particular, see his "To the People in Darkenss"). A nice illustration, as this article is as well, that part of the cultural politics of war and imperialism really do play themselves out in the media space, given Twain's stature and Variety's 'voice of record' standing for the US media and entertainment industries. Media space is, as the Pentagon ernestly states, an informational battlespace. It is this latter that we need to keep our focus on most, though.
Dwayne Winseck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
School of Journalism and Communication,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
From [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40670/story.htm Reuters]:
And from [http://alternet.org/envirohealth/48681/ AlterNet]:
I am a final year PR student, studying Public Relations and i find this very interesting. I think there needs to be truth and integriety in PR but it has become so far removed from what it should be that the indstry has accepted that employees will lie to get what their client wants.
I am currently undertaking research about the ethical implications surrounding celebrity endorsement of charities so if anyone is interested please email me lucy_brown1@hotmail.com
Carbon offset is surely not the ultimate solution to global warming problem, but then to wait indefinitely for a perfect solution will worsen the problem even further. Constructive criticism will help in improving the situation but to write off carbon offsetting completely will definitely not help the cause.
Climate change is not an overnight phenomenon but takes years before it shows its adverse effects, and no solution can improve the situation in one day. The good thing is we have started taking the problem more seriously because of the financial impacts it has on organizations.
Some of the methodologies mentioned in the Kyoto protocol for carbon offset are debatable and should be addressed asap, but the concept behind it, is a step in the right direction.
To clean the environment with the rate with which we are polluting it, is not an achievable goal. For us to make a positive impact on the environment, will require a complete change in mind set, and it’s not just the governments, but the people who need to be actively involved.
Rohit S
www.carbonfreezone.com
This is a very perceptive article. Bruckheimer's connections to what some call the Military Information Media Entertainment (MIME) complex are even deeper than the article indicates. And Bruckheimer, along with with Bertram von Munster (Amazing Race and 'Cops') have teamed up with Diseny and the Pentagon on another important occasion: the creation of Profiles from the Frontline, which began in 2002, at least as a concept, and began airing around a year later, I think. Bruckheimer also helped design Centcom Media Briefing Centres in Doha and advised the military on how to spin the bogus heroic "story of Jessica Lynch". The connections to psychwar is, thus, perceptive and does fit within the notion of 'information operations', which includes everything from monitoring and 'correcting' blogs (see the Austin American Statesman article above), to Bruckheimers movies and tv programmers, to creating and running media networks (e.g. Iraqi Media Network -- see article Variety referred to in these pages about SAIC) to the destruction of Al Jazeera bureaus in Kabul and Baghdad in 2001 and 2003, respectively. The fact that this stuff is appearing in Variety, as well as, say, Rolling Stone, is also interesting in and of itself, suggestings rifts at the centre of the media entertainment system. Another rather famous media, well, at least Literary Star, Mark Twain, also had some interesting things to say, but in exactly the opposite way, when he condemned American military and imperial ventures in the Philippines just over a 100 years ago (In particular, see his "To the People in Darkenss"). A nice illustration, as this article is as well, that part of the cultural politics of war and imperialism really do play themselves out in the media space, given Twain's stature and Variety's 'voice of record' standing for the US media and entertainment industries. Media space is, as the Pentagon ernestly states, an informational battlespace. It is this latter that we need to keep our focus on most, though.
Dwayne Winseck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
School of Journalism and Communication,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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