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Mentioned for the first time in 2005, the Keystone XL pipeline project linking the US and Canada is expected to boost the oil sands of Alberta, with an ecological cost that the authorities are trying to hide behind "scientific" studies
Before the US Department of Foreign Affairs published his controversial study on the environmental impact [of the Keystone XL pipeline], a consulting firm - IHS CERA - sent to the media its own study stating that the pipeline will generate no surplus emissions of greenhouse gases. The report was presented as "independent". (...) It is nevertheless firm funded by Canadian taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars through a contract with the Government of Alberta and IHS CERA for an amount of 325,000 dollars plus 545 426 dollars that the province had already paid last year.
Alberta is one of the most aggressive proponents of the pipeline. [In 2013], the province has thus paid the services of two lobbying firms located in Washington, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti and Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, which have close ties with the Foreign Minister John Kerry, to accelerate the official approval of Keystone XL.
Hindu fundamentalism
Under pressure from the Hindu, the book of the researcher Wendy Doniger The Hindus: An Alternative History has been withdrawn from sale by Penguin India. The novelist Arundhati Roy, yet published by the same house, moved in an open letter to the editor.
Tell us, please, what scares you. Did you forget who you are? You are one of the oldest publishing houses in the world. You existed long before books become like other goods. You have edited some of the greatest writers in history. (...) Will, in the future, we will write only prohindouistes books? (...) Will there a policy line that we will be required to comply?
Spam in the kitchen
The rise of objects "connected" - Internet - causes side effects it would have been difficult to imagine there are only twenty. Evidenced by the note to the "one" of the Financial Times (January 18-19), the flavor will multiply by reading our article on spam in this issue.
The hacking frontline has moved into the kitchen. In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of spam messages were sent by a connected refrigerator, but also televisions, outlining entering the security problems of the "Internet of Things". More than seven hundred fifty thousand malicious emails have been sent from one hundred thousand units allegedly "smart" during the holidays [Christmas], according to Proofpoint researchers, a cyber security company in Silicon Valley. Robots, once programmed to take control of computers [to send spam fraudulently], are now turning their attention to a new range of devices, poorly protected against piracy.
Hannah Kuchler, "Hackers make the internet of things a fridge too far for security."
Emerging Tourism
The economic development of emerging countries has enabled a growing number of their citizens to go on vacation. Analyzing the favorite destinations of these new travelers, the daily La Repubblica is concerned the sulking Italy.
[In 2013], 128 million passengers took off from Brazil, Russia, China and India [to go abroad]; in 2012, spending totaled $ 107 billion (of which almost half came from the Chinese). Citizens of the Brics [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] rose from their means of 80% since 2005, and is projected that in 2030 their purchasing power will still be tripled. Yet despite the Italian beauty, fashion, food and the multiple services when the new rich decide to go on vacation in Europe, they do not spontaneously think of Italy. We do not even rank among the four preferred destinations for Indians; we are in third place in terms of Russians (after Germany and France) and fourth in terms of Brazilians (after France, Spain and Portugal) as Chinese (after Germany, France and Austria).
Mentioned for the first time in 2005, the Keystone XL pipeline project linking the US and Canada is expected to boost the oil sands of Alberta, with an ecological cost that the authorities are trying to hide behind "scientific" studies
Before the US Department of Foreign Affairs published his controversial study on the environmental impact [of the Keystone XL pipeline], a consulting firm - IHS CERA - sent to the media its own study stating that the pipeline will generate no surplus emissions of greenhouse gases. The report was presented as "independent". (...) It is nevertheless firm funded by Canadian taxpayers to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars through a contract with the Government of Alberta and IHS CERA for an amount of 325,000 dollars plus 545 426 dollars that the province had already paid last year.
Alberta is one of the most aggressive proponents of the pipeline. [In 2013], the province has thus paid the services of two lobbying firms located in Washington, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti and Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, which have close ties with the Foreign Minister John Kerry, to accelerate the official approval of Keystone XL.
Hindu fundamentalism
Under pressure from the Hindu, the book of the researcher Wendy Doniger The Hindus: An Alternative History has been withdrawn from sale by Penguin India. The novelist Arundhati Roy, yet published by the same house, moved in an open letter to the editor.
Tell us, please, what scares you. Did you forget who you are? You are one of the oldest publishing houses in the world. You existed long before books become like other goods. You have edited some of the greatest writers in history. (...) Will, in the future, we will write only prohindouistes books? (...) Will there a policy line that we will be required to comply?
Spam in the kitchen
The rise of objects "connected" - Internet - causes side effects it would have been difficult to imagine there are only twenty. Evidenced by the note to the "one" of the Financial Times (January 18-19), the flavor will multiply by reading our article on spam in this issue.
The hacking frontline has moved into the kitchen. In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of spam messages were sent by a connected refrigerator, but also televisions, outlining entering the security problems of the "Internet of Things". More than seven hundred fifty thousand malicious emails have been sent from one hundred thousand units allegedly "smart" during the holidays [Christmas], according to Proofpoint researchers, a cyber security company in Silicon Valley. Robots, once programmed to take control of computers [to send spam fraudulently], are now turning their attention to a new range of devices, poorly protected against piracy.
Hannah Kuchler, "Hackers make the internet of things a fridge too far for security."
Emerging Tourism
The economic development of emerging countries has enabled a growing number of their citizens to go on vacation. Analyzing the favorite destinations of these new travelers, the daily La Repubblica is concerned the sulking Italy.
[In 2013], 128 million passengers took off from Brazil, Russia, China and India [to go abroad]; in 2012, spending totaled $ 107 billion (of which almost half came from the Chinese). Citizens of the Brics [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] rose from their means of 80% since 2005, and is projected that in 2030 their purchasing power will still be tripled. Yet despite the Italian beauty, fashion, food and the multiple services when the new rich decide to go on vacation in Europe, they do not spontaneously think of Italy. We do not even rank among the four preferred destinations for Indians; we are in third place in terms of Russians (after Germany and France) and fourth in terms of Brazilians (after France, Spain and Portugal) as Chinese (after Germany, France and Austria).
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