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Archive - Jan 11, 2009Submitted by admin on January 11, 2009 - 11:07pm.
Webdiary returns, in fighting trim for an interesting 2009.
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Submitted by Andrew Glikson on January 11, 2009 - 11:06pm.
The sensitivity of the Earth’s atmosphere to anthropogenic carbon gases has been underestimated. As the orgy of burning carbon products of 400 million of biological evolution continues unabated, pushed by business, advertisers and consumption-promoting governments, global warming proceeds at a pace faster than projected by the IPCC, tracking toward likely climate tipping points.
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Submitted by Richard Tonkin on January 11, 2009 - 11:05pm.
The paper started this summer's attack on Hicks just before Christmas, as the restrictive control orders expired. There was no messing around as every point possible was fired into the public mindset, accompanied by a command that Hicks should reveal all.
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Submitted by Guest Contributor on January 11, 2009 - 11:04pm.
There is nothing like the prospect of a radical life change to concentrate the mind on things that really mater. So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing that I have discovered. I will share it with you, like a precious jewel, fit for this occasion. I refer to love. Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world. Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees. It is greater than pride and wealth. It endures when worldly vanities fade.
Submitted by Guest Contributor on January 11, 2009 - 11:03pm.
We are Australian Jews who join thousands in Israel and around the world condemning ongoing Israeli military attacks on Gaza. Together with Israeli peace group Gush Shalom, we condemn the current war as "inhuman, superfluous" and "abominable". While Israel has the right to protect its citizens and to demand an end to the crime of Palestinian rockets that target civilians, this cannot be used as a pretext for the grossly disproportionate military assault on Gaza ...(Australian Independent Jewish Voices)
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Submitted by Solomon Wakeling on January 11, 2009 - 11:02pm.
Tolstoy argues that no class of man has the right to punish or sit in judgement upon another, and, from out of the crucible of complexity which he has painstakingly built his story, gives a conclusion almost point-by-point worthy of a lesser evangelist.
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Submitted by Ernest William ... on January 11, 2009 - 11:01pm.
Do most Australian voters ignore the importance of their vote in the Senate? Webdiarist Ernest William Graham is concerned that they do, and warns in this contribution that this tendency allows the Senate to be used to negate the will of the majority.
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