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 7 May 2007 @ 22:05
"I want to send word to our American friends to tell them they can count on our friendship, which has been forged by the tragedies of history that we have confronted together. I want to tell them that France will always be at their side when they need her. But I also want to tell them that friendship means accepting that friends can have different opinions."
----Nicolas Sarkozy, first address, after his victory on May 6, 2007
As part of his first address as France's President-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy also strongly urged the United States to take the lead on climate change and said that the issue would be a priority for France:
"A great nation, like the United States, has a duty not to block the battle against global warming but — on the contrary — to take the lead in this battle, because the fate of the whole of humanity is at stake."
We shall see...
Last January (o1/17/07), the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), founded by in 1945 by former Manhattan Project physicists, and whose board periodically reviews issues of global security and challenges to humanity, has added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind. link
This is the first time BAS has included climate change as an explicit threat to the future of civilization.
"We foresee great peril if governments and societies don’t take action now” to offset climate change, said astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
While the harm done to the planet by carbon-emitting manufacturing technologies and automobiles was more gradual than a nuclear explosion, nonetheless, it could also be catastrophic to life as we know it and "irremediable", the board said.
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 19 Apr 2007 @ 18:17
Complaint:
Defendants [Yahoo!] willingly provided Chinese officials with access to private e-mail records, copies of email messages, e-mail addresses, user ID numbers, and other identifying information about the Plaintiffs and the nature and content of their use of electronic communications. This information, available only to the Defendants, was voluntarily provided to Chinese officials by Defendant Yahoo! Inc.
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A Chinese political prisoner and his wife sued Yahooin federal court Wednesday, accusing the company of abetting the commission of torture by helping Chinese authorities identify political dissidents who were later beaten and imprisoned.
The suit, filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, is believed to be the first of its kind against an Internet company for its activities in China.
Wang Xiaoning, who according to the suit is serving a 10-year prison sentence in China; his wife, Yu Ling; and other unnamed defendants seek damages and an injunction barring Yahoo from identifying dissidents to Chinese authorities.
More here and here and here. More >
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