Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 8:48:00 PM CET
Syria Live Blog - March 26
As the situation in Syria escalates, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 8:47:00 PM CET
Rebel blow to Gaddafi as Cameron firms up London conference
Colonel Gaddafi has been dealt a blow, after rebels regained control of the city of Ajdabiya following international air strikes on the Libyan leader's forces.
The fall of the eastern gateway urban centre came after a week of coalition action against Gaddafi's military, which included British and French war planes striking near the city on Saturday.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 8:46:00 PM CET
Operation Odyssey Dawn explained (Day 7)
With Libyan known SAM sites and air defence installation rendered harmless, Odyssey Dawn missions see the coalition planes focusing mainly on targets of opportunity, as the regime’s armored forces and mechanized troops outside Ajdabiyah, a city located to the south of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi were British and French planes were involved in repeated attacks on the Gaddafi forces on the ground in the early hours of Mar. 25. Some information on this strikes that are worth explaines since they give an idea of the type of missions flown by the UK forces in theather with the available assets, were provided by the UK MoD briefing by Major General John Lorimer, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategic Communications Officer.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 6:32:00 PM CET
Geld muss frei sein!
Statt zu jedem Thema einen Studiogast einzuladen, verkleiden wir unseren Moderator Christoph Süß und lassen ihn sich selbst interviewen. Redaktionsintern heißt das quer-Schläger. Diese Woche erklärt er, wieso das Vermögen von Diktatoren nicht eingefroren werden sollte.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 5:50:00 PM CET
Overthrow Gadhafi in 90 Days: Just Add Mercs, Cash
The world’s worried about mercenaries in Libya helping Moammar Gadhafi snuff out the Libyan revolution. But what if — what if — the rebels tapped the expanding world of private security to turn them from a ragtag, Red Dawn-esque group of irregulars into a proper military?
No, we haven’t had any sightings of Blackwater founder Erik Prince in Benghazi. But at least some Libyan opposition members don’t think it’s so crazy to hire their own auxiliaries. NBC’s Richard Engel reported on the Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday that he’d interviewed rebels who’d be grateful for the Blackwaters of the world to offer their services. Erik, call your travel agent!
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape
Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of the Qaddafi militia. After nearly an hour, she was dragged away from the hotel screaming.
“They say that we are all Libyans and we are one people,” said the woman, who gave her name as Eman al-Obeidy [sic]. “But look at what the Qaddafi men did to me.” She displayed a broad bruise on her face, a large scar on her upper thigh, several narrow and deep scratch marks lower on her leg, and marks that seemed to came from binding around her hands and feet.
nytimes.com reuters.com sky.com guardian.co.uk cnn.com/video Libyan woman tells of abuse change.org/petitions/protect-eman-al-obaidi-from-gaddafi-regime Journalists please leave Rixos Hotel in Tripoli dailymail.co.uk
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 26, 2011 at 12:50:00 PM CET
Radiation detector, help needed!
Can open hardware community do something to help in this? Seeed Studio is now sourcing sensors, then assemble quick measurement tools, ship as many/fast as possible to Japan.
Since we have no previous experience with such device, your help is needed!
The comments to the blog article by @seeedstudio about Geiger counter is really interesting.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 26, 2011 at 12:37:00 PM CET
Graphic: How deadly is the radiation from Japan?
Yesterday I wrote a piece for The Japan Times about a couple of people who were helping make all the confusing radiation data a little less confusing. In that piece I mentioned @eroninjapan’s effort of visualizing the data using Tableau Public, a pretty slick data-viz software. Since then, Ross Perez from the Tableau team has been in touch to pass along another rendering of the MEXT radiation data.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 26, 2011 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Japan geigermap: at-a-glance
This map visualises crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan.
Click on the circles to get more information on the readings in each area.
These readings are aggregated by Pachube here.
Measurements are represented in units of microsieverts per hour ( µSv / h). Original readings used the unit nGy/h and I take the approximation 1 Gy = 1 Sv. (See the Wikipedia entry on Sieverts)
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 26, 2011 at 12:21:00 PM CET
Meters show just how much electricity Tokyo is using
(KW at left, % of total at right)
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 26, 2011 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Japanese Air Flows on Google Maps - University of Michigan
Click on a site to view back trajectories for the site or move the map to view other sites.
The purpose of this site is to illustrate whether the air arriving in select locations has previously been near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Arabische Revolution könnte deutsche Steuerzahler belasten
Auch für den deutschen Steuerzahler bergen die Konflikte im arabischen Raum nach Informationen des SPIEGEL Gefahren. Wie aus einer vertraulichen Aufstellung des Bundesfinanzministeriums ("VS - nur für den Dienstgebrauch") hervorgeht, beläuft sich das Entschädigungsrisiko für Exportkredit- und Investitionsgarantien des Bundes im arabischen Raum auf 20 Milliarden Euro. Das ist die Summe, mit der der Bund geradestehen müsste, wenn Exporte oder Direktinvestitionen wegen der politischen Turbulenzen verlorengingen.
Wie aus der Aufstellung hervorgeht, sind die Garantien von 2009 bis Ende 2010 um knapp vier Milliarden gestiegen. In Libyen beträgt das Entschädigungsrisiko des Bundes rund 1,5 Milliarden (Stand Ende 2010), am höchsten ist es in Ägypten mit 3,9 Milliarden Euro.
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