Canadian librarian leads worldwide digital revolt for free knowledge
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/846033--canadian-librarian-leads-worldwide-digital-revolt-for-free-knowledge?bn=1
It began when an academic database proposed increasing the fee it charges the University of Prince Edward Island by 120 per cent.
Mark Leggott snapped.
“The world’s knowledge is increasingly being held to ransom and available only to those who can pay the fees,” Leggott told the Star on Tuesday.
He announced in a campus-wide letter that as chief librarian he had cancelled UPEI’s subscription to Web of Science and was launching “an effort to create a free and open index to the world’s scholarly literature called ‘Knowledge For All’.”
Then he contacted librarians in Canada and around the world.
The timing was remarkable. Almost simultaneously, the University of California heard from the journal Nature that its fees were soaring by 400 per cent. UC turned around and urged professors to stop submitting to Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious academic journals, and 66 others in its publishing group.
“This concept of crowdsourcing and appealing to a group who have a common goal can be very powerful,” says Leggott. “I have heard from enough of my colleagues that this can happen.”
Who would have thought it ?
There's actually a service around that I don't mention on purpose - not that I recall its name off the top of my head! I don't see any reason for polluting scientific catalogues with relative trivia. My Del.icio.us and Diigo files suggest many options, should a person actually ask "What could I use ?"
Science Citation Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield in ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Citation_Index
Directory of open access journals
www.doaj.orgPLoS Biology - A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal
biology.plosjournals.org/perlservDouble Standards Home Page
www.doublestandards.org/index.htmlsynapsen. An hypertextual card index
www.verzetteln.de/...synapsen_e.htmlUNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
www.unaids.org/...default.aspInicio
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/inicio.htmOpen Up Government Data - Wired How-To Wiki
howto.wired.com/...Open_Up_Government_DataBibliographic/Software and Standards Information - OpenOffice.org Wiki
wiki.services.openoffice.org/...ware_and_Standards_InformationThe Ultimate Open Courseware Toolset: 60+ Directories, Search Engines, and Web Tools | The .Edu Toolbox
bestcollegerankings.org/...s-search-engines-and-web-toolsCombing the Sphere
combingthesphere.blogspot.comAlexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior
vanelsas.wordpress.comThere are no liberals
http://www.opednews.com/articles/There-are-no-liberals-by-Ed-Martin-100811-573.html
The Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, O'Reillys, all self-defined Republican conservatives, have defined us as liberal/progressives. Does it make sense to you to allow people who haven't been right about anything to define for you who you are? Of course not.
The position we must take is that the principles of what is called liberalism/progressivism are the default position of all humanity.
A Psychiatrist Searches for Sanity in a Crazy World
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Psychiatrist-Searches-f-by-Michael-David-Morr-100812-950.html
Michael David Morrissey - Writer
Review of The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee, by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (Eloquent Books, 2010)
This is a frightening book. Much of it reads like a thriller, but unfortunately it is a true story. Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhill, a woman (despite the unusual first name) and a psychiatrist, describes her 15-year long mental, emotional and physical ordeal resulting from her involvement in leftist activist politics in Seattle, Washington.
Bramhall learned the hard way that her fellow medical professionals were the last people in the world she could be honest with about her feelings of persecution.
Damning BP Memo Uncovers "3 Pigs" Strategy
http://thinkbridge.blogspot.com
After analyzing the cost of four structures in descending order of blast-resistance and safety, in which the trailers were at the bottom, 100 times cheaper than the safer metal blast-resistant buildings, they merely needed a "cover story" to explain the obvious choice of the cheap buildings. So they estimated the cost of what would be predictably lost human lives - next to one of the most dangerous places in the facility - and callously compare "costs" in purely monetary terms.
More Thinkbridge
No Great Society Can Survive Without Compassion
- War on Terror Generates More Terror
- Untouchables, Lepers Transform Health Care, People
- Iraq's Guantanamo Worse Than the Other Gitmo
- Big Brother Montsanto Watches You
- Woman Gives Birth Under Torture: Homeland Security Hell
- Israel Antoinette Always Gets the Cake, So Why Does She Use Thug Tactics?
- Global Slavery Eradication Price: 10% of Tax Rebate Checks
- Iraq War Vets Recount Atrocities
- The Meddler on the Roof
- Muslim Women: Behind the Cartoon
- A Bridge over the River of Blood
- Right Wing Extremist In the Heart of the Left
- Taxin' & Spendin'... the Neocon Way
- Nightmare Rape Meets Saudi Y "Utopia"
- Ancient African Math/Science Shatters Stereotypes
In a crowded city in northern Egypt, FRONTLINE/World investigative reporter Stephen Grey tracks down a man who was once one of the CIA’s “ghost prisoners.” The bulky, bearded man he finds is Abu Omar al-Masri, an Egyptian cleric who had moved to Milan, Italy.
“I was kidnapped on the 17th February, 2003,” he tells Grey. “Then I disappeared from history.”
David Miliband admits that two “extraordinary rendition” flights refuelled at Diego Garcia: Is this a joke?
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/02/22/david-miliband-admits-that-two-extraordinary-rendition-flights-refuelled-at-diego-garcia-is-this-a-joke
British foreign secretary
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison
by Andy Worthington
The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantánamo. AVAILABLE NOW! Buy from Amazon (US, UK or Canada), or see below for details of how to order from other retailers, from the publishers, or from the author. As of May 2009, my books are also available via PayPal (UK orders only), but also see here for information on how to order a copy from the author from anywhere in the world.A chronological list of Guantanamo articles (*NEW*) (6)
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Torture by proxy
Canada’s problem child
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/845742--canada-s-problem-child
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/845742--canada-s-problem-child
It would be a mistake to think of Omar Khadr as the only figure on trial at Guantanamo Bay this week. His historic trial before a discredited American military tribunal promises to shame not only U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration but also Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s acquiescent Conservative government. And it may well bring the law into disrepute in both countries.
“Canada’s problem child,” as Khadr has been dubbed, is the first enemy combatant to be tried at Gitmo on Obama’s watch. That in itself is sadly ironic. Far from being a key player in the 9/11 attacks on America, he was a marginal child soldier.
Khadr pleaded not guilty Monday to the murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Speer in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15. At the same time, the judge ruled, to no one’s surprise, that his tainted confessions may be used against him. He faces life in prison.
While few sympathize with the Khadr clan (Omar’s father was an alleged financier for Al Qaeda), civil libertarians are appalled at the political and legal precedents the case sets.
“Canada’s problem child,” as Khadr has been dubbed, is the first enemy combatant to be tried at Gitmo on Obama’s watch. That in itself is sadly ironic. Far from being a key player in the 9/11 attacks on America, he was a marginal child soldier.
Khadr pleaded not guilty Monday to the murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Speer in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15. At the same time, the judge ruled, to no one’s surprise, that his tainted confessions may be used against him. He faces life in prison.
While few sympathize with the Khadr clan (Omar’s father was an alleged financier for Al Qaeda), civil libertarians are appalled at the political and legal precedents the case sets.
The Transformation of the American Conservative Movement into Fascism
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/10/the-transformation-of-the-american-conservative-movement-into-fascismCrusading to restore a holy social order, Tea Partiers have promoted disorder. Claiming to protect democracy, they smashed windows of elected representatives.
There are no liberals
http://www.opednews.com/articles/There-are-no-liberals-by-Ed-Martin-100811-573.html
http://www.opednews.com/articles/There-are-no-liberals-by-Ed-Martin-100811-573.html
The Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, O'Reillys, all self-defined Republican conservatives, have defined us as liberal/progressives. Does it make sense to you to allow people who haven't been right about anything to define for you who you are? Of course not.
The position we must take is that the principles of what is called liberalism/progressivism are the default position of all humanity.
The position we must take is that the principles of what is called liberalism/progressivism are the default position of all humanity.
( Which means those who want to preserve 'Traditional American Values'...are painted with both labels ! The best cartoon I recall on this said Anarachists wanted freedom from government for people. Progressives wanted freedom from government for companies.
I say that liars paint left and right with the same brush depending on their target audience. The only difference is terminology. )
ICLEI: Invasive UN Treaty in 600 American Cities
http://www.infowars.com/iclei-invasive-un-treaty-in-600-american-cities
http://www.infowars.com/iclei-invasive-un-treaty-in-600-american-cities
There are over 600 US cities that are members of ICLEI, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, now known as Local Governments for Sustainability. ICLEI institutes the UN Convention on Biological Diversity treaty that was withdrawn from a vote on the Senate floor in 1994, so the treaty, designed for UN control, is being implemented in cities.
ICLEI is the UN accredited NGO (non-governmental organization) to represent Local Authorities. ICLEI receives funding from the United Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation, US government agencies like the EPA, cities, international entities and other undisclosed partners.
Please visit www.FreedomAdvocates.org for more information about ICLEI and how to stop it.
Click this link for the ICLEI Primer
Click this link to find out if your city is an ICLEI city
Click this link to find out if your Mayor is a ‘Cool Mayor’
Click this link for ICLEI and UN connections
Click this link for model legislation to remove ICLEI from your city
All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52473
Click this link for the ICLEI Primer
Click this link to find out if your city is an ICLEI city
Click this link to find out if your Mayor is a ‘Cool Mayor’
Click this link for ICLEI and UN connections
Click this link for model legislation to remove ICLEI from your city
All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52473
The Ecuadorean government aims over the next five years to eradicate chronic malnutrition among children under one -- 10 percent of whom are now undernourished -- and reduce the rate among children under five from the current 22 percent to seven percent.
"It is a huge challenge. The malnutrition rate among children under one was 12 percent in 2006, one of the highest rates in Latin America," the minister of social development, Jeannette Sánchez, told foreign correspondents Wednesday.
The minister pointed out that malnutrition has repercussions on the cognitive development of children and their future possibilities of becoming economically productive citizens, and on the overall health of the population.
She also noted that "there is no precedent in Latin America of such a large reduction in malnutrition in such a short time.
"The most successful case was that of Chile, which cut the malnutrition rate from 11 to 1.6 percent in 10 years, followed by that of Mexico, where it fell 1.5 percent a year over the space of several years," she added.
"It is a huge challenge. The malnutrition rate among children under one was 12 percent in 2006, one of the highest rates in Latin America," the minister of social development, Jeannette Sánchez, told foreign correspondents Wednesday.
The minister pointed out that malnutrition has repercussions on the cognitive development of children and their future possibilities of becoming economically productive citizens, and on the overall health of the population.
She also noted that "there is no precedent in Latin America of such a large reduction in malnutrition in such a short time.
"The most successful case was that of Chile, which cut the malnutrition rate from 11 to 1.6 percent in 10 years, followed by that of Mexico, where it fell 1.5 percent a year over the space of several years," she added.
( In context with this, note EU and US subsidies which undercut the market for farm products in other countries by dumping and 'foreign aid' : a recipe for rural poverty. )
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