Comments on: Antarctic Research http://citizenreporter.org/2008/01/antarctic-research/ Under-reported news by a Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anno Nymize http://citizenreporter.org/2008/01/antarctic-research/comment-page-1/#comment-162012 Anno Nymize Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:27:32 +0000 http://bicyclemark.org/blog/2008/01/antarctic-research/#comment-162012 Thanks for your talk on YeastRadio.com. I like hearing other nations debating about there concerns, because sooner or later we will have the same discussion over here, although most of the time I don't understand there particular worries. Quite often I get the feeling that most topics they are speaking about, are artificially created by some spokesperson on the government to keep a nonrelevant and trivial talk going on and prevent the masses from getting into a more serious discussion. Yeah, nothing all of you are already aware of. However, I just forgot to hand you this link in the chat. Personally I have never heart about this problem before, but I believe it is doing a good neck-and-neck race with your latest "Antarctic Research": "The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan" http://tinyurl.com/2xx234 Thanks for your talk on YeastRadio.com. I like hearing other nations debating about there concerns, because sooner or later we will have the same discussion over here, although most of the time I don’t understand there particular worries. Quite often I get the feeling that most topics they are speaking about, are artificially created by some spokesperson on the government to keep a nonrelevant and trivial talk going on and prevent the masses from getting into a more serious discussion. Yeah, nothing all of you are already aware of.

However, I just forgot to hand you this link in the chat. Personally I have never heart about this problem before, but I believe it is doing a good neck-and-neck race with your latest “Antarctic Research”:

“The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan” http://tinyurl.com/2xx234

]]> By: Julian Todd http://citizenreporter.org/2008/01/antarctic-research/comment-page-1/#comment-161883 Julian Todd Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:42:49 +0000 http://bicyclemark.org/blog/2008/01/antarctic-research/#comment-161883 In case you miss it, there was a debate in the General Assembly last month on the 25th anniversary of the Law of the Sea. http://www.undemocracy.com/generalassembly_62/meeting_64#pg001-bk02 The debate isn't all that interesting, but they are presenting a series of reports (eg A/62/66 and A/62/66/Add.1) which contain a summary of the state of play. Let me know the codes of any documents you can't follow through in those texts. There appears to be a disproportionate amount of material on "marine genetic resources", which is new to me. Someone else can work out whether this is a red herring (eg you won't find much mention of the arctic cold war -- the UN is very good at knowing what it's not supposed to talk about), or it's important. In case you miss it, there was a debate in the General Assembly last month on the 25th anniversary of the Law of the Sea.

http://www.undemocracy.com/generalassembly_62/meeting_64#pg001-bk02

The debate isn’t all that interesting, but they are presenting a series of reports (eg A/62/66 and A/62/66/Add.1) which contain a summary of the state of play. Let me know the codes of any documents you can’t follow through in those texts.

There appears to be a disproportionate amount of material on “marine genetic resources”, which is new to me. Someone else can work out whether this is a red herring (eg you won’t find much mention of the arctic cold war — the UN is very good at knowing what it’s not supposed to talk about), or it’s important.

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