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‘Coral Triangle’ 10 Times as Biodiverse as Great Barrier Reef

The great Coral Triangle, a region of coral-dense seas demarcated by Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor L’Este, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines, is said to be 10 times as biodiverse as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. 76% of all known species of coral are found in the Coral Triangle, and warming ocean temperatures are causing advanced coral bleaching and endangering the entire regional ecosystem.

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UN Commission on the Status of Women Reviews ‘Pacific Realities’

The Pacific Islands region is comprised of 22 nations, with a combined population of roughly 9 million, more than half of which live in Papua New Guinea. The CSW addressed a range of complex issues for development and gender-equality efforts, including entrenched social attitudes that limit women’s ability to pursue education and careers.

China Should Start Defending those Victimized by Corruption

The best thing China’s ruling Communist party can do for itself, for its people and for the stability of the nation, is take seriously all petitions for redress of grievances, investigate all claims of official corruption, ban government cover-ups and establish a zero-tolerance policy for public officials who use their power to punish or intimidate citizens seeking justice.

Global Climate Destabilization is Security & Economic Threat

The new administration in Washington, DC, has taken notice: climate change is not about a mild 1º increase in temperature on any given day; it is about a sweeping destabilization of global climate patterns, which could undermine the entire layout of civilization across the world.

ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Bashir, Charged with War Crimes

The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bashir is charged with waging a deliberate, sustained campaign of violence and terror against civilians.

Page-perfect Touchscreen e-Reader will Revolutionize Mobile Computing

The page-perfect, for lack of a better term, e-reading device will make portable electronic reading easier and more comfortable than ever, packing huge amounts of data, as well as wireless downloading and even browsing capability, into an ultrathin tablet touchscreen.

US, Russia to Discuss Improving Ties in Geneva Meeting

The United States and the Russian Federation are reportedly planning lengthy and in-depth discussions in Geneva, starting Friday, to improve relations and strengthen bilateral efforts in a number of areas. Security in Europe, the Middle East and the far East will all be on the agenda, as will nuclear non-proliferation and negotiation with Iran to halt its nuclear program.

Maya Angelou Inspires Thousands at Brookdale Community College

Brookdale Community College sold out its Collins Arena, Wednesday night, for ‘An Evening with Maya Angelou’, bringing three thousand people to see the poet, activist and educator speak. She moved the crowd to tears and laughter with personal stories, philosophical messages and a call to take pride and passion in the humanizing capability of learning. The caged bird sings, and beats its wings against the painful limitations of its situation, because it is deprived of opportunities to see, to learn, to explore.

In Defense of Essay-length Online Writing

Brevity is the soul of wit. True enough. But, information that brings us to a more enlightened approach to understanding the world often needs to “play out” in a substantial interaction of ideas. Most assume that online writing must be brief, due to the “above the fold” bias of attention-span deficient online readers, but I would argue that the medium is actually ideally suited to something very different.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a Story About Us All

The thing about ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is that it is not specifically about life in the slums or about millionaires, nor is it about India or gameshows or making Bollywood into a new western movie genre. It’s about something much deeper, more universal, something that transcends class, caste or culture, and has everything to do with what weight one’s basic humanity has in this massified, globalized world of glitz and information.

Don’t Call it Victory

A few years back, an ambitious youngish president staged an impressive event, in which he landed a fighter-jet on an aircraft carrier, then declared “Mission Accomplished”, in the midst of what would turn out to be only the first baby steps of a very complicated war. The $780 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a victory for the president in terms of his organizing Congressional support, but it is just the beginning of a very long, high-stakes journey, for his nascent administration, and for the nation.

Court Clears Three Accused in Politkovskaya Murder

A criminal court in Moscow has acquitted three men charged with the assassination of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The murder, which took place on then president Vladimir Putin’s birthday, shook Russian media and journalism and the human rights world, and put pressure on the Kremlin to crack down on all violence against reporters.

POETRY IS A VEHICLE OF MEANING: NECESSARY NOW AS EVER

Poetry is the frontier where language in use comes in contact with future meaning, and in the process, when best executed, brings a wealth of transcendent truths into the present. Poetry is relevant to all uses of language, though there may be trends that suggest popular culture is looking to new forms of poetic activity to replace specific old models: many musical artists now play the role of mythic historian or wandering troubadour, but poetry is not confined to these purposes.

Resilient Complexity versus Exposure to Entropy

All systems fail, all organized interactions are vulnerable to entropy, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And at best, we are but stardust, a beautiful yet haunting explanation of our origins. Whatever your spiritual beliefs, in the mortal physical realm, entropy is always interfering. The intellect often uses convenient conceptualizations to feel it is better understood or more secure, more real and lasting, than it is.

Toward a ‘Transactional’ Cosmology: Web Dynamics for the Information Age

Each information transaction, sometimes as exemplary, sometimes as single element added to a sweeping aggregate of historical sway, is a precedent, which can motivate, influence or redirect the push of future happenstance. And, we must take note, every transaction involving matter or energy contains information, traces of a history of its coming into being, and generates a “footprint”, a trace of its appearance and its transition into something beyond the transactional moment.

3-month Mars Rover Missions Still Going After 5 Years

The twin Mars rover projects NASA launched over 5 years ago, which landed the Spirit rover on 3 January 2004 and the Opportunity rover on 24 January 2004, which planned only 3 months of research, are still roving, gathering data and transmitting new discoveries back to Earth, after 5 years at work on the desolate red planet.

India Impacted by Rise in Global Food Insecurity, Deteriorating Economic Conditions

There are over 230 million people suffering from hunger or undernourishment in India. No other nation has so many people suffering chronic malnutrition, and the undernourished in India represent 27% of the worldwide hunger-stricken population.

RIPE FOR CHANGE (PHOTOS + ESSAY)

A “wave election”, with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims… the climate is ripe for change, and we now face the problem of conceptualizing change, in order to see and understand its implementation.

HOW A GENERATIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGY TRUMPS 'TRICKLE-DOWN'

To understand the relevance and virtues of Barack Obama’s economic vision, we have to look at the long history of struggle between American laissez-faire capitalism and American middle-class capitalism. We are on the verge of what is likely to be a comprehensive philosophical shift in economic policy toward generative investment, which means counting as economic imperatives the resilience and productive expansion of the positive bases of economic growth, i.e. human and environmental health and well-being, resource-density and cyclical models of resource use and reproduction.

A LONG TIME COMING, A VICTORY FOR US ALL

I have long felt, as so many Americans do, a profound emotional attachment to the ideals we always speak of when we talk about our founding revolution, our enlightened democracy, our progress toward a freer and more just world. And I have always aspired to see those ideals put on display, not just by an historic moment, but by the collective awareness of millions of impassioned American citizens. This moment in history is a sea change in our collective mindset, and a victory for all Americans.

THE BODY CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS NO HUMAN PRESENCE THERE...

On the top floor, there's a room we never use, except for storage, and it has never given any impression other than being already in use by someone other than ourselves. To set foot there is to feel that you have invaded someone's most intimate space, like walking in on someone in their last good-bye to a secret love, suddenly returned, after a long life and in the midst of a terrible agony.

US RANKS 36th IN WORLD FOR PRESS FREEDOM

According to a new report from Reporters sans Frontiers, the United States is tied for 36th in the world for press freedom, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, South Africa, Spain and Taiwan.

US SCHOOLS LAG BECAUSE FOCUS NOT ON CAPACITY TO REASON

The quality of US schools is in decline, because the focus in education policy has moved away from the original guiding principle: that a democratic society must have in all of its citizens, a reserve of reason and common sense, a perspective about society’s shared values, and an ability to help guide the innovation that with time helps to steer a nation toward a better, more just future.

TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY, AN ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

Technological literacy, the ability to use, seek out, learn and re-learn, with relative independence, the technological tools now basic for top-level work output, is essential to the prolonged development of American society and to the sustainability of its lofty economic aspirations.

 

 

El abandono

contaminado el charco
donde hallamos y ubicamos
lo más sagrado de lo sagrado
contaminado de intenciones
de químicas y rumores
de caballeresco follaje
y la duda del más allá ...

4 Poetas leen su obra en Villanova University [video]

Artículo con enlace al vídeo de la presentación de cuatro poetas. El vídeo dura 80 minutos y se descarga a su iTunes Library, después de que se haya seleccionado “Get Episode” al lado del título “Spanish Poetry”, en la lista de ítems disponsibles. El artículo incluye 'Un breve reportaje desde el escenario'...

Otro posible desvío de lo esperado (libro en venta)

Esta obra consta de una serie de obras en verso que forman “rezos” y meditaciones, exploraciones del amor y de la naturaleza de la existencia tal como la desea establecer el ser humano.

Admin. Obama busca alianza renovada con Indonesia

La Secretaria de Estado, Hillary Clinton, visita hoy la sede del gobierno indonesí, en Djakarta, con un mensaje sin matices: el gobierno del Presidente Barack Obama quiere tenderle la mano al país islámico más poblado, la tercera democracia más poblada del planeta. Con una población de 237 millones, Indonesia es el cuarto país más poblado de la Tierra, después de China, India, y Estados Unidos, y un eje clave en la dinámica político-económica de la región.

Nueva Constitución Boliviana Aumenta Derechos Indígenas

Cuando accedió al poder, el presidente boliviano, Evo Morales, consiguió una meta antes inalcanzable, convirtiéndose en el primer indígena elegido presidente de un país en las Américas. Morales prometió cambios radicales a las leyes bolivianas, para refortalecer su planeada revolución socialista-laborista y para dar mas derechos a las poblaciones indígenas, sobretodo los Aymara, etnicidad que incluye al presidente entre los suyos.

Gérmenes y obstáculos

libertad aquella musa
aquel ritual de autodesconcepción
el reto que guía o confunde
siguiendo líneas que no vemos
finos hilos de ópalo y vapor
matriz y desvergüenza…

Lo que se busca

¿Qué hacemos
si todo es lo que no parece ser
si lo que es se convierte
sin remordimiento alguno
en lo que no era
si para ser lo que se busca
hay que abandonar lo que se busca?

DESERCIONES

deserciones y escapadas
el saber que ser libre
es también el saber vivir
en conexiones de peso e improbabilidad
fugarse en la noche
del infinito cometa de lo inaudito...

EXPOSICIÓN 'SUPERDOME' EN LE PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARÍS, EXPLORA LA DOCTRINA DEL 'SHOCK'

Recién inaugurada en el Palais de Tokyo, en París, Francia, ‘Superdome’ explora el sufrimiento humano vinculado con situaciones donde el desastre se sigue con transformaciones socio-económicas de escala casi incomprensible. La exposición concentra su atención temática en la situación que encontraron los habitantes de Nueva Orleans, cuando el huracán “Katrina” y su consecuente desintegración cívica los desplazaron hacia un caos tormentoso, su entorno físico devastado, forzados a llevar el peso extraño de ver cómo se borró la geografía económica de su ciudad para ser reemplazada por algo desconocido.

LOS DESCONFIADOS DEVOTOS

La desconfianza no es un estado de ánimo, no es una reacción a la desdicha; es una doctrina, y existe una secta dispersa que la difunde. Esta secta consta de una gente que apuesta abiertamente por la desconfianza, como cosmología o plan de vida, una lógica venenosa contra la que poco se puede hacer, porque su fuerza radica en la decisión total de sus congregantes de vivir en la desconfianza, confiados hasta la última en que no puede haber otra forma de vida más inteligente.

A LA CAZA DEL NUEVO PARADIGMA EN 'THE HOT SPRING'

TheHotSpring.com es un experimento editorial en línea, y una iniciativa para la innovación tecnológica y teórica. Ambiciona ser un foro donde se junten los usuarios para compartir y debatir ideas sobre cambios de paradigma en la ciencia, la tecnología y la teoría social, con el fin de lograr avances importantes en la resolución de problemas y para aplicaciones de alta tecnología. [Texto completo]

¿CÓMO LLEGUÉ HASTA AQUÍ?

puedo citar hechos, ilusiones, casualidades, grandes apuestas por la confianza, grandes muestras de desafío y las tormentas del alma,

puedo citar tremendismos y relámpagos, incendios y desiertos de hielo, tundra y éter, chispas y torrentes de agua salada,

puedo citar evanescencias y repeticiones...

LLUEVEN

desvanecer de una tarde nublada
esferas de sol y de añoranza
en cada mano
exaltación en la voz
que habla sólo en llanto
que canta sólo una marea casi
y un cruce de caminos
casuales y resurgentes del pasado...

BORRASCOSA CONTIENDA DE TU MIRADA

veo que sales forzosa
livianas chispas de lástima
poblando la borrascosa contienda de tu mirada
donde toda la verdad fluye
y levanta oxígenos ágiles...

BESTIA GERMINAL: YVES TANGUY EN BARCELONA
MEDITACIONES DE UN POETA NORTEAMERICANO SOBRE EL SURREALISTA TRANSNACIONAL, UN DOMINGO DE DICIEMBRE

La exposición comienza con un texto que sitúa la obra de Tanguy en "una especie de matriz original donde mar y madre son una misma cosa", y al entrar nos encontramos de manera chocante con todo lo opuesto: los juegos de un niño caprichoso carente de toda paciencia artística, y señala algo importante en la obra de Tanguy: la prisa por terminar, la impaciencia ante la idea de una obra posible.

THANKSGIVING

Tenía sentido, éramos grandes, caían las ocho del reloj y todo comenzaba, la víspera del primer ataque, soñábamos que el amor lo era todo, y tenía sentido : buscabas tus raíces en el cielo, hallaste voces matizadas y contempladoras, seres alados que te recordaban con demasiada facilidad, cómo había sido todo, antes...

DEL ÓRGANO CONCEPTUALIZADOR, DISUELTO EN EL LENGUAJE

¿Sabemos sobre qué terreno pisamos, qué fundamento se levanta debajo de nuestros pies para darnos lugar? si las palabras tienen un peso variable incluso en el momento en que se dicen, y cuál es el trasfondo de esa variación? o sea, qué mensaje escondido pueda haber en la energía que conllevan y dejan caer sobre nuestra percepción de la realidad?

FABULOSOS Y APLASTANTES (Enumerando arenas, XV)

Llegan y se van, apartando las exigencias del reloj, del mercado, del viaje en sí, fabulosos y aplastantes, un manojo de desvíos y persistencias que hacen vibraciones en el imaginario vital : un momento todo parece ser oscuridad y el extremo silencio de enfrentarse solo con las exigencias de una perversidad económica, y otro la dudosa persistencia de un poeta en su trabajo de poeta, y en el próximo amor y plenitud, sabor y melodía : la duda, el fracaso, el pánico, la pérdida y la demora eterna se desmienten en estos ratos de acercamiento repentindo a la llama, de epifanía en el darse cuenta de que lo que vive tanto dentro como alrededor de uno es fuente de luz y calidez y que puede y quiere y seguirá llegando a su vez, a lo que quiere ser o hacer en nosotros, en mí, en mi alerta y suavizado contorno...

ENUMERANDO ARENAS, VII

Existen momentos inmejorables, temporadas, ambientes, amistades, que existen justo porque están en la cumbre de lo que pueden llegar a ser, nunca serán más : y por algo existe la teoría de que todo es así, todos los momentos, todos los irrevocables fallos de lo que "nos toca" vivir, todo el sistema inmunológico psíquico que no sabemos desmentir...

ESTRÉS HÍDRICO: RETO ECONÓMICO-ECOLÓGICO GLOBAL PARA EL SIGLO XXI

El agua es uno de los componentes básicos de la vida, como suele señalarse en la ciencia, en aulas de biología, en la medicina, en la teología, debate sobre la política ambiental, y hasta en la vosmología y en la exploración del espacio exterior. Pero también es un recurso cuyo valor económico depende cada vez más de una escasez crónica y de una distribución desigual.

NEUTRALIDAD DE INTERNET: PRINCIPIO CLAVE PARA MANTENER UNA DEMOCRACIA ABIERTA

El concepto de la 'neutralidad de internet' se refiere al estado actual en los países libres, donde aquellos que controlan la infraestructura física de internet no pueden manipular ni controlar el contenido de los que publican contenido en esa red. Es un ingrediente elemental para garantizar la libertad de información que hace que la web sea tan útil y tan valiosa para la sociedad libre y abierta.

MOCHILAS KHAKI, CON SUEÑOS DE OASIS

El motivo es ya conocido, repetido en muchas películas y en muchas novelas de estirpe romántico o aventurero: el 'everyman' que es a su vez estudioso, o auto-didacta, que porta pantalones khaki, camisa blanca, a veces algún tipo de pañuelo en la cabeza, y una mochila de lienzo y cuero.

LA DISTANCIA EXPRESIVA

Amor, lejanía, indecisión, tremendismo en minucia, amigos y familiares que se van, el hogar que se desintegra, el cuerpo que vive una vida y la desvive a la vez : el ser humano es en su más profundo altruismo también egoísta, hay siempre la base del yo que lo vive todo, lo graba todo, lo recuerda y lo reformula todo, a su manera y en el idioma que más le va...

 

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ILLUSION OF THE DEFINITE & INVASIVE 'OTHER'
The push to establish a single national language can only be sustained on the basis of a number of false premises, all of which work against the interests of both a democratic society and American tradition itself.
LA DUDA, EL MISTERIO Y EL VÉRTIGO
En la duda, hay peligros, pero en la duda, también nace la fe. La duda existe, tiene que existir, porque el intelecto humano no puede tenerlo todo siempre arreglado y categorizado; nos reduce la posibilidad de comprensión infinita el hecho de estar obligados a vivir en el tiempo...

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4 MILLION KILLED IN DR CONGO SINCE 1998
12 February 2006 :: Ongoing armed conflict in D.R. Congo has taken estimated 4 million lives since 1998. The Lancet says 36,000 people per month dying from armed conflict, disease and malnutrition.
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Vol. 3, No. 1. :: FERTILITY
What role does the idea of fertility play in our cultural legacy, in our personal relationships, in our political culture, our agricultural trials, the poetry of our private sphere? In this edition, Silva explores, indirectly, through literature, metaphor and science, the value inherent in fertility, as a phenomenon of experience and a root of life...
Vol. 2, No. 2. :: THIRST & BRINE
Poetry on the subject of appetite and longing, the balance of what exists and what is desired, an hommage to the poet Pablo Neruda, featured poets of Chile and analysis of the work of Jorge Teillier, poet of limits and the hearth...