Saturday, February 28, 2004

Einstein�s gravediggers Caspar Henderson - openDemocracy


Is it really true? The Pentagon, no less, is saying that climate change could be a really big deal: blood, sweat and tears on the grand scale, wholesale collapse of giant countries, the war of each against each, and all within twenty years (see box on the Pentagon report’s key findings).

Details of an unclassified report, completed late last year, made it into the media in January 2004 by way of an article for Fortune by David Stipp. They story appeared again in a piece in the (UK) Observer a month later.

Monday, February 23, 2004

Yahoo! News - Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war: report: "LONDON (AFP) - A secret report prepared by the Pentagon (news - web sites) warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater threat than terrorism.

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The report was ordered by an influential US Pentagon advisor but was covered up by 'US defense chiefs' for four months, until it was 'obtained' by the British weekly The Observer. "
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The Observer | International | Key findings of the Pentagon
Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.
· By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands inhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned. In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento river area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south.

Friday, February 13, 2004

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Thursday, February 12, 2004

Adult acquired flatfoot and tibialis posterior tendonopathy

In 1969 Kettlekamp and Alexander drew attention to the association between failure of the tibialis posterior tendon and progressive flatfoot deformity in adults. Three of Kettlekamp and Alexander’s patients had lacerations to the posterior tibial tendon and trauma was a common feature of many of the early patient reports. Several series over the next 12 years reported numerous further cases and in 1989 Johnson and Strom classified the condition of "tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction" and proposed a system of treatment. Tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction came to be seen as " the commonest cause of the adult acquired flatfoot". Physical signs, as discussed later, were viewed as evidence of tibialis posterior insufficiency. Johnson and Strom discussed staging as though there were an established progression from tenosynovitis without foot deformity, through partial to complete rupture of the tendon with increasing but flexible deformity to fixed deformity without tendon function. Johnson and Strom’s treatment recommendations for most patients concentrated on replacing the function of the absent tendon.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show: "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show"
Hearing the taped voice of a courageous flight attendant as she calmly narrated the doomed course of American Airlines Flight 11 brought it all back. The frozen horror of that September morning two and a half years ago. The unanswered questions. Betty Ong narrated that first hijacking right up to the moment that Mohamed Atta drove the Boeing 767 into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Twenty-three minutes

Monday, February 09, 2004

PCWorld.com - Best of the Web 2004 Favorites
The Best of the Web 2004 Favorites file contains Favorites files that link to all the sites we referenced in our February, 2004 feature article, Web Stars. Simply unzip the file to the location on the hard drive where Internet Explorer stores its Favorites files; This location varies depending on which version of Windows you