All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Canada, the world and the tar sands 2011
December 9, 2011, 2 Comments

NASA images of Athabasca 1984 and 2011 Keystone Pipeline Project (TransCanada Pipeline) The U.S. $13 billion Keystone pi ...

EU economy 2011 Part III
December 9, 2011, 1 Comment

See also Greece, EU & world economy 2011 ; New School of Athens Reuters Factbox: Coming events in the euro zone debt ...

Kenya 2008-2011
December 8, 2011, Comments Off on Kenya 2008-2011

The Greenbelt movement ; CIA World Factbook ; CIDA overview of Kenya 2011 Kenya: Elections & Aftermath – compr ...

Wednesday Night #1553
December 7, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1553

See exchange on the Middle East with David Oliver & Joumane Chahine With great thanks to Margaret Duthie for her cop ...

Francis H. (Frank) Cabot R.I.P.
December 1, 2011, 1 Comment

(New York Times) Francis H. Cabot, a financier and self-taught horticulturalist who created two of the most celebrated g ...

Wednesday Night #1552
November 30, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1552

The economy has become a national security issue The Euro crisis has taken a turn for the worse. While not our baseline ...

The Arab/Middle East world in 2011
November 29, 2011, 2 Comments

The Charlie Rose Islam Series: Inside Islam ; The Guardian: Arab and Middle East unrest ; Iran, Israel/Palestine, Libya, ...

U.S. in 2011
November 29, 2011, 1 Comment

Monitor some of the predictions and see how accurate they were The new census data may favor Republicans, but long-term ...

U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011
November 28, 2011, Comments Off on U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011

Wikipedia’s entry on the United States debt ceiling crisis includes a lengthy discussion of the arguments regardin ...

Beatrice Millman (Bea) Bazar R.I.P.
November 26, 2011, 6 Comments

Beatrice Millman Bazar (1914-2009) passed away peacefully on September 28, 2009, just 3 weeks shy of her 95th birthday. ...

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