The Coming India/Asia Drought War? and More for Thursday, August 13, 2009

World population to hit 7 billion in 2011

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/12/world.population/index.html

India's water use 'unsustainable'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8197287.stm

India Drought War

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/india-drought-war.html

Drought in India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_India

France and Germany exit recession

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8198766.stm

US retail sales in surprise fall

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8199881.stm

Oregon Rep. Fights Palin, Gingrich Attacks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/13/politics/main5239178.shtml

Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Four Health Care Fears (ABC News)


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HealthCare/story?id=8317197&page=1

NYT: Roots of rage at a town hall meeting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32381149/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/

Sarah Palin doubles down on 'death panels' claim

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090813/pl_politico/26078;_ylt=AsUrwzz2H_bPywmsMK.GwCGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNmbTRtbWwwBGFzc2V0A3BvbGl0aWNvLzIwMDkwODEzLzI2MDc4BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNARwb3MDMQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3NhcmFoc

CNNMoney: Little Tikes recalls 1.6 million toys

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/13/news/companies/little_tikes_recall_workshop/index.htm

Government Grant Seekers Warned of Scams

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/13/earlyshow/main5239494.shtml

Lockerbie bomber 'to be released'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8198603.stm

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset_Ali_Mohmed_Al_Megrahi

Gaza white flag deaths probe call

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8198863.stm

Judge Rebuffs Attempt to Change Mining

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/12/tech/main5238393.shtml

NASA budget too slim to reach moon by 2020

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32403431/ns/technology_and_science-space/

NASA can't track dangerous asteroids: report

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/13/asteroid-threat-earth-collide-detect-nasa.html

Judge Rules in Palin E-mail Case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_palin_e_mails;_ylt=Avh74lFOMMGu0KYtcydjaFcDW7oF

Man charged with infecting 3,000 computers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32402494/ns/technology_and_science-security/

China scales back net filtering plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198931.stm

Palm criticised over Pre privacy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198921.stm

Palm Pre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre

Exploding iPhones in France (CBS News)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5239346n

iBlower or iBlast

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/iblower-or-iblast.html

iPhone

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Blower (Definition 1., Urban Dictionary Link)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blower

Blast (Definition 2.3, Urban Dictionary Link)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blast

Food giants say U.S. running out of sugar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090813/bs_nm/us_sugar;_ylt=Ami.8pxQqzmpp2FEcREdFyWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNjbjVoN25rBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMDkwODEzL3VzX3N1Z2FyBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNgRwb3MDMwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA2Zvb2RnaWFudHNzYQ--

‘Family Cast’ Performs Abortion Episode

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090813/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_family_guy;_ylt=AtfLpiW.CM0oDRdgcYR2cfADW7oF

Deresourcing or desimonization

Deresourcing or desimonization: In our previous entry, we discussed the portmanteau piraculation (or piraculate). The suggestion was that overpopulation pressures for declining resources (such as fish, and other marine and maritime resources) apparently resulted in the use of piracy by country-states such as Somalia. This appears to be directly contrary to the work of the late Julian Lincoln Simon, The Ultimate Resource.

Piraculate or Piraculation

Piraculate / Piraculation: A portmanteau of piracy and (over)population. We have almost all of us recently witnessed the rather thrilling climax of the siege of the Maersk Alabama and the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard Phillips. The derivation of this/these new word(s) comes about from the development of piracy in a country-state like Somalia faced with the need of an overpopulated world feeding off of their fishing and sea territories and thus forcing them to new - and illegal - ventures. Somalia and countries like Somalia are faced with the rather grim prospect of supporting themselves without their traditional and sovereign rights to making a livelihood off of their own coastline(s) and resources. We propose piraculation is one end result of this.

Definition: The descent into or reduction to an idea, notion, philosophy, state and/or activities associated with piracy as a consequence of deresourcing and/or desimonization.

For more see the BBC Article: Attenborough warns on population . And the Wikipedia Article: Overpopulation. More on piracy, see David Cordingly's rather excellent book: "Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates". (Note: We apologize for the Amazon ad, we had wanted to use Google Books, but our public IP address provider's use of SmartFilter prevented us from doing so).

More: See the Urban Dictionarys' definition of Piracracy.

Updated/Revised: Tuesday, April 14, 2009