Newspapers around the world
Media Owners
The State of the News Media 2010
Freedom of the Press 2007 (France 31, Taiwan 32, USA 48)
Freedom of the Press 2010 (France 44, Taiwan 48, USA 20)
In 2002, France was 11th.
Surveillance societies in 2007
America-Death penalty Facts sheet
"The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life. Taxpayers have paid more than $250 million for each of the state’s executions." (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005)
Do executions lower homicide rates?
Criminologists View of Deterrence: No 88 %, Yes 5%, No opinion 7%.Death penalty around the world
News services
Free newspapers online (all political parties, mainstream and alternative, written in European languages)
About earthquakes in Taiwan here
Radiation level Taiwan
millisievert (1 mSv = 10−3 Sv = 0.001 Sv) and microsievert (1 μSv = 10−6 Sv = 0.000001 Sv).
By comparison smoking 1.5 packs/day: 13-60 mSv/year
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
Facts about Climate Change
Scientific paper on the Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
US Senate Minority Report on Climate Change and here
Myth vs. Fact Regarding the "Hockey Stick"
Climategate Document Database
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
Lawrence Solomon: Climategate at Wikipedia
Ice melting and floods The melting of floating ice (icebergs and northern polar ice cap) does not change sea level