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1. Morocco has ambitious plans to be the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy. Its new agreement with the European Union removes tariff barriers, and it is importing huge amounts of German equipment for wind and solar generation. Morocco subsidizes the green projects, and plans to export electricity to Europe. ( Desertec is constructing a major […]

An enormous crowd of tens of thousands, the biggest this week, gathered in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Friday, especially as the torrid sun set. These protesters are mostly fundamentalist Muslims, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, though some left and liberal youth groups joined them. They favor candidate Muhammad Mursi in the presidential race, […]

Courtesy Paul Jamiol & check out his book, Jamiol’s World

The Guardian reports that a new internet error message may be created to indicate that a site has been censored. It has been suggested that it be called ‘451’ in honor of the late Ray Bradbury’s novel about book-burning, Fahrenheit 451. So I thought what it might look like: