Israel focuses its energy on clean technologies

Israel focuses its energy on clean technologies
After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing — preparing the world for life without coal and oil. Israel is driving to become a world leader in Alternative Energy, with the government throwing its support to encourage cutting-edge technologies. The number of private entrepreneurs entering the so-called "clean-tech" sector has swelled dramatically. Already, a number of firms are moving to roll out new ideas. Perh...

Israel focuses its energy on clean technologies
JERUSALEM (AP) — After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing — preparing the world for life without coal and oil. Israel is driving to become a world leader in Alternative Energy, with the government throwing its support to encourage cutting-edge technologies. The number of private entrepreneurs entering the so-called “clean-tech” sector has swelled dramatically. Already, a number of firms are...

Israel Focuses On Alternative Energy, Cleaner Technology
Jerusalem — After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing – preparing the world for life without coal and oil. Israel is driving to become a world leader in Alternative Energy, with the government throwing its support behind cutting-edge technologies. The number of private entrepreneurs entering the so-called "clean-tech" sector has swelled dramatically. Already, a number of firms are moving to roll out n...

New year, new idea for climate: the American Clean Energy party
Fossil fuels Addiction is impoverishing the planet, and we have only a few short years to act before the window for action will close, forever. Last year was a bad year for the future of humans and other creatures of the Earth. The U.S. failed to act on climate, and the victory of dozens of Tea Party Republicans in November eliminated any prospect for serious action for at least the next three years. This is tragic. Barring future technological or political miracles, we have now blown by the ch...

Bond crisis on the way?
With strong Christmas sales and the Stock Market surging to a two-year high, talk is spreading that the long-awaited recovery is at hand. But gleaning the news from Europe and Asia as U.S. cities, states and the Federal Government sink into Debt, it is difficult to believe a worldwide Financial Crisis that hammers governments, banks and bondholders alike can be long averted. Consider. Fitch and Moody's have just downgraded the debt of Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Hungary. In Budapest, the poli...

Aftenposten: Germany, U.S. plan secret spy project
Source: CTV Oslo, Norway — Wikileaks documents published by Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten say that Germany and the U.S. are engaged in a $270 million satellite spying program that is causing friction in the European Union. Citing diplomatic cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the newspaper said Monday that the project was presented as a commercial enterprise but is actually run by the German intelligence service. Aftenposten cites cables revealing that the HiROS venture -- a network o...

Projecting Israel-Palestine into 2011
This entry was posted in Media Analysis: Regular briefings on trends in the news. Bookmark the permalink. In light of the US led negotiations reaching a standstill in 2010, a range of opinion and comment pieces have appeared speculating about developments for the coming year and in the most part urging that a solution be imposed on the two sides. The articles tend to take the line that Mahmoud Abbas is too weak and Binyamin Netanyahu too unwilling to confront rightists for negotiations to be suc...

Netanyahu Presses US to Free Jonathan Pollard
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today issued a formal letter requesting that the United States free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, saying that Pollard had “expressed remorse” for spying against the US and that it would never happen again. Netanyahu’s letter cites that a number of US Congressmen support Pollard’s release and insists that he has “suffered greatly for his actions” and deserves Clemency on humanitarian grounds. Pollard is currently sp...

Netanyahu appeals to Obama to free convicted spy Pollard
A photo of Jonathan Pollard is held at a demonstration in Jerusalem in 2008. Israel is seeking the convicted spy's release from U.S. Prison. ( AFP/Getty Images file photo ) JERUSALEM — Israel's Prime Minister Tuesday made a public appeal for the freedom of an American who spied for Israel, asking in a letter to President Barack Obama for Clemency after the spy has spent 25 years behind bars. The case of Jonathan Pollard "unites us all," Benjamin Netanyahu told his parliament, before readi...

Netanyahu Seeks Pardon for Pollard
The Washington Times reports: The White House is reviewing a new pardon request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the case of former Navyintelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, who is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. The request came in a letter to President Obama from Mr. Netanyahu, who read it aloud during a session of the Israeli parliament on Tuesday, noting that the case “unites us all.” “We have received the letter and will review it,...

Netanyahu asks Obama to pardon Israeli spy
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, has asked Barack Obama to pardon an American who spied for the Jewish State....

Charlie Rose transcript saves Hoenlein from on-air allegation he served as Netanyahus emissary
Watch this Charlie Rose episode from last night to hear Rashid Khalidi soberly explain reality: Palestinians were promised a state 63 years ago and the check is still in the mail; and meantime, there is only one sovereign political entity between the river and the sea and it is or will be majority Palestinian but ruled by Jews. Palestinian statehood without the ability to keep Israeli Soldiers from entering any one's home in the West Bank whenever they like is meaningless. Ramallah is an "excr...

No Obama Pardon for Jonathan Pollard
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally requested that President Obama release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.  Netanyahu is simply doing what any leader does: look out for the interests of his country. I have enormous respect for Netanyahu-but he’s dead wrong on this one. For those not familiar with the Pollard case,  the facts are straightforward.  Pollard was a civilian analyst for the US Navy,  who sold damaging secrets to Israel during the 1980s...

PRESSURE MOUNTS TO RELEASE JONATHAN POLLARD
BY: FERN SIDMAN   The Voice of Israel government radio has reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Knesset on Tuesday evening, January 4th at which time he publicly read the much anticipated missive that he has personally penned to President Barack Obama requesting the release of Jonathan Jay Pollard. A former United States Navy Intelligence Analyst, Pollard has been incarcerated in the U.S. for 25...

David Milroy: Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener
For some time now, most of the proposed renewables-focused Legislation has been centered on retroactively trying to make "green" end products, rather than making them environmentally friendly from the start. This is, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently said, what is plaguing the push to be "comprehensively" greener. His New York Times op-ed goes on to quote DOE's lofty goal to: "accelerate the normal progress of science and technology for energy research" and thereby "discover...

The SEC's Facebook problem
SecondMarket, Sharespost, NYPPEX all let wealthy investors treat private companies, like Facebook, as publicly traded ones. Are they flouting securities laws, or reinventing them for the 21st century? Sorry, small investors. If you want to buy shares in Facebook, Groupon or Twitter, you're going to have to wait until their IPOs. That much is certain now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has started looking into the trading of shares in privately held companies. What's less clear right...

Will Goldman employees be allowed in Facebook round?
When Goldman Sachs begins soliciting $1.5 billion for Facebook, one call it won't be making is to its own employees. This time last year, it looked like Wall Street was about to be ejected from the "equity" part of Private Equity. Early versions of Financial Reform Legislation included the so-called Volcker Rule, which would have prohibited banks from sponsoring or managing private equity funds (among other prohibitions). Bank employees would not be allowed to invest in the fund, unless they ar...

After conquering high-tech, Israel sets its sights on a green revolution
Israel is driving to become a world leader in Alternative Energy, with the government throwing its support to encourage cutting-edge technologies....

After conquering high-tech, Israel lays its eyes on the green revolution
Israel is driving to become a world leader in Alternative Energy, with the government throwing its support to encourage cutting-edge technologies....

EU pushes Mideast talks, says 'no alternative' to negotiated deal
Foreign policy chief in region to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders, expected to press Israel to reopen access to Gaza....

EU's Ashton: No alternative to negotiated Middle East peace deal
Catherine Ashton is to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Wednesday; expected to push Israel to reopen access to Gaza Strip....

Would you invest 100 million euros in a 'Palestinian' startup
After reviewing the latest investments in the 'Palestinian Authority' and its corporations by countries and by Western corporations, Michael Horesh suggests some questions that those investors might want to consider. It’s all looking very positive….that is until you start to ask a few questions. 1) The European Press Release above recognises that “the EU now fulfils by far the pledges made at the Paris Donors’ Conference in December 2007.” Good. Encouraging. So where are the

Lithium batteries charge up lobbying fight
An Obama Administration proposal aimed at preventing air shipments of Lithium batteries from causing fires in flight is drawing fierce opposition from some of the United States' top trading partners, who say it would disrupt international shipping and drive up the cost of countless products. The European Union, China, Japan, South Korea and Israel are lobbying against requiring air shipments of Lithium batteries and products containing them to meet hazardous cargo regulations, diplomatic and ind...

Wind industry outlines priorities for this year
The wind industry is calling on lawmakers to pass this year a “long-term energy plan” that includes tax incentives for Wind Energy and a Renewable Electricity standard. The American Wind Energy Association, the wind industry’s national trade group, said Friday that it has managed to get by in 2010 without a “long-term U.S. policies toward Renewable Energy.” But the group warned that the policies are needed. The Third Quarter of this year was the worst since 2007 for the wind

Good guys actually won this shootout at the Hasbara Corral
I hear that NPR had a very good report on Israel cracking down on dissent; you can see the Jawaher Abu Rahma Killed-by-Israel poster at the link. And the IDF already seems to be abandoning the claim that Abu Rahma wasn't even at the Protest in Bil'in. Hanan Greenberg, who offered the original report that "Palestinians lied" about her teargassing, now tries to walk the story back in Ynet: Assessments made by IDF officials Monday determining that Jawaher Abu Rahma not only did not choke to death...