Global/International

Saudi Arabia's Justice Minister has defended tough Sharia punishments such as beheading, cutting off hands and lashing, claiming they "cannot be changed" because they are enshrined in Islamic law. "These punishments are based on divine religious texts and we cannot change them," Mohammed Al Eissa said during a recent speech in Washington.

Mohammed Al Eissa said Islamic law had helped to reduce crime in the conservative kingdom. "Capital punishment is carried out in many other countries, including the US, and was not isolated to Islamic states" he said.

Global demand for renewable energy engineers.

Its boom time for renewable energy, a verifiable gold rush into constructing renewable energy infrastructure all over the world & ending our dependence on filthy fuels.

http://unjobs.org/themes/renewable-energy

http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/18/utilizing-overseas-renewable-energy-s...

By Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)

All Glitz, Nothing New to Solve Poverty and Inequality

PHILIPPINES: The World Economic Forum ( WEF ) on East Asia 2014, a gathering of 70 government and public figures and 460 business leaders here in Makati City, conclude its three-day meeting today, May 25, 2014. The affair is about to wrap up as an expensive and glorified talking shop with no new ideas and solutions to offer to what is Asia’s, even East Asia’s , and especially the Philippines’ most stubborn and alarming problems: poverty and inequality.

AUSI, Australien Universal Space Industries has proposed that all roads should be sealed in the respect that glasshouses should cover all of the roads so that when a vehicle omits pollution the glasshouse covered road can capture the pollution & use it for algaculture, the glasshouse itself should be covered with solar panels so the road can generate electricty as well.