The economic rise of Asia has been fueled in part by a 19th Century approach to industrialization, with coal-fired power plants going up almost weekly in China. This has pushed China into position to pass the United States as the world's biggest total emitter of greenhouse gases.

However, climate change may well strip Asia of any economic gains it makes, claims a new report.

From the BBC:

The leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge was a patriot who staunchly defended social justice, the regime's former head of state has said (about Pol Pot).

In a new book, Khieu Samphan says there was never a policy to starve people and no order to carry out mass killings.

Prosecutors are studying the book to determine what defence Khieu Samphan may take if he is ever charged.

Some estimates say up to 2.5 million people died during the Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 to 1979.

Khieu Samphan is one of the few surviving senior figures of the regime.

Four of his colleagues have been charged by a UN-backed genocide tribunal and Khieu Samphan, 76, is expected to be added.

Then I guess the people behind this are either horribly mistaken or deliberately lying their faces off.

Update

On Nov. 19, Cambodian police arrested Khieu Samphan and charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Here's a BBC backgrounder on the Khmer Rouge. Here's another on some key KR figures.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have earned themselves a trip to The Big Smoke to play in the Grey Cup next Sunday, knocking off the B.C. Lions at B.C. Place in Vancouver by a 26-17 margin.

This was not an outcome I predicted. That's not a knock on the 'Riders, who are a beat-up club these days.

But they weren't the team that coughed up the football five times. And while they won ugly, the 'Riders were the better team today and deserve the title of Western conference champions.

The 'Riders will face the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who toppled the hometown Toronto Argonauts in the Eastern conference championship 19-10.

You know, the 'Riders won their last championship in 1989 in (wait for it) ... Toronto!

Addendum

By the time I got back downtown, it was pushing 6 p.m. When I got to my subway stop, I popped into a nearby watering hole to catch up on the game.

Any TV set that had football on it was tuned to some anonymous NFL game.

I suspect that almost any other bar I went to would have similarly ignored a Western conference CFL final.

People in this town largely don't give a shit about the CFL. It's too bad the Grey Cup is being played here.