I've seen this very amusing little Zombie flick and can highly recommend it!

Here's my post from back in the days of TIFF.

The film screens at 9:30 p.m. tonight at the Bloor Cinema. First-run theatres will start screenings on Friday.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered al Qaeda's lead planner on 9/11, has reportedly confessed at a military hearing in Guantanamo Bay detention centre, Cuba.

Note this from the BBC story:

Mohammed, a Pakistan national, was said to be the third most senior al-Qaeda leader before his capture.

The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says there is nothing new in Mohammed's admission and that there is a transcript of his interrogation over 9/11 available on the web.

Its significance lies in the fact that he made the statements at the hearing, which could now lead to a trial before a military tribunal, our correspondent says.

I wonder why the Beeb didn't link to said transcript to aid the lazy and technologically challenged. :)

More seriously

The Pentagon now alleges that Mohammed was involved in the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.

Amnesty International issued this caution:

"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 'confession' was not made in a court of law but in a secret screening process that bars lawyers," said Amnesty UK spokesman Mike Blakemore.

"Before his six months at Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was apparently held in a totally secret CIA-run prison for three-and-a-half years where he alleges torture."

This is curious:

The alleged admission of Pearl's killing had been blacked out in an earlier version of the transcript released by the Pentagon.

Department of Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman said the information was delayed so that Pearl's family could be informed of the news.

But Mohammed made his confession on Saturday. The Pentagon didn't release the transcript until Tuesday. They couldn't have told Pearl's family on Sunday or Monday?

It would be sad if the Pentagon is playing games and trying to get maximum publicity out of this confession by releasing the most dramatic bits in stages.

From the NYT:

American Electric Power, a major electric utility, is planning the largest demonstration yet of capturing carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant and pumping it deep underground.

Various experts consider that approach, known as sequestration, essential to reining in climate change by preventing the gas from being added to the atmospheric blanket that promotes global warming.

The project, to be announced Thursday by American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, will use a new process — so far tested only at laboratory scale — that uses chilled ammonia to absorb the gas for collection. The process was developed by Alstom, a major manufacturer of generating equipment, and aims to reduce the amount of energy required to capture the carbon dioxide.

Some experts have estimated that nearly a third of a power plant’s energy output might be needed to pull carbon dioxide from the waste stream. Alstom hopes to hold it to 15 percent.

The cost must be kept as low as possible if the technology is to be used on a wide scale. Congress is seen as unlikely to impose enormously expensive restraints on emissions. And under proposals to cap emissions nationally and let companies trade credits for extra reductions, only the cheapest methods of reducing greenhouse gases would thrive in the marketplace.

Opinion-page editors at major American newspapers say that up to 75 per cent of manuscripts come from men. Author and activist Catherine Orenstein wants to get more women writing.

From the NYT:

An unusual coalition of industrial and developing countries began pushing Wednesday for stringent limits on the world’s most popular refrigerant for air-conditioners, as evidence mounts that the refrigerant harms the earth’s ozone layer and contributes to global warming.

The coalition is pitted against China, which has become the world’s leading manufacturer of air-conditioners that use the refrigerant, HCFC-22. Most window air-conditioners and air-conditioning systems in the United States use this refrigerant, as well.

International pressure has grown rapidly this winter for quick action. “We scientifically have proof: if we accelerate the phaseout of HCFC, we are going to make a great contribution to climate change,” said Romina Picolotti, the chief of Argentina’s environmental secretariat.

An accelerated phaseout of the refrigerant could speed up by five years the healing of the ozone layer of the atmosphere. It could also cut emissions of global-warming gases by the equivalent of at least one-sixth of the reductions called for under the Kyoto Protocol.

Here's an earlier post: Just when you thought the ozone layer was healing ...

The scientists at RealClimate take issue with an NYT story about purported inaccuracies in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth.

While the Irish may well toss back plenty of Guinness on St. Patrick's Day this Saturday, tastes in general are changing as Ireland becomes wealthier, busier and more diverse.

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