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Climate change So what legacy will we leave behind?

08-02-2009 16:43 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Technology | World

I wrote the following article and I would like to have it get a little more exposure than just a letter to the editor in the local newspaper. The problem with the global warming theory is that it can cloud one's vision from a real threat, global cooling. And in so doing can cause great harm to this country.

Another Study Exposes Bio-Fuel Scam - Corn Dog Update

08-02-2009 15:20 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Technology | World

A couple days ago, I published a piece listing 14 studies that have exposed the high costs of the ethanol scam. But I overlooked two points: A new study by Cornell University’s David Pimentel, and the latest numbers showing the amount of corn ethanol distilling capacity that has been idled due to negative margins.

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Why the Innocent Are Punished More Harshly Than the Guilty

A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen. . . .

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Supporting terrorism on the net

Last November, blogger Mohamed Adel, or General Mait (dead), was detained because of a photograph taken of him, with a Palestinian Hamas official. The damning evidence was clicked when Adel participated in a humanitarian caravan to the Gaza Strip.

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Manchester airport: emissions cleared for take-off

05-02-2009 19:26 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Technology | World

Manchester City Council announced their 'Call to Action' on climate change last month, which plans to reduce the City's emissions by one third by 2020. Great! we thought: the Council owns 55% of Manchester Airport Group (MAG), so surely this 'Call to Action' would see the Airport's emissions reduce as well? Alas no: the Council simply washed their hands of this issue.

Internet hosting prosecuted in Italy

In the light of the excuses given for the recent Indymedia server seizer in Manchester, this story is highly relevant. In Italy, a rather disturbing prosecution is taking place. Google officials, including Chief Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, are being criminally prosecuted for a video somebody else uploaded to YouTube.

Gggollum Sues Tolkien for Cyber Libel

Sir David Eady, possibly the most famous high court judge in the UK, was brought in to rule on the case of Christopher Carrie, who claims he was abused as a child by John Tolkien, a priest and scoutmaster, and son of the Lord of the Rings author. Mr Carrie was trying to sue Royd Tolkien, one of the writer’s great-grandsons and a bit-part actor in one of the massively successful Lord of the Rings films, over comments made on a website. The fact that Mr Carrie was behind the website only came out in the build-up to the court case. He had previously posted entries on the website under the name ``gggollum''.

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logic bombs against the city

05-02-2009 08:56 | Globalisation | Technology | World

A logic bomb allegedly planted by a former engineer at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae last fall would have decimated all 4,000 servers at the company, causing millions of dollars in damage and shutting down Fannie Mae for a least a week.

Philippines: Don’t revive the “Monster of Morong, Bataan”

04-02-2009 04:08 | Ecology | Health | Technology | World

Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) to Philippine Congress: Don't revive Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

Let's send an E-mail to EDO MBM and feel alright (Yeah Mon!):

01-02-2009 11:56 | Anti-militarism | Technology | South Coast | World

THIS IS A MASS CALL OUT TO ANYONE WHO CAN BE BOTHERED:

PLEASE SEND THIS SONG TO THIS ADDRESS AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE COMPANY'S ARMS MANUFACTURING!

Permanent risk to Electric systems

23-01-2009 10:30 | Technology | World

Advice is needed on how to cope with severe magnetic storm.

Dialect - Changes in journalism since the 1960s and 1970s

23-01-2009 07:43 | History | Other Press | Technology | World

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Tuesdays 9:00 PM.

http://www.bcfm.org.uk/

Blood Coltan

17-01-2009 00:54 | Analysis | Globalisation | Technology | World

"4 million people have died in the past 13 years. THe violence feeds on the abundance of natural

resources"
-Blood Coltan

Tom Blees: Rebuttal to Greenpeace on nuclear

06-01-2009 06:44 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Technology | World

Tom Blees, author of Prescription for the Planet and proponent of Fourth Generation nuclear power, takes on Greenpeace.

Privacy fears over new powers for police to hack your PC

05-01-2009 22:34 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | World

From

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/01/05/privacy-fears-over-new-powers-for-police-to-hack-your-pc-115875-21016760/

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Culture Secretary: "There is content that should just not be available"

27-12-2008 14:16 | Other Press | Technology | Sheffield | World

Some extracts from an article from todays Torygraph follow...

Another Science is Possible?

12-12-2008 18:07 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Technology | World

This article gives an update on preparations for the widely anticipated "Social Forum Science and Democracy", and raises questions for social movements to discuss. For example, the circulation and discussion of this important movement question: "Is elite control of science and technology a strategic bolt in the global machinery of Empire that we need to unscrew?"

Decentralised energy Film and disscusion Night. Newcastle climate camp

Film night and meeting to disscuss decentralised energy
speakers from the greenpeace&toon climate action

141 states back DU resolution in UN General Assembly vote

02-12-2008 16:46 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Technology | World

The United Nations General Assembly has passed, by a huge majority, a resolution requesting its agencies to update their positions on the health and environmental effects of uranium weapons

Indymedia refuses to be co-opted by the Knight Foundation

30-11-2008 19:35 | Indymedia | Technology | World

A $200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fiaxted media entities. The grant application to the Knight Foundation was to fund technical development work for Independent Media Centres (IMCs), also known as Indymedia, and has caused much controversy within the global network. The debate has encapsulated, once again, the thorny issue of how to sustain radical projects without compromising that radicalism by accepting tainted money.

World Technology Newswire Archive

Climate change So what legacy will we leave behind?

Another Study Exposes Bio-Fuel Scam - Corn Dog Update

Why the Innocent Are Punished More Harshly Than the Guilty

Supporting terrorism on the net

Manchester airport: emissions cleared for take-off

Internet hosting prosecuted in Italy

Gggollum Sues Tolkien for Cyber Libel

logic bombs against the city

Philippines: Don’t revive the “Monster of Morong, Bataan”

Let's send an E-mail to EDO MBM and feel alright (Yeah Mon!):

Permanent risk to Electric systems

Dialect - Changes in journalism since the 1960s and 1970s

Blood Coltan

Tom Blees: Rebuttal to Greenpeace on nuclear

Privacy fears over new powers for police to hack your PC

Culture Secretary: "There is content that should just not be available"

Another Science is Possible?

Decentralised energy Film and disscusion Night. Newcastle climate camp

141 states back DU resolution in UN General Assembly vote

Indymedia refuses to be co-opted by the Knight Foundation

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