World Technology Newswire Archive

Most analysts agree that once we pass the half-way point in the world’s oil reserves, production will begin to drop off as the remaining reserves are more difficult to extract. Some believe that point will come in the next 12 months, others think we have 10 years or more left. But either way, we need to prepare now by reducing our dependency on this finite resource.Oil and gas supply 85% of the energy used in the UK. By comparison, nuclear supplies 4% and renewables 1%. Can nuclear be expanded by a factor of 20, or renewables by a factor of 85? Will coal fill the gap, and at what cost to global warming? Do we have enough coal left to expand its use 12 times over?

We rely on energy to produce, process and transport food. As energy becomes more expensive, will our food system revert to local production and organic methods? Can the world continue to feed 7 billion people at all without cheap energy? What steps should we be taking right now to avert future hunger?

Does the end of cheap oil herald the end of globalisation? Is the notion of continual economic growth consistent with a shrinking energy supply? Some observers predict a recession of 1930s proportions, but lasting much longer. Others believe the economic system could be reinvented along sustainable lines.

The article below is just one news story out of many that illustrate the scramble already taking place to secure the dwindling supplies of oil...

Plans are being made to host a gathering on the issue of peak oil and it's implications. It will be be hosted at the rampART social centre, most likely sometime in February.

People are being sought to help organise the event and we are also keen to find out how much interest there is generally in the idea of the event. Please get in touch either if you would be interest in attending or in helping to organise the event...

Since nobody denies that peak oil will happen, the idea is to concentrate on likely timing and the implication and priorities for those who are currently campaigning on various issues in the hope of creating a better world.

Says "pull it" meant to evacuate firefighters, but there were no firefighters in the building

Interview with Richard M. Smith about digital privacy.

BlackBoxVoting.org has proven optical scanners used to read paper ballots can be programmed.

The public and voting officials have been assured, time and again, that Diebold vote-counting machines are not connected to the iNet. But now we know, based on physical evidence and testimony, that Diebold machines in Georgia were connected to iNet for hacking on election night!

Reply from Defence Sec Dr John Reid to a constituent's letter on Trident Renewal via former Tory leader Micheal Howard MP.

Never mind the Holy Grail. First 250 million-year-old peace award goes to cyberspace and airpond knight errant.

Sunday 20th November 2005 6pm Liverpool City Centre – Christmas Light switch on.

The Santa twins from Liverpool Defy-ID showed their banner and gave out anti-ID leaflets to the public watching the switch on of Liverpool’s Christmas lights. While walking through town the Santa twins were regularly stopped by parents and kiddies asking to speak to the Santa twins.

One and a half years ago, Steven Kurtz from the Critical Arts Ensemble was detained by the FBI as a "potential bioterrorist", because he had some legal chemicals in his house for an art project on genetic engineering. Here are the latest news:

Just to advise of the website for those campaigning against
Lydd Airport expansion on Romney Marsh, Kent. The consultation period for KCC/SEERA plans is now over and we await ,hopefully, removing forever the 2 million people figure from the Kent structure plan......

This is a call to participate (online or offline) in a citizens summit parallel to the world summit of the information society (WSIS) in Tunis. Activists in the UK have participated in some of its predecessing events like media democracy day or the "We seize" actions in Geneva in 2003.

Gov ministers have approved the use of GM maize in the UK
sneaked it thru the arrogant b*****d's...

Citizens’ Summit on the Information Society (CSIS)
Tunis, November 16-18, 2005
First announcement and call for support
CSIS Press release ­ October 24, 2005

IS there a meeting of the Air bosses in London end November?

No one else was there and this is her story believe it or not. She was quite capable of inventing an attacker and binding her own hands to make it look like there had been an attack but there was and adventure a misadventure. Tears can be manipulated and manufactured. She was entwined in the relationship maybe Peter would not let her out?

The British government is quoting 'intelligence' on shaped charges as evidence of Iranian involvement in the Iraq insurgency. How much credibility does it deserve?

Over the last five years the indymedia open publishing concept has exploded throughout the internet, not just in the form of new indymedia collectives (of which there are now over 160) but also in the creation of many other non-affiliated 'citizen media' sites.

The model has been adopted in different forms and evolved along with new communications technologies such as RSS feeds which transformed the personal journals of the Blogging world into a global syndication network for content producers of every sort.

Indymedia however remains mostly uneffected, or does it?

Well here it is .yet another song free to the general public.
cataclysms,wars,and corrupt empires are usually cyclical and go hand in hand,or so the real history books say.

e-mail addresses for major Toyota execs in N. America, who can be contacted re. car culture, SUVs, global warming etc.