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The Old face of New media v. the New face of Old Media

14-01-2008 16:35

And article written for the Mule Newspaper based in Manchester looking at some of the challenges faced by Indymedia and evolving video projects which are coming out of the network.

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chip implants

13-01-2008 07:40

Big brother wants to chip us all.

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Agent Orange

11-01-2008 06:58

Last night I attended a screening of the film "The Last Ghost of War" at IIT Chennai, India, followed by a discussion with Dr Simone Nhu-Mai of the Vietnam Agent Orange Victims Association (VAVA). The film and discussion highlighted the horrific legacy that continues to be felt in Vietnam (in addition to Laos and Cambodia, as well as among war veterans from the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea) due to the spraying of herbicides, including the defoliant Agent Orange.

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Polar Bears Populate Welsh Coal Mine

10-01-2008 12:25

A video about a climate action that happened before xmus.

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Police State Britain - volunteer snitchessought for CCTV watch.

09-01-2008 13:57

COPS APPEAL FOR MONITORS [reports the Derby Evening Telegraph]
Police are looking for volunteers to help keep them in the frame by monitoring the streets of Ilkeston and Erewash.

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Oil Price Touches $100 a Barrel; Signal of Pending Oil Shortages Ignored

07-01-2008 10:31

Oil Production Graph
The price for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil touched $100 on January 2, 2008, a new milestone. According to TheOilDrum.com, WTI oil price has been giving a very clear signal of pending shortage for over five years now, and in breaching the symbolic $100 a barrel mark, continues to do so. Those driving the world economy have steadfastly ignored this red warning light. In doing so, they are steering the world toward an energy disaster characterized by shortages, high energy prices, inflation, growing inequity, civil unrest and famine.

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Minutes of Manchester NO2ID Meeting, 12th December 2007

06-01-2008 20:53

Manchester NO2ID Logo
RECENT EVENTS

Manchester NO2ID has very busy since our November meeting. As well as our regular street stall, we've flyered the Lord Mayor of Manchester [1] at the Central Library, held an emergency street stall [2] in the light of the HMRC data leak, and reached the Information Commissioner himself [3] at an ICO conference in Manchester.

These are all great actions, and thanks to everyone who's shown up and helped out; we've been getting our points across to an increasingly sympathetic public, and also to people in positions of power, reminding them that we exist and cannot be ignored.

[1]  http://manchester.no2id.net/node/19
[2]  http://manchester.no2id.net/node/22
[3]  http://manchester.no2id.net/node/16

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Manchester NO2ID Events, January 2008

06-01-2008 03:41

Manchester NO2ID Logo
Bit of a quiet month this time round, but I expect everybody's still recovering from Christmas!

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Wind turbine construction course at Brighton Earthship

03-01-2008 14:56

V3 Power ran a course at the Earthship in November 2007 where 10 members of the public spent two days constructing a 2.4m Hugh Piggott wind turbine.

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Linux skill share at the Sumac

16-12-2007 12:18

On Saturday a well attended skill share session at the Sumac Centre introduced people to the politics and practice of the free software movement, started a Sumac Linux user group, and got Linux distributions installed on quite a few laptops as well.

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Ebola outbreak kills two doctors, causing panic in East Africa

10-12-2007 02:31

The Baltimore Sun is reporting: KAMPALA, Uganda — Health workers, including two physicians, are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, spreading fear among doctors and nurses needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said.

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The Death Knell for Nuclear Power

08-12-2007 21:22

THE LEAN GUIDE TO NUCLEAR ENERGY - 1ST EDITION
David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here  http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html#Nuclear or you can order printed copies here  http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/nuclear/buy.htm . Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me.

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"The NO2ID Pledge" Comes To Manchester

06-12-2007 21:02

Manchester NO2ID Logo
Manchester supporters of NO2ID, the national campaign against identity cards
and the database state, will be inviting the public to pledge opposition to the
Government's schemes in St. Anne's Square this coming Saturday.

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The Spine

06-12-2007 10:33

As HM Revenue & Customs loses 25 million confidential records in the post, the programme to introduce a centralised NHS database slouches on, only delayed by a classically wasteful PFI project. Total data transparency may be good for corporations and security obsessed governments, but what does it mean for the recipients of ‘joined-up care’?, asks Damian Abbott

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LSE Students Funded By Arms Companies, Report Reveals

06-12-2007 00:07

A report published by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has revealed that arms companies have paid for the fees and living expenses of seven students at the London School of Economics (LSE) to the tune of £83,706 since 2001. The report also reveals that between 1998 and 2004, the School received funding totalling at least £861,653 from several arms companies for research projects that it has carried out during the period.

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What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

04-12-2007 10:17

Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.

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Science, Sustainability, and Distributed Generation in the Information Age

03-12-2007 23:50

This is an extended version of a speech given to the Ontario NDP Socialist Caucus Conference held at the Ontario Institute for Science and Education held on October 13, 2007.

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Manchester NO2ID December Newsletter

03-12-2007 22:03

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All the latest news and upcoming events from the Manchester NO2ID campaign.

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Tasers in Nottingham

03-12-2007 21:47

Shocking
A man was Tasered by Notts police last week. Is this a portent of things to come?

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Home Office seek new Head of Physical Security

01-12-2007 15:44

Makes you think... what if a candidate with a spoof CV got an interview (or even the job?!)
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