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Eclectic Tech Carnival Underway In Amsterdam

26-05-2008 19:21

ETC Carnival
The annual (by now) ETC happening is housed in Amsterdam:

 http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org

It began on Sunday 25th and will continue until Saturday the 31st of May.
Invitees include women and gender Minorities.

Info included on :  http://www.genderchangers.org

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European Parliament passes new DU resolution in landslide vote

25-05-2008 09:58

The European Parliament has passed its fourth and most far-reaching resolution yet against the use of uranium weapons. MEPs have called for an EU and NATO-wide moratorium and global ban.

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Nottingham & Lincoln Animal Rights Joint Day of Action Against P&G

22-05-2008 18:26

Nottingham and Lincoln Animal Rights joined forces as part of the national day of action (May 17th) against Procter and Gamble, as co-ordinated by Uncaged Campaigns. Procter and Gamble continue to test on thousands of animals in cruel and unusual experiments.

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Did corruption kill the Nimrod 14?

21-05-2008 15:17

Former arms industry whistle-blower Rob McCartney believes the deaths of 14 service personnel in the 2006 Nimrod disaster could be due to fraud and corruption. He has written to the coroner conducting their inquest about this. The former head of BAe said the company regularly overcharged for changes to increase their profits. Such changes fatally delayed the replacement of the Nimrod MR2 by safer aircraft.

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ID roadshow in Nottingham

21-05-2008 12:02

The idea of an ID roadshow is, believe it or not, not a jest.

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Manchester Free Software Talk: Richard Rothwell, M6-IT, 20th May 2008

19-05-2008 17:04

Manchester Free Software present a talk by Richard Rothwell from M6-IT Community Interest Company - "Software Freedom for the Education and Voluntary Sector" on Sustainable Education Solutions, at MDDA at 7pm on Tuesday 20th May 2008.

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Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism

16-05-2008 21:17

The rapid expansion of biofuel production worldwide has paralleled a dramatic rise in food prices. The expansion of biofuels has been supported by a wide spectrum of people, from environmentalists looking for "sustainable" energy to conservatives wanting to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil. With food riots spreading, the U.S. remains committed to an expansion of biofuel.

Biofuels are part of a larger movement toward green capitalism, the idea that we can scale down our energy use through technologies that improve the efficiency of the consumer society. Biofuels are emblematic of the dark side of green capitalism, which is focused almost entirely on the well being of the global upper class. Biofuels are a form of nationalistic environmentalism that is creating a foundation on which more extreme nationalists will try to wed the racist tools of yesterday with a version of "sustainability" that will include the destruction of the global poor.

Real solutions are both impossibly difficult and simple. The cooperative societies in which most humans have always lived are capable of supporting a high standard of living with far less resources than the individualized, consumer society. Enlightened political leadership would be helpful, but we can create a sustainable society without it. Indeed, we have to.

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Hacktionlab a rural hacktivist convergence in June

16-05-2008 15:35

The aim of HacktionLab is to have a convergence where people interested in and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software and any other form of activism that utilises technology.

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Homeland Security in Bangkok Launches Cyberwar Against Dissidents

11-05-2008 16:03

In spite of the boom and bust cycle of shrimp farming, Thailand has continued to maintain relative calm in the eye of a storm called "Indochina". Just across the "Friendship Bridge" lies the Empire of Halliburton and Unocal (chevron), where the threat of genocide has loomed for decades, and tentacles spread through Thailand where information warfare was launched on New Years Day, 2007. It has reached a new level today.

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Free software revolution in Latin America

10-05-2008 22:59

The stronghold for the free software revolution has migrated to Latin America. All throughout Central & South America, socialistrevolutionaries have been taking power and one of the tools in their revolutionary arsenal is free software and free knowledge.

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EDF circles British nuclear powerplant sites

09-05-2008 11:02

French nuclear energy colossus EDF, which also operates various types of non-nuclear generation in the UK, has been buying up farmland close to existing British nuke plants.

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The unethical monstrosity that is the Large Hadron Collider

08-05-2008 23:26

this is NOT an article addressing the issues that you normally find related to the LHC, i do not care about black holes or other cosmic dangers. This article addresses the very real threat to democracy that CERN poses through its latest experiment, an all to human threat.

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Eden Project Sexy Green Car Show: Almost Beyond Comment

07-05-2008 14:31

If you want a lovely day out, pop down to the Eden Project between 23 and 31 May, and spend some time decorating the lovely "green" cars. A few bits of plantlife, some green spray paint and a chainsaw should do the trick (but leave the trees alone...)

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Interview with New Director of Brazilian Free Software

06-05-2008 20:31

The Worker's Party in Brazil has strongly encouraged a national conversion to open source, free software. With two years to go in Lula's presidential administration, a new director of free software implementation has been appointed to continue this important work.

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Election Fraud in the news again . . . . but its those that aint that are worst

03-05-2008 15:26

From the accepted profession of old western cold war operators in the 1950s (- see most accepted history, plus "COUP", the old 1960s textbook on the subject ) rigging elections has gotten a bad name, as "dictators" legitimise themselves with what others claim are stitched up polls . . . . but surely, if the experiences of those old operators is accepted ( where did they get to, eh ?) - its the criminal semi-coups - selecting the susceptible, easy-to-blackmail, or "pre-spun" people from EACH party thats the problem the world should worry about most - on the basis of how much the influencers of their opinions - or those they might appoint - could shake bungs out of the assortment of slushfunds, "commissions", etc in todays world of shutting down fraud enquiries "in the national interest", or complicity for the sake of the "defence of the realm" - it aint that much of a surprise that people might think they could get away with it, at least long enough to leave a few other people to take the rap. . . . or suffer the effects of the escape of poison from the drains of the new "supersafe" citycentre testing lab . . . . etc

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CERN Bomb

03-05-2008 09:51

If "God" doesnt play poker or dice, he hates russian roulette,
CERN is clever dumb, a suicidal experimental oxymoron,
IS the quest for knowledge worth threatening our entire life system,
Will bureacrats in Brussels& NewYork pull their heads from their jackseyes?

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Cleaning Company Target E.ON on National Day of Action

01-05-2008 07:53

At 07.45 this morning E.ON offices on Pall Mall were targeted by the new upstart Coal Cleaning Company as part of a nationally co-ordinated Day of Climate Action against False Capitalist Solutions.

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Audio: Sheffield Community Renewables - Public Launch

30-04-2008 22:59

Audio Sheffield Community Renewables - Public Launch
Attached is a recording from the public launch meeting of Sheffield Community Renewables which was held on 30th April.

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VisionOnTv DVD now available to download

30-04-2008 12:29

The First VisionOnTv dvd is now available to download by bit-torrent

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Street Blitz London, 1-15 May 2008

29-04-2008 10:56

After a moderately successful first run last July the fortnight of street-art returns to London. The concept is simple but potentially very effective and by utilising the power of the Internet (and benefiting from a growing common ‘net literacy amongst the great unwashed) it opens up the whole city as a gallery space; and not confining it to internal, controlled and possibly inaccessible spaces.
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