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When Internet giants give the little people the run around

21-01-2014 17:42

The London ECONOMIST has a fairly representative account on four of the internet giants.

See in the linked page cited below

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Datganiad Stop NATO Cymru (Statment in Welsh)

21-01-2014 12:11

Ddoe de cafodd sawl banner ei ollwng mewn mannau gawhanol yn Casnewydd, de Cymru mewn gweithred o unoliaeth gyda'r NATO 3 ag i lawnsio y datganiad isod a cofodd ei ddosbarthu i pobl yn canol y dref.

Am ragor o wyboadaeth am y NATO 3 dilynnwch y ddolen yma:  http://freethenato3.wordpress.com/nato-3-trial-solidarity/

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Stop NATO Cymru Statment

20-01-2014 17:40

STOP NATO (A)
Today several banners were dropped at various locations around Newport, south Wales as an act of solidarity with the NATO 3 and to launch the statement below which was handed out in the city centre.

For more information about the NATO 3 follow this link:  http://freethenato3.wordpress.com/nato-3-trial-solidarity/

To get involved in resisting the 2014 summit in Newport:
 https://network23.org/stopnatocymru

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Little people set to sue other Internet Giants like Google.com

18-01-2014 13:19

Internet Giant Google.com may be followed by campaigners set to sue other giants.
Campaign group thelittlepeople, based in the UK, is at the final stages of preparations suing Microsoft over grounds of privacy violations, very similar to the claims heard so far against Google.com

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UG#674 - Sane Methods but Insane Purposes (Angles On The Crescendo Of Violence)

16-01-2014 11:56

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Our title, the self-diagnosis of the Captain Ahab, applies just as fittingly to the US led corporatocracy says Chris Hedges in his allegorical reading of Melville's Moby Dick. A variety of material, including an unread chapter of Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity and an interview with gift economy pioneers Vic Button and Frank Bowman point the way to a more optimistic end for humanity than that of the Ahab's doomed whaling voyage.

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The revolte 2013 in brazil, repression and the struggle for an ongoing movement

16-01-2014 01:19

“the media lies, the government robs, the police kills and i am a vandalist?”
Grown on the increasing social unjustice in the brazilian society, this june and july saw brazilians strongest and most ongoing spontaneous uprising and grassroot-movement in history against the current structures and conditions. One of the promoters for the growing of the protests was thereby the violent police forces, that showed even to middle-class protesting people, how the state protects against changes.

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Stop G8 network meeting - Cardiff 11/12th January 2014

10-01-2014 00:28

The Red and Black Umbrella (57 Clifton Street, Cardiff CF24 1LS) is preparing to host a two-day meeting of the Stop G8 network. The first day will be a meeting of all involved to discuss and reach decisions on where next for the Stop G8 network.

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Zapatistas: the wealth of dignity

01-01-2014 13:05

How the Zapatistas, on their twentieth anniversary, are still changing the world

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Mista Accomplice Dreams of Big PR OP

30-12-2013 15:30

this c£isis has a £ing on it
Mista Accomplice Dreams of Big PR OP

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Germany: CCC Event Weblog

29-12-2013 10:52

About the Congress and other CCC events ....... The 30C3 wiki is online: Travel, venue and accommodation information published Sunday, September 29th, 2013 - It’s getting colder outside, and the summer is long gone. There are only a few months left before the next congress starts. So for us, it is time for us to start preparing congress and for you it might be the time to start planning your trip. To assist you with your planning, there is the congress wiki!.

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The Cascade of Evil or the Double Negative Effect of Digital Totalitarianism

28-12-2013 16:29

It is a blatantly obvious contradiction – on one hand the worst regimes on the planet (in terms of overall historical record not current rating) are wasting horrendous efforts to oppress the most advanced people, on the other these same regimes are totally failing to heal any of the wounds their destructive forces leave on the record of the species and its environment. The terror regime in the name of the people has become so bad that everything it is allegedly meant to protect against is happening by accident because nobody cares. The signs are visible to the unaided eye that the atmosphere may not take it any longer and produce a climate collapse smashing the face of the Earth, but the regimes decide to squander the resources for harassment and abuse rather than dedicate them to a solution of the planetary problems. The wisdom of total abolition is whispered along by every natural being, but the machinery of hopelessness is running hotter every time it is being switched up a gear, and its growling and howling is getting lost in the skies. Since regimes need people but people do not need regimes, it is not just an ideal failure but one of these gross inappropriatenesses of the current which later on tend to be recognised as its defining elements and can only be done with by its complete breakdown. What is hence required is a coherent theory of digital totalitarianism that allows gaining explanations and making predictions useful for the disassembly of it. What is this monstrous conglomerate that has become of the system of nation states and how can its vast and complex problems be described in a way more useful against them than for their obfuscation?

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Today in 1947: The National Security Act is s

28-12-2013 10:07

July 26, 2013
One of the most disturbing aspects of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance operations revealed by Edward Snowden is the fact that this spying is being conducted on ordinary American citizens.

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Predatory Hedge Funds and Argentina Face Supreme Court Showdown

17-12-2013 18:56

Argentina is expected to appeal to the US Supreme Court by mid-February in response to a US 2nd Circuit Court ruling ordering the country to pay $1.33 billion to predatory hedge funds. The precedent the case sets will hurt poor countries in financial distress and could allow a small group of hedge funds to target assets that benefit vulnerable populations.

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The WTO pushes through bad deal; Developed countries and TNCs are the big winner

11-12-2013 10:38

Bali, Indonesia - The 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushed through a Bali Package in the final hours, extending the Conference to December 7, but at the cost of the developing countries, the poor and the hungry.

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on the use value of psychology in current Kiev upsurge in fascism

10-12-2013 09:50

This post is a direct news-related reaction to the discussion started at
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/12/514114.html

Two tendencies of Western EUropean and US discussions do not seem to be terribly helpful in our current fight against the fascistic upsurge in Kiev:
- seeing the East as something far apart and just catastrophic and
-assuming that desturbed minds are on their way just where corporate media choose to show them these days: with folks close to Kiev working classes

Mind, that psychology, as most beople know and practice it is still a distincltly ruling class ideology, especially its "textbook" vulgarisations. Bourgeois psychology wants to keep you normal, average consumer, average subject, average wage earner (just keep your indymedia.uk contributions NORMAL). This is completely detached from social reality, a new religion for the toiling class. Hunting for profits in the upper strata of today's European "business community" means asserting your strategy in a bonfire of highly and cynically crazy macho individuals.

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Kiev under tripple siege, 2014: reflections and observations for discussion

07-12-2013 19:49

This essay documents some of the latest cases of fascistic violence against voicing any social issue whatsoever at the current Kiev Euro-TV parading grounds. Who has decided to apply the Hungarian role model of fascistic capitalism to Ukraine before even annexing us? Was it you, your tax contribution? What are the Ukrainian oligarchs living next to you in the London city up to? How do we mount defense when triple siege becomes standard practice on crushing working class strongholds?

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Ukraine gets $8bn from China ...........

06-12-2013 10:35

Ukraine gets $8bn from China
Ukraine gets $8bn investment from China ...... Ukrainian President Yanukovych left Kiev in search of foreign cash for his country's near bankrupt economy, and now he says he's secured $8 billion in investment from China. The money has made a timely arrival in cash-strapped Ukraine’s hands, as the economy teeters on default and faces debts over $15 billion. Yanukovych is on a three-day planned working trip to China.

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#OpSafeWinter Engaged

01-12-2013 19:11

Mission of the OP, to highlight the homeless situation in areas throughout the UK. Build up a resource network for food supply, blankets clothes socks etc

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How to stop global global tax dodging

06-11-2013 17:05

Join our 2013 campaigner conference to get to grips with all the ins and outs of tax dodging, how big companies are getting away with it, how the rules need to change and what we can all do about it.

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Grangemouth: Trade unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback

28-10-2013 22:51

'Trade unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback',
Socialist Party Scotland, 25 October 2013
Ref:  http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/17639