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Petition Against Body Scanners

11-01-2010 10:55

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to halt the installment of body scanners in airports.

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Using Facebook for organising?

10-01-2010 01:21

This information was introduced in a "newsletter for users" but it provides food for thought for all.

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French media caught red-handed: Honduras coup protest photo presented as Iranian

02-01-2010 09:55

The German daily Junge Welt reported that the French public national television channel "France 2" has diffused an image of a protest in Honduras against the June 2009 military coup and portrayed it as young Iranians resisting security forces during the Ashura day protests in Tehran.

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Corporate Watch - ParcAberporth and the commercialisation of Drone Technology

06-12-2009 18:07

from

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3470

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NATO's Secret Transatlantic Bond: Nuclear Weapons In Europe

04-12-2009 16:31

Not only are the warheads stationed in NATO nations but are explicitly there as part of a sixty-year policy of the Alliance, in fact a major cornerstone of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The basing of nuclear warheads on the territory of non-nuclear nations - and Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey are non-nuclear nations - is a gross violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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The Pittsburgh Independent Media Center Releases Crows 1.0

04-12-2009 09:07

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA -- December 1, 2009 -- The Pittsburgh
Independent Media center today announced the release of Crows 1.0, an
Open Source website platform that was developed for the G-Infinity
Media project and utilized for live coverage of the G20 Summit and
Protests in Pittsburgh this past September.

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'Moodle', 'Sloodle' and virtual worlds in classrooms, limited parental access.

03-12-2009 23:48

If you ask for your child to bring home his exercise books you will likely be told that according to 'guidelines' this is not permitted. However, your local school may suggest that you go to the school to see your child's work, where a teacher will explain what is in their books to you. My suggestion is that exercise books may be phased out, and students will get their 'education' inside virtual worlds. 'Moodle' is already in place.

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hackers hit globalwarming.org : happy buy nothing day!

26-11-2009 12:57

hackers hit CEI : globalwarming.org : happy buy nothing day!

see the links on the front page - its play time.

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Schizophrenic jailed for refusal to decrypt files

24-11-2009 23:45

The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record.

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UK WiFi & Mobile masts - health dangers, electropollution special

22-11-2009 23:22

Dirty Electricity

http://www.thisweek.org.uk

http://www.mastsanity.org

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BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General"

20-11-2009 01:01

BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws

Cory Doctorow writes on BoingBoing about tomorrow's proposed amendments to the Digital Economy Bill that will grant draconian powers to the Secretary of State, civil servants and "rights holders".

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Identifying Threat: New biometrics markets and terror culture

19-11-2009 01:16

The culture of fear and distrust that has grown up around this century’s terror culture and its associated wars has created vast new markets for anything that can be branded with the words security or defence. In April 2010, London’s Kensington Olympia will play host to a Counter Terror Expo, put on by DSEi’s infamous events’ organiser, Clarion, and sponsored by French arms company, Thales. Officially supported by a plethora of military, police and private security associations, the expo will showcase over 250 security, surveillance and specialist logistics companies; state agencies including NATO and the MoD; and anyone else claiming to provide protection against terrorism for both the armed forces and civilian populations. Joining the fray are a number of corporations involved in creating identity verification technologies. The biometrics and database management companies whose invasive products, based on the recognition of physiological characteristics, are finding voice as futuristic 'solutions' in, what is deemed, an 'increasingly dangerous world'.

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The Red Bristolian

05-11-2009 16:39

New Bristol Leftist Blog

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G20 Pittsburgh: Twitter Charges Dropped

03-11-2009 13:35

The Allegheny County District Attorney has dropped all charges against two New York men accused of posting locations of police officers on Twitter during the G-20 summit.

http://www.g20media.org/node/250

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2009/10/31415.php

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Pittsburgh: A new testing ground for acoustic weapons

03-11-2009 13:27

The mass mobilisation against September's G20 Summit in Pittsburgh was met with a characteristically brutal response from US Homeland 'Security'. In many ways, police repression of UK protests pales in comparison to American political policing, with activists being routinely arrested under various terrorism-related charges and local and federal law enforcement agencies rolling out military style operations, complete with temporary detention facilities and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each. The Pittsburgh police, however, may well have distinguished themselves as hitting a new low in the erosion of US civil liberty. Alongside US police staples such as rubber bullets, tear gas and 'flash bang' stun grenades, the Pittsburgh authorities unleashed an acoustic weapon, one of a new generation of 'non-lethal' military devices, used not only to disperse and intimidate protesters, but to gain control over their behaviour.

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New Comic Strip Series re Organized Stalking

29-10-2009 20:05

New comic strip to educate the public about the crime of organized stalking has been made available on the web. It is hoped this series will help educate the public about a crime for which action by the justice systems of the world is long overdue.

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Requião and John "Maddog" Hall open Latinoware 2009 and advocate the end of the

25-10-2009 18:59

"I watched an interview with this brilliant man, whose name means mad dog, and today met him in this event. Let them call us, too, mad dogs, because here we are transforming ideas into action. Let each of you to be a mad dog: libertarian and intelligent, "said Requião.

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Freedom of Speech: Peer-Style

21-10-2009 02:10

There are been a number of recent developments around the issue of freedom of speech that should be noted.

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Phone security Q&A

16-10-2009 12:29

The following advice from New Scientist is just a useful reminder that activist security means more than just removing your phones battery when discussing shit. It requires one caveat. When it says "Without direct access, they can still monitor your phone usage remotely, but not eavesdrop on your conversations" that this doesn't apply to the security services who can eavesdrop on turned off phones remotely.

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ID Card Con Public Meeting: "Don't Be A Guinea Pig!"

14-10-2009 22:48

NO2ID are holding a day of action in Manchester to promote the new "Stop the ID Card Con" campaign, on Saturday 17th October.

National NO2ID co-ordinator Phil Booth will speak at a public meeting at the Friends Meeting House at 3:30pm, discussing people's concerns. The campaign intends to burn a giant ID card at 5pm in Albert Square.