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Statewatch News 15th Feb

15-02-2006 09:12

Statewatch News Online, 15 February 2006 (03/06)
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http://www.statewatch.org

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UK Trade Delegation Urged Not to Promote Waste Incineration

15-02-2006 05:16

A trade delegation from the United Kingdom is visiting Southeast Asia this week to market waste management capabilities which includes unsustainable and harmful waste management practices such as incineration which poses serious threats to the environment and community health.

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The social threat of tracking technologies

09-02-2006 20:06

Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) tags, using a tiny chip with an aerial that can be placed on just about any object, and having proved their usefulness for stock control in warehouses and supermarkets, are fast becoming a tool for state and corporate people-tracking.

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Porter Goss: CIA Cyber and stock fraud ops damaged by leaks ?

09-02-2006 00:55

Ionatron that was a CIA investment that was 'touted' or promoted over the internet to increase demand and price of its shares that the CIA employee-investors then dumped on the market thus decreasing other investors share price,basically defrauding them...If the CIA wishes to use 911 to promote lesser civil liberties from now into the future perhaps they should at least pledge not to invest in and thus tamper with our stock markets.

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call for papers on visualizations, maps and social transformation

08-02-2006 12:35

Call out proposals on visualizations, maps and social transformation. Please Spread.

Crida a propostes sobre visualitzacions, mapes i transformació social. Si us plau, difondre.

Llamada para propuestas de visualitzaciones, mapas y transformación social. Por favor difundir.

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No New Nuclear Build in the UK Petition

07-02-2006 19:16

South Lakeland Friends of the Earth .... No New Nuclear Build Petition..... goes online. We are being "softened up" for more nuclear build with pro nuclear pundits too cheap to meter.
signatories include Caroline Lucas MEP, Dr Stuart Parkinson - Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility and TIm Farron MP Cumbria

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Taser Distributors are jumping ship

07-02-2006 15:04

More and more of Taser's distributors are dropping the controversial stun gun from their product line, in an effort to distance themselves from inclusion.

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LET IT BE KNOWN - Propagandized stupider than the fates will allow

07-02-2006 02:08

Let it be known, that the senior management national news
reducers of CBC and CNN, know full well, they would rather
watch American Soldiers die as the thieving bad guys, than to
defend God's America by reporting that the demon enemy George
W. Bush, and his business partner General Ahmad, committed
the terrorist acts of 9/11, along with Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney,
and Myers.

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Lancaster Knowledgelab gathering streaming live this weekend

03-02-2006 20:13

The lancaster knowledgelab is a gathering of activists, academics, geeks, hackers and other assorted bods interested in social aspects of technology. The gathering is being streamed live on the 'net this weekend, and will also be recorded for people who want to listen to the sessions later.

see

http://www.knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/Streaming

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Boycott Global Capitalism For Promoting neo-Nazi Filth

03-02-2006 11:21

Anti-racists and anarchists are coming together to boycott Google, Amazon, and E-bay, for stocking neo-nazi material from their UK-based servers.

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In 2006, Voting Fraud is the Keystone Issue

02-02-2006 22:09

Not only do they want to remain in power and keep their ill-gotten booty, many of them want desperately to stay out of the federal slammer. Accordingly, there may virtually nothing that they might not resort to in order to avoid this outcome. Things could get very nasty.

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Karl Schroeder, scifi/fantasy writer

01-02-2006 20:20

Interview with Karl Schroeder about scifi/fantasy, the end of the Modern/Postmodern age, Foresight Studies, health care, the world is getting better.

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Swindon Borough Council say no2id – full report

28-01-2006 14:21

As previously reported at

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332374.html , at the monthly full council meeting on Thursday 26th January 2006, Swindon’s councillors voted in favour of a motion opposing the government’s ID cards bill, and joined the list of councils affiliated to the no2id campaign. Here is the full report, as promised.

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Make your own RFID Zapper

28-01-2006 10:44

fun with magnets ;]

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Michael Golembewski, photographer

27-01-2006 17:06

Interview with photographer Michael Golembewski who uses a flatbed scanner as a camera

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wierd future plan to make nukes from moon gas

27-01-2006 13:34

What multibillion pound, crackpot scheme will the boffins think up next?

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Swindon Borough Council say no2id

26-01-2006 23:05

Swindon Borough Council tonight passed a motion opposing the government's ID cards bill. It was supported by most of the majority conservative group and the lib dems, and opposed by about half of the dwindling labour group. Full report to follow....

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Nottingham/Notts Defy-ID launches first bulletin

26-01-2006 16:38

Nottingham/Notts Defy-ID has just launched its first bulletin for January 2006.

Read it here and look out for more in the future. Print out copies and help get the message out. Better still come and help us with the next one!

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