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Wind turbine construction course

29-10-2007 10:34

Course flyer
We're running a "How to build a wind turbine" course at the Brighton Earthship on 23rd-25th November. We'll build a turbine from reclaimed materials over the three days and put it up on Sunday afternoon.

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BBC's The Prying Game

27-10-2007 18:36

A report on BBC news 24's Our World series, repeated tonight at 21:30, looks uncritically at Britains surveillance society. The most interesting thing about the report is the admission of a hand-held wave-millimetre scanner than can see through the walls of a house.

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Ambassador Marc Ginsberg,Fox News,Xybernaut Israeli U.S. Penny Stock Fraud

27-10-2007 02:25

With the best Georgetown University 'education' money can buy and his U.S. and Israeli economic and political connections,ex U.S. Ambassador to Morocco,(and the first Jewish-American ambassador of a Moslem nation),Marc Ginsberg is among other things,just another sleazy Beltway or Washington, D.C. - U.S. penny stock con artist using his American and Israeli connections to defraud naive investors in the U.S. penny stock offshore money laundering underworld in which Marc Ginsberg operates to illicitly enrich himself and his Israeli mafia or Mossad connected partners in Israel.

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Manchester NO2ID November Newsletter

24-10-2007 10:00

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Recent news, upcoming events and ongoing campaigns

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Campaign website against CCTV on Cowley Road

23-10-2007 22:26

A campaigning website against the proposed CCTV scheme for the Cowley Road has been set up at  http://www.no-cctv.org.uk

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Smash Edo Fishersgate Rooftop Protesters celebrate as all charges are dropped

23-10-2007 12:54

The two protesters scaled the side of EDO-MBM’s arms factory in Fishersgate, Brighton on 30th august this year. The pair, both students at Sussex University, climbed onto the roof and unfurled a banner in protest of EDO-MBM’s manufacture of weapons for the US, UK and Israeli militaries, whose combined firepower have caused the deaths of over 1 million civilians in the middle east and central Asia.

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Oil Production Peaked in 2006

22-10-2007 22:03

A report from the Energy Watch Group,  http://www.energywatchgroup.org/Erdoel-Report.32+M5d637b1e38d.0.html was reported in The Guardian today:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html it's conclusion follows. Of course long before the MSM started to pick up on the key issue of Peak Oil it was reported here:  http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=%22peak+oil%22+site%3Aindymedia.org.uk

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strike the server! Minstral provides web service for EDO MBM:

17-10-2007 15:56

"Naughty EDO! I will smack your bottom!"
Some research into who EDO MBM uses for its website services:

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From customer to pirate (P2P, piracy, digital media)

13-10-2007 21:12

From customer to pirate. How the recording industry is turning its customers and artists into pirates

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Interpol APB proves police agencies can now unscramble digitally blurred images

13-10-2007 07:34

Digitally blurred images from protests or other actions which can incriminate people involved are not safe to post publicly. Police now can unscramble the encryption behind this security device.

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Dragonflies with a byte: new spy insects being used to surveil antiwar protests

11-10-2007 22:28

Spy “Insect”
Yesterdays Flashpoints discussed the spy bugs that are being deployed at anti-war protests across the US with Dick Becker, International ANSWER Coalition and Ian Thompson, attorney and co-coordinator of ANSWER:

 http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20071010-Wed1700.mp3

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New South West rave forum

11-10-2007 18:19

Here is a new rave culture forum for the southwest-covering all aspects of rave

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India against China: global competition, outsourcing, technology politics

10-10-2007 02:41

Talking about China and India! Is India able to move ahead of China soon? What is the next in world trade, finance, outsourcing, politics and international affairs?

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Manchester NO2ID Welcomes National Identity Fraud Protection Week

09-10-2007 22:06

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PRESS RELEASE
Date: 9th October 2007
For Immediate Release

Local campaign group Manchester NO2ID this week welcomed the Home Office's lightly-publicised National Identity Fraud Protection Week, and called upon the Government to take action to prevent ID fraud by scrapping the expensive, pointless National Identity Scheme and instead buying every household in the UK a cross-cut shredder.

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London Underground CCTV firm replaces fugitive CEO

08-10-2007 22:50

Verint's fugitive CEO Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander
Ten months before the 7/7 London bombs Verint Systems signed a 30 year contract with privatised London tube company Metronet Rail. Metronet is now in liquidation so many are asking is that contract still valid? They are also asking because Verint's last chief executive, ex Israeli army officer Kobi Alexander, is a fugitive in Namibia who has run off with $13m and is wanted in New York under 35 counts of fraud. Verint was also Delisted from the NASDAQ in February this year for failing to file accounts to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Surveillance Society - the future now

08-10-2007 21:08

A report, recently released, describes the state of the UK in 2017 - a surveillance society from our worst sci-fi nightmares. This is not the product of some conspiracy theory, but rather the more banal outgrowth of business-as-usual. More terrifying as a consequence.

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Ubiquitous Surveillance: Mayor Bloomberg's New Clothes

06-10-2007 20:53

New York City, London, Beijing: what do they have in common? surveillance cameras

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 22

05-10-2007 12:40

Work is continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. The walls for the whole building are now up!! Harragh!! This post shows the building up of the walls on the end section - 'soon to be' kitchen area.

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Hackers: Unite For Burmese Freedom!

04-10-2007 13:20

One very effective way of removing power from a despotic regime is by taking over the tools of control. You can bring down the 'master' using the master's tools - you just have to be clever about it - and persistent.

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UK police can now force you to reveal decryption keys

03-10-2007 12:49

Users of encryption technology can no longer refuse to reveal keys to UK authorities after amendments to the powers of the state to intercept communications took effect on Monday (Oct 1).
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