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Privacy clings for library & school computers (Photo credit: The Shifted Librarian)The Occupy movement is entering a new phase, one in which many of us feel the need to combine renewed engagement through direct actions and mobilizations with a deep reflection on the strategic objectives of our movement. In order to fulfill this need, the organizing committee of Making Worlds* is inviting Occupy supporters, sympathizers, and other organizations to participate in this Forum on the politics of the commons. In particular, we are interested in understanding how groups and communities working on housing, health care, education, food, water, energy, information, communication and knowledge resources can develop a vision of these resources as commons: a third form of social organization to the state and corporate capitalism. Making Worlds has the ambitious goal of articulating a strategic vision from and for the movement as well as specific political initiatives aiming at its realization.
What we’re talking about when we talk about lawful access
By Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM - 7 Comments
The Ontario privacy commissioner dismisses both the government’s argument and its rhetoric.“Simply put, criminals have moved beyond 20th-century technology,” Justice Minister Rob Nicholson declared at a news conference Tuesday. “We need to ensure that law enforcement has the tools necessary to fight crime in the 21st century.” To which Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner, replied: “Nonsense.” She called the bill “a major intrusion into our personal lives.”Jesse Brown explains some of the implications. Matt Hartley says the government is mired in backwards thinking. Michael Geist answers your questions and proposes compromise.
… Ms. Cavoukian, the Ontario privacy commissioner, said she “was so offended” by Mr. Toews’ statement in the House. “But what it showed to me was the weakness of their case.”
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The retention rates for the federal parties show a significant shift. The Liberals are now holding on to 82 per cent of the voters who supported them in the May 2011 election, second only to the governing Conservatives (86%). The NDP now has the second lowest retention rate in Canada (70%), with one-in-six 2011 NDP voters (15%) now choosing the Grits.
Egypt state media accuses U.S. of spreading anarchy
Pakistan to host Afghan, Iranian leaders
NATO to buy U.S.-made unmanned drone aircraft
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Mother Jones Tories Lead, Liberals Gain But Remain in Third Place in Canada
Bob Rae posts the best momentum score of all five main party leaders, while Stephen Harper has the highest approval rating.The retention rates for the federal parties show a significant shift. The Liberals are now holding on to 82 per cent of the voters who supported them in the May 2011 election, second only to the governing Conservatives (86%). The NDP now has the second lowest retention rate in Canada (70%), with one-in-six 2011 NDP voters (15%) now choosing the Grits.
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The Cold War era brought landmark gains in civil rights at the price of stunting black critique of foreign policy.
Iran Warns 6 Countries in Europe It Will Cut Off Oil
Egypt state media accuses U.S. of spreading anarchy
Pakistan to host Afghan, Iranian leaders
NATO to buy U.S.-made unmanned drone aircraft
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Last week, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier decided that in the civil trial against BP for their oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company’s history of accidents and poor safety records won’t be admissible as evidence. Maybe that’s appropriate; I’m no legal expert so I can’t make that call...
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A report Wednesday from an Iranian state television broadcaster--later denied by the Iranian government--saying Tehran had cut its oil exports to six European nations lifted European oil prices Wednesday, exposing oil markets' nervousness over any abrupt Iranian oil disruption.
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Listen to Noam Chomsky's anatomy of US defeat in the greater Middle East on this week's TomCast from @TomDispatch bit.ly/y6Lv2L
With wonky 325-page letter to the SEC, Occupy's finance gurus challenge Wall Street lobbyists on their own turf. mojo.ly/xqcVlG
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A look at how #BofA is bankrupting America: bankruptingamerica.tumblr.com
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The privatization of America’s prison system is well on its way to complete.
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'A quarter of young children around the world are not getting enough nutrients to grow properly, and 300 die of malnutrition every hour, according to a new report that lays bare the effects of the global food crisis.' Paul Vallely, The Independent UK
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Find out more about the process of patenting life and what it means for the food supply on this week's GRTV Backgrounder with James Corbett.
Op-ed: The quality, as well as quantity, of #food children eat can be the difference between life and death aje.me/wAKYOZ
Feeding the Spirit: Nutritionist Helps Tribes Rediscover Traditional Foods is.gd/hJRgkP
Sudan News: Famine being used as a weapon of war: bit.ly/A2RoXm
great article on hidden ways Gluten/wheat makes everyone fat and a lot of people very sick tinyurl.com/8xzvkb4
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But what Houston's death has also brought to the forefront is the reality that, under the auspices of treating disease, FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs are a primary cause of death in the US, as well as within the entertainment industry.' Ethan Huff, Natural News
Canada's air pollution experts moved to 'other priorities'
Leading US investors challenge 10 electric power providers on #climatechange & air pollution risks. 3bl.me/esh9g6
a new synopsis of the science of weather extremes from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado that many readers may find interesting. This extensive, meticulous online package takes readers through what scientists can and cannot say about the relationship between recent climate extremes and global warming. The linkage between human activity and recent extremes of heat and precipitation is fairly clear, the center says, but it is much less clear that hurricanes and tornadoes, for instance, have been worsened by climate change.
Many weather forecasters are contrarians on the issue of climate change, but the heat is being turned up on them, so to speak, by a public campaign to get them to “Forecast the Facts.”
On Climate Change, Weathercasters May Be Misguiding Their Viewers
Recent studies have found that more than half of the reporters relaying weather on television do not believe humans are the primary drivers of global warming -- despite a consensus ( is that Trade Marked yet ? ) among scientists who specialize on the topic.
"If you look at the stats over the past five or six years, the public's belief that global warming is a serious problem, or is even happening, is declining," said Daniel Souweine, co-founder of the nonprofit Citizen Engagement Lab. In fact, nearly 40 percent of Americans are not convinced that the earth is heating up, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll."We think that's a result of the fact that they're not getting the right kind of information about what the science says," Souweine told The Huffington Post.
A new campaign called "Forecast the Facts," begun by Citizen Engagement Lab with the support of the League of Conservation Voters and the climate advocacy group 350.org, aims to call out on-air climate deniers. Many of these base their skepticism on their own inability to forecast more than five or seven days out. If they can't forecast the weather a week from now, how then, the deniers argue, could scientists try to tell us what the climate might be like in 70 years?
"That's a statement that on first blush sounds reasonable. But when you understand the differences between the science of climate and weather, it isn't," Souweine said. As many climate experts like to say, weather tells you what to wear that day and climate tells you what wardrobe to buy. And computer models used by the two professions differ significantly.
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Wow. So now the only group charged with any need for professionalism
I have never heard of a climate scientist criticizing
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Climate scientists have what demonstratedThere's a short timeline.
There aren't that many reporting stations for a really long sampling time.
We were coming out of an mini ice age.
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04:21 PM on 02/13/2012
And while some of the honest among us are engaged in the back water game of jousting with and outing the constant astroturfihttp://www
12:17 AM on 02/13/2012
A row between weathermen threatens to wreck a BBC-funded project to test the accuracy of Britain’s weather forecasts.The study, estimated to have cost tens of thousands of pounds of licence fee payers’ money, has been devised by the BBC’s senior environmen
But seven of the eight forecaster
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( Kill trees and co2 rises. Who'd a thunk ? )
09:43 PM on 02/10/2012
That infamous IPCC error re- 2035 instead of 2350 was not in the IPCC WG1 report, which is to say it was not in the physical sciences report that was authored by climate scientistsU.S. National Academy of Sciences (2010):
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There is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documentin
Some scientific conclusion
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Projecting from that includes uncertaint
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"The Climate Change Revolution Is Coming" - M.O.C. #116
Money control. What about those purchasing carbon credits so they don't have to update pollution controls ? Have you considered where carbon funding comes from ?Carbon Finance - World Bank Group
Carbon finance facilitates the financial reward through carbon credits for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by emitters in developing countries.
web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/.../.....viable alternative energy has been suppressed for decades (many examples can be found at the US patent office) yet it is WE, the ignorant naive public who gets the blame for Global Warming, (or is that 'climate change'?) - go figure.....
CHILL: A reassessment of Global Warming
Published by Clairview Books.
Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase 'climate change' has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that we should act immediately to prevent it. But the apparent scientific consensus over the causes and effects of climate change is not what it appears. Chill is a critical survey of the subject by a committed environmentalist and scientist....
Published by Clairview Books.
Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase 'climate change' has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that we should act immediately to prevent it. But the apparent scientific consensus over the causes and effects of climate change is not what it appears. Chill is a critical survey of the subject by a committed environmentalist and scientist....
Is Climate Change Bringing the Arctic to Europe?
"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data
Ag-heavy Monterey County has banned the fumigant methyl iodide is.gd/ujWwvR
The UN's climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to the organisation's credibility
The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax
Why Big Oil May Be Afraid of Bicycles
Bob Mionske, the bicycle lawyer who writes frequently on cycling policy and legislation, details exactly why H.R. 7 is so horrible for cyclists, as well as for pedestrians and transit users.As Mionske puts it on his blog, H.R. 7:
- Reverses 20 years of bicycle and pedestrian-friendly federal transportation policy.
- Elminates dedicated funding for the Transportation Enhancements program (funding cycling and walking projects).
- Allows states to build bridges without safe access for cyclists and pedestrians, as previously required.
- Eliminates Bicycle and Pedestrian and Safe Routes to Schools coordinators in state transportation departments.
- Repeals Safe Routes to Schools.
- Eliminates language that ensures that rumble strips “do not adversely affect the safety or mobility of bicyclists, pedestrians or the disabled.”
The bill also attacks dedicated transit funding, eliminating gas tax revenue for transit (not such a bad idea) but not replacing it with anything else
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You work 3.84 minutes per day to pay for your bicycle, 2 hours for your car is.gd/hOb5o7
Largest cycling group in Ottawa endorses my push for Truck sideguards in letter to Minister Lebel bit.ly/wobkMQ
Sales of residential solar in Japan explode like reactor #4 is.gd/YjszR8
producing its own nuclear reactor fuel plates
"This is a huge achievement for the Iranian people because these fuel rods are actually produced domestically. It is the first batch that have been transferred to any of the facilities to start work on medical isotopes"
( There's enrichment and there's enrichment. Weapons tech is 95% - not 20% - and a lot harder. I suggest surfing the Arms Control Wonk if you need a backgrounder on how this is a case of apples and oranges being confused....deliberately. )
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This must see video highlights incredible environmental destruction from tar sands oil. bit.ly/wB2PHJ
A series of documentaries by #Arab filmmakers offering a fresh insight into the uprisings that shook their countries | aje.me/w2Nsdz
A Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wiretapping
One of the hardest-fought civil liberties battles of the George W. Bush era involved the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the post-Watergate statute that was meant to rein in domestic surveillance undertaken in the name of national security. It's almost certain that we'll have an equally hard-fought battle over FISA this year, both in the courts and in Congress.The first volley may come as early as next week, because the administration must decide by Tuesday whether to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the ACLU's constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act, the 2008 law that ratified and expanded the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. And that law is scheduled to sunset in December, which means that the litigation will unfold against the background of a congressional reauthorization debate.
Marty Lederman, then a law professor but later a lawyer for the Obama administration, explained the 2008 amendments like this:
The new statute permits the NSA to intercept phone calls and e-mails between the U.S. and a foreign location, without making any showing to a court and without judicial oversight, whether or not the communication has anything to do with al Qaeda — indeed, even if there is no evidence that the communication has anything to do with terrorism, or any threat to national security.Predictably, the NSA has not simply used the law aggressively but abused it as well.
( Meanwhile the realization that the FBI stages fake triumphs and that al Qaeda is fiction or even CIA mercenaries slows little anal-ysis : no more than most generalizations being revealed as insufficient to rational thought affects punditry)
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RT @loonwatchers: Spencer Ackerman: #FBI Purges Hundreds of Terrorism Docs in #Islamophobia Probe bit.ly/w6g6ny
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Drought ibduced war leaves thousands fleeing in Nothern Kenya tinyurl.com/7o8sr4a
Watch now: Jeffrey Smith: GMO Genetic Pollution | Colorado Public Television Presents | Colorado Pub
video.cpt12.orgJeffrey Smith talks about the pollution that GMOs have introduced into our ecosystem.
Rise in China’s Currency Goes Largely Unnoted
Often nasty, prions have a nice side too, driving a form of near-instant evolution bit.ly/zn92Il
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I'm stupid. I do not understand how one can 'scientifi