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Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines, posted 2008 by peter in business environment health politics propaganda toread
At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in [...] the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the U
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HejFRA.se
hejfra.se/, posted 2008 by peter in fascism inswedish opinion politics privacy terrorism
Tvinga FRA att läsa alla dina vanliga mail genom att lägga till signaturen med trigger-ord på "farliga" språk.
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The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080602-the-real-acta-threat-its-not-ipod-scanning-border-guards.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics
This provision, unlikely to be deployed against individual file-swappers and those who rip movies from their own DVDs, seems clearly targeted at sites like The Pirate Bay and other major hubs, which don't always operate to make money.
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20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/20-mishaps-maybe-caused-nuclear-war.htm, posted 2008 by peter in history list politics toread war
The risks are illustrated by the following selection of mishap. If the people involved had exercised less caution, or if some unfortunate coincidental event had occurred, escalation to nuclear war can easily be imagined.
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Diplomatic battle begins over Arctic
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/05/27/eaarctic127.xml, posted 2008 by peter in environment politics russia toread usa
Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are squabbling over much of the Arctic seabed and Denmark has called them together for talks in its self-governing province to avert a free-for-all for the region's resources.
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Arctic SuperPowers to Meet in Greenland -Will Global Warming Trigger a WW111?
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/arctic-superpow.html, posted 2008 by peter in environment politics russia usa war
Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are at odds over 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) of Arctic seabed which could possibly hold 25% of the world's oil and gas.
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US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_go_ot/enemy_combatant, posted 2008 by peter in fascism politics usa
Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.
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FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/internet-archiv.html, posted 2008 by peter in fascism politics privacy terrorism usa
The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announc
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IP hypocrisy: US likes WTO rulings only when it wins
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-ip-hypocrisy-us-likes-wto-rulings-only-when-it-wins.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics usa
But the US comes in for its share of IP-related criticism from other countries both small and large, too. When it happens, though, we're not nearly so quick to change our ways.
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State Inc.
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/16/state_inc/, posted 2008 by peter in business fascism finance msm news politics
Some political scientists, such as Azar Gat of Tel Aviv University, who coined the phrase "authoritarian capitalism" to describe the trend, see these countries as the first major threat to the idea of free-market democracy since fascism and communism.
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