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This is a great talk about the possible effects of Internet-based transparency on war with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and brought down Richard Nixon (You will have to wade through the first 10 minutes of audio glitches while they try Skype-ing with Julian Assange): Video: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and [...]
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Mr. Erlinder, 62, is charged with denying Rwanda’s genocide and threatening national security through his writings and speeches. Rwanda’s government argues that Mr. Erlinder’s work can “instigate riots” and “civil disobediences,” but it seems that many of the statements that the Rwandan government finds objectionable are actually part of Mr. Erlinder’s work as a lawyer [...]
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I’m going to defer to Boing Boing for oil spill coverage today. Here’s a good hook: • Rolling Stone: "The spill, the scandal and the president: The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world's most dangerous oil company get away with [...]
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Hey there, Americans! I'm sure, by now, many of you have had some time to reflect on the massive, unfolding Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and thought to yourselves, "My, that really is a terrible, apocalyptic cock-up!" But have you gone so far as to think to yourself, "My, that really is a terrible, apocalyptic cock-up, [...]
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Creator Doug McCune has 3D topographical maps of seven more types of San Francisco crime, from assault to vandalism. The View From Prostitution Mountain
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The rig workers have filed a negligence suit against BP, Transocean, oil field services contractor Halliburton and other companies involved with the deepwater rig. "I've seen gross negligence, and this conduct is criminal," said Steve Gordon, the lawyer representing the men. "There's a crime scene sitting 5,000 feet below the water." Rig survivors: BP ordered [...]
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"Hell," says PJ Hahn, the man at the very tip of the sharp end of America’s oil spill disaster, "we’re under siege here. If somebody was breaking into your house, would you get on the phone to friends and neighbours to discuss it? You’d shoot the sonofabitch. It’s that simple." PJ Hahn: ‘BP has lied [...]
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The slate of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, CORE, has forced a run-off election against the incumbent United Progressive Caucus slate, headed by President Marilyn Stewart. UPC has come under harsh criticism from the opposing slates for a perceived unwillingness to organize with teachers and parents to fight privatization, as well as for [...]
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Our government must hold BP accountable for this disaster! Obama says he’s done everything he could have done since the spill started: That is why, from the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal to respond to this crisis. Today, there are more than 20,000 people working around the clock to [...]
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All eyes are now on BP. No other company or agency involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster is as visible to the public as BP. This also means that BP is the number one culprit that the public is able to hold to account. Thanks to the “Social Web,” public and private organizations no longer [...]
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