Avaaz - ACTA: The new threat to the net

Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! --- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good. ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet.

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20 Things You Should Know About the Bill That Could Ruin America

Last week the U.S. Senate passed 93-7 a version of the National Defense Authorization Act that includes provisions giving the military the right to detain you forever and without charge if they think you're some kind of terrorist.

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[1107.5728] The network of global corporate control

The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally.

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'Inexhaustible' source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water

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Looting with the lights on | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian

This is what Cameron got wrong: you can't cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else.

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WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas

Call comes after revelation that US has tried to force Twitter to release WikiLeaks members' private details

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Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse - Yahoo! News

"We have no exact information about the nature of the material because a catastrophe like this has never happened before anywhere in the world," Orban said Saturday morning at a fire station in Ajka, a city where many Kolontar residents were taken.

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Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers

The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of popular Android applications transmit private user data to advertising networks without explicitly asking or informing the user.

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China's Secret Satellite Rendezvous 'Suggestive of a Military Program'

Earlier this month, two Chinese satellites met up in orbit. Depending on who you believe, it's either a sign of China's increasingly-sophisticated space program — or a sign of its increasingly-sophisticated space warfare program.

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Jay Stanley: Full Body Scanners: From Airports to the Streets?

Andy Greenberg at Forbes.com reported yesterday that company representatives told him that backscatter X-rays mounted in vans that can be driven around the public streets have been sold to, and deployed by, domestic U.S. law enforcement agencies.

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Sustainable Transport Policy: Interactive, Live Web Event Discussing Solutions for Sustainable Transportation

Authors of An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation and Transport for Suburbia will be exploring the difficulties that sustainability poses for transport planners.

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Australia launches privacy investigation of Google - Yahoo! News

Australia announced a police investigation Sunday into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the Internet giant's "Street View" mapping service.

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Russia's Slick Internet Repression Makes China's Look Clumsy By Comparison « The Firewall - Forbes.com

China may be one of the world's most Internet-repressive regimes. But its Great Firewall is a clumsy and ineffective tool compared with the subtle information control techniques developed over the last few years by Russia and many of the former Soviet states.

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Op-Ed Columnist - The Other Plot to Wreck America - NYTimes.com

THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we've all become counterterrorists.

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Police: Six Dead following Shooting Rampage | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

Police have confirmed to YLE that a sixth person found dead in Espoo on Thursday was the perpetrator of a shooting rampage at the Sello shopping mall. Four people were shot dead at the shopping centre on Thursday.

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TSA To Save Print Media? No Electronics On International Flights? What A Joke.

Before I begin, let me just state that TSA has yet to confirm any of this on its website, so the details aren't entirely clear at the moment. That said, there are several indications that orders have been issued to cease the use of electronics during international flights.

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Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves.

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Chaos is Good Business | Nicholas Jahr, Brooklyn Rail, October 2007

The vast transfer of public wealth into private hands facilitated by the shock doctrine and disaster capitalism inaugurates what Klein refers to as a "corporatist" state.

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Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade

It's not that the risk of the Japan syndrome has receded very much. The risk of a full, all-out Great Depression - utter collapse of everything - has receded a lot in the past few months.

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PJC Journal :: Lisbon Treaty allows for Death Penalty across EU

Professor Schachtschneider pointed out that it [the European Union reform treaty, a.k.a.

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Obama's budget is still deceptive, just not in ways we're used to.

All presidential budgets are rife with trap doors, gimmicks, and flimflammery. This annual budget exercise is like a grand, national fish story every president gets to tell: Each administration exaggerates differently, but the basic story is the same.

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Soros sees no bottom for world financial collapse

Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.

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Ministers 'using fear of terror'

A former head of MI5 has accused the government of exploiting the fear of terrorism and trying to bring in laws that restrict civil liberties.

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Editorial - Continuity of the Wrong Kind

The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law.

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Window on Eurasia: Economic Crisis Costing Russia "Tens of Thousands" of Managers and Entrepreneurs

The number of people involved in this emigration, the paper concludes, "is not that massive in comparison with the fourth wave when after the collapse of the USSR about 1.5 million people left Russia.

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