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Toronto G20 protest hints at more to come

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Fri, 2010-06-18

<p>TORONTO (Reuters) - Kicking off protests that will draw thousands to Toronto during two top-level summits next week, oil-smeared demonstrators u...

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Paul Krugman Vs. Alan Greenspan On Deficits

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

by Ryan McCarthy

We don't know for sure that New York Times columnist Paul
Krugman and former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan had each other
in mind when they penned diametrically opposed op-eds, both of which
ran today. But, we can hope.

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Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

by Anitha Reddy

KARNATAKA, India - Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he
has also turned banker - banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains.

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Sea Shepherd Activists Free Hundreds of Threatened Bluefin Tuna off Libya

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

by John Vidal

Green activists using helicopters, divers and rotten butter
yesterday confronted Libyan and Italian fishermen to release hundreds
of threatened bluefin tuna which they strongly suspect were illegally
caught off the Libyan coa

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BP 'Complacent' over Oil Well Risks

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

WASHINGTON - US
legislators have accused BP of evasion, complacency, ducking
responsibility and cutting corners as they grilled the energy giant's
chief executive over his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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Iran says UN Sanctions Show Double Dtandard

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

by Ali Akbar Dareini

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top security body on Friday railed against the
latest U.N. sanctions imposed over Tehran's controversial nuclear
program, saying they show world powers are applying a double standard.

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Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights

Syndicated from Slashdot on Fri, 2010-06-18

SJrX sends in a CBC report that the Canadian New Democratic Party has tabled a bill requiring all cellphone companies to provide unlocked cellphones.

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Disclosure Act in Jeopardy after Interest Groups Balk at NRA Deal

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-18

by Dan Eggen

WASHINGTON - One of President Obama's top legislative priorities is in serious doubt after top House Democrats' attempt to satisfy the National Rifle Association backfired badly.

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Their Crisis, Our Misery: OCAP Versus the G20

Syndicated from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty on Fri, 2010-06-18

<p><a href="http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/372.php#continue">This article is also publiched in The Bullet</a></p>

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'Not another Tampa election' - thousands to rally for refugees

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Fri, 2010-06-18

Fri, 18/06/2010

By Peter Boyle

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What happens when energy resources deplete?

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-06-18

One view is that energy prices will rise, substitutes will be found, and prices will come back down again, perhaps settling at a somewhat higher equilibrium reflecting the cost of producing the substitute energy source... Another view, popular among those concerned about peak-oil, is that oil and energy prices will just keep rising.

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Democracy Now! 2010-06-18 Friday

Syndicated from Democracy Now! on Fri, 2010-06-18
Democracy Now! 2010-06-18 Friday

Headlines for June 18, 2010

Grilled by Lawmakers, BP CEO Tony Hayward Denies BP Recklessness Led to Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster

Fmr. Labor Secretary Robert Reich: U.S.
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Blackbeard's return

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-06-18

For some years -- and long before the Gulf of Mexico spill -- Big Oil has seemed to be in existential peril.

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Creating a game plan for the transition to a sustainable U.S. economy

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-06-18

The Obama administration should take advantage of the economic crisis to redefine the country’s social goals to prioritize sustainable human well-being and not just grow the econ

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Electronic Frontier Foundation: Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

Syndicated from Wombles on Fri, 2010-06-18

from EFF, 18 June 2010: "Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted.

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