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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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Make me a pallet on the floor: Preparing to take In short-term refugees in tough times

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

One of the inevitable realities where people get poorer and are subject to more climate-related and infrastructure failure disasters is that people have to take in friends and family who have no other place to go. Hurricane Katrina, for example, for several million people represented an exercise in shared housing - sometimes for a short while, sometimes for a long one.

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ODAC Newsletter - June 18

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

"For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered...".

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Waiting for the Millenium, part 2: The limits of magic

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

The first half of this essay sketched out the unfamiliar terrain that's beginning to open out in front of the peak oil community as the concept of hard energy limits seeps back out into public awareness, after thirty years of exile in the Siberia of the imagination where our society imprisons its unwelcome truths.

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Mountains film premiere: Indigenous people challenge NT Intervention

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

A film that chronicles the historic walkoff of the Alyawarr people, who are fighting the NT Intervention (launched by John Howard and extended by Kevin Rudd). The Intervention has taken Aboriginal rights back 50 years to the days of ration cards - but the people are fighting back.

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Ideal Summer Reads (in Tyee Books)

Syndicated from The Tyee on Fri, 2010-06-18

For traffic unjamming, romance unveiling, scandal unraveling and more.

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KW Peoples Summit Discussion 4 - Peter Gelderloos - Nonviolence, the War on Terror, and Revolution!

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-06-18

Peter Gelderloos presents: Nonviolence, the War on Terror, and Revolution: the role played first by nonviolence and now by the War on Terror to pacify social conflicts, and...resistance!

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