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international / sci-tech Monday August 01, 2005 - 22:05 by R. Isible
 1 comment (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 10:50)
Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 01, 2005 - 21:12 by kalitara
Why does the world "hate" America? What is the base of the growing "anti-Americanism" in most countries? An American filmmaker talks to the citizens of the world to find out. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 01, 2005 - 19:29 by Davy Carlin
33 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 - 17:21)
Dear Friends. Well, as stated, I am now to keep an online activist dairy. {This initial intro will be more extensive}. It will detail thoughts, political writings, poetry and much more, and at times it will be very heartfelt and personal. Some detailing the past, while most being in relation to ongoing issues that I and others are involved in. It will also give the lighter side of life, and times and events as yet unaccounted for. The dairy shall be updated on a monthly basis and will incorporate many issues of interest to activists, but also giving those personal thoughts and experiences Therefore my first entry as attached. Davy Carlin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:36 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 20:48)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0801/mayo.html The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, has ordered Shell to dismantle three kilometres of pipeline it has constructed onshore in north Mayo. It has emerged that the section of pipeline was welded together without Ministerial approval. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:07 by %
3 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 14:34)
87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year. 131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Sunday July 31, 2005 - 13:27 by iosaf
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U.S. ABC television network has been stripped of its accreditation at the Russian Defence Ministry after it broadcasted an interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday. “We shall continue being open with the press, but that channel will never be invited to the ministry and there will be no interviews with it,” Ivanov emphasized. “This channel has become persona non grata for the ministry, it is an outcast,” the head of the Russian ministry told reporters. “If I have to express feelings over that (Basayev’s interview with ABC), I would put it in just one word – indignation,” the Russian defence minister emphasized. Ivanov said he had given instructions to the head of the ministry press service to see that no military from the ministry maintained contacts with that television network any longer. ******************************** The Russians aren't the only people well pissed off with ABC TV... ... read full story / add a comment |
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