January 2011
makingfriendswithsalad-deactiva asked: what are your opinions on the multiple weather disasters in australia at the moment, eg the floods in queensland, new south wales and victoria and the heat waves in wester australia and victoria and south australia and the tropical storms hitting the very north of the country?
are there any articles or sites out there that are watching world wide happenings weather wise and forming...
are there any articles or sites out there that are watching world wide happenings weather wise and forming...
About those looters →
‘CNN appears to be pushing the ‘widespread looting in Egypt’ story pretty aggressively. I would caution people not to accept that narrative quite so readily. While there is definitely looting, it’s unclear how common it is. Democracy Now‘s senior producer Sharif Kouddous is tweeting from Egypt, and reports that Egyptians are actually cleaning the streets of trash and forming neighborhood...
Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It... →
Does your government have an Internet kill-switch? Read our guide to Guerrilla Networking and be prepared for when the lines get cut.
‘These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it’s organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter. And as we’ve seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the...
The Drug Store in Your Tap Water « SpeakEasy →
‘While pharma and water treatment professionals routinely deny the existence of prescription drugs in public waterways and drinking water — easy to do when they are not tested for anyway! — Mary Buzby director of environmental technology for pharma giant Merck was a little more candid in 2007. “There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is...
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington? The... →
As protests rage on in Egypt, the close relationship between the U.S. government and the regime of Hosni Mubarak has already garnered a lot of attention. But it’s also worth taking a moment to examine the lobbying muscle that Egypt employs to secure its interests in Washington, including a mammoth $1.3 billion annual military aid package. [read more]
