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Friday, June 8, 2007 |
In Heiligendamm police are infiltrating the demonstrations against the G8 and these provocateurs are inciting violence.
The stakes are high. And it is clear it is a matter of the people vs. the neocons.
GreenLeft: "The Kyoto Protocol calls for rich countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2% compared to 1990 levels. Britain, South Australia and Victoria have gone for a 60% reduction by 2050, and California proposes a cut of 80%.
Biologists are worried that, based on damage already seen, a 1.5°C warming will be really damaging for nature.
Climate systems are surprisingly unstable and the world is on the brink of runaway heating because of 'positive feedbacks'. As things heat, less light is reflected into space, more methane and CO2 is released into the air (from permafrost bogs, peat bogs, ordinary soils, and drying and burning bushland) and less CO2 can be absorbed by the oceans and the land. The result - more heating."
GreenLeft: "The move to a zero emission society will be expensive, but at the same time will drive a rebirth of our manufacturing industries, produce employment and make our societies cleaner, healthier and even more democratic.
For stationary energy production, we would need to:
- Mandate efficiency across all sectors (housing, electrical goods, industry etc).
- Undertake a massive building of renewable energy generators (largely wind and solar thermal).
- Upgrade the electricity distribution network.
- Control peak electricity demand (pricing, smart meters, efficiency).
- Use and perhaps supplement existing peak power generators (hydro, gas).
- Shut down the carbon industries, such as coal and aluminium."
But there is one other important thing to keep in mind: we need more green areas. These can absorb the CO2 and reduce pollution and warming. Some rose growers in the Netherlands are using CO2 emissions from nearby factories to speed up the growth of their roses.
We don't need more highways; what we need is protected green areas with trees and shrubs, parks where people can enjoy nature and can breathe freely. These areas are necessary buffers against pollution.
10:50:40 AM 
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Javno: "Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and disappeared.
The groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they filed a U.S. federal lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the 39 people it terms 'ghost prisoners' in the U.S. 'war on terror'.
'Since the end of Latin America's dirty wars, the world has rejected the use of 'disappearances' as a fundamental violation of international law,' Professor Meg Satterthwaite of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's School of Law said in a statement.
The report said suspects' relatives, including children as young as seven, had been held in secret detention on occasion.
The groups urged the U.S. government to cease use of secret detention, provide information on those in custody, give access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to all detainees and either bring charges or release all prisoners."
Journalismus: "Die CIA leitete in Polen einige Einrichtungen, um kurzzeitige Verhöre und Festnahmen angeblicher Terroristen in einer Ausbildungsschule, die zum polnischen Geheimdienst gehört, durchzuführen. Gemäss Geheimdienststellen, zählte diese Operation auf die ausdrückliche Einwilligung der britischen- und der US-Behörden."
10:29:15 AM
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EUObserver: "Polish and Romanian security officials have confirmed to Europe's human rights watchdog that the two countries hosted secret and illegal CIA prisons, while the watchdog also says that EU member states were aware of CIA kidnappings and rendition flights, UK daily the Guardian has reported.
In a new report by the Council of Europe - set to be published on Friday (8 June) if adopted by the council delegates - senior Polish and Romanian security officials have confirmed, despite official denials by their governments, that their countries used to hold in secret some US prisoners captured after the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001."
10:22:33 AM
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MyWay: "A prosecutor has dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.
'Prosecuting a woman for staring at a police dog is absurd,' said her lawyer. 'People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It's constitutional expression,' said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson.
Hutchinson, 33, of Lebanon, N.H., was charged with cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest after a July 31 incident in West Fairlee in which police were called to a market to investigate a report of a brawl. They were approached by Hutchinson, who told one officer she had been assaulted the day before by one of the men involved."
Which again shows that policemen are not the brightest chaps on the block. And they don't like to be disturbed by citizens who want protection.
10:17:08 AM
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