Politics - Part 57

China is set to help Iran counter the EU oil embargo that's due to come into force in July. Beijing will deliver the first of 12 huge crude carriers to Iran next month to expand its tanker fleet, as many firms refuse to transport Iranian oil due to wester ...[Read more]
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Dark Comedy : CISPA authors launch twitter account to promote CISPA
In an incomparable example of dark, bizarre comedy, the authors of CISPA, a bill in US congress that seeks to give free pass to government and private corporations to eavesdrop in people's privacy and censor/block content at their will, have set up a twit ...[Read more]
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European Parliament seems to be going to reject ACTA
Following the announcement that the European Parliament would be voting on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) during June without consulting the European Court of Justice to review the legislation, there has been progress in trying to delay th ...[Read more]
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The government of Iceland has forgiven the mortgage debt for much of its population. This nation chose a very different way of stopping the crisis from the rest of European countries. It decided to hear the requests of the population and to put politician ...[Read more]
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A very short video, explaining what Occupy Wall Street is about, in very simple numbers and graphics - made out of recent statistics and events like the bank bailouts. Illustrates the income and wealth distribution in usa, what people thought, and what ...[Read more]
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Libya: So it was all about oil after all !
Last year NATO countries bombed Libya, demanding ...[Read more]
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Political Revolution in Germany: Pirate Party Third
Pirate Party germany, the party of new internet age citizens, social networkers, filesharers, open source activists, is now the 3rd strongest party in latest poll in germany. Pirate party seeks freedom on internet, abolition of copyrights, patents, freed ...[Read more]
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Kony 2012 group confirms WikiLeaks spy allegation
The non-profit group Invisible Children has confirmed that a U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, which claims the group fed intelligence to the Ugandan government to enable the 2009 arrest of a central resistance figure, is in fact true. ...[Read more]
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WikiLeaks: Kony 2012 creators spied for Uganda
The Invisible Children NGO, most famous for its Kony 2012 online video, helped the Ugandan government arrest a former child soldier and backed an operation that killed more civilians than militants, cables published by Wikileaks reveal. A memo written by ...[Read more]
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US, Israel deliver ultimatum to Iran
US has asked Russia to deliver an ultimatium to Iran on its behalf. US and Israel have been escalating tensions with Iran, and threatening Iran with war for a while. With their latest ultimatum, they say that they will consider 'military option' if their ...[Read more]
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Feds Want Way to Hack Xboxes and Wiis for ‘Evidence’
At the unbelievable point surveillance by government has come, Federal authorities in Department of Homeland Security now want to have a way to hack into game consoles like Wii and Xbox in order to get information on gamers. All in the name of war agains ...[Read more]
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