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| Save Public Transit Living in the O! urges us to Save Transit at the Local, State & Federal Levels:
I hadn't realized that transit's being attacked by all levels of government this week. Luckily, there are three ways you can take action to stop these attacks.
1. LOCAL - This Wednesday, the AC Transit Board of Directors will be discussing the four plans [for fare increases on Oakland b [..] |
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| Craigslist and eBay: Terrorist arms bazaars of DEATH Federal beancounters launch Operation Barrelscrape
Analysis American government investigators believe that eBay and Craigslist are becoming international arms bazaars, facilitating the sale of “sensitive and stolen US military items” to the agents of sinister foreign powers - or even (gasp) terrorists. However, they have produced very little evidence to back this up.
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| Airport face scanning gates open Home Secretary tells us where to stick our faces
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is taking risks with public safety, whilst simultaneously condemning thousands of airline passengers to long delays this winter. That is the fear expressed by a spokesperson for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), in reaction to government plans to test new face [...] [..] |
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| Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism From Itself When online troublemaker Julian Assange co-founded Wikileaks, the net’s premiere document-leaking site last year, some were skeptical that the service would produce anything of interest.
Now, after 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals, led to takedown threats and briefly gotten the site banned in the United States, Assan [..] |
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| "Not a sham": Oppose creationist legislation in Louisiana An important principle in first amendment jurisprudence is that government actions must not be undertaken solely for the benefit of religion. In 1987, the Supreme Court considered a law passed by Louisiana that required teachers who presented "evolution-science" to "balance" it with "creation-science." Legislators insisted that the bill had valid secular purposes, but the Supreme Court's majo [..] |
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| UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans ‘Not a universally desirable outcome’ - no, really?
The British government has come out firmly against plans for personal carbon trading, diplomatically saying the idea is “ahead of its time”, would cost too much to implement, probably wouldn’t see widespread participation, and anyway wouldn’t deliver much in the way of benefits.
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| Gallery: VC Money Drives Solar-Tech Innovation Around the World : Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite uneven support from the U.S. government, solar power is experiencing a
global explosion. Concerns over climate change and rising energy prices have driven billions of dollars into developing the efficiency and variety of technologies that capture power from the sun.
And we’re not just talking about new photovoltaic panels. The [... [..] |
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| Greenpeace: UK gov trying to strangle wind power Won’t hand over nuke plants’ grid connections
The British government has been accused by Greenpeace of trying to strangle development of renewable power in Europe, and in particular in the UK. Greenpeace say they have obtained draft documents from negotiations in Brussels, which amount to a ’smoking gun’ exposing the UK’s anti-renewables agenda.
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| CIA demands UK halts interrogation tactics ‘Cruel and unusual’ demands
A human rights lawsuit filed on behalf of prominent US government agencies - including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base - has been filed in a European Court. The lawsuit, which plaintiffs also sent to Foreign Minister David Miliband - asks that British websites cease engaging in “cruel, [...] [..] |
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Expelled and Holocaust denial  Orac doesn't think Expelled's Nazi claims are a form of Holocaust denial. I disagree.
Orac has some good points, and "denial" may be a strong word. Orac gives the basic criteria of Holocaust denial as rejecting at least one of these statements:
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| Xbox 360 "Stolen", Xbox Appears In Its Place [Oddities] Over at Northwestern University, an Xbox 360 was stolen from a locked dorm hall basement closet on May 11th. When the student checked the locked closet on May 22nd, he found an original Xbox inside. Oh, the hi-jinx! The kicker? Only one other dorm hall government officer and that student have access tot h [..] |
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| MPs say shared service sums ‘don’t add up’ Cabinet Office’s claim ‘flimsy’
MPs say that the Cabinet Office’s claim that government could save £1.4bn a year through sharing corporate services is a “flimsy estimate at best”.
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| The Learned Man! | Relevance: 3.428 |
| eLearning South Korea: Online Education Market Expands In 2006 From Yonhap News: South Korea's market for online learning grew sharply last year, buoyed by strong public demand, the government said Wednesday. The country's e-learning business, measured in total sales, rose 10.0 percent year-on-year to 1.67 trillion won, the Ministry... [..] |
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| The Learned Man! - eLearning Blog | Relevance: 3.428 |
| eLearning South Korea: Online Education Market Expands In 2006 From Yonhap News: South Korea's market for online learning grew sharply last year, buoyed by strong public demand, the government said Wednesday. The country's e-learning business, measured in total sales, rose 10.0 percent year-on-year to 1.67 trillion won, the Ministry... [..] |
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| eLearning News & Instructional Design by The Learned Man! | Relevance: 3.428 |
| eLearning South Korea: Online Education Market Expands In 2006 From Yonhap News: South Korea's market for online learning grew sharply last year, buoyed by strong public demand, the government said Wednesday. The country's e-learning business, measured in total sales, rose 10.0 percent year-on-year to 1.67 trillion won, the Ministry... [..] |
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