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Egyptian government pulls the plug on internet access in response to protests

Submitted by takver on Fri, 28/01/2011 - 7:04pm

At 12.30am Egyptian time on January 28, the plug was pulled in Egypt on all internet traffic for all major internet providers. Egypt is almost entirely offline. The move was made to stop people organising protests through social media sites like twitter and Facebook. See Live updates below...

Guardian Live updates for Jan 28 protests | Live video from Cairo via satellite Al Jazeera | Event: Melbourne rally Sun Jan 30

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REDD under fire for narrow focus on carbon storage, risk to indigenous peoples

Submitted by takver on Fri, 28/01/2011 - 5:16pm

A new report from some of the world's top experts on forest governance has criticised various international climate change accords including REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) and REDD+ for their narrow focus on carbon storage which fails to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests and acts to further marginalise indigenous peoples.

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The Shortwave Report 01/28/11 Listen globally!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 28/01/2011 - 12:11pm

Dear Radio Friend,
   The latest Shortwave Report (January 28) is up at the website
   http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
   (NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and The Voice of Russia.

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Filipino anti-mining radio journalist assassinated

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 28/01/2011 - 8:28am

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US study: Carbon neutral solar and wind powered world possible in 20 to 40 years

Submitted by takver on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 1:44pm

Is it achievable? You bet! All it takes is the political and social will to make it happen says two US researchers who have just published a study of the material resources and technology required to power the world 100 per cent by carbon emission neutral alternative energy technologies. It would also save 2.5 million to 3 million lives a year through slashing water and air pollution and simultaneously slow global warming and the problems of climate change, and develop secure, reliable energy sources and at costs comparable with what we spend on energy today.

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Light sentences for torturers spark calls for suspension of aid to Indonesian military

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 10:52am

The West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT), East and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and TAPOL condemn the Indonesian government's failure to hold Indonesian military personnel responsible for the grave crime of torture of two Papuans. The torture was revealed in a video posted online in October 2010 shocked the international community ( http://www.etan.org/news/2010/10video.htm).

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Peak Oil - so what!? mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Wed, 26/01/2011 - 1:19pm

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr__184_peak_oil_so_what.mp3

Peak Oil is ambigious, controversial, and fearmongering

media sample collage and Futurehistrix, Buttress O Kneel, David Rovics

30:00 min 128 kbps stereo 27.5 MB

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Egyptians reclaim the streets demanding to be rid of dictator Hosni Mubarak

Submitted by takver on Wed, 26/01/2011 - 4:29am

In a day of protests in Egypt tens of thousands of people marched in the streets facing down riot police, water cannon, baton charges and tear gas. The people are chanting for freedom,the right to peaceful assembly, the right for an end to the corrupt administration of Hosni Mubarak in power for nearly 30 years, with the demand that he join the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali in Saudi Arabia.

Photoset on Flickr | Livestream - righter | Livestream - Cairo Downtown | Live updates: ahram online, Guardian | Mother Jones: What's Happening in Egypt Explained | Youtube: Tiananmen square moment. Man bravely stands in front of armored vehicle! | Indymedia Letzebuerg: ElBaradei warns of revolution in Egypt

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Whaling factory ship found by Sea Shepherd activists in the Ross Sea

Submitted by takver on Tue, 25/01/2011 - 10:40pm

This has been a disasterous year for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has fielded 3 ships taking out of action two harpoon vessels while the Nisshin Maru fled accompanied by one harpoon ship. Now the Nisshin Maru has been found in the Ross Sea.

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International call to action for solidarity demonstrations at German embassies

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 25/01/2011 - 10:18pm

Liebig 14 is one of Berlin longest running autonomous housing projects, serving as a space for collective living as well as community and political organising for over 20 years. After a 4 year legal process the owners of the building have finally been given legal permission to evict the house on the 2nd of February 2011.

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