Saksittua 4.12.2010
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- Pirate DNS Could Hatch a Lawless Darknet – PCWorld Business Center
In simple terms, DNS is like a large shared database constructed from many separate sources. Domain names that end in .com, .org, .edu, and so on are controlled by single organizations that share the data of where computers :live” with the rest of the world via the DNS system. Those behind the P2P DNS system suggest that this single-organization system provides a point of weakness that governments can use to censor the Internet, and this is undoubtedly the driving force behind the new software. - The Media Consortium » Weekly Mulch: If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the U.S.
- Ron Paul: ‘What we need is more WikiLeaks’ | Raw Story
“In a free society we’re supposed to know the truth,” Paul insisted. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we’re in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it. [...] Data released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday showed that foreign banks were among the biggest recipients of some $3.3 trillion in emergency loans offered by the US central bank amid the 2008 financial crisis. More than $290 billion worth of mortgage securities were sold to Deutsche Bank, a German lender. Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank, got more than $287 billion in mortgage bonds. Corporations like Caterpillar, General Electric, Harley Davidson, McDonald’s, Verizon and Toyota also relied the programs. - Four Degrees and Beyond Special Issue Journal | Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research ®
The collection of papers by leading international scholars from the Tyndall Centre, Oxford University, the Met Office and overseas institutes, explores the likelihood of large climate changes of 4 degrees and the potential impacts of these changes. The research addresses the challenges involved in avoiding high levels of warming, as well as the challenges of adaptation should society fail to do so. It stems from the first academic conference to analyse 4 degrees and beyond, last year by the Tyndall Centre. - WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord | Environment | The Guardian
Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial “Copenhagen accord”, the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009. - Aamulehti.fi | Uutiset | Arvotutkimus: Suomalaiset huolissaan yhteiskunnasta
Tärkeimpinä tavoiteltavina asioina yhteiskunnassa suomalaiset pitävät demokratiaa, köyhyyden vähentämistä ja vanhuksista huolehtimista. Tsuparin mukaan on huomionarvoista, että suomalaisten 20 tärkeimmän tavoiteltavan asian listalta puuttuvat muun muassa innovaatiot, yrittäjähenkisyys ja optimismi. - Mielenosoitukset ja talonvaltaukset eivät kiehdo suomalaisnuoria – HS.fi – Kotimaa
“Nuorten kohdalla äänestämättömyys ei ole nukkumista vaan tietoinen valinta. Se on merkki siitä, että nuoret ilmaisevat tyytymättömyytensä poliittista järjestelmää kohtaan” - Ei saa huijata nuoria äänestämään – HS.fi – Pääkirjoitukset
Poliittisen osallistumisen typistäminen äänestämiseksi halventaa sekä nuoria että demokratiaa. Sellaisessa ajattelussa sosiaalitantta vakuuttelee punkkareille, että nuoret saavat ikärajattomia konsertteja ja päheitä treenikämppiä, jos vain innostuvat uurnille. Onko jossain keikkapaikka tai soittokämppä, joka on saatu äänestämällä? Valtaamalla, toimimalla itse tai jopa neuvottelemalla saa aikaan enemmän. On epäreilua tyrkyttää nuorille ajatusta siitä, että omaan elämäänsä voi vaikuttaa vaaleissa, tekemättä itse mitään. - A Handy Guide to Climate Change Tipping Points | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Handy” ei oikein kuvaa näitä asioita. - EU over-consumes resources, agency says – UPI.com
The growing global demand for natural resources could threaten Europe’s economy, a report has warned. The European Environment Agency said there were no quick fixes to the changing consumption patterns but added that firms in Europe had to become more efficient to save natural resources. “Continuing depletion of Europe’s stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem services will ultimately undermine Europe’s economy and erode social cohesion,” the EEA, a European Union agency, says in its Environment State and Outlook Report 2010, which was released Wednesday. - Your Oil and Gas News – China’s October Oil Demand Climbs 11.8% on Year to 8.95 mil b/d
China’s apparent oil demand* in October rose by a strong 11.8% from a year ago to 37.88 million metric tons (mt), or an average of 8.95 million barrels per day (b/d)…The power blackout policy adopted by some local governments to meet the country’s pledge to cut energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 20% from 2005 levels by end-2010 is driving up diesel-fired electricity generation and appears set to further boost China’s already strong oil demand growth rates - China’s natural gas demand to exceed supply by over one-third in 2011 – People’s Daily Online
China’s demand for natural gas will maintain rapid growth in the coming decade, and its annual consumption will exceed 150 billion cubic meters by 2015 and 200 billion cubic meters by 2018. The country’s demand for natural gas has outstripped its supply since 2008. It is estimated that China’s energy supply-demand gap will increase from 38 billion cubic meters in 2015 to 110 billion cubic meters in 2021, and the natural gas supply-demand gap will grow accordingly based on forecasts of the gas supply and demand. - Importing Coal, China Burns It as Others Stop – CNBC
At ports in Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Colombia and South Africa, ships are lining up to load coal for furnaces in China, which has evolved virtually overnight from a coal exporter to one of the world’s leading purchasers. The United States now ships coal to China via Canada, but coal companies are scouting for new loading ports in Washington State. New mines are being planned for the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Indeed, some of the world’s more environmentally progressive regions are nascent epicenters of the new coal export trade, creating political tensions between business and environmental goals. Traditionally, coal is burned near where it is mined — particularly so-called thermal or steaming coal, used for heat and electricity. But in the last few years, long-distance international coal exports have been surging because of China’s galloping economy, which now burns half of the six billion tons of coal used globally each year. - Scrambling for Raw Materials: EU Plans Measures to Tackle Resource Crunch – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
Metal, wood or fuels are the source of our prosperity — but the supply of some of these is faltering. Geologists have long warned that certain natural resources are becoming scarce and that they are not being extracted in sufficient quantities. As a result, businesses face the threat of serious shortfalls in production. Some German companies are already facing problems relating to the supply of rare earths, which are used in high-tech appliances. “A supply crisis has begun,” [...] In the meantime, several European countries have started new extraction activities. Their reaction is late, however: The raw materials crisis in Europe has worsened because many companies had scaled back their mining as a result of the economic crisis. Mining in the West would only partially alleviate the shortage problem in any case, says geologist Peter Buchholz of the BGR, who warns of “explosive shortfalls.” - Luomutorit alkavat putkahdella ympäri Helsinkiä » Uutiset » Uutiset » Helsingin Uutiset
Jos Suomen luomutori -nimikkeellä toimivan kaksikon, Teija Piirron ja Heli Savimäen, suunnitelmat toteutuvat, Helsingissä alkaa pulpahdella sinne tänne kaupunkia luomutuotteisiin keskittyviä toritapahtumia. Pop up -periaatteella kiertäville tapahtumille etsitään sopivia aukioita, puistoja ja toreja. Luomutorien debyytti oli syyskuussa Lassilassa, jonne tapahtuma veti sadesäästä huolimatta nelisensataa aikuista ja parisataa lasta. Lassilan Laurinniityn leikkipuistoon onkin luvassa uusi tori-isku jo viikon päästä lauantaina, jolloin tapahtuma pääsee sisätiloihin leikkipuiston rakennukseen. - Another Nation Goes Coal Critical | Oil Price.com
India’s coal-fired power sector is in trouble. As of yesterday, 30% of Indian coal-fueled plants were at “critical” levels of coal stockpiles. And now India isn’t the only major coal consuming nation facing a shortage. Last week, China’s Ministry of Railway announced it is desperately trying to get more supply to Chinese coal-fired power plants. - Verovapaa vyöhyke – kerkko.fi
“Hyvätuloisten pitäisi maksaa enemmän veroja siitä syystä, että heillä on parempi veronmaksukyky. Veronmaksukykyisyyden periaate on verotuksen ykkösperiaate eli verot pitäisi ottaa niiltä, joilla on kyky kantaa se verorasitus”, sanoo professori Niskakangas YLE MOT:n haastattelussa. Parinkymmenen vuoden kuluessa veropolitiikka ja verotus on muuttunut erittäin paljon. Vuonna 1990 Sanoma-konsernin suuromistajalla Aatos Erkolla oli verotettavia tuloja 372 000 nykyeuroa, mistä hän maksoi veroja 74 prosenttia. Vuonna 2009 tuloja oli 16,7 miljoonaa, veroprosentti 28. - China, Brazil Say Debate on Extending Kyoto Accord Threatens Climate Talks – Bloomberg
Progress Stalled - BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: FROM PIGEON TO SUPERMAN AND BACK AGAIN
David Cameron has set up a group called The Behavioural Insights Unit. I think it is evidence of a massive shift that is just beginning in British politics which will change the way politicians govern and manage the rest of us. Behind this are the ideas of what is called Behavioural Economics. They were popularised by a book called “Nudge”. The idea of “nudging” citizens to do the right thing sounds cute. But in reality it marks the return of a powerful psycho-political theory that rose up in the mid-20th century. It was called Behaviourism. Behaviourism’s most famous exponent was an American psychologist called B. F. Skinner. Skinner himself was acutely aware that modifying human behaviour in these ways raises serious political questions. Not just about individual freedom, but about who decides what is “good” behaviour, and what happens when others decide it is bad. These are questions that the Nudge enthusiasts seem to be blithely unaware of. - US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
These disclosures are largely of analysis and high-grade gossip. Insofar as they are sensational, it is in showing the corruption and mendacity of those in power, and the mismatch between what they claim and what they do…The job of the media is not to protect power from embarrassment. If American spies are breaking United Nations rules by seeking the DNA biometrics of the UN director general, he is entitled to hear of it - KSL-radio 100,3 MHz » Vankiradio
Vankiradio on ohjelma vangeille ja heidän läheisilleen. Vankiradiossa kuullaan ajankohtaista asiaa vankeudesta ja vapautumisesta, esteistä ja mahdollisuuksista. Selviytymisvinkit, vapautumiseen valmistautuminen, koevapauteen navigointi, selkoa parisuhteeseen, marinoituna aiheeseen sopivalla musiikilla. - Portti Vapauteen – Vankien köyhyys manifesti
Tässä manifestissa nostetaan esille keskeisiä vankien syrjäytymistä ja köyhyyttä lisääviä epäkohtia ja mitä näille ongelmille voitaisiin tehdä. - Hallitus valmistautuu kiirehtimään Portugali-pakettia » Lehti
Toistaiseksi ei ole tietoa siitä, millä aikataululla Portugali apua pyytää. Katainen kuitenkin vakuuttaa, että hallitus aloittaa kiirehtimisen valmistelemisen ensi tilassa. “Pyrimme siihen, että keskustelun ja harkinnan estävä kiire voidaan aloittaa heti kun meillä on tieto Portugalin aikeista, menipä siihen kuinka kauan vain. Kiire kiire, hop hop, pois tieltä jumalauta!” Katainen korostaa.
