Links 1/4/2014: Games
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Sanctum 2 First-Person Tower Defense Game to Arrive of Linux
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Goat Simulator Might Get a Linux Version
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Portal & HL2 Lost Coast Linux Benchmarks Added
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KDE Games – Does anybody play them?
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Warsow 1.4 RC Is a Completely Free Multiplayer FPS for Linux
Warsow, a first-person shooter developed to work on multiple platforms, including Linux, has just received a major update.
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Prison Architect Gets Massive Update on Steam for Linux
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Icculus Is Porting Goat Simulator To Linux
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The Open Source Game Corner, Highlighting Open Source Projects Part 2
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Icculus Is Porting Goat Simulator To Linux
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Let’s Play: Voxatron
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Star Conflict Free 2 Play MMO Linux Version Is Waiting On Valve
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Humble Bundle celebrates open-source games this week with Evoland and Anodyne
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Humble Weekly Sale pays tribute to open-source games, charities
The Humble Weekly Sale offers a slew of open-source games for PC, Mac, Linux and Android, plus their soundtracks. Games up for grabs for any price you want are Magical Diary, NEO Scavenger, Offspring Fling and Planet Stronghold. Pay $6 or more to get Anodyne, Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten, Evoland and Incredipede.
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Humble Weekly Sale celebrates open source
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Voxatron Becomes A Fantasy Console & A Game
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Free Steam Games for Linux
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Icebound: A Dark Fantasy Visual Novel Releasing Soon
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Yet Another Free Steam Game: Cannons Lasers Rockets
Cannons Lasers Rockets is a free space exploring game available on Steam for Linux and Windows with 3D graphics and futuristic space environments. The game was released on February 4, 2014, uses the powerful Unity Engine and takes place in various space environments, with 2D battles and a simple gameplay idea: all you need to win are three weapons, obviously cannons, lasers and yes, you guessed it, rockets.
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Interview With Stefan Achatz Developer Of ROCCAT Gaming Hardware Drivers For Linux
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Latest SteamOS update brings many fixes, improvements
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Halo: Spartan Assault Heading to Steam
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Valve Has Come A Long Way: 2 Years Ago They Were Linux Headhunting
Valve has come a long way in the past two years over the past two years with the introduction of Steam for Linux, porting of their games to Linux, the introduction of SteamOS, pushing of other game publishers to Linux, open-sourcing some game components, and much more.
Links 1/4/2014: Instructionals
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More Secure SSH Connections
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How to Add Beautiful Fonts to Any Linux Distribution
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How To Create a Linux Mint Persistent Live USB
Linux Mint is the most popular Ubuntu based Linux distribution. Some would argue that it’s even more popular than Ubuntu itself. Because of its Ubuntu base, Linux Mint shares a lot of the same great features with its parent distribution while offering a more traditional desktop design. One big feature that Linux Mint is missing though is the ability to create a Live USB stick with persistent storage. In this tutorial I’ll show how to create a Linux Mint Persistent Live USB drive using UNetbootin and GParted.
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How-To: Automatically Run Applications at KDE Start-Up
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Launching Instance via image and creating simultaneously bootable cinder volume (glusterfs) on Two Node GRE+OVS+Gluster F20 Cluster
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How to Create and Manage Btrfs Snapshots and Rollbacks on Linux (part 2)
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How to get dedicated settings windows in Chromebooks?
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Toggle keyboard keys in Linux using terminal commands
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The Complete Guide to “useradd” Command in Linux – 15 Practical Examples
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Setup mail forwarding in postfix on Ubuntu or Debian
Links 1/4/2014: Applications
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Rhythmbox remains under active development, gets updated to version 3.0.2
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Calibre 1.30 eBook Reader and Editor Gets Book Cover Improvements
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Overview of the Lightweight Dillo Browser
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Maxthon Browser Extends Reach into Linux Territory
Over the years, the Maxthon browser (formerly known as MyIE2 way back in the day) has spread its reach beyond Windows and into different platforms, including the Mac and three mobile OSes: Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Wondering where the love for Linux is at? You don’t need to wonder anymore, because you can now download 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Maxthon for Linux.
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B1 Free Archiver: a simple solution
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DVD-Ranger makes CinEx module open source
The developers of DVD-Ranger informed us today that they’ve released the source code of CinEx to the open source code hosting website SourceForge. The code is from the first release of CinEx which removed Cinavia successfully but which degraded the sound quality, an issue now solved with the release of CinEx HD.
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10 Free, Open-Source Replacements for Commercial Tools
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Phatch 0.2.7 Review – Batch Image Processing as an Art
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Gnome MPlayer 1.0.8 Review – A Powerhouse with a Minimalist Interface
03.31.14
Health and Environment News: Nature Still Not a Priority
Health and Nutrition
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Surgeons perform ‘world’s first’ implant of entire 3D-printed plastic skull dome (VIDEO)
Dutch surgeons have successfully placed an entire 3D-printed skull dome over the brain of a 22-year-old woman suffering from a rare bone disorder. Doctors say this surgery is unprecedented.
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Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled homeopathic remedies made by a company called Terra-Medica because they may contain actual medicine — possibly penicillin or derivatives of the antibiotic.
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7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution
In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died – one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives.
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Over 168,000 Gallons of Oil Spills into Ecologically Sensitive Galveston Bay
A barge moving through Galveston Bay collided with another ship Saturday afternoon, spilling over 168,000 gallons of marine fuel oil. The spill is particularly devastating, even though it isn’t the largest in recent memory, because Galveston Bay is a migratory bird habitat and shorebird season is fast approaching. On top of that, the type of fuel that spilled is particularly difficult to clean up. The ship was being towed when it collided with the other vessel, though there are no details at this point on how the collision occurred.
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U.S. fisheries dump 500 million pounds of bycatch back to the ocean annually: Report
Seafood is an integral part of American cuisine. However, the ocean pays a steep price for every plate of tuna sashimi and every serving of grilled salmon that Americans consume.
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Information poses bigger bioterrorism threat than microbes
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Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
Measles was considered eliminated at the turn of the millennium. Now it’s back, thanks to the loons who refuse to vaccinate their children.
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With confirmed resistance, western corn rootworm worthy of being watched
It isn’t an epidemic and it won’t shut down corn production anytime soon. However, researchers have confirmed that western corn rootworms have developed resistance to Bt corn hybrids that express the Cry3Bba trait in some areas of Nebraska.
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Open Source Seeds
Open-source software is now everywhere. For example, Android, Google’s open-source operating system, now accounts for 80% of the smartphone and tablet market. Our next guest dreams of the same kind of explosive success by applying the open-source model to one of humanity’s oldest technological achievements: agriculture. Jack Kloppenburg, a professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin, co-founded the Open Source Seed Initiative to help protect the public domain of seeds. He joined the Buzz on Monday, March 30th to tell us more about the project.
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Scientists’ hidden links to the GM food giants
He is group director at the Sainsbury Laboratory, and is also the founder of and adviser to biotech company Mendel Biotechnology, which counts Monsanto – a GM giant – as a major client. Mendel has been granted more than 20 biotechnology and GM patents.
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CropLife America and the European Crop Protection Association discuss joint proposal during TTIP negotiations
CropLife America (CLA) and the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) called for a more harmonized risk assessment framework for pesticide regulations during the fourth round of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The comments follow the submission of a joint proposal on U.S. – EU regulatory cooperation that CLA and ECPA sent to Assistant United States Trade Representative Daniel Mullaney and Director of DG Trade for the European Commission Ignacio Garcia Bercero on March 7, 2014.
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Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare
A U.S. politician’s I-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-facts approach to health policy ran smack into some of those troublesome facts Tuesday at a Senate hearing on single-payer healthcare, as it’s practiced in Canada and several other countries.
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MEPs reject draft seed regulation
The European Commission’s proposal for plant reproductive material law, also known as the “seed regulation”, was voted down by Parliament on Tuesday, amid concerns that it would give the Commission too much power and leave EU countries without any leeway to tailor the new rules to their needs. Following the Commission’s refusal to withdraw its draft text and table an improved one, Parliament closed the first reading.
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GM foods and application of the precautionary principle in Europe
European regulations restricting the growth of genetically modified (GM) foods in the UK and across the continent are to be scrutinised in a new cross-party parliamentary inquiry launched today by MPs on the Science and Technology Committee.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) believes that GM is one of several technologies necessary to foster a “vibrant sector” in UK agriculture. But the European Union’s application of the ‘precautionary principle’ has been criticized for holding back development of the technology, despite European Commission reports finding no scientific evidence associating GM organisms with higher risks for the environment or food and feed safety.
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You’re Absorbing BPA From Your Receipts, Study Shows
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Store Receipts on Thermal Paper Can Transfer BPA
Volunteers who handled receipts containing the hormone-altering compound bisphenol A for two hours showed elevated BPA levels in their urine. Dina Fine Maron reports
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Monsanto’s Roundup may be linked to fatal kidney disease, new study suggests
The new study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Researchers suggest that Roundup, or glyphosate, becomes highly toxic to the kidney once mixed with “hard” water or metals like arsenic and cadmium that often exist naturally in the soil or are added via fertilizer. Hard water contains metals like calcium, magnesium, strontium, and iron, among others. On its own, glyphosate is toxic, but not detrimental enough to eradicate kidney tissue.
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Sweden to sue the Commission for delaying hormone-affecting criteria
Sweden’s government is considering suing the European Commission for stalling on criteria which are required to stop hormone-affecting substances, says the minister for the environment, Lena Ek.
In December, the Commission was supposed to publish the necessary criteria for banning different endocrine-disrupting substances found in anti-bacterial agents for shoes and clothes.
However, Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potočnik has delayed the clearance. According to Ek, Potočnik has told the Swedish government that the Commission wants to make an impact analysis first.
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China’s toxic air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists
Chinese scientists have warned that the country’s toxic air pollution is now so bad that it resembles a nuclear winter, slowing photosynthesis in plants – and potentially wreaking havoc on the country’s food supply.
Beijing and broad swaths of six northern provinces have spent the past week blanketed in a dense pea-soup smog that is not expected to abate until Thursday. Beijing’s concentration of PM 2.5 particles – those small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream – hit 505 micrograms per cubic metre on Tuesday night. The World Health Organisation recommends a safe level of 25.
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UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World
UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World
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Take a stand for Organic Farmers around the World!
Right now an important case is being heard halfway around the world in Western Australia about organic farmer Steve Marsh, whose organic field was contaminated by his neighbor’s genetically engineered canola. As a result, Steve lost his organic certification and as much as 70% of his Steve’s farm has been contaminated with Monsanto’s patented genes.
Warming
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UN Claims Extreme 2013 Weather Caused By Human-Induced Climate Change and Global Warming
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The climate change deniers have won
The American Association for the Advancement of Science came as close as such a respectable institution can to screaming an alarm last week. “As scientists, it is not our role to tell people what they should do,” it said as it began one of those sentences that you know will build to a “but”. “But human-caused climate risks abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.”
In other words, the most distinguished scientists from the country with the world’s pre-eminent educational institutions were trying to shake humanity out of its complacency. Why weren’t their warnings leading the news?
In one sense, the association’s appeal was not new. The Royal Society, the Royal Institution, Nasa, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US Geological Survey, the IPCC and the national science bodies of 30 or so other countries have said that man-made climate change is on the march. A survey of 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on global warming published in the last 20 years found that 97% said that humans were causing it.
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Exxon CEO joins anti-fracking lawsuit after drilling threatens his property value
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is involved in a legal battle over fracking. The weird part is, he’s on the side that’s against it.
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Singapore and Malaysia hit by extreme dry spell
Singapore suffers its longest dry spell on record, while Malaysian cabinet mulls whether to declare a national emergency
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Koch Network Raised Over $400 Million in 2012
The Koch brothers and their wealthy allies pledged to spend $400 million on the 2012 elections — and it looks like they did it.
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Maybe Nigel Lawson is right. There can’t be global warming, because isn’t it always colder at night?
It’s a method of argument perfected by disgruntled men in the corner of pubs
Nuclear Energy
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Record cesium levels in Pacific Ocean north of Fukushima plant — Spikes to 6,900 Bq/m³ from ‘not detected’ in one day — Previous high went unmatched for last 9 months
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Compelling stories of shameful treatment of Fukushima victims
When most of us think of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster we think about leaks of contaminated water, criminal gangs hiring ill-trained workers to work on cleaning up radioactive materials on the site, ice-dams to stop water flowing, or government announcements that never improve anything.
What we often don’t think about are the victims. More than 150,000 people were made victims by this disaster, most are still victims. But these days there is little coverage of their daily lives and the problems they continue to face. -
New TEPCO Report Shows Damage to Unit 3 Fuel Pool MUCH Worse Than That at Unit 4
The bottom line here is that TEPCO has just acknowledged that at least 50-tons of rubble has fallen on top of and into the spent fuel pool in Unit 3. What does this 50-ton pile of debris mean to the Unit 3 spent fuel pool and its cleanup?
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Gundersen: Terrifying cancer data for Fukushima — “Statistics are astounding especially for young girls” — “Growing concern around cancer risk” (VIDEO)
Introduction: “In response to growing concern around cancer risk to children, in particular young girls, in and around the Fukushima Prefecture, we’re reissuing a film we made last year. [...] 1 in every 100 young girls will devlop cancer for every year they are exposed to Fukushima’s radiation”
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Fukushima Evacuee: 50% of class with nosebleeds at same time; This is a recurring thing — Immune system problems reported by many families (VIDEO)
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Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated
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Anti-nuclear protests in Taiwan draw tens of thousands
Tens of thousands have marched in anti-nuclear protests across Taiwan, calling on the government to phase out nuclear energy. The protest comes ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukishima disaster.
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Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan
A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago.
Pollution
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Oil spills into Lake Michigan from BP refinery
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Pollution Caused by Chip Fabrication
It is a sobering fact that the chip fabrication industry which is so vital to our modern society is also the cause of a lot of pollution. This unglamorous topic doesn’t get much media attention. No one wants to be reminded that the hi-tech world of computers isn’t possible without the use of a lot of caustic chemicals.
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Great Barrier Reef authority argued against dredge dumping, FOI reveals
The dredging and dumping of 3m tonnes of spoil in Great Barrier Reef marine park waters posed an “unacceptable social and environmental risk”, the authority in charge of the world heritage area wrote in draft assessments just months before it approved the permit to carry out the disposal.
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Is The Solution To Climate Change In Vancouver?
Across America, the impacts of climate change are already being felt as temperatures rise, droughts are prolonged, and weather becomes increasingly severe and unpredictable. But solutions seem few and far between — and solutions that both sides can agree on even fewer. Outraged Republicans and recalcitrant conservative Democrats cut down the cap-and-trade bill in 2009; and President Obama’s promised regulations are probably destined for years of give-and-take between the Environmental Protection Agency, the courts, and the power industry. The result: America remains one of the few advanced nations with no national policy of any sort to curb its carbon dioxide emissions.
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EU to force large companies to report on environmental and social impacts
The negotiations were long and painful, but in the end a deal was done. EU member states finally agreed to back reforms that will mean large listed companies are required to report on their environmental and social impacts.
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Excuse me, but we shouldn’t be moving on from West Virginia’s chemical spill
America has grown a vast and complex regulatory and financial support system for cheap, dirty energy. This isn’t over
Misc.
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Cameron’s Prime Aberdeen Angus Bullshit
David Cameron is peddling bullshit of the premium Aberdeen Angus kind today. At today’s oil prices, recoverable North Sea oil is worth a minimum of 1.2 trillion and a maximum of 2.4 trillion dollars. Cameron is claiming that potential will not be released without government subsidy of 24 billion dollars, and that only the UK government’s “broad shoulders” can raise this.
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A Small Little Bolt: The Tar Sands Poisoning of An Alberta Family
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Nigeria ravaged by $20bn oil robbery
It was 2am when a fireball pierced the inky night sky above a small community in the Niger delta. The explosion near Port Harcourt last June killed several people and released 6,000 barrels of crude oil. The cause: contractors hired by Royal Dutch Shell to stop pirates siphoning oil from a huge pipeline were themselves stealing fuel, and something went terribly wrong. The blast led to the shutdown… Shell, the largest foreign operator in the country, was responsible for more than 20,00 barrels of last year’s spills.
Financial News: Bitcoin and Financial Issues Around the World
Bitcoin
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$500,000 Bali Villa is Biggest Bitcoin Purchase Ever
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MtGox Lost ‘Barely 386 Bitcoins’ Due to Cyber Attacks – Not 850,000
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US takes stand on bitcoin, says it’s property and not currency
UK
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Extra Food Banks Aren’t Needed Because Restaurants Are Busy, Says Tory Councillor
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Revealed: The high-street shops that do not pay their garment workers a living wage
Most of its workers cannot afford to live with dignity; they earn no more than £5 a day in an industry worth more than £28bn across Europe, the report points out.
Ukraine
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Ukraine’s IMF Deal Means Greece-Like Depression
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Ukraine is a suitable case for IMF treatment now Doctor Putin is on holiday in Crimea
“The IMF realises that these reforms may cause considerable hardship for millions of Ukrainians, in a country where the average GDP per capita is $3,867.”
EU
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Political corruption seen as ‘major problem’ by most Europeans
Three quarters of Europeans think corruption is a “major or widespread” problem in their political institutions, according to research published Tuesday (25 March).
North America
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The US Is Now Spending 26% Of Available Tax Revenue To Pay Interest
By the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire had become a has-been power whose glory days as the world’s superpower were well behind them.
They had been supplanted the French, the British, and the Russian empires in all matters of economic, military, and diplomatic strength. Much of this was due to the Ottoman Empire’s massive debt burden.
In 1868, the Ottoman government spent 17% of its entire tax revenue just to pay interest on the debt.
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The Congo Still Ravaged by U.S.-Funded Conflict and Plunder
The Rwandan/Ugandan invasion has opened up the DRC’s wealth to unlimited plunder by Western mining companies…
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Bank Accidentally Deposits $31k in Teen’s Account, Hero Teen Spends It
Earlier this month, a bank teller accidentally deposited $31,000 into a teenager’s bank account. The teen did the sensible thing and immediately started buying shit, spending more than $25,000 in just ten days.
Censorship News: Russia Mocks Copyright-driven Blocking, China Can’t Block Like Google and Microsoft Block
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Putin: Pirate Site Blocking Has Failed to End Piracy
It was supposed to be the world’s toughest anti-piracy regime but Russia’s site blocking legislation just isn’t working. That’s not just the opinion of irate movie and music companies either, but comments from Vladimir Putin himself.
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Thanks to ORG supporters copyright takes a great leap forward into the 21st century
The new laws will finally give us the right to parody and legalise personal copying of our digital media. We’re also seeing important changes allowing non-commercial research to carry out text and data mining.
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Copyright: it’s a long fight to get it right
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Victory for digital rights as UK Government publishes changes to copyright law
The UK’s out-of-date copyright law came closer to being fit for purpose yesterday, when the Government published regulations for copyright exceptions. They include exceptions for parody, personal copying, text mining, research and education. If the Regulations are approved by the House of Commons and House of Lords, they will become law on June 1, 2014.
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‘China’s Google’ invokes 1st Amendment to beat US anti-censorship lawsuit
A US court dismissed a lawsuit against a Chinese internet giant Baidu, which the plaintiff argued blocks material critical of China’s democratic credentials, a decision that could have far-reaching impact on how US search engines sift information.
The lawsuit was brought forward by a group of New York content editors who alleged that Baidu’s search engine was programmed to filter out material in the United States that touches upon the Chinese government’s harsh censorship laws, calling this a violation of the US Constitution.
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Turkey bans YouTube after Syria security talk leaked
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‘Guardian’ reporting of Snowden leaks threatened with closure, conference told
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Why free media standards are important
If your answer is no, you’re not alone. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll, 60% of Americans have little to no trust of the mass media in terms of accuracy and fairness in reporting. The U.K. also has a similar problem when it comes to trust of the media. When looking at the world, a great number of countries are dissatisfied with their local media or media in some way.
Copyright and Monopoly News
Copyrights
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File-Sharing Copyright Trolls Invade Finland
The practice of issuing copyright infringement notices for the purpose of obtaining cash settlements is now commonly referred to as “copyright trolling.” It’s a practice that started in Germany, before moving to the UK and US, and now it’s facing a resurgence in Europe, this time in Finland.
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Kim Dotcom Launches Party For New Zealand Elections
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Kim Dotcom launches political Internet Party
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Digitize any book in the public domain
A form of poetry in India called Vachana sahitya is part of the popular Indian language, Kannada. It evolved in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th as part of the religious Lingayatha movement. Since that time, more than 259 Vachana writers, called Vachanakaru, have compiled over 11,000 Vachanas (verses).
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At present, our repository, Vachana Sanchaya, has around 200,000 unique words that were derived from these poems. The public has been using our repository and accessing Vahanas (poems) from our Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ profiles. There are thousands of people now who read a Vahana as part of their daily routine. Vachana Sanchaya is not just meant for reading the poems, it is also meant for research. So, we have added a way for researchers to help us review the content and will be adding references from various research papers.
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Parody Finally Made Legal In UK
Draft regulations have been published in Britain that will finally end the anomaly where quotation, parody, caricature and pastiche are considered breaches of copyright. If approved by Parliament, they will come into force on June 1st, finally closing the loophole in copyright law that allowed copyright owners to chill criticism and stifle research in cases that are otherwise reasonable.
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RIAA Demands Personal Details of Pirating YouTube Users
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Why Movie Streaming Sites So Fail to Satisfy
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UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer
The UK Government has published a guide informing consumers about an upcoming revision of copyright law which will legalize CD and DVD copying for personal use. The changes go into effect in June, and will also broaden other forms of fair use, including parody and quotation rights.
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Jury: MP3tunes founder must pay $41 million for copyright violations
Michael Robertson, an entrepreneur who has been waging legal feuds against the music industry for more than a decade now, has been ordered to pay $41 million to a record label that sued him.
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Pirate Bay’s Longest Surviving Torrents Turn 10 Years Old
The second oldest Pirate Bay torrent that’s still actively seeded is an “Italian Teens Home Video.” This file was uploaded on March 30, 2004 and currently has three seeders. The third place goes to a pirated copy of “Revolution OS”, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement.
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German Court Says Creative Commons ‘Non-Commercial’ Licenses Must Be Purely For Personal Use
Creative Commons licenses have been hugely successful in allowing people to share their creations in ways otherwise impossible using traditional copyright monopolies. But one problem remains unresolved: what exactly does the “non-commercial” license allow you to do? This lack of clarity has led various people to advocate avoiding the use of CC-NC. Back in 2012, Techdirt reported on a call to drop completely both the non-commercial and the no-derivatives licenses. In the same year, a group of German copyright experts released in collaboration with Wikimedia a document entitled “Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of the license module Non-Commercial — NC”, which was made available in an English translation the following year (PDF).
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U.S. Department of Labor applies Creative Commons license to all work created with $150M grant
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Books, Porn, Open Source: The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrents Are 10 Years Old
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Demonoid Returns, Website Now Back Online
Trademarks
‘Trade’
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US says India should prefer US business and workers for its solar plants
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US is bent on raising the price of drugs in developing countries
Recent developments by the Obama administration seem bent on making it more difficult to purchase top rated drugs in developing countries. The move follows patent rulings around the globe that may place U.S. drug companies at a disadvantage in the industry; a matter which is not taken lightly by the U.S. of course. India has made the news for ordering drug companies to give up their patent rights, all in an effort to help lower the spiraling costs of drugs. Canada, likewise, became something of a villain when several court rulings dismantled the patents of popular drug companies in favor of the country’s generic industry. The threat has been detected, and there is an urge to act, but it’s not that simple.
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Networks Skip Controversial Trade Deal
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal has drawn heavy criticism. Over 500 labor, environmental and farm groups oppose granting the White House “fast track” authority to speed the pact through Congress. The deal, still being negotiated in secret, has spawned protests around the world. Even some Democrats are pushing back against the White House.
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How Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before you ever heard of it
In 2009, four years before the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a widely-debated trade deal, few would have noticed a new issue popping up in a handful of lobbying reports. That year, 28 organizations filed 59 lobbying reports mentioning the then far-off trade agreement. Almost half of those organizations were pharmaceutical companies or associations.
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Obama Nominates Former SOPA Lobbyist to Help Lead TPP Negotiations
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