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Taliban threatens to kill school principals

vendredi 14 juin 2013 à 14:00

The Taliban threatened to kill school principals as blackmail.

Examining metadata

jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 14:00

It is naive to think that examining metadata won't reveal your most intimate secrets. For instance, people have found this allows identification of people who are gay and don't say so.

Refuse to participate in force-feeding

jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 14:00

Professors of medicine have called on the doctors at Guantanamo to refuse to participate in force-feeding in the name of medical ethics.

Half the honeybee hives did not survive winter

jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 14:00

In parts of the UK, half the honeybee hives did not survive the winter. Overall, 1/3 of them died.

The specific cause was unusual weather, which will become more common in the future due to the effects of global heating. We can reduce this with the well-known measures that businesses order states not to do.

The same weather also hit agriculture directly, with a bug failure of harvests.

We've seen similar failures in Russia and the US.

Greek public protesting closure of public broadcasting

jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 14:00

The Greek public are protesting the sudden closure of public broadcasting.

The staff have occupied the building and are broadcasting anyway.

This is part of a broader attack on critical journalism in Greece.