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"Smart watches"

mardi 17 mars 2015 à 13:00

Acceptance of "smart watches" could teach people to regard their bodies as machines to be monitored and quantified, distracting them from other thought.

Morality of Fossil Fuel Investment

mardi 17 mars 2015 à 13:00

We Need to Attack the Morality of Fossil Fuel Investment (not only point out that it may lose monetary value).

Burmese thugs attack student protesters

mardi 17 mars 2015 à 13:00

How Burmese thugs first approved, then attacked a protest by students against a law they say threatens academic freedom.

Someone I know wrote:

The Myanmar Police went completely out of control today in Letpadan, which is a reflection of poor discipline, training and leadership. Senior police officials let things get out of control and this was a huge failure on their part and they bear full responsibility. Where were they when their officers were pummeling unarmed students who were in no way fighting back or resisting? Where were they when marauding police entered houses and blocked highways in their effort to find students who were trying to escape capture and beatings? Protesters did try to push their way out and they did destroy the barbed-wire barricades, but the violent and brutal police response far exceeded what the police needed to do. To their credit, I did see small groups of Myanmar Police working hard to keep their undisciplined colleagues from beating students, and in some cases it looked like police were fighting among themselves as the good cops tried to protect the students and activists with their own shields. In one instance, I saw police put a helmet on the head of a Buddhist monk and hold their shields over his body while he was being taken away. So maybe some of that EU police training paid off.
Here is what happened after.

Lawsuits against mass surveillance

mardi 17 mars 2015 à 13:00

Amnesty International is suing to end massive surveillance since that exposes people reporting human rights abuses to retaliation.

Wikipedia is suing too on behalf of its contributors, who might be endangered.

Plans to damage Great Barrier Reef

mardi 17 mars 2015 à 13:00

Australia agrees to avoid dumping dredging spoils on the Great Barrier Reef, in order to continue with the plan to damage it by shipping coal and then wipe it out by burning the coal.