April 5, 2018
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Agneta: Age is not a ticket out of the struggle…
Agneta is a documentary film about the life of the now 80-year-old Swedish peace activist Agneta Norberg. Through Agneta’s extraordinary and humorous personality, the documentary explores questions of what it means to be an activist, how a third world war can be avoided, and what it takes for people with dissenting views to make their… Continue reading
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Planning to join Elon Musk on Mars? Then pay no attention to this
5 April 2018 – Organic Consumers Association [Although OCA is a US-based organisation, I only wish we had something similar here, in the UK. Friends of the Earth? I don’t think so. WB] ESSAY OF THE WEEK Fish Facts Think “factory farm” and most of us envision millions of chickens and pigs crammed into dismally Continue reading
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More than 3000 Google employees want company to drop Pentagon ‘war’ drone program
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, published in the New York Times. Drone gizmo 2. Citing the company motto, “Don’t be evil” the letter urges the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial to aid with video imagery which could improve the targeting of drone… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 