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tue 6 may Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups OneWorld The World Bank’s funding for carbon trading projects and the UN’s opinion that the bank set ‘good examples’ in the field has been criticised, with one group publishing a report entitled World Bank: Climate Profiteer

wed 14 may Draft Queen's Speech: Bills in Full Guardian What a missed opportunity, Brown just looks spineless and pale imitation of John Reid, trying desperately to cling to new labour bollocks of being ‘tough’. Glimmers of hope could come from the Constitutional Renewal bill (which could relax the SOCPA restrictions on protests near parliament) and an Equality bill which could be good but probably won ’t be.

thu 15 may Expert Warns Climate Change Will Lead to 'Barbarisation' Guardian. Mohan Munasinghe,vice-president of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reminds us that climate change won ’t bring on the
 

death of the planet, or even the extinction of humans, but it will cause death and destitution to enough of the population to threaten our civilisation and create a much larger group of much more desperate people then we ’ve ever seen before, who will do anything to survive. If you think the number of refugess trying to breach rich countries ’ fortress borders is a problem now wait to see what 20 or 30 more years of climate change will bring.


thu 22 may Teenage 'Wild West' Gunman Convicted for Magda Murder Evening Standard. Armel Gnango was sitting in his car when an unknown gunman, who eventually fired the fatal bullet started shooting at him, Gnango drew his own gun and returned fire. He didn ’t actually fire the bullet that killed the victim but was convicted of murder because of his ‘joint enterprise’ in being involved in the ‘shootout’. Police and prosecutors seem perfectly happy with this, but although Gnango probably showed poor judgement by carrying a gun, even if it was for self-defence, that was really his only mistake, and one which we should really be able to understand, especially as someone did try to kill him. I think to call him a ‘murderer’ is wrong, but it would be instructive to find out where those police and prosecutors would draw the line - what if the fatal bullet had been fired before Gnango returned fire or he hadn ’t fired his gun at all? It seems that once you’ve crossed the rubicon into a paralell universe called ‘gun crime’ everything that happens in that world is your responsibility.


 
jul 2008   issue 056  page 1

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