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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
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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.
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