Yorkshire CND has commissioned Steve Schofield to research and write a report about Menwith Hill, said to be the largest electronic monitoring station in the world, which provides intelligence on terrorist activities to both the UK and the USA. It is alleged to scan emails, phone calls and faxes for keywords. At present the draft [...]
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JANUARY NETWORK NEWS:
Posted in Political, Reports, USA, tagged CND, Dr Steven Schofield, Menwith Hill on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
MARY HOLMES AND OCCUPYLSX
Posted in Economy, Legal affairs, Political, Reform, tagged Occupy LSX on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The occupation is a collective “No” to those in power. It is a refusal to forget that the solutions proposed by politicians are more of the same things that caused the crisis in the first place. The occupation is the beginning of a conversation the whole world needs. Whatever happens, we cannot rest until [...]
DECEMBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Political, Simultaneous Policy, Transition, tagged Democratic Reform Movement, OccupyLSX on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Top Post for 2011 The Soil Fertility Project: James Bruges and David Friese-Greene oOOo Early this month John Bunzl was interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft of the Democratic Reform Movement which sets out its reasons for initiating such a movement here. It is already ‘under way’ but will be ‘launched’ in the new year. [...]
Molly Scott Cato explains PFI
Posted in banking and finance, Economics, Economy, Political, Politics, tagged PFI on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A week ago Molly Scott Cato, in her Gaian Economics blog undertook this task. She writes [headlines added]: Explaining PFI The decade of corporate governance Scandals about the extortion of public money by private companies seem to arrive daily, as the decade of corporate governance begins to unravel. The political conclusion is clear: we need to [...]
George Morran looks at the politics of localisation
Posted in Economy, Localisation, Political, Politics on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The old order is no longer sustainable and yet our leaders still pursue the same economic model, hoping to attract investment from the likes of China and India The full text of a letter in the Birmingham Post this week written by Localise West Midlands Associate and Vice Chair, George Morran can be read here. One of [...]
Richard Douthwaite: the Feasta Climate Group
Posted in Environment, Political, Science on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this month news came from Richard Douthwaite and his colleagues, David Healy and Brian Davey. They are proposing to re-focus the Feasta Climate Group, because it now seems unlikely that an agreement to cut the world’s CO2 emissions from its coal, gas and oil consumption will be reached in the foreseeable future. More cheeringly [...]
Colin Hines: advice for activists and lateral-thinking politicians
Posted in Devolution, Economics, Economy, Localisation, Political, Politics, Security, Transition on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We welcome Colin Hines back after his three-month absence and reproduce his first message seen in the Guardian recently and published on the website of Localise West Midlands which he co-founded with Pat Conaty. Colin wrote: Rebuild and rediversify sustainable local economies everywhere Huge regions such as Europe, the US, China and India should reconsider their obsession with today’s [...]
A message from Shaun Chamberlin:
Posted in Energy, Environment, Political, Politics, Security on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As those who follow UK climate policy will be aware, the big news this month has been the Government’s decision on whether or not to accept the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC)’s advice on national carbon targets. For the first time, there were Ministerial objections to adopting their recommendations, but in the end [...]
Congratulations Molly and Rianne
Posted in Education, Political, Politics on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Molly Scott Cato Molly was recently elected a Green Party Stroud District councillor for Slad, which she considers the most beautiful of the Stroud valleys. Some aims: The introduction of 20mph zones The investment of £200,000 in renewable energy Making major improvements to flood management and sewage systems in the Slad Valley. —————————– Rianne ten [...]
GenerationNext – working for a better future – Shaun
Posted in Economy, Energy, Political, Politics, Transition on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shaun Chamberlin is . . . unashamedly positive about what kind of a world humanity could create, and unashamedly realistic about how far we are from creating it today Before 2005 Shaun read philosophy at the University of York and then worked, at various times, as a teacher, a massage therapist and the manager of a [...]
