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‘Violent minority’: note to ‘uncutters’

We’re writing this to you to try and prevent the anti-cuts struggle being split up and weakened by the media. We are anarchists (well, anarcho-syndicalists, technically) – a word that is much misunderstood and misrepresented. We are also students, workers and shop stewards. We co-organised a ‘Radical Workers Bloc’ on the South London feeder march. The aim was to provide a highly visible radical presence within the workers movement of which we are a part, advocating strikes, occupations and civil disobedience.

Saturday’s demonstration was far bigger than anyone expected, and saw thousands go beyond a simple A-B stroll to take direct action. The UK Uncut actions on Oxford Street and in occupying Fortnum and Masons provoked harsh treatment from police, including mass arrests. continued—–

via A letter to UK Uncutters from the ‘violent minority’.

Real green living ??

degrowth

by HeatherRogers

The eco-village of Vauban in Germany signposts one answer to climate change, reports Heather Rogers

Over the past decade, an eco‑friendly marketplace has been unleashed across the west. Thanks to consumer demand, the organic food business has grown by double digits every year for the past 15 – waning only briefly in 2009 due to the recession. Automakers are turning out more gas-electric hybrids and full electrics than ever before; biofuel markets are escalating every year; and the global carbon trade is now worth over $30 billion annually.

The promise implicit in these changes is that global warming can be stopped by swapping dirty products for green ones, with little disruption to daily life. Getting behind the wheel of a gas-electric hybrid is not so different from driving a regular car. Ethanol and biodiesel are the same as ordinary petrol. And paying a little extra for an airline ticket to cancel out CO2 emissions takes almost no effort at all…… /cont..

via Real green living | Red Pepper.

Waste Heat to Power Carbon Capture

NOTE.. This for me is a typical ‘tech fix’.. it could work,but if they can harness waste heat from power stations they’re much more likely to turn it into electricity and make more money! mikegilli).

…The IEA just said we’ll need 3000 carbon capture and storage projects by 2050 if we’re too reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert potentially catastrophic global warming. Considering that there are just five currently operating and 75 in planning stages, and there’s a strong contingent of researchers expressing doubt about that scale of CCS being feasible, it’s a daunting challenging ahead, no doubt. Well, Greentech Media is highlighting an interesting way of meeting that challenge:

[Global Thermostat] essentially captures the heat from power plants and/or industrial equipment to drive its CO2 capture equipment…..ETC ETC

via Waste Heat Powers Novel Carbon Capture Scheme : TreeHugger.

Ex-Icelandic official jailed for bank collapse

Ex-Icelandic official jailed for bank collapse trade

07 April 2011 | 22:43 | FOCUS News Agency

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Reykjavik. A Reykjavik court on Thursday sentenced a former high ranking official at Iceland’s finance ministry to two years in prison for selling stock in the Landsbanki bank just before its 2008 collapse, AFP reported.

Baldur Gudlaugsson “took advantage of his position as a staff member of public office” by selling all of his shares in Landsbanki on September 17 and 18 2008, the Reykjavik district court said in its ruling.

via Banqueros islandeses … a la jaula!!!! – cinabrio blog.