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- Liberalizing Food Trade to Death
From South Centre, By Shawn Hattingh. Shawn Hattingh is a research and education officer at the International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) in Cape Town, South Africa.
Introduction
Billions of people are struggling to afford food because of the huge disparities and inequalities that have been exacerbated by the current economic system — neo-liberal globalization. […] - Lessons From the Food Crisis: Patchwork Will Not Mend Our Vulnerable System
By Viviana Muñoz Tellez, Programme Officer of the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme (IAKP) at South Centre.
In response to the global food crisis, world leaders around the globe are making pledges for rapid action. New commitments are embodied in the recent Declaration of the High-level conference on World Food Security convened by […] - ‘Steal this Film blazes trails in open distribution and raw footage sharing.’
[from our friends at
Miro. Thanks Holmes!]
Not many shoestring-budget documentary films get seen by
4.86 million people.
It helps that
“Steal this Film” covers the war between Hollywood and a prevailing mode of online video distribution, and that the film’s logo stood in for
the pirate ship on the front page of the world’s favorite torrent […] - ACTA Could Be “Binding” By End of 2008
U.S. Report Says ACTA Deal Gaining Steam
… a report out of the U.S. suggests that there is considerable reason for public concern regarding ACTA.
Congress Daily (sub req) quotes a high-level official from the USTR as indicating that the talks are gaining steam, with a binding international agreement likely by the end of the year. […] - ACTA Links To Go
1.
WARNING! Potential Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk (Trade Lawyers’ Blog)
“We should all be concerned that some governments will increase laptop searches under the disguised authority of ACTA and in reality to obtain personal information.”
2.
International copyright talks seek BitTorrent-killer laws (The Register)
“At time of writing the EU had not responded to a […] - Is America Faking Its Own Banknotes?
Some people (and not just gun toting libertarians and Molotov-slinging anarchists) would say that modern money is already fake — it’s not backed by anything solid or finite, like lumps of gold. It’s
“fiat” money, currency that a government has declared to be legal tender despite the fact that it has no necessary intrinsic value.
Originally, […] - The ‘Mysterious Supernote’
[’Mysterious Supernote’ is a chapter from Klaus W. Bender,
Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing. I think you won’t find it anywhere else on the Web in plain text, or even as a PDF, but if you do, please let me know.]
Over the years the “almighty greenback” has been far and way the most […] - Counterfeit Money
A very short story by Baudelaire.
As we were walking away from a tobacconist’s, my friend carefully sorted out his change: into his left vest pocket he slipped the small gold coins, into his right vest pocket the small silver coins; into the left pocket of his pants, a handful of large copper coins, and […] - Thousands stuck with fake art prints
Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay. […]
- Data about P2P, VoIP, Skype, File Hosters like RapidShare and Streaming Services like YouTube :: ipoque
Was hunting for P2P data and found this… analysis to follow.
Internet Study 2007: Data about P2P, VoIP, Skype, File Hosterslike RapidShare and Streaming Services like YouTube :: ipoque