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Organic Consumers News
- Media Coverage of the OCA Sludge Dump in San Francisco
- Living Hero Interview with Vandana Shiva
- Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits
- On Rooftops Worldwide, a Solar Water Heating Revolution
- OCA and Labor Activists at Shareholder Meeting Say Whole Foods' Business Practices Are Bad for the Planet
Mosaic: News from the Middle East
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World Politics and News
BNP rules judged 'discriminatory'
The British National Party's new membership rules are likely to discriminate against non-white people, a judge rules.
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Schumacher's return dominates start of F1 season
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher makes his eagerly-awaited return to Formula One as the new season gets underway at this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.
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Avatar and the politics of our time
It is striking and, to use a religious term, a bit awe-inspiring to see how central that religion has become to politics in the post-Cold War era. For more than 200 years, the defining split was left versus right. Now religion is in the equation in a big way.
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Pope defends celibacy of priests
Pope Benedict XVI defends celibacy for Catholic priests, amid a new controversy about child sex abuse in Germany and Austria.
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Tweets 'fundamental to democracy'
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams believes social networks will be the fundamental way the public communicates with government.
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BA union announces strike dates
BA cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March in a dispute over pay and staff levels.
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Deadly blasts hit Pakistani city
At least 45 people die in twin suicide attacks on Pakistani security forces in the eastern city of Lahore, police say.
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Eta suspect arrested in Portugal
Portuguese police arrest a suspected Eta Basque militant who was trying to catch a flight from Lisbon to Venezuela.
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Eurozone industry grows strongly
Factory output in the eurozone rose 1.7% between December and January, the biggest monthly rise since records began.
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Charles Taylor's wife gives birth
The wife of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor - on trial in The Hague for war crimes - has a baby girl.
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Baroness not to face expenses charge
Labour peer Baroness Uddin says she is "relieved" after being told she will not be prosecuted over her expenses.
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Couple jailed for starving girl
The mother of a girl who starved to death is sentenced to 15 years and her stepfather jailed indefinitely.
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'Murdered soul'
German campaigner tells of childhood Catholic abuse
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Sarkozy to meet UK party leaders
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is holding separate talks in London later with Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron.
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Jay Sean wins Asian Music Awards
Jay Sean sweeps the boards at the 2010 Asian Music Awards by winning the four awards for which he was nominated.
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Lib Dems unveil election slogan
The Liberal Democrats unveil their election campaign slogan ahead of their spring conference in Birmingham.
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BA cabin crew to strike this month
Union members representing British Airways cabin crews announced Friday they will hold two separate strikes this month in a dispute over working conditions.
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Lehman bosses severely criticised
A report into the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses.
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Funeral held for Karachi cleric
Security is tight in the Pakistani city of Karachi as funerals are held for a Sunni Muslim cleric and four others killed on Thursday.
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Center for Democracy & Technology
- Protecting Privacy in Online Identity: A Review of the Letter and Spirit of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s Application to Identity Providers
- CDT Testifies on Location Privacy
- The Role of Privacy by Design in Protecting Consumer Privacy
- CDT Files Two Sets of Comments to the FCC about the Importance of Privacy in the Context of the National Broadband Plan
- CDT Offers Recommendations For FCC “Open Internet” Rules