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Ingenuity, innovation and invention -- New Internationalist

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New Internationalist Blogs ›. The Majority World Blog ›. Ingenuity, innovation and invention. However, in the business of recycling Africa and the Global South have generally, whether by necessity, innovation or both, always been miles ahead of developed countries. Likewise, Africans are designing and building their own innovations in energy. The recent African Makers Faire. Of Malawi, who left school at the age of 14, has designed a wind-powered generator using recycled bits for his home. The Bambulance...

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The Idea of Home: Let's Go Shopping!

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The Idea of Home. When faced with the need to shop, my mental flowchart. Goes something like this:. Q1: Surely I have everything I need: do I really need this? Q2: If I really need it, can I hire it, borrow it from someone, or buy it second hand? Q3: Failing that, can I buy fair trade? Q5: If I need it, can’t borrow it, and can’t find it second hand, fair trade or locally, then I shout ‘*%? It’ and head to the nearest multinational. Kids’ clothes are gorgeous. Men’s pyjamas are good, also...Terrible name...

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Climate Change -- New Internationalist

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New Internationalist books and publications. The No-Nonsense Guide to. Climate Change The Science, The Solutions, The Way Forward. Visit his blog. dannychivers.blogspot.co.uk. A completely revised edition on the politics of climate in a post-Copenhagen world. Foreword, Contents and Introduction. Concise and very informative. It is a must read if you are interested in climate change and the environment.'. See all the No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change videos. Want to get up-to-date on climate change?

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Blacklisted -- New Internationalist

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New Internationalist books and publications. Blacklisted The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists. Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain. Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies used to keep union activists away from work. The book on blacklisting by Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith could turn out to be one of the most important of 2015. - Rob Evans, journalist for The Guardian, and author of Undercover. This book demonstrates ...

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Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski -- New Internationalist

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Guilty as charged ›. Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Poland’s President and Prime Minister Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. They’re anti-gay and pro-Iraq War, fervent Catholics and free-market sceptics, they want to bring back the death penalty and ban abortion even for rape victims. They’re the President and Prime Minister of Poland. And they’re identical twins. Really. Lech did win, and chose someone else to be Prime Minister. For the moment. Then, in the summer of 2006, Lech finally installed Jarosla...To av...

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Santa’s helper is a racist caricature -- New Internationalist

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New Internationalist Blogs ›. Santa’s helper is a racist caricature. Pascal under a Creative Commons Licence. Hundreds’ is a conservative estimate; it’s probably more like thousands or tens of thousands when the rest of the Netherlands is taken into account. But no-one is keeping track of exactly how many Dutch people join Hendricks in her annual winter ‘jolly’, so I’m having a go at understatement here. Something you won’t find much of when it comes to the Zwarte Piet debate. But while Santa has elves t...

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Netherlands’ tax hypocrisy harms Greek economy -- New Internationalist

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New Internationalist Blogs ›. Netherlands’ tax hypocrisy harms Greek economy. Photosteve101 under a Creative Commons Licence. A new report from SOMO. Centre for Research on Multinational Companies, a Dutch non-profit organization) has revealed that Greece’s economic recovery is being undermined. By the Netherland’s tax-dodging laws. Discussions around Greece’s budget deficit (the largest among EU. The European Union and the Netherlands have double standards,’ says SOMO. For the Group of the Greens/Europe...

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Peru's dam busters -- New Internationalist

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Peru’s dam busters. Vanessa Baird discovers why the Asháninka people of the River Ene are taking a hard line against dam builders and others. This special report was published in the October edition. Of the New Internationalist ‘Nature’s Defenders’ Buy this issue. Or subscribe from just 7. Voracious, rapacious and, ultimately, outwitted. The gigantic human-eating eagle that gave its name to Pakitzapango could be a lesson to all who have designs on this part of the world. I’m thinking of this story ...

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Taking Liberties -- New Internationalist

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One of the fundamental principles of a just society is that a person. Is innocent until proven guilty. But it’s a rule that is not applied to the. Mentally ill, in the West or the Soviet Union. Report by Larry Gostin. But how fair is this sinister view of Soviet psychiatry? And how far removed are these practices from what goes on in the West? And in the UK people who are epileptic or hypertensive can be declared legally insane and detained in mental hospital because they. Commit a crime. Why should ...

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The Facts -- New Internationalist

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Issue 252 - February 1994. Illustration by JACKIE MORRIS. From Rio to Rome, from Dakar to Darwin. Prostitutes everywhere are persecuted. Not a crime, according to Article 19 of the Constitution: ‘private actions that in no way offend order and public morals or do damage to a third party are reserved to be judged by God and fall outside the competence of judges’. But it is illegal to solicit, to aid or abet a prostitute, live off their earnings, or run a brothel. In the Criminal Code. Private transact...