Greenpeace will be staging a national day of action today with activists leafletting Ford dealerships across the U.S. to educate consumers about Ford's role in killing the Kyoto Treaty. For those who'd like to participate in the leafletting, print out the "Ford: Driving Global Warming" flyer (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
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PressurePoint has called for and is coordinating an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION against Exxon-Mobil in response to President Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol Treaty on climate change. The actions will be held in the first week of July in the lead up to the July 16 climate negotiations in Germany, and will be part of an ongoing campaign on climate and fossil fuels.
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Not getting enough SPAM lately? No need to worry. Reva Networks are currently promoting their new product, Admail, to Internet Service Providers (ISP's) and free Web-based e-mail providers. With this product, online advertisers will be able to intercept all e-mail transmissions (including private e-mail) as they enter an e-mail provider's system and attach advertising content to them. Admail will basically embed ads to the body of any e-mail message. This product will allow ISP's and e-mail providers a way to "generate revenue from their e-mail services by providing an effective channel for advertisers to deliver content rich marketing messages to a demographically targeted audience."

But isn't this [SPAM] an invasion of our privacy, not to mention harassment? Well, not according to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Gephardt (D-MO). According to them, they [companies] can "use their First Amendment rights to send unsolicited communication." First Amendment rights? Okay, so from now on I'll be forwarding my SPAM to both Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Gephardt. Hey, it's my "First Amendment right to send unsolicited communication."

All interested parties can forward unwanted SPAM to Rep. Gephardt at gephardt@mail.house.gov. Senator Wyden can be reached at senator@wyden.senate.gov or senator_wyden@exchange.senate.gov.

According to a BBC News report, a U.S. scientist believes that the rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest is so great that it [Amazon rainforest] could essentially disappear within 40 or 50 years. And if we don't do something about its destruction soon, the damage could be irreversible within 10 years.
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If the Europeans do indeed have their own system, this wouldn't come as a major surprise. If the U.S. and its partners are monitoring telephone calls, e-mails, and other forms of telecommunication transmissions, then it's feasible for other governments to have similar capabilities.

Related Stories:

• Congress To Pull Plug On Carnivore? - 14 Jun 2001
• FBI Continues Transition To Digital Surveillance - 26 Feb 2001
• Dutch Defense Ministry Acknowledge Echelon - 24 Jan 2001
• How Carnivore Works - 20 Dec 2000
• Bracing For The Storm - 22 Apr 2000
• Project Echelon - 5 Apr 2000
• Big Brother Is Watching - 17 Feb 2000

On June 19, 2001 over 250 giant corporations from across the country came together in the Ronald Reagan International Trade Building in Washington DC to announce a new business coalition, USTrade, that will work to push the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a new round of the WTO, and especially FAST TRACK in the U.S. Congress.
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Congress to pull the plug on Carnivore? That may not be so far fetched.
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As 10,000 sailors on 11 ships prepared for a fresh round of exercises, Bush administration officials told NBC News Wednesday that the White House has decided to end six decades of Navy bombing training on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003.
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The Ford Motor Company is also part of an industry lobbying group - the U.S. Council of International Business - which is backing President Bush's move to derail the only international effort to stop global warming - the Kyoto Treaty. Tell Ford to replace rhetoric with action and publicly support the Kyoto Treaty!
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• Bush Betrays Campaign Pledge to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions - 06 Apr 2001
• World Faces Climate Disaster As Bush Turns On Kyoto Treaty - 30 Mar 2001

Since more and more site operators and net advertisers are placing these bugs to track and collect information about web surfers, this program comes at the right time.
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Radiohead have announced the tour dates for the second leg of their U.S. tour. The first leg kicks off June 18th in Spring, Texas and runs through June 30th in Santa Barbara, Ca. The second leg kicks off July 30th in Atlanta and runs through August 20th in Los Angeles.

1. 6/18 - Houston - C.W. Mitchell Pavilion
2. 6/19 - Denver - Red Rocks Amphitheater
3. 6/23 - Seattle - The Gorge
4. 6/24 - Vancouver - Thunderbird Stadium
5. 6/26 - San Francisco - Shoreline Amphitheater
6. 6/27 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater
7. 6/29 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
8. 6/30 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
9. 7/30 - Atlanta - TBA
10. 8/01 - Chicago - Soldier Field
11. 8/03 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheater
12. 8/05 - Montreal, QC - Parc Des Illes
13. 8/07 - Philadelphia - TBA
14. 8/11 - Centreville, VA - Bull Run Regional Park
15. 8/12 - Centreville, VA - Bull Run Regional Park
16. 8/14 - Boston - Suffolk Downs
17. 8/16 - Jersey City, NJ - Liberty State Park
18. 8/17 - Jersey City, NJ - Liberty State Park
19. 8/20 - Los Angeles - Hollywood Bowl

Do they need to be reminded of when an unapproved variety of engineered corn was planted and contaminated millions of bushels of natural corn last fall, leading to over 300 food product recalls?

Related Stories:

• U.S. and Canada Derail Global GE Food Labeling Rules - 16 May 2001
• Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods Denied by FDA - 17 Jan. 2001
• Contaminated Corn - 25 Oct. 2000
• FDA Say GMO A Go - 06 May 2000

When the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) issued a challenge to see if anyone could break its watermark technology "designed to prevent the unauthorized copying, sharing, and use of digital music," a team of researchers led by Princeton Professor Edward Felten accepted the challenge and defeated the watermark. But when Professor Felten decided to academically publish the findings, the SDMI and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threatened to sue him if the paper detailing how they circumvented the system was presented.

Now the Princeton scientist is suing the RIAA and the SDMI for violating his First Amendment rights. Scientists should not have to seek approval from the industry before they publish research. "Studying digital access technologies and publishing the research for our colleagues are both fundamental to the progress of science and academic freedom."

As this case is likely to cost over $2 million, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit member-supported organization, urgently needs your support if it's to succeed and protect our rights. This is an extremely important case/cause. If you care to make a difference, donations can be made at www.eff.org/support.

• Read the EFF Press Release
• Full text of legal filing
• Professor Felten's Statement To Censorship By RIAA
• RIAA and SDMI Legal Threat Letter

UCLA Design | Media Arts will be presenting "Design | Media Art MFA Exhibition," a UCLA/Bauhaus Collaboration. This event, the third in a series, will explore the current break down of definitions, dualisms, and geographical boundaries in a point to point net experiment. The collaboration involves the Medien Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar; the Department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA, Los Angeles; the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Goethe Institute Munchen. The exhibit begins on Friday, June 8 at 6 p.m.

The tracklist for "People Are Expensive" is:
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1. Fear Of Flying
2. Tell Me Why
3. Down To Earth
4. People Are Expensive
5. Digit
6. Dying
7. Kali Yuga
8. Everything Is All
9. A Map Is Not The Territory
10. Ondine
11. Point Dume

As many may remember, Rage Against The Machine put on a free show for protesters at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Los Angeles on August 14, 2000. If you weren't there, REGENERATIONtv will be streaming the concert in its entirety on Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 8 p.m. PDT (11 p.m. Eastern). All that's required is some bandwidth (Cable, DSL, etc.) and Windows Media Player.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided yesterday to postpone any increase in crude oil production because of ample crude inventories and stable and affordable prices. This decision comes even after Iraq has suspended deliveries under the U.N. oil-for-food program. Iraq's decision to withhold deliveries means that there'll be 5 percent less crude oil available to the world. This shortfall in supplies can only mean that gas prices will increase yet again in the face of increasing demand.

1. Crystal
2. 60 MPH
3. Turn My Way
4. Vicious Streak
5. Nothing's Gonna Change
6. Someone Like You
7. Run This River Dry
8. Player In the League
9. Primitive Notion
10. Slow Jam
11. Run Wild

In other music news, James are set to release their eleventh studio album, Pleased To Meet You, on July 2. The first single off the new album, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), will be out on June 25, the same day they are also to release Strange Dancing: The Early Years, a compilation of songs they recorded for Sire and Factory in the mid-to-late 80s.

And finally, Echobelly are back! They have a new album out, People Are Expensive, and their own record label, Fry Up. Their decision to part with Sony and establish their own label was the result of them not wanting "to go in the direction they were pushing us - very pop oriented - and we wanted to do something that was more true to ourselves."