Kaerast’s NewsCloud Journal

Let me take you back to summer 2005. It was the G8 summit in Gleneagles Scotland and UK activists were suddenly very busy after years of being badly organised. During this time, three important things happened which has affected the UK activist scene ever since.
There was a campsite set up in Stirling which […]

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The quality press is awash with invisible-tank stories this morning, as the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Ananova news wire et al pile into an exclusive scoop by the Sun.
It would seem that the Currant Bun scribes have spoken to a squaddie from the Royal Engineers, who claims to have been involved in trials last week featuring […]

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A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle.
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My first response to this story was how? But whilst it appears to be a fun oddly-enough news story, it’s actually a rather concerning story. What anybody does with an inanimate object […]

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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
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YouPorn and other blue Web 2.0 startups could be out of business in the near future if proposed changes to 18 U.S.C. 2257 are accepted into law. Known in the industry as “2257,” 18 U.S.C. 2257 defines requirements porn producers must follow to verify the age of every performer, keep records about the performers’ identities […]

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Piracy, it seems, is about more than price. That’s one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week. With popular album releases, illegal download volumes normally outstrip sales, says Garland. But more surprising is that fans chose to steal music they could legally download […]

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