So it us again after Mark’s trip to Berlin to see and speak at re:publica 12 we are finally where we belong: in front of our screen reading the Newz to you.
Among those this week: the arrest of Sea Shepherd mastermind Captain Paul Watson in Germany; victims of NATO attacks on Libya speaking up; the Netherlands being the first to bring net neutrality to law in Europe; the arrest of one of the leaders of Joseph Kony’s LRA.
To sum it up we ramble a bit more about building sizes and measurement styles around the world.
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Introduction
01:04
re:publica 12
12:41
Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson Arrested in Germany
19:32
Libyan Victims of NATO Bombings in 2011 Want Answers
25:27
Netherlands Becomes First Country in EU With Net Neutrality Law
28:26
Kony's Number 3 Arrested in the Central African Republic
35:46
One World Trade Center Will Not Be Tallest Building in the US
This week Charles Taylor goes down for aiding war crimes in Sierra Leone while back in Liberia a nation gets confirmation on what it already knew.
Greg Palast has evidence that BP execs destroyed evidence showing they knew the Deepwater Horizon could blow.
The ruling coalition of the Netherlands has fallen, now we can enjoy some temporary government action.
Sending your data to the cloud? – Greenpeace has set their sites on data centers powered by dirty energy.
Mark is pleased to see the One World Trade Center will become the tallest building in New York this coming week.
Underwater cable-mania continues, we look at two new maps and why they are cool. Tim reveals his curiosity for the infamous Pitcairn Island, where the internet just got boosted up to 512kbps (actually in June officially).
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Introduction
01:53
Charles Taylor is found guilty
09:12
BP destroyed evidence of deepwater horizon problems
17:14
Dutch governing coalition collapses
25:16
The carbon footprint of cloud computing
35:03
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in NYC
We keep coming back to certain topics but continually bring up new ones too but more than anything we appreciate alert listeners who not only find the errors but also report them. So we put in some feedback in as it allows us to talk more about North Korea, our most favorite dictatorship.
Apart from that we ramble on about the UN and Syria on their never ending quest to find common ground and we report on India’s successful embarking into the cold war of the 21st century.
We take a closer look at recent and upcoming developments around Africa’s Internet connectivity and recommend others join the debate around Cory Doctorow’s comments on the “war on computing”.
This week North Korea is back on the newz list as their rocket hits the sea and the boy-president makes his first speech.
Then we go to US politics where Santorum has announced he’s out of money so Romney can be the candidate for the Republican party.
The big stories for this week come from Africa where along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, an oil dispute is raging. While in Malawi the continent’s second-ever female president,Joyce Banda, was sworn in. Over in the west there is more bad news this week as Guinea-Bissau’s executive branch has been arrested by a military coup.
Back in Germany the pirate party is once again turning heads and making headlines, what will become of this rising star of party politics?
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Prologue
02:06
North Korean leader gives first speech after his missile falls apart
05:51
Santorum quits due to lack of money, supports Romney
13:01
Sudan bombs South Sudan
18:18
Malawian president dies, VP becomes second female president in Africa
26:55
Guinea Bissau: Political party defies coup leaders
This week Tim and Mark poke around the internet to try and understand what is happening with religion and Cuba following the Pope’s visit. While back in Europa, Lithuania has made a new deal with a Hitachi to build a “next generation” nuclear plant – oddly inspiring an idea to visit Stendal.
The Chinese company ZTE recently made big sale to Iran for some internet surveillance equipment, as we look at some other names that have sold or almost sold similar items to the Ayatollahs.
A new documentary about Occupy has been released on Al Jazeera, one year since this global phenomenon, we reflect on the images and actions, as well as the possible legacy.
Following up on last week’s Foxconn-Mike Daisy debacle, the second most powerful Tim in the world is visiting the production facilities, while we share some slightly more informed opinions one week later.
In a related story we get an update about the FairPhone project, to hear what the latest is from the quest to build more ethical mobile devices.
Note: Tims audio track contains some annoying clicks we couldn’t get rid of during editing. We apologize for the inconveniences.
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Introduction
02:43
Pope visits Cuba, government now declares good friday a holiday
11:36
Europe: Lithuania goes deeper into nuclear power
15:52
Iran's "halal" Internet and new national spying program
21:30
Review of the new Fault Lines documentary about Occupy
27:07
Mike Daisey and Foxconn blowback
30:04
Samsung cooperating with FairPhone project to produce ethical batteries
To kick off another hair-raising week of news we start off with Mark reporting this week from Tbilisi, Georgia about what the latest newz is from the old republic.
In the latest dispatches from North Korea, nuclear inspectors are invited to visit, but the young leader also plans to launch a satellite to celebrate his father.
The Australian government, meanwhile, makes a bold move introducing a big new tax on all mining companies.
Mike Daisy might have a sweet boy’s name, but this week we learned his apple story was not big in terms of truthiness.
Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Christian Church died this week. An interesting man, with an impressive life, and fantastic headgear.
In keeping with our commitment to newz updates, we also bring you an update on MegaKim, as well as uncle Kony and the 2012 campaign.
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Introduction
01:59
Newz from Georgia
06:22
North Korea Invites Inspectors while planning a satellite launch
Kony Kony Kony, its the name that is all over the social media world, including Newz of the World! But what happens when the online campaign world goes head to head with the world of warlords?
One year after the Fukushima disaster, 52 out of 54 Japanese nuclear power plants have been deactivated. How does a country with an immense need for power go from 1/3 nuclear to almost no nuclear in one year?
Far-right Dutch political icon and MP Geert Wilders is encouraging people to report their East European neighbors via a website. How does Europe react to having groups of its citizens being targeted as potential criminals?
In what continues to be a worrying situation, journalist and author Michael S. Moore has been in captivity in Somalia for over a month now. What are the options when a friend or a colleague gets kidnapped by pirates or criminals of the most notorious kind?
00:00
Prologue
00:54
Kony 2012
23:35
Anniversary of Fukushima
38:09
Dutch far right might get legal action from the EU
42:52
Der Spiegel correspondant and citizenreporter.org guest kidnapped in Somalia
Young Kim Jung-un probably doesn’t like his haircut, but thankfully that didn’t stop North Korea from agreeing to a new food for no-nucs deal with the US. While the largest Union in the UK is threatening massive strikes during the summer Olympics this year.
We’re less than 24 hours from the Iranian parliamentary election where the opposition is in jail and it has become a question of who’s the coolest conservative in town. Then comes the case of LinkedIn and the legal issues the service has brought to current and former employees who are legally obligated to not keep their clients/contacts.
And finally we get back into some Koran burning and whats going on behind the scenes in Afghanistan. All this and possibly more on this fresh edition of Newz of the World!
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Introduction
02:26
North Korea Announces to halt nuclear program in exchange for food aid
07:02
London Transport Workers Threaten Strike during Olympics
12:00
Iranian Election on the 2nd of March, Conservatives divided over Ahmedinajad
We keep coming back to certain topics but continually bring up new ones too but more than anything we appreciate alert listeners who not only find the errors but also report them. So we put in some feedback in as it allows us to talk more about North Korea, our most favorite dictatorship.
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