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[Untitled] Palm oil companies talk while the rainforests burn | Greenpeace UK: The most obvious has been annual meeting ofthe Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bali - this could have beenthe moment the industry got its act together and did something other than spin theusual load of greenwash over its involvement in the destruction of south eastAsia's rainforests. Sadly, it wasnot to be.

[Untitled] Schneier on Security: Brazilian Logging Firms Hire Hackers to ...: Greenpeace reckons these types of computer swindles were responsible for the excess export of 1.7 million cubic metres of timber (or enough for 780 Olympic-sized swimming pools, as the group helpfully points out) before police broke up the scam last year. Brazilian authorities are suing logging firms for 2 billion reais (US$833m).

[Untitled] The Latest Threat to the Amazon Rainforest: Hackers | 80beats ...: Andre Muggiati, a Greenpeace official in Brazil, said that “by hacking into the permit system, these companies have made their timber shipments appear legal and compliant with the forest management plans” .

[Untitled] Hackers Allow for Massive Section of Rainforest to be Illega ...: According to reports from environmental organization Greenpeace, the hackers were hired by at least 107 different companies to access and alter timber export records held by the Brazilian government. As a result, it’s estimated that an area of forest the size of 780 Olympic swimming pools has been cleared illegally.

[Untitled] Bring Me Up: The Environment: Greenpeace fights back for the ...: They state that according to Greenpeace, "Police started investigating the suspect hackers in April 2007, swooping in a couple of months later to arrest 30 ring leaders. One is still in jail - the intermediary who brought the hackers .

[Untitled] Brazil: Hackers 'aid' Amazon logging scam: "We've pointed out before that this method of controlling the transport of timber was subject to fraud," said Andre Muggiati, Greenpeace campaigner in Manaus. "And this is only the tip of the iceberg, because the same computer system is also used in two other Brazilian states."

[Untitled] Indonesian ship-to-ship blockade becomes a tug of war | Greenpeace UK: However, two tugs were waiting for us and thethree ships entered a bizarre, slow-motion ballet - the Esperanza trying tomove back alongside, and the tugs pushing us in the opposite direction.Meanwhile, the Corallo was steaming towards the dock and it became a raceagainst time for the captain to evade the tugs and place the Esperanza in theway of the incoming tanker. Nail-biting isn't really the word. 

[OPERATION ITCH] Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood ...: Before the on-going massacre in the Gaza Strip, and throughout the entirety of the Annapolis Peace Process, Israel has continued and even intensified its occupation of the West Bank. In 2008, settlement expansion increased by a factor of 38, a further 4,950 Palestinians were arrested - mostly from the West Bank, and checkpoints rose from 521 to 699.

[Science & Soul] Thought Experiment Number 1 « Science & Soul: The man dies and the son is badly wounded. When the son reaches the hospital, the surgeon who is scheduled to operate on him exclaims, “I cannot operate on him: he is my son!”

[Untitled] Brazil: Logging Firms Hire Hackers to Change Lumber Quotas ...: Brazilian logging companies hired hackers to break into their government's Web-based permit system to allow them to harvest many more trees than allowed, according to Greenpeace UK's blog. Here's how the system was supposed to work: .

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