Nokia Siemens helps Arab regimes catch dissidents

As one expert remarked, "There's very little chance a government is smart enough [to identify dissidents] without this [interception] technology."

That means firms like Nokia Siemens, which has actively sold mobile and Internet spying technology to despotic Arab regimes, are ethically complicit in their arrest and torture of peaceful dissidents.

Think about that the next time you're looking to buy one of their products!

Nokia: Connecting dictators and their victims

Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens

By Vernon Silver and Ben Elgin

August 22, 2011 | Bloomberg

URL: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/torture-in-bahrain-becomes-routine-with-help-from-nokia-siemens-networking.html

Bearded climate scientists? No, it's Siemens

This is from Siemen's web site, a document called "The Company 2010:"

Megatrends that shape our future

Climate Change

• The average global surface temperature has increased by 0.76 degrees C compared to the 18th century.
• 11 of the 12 years between 1994 and 2005 rank among the 12 warmest since weather observations began.
• Greenhouse gas emissions have risen dramatically since industrialization. Today we face the highest CO2 concentration in the atmosphere for the past 350,000 years.

This is a multi-billion dollar mutli-national corporation saying this. And they're making big-money bets with shareholders' money that these facts mean something.