Is Vladimir Putin the richest man in Europe? Al Jazeera's People & Power investigates the rumours surrouding Putin's alleged vast and hidden fortune.

A Debate between Chris Hedges and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective on Tactics & Strategy, Reform & Revolution.

I found it most entertaining to watch this passive-aggressive neo-hippie representing the black bloc come up against Chris' cool, deliberate, authoritative demeanour. Admittedly, I had made up my mind going into this debate having seen first hand the blowback generated by the so-called "black bloc" at the G20 protest in my own city of Toronto. Their actions turned a lot of the sensible public against the greater whole of protestors, even putting a bad taste in my own mouth about a protest I would otherwise be fully behind. During and since the G20 we have seen a ramping up of American-style crowd management across Canada, backed by a justification vividly illustrated by the burning cruisers - a PR stunt even many mainstream Canadian news organizations believe was perpetrated by the police and swallowed hook, line and sinker by the bloc.

First we're going to need to install net-snmp:

# yum install net-snmp

The latest version of apcupsd also requires libgd.so.2 which is brought in with the gd package:

# yum install gd

Now we're going to pull the matching architecture and RHEL version of apcupsd from http://pkgs.repoforge.org/apcupsd/:

# rpm -iv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.14.10-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving http://pkgs.repoforge.org/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.14.10-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YEqjxf: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY
Preparing packages for installation...
apcupsd-3.14.10-1.el6.rf

Please see my earlier article Configuring APCUPSD on Gentoo for APC SmartUPS Over Serial for configuration details.

To enable apcupsd on bootup:

# chkconfig --level 2345 apcupsd on

Al Jazeera's Fault Lines uses the RNC and DNC as a backdrop to investigate the impacts of the Citizens United ruling and the sway of wealth in elections.

Al Jazeera's People and Power series takes a look at the increasing use of drones in American military operations as a means to appease a war weary population at home - but are drones as "clean" and "precise" as their proponents claim and might their illegal and deadly use lead to unforseen blowback?