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28-05-2006 18:40

Get a (down) load of this before it disappears?
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
It's still up on Google but the projected US 'tour' of this film seems to have been torpedoed - wonder why?

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Top Cop Blair complains his lies were leaked.

28-05-2006 17:29

Sir Ian Blair, Met Police Commissioner, has complained that the fact he lied about the cost of trashing Brian Haw's demonstration was leaked to the press. In an extraordinary e-mail to Metropolitan Police Authority members and officials he wrote:

"I am disappointed by what seems to be a leak to the press out of what is an ordinary and internal meeting. Such behaviour appears to be contrary to the values of the organisation and this will be looked into accordingly."

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Titnore camp latest

28-05-2006 17:28

A TREE TOP protest camp in ancient Sussex woodland is still in place this evening, despite the earlier threat of an illegal eviction.

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Spoils of War Today? - Gulf War Syndrome

28-05-2006 17:24

For our troops on Memorial Day -

The Kings of Britain and France and
many other empires were able to raise
huge armies every several decades
because the soldiers who survived
the battles were rewarded with the
riches that they could carry and
women that they could rape at will.

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Expediency: the Death of Ideology

28-05-2006 16:29

While the forces of the traditional ‘left’ argue and analyse themselves into irrelevance (out of existence) the expedient right rumbles forward like a juggernaut. The left has been overwhelmed by simple expediency, the ‘whatever it takes’ (just get the job done) mentality is winning the day. Political correctness has all but destroyed the left whereas the right streaks ahead unburdened by any ethical issues. Ideology has been completely abandoned in favour of strategy. Any semblance to ideology is merely coincidental or a ruse/distraction.

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CARDIFF ARMY RECRUITMENT PROTEST

28-05-2006 15:29

SHUT IT DOWN!

Protest new army recruitment centre in Cardiff
Saturday 3 June at 1.30, Wood Street (Opposite Bus station)

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Immigration Reporting Centres: National Update and Call-out

28-05-2006 14:09

As the twice-monthly pickets of the Immigration Reporting Centre at North Shields on Tyneside enter their sixth month, Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) has called for a national day of action against reporting centres for the 22nd June, as part of Refugee Week.

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Activists arrested as gays defy Moscow Pride ban..

28-05-2006 13:50

Reports from the Moscow gay Pride parade and conference which have gone ahead despite the threats of bans and violence...

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"Stranger than Fiction" - time to review precisely why justice has failed us?

28-05-2006 13:44

In light of Mark Thomas's excellent move on Thursday in Parliament Square in support of Brian Haw and what he stands for, I feel it is necessary to air this inflammatory but undeniable article again. -- Will the real Goldstein please stand up?

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Revealed: how US marines massacred 24

28-05-2006 13:04

PHOTOGRAPHS taken by American military intelligence have provided crucial evidence that up to 24 Iraqis were massacred by marines in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold on the banks of the Euphrates.



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A long weekend in Gothenburg, Critical Mass and Hammarkullen Carnival

28-05-2006 12:49

Cycling, food, dance, sunshine, salsa and fellowship across cultural boundaries, if it wasn’t for the hangover it would have been a perfect weekend.

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URGENT - Eviction

28-05-2006 12:38

Titnore Woods site under imminent eviction

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US Concentration camps: Training for the American Gulag

28-05-2006 12:01

The U.S. army opens a mock detention facility on June 2 to improve training of soldiers for detainee operations. Instructors will include soldiers with experience at Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Army.

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Camp eviction - urgent call-out!

28-05-2006 10:37

TITNORE WOODS CAMP!
VIOLENT EVICTION THREATENED!

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Gay Parade in Moscow

28-05-2006 09:13

Moscow 27 May
Riot Police and Neo-Nazis Attack Gay Parade in Moscow - Over 120 Arrested

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Norway: Afghan refugees on hungerstrike

28-05-2006 08:23

after a demo on 22 of may, afghan refugees are escalating with a hungerstrike their protests against the decision of the norwegian government for their immediate deportaton to afghanistan.

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Iraq, car bombs and US covert forces: a little known story from 2003

28-05-2006 05:39

With all the reports on car bombings in Iraq, the SAS covert ops uncovert in Basra, and reports of iraqi cars being wired with explosives, unbeknownst to the driversm we can add this 2003 story

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Call for Weekend of Resistance Against the "Green Scare" June 9 - 11

28-05-2006 01:28

This June marks Jeff Free Luers' 6th year in prison. For the last three years, June 11th has been celebrated as an international day of solidarity with political prisoner Jeff Free Luers. This year has seen an increase in state repression against activists and radicals alike. It is truly a scary time, and in response we need to make June 11th a day of solidarity with all prisoners who stand up for the Earth and animal nations and resistance against those who stand against them.

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PHILIPPINES: NPA carnage in Bukidnon bared

27-05-2006 23:47

CPP-NDF-ILPS Jose Maria Sison & Jalandoni with BAYAN
THE military has unearthed more atrocities committed by New People’s Army rebels in the countryside, the latest of which were the mass execution of rebels and civilians alike, the recruitment of child warriors and the abduction and rape of a teenager by a rebel commander.

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Statement from Alan McCombes, jailed policy co-ordinator of the SSP

27-05-2006 22:35

Alan McCombes, yesterday jailed for refusing to hand over confidential internal minutes of the Scottish Socialist Party has released the following statement.