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Ecuador: President-elect Correa sets Sights on Free Software

19-12-2006 14:42

Correa and Stallman meeting 12 December
Ecuador seems likely to champion the Free Software movement in migrating Government systems to Free Software, according to a blog report. Rafael Correa, the president-elect of Ecuador in South America met with Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation and GNU project on December 12.

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Anti-Putin rally in Moscow.

19-12-2006 13:50

Participants hold a poster depicting Anna Politkovskaya
December 17, 2006

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Westgate Centre approved

19-12-2006 13:38

Westgate Centre approved.

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Falsified Records Aid 9/11 Coverup

19-12-2006 12:20

WIKIPEDIA CAUGHT FABRICATING INFORMATION ABOUT SEPT 11 PASSENGERS—AND THEN FALSIFYING ITS OWN RECORDS IN AN ATTEMPT TO COVER UP ITS FIRST LIE.

On May 16 2004, I published an article entitled “Media published fake passenger lists for American Airlines flight 11”. The article was revised on Sept 20, 2006. The article revealed that the mainstream media had fabricated passenger lists for the alleged flight American Airlines 11. I say “alleged flight”, because official flight data from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics indicates that no such flight existed on the day.

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Organic needs defending, join the campaign

19-12-2006 12:08

One of London's most fashionable restaurants, used by film stars and members of the Royal family, has become the first in the country to be fined for falsely claiming that meat used in a number of its dishes was organically farmed.

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Smash the royal wedding

19-12-2006 11:58

Movement Against the Monarch (MAM) is preparing their glad rags for the street party of the centuary, a right royal knees up on the event of the wedding of Prince William and his college shag Kate Middleton. With the eyes media turning on this grand royal distraction it is the perfect time to agitate people on the iisue of abolishing these parasites once and for all.

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APPO spokespeople detained and beaten in Oacaxa

19-12-2006 11:12

Three APPO spokespeople were detained, beaten, tortured and released in Oaxaca City. Plain clothes gunmen detained, beat, and tortured three members of the Oaxaca People's Popular Assembly (APPO)--also members of the Popular Revolutionary Front (FPR)-- Florentino Martinez, Pedro Garcia, and Otalo Padilla.

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UK troops rampage through Kandahar

19-12-2006 10:59

An official investigation was launched December 9 into allegations that British troops had opened fire indiscriminately at civilians in Kandahar city, southern Afghanistan, following a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO-led convoy.

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Cop held on prostitute killings

19-12-2006 02:39

It has now been confirmed that the man arrested over the Suffolk serial murders is a former policeman. Not only that, Police had previously searched his house and garden last month and he was accused with other sex crimes but the police choose not to continue their investigation. Romours are that Stephens is a member of the Free Maisons and pulled in favors from friends in the force to put a halt on possible prosecution.

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piquet against repression in chile

19-12-2006 02:31

Land and freedom to all political prisoners
In support of all the political prisoners mapuche.

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O, Muslim town of Bethlehem...

19-12-2006 01:41

It's the season of good will and to celebrate brotherly love and the like, the Daily Mail was been reporting from the holly land on what they describe as a "sense of a creeping Islamic fundamentalism is all around in Bethlehem".

The paper reports, "The town’s Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006. There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs."

Apparently the breakdown in security has been putting off the jet set tourists and leading to economic hardship for those ever down trodden Christians - who incidently manage to own most of the town’s hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.

This god awful situation has become "so desperate" that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, are going over with a bunch of cristian protesters to express their solidarity with the "beleaguered Christian populace"

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Just What is happening to the English Magistrates Courts system...?

19-12-2006 01:03

Magistrates courts were once a place where the accused would sit on a bench to face the magistrates. Now many magistrates courts in the UK contain glass enclosures (docks) reminiscent of those used in the Saddam Hussein trial. So what is going on?

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Privy Council: Vast majority of Afghanis struggle for the "bare essentials of su

19-12-2006 00:57

The bleak forecast of the heavily censored report is at odds with recent claims by other Canadian officials. It says the vast majority of the population still struggles for the "bare essentials of survival," just as they did in the days of the Taliban
Last year’s report slammed NGOs for their "squandering of aid money"

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Grey power for peace

18-12-2006 23:49

Prosecutor's plan to retry 69-year-old Rosemarie Jackowski, for blocking traffic while protesting the Iraq war. The battle is turning the feisty 4-foot-10 inch former schoolteacher into a darling of the dove crowd, the anti-war movement's newest folk hero and cause celebre.

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US COULD FACE CATASTROPHIC MILITARY DEFEAT IN IRAQ

18-12-2006 23:45

US Supply Line
The flawed assessment offered by the Baker-Hamilton report neglects a crucial aspect of the political-military situation of the US and other foreign armed forces in Iraq: the danger that the US army of occupation might be cut off, encircled, and annihilated as a fighting force over the next few months. This flaw in turn makes it easier for Baker-Hamilton to reject a priori the one rational response to the current reality, which is the extrication of US forces before it is too late. We do not need a new way forward in Iraq; we require a speedy way out of Iraq.

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'Consultation' Preston City Council Style

18-12-2006 23:25

Councillors in Preston are consulting residents of one ward about the 'Riverworks' proposals - but are asking questions which ignore the key issues for local residents, and failing to give the information that people need to answer the questions they do ask.

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Opt-out of the national NHS database

18-12-2006 23:13

The NHS database promises to be the biggest of the states big brother databases, but of course those with money won't be one it since they use private doctors, it's for the rest of us... There is a campaign to encourage people to opt out, read on.

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Police Refuse to Investigate Assault on Protester

18-12-2006 22:46

Smash EDO Press Release

Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson For more
Details

Email -  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk, tel 07875708873

www.smashedo.org.uk

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New Year's Eve Peace Vigil on Salisbury Plain

18-12-2006 19:02

map of Imber 1
For the fifth consecutive year a Salisbury Plain Peace Vigil will be held on the army range at 12 noon on New Year's Eve 31 December 2006

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speech of Rabbi Cohen in Teheran: Orthodox Jewish attitude to the 'Holocaust'

18-12-2006 18:53

"As is well known, Zionism and the Holocaust have become very much intertwined over the years and the Zionists make a great issue of the Holocaust in order to further their illegitimate philosophy and aims."

"We put effort into attending occasions such as this because we feel that we have both a religious and religion based humanitarian duty to spread our message as much as possible."