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Independent Investigators Release Suppressed Blueprints of Destroyed World Trade

27-03-2007 21:26

Scans of original drawings of the North Tower of the World Trade Center have been published online by a coalition of independent 9/11 researchers and journalists.

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since 16 am riot in paris at gare du nord

27-03-2007 21:10

solidarity with the french youth rioters

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Prisons in Venezuela: Extreme Violence, Extreme Indifference

27-03-2007 20:11

° Abolitionist text about the facts of three Venezuelan prisons: Uribana, Guanare and Sabaneta. Traslated from El Libertario (# 49, 2007), the voice of the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas www.nodo50.org/ellibertario.

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Mustafa to be deported from Heathrow

27-03-2007 19:34

Our friend Mustafa is due to be deported this evening on a commercial British Airways flight.

The flight number is GF008 and leaves at 22:00.

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4th Anniversary of Depleted Uranium used in Iraq arriving in the UK

27-03-2007 18:32

Thursday 29th March 2007 is the 4th anniversary of the uranium aerosols from the 'shock and awe' bombing of Iraq, reaching the UK. Today David Wilson, Press Office for the Stop the War Coalition, published an article on DU, which follows.

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The brain scan that can read people's intentions

27-03-2007 17:38

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 9, 2007
The Guardian

The brain scan that can read people's intentions


Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation

Using the technology is 'like shining a torch, looking for writing on a wall'. CT image: Charles O'Rear/Corbis

A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.

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STOP E$$O - Expose Exxon Mobil Day

27-03-2007 16:01

For full info. about events and protests see www.campaigncc.org

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Mark McGowan Aaron Barschak to Burn Effigy of MP Liam Byrne in Birmingham

27-03-2007 15:09

effigy burning
BURNING OF LIAM BYRNE EFFIGY

In an extra ordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan and the comedian Aaron Barschak are to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few. The event is to take place this Saturday 31st March at 12.30am in Birmingham New Street at the junction with Needless Alley, just outside Starbucks.

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7 Demonstrations against deportations to DRC 28th March/ reminder, changes

27-03-2007 15:08

7 Demonstrations tomorrow, 28th March, against deportations to DR Congo
Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and Nottingham
Please note : the planned demonstration in Birmingham has been cancelled

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Proposed ban on photographs in public spaces

27-03-2007 14:31

The government are planning to process a law which will ban the taking of photographs in public places without a valid form of id.

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Home Office round-up Darfur refused asylum seekers for deportation

27-03-2007 14:01


It has been brought to the attention of NCADC that the Home Office
have for the past five days been rounding up nationals of Sudan who
have been refused asylum in the UK and that they intend to deport
them to Khartoum.

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Demo at Sheldon Immigration Court has been cancelled tomorrow

27-03-2007 13:56

pictures from last saturday's meeting in Ladywood Birmingham
The demonstration against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Sheldon Immigration Court in Birmingham has been cancelled, and is being re-scheduled for April.

The other 6 nationally co-ordinated demos are still going ahead.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365846.html

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Bath Climate Camp - info and wish list

27-03-2007 13:31

Between late afternoon on thursday 19th of April and sunday 22nd April, there is going to be a climate camp just outside of Bath focusing on Land and Marines offices (the company building the gas pipeline smashing through Wales).

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N9S rebrands itself - though it's still nazi

27-03-2007 13:07

What a difference a name makes - one at all

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Aussie Torture Victim pleads ‘Guilty’

27-03-2007 12:57

In circumstances that could only be described as ‘railroading’ and coercive, the Aussie battler, David Hicks has pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists. Few Australians, including leading legal advocates accept the ‘trial’ of Hicks as legally legitimate. The flagrantly rogue court convened under the most biased and unfair conditions also disqualified Hicks’ civilian lawyers at the last minute. Hicks’ (now) disqualified lawyers accused the presiding judge, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Coleman of making up the rules as he went along – there is nothing new in the ‘legal’ proceedings at Guantanamo Bay!

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UN Security Or United Rape?

27-03-2007 12:04

As I watched Iran being hauled in front of the United Nations ‘Security’ Council, a vivid picture conjured up in my mind – my native country Iran, a vulnerable and defenseless beauty being prepared for violation by brutal savages. As she struggles to defend her honor, no one is prepared to come to her aid, save a few. Even her own children, those raised on her soil hope she will be brutally violated. With lust-filled eyes, they hope to fulfill their ambitions on her ravaged ruins, her broken pride.

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Unwelcome Guests: #351 - Death Squads and Empire

27-03-2007 11:29

Audio
Attached is the Unwelcome Guests radio show from 25th March 2007, entitled For The Love of Tyranny, Banannas, Bad Apples, Death Squads and Empire. It features Dahr Jamail, William Blum and John Taylor Gatto (reading).

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Whitechapel Knees Up Against Starbucks

27-03-2007 11:29

Serving up tea
On one of the coldest, windiest days so far. A large group of local residents and anti-starbuck activists took to the streets of Whitechapel to hand out free fair trade tea and home made cakes, in order to raise awareness about the bad business practices of Starbucks.

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From Iraq War to Middle East War

27-03-2007 11:13

Bush ignores everything that experts, the opposition majority and the US public want.. Bush's course recalls Nixon's 1970 invasion of Cambodia, expanding the battle while swearing withdrawal.

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R.S.V.P. Horsehit Road, 29/03/2007@2:00 p.m.Westminster Magistrates

27-03-2007 10:56

Is public peaceful political dissent an act of Terrorism?