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Call Out: Autonomous Prescense on Saturday's Climate Change Demonstration

06-12-2007 11:49

For social change, not climate change

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Audio: Peak Oil & Climate Change - Twin Crises?

06-12-2007 11:32

The relationship between Peak Oil and Climate Change was discussed, during a joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Peak Oil and on Climate Change, in the Grand Committee Room in Parliament on 5th December 2007.

Speakers:

Jeremy Leggett, author of `Half Gone' and CEO of Solar Century.

Martyn Williams, Parliamentary Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.

Chris Vernon, the Oil Drum, Europe.

mp3 file (100mb) of the meeting:  http://www.appgopo.org.uk/events/02_051207/APPGOPO2_PO_CC.mp3

 http://www.appgopo.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18

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The Spine

06-12-2007 10:33

As HM Revenue & Customs loses 25 million confidential records in the post, the programme to introduce a centralised NHS database slouches on, only delayed by a classically wasteful PFI project. Total data transparency may be good for corporations and security obsessed governments, but what does it mean for the recipients of ‘joined-up care’?, asks Damian Abbott

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Meeting tonight: Eye Witness accounts of the Guantanamo Bay prison

06-12-2007 10:11

Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign invite people to attend a truly unique opportunity to hear former US army Chaplain James Yee speak and discuss his experiences with former Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg. Yee will be speaking as part of his UK tour, at Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham City Centre, B4 7SX at 7.00 pm.

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Belarusian Anarchists Visit Liverpool

06-12-2007 05:37

Two Belarusian comrades visited Next To Nowhere last night, to show an Indymedia video of the mass protests in Minsk last year, and to discuss how west European activism compares to that of the former eastern bloc.

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Is clubbing in Camden Town finished as we know and love it? 28 Days On....

06-12-2007 01:48

Is clubbing in Camden Town finished as we know and love it? Is the future of Camden hanging in the balnce as the World's largest ever, highest level virus containment facility threatens to bring a 28 Days Later style apocalypse to Camden Town?

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The Future of Camden Enterntainment Industry Threat by Virus Containment Lab

06-12-2007 01:33

After it wa sreported on tonights ITN news, Camden Town's nightclubs, bars and pubs, galleries and restaurants etc were tonight outraged by news that the go ahead was today given for the world's largest ever, highest level virus containment facility to be built in Camden which could see many businesses close - there are fears that people will avoid Camden Town, Kings Cross, Euston and the Angel area of London.

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LSE Students Funded By Arms Companies, Report Reveals

06-12-2007 00:07

A report published by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has revealed that arms companies have paid for the fees and living expenses of seven students at the London School of Economics (LSE) to the tune of £83,706 since 2001. The report also reveals that between 1998 and 2004, the School received funding totalling at least £861,653 from several arms companies for research projects that it has carried out during the period.

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A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes

05-12-2007 22:13

or those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued, and its "Key Judgments" were made public.

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Iran Intelligence Report: Another Psychological Warfare?

05-12-2007 22:04

Under the current administration, it is increasingly difficult to know who the enemy is, but what is certain is that the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is a brilliantly executed psychological warfare by way of misinformation. This dastardly plan is so devious that even the anti-war groups are jubilant at its release, and they are naively sharing its contents. Perhaps non are as enthusiastic about the report as the most powerful lobby group in America hostile to Iran.

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Solidarity with the Harmondsworth 4 - Public Meeting Dec 11th

05-12-2007 21:49

A Public Meeting
called by No Borders London.

7pm, Tuesday 11th December,
at the Institute of Race Relations,
2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS
(near Kings Cross)

In November 2006 detainees at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre
protested against conditions inside the centre and their treatment by
the guards. The centre was damaged and the detainees were moved to
other detention centres and prisons.

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Meeting to discuss NUS democracy and way forward for the student left - Sunday

05-12-2007 20:23

A meeting open to all left student activists to discuss the way forward.

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Daily Mail is 'afraid' of Ken Livingstone 'lawyers'! - AADHIKARonline exclusive

05-12-2007 19:11

The London Daily Mail's web site has removed an item it has posted earlier today [Wednesday 5 December 2007] about 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone’s 'ethnicity and equalities' 'aide' Lee Jasper

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Impeachment: Will Congress Grant the Desires of “We the People?”

05-12-2007 19:01

It has been a month since our Democratically run Congress heard Rep. Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment. When will they do their job and do the people’s bidding?

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Help needed for women to attend Third Zapatista Encuentro

05-12-2007 18:57

Help! us bring 20 exemplary women, social strugglers from Mexico and the world to Chiapas, southern Mexico! The América del Valle Caravan is seeking help to carryout this historic delegation to the third Gathering of Zapatista Communities with the Peoples of the World “Comandanta Ramona”, with the expressed central theme being women, which will be held the 29th, 30th, and 31st of December, in the autonomous municipal Caracol of the La Garrucha.

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Innocent Irish Farmer is in Prison for 9 months.

05-12-2007 18:33

Farmer TOM KENNEDY has produced before the court his receipt for the sale of a small farm which he bought and paid for about twenty years ago.But in breech of common understanding and professional good conduct and practice, Augustine Cunningham,Solicitor,Butler Cunningham & Moloney Solicitors, Templemore County Tipperary did not register the sale.

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Activists and Residents chained to Bulldozers in South Wales

05-12-2007 16:26

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> 09.00 -More than thirty climate activists and local residents this
> morning took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain’s biggest
> ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

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A Unique Place.

05-12-2007 15:05

Central Government Housing Policies followed in a blinkered way by local Cambridge Politicians have lead to an ever changing population in the east part of the city.

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Palestine Today 120507

05-12-2007 14:25

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, December 5th, 2007.

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Why there must be no free speech for Nazis

05-12-2007 12:48

by Anindya Bhattacharyya