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GLOBAL MIGRATION IS PERMANENT

04-12-2008 04:42

Manila, December 3, 2008 – For those backroom economists and politicians eager to sanitize their economies by sending migrant labor back home the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had a nasty surprise this month: Migration is not going away and your solution is not expulsion but flexible new policies.

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NDC: A brief history and critical examination

03-12-2008 20:40

The Neighbourhood Development Company (NDC) is the Nottingham partnership receiving money from the government's New Deal for Communities programme. It has had a controversial history, most recently resulting in the sacking of its entire Board for breaches of the Code of Conduct. This article takes a critical look at the organisation and proposes an alternative model for community development.

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After the Bankruptcy (Jürgen Habermas)

03-12-2008 18:40

The privatization mania has ended. Politics is necessary for the public interest, not the market. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a fatal triumphalism. A tension always exists between capitalism and democracy because the market and politics are based on opposite principles.

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Imperial justice: cops bully London protestors

03-12-2008 17:52

Protesters at the Woolwich Court on Monday.
Protest marred the trial of Hyrbyair Marri and Faiz Baloch in London. The two have tried to organize the Baluch resistance against Pakistan military atrocities in Baluchistan, that includeds killing, rape, torture and disappearances.

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Climate Safety report

03-12-2008 10:39

The Climate Safety report which has just been released is essential reading.

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Mumbai Attacks: The British are behind it

02-12-2008 23:47

False flags events are the only way nowadays to get the masses to accept going to war, to fight the wars our governments and secret services still feel have to be fought and won. At any cost it seems, billions and billions, never mind any economic depression in between.

Yes, we are at war. Yes, the Nuclear Third World War is on our doorstep. Yes, no global financial crisis, no matter how serious it is, will stop that now. It is all being planned and discussed in secret, and moved forward by false flag events to justify it.

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A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible

02-12-2008 10:00

Palestinian – Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter- Palestinian divide

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Launching of LIS CRITIQUE: new critical journal of library & information science

02-12-2008 08:33

Welcome!!!
Last news: November 19, 2008

Library & Information Science Critique has launched its FIRST ISSUE, and you can download it here,  http://critica.bibliotecologica.googlepages.com/liscritique in full, free, free of charge, unhampered, democratic and Open Access here, but if you wish we can also send it by e-mail and you can also contact us if you have any problems to access the articles, or queries, or if you like to send us your critical contributions for the next number, our contact here:  critica.bibliotecologica@gmail.com

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Dialect - Anti-Nuclear Campaigner Criticises Planned Expansion of Hinkley Point

30-11-2008 22:33

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Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Tuesdays 9:00 PM.  http://www.bcfm.org.uk/

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Businessman calls for UK lockdown

30-11-2008 19:18

In a BBC interview, ready-meal millionaire Sir Gulam Noon makes several misguided and misleading comments regarding immigration to the UK and its relationship to racism. The comments are reportedly echoed in his as yet unreleased autobiography

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The struggle for academic freedom

30-11-2008 18:20

This article originally appeared in Ceasefire magazine, an independent political magazine at the University of Nottingham ( http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/). The article explores the role that the institution has played in commercialising education and in suppressing academic freedom.

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Philippines: An urgent call to the NDF and the GRP regarding the recent killings

30-11-2008 12:24

An urgent call to the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) regarding the recent killings of farmers!

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Colossal Financial Collapse: The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank "Nationalizatio

29-11-2008 19:13

"The scale of the hidden losses of perhaps the twenty largest US banks is so enormous that if not before, the first Presidential decree of President Barack Obama will likely have to be declaration of a US ‘Bank Holiday’ and the full nationalization of the major banks, taking on the toxic assets and losses until the economy can again function with credit flowing to industry once more."

"The health of Citigroup is not the only gripping crisis that must be dealt with. At this point, political and ideological bickering in the US Congress has so far prevented a simple emergency $25 billion loan extension to General Motors and other of the US Big Three automakers—Ford and Chrysler. The absurd spectacle of US Congressmen attacking the chairmen of the Big Three for flying to the emergency Congressional hearings on a rescue loan in their private company jets while largely ignoring the issue of consequences to the economy of a GM failure underscores the utter lack of touch with reality that has overwhelmed Washington in recent years."

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Mumbai attacks... keep watching...

28-11-2008 23:55

What scares me most about the Mumbai attacks is the following:

1. They are not over yet.
2. We don't know who did it.
3. At this level of sophistication I would expect the capacity for a "follow-on" in the near future. If the intent of the attack is to put the United States completely out of business it will have to do so quickly.
4. The United States still has enormous military power which might be viewed in some DoD circles now as "Use it or lose it." They too can see the writing on the Imperial wall.
5. The attackers have made no demands.
6. To even publicly breathe that it might be state-sponsored puts us (i.e. all mankind) a hair trigger away from nuclear conflict in any off our theaters tactically and on a MAD basis strategically.
7. The logistics and C3 (Command, Control and Communications) for this looks state-sponsored.
8. This is an absolutely brilliant and potentially fatal blow aimed precisely at the weakest spots we have mapped in "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" and at "From The Wilderness".

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'Smart' CCTV in Portsmouth

28-11-2008 15:49

Portsmouth introduces CCTV cameras that can 'identify' suspicious behaviour and alert their operators

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Labour’s secret plans for tax hikes and spending cuts revealed

28-11-2008 14:26

Leaked documents reveal that the Labour government contemplated raising Value Added Tax (VAT) to 18.5 percent in Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-budget announcement. In the end, Darling’s report cut VAT to 15 percent.

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Surveillance Security State- Arrest of Shadow Cabinet MP

28-11-2008 13:15

Reports are coming in from official news sources that Damien Green,a leading member of the Opposition Bench has been arrested in connection with the "leaking" of documents which might be in the public interest.

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The Problem With...Civilization

28-11-2008 09:33

Civilization or civilisation n. an advanced stage or system of human social development
(Concise Oxford English Dictionary)

Something BETTER than civilization is awaiting us.
(Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization)

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China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America's New Military Command

27-11-2008 22:56

Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich Darfur region of southern Sudan and increasingly the Somali ‘pirate threat’ to sea lanes in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The legitimate question is whether it is mere coincidence that Africa appears just at this time to become a new geopolitical ‘hot spot’ or whether it has a direct link to the formal creation of AFRICOM.

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Dayschool on the Crisis :: Brighton :: Sat 29th November

27-11-2008 12:46

Dayschool on the Crisis
A one-day mini-conference. Anti-capitalist, libertarian perspectives on the financial crisis. Speakers, debates and discussion. 2pm-7pm at The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JA (see attached map).