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India against China: global competition, outsourcing, technology politics

10-10-2007 02:41

Talking about China and India! Is India able to move ahead of China soon? What is the next in world trade, finance, outsourcing, politics and international affairs?

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Colombia manifestation

09-10-2007 16:48

the people stand up for fight againts fascism!

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Group 4 Securicor and UK plc

09-10-2007 13:06

Kleins book the Shock Doctrine has been vilified by some as an overblown account of the corporate sectors final push for world domination. Yet Group 4 Securicors website proudly boasted last week that "Private sector involvement is needed to help governments to protect every nation’s critical national infrastructure".

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Surveillance Society - the future now

08-10-2007 21:08

A report, recently released, describes the state of the UK in 2017 - a surveillance society from our worst sci-fi nightmares. This is not the product of some conspiracy theory, but rather the more banal outgrowth of business-as-usual. More terrifying as a consequence.

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Lancaster anti-supermarket protest camp

08-10-2007 17:44

Growing Camp
New protest camp goes up in Lancaster with local residents in support - nobody wants a supermarket with a huge parking here!
Pictures and press release:

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XL airways refuse to carry deportees - Home Office Panic!

08-10-2007 17:06

XL Airways ;
"... we operated one flight in February to DR Congo as part of this
contract, without full understanding of the political dimensions
involved. Our chief executive [Phillip Wyatt] had made it quite clear
to all concerned that we will not be operating any further flights of
this nature ... We are not neutral on the issue and have sympathy for
all dispossessed persons in the world, hence our stance."

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Juana suffers heart attack in Jail

08-10-2007 11:29

Friends of Mapuche chief Juana in Bristol and all around the world are deeply concerned at her plight.
If you care about human rights, please read and act!

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Ecosocialist International Founded

08-10-2007 07:24

Ecosocialist International founded at meeting in Paris - 7/10/07

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The Plight of Myanmar’s People: Challenges and Responsibilities for the Internat

08-10-2007 06:48

By Christopher B. Roberts
Research Associate - S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Republished from:  http://bbwob.blogspot.com/2007/10/plight-of-myanmars-people-challenges.html

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2004 Reclaim the Commons video

08-10-2007 06:19

3 days in San Francisco

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America's Energy Wars - A New Front - Africa

07-10-2007 22:59

Energy Corridor
With the U.S. military announcing this week that it is opening up what it is calling The Africa Command

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Corporate publishing houses

07-10-2007 03:46

For all the bad press that they receive, a lot of people still believe that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example.

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Boycott for Burma: targets

07-10-2007 03:44

Call from 88-generation Burmese resistance groups.

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Ubiquitous Surveillance: Mayor Bloomberg's New Clothes

06-10-2007 20:53

New York City, London, Beijing: what do they have in common? surveillance cameras

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Burma: Pressure Shows Results : (Keep It Up: Sat :Tate 11am to T Sq)

05-10-2007 11:15

last night the burmese "junta" agree to open talks with the democratically elected burmese peoples representation, after a meeting with the UN rep . . . .
The media spin of "doom doom" in the west, with the odd "deprioritisation" of this sort of mould-breaking news - with its echoes of the end of apartheid in south africa, or the irish peace processes "key moments" - is suspicious, but . . . . breaking news???? MUCH TO DO, keep up pressure, but FIGHT THE HYPE too!

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Burma solidarity: Total Oil HQ protest ongoing

05-10-2007 08:24

Burma solidarity protesters are picketing Total oil's HQ in Cavendish Square, London to highlight the company's complicity in the brutal regime's bloody hold on the Burmese population.

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Crassness at the core of the CROSSRAIL scam exposed!

05-10-2007 08:08

The ECONOMIST website has 'let slip' in the last 20 hours that Gordon Brown's now trumpeted decision to 'give the go-ahead' to the CRASSrail scam was, indeed, a scam.

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The Atmosphere Is Not For Sale

04-10-2007 13:26

I feel like an eco-fraud. There’s me thinking that we should be protecting the land, the sea and the atmosphere from the profit motives of large corporations, and then a big group of like-minded people come along with a signed document saying the opposite and repeatedly hit you round the face with it.

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camden market development plans - government e-petition response

03-10-2007 21:59

more than 36,000 people e-petitioned the government about plans to 'improve' camden market
 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/
the government has just announced its response
judge for yourself