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Wor Diary 2008 - radical local history

02-12-2007 22:14

Deriving from the Anglo-Saxon word 'oor', 'Wor' is the Geordie word for 'OUR'. Wor Diary 2008 is a practical, radical diary to cover your everyday needs and connect you to the North East's radical history!

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The AlTurnertive Turner Prize 07

02-12-2007 17:08

Merseyside Stop The War Coalition presents ..

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The University of Abahlali baseMjondolo

01-12-2007 20:47

A useful over view of, and introduction to, the militant South African shack dwellers's movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. Originally published in 'Voices of Resistance from Occupied London'

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The cyber guardians of honest journalism

01-12-2007 13:27

What has changed in the way we see the world? For as long as I can remember, the relationship of journalists with power has been hidden behind a bogus objectivity and notions of an "apathetic public" that justify a mantra of "giving the public what they want." What has changed is the public's perception and knowledge. No longer trusting what they read and see and hear, people in western democracies are questioning as never before, particularly via the internet. Why, they ask, is the great majority of news sourced to authority and its vested interests? Why are many journalists the agents of power, not people?

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Virtual Bali to give people a low-carbon way to attend the UN Climate summit

30-11-2007 16:21

Starting this Monday (December 3), 'climate Facebook' www.OneClimate.net will give people around the world a unique chance to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference.

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Irish Law is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

30-11-2007 00:08

An evil monster is growing in our Irish legal society which encourages in them a dogma of belief that there is no wrong in Slander, Liable, Defamation, Secrecy, Corruption, Threat, Deception, Perjury ,Theft and a host of other perversions.

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Khalid Awan a victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling.

28-11-2007 17:03

"I am not a terrorist, I do not know any terrorists," U.S. officials presented incriminating evidences in court. Mr. Awan was caught on tape calling a leader of the Sikh terrorist group in India, from prison. And several modified,Bogus,False Sikh witnesses testified against Mr Awan by FBI, including one he had met in jail .Mr. Awan has filed court documents that assert he falsely confessed to crimes because FBI agents threatened him with lethal injection and said that they would have RCMP officers arrest his sisters in Montreal. "I tried to give answers so they would be pleased and not give me the death penalty," Mr. Awan wrote in court documents ,

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Polonium Poisoning - news, one year later

26-11-2007 11:56

FACTS as odd as. . . . polonium poisoning - comments re latest "year on" news, what it shows about the situation, postcoldwar, in russia, the world, etc

(with echoes of that old "dystopia" play "a")

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Ex-Defence Chiefs paid by arms industry

25-11-2007 20:18

Corporate news media ignore fraud and corruption on UK arms contracts, and back call for even higher military spending.

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Preparing for Life After Oil

20-11-2007 11:17

Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.

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Health Select Committee (NZ) Request Aspartame (951) Submission

19-11-2007 23:00

Finally in New Zealand they are listening to the horror stories on aspartame (951) and have requested an oral submission on 11/21/2007.

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Dishonest Reporting And Iran's Centrifuges

19-11-2007 19:28

There's some seriously dishonest and/or lazy reporting going on in the Western media about Iran's nuclear program and the IAEA report yesterday.

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OPEC Debate Mistakenly Televised

18-11-2007 22:27

Now if this would just happen at Bilderberg, G8, G7, etc ...

Another call to eliminate the US dollar as the oil-trading currency. Perhaps one motive behind US plots against Iran and Venezuela?

When you consider the result, the amount this was a mistake is debatable.

"The weakness of the dollar is one reason why oil prices are so high"

Perhaps one reason Bush/PNAC has worked so hard to destroy their own currency?

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Arrest warrant for Chris Eubank re: Peace Action

17-11-2007 01:32

A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of ex-boxer Chris Eubank after he failed to turn up to court over an unlawful protest in Whitehall.

Eubank was charged after he tried to park his seven-tonne truck outside the gates to Downing Street in May in protest at UK policy in Iraq.

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Another gig, this thursday

13-11-2007 20:43

This Thursday at the rampART, no cinema this week as there's a gig instead.

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Corporate Watch is moving - we need your help!

12-11-2007 17:18

Everyone's favourite research group is moving next year to new premises, we need help sorting stuff out pre-move. Read on if you're interested!

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False Reporting by Incompetent Social Workers

09-11-2007 15:12

Social Workers from the Irish Health Board in Waterford,Kilkenny Dublin and Drogheda combined together, and based upon their unfounded perceptions of guilt,have nearly destroyed our innocent Family.

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Camde planning chief councillor Mike Greene "rules out Camden danger lab".

09-11-2007 04:53

Planning chief Mike Greene, for the first time ruled out the MRC?NIMR bid for Brill Place in Camden after angry locals and animal rights activists "pinned councillors to the wall" in Camden Town Hall.

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Stand up 4 Journalism! Manchester rally 05/11/07

07-11-2007 01:56

Video report from rally outside of the offices of the Manchester Evening News held on the NUJs' day of action, 'Stand up for Journalism'

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Channel 4 Dispatches plays safe on corruption

05-11-2007 02:11

Last Monday Channel 4's Dispatches broadcast a tired old story about corruption in Africa. In contrast, it has refused to make a program about fraud on UK government arms contracts, and the extraordinary favours government ministers and civil servants have done for companies accused of such fraud.