UK Indymedia - UK Other Press Newswire Archive

The media response to the growing influence of the 9/11 truth movement

15-02-2010 15:31

In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account.

Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy worthy of debate, rather than as a "conspiracy theory" ignoring science and common sense.

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More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan

15-02-2010 09:11

In what is likely to be the first of many such atrocities, two US military rockets slammed into a house near Marjah, the target of the current offensive, killing 12 people. US military authorities admitted that the victims were innocent civilians sheltering in their own home, as they had been advised to do by US and NATO officials.

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State of Emergency Declared in Italian Prison System

14-02-2010 11:44

2009 was a particularly bad year for the Italian prison system, especially if you happened to be one of its ‘guests’ having to suffer the severe overcrowding that was exacerbated by an overall lack of funding in the system. As a result, the summer saw a series of prison protests, including mass hunger strikes and riots, as well an explosion in a historically already high rate of suicide, self-harm and other ‘suspicious’ deaths.

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Jenny Tonge Sacked Again

14-02-2010 11:20

Jenny Tonge and commented: "Actually I said that if Israel was worried about the allegations they should investigate. The Jewish Chronicle got it wrong as usual."

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Why the media silence on the Flight 253 bombing hearings?

13-02-2010 14:06

The media’s failure to report the January 27 Congressional hearings on last Christmas’s Flight 253 bomb plot is both extraordinary and ominous.

The blackout is a devastating exposure of the state of US politics. If events do not fit the concocted “connect-the-dots” script, the political establishment treats them, in Orwellian style, as if they had never happened. This, in turn, further strengthens the power of the national-security apparatus inside the state, as it learns that it can plan operations risking mass deaths with impunity.

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Dresden Info-Update (Germany)

12-02-2010 22:23

Some Information/Translation for international activists

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Big Brother Propaganda Strikes Back At Oldest Enemy

12-02-2010 18:57

Are the suggestions made by Cass Sunstein for dealing with American dissenters new or is it just one more in a long line of old ideas resurfacing in a new age?

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Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International

11-02-2010 23:31

Just when it seemed that Republicans in America had a monopoly on Islamophobic hysteria, the Sunday Times prompted a torrent of similar hysteria in the UK by running an article in which an employee of Amnesty International — Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at the International Secretariat — criticized the organization that employed her for its association with former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg.

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Baltic region anarchist newspaper Bez Granits - 2nd issue is out

11-02-2010 13:26

BEZ GRANITS #2 (January 2010)
In early January, 2010, the Baltic region anarchist / libertarian newspaper Bez Granits (No Borders / Without Limits) has published its 2nd issue.

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Visual Resistance: English translation of an online book on art and resistance

11-02-2010 10:25

Visual Resistance is a free online book/blog on art, design and resistance. Read it at

http://www.visueelverzet.nl/en/

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Haiti: The Aftershock

10-02-2010 00:17

Last month’s severe earthquake in Haiti could not have been prevented. The death toll may reach a quarter of a million. Some three million Haitians – a third of the country’s population – have been directly affected by the disaster. But the earthquake’s effects, the likelihood of far fewer people dying, and the extent to which corporate greed and power can – even now – make matters much worse for Haitians could all have been mitigated.

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Animal Protection Party UK have no links to Animal Protection Party Germany 1998

08-02-2010 19:47

The Animal Protection Party Germany created in 1998 [beginnings 1993] was the first ever Animal Protection Party created out of concern for animals. Dr Gisell Bulla stood in Federal Elections in Germany 1998. The German Animal Protection Party have no links to the UK Animal Protection Party created in late 2006. The Animals Count Party in Holland were created in 2004 when Jasmin De Boo stood.

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Fargate Speaker #12 out now

08-02-2010 12:12

In This Issue: More rises in bus fares, discontent in the fire service, continuing look at Sheffield’s radical history, film review and more ...

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Brighton Zine Festival

08-02-2010 11:46

Brighton Zine Festival 18TH-21ST February 2010

Zines,talks,food,music,unityand everything else that kicks!

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nuclear power: human chain reaction 24/4/2010

07-02-2010 18:14

Friends of the earth and friends of the earth germany planning (BUND) on the 24/4/2010 a 120km long human chain of anti nuclear protesters between the 2 nuclear powerstations of Krümmel und Brunsbüttel.

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American Trespasser Interviewed

05-02-2010 09:46

Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- As already reported, American national Robert Park was detained for trespassing on the northern border of the DPRK in December last year.

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The Tortoise Protection Group are not an Animal Rights group...it is a con

04-02-2010 14:02

The Tortoise Protection Group have conned a number of Animal Rights Activists into helping, raising and donating money. Their website promotes the breeding of captive tortoises as pets. There are also a number of dodgy articles about very expensive stolen tortoises. It is alarming genuine AR activists that other "AR" activists are supporting this group, believed to be criminals promoting a con.

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Daily Mail censor staff blog

03-02-2010 20:38

Here is a full copy of the now-censored blog of a Daily Mail employee. It was taken down after management uncovered it earlier today.

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Congressional hearing reveals US intel agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

03-02-2010 12:59

A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.

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BBC parrots Iranian government propaganda

02-02-2010 15:53

BBC less wary than other key news agencies.