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Plumber exposes city fraud terrorist police used to cover up the story

04-11-2010 12:53

Wife has affair board member of city of London reinsurance giant, guy carpenter llc.
Husband learns of affair and board members misuse of company funds
Husband home, office and company accountants raided by counter terrorist directorate of city of London police. Local MP informed by borough commander of terrorist dawn raids.

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Warrant for Arrest (for how long?) - while Seeking Asylum in France

04-11-2010 10:52

Maurice insists in being arrested only for the purpose of going to court and meeting the judge who convicted him in his absence, despite his request for adjournment. But the Court is far from co-operating. Here's his account with questions to the Court.

The NHS has asked their solicitors about the release of the medical records. The Judge and the Police's solicitors are meeting in Maurice's absence.

Is the only purpose for solicitors to run up bills, while Maurice not only suffers physically, but is also made to suffer the anguish of having to be arrested for an indefinite period?

The Police are only doing their job. And the lawyers who tell the Law Enforcers what their job is, don't care, do they...

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Musheir Al Farra speaks at the Sheffield Humanist Society Meeting

04-11-2010 00:21

Audio Ball Pool donated by Sheffield people to the kids of Nussairat Refugee Camp 2010
Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Conflict in the "Holy Land".
Musheir Al Fara, Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign

What is the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine? How did the ongoing ‘troubles’ come about and to what extent is
religion responsible for the conflict affecting the "Holy Land"?

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Dublin students demo rows with cops and attacks Dept of Finance

03-11-2010 19:11

Riot police attacked students in Dublin today with dogs, armoured vehicles and horses after the students protesting against government cuts occupied the Department of Finance and threw eggs at the Dail.

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ME Sufferers banned from giving blood

03-11-2010 18:03

ME protesters
Banning Blood is Not Enough!

ME sufferers are now banned from blood donation but are the only group banned who receive no medical treatment for their condition. They say that the ban is due to a new Retrovirus discovered in their blood.

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Medialens: WikiLeaks - The Smear and the Denial - Part 1 - The Smear

03-11-2010 15:17

“Journalists don't like WikiLeaks”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do... Maybe you've noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.” (Hugo Rifkind Notebook, ‘Remind me. It's the red one I mustn't press, right?,’ The Times, October 26, 2010)

Rifkind is right. The internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that Rifkind’s journalists - described accurately by Peter Wilby as the “unskilled middle class” ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/10/comment.pressandpublishing) - monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that. Readers were free to vote with their notes and coins, of course. But in reality, when it comes to the mainstream media, the public has always been free to choose any colour it likes, so long as it’s corporate ‘black’. The internet is beginning to offer some brighter colours.

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Afghan Voice Forum 21/11/2010 Brighton

02-11-2010 18:05

afghan voice forum day
Sunday 21st of November from 14:00-18:00. Afghan Voice Forum information and discussion day with Afghan speakers and video. South Wing Hall, Community Base Brighton.

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Nationwide shut down of Vodafone stores

31-10-2010 19:03

21 Vodafone stores across the country closed. Vodafone claim their unpaid £6 billion tax is an urban myth. Vodafone claim they always pay their taxes. £7 billion cuts in benefits to the poor. £6 billion unpaid tax by Vodafone. We can all do the sums and we do not like the result

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Screening of Sanjay Kak's 'Jashn-e-Azadi' on Kashmir + film-maker QnA

31-10-2010 11:33

An event for discussing the contemporary dispute in Kashmir.

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Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military

30-10-2010 23:30

The Guardian newspaper has obtained access to training manuals that detail the interrogation techniques used by British military personnel in Iraq. In an exclusive report published Monday, the newspaper quotes from the documents, which are described as an “Introduction to Interrogation and Tactical Questioning”.

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Lib Dem Ministers Complicit in Torture

30-10-2010 22:53

Mr Avazov, who was boiled alive (quite literally) in the Jaslyk torture chambers
Nothing has changed. Under the Lib/Con coalition, MI6 continue to receive intelligence obtained through torture abroad, and Lib Dem ministers will be seeing intelligence obtained from hellish torture chambers in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and numerous other capitals.

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London: 12th UFFC Annual march against custody deaths and abuses

30-10-2010 21:53

Audio
On 30th October 2010 families and friends marched from Trafalger Square to Downing Street to protest against custody deaths and abuses. This was the 12th annual protest organised by the United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC).

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London Critical Mass October ride.

30-10-2010 10:56

Start of the ride by Waterloo Bridge
The light rain didn't seem to deter the usual large numbers attending.

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12th annual protest against deaths in custody - Saturday 27 October

29-10-2010 18:14

9th annual march againt deaths in custody, 27 October 2007
UFFC Annual march against custody deaths and abuses

Saturday 30th October 2010

Assemble Trafalgar Square 12 noon.

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Survival website under cyberattack

29-10-2010 13:18

Website down after bombardment

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Violations of Workers Rights in the Philippines in 2010

29-10-2010 12:53

Aside from the worst forms of labor repression such as the killings of union leaders and members that are well documented by human rights groups, workers in the Philippines suffer from a host of other violations of internationally recognized and constitutionally protected rights and freedoms.

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The Third Revolution? Worker and peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government

29-10-2010 10:54

Audio The Third Revolution? Peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government
Audio from Nick Heath's talk, "The Third Revolution? Worker and peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government", recorded on 27th October 2010.

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Dump Veolia Protest at the Natural History Museum, London 23 Oct 2010

29-10-2010 07:47

The Dump Veolia Campaign lead a demonstration outside the Natural History Museum on 23rd October 2010 to protest against Veolia's sponsorship of the Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

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Home Office stop-and-search figures hide evidence of systematic discrimination

28-10-2010 15:38

A stop-and-search operation at the East Ham tube station
Massoud Shadjareh, the Chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said today that the Home Office’s latest figures on numbers of people stopped and searched under anti-terrorism legislation fail to give the full picture when it comes to Muslim concerns about the discriminatory use of the powers to target Muslims in particular.