UK Newswire Archive
Netherlands: VIDEO - kids try to free detained pupil; police violence.
30-11-2007 10:35
Netherlands. Watch this video and see whats going on in Netherlands since pupils from all over the country are on strike and protest against a new governments´ law on education. Police acts brutal against the kids. More information on:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386773.html
NETCU_WATCH - Down!
30-11-2007 08:40
Anti NETCU website down - conspiracy or cock up?Peter Hain can't be just another dishonest, corrupt or sleazy politician!
30-11-2007 04:58
Peter Hain administrative error bureauAnnouncing the many items of news celebrating the success of Mr Hain in getting away by lying.
Mr Hain blames the staff.
He is not to be sullied
He remains above reproach.
How could anyone in their right minds ever even imagine that a man of peter Hain's record as a successful career-maker could be just as corrupt, as dishonest as any other politician?
Here are some of the news items that are accessible at the time of this post.
I say accessible at the time of this post in the expectation that they may get removed under some secret state dicta brought in to protect Mr Hain
The Guardian web site
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7115204,00.html Sky News web site
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1295081,00.html The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1876002007 The SUN
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article526970.ece Pacifist on trial: DSEi protest planned on Monday (3rd Dec) in east London
30-11-2007 03:35
A female pacifist pensioner is facing a malicious prosecution for 'trespass at Custom House Docklands Light Railway station' during the DSEi arms fair in September. Her trial concludes on Monday 3rd December, from 9.45 am at Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London (tube: Stratford - jubilee line). There will be a protest with music outside the courthouse.PHILIPPINES: On Makati Siege; A crisis of institutions
30-11-2007 02:03
Distorting Fascism to Demonize Iran
30-11-2007 00:31
In their frantic drive to pave the way for a military strike against Iran, leading figures in the neoconservative pro-Israel lobby have embarked on a vicious campaign of demonizing that country by comparing it with the early years of Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Hitler.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.Annapolis: US prepares Palestinian civil war, rallies Arab support against Iran
29-11-2007 23:25
There were times when the Annapolis summit looked like a poor production by an amateur dramatics society—fumbled handshakes, translations not working, President Bush mispronouncing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s name, and Abbas himself dragging along behind Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert like he had forgotten his stage directions. But these gaffes only underscored the fact that this entire production was mounted only in order to conceal the predatory ambitions of the United States in the Middle East.“Thousands” Illegally Rendered By Bush Administration for Interrogation, Torture
29-11-2007 22:42
In violation of international and U.S. law, “thousands” of alleged terrorists have been victims of “extraordinary rendition” by the Bush Administration since 9/11, two legal scholars say. “Instead of working to bring those committing crimes against the United States to justice in U.S. courts, the Bush Administration seems intent on doing exactly the opposite---keeping such individuals away from U.S. courts, hidden in a web of secret prisons, underground interrogation cells, and in the hands of cooperative governments,” write Margaret Satterthwaite and Angela Fisher. Satterthwaite is an assistant professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law and Fisher served as assistant research scholar with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.Netherlands: All high-schools on strike! Riots cops against pupils.
29-11-2007 22:36
In Amsterdam riotcops on horses chased 13-year old kids over the Museumplein and applied the watercanon on them. 250 kids were arrested (in the whole of Holland). At many places small riots broke out, kids pelted buildings with egs and stones. One of the buildings attacked was that of the main media centre in Hilversum and that of the parliament in The Hague.
Sheffield Vigil for Palestine Photos
29-11-2007 20:56
First FITwatch trial ends in NOT GUILTY verdicts.
29-11-2007 19:52
Campaign launched to save Al Masrah' villagers.
29-11-2007 19:30
A Brighton group has launched a campaign to free five villagers from Al Masrah' in Occupied Palestine, held on remand after protesting against the theft of their land.Labours Zionist friends have landed the party in trouble again.
29-11-2007 18:58
Labours Zionist friend have landed the party in trouble again.Different Venue, Same Hollow Promises
29-11-2007 18:13
ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Olmert Plotting Massive AggressionIn Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No -- history would have had an entirely diferent outcome.
If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.
The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.
Adapted from "American Tears"
www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/american-tears_b_68141.html
The timing is interesting, given the upcoming "Annapolis Conference", which serves to be about PR alone, as Olmert has already ruled out any Negotiations or Compromise in the name of peace.
If you follow the events surrounding Israel's "Disengagement" from Gaza, you will quickly understand that this was the plan all along. While Israel was making a public spectacle of "forcing Jews to leave their homes", it was quietly surrounding the Strip with artillery emplacements, in an operation ominously named "First Rain".
Under this operation, Gaza basically became a "Free-Fire Zone", and several artillery and gunship strikes killed a high number of civilians. Finally, when one of these batteries fired upon and murdered a Palestinian family - picnicking on a beach that had been Segregated "Jews Only" only weeks before, Hamas finally decided to call an end to its unilateral, two-year cease-fire.
(In essence, they took Israel's bait. After all, you can't excuse your Aggression and label it "defense" if you're not being intermittently attacked. Never mind the hypocrisy underlying the entire media's framing of that whole debate ...)
When the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to power (yes, elected), Israeli Extremists and their Ideological, bought foreign co-conspirators imposed unilateral sanctions on Gaza, a bit of Collective Punishment which increased the hardship of those stuck in the world's largest Concentration Camp.
When they felt Gaza had been substantially weakened, the US and Israel undertook a Coup attempt, using corrupt elements within the Fatah Party, provoking a violent response by Hamas, which expelled the group. Most of the world's media ignored the events leading to this "crisis", and instead only repeated the Propaganda emanating from the US and Israel, which used this to further increase sanctions against Gaza.
Most recently, Israel stepped up its Collective Punishment, except that human rights groups and legal advisors to the Government halted some of its approved measures, because they run contrary to International Humanitarian Law.
This was sold as another "response to rocket attacks" (again highlighting the hypocrisy of the debate's Framing - are the Palestinians allowed to defend themselves from strikes which actually KILL people ... ?), even though high-ranking officials said that this was NOT, in fact, a response to these attacks, but a way to "distance Israel from Gaza's infrastructure".
The real reason for this whole episode, of course, has been to "soften up" the Gaza Strip for a long-planned military attack, a way to undermine the resolve, and hopefully rid this territory of Palestinians altogether.
Olmert signalled long ago that he would not entertain any serious discussions at this summit, essentially selling out the Israeli public's desire for peace.
http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8076S Freedom to Protest March: Stop Hitler's bomb builders buying Brighton base.
29-11-2007 17:53
Demonstration on the 19th of January in central Brighton, protesting about recent police repression at the Brighton bomb factory. There have been 15 arests since August for singing, shouting and generally expressing opinions about the presecence of an arms factory in thier community.Palestine Today 112907
29-11-2007 15:55
Amazing high-school revolt in Holland
29-11-2007 15:55
Suddenly the tranquility of the Dutch polder is being disrupted because highschoolkids collectively decided to stop staying in their schools. They go into the streets and create mayhem...When the Roadmap is a One Way Street
29-11-2007 15:53
This would be impossible without the tacit support of foreign Governments and the media. The silence and Apathy of the people, however, allows THEM to get away with this.The Israeli Government, as the documentary "Lessons in Hate" demonstrate, indoctrinate Israel's children with Revisionist history lessons, which ultimately leads to misunderstanding.
This has to change, if the Palestinians are ever to receive the justice they, like all other people, so deserve.
Climate Change March - Coaches from South Wales
29-11-2007 15:39
CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH - Transport from South WalesMarch on the US Embassy
SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER:
Global Day of Climate Change Protest
Assemble 12 pm, Millbank, Central London