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USAF to use Nazi technology to turn coal into jet fuel

03-02-2008 21:01

The US Air Force has announced plans for a massive $4 billion coal to jet fuel plant -- like the switch from food crop to fuel crops this is another confirmation that peak oil is here.

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Hersh: Syrian Facility Bombed by Israel Not Nuclear

03-02-2008 20:31

Considering that Syria and Iran have a defence pact, this appears to have been designed to provoke a counter-strike from Iran. If they had responded, would we ever have heard of this illegal Act of War?

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Gordon Brown Protest Telford

03-02-2008 19:49

On Friday 1st February, our local peace group from Telford , Shropshire, Wrekin Stop War, were protesting at the Telford Holiday Inn when Gordon Brown visited.

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Two Weeks in Greece: Banks, police cameras, luxury cars get it; rats saved

03-02-2008 19:03

- Bank arson and anonymous communique(Athens, 1/1/2008)
- Attack against a bank, 14 taken into custody (Athens, 30/1/2008)
- Police camera destroyed, one person taken into custody (Thessaloniki, 29/1/2008)
- Series of incendiary attacks (Athens-Thessaloniki, 21/1/2008)
- Bank firebombed and responsibility claim (Athens, 19/1/2008)
- Attacks on three banks (Athens, 17/1/2008)
- Car dealership fire-bombed (Athens, 17/1/2008)
- Lab-rats liberated from technical institute (Thessaloniki, 16/1/2007)

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Global Warming Contrarians Exposed

03-02-2008 18:08

An extremely informative, in-depth account of four of the major global warming "confusionists" is available free-online.

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Valuation office staff vote over strike action

03-02-2008 17:56

2,200 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union working for the Valuation Office Agency began a ballot for strike action over below inflation pay on 30 January.

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Action alert: Condoleezza Rice in London

03-02-2008 17:41

Stop the War Coalition is calling an emergency protest on
Wednesday 6 February. We do not yet have details of Rice's
meetings with Gordon Brown but we anticipate that our protest
will be at Downing Street, the timing to be announced as soon
as her plans are known.

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Hillary Clinton Was Silent While Her Husband Executed A Retarded Man

03-02-2008 15:51

May the UK which abolished slavery without violence ignite the Spirit of America
to end governmental murder and war.

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Sweden: Action for free museums

03-02-2008 14:47

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On Saturday February 2 "Open Stockholm" acted host as culturally starved "stockholmers" took part in an action for free entry to museums. Thirty or so culturebuffs visited the museum of architecture as well as the museum for Asian culture. To illustrate the failure of their attempt to introduce admission fees at museums - a symbolic mass entry was performed, without paying admission of course. Through this action we wanted to direct attention to the way admission fees and charges come to act as a fence in our cultural landscape.

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Food Not (Bio)fuel protest Cambridge

03-02-2008 14:32

The action was held at Tesco's store in Milton, just north of Cambridge.
A dozen or so protesters braved the cold, the sun, and stroppy Tesco managers to draw attention to the increasing use of biofuels that wreck the environment and drive up food prices, most often in the developing world. The protest came at the end of a week of action called by biofuelwatch.org.uk.
Police were in attendance, but soon left, leaving Tesco staff so concerned about protester's safety that they repeatedly threatened to call the police when they stepped onto the forecourt. They finally got so fed up that just as we were about to leave they asked us to leave, in the process delaying our departure.

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Unimaginable Intentional Human Suffering

03-02-2008 14:16

The brutal belief system widely promoted as “neoconservatism” is behind the fascist agenda that emerged from the bowels of corporate-owned “think tanks.” These elitist thinkers believe that it is necessary for our government to “cull” the “useless eaters” from the face of the earth, through forced population reduction and perpetual war.

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The Ravaging of Africa: A four-part audio documentary

03-02-2008 14:12

The Ravaging of Africa is a four part audio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the continent.

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A Humanitarian Agreement is Urgently Needed to Respect Life and Dignity

03-02-2008 13:52

Statement on 4 Feb Demonstrations against the FARC from the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.

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Police equipment losses £ 600,000+

03-02-2008 13:16

Police admit cost of stolen/lost equipment

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War is Coming Home

03-02-2008 12:42

War is the disease of which PTSD and other mental illnesses that plague our soldiers and veterans are merely symptoms.

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Greece: Massive riots, police cooperates with fascists, during Antifa demo

03-02-2008 06:17

Detailed update of the events of Saturday 02/02, that took place in the center of Athens, as a response to the attempt of an extremist right wing organisation to commemorate a nationalist anniversary.

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Killed By Plastic... Salvador Brazil pictures and video

03-02-2008 03:43

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The London based artist Mark McGowan, commissioned by
Global Ocean, has completed an extraordinary
performance, leading the incredible Salvador Carnival
procession in Brazil, which is attended by 5 million
people , the artist pulled a massive fishing net
filled with plastic waste weighing 300 kilogrammes,
8km along the official route.

The event was organised in an attempt to raise
awareness about the catasphropic levels of plastic
ending up in the oceans of the world, killing an
estimated 100,000 sea animals every year.

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US Candidate Positions on Animal Rights

03-02-2008 03:39

The presidential candidates in the US with the worst records toward animal rights
are Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Hillary Clinton.

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Call to Action

02-02-2008 21:46

February has been declared a national month of action against affiliates of EDO MBM! We are calling on people round the country to take direct action against these merchants of genocide.

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Rising fuel prices blight millions

02-02-2008 20:25

There are many ways in which poverty affects people’s quality of life. One of these is the ability to keep warm. The recent hike in oil and gas prices has seen a sharp increase in what is termed fuel poverty in the UK. The consumer group Energywatch estimates that about 4.4 million are now affected by fuel poverty, amounting to one in six people in Britain.