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Time for the Shamocracy to End, Time for Real Democracy to Begin

29-07-2008 14:09

The political system is corrupt, democracy is just a sham and we, the people are being repressed by a small number of faceless dictators who control society who through the use of fear have maintained their control over us. The time has come for this to end and for us to live in a real democracy and we can if we stop relying on a system that has failed us time and time and rely on ourselves.

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Donut Market Expect To Drop In London as 31,000 Met Cops get Electronic Tags

29-07-2008 14:04

This month every on duty Met cop will be under constant individual surveillance from a big brother tracking computer.



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Anti War Protesters on Trial for Conspiracy

29-07-2008 13:37

Smash EDO Press Release

29th July 2008

Anti War Protesters on Trial For Conspiracy

Tel Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson on 07875708873

E mail  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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Saving Iceland Shuts Down Geothermal Drilling Work

29-07-2008 12:28

HELLISHEIDI (ICELAND) – This morning the direct action campaign Saving Iceland has occupied one of the main geothermal drill sites in Hengill where the Hellisheidi power plant is being expanded by Reykjavik Energy. 20 activists have chained themselves to machinery and have climbed the drill to hang up a banner saying “Reykjavik Energy out of Hellisheidi and Yemen”. They have also occupied the power control room of the drill site.

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H Partners Dumps HLS Shares

29-07-2008 12:27

The day after Raymond James decided that £7 million shares in HLS blood money were not for them, or their subsidary Eagle Assset, H Partners also made a quick escape from the campaign against HLS and sold all £11.2 million LSR shares.

The sale was confirmed this week by Win Animal Rights in the USA.

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Protests Continue Outside HLS Labs, Alconbury

29-07-2008 11:46

On Monday 28th July, we had our regular demo outside the gates of HLS. We changed the date of the protest from our usual Friday, so that activists from Liverpool could come and join us.

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SHAC Demos Continue Apace In London

29-07-2008 11:43

Another Friday, another day of SHAC demos in central London and another good turn-out. We started our series of demonstrations against Old Mutual, 2 Lambeth Hill, who currently have about 15,000 shares in HLS torture through their company Acadian Asset Management.

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BPP meeting a shambles!

29-07-2008 10:26

The freaks of the nazi-rump British People's Party held a shambolic meeting in London last weekend, with a bit of police attention proper upsetting their delicate constitutions!

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Troops Out Movement Delegation to Belfast 7 - 10 Aug

29-07-2008 09:51

This is to inform people of the Troops Out Movement's annual visit to Belfast which co-insides with the final weekend of the West Belfast Community Festival - Feile an Phobail

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Professor Atkinson wants GM trial Secrecy.

29-07-2008 09:26

GM Phds, Professors, and Bureaucrats at a London Symposium were warned about GM trials. They ignored it.

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100 Things We Need To Know This Year

29-07-2008 07:41

Monday Love 7
Because We Live In a World of Conflict, Misinformation, Disinformation MONDAY LOVE part 7 boards the Good Ship with a party of Grass roots Heroes and Servants of freedom. These London based souljas are coming to help in the reasoning thru MultiMedia Piracy, Open Deck discussion, independent music, Social witnesses, Front line Filmmaking to Share with us 100 things we need to know this year

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Exploring BBC Conspiracy Files: 9/11 the Third Tower

29-07-2008 04:52

This piece does a 'walk thru' of the TV documentary by the BBC on the collapse of WTC7
on 11 Sept 2001 which was shown originally on BBC on 6 July last.

The most significant sequences in the programme are described with critical comment following where appropriate.

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Chiswick Free Burma Protest against Total Oil

28-07-2008 21:50

Six protesters from www.totaloutofburma.org held a demonstration at Chiswick West Four Total petrol station, 137 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick W4 2ED on 23rd July. They called for French Total Oil to stop funding the brutal Burmese junta with hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the French Total operated Yadana gas pipeline. Burma earns most of its foreign currency from gas exports and spends 50% of its budget on the military in a war against its own people. Since the mid 1990s French Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burmese junta in power, against the wishes of the Burmese people.

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Colombian use of Red Cross + Telesur Logo in rescue - illegal - Chavez

28-07-2008 18:59

Hugo Chavez has been broadcasting his weekly Sunday telly show almost without fail now for many years. It both gives him an opportunity to get close to his people and also get up the noses of his enemies. Yesterday's show saw him speak of Colombia's "operation Jaque" which saw Ingrid Betancourt rescued on her 2321st day of captivity and the use by Colombia of the red cross insignia of the International Red Cross society as well as the logo of the pan-American TV network "TeleSur".

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Flashback: "Wiped Off The Map" - The Rumor of the Century

28-07-2008 18:31

Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following article will prove.

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Turbulence 4: 'Who Can Save Us From the Future?'

28-07-2008 18:29

Turbulence 4
Out now!

Check out: www.turbulence.org.uk

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VID (5.50) -"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Open Coffee House near Ft. Lewis, US

28-07-2008 18:13

A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start
up a GI coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base
in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning
stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights
and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for GIs to get
coffee right off the base.

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ClimateCycle - Woodhead High Peak - Saturday 2nd August

28-07-2008 17:17

Save the Woodhead Tunnel
This year we have a unique opportunity to re-open the Woodhead rail line between Manchester and Sheffield.
Midday, Saturday 2nd August 2008

Join the Save the Woodhead Tunnel Campaign in demanding the Government hold to their promises on sustainable transport and climate change and re-open this historic and important line.

We are holding a demonstration at The Woodhead Tunnel, near Glossop in the High Peak.

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Wembley Sports Ground: GRASS Call Out - Council Fascists Evict Businesses

28-07-2008 16:48

Barricade - Ain't Nothing Coimng In
The New Wembley Park Sports Ground Campaigners have made a call out for more assistance. Barricades are going up, already halting today's work on the privatised Ark Academy school. Meanwhile, the council have appeared and hit the five businesses, including the sports ground itself, with immediate eviction.