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Dutch police officer, who shot Rishi Chandrikasing, acquitted/Licence to kill

11-01-2014 02:36

The acquittal of the Dutch police officer, who shot unarmed Rishi Chandrikasing, a Dutch
citizen of colour, is an absolute scandal. Cop claimed self defence, while Rishi was running away,
didn't try to reanimate him [he was living after hit by the bullet] and shot when moving [against police
instruction]. But it fits a long tradition of Dutch police violence, racist or other.
A broad protest in society is necessary. No Justice, no peace!

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Hillsborough – Claims that Metropolitan Police Spied on Campaigners

11-01-2014 01:02

Relatives of Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster have called on the Metropolitan Police to answer claims officers spied on them. The call comes after Private Eye magazine had a freedom of information (FOI) request turned down by the Met. The Met has yet to comment, but reportedly turned down the FOI request to "safeguard national security".

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Urgent - Please contact British Airways to stop Osama's forced removal to Libya.

10-01-2014 23:49

We are calling on people to help us prevent the forced removal of our friend Osama to Libya on the British Airways flight number BA898 at 9.20am on Sunday 12th January.

For more information:
 https://www.facebook.com/keeposamasafeincardiff

 http://keeposamasafeincardiff.wordpress.com

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End scandal of legal hare coursing in Ireland

10-01-2014 23:20

Hare coursing cruelty continues…

The Republic of Ireland has become one of the last remaining countries in the world to allow hare coursing. The cruel blood sport has already been banned in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and remains illegal in most civilised nations.

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Anti-fracking defendants found not guilty as movement grows

10-01-2014 11:42

Eleven anti-fracking campaigners have been found not guilty after a three day trial at Brighton Magistrate's Court.

The defendants had been arrested on the 2nd day of the protests against Cuadrilla's exploratory drilling Balcombe last summer while sitting on or around a log which had been dragged outside the gates to the Cuadrilla site.

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War: "Academic" propaganda ... is a crime

10-01-2014 10:33

A war criminal: Professor Sir Hew Strachan
If media or academia really published a balanced "opinion" over war, they would always have to include, a genuine consideration of...law.

A particularly wretched self-serving Oxford "academic" called Professor Sir Hew Strachan, has been wheeled out by the British Establishment to front the link between World War One, and current British military..."thinking", which is...propaganda.

In the year 2014, the deliberate and cynical use, by academics, of ...propaganda, that leads to murder, must be legally challenged.

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Stop G8 network meeting - Cardiff 11/12th January 2014

10-01-2014 00:28

The Red and Black Umbrella (57 Clifton Street, Cardiff CF24 1LS) is preparing to host a two-day meeting of the Stop G8 network. The first day will be a meeting of all involved to discuss and reach decisions on where next for the Stop G8 network.

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Why is the Nonproliferation Treaty Failing?

09-01-2014 20:30

It is a deal made on the background of the overwhelming perception that at least as far as this aspect is concerned the destination of history is unequivocally decided, and the present does only relate to it in different ways. However all that was born from this huge perspective is a questionable compartmentalisation of a status quo which itself is a toxic asset. Conventionally it is being assumed that in war there was a linear threshold in form of a parameter that depicts whether that war is a conventional or an atomic war and whose crossing is a one-way street, and that this line would be passed with an explosion or series thereof. As non-linear mathematics turns out to be more descriptive of the situation, especially the theory of proliferation, it could mean that the single most relevant document of the United Nations after the Six Day War is built on contaminated quicksand and unsuitable to serve its purpose to bridge the overkill gap. This is the argument that this is the case and can be diagnosed from the loss of symmetry within the classification it imposes on states. The assumption that some states could be more equal than others but not than populations has turned out to be untenable, and with it the influence of that treaty and the political system revolving around it are crumbling away.

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Irish Artists Create Welsh Festival Honouring Whistleblower Chelsea Manning

09-01-2014 17:14

A visit to Ireland last November by the Welsh family of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning, has inspired the setting up of new festival in Wales. ‘The Manning Truthfest’ was conceived by award-winning Irish actor and playwright Dónal O’Kelly after he heard Manning’s family speak about the soldier’s 35 year prison sentence for providing Wikileaks with material exposing what many believe to be U.S war crimes in Iraq.

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The Current Situation In Syria

09-01-2014 10:00

You should not believe the lies of the Western bourgeois media say about anything especially what they say about the current situation in Syria. Syria has been invaded by Western and Gulf States funded, trained and armed terrorists, mercenaries and bandits whose aim is to remove the threat faced by the Zionist occupiers of the Palestinian Territories

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Mark Duggan murder: How the establishment did cover up a political killing?

09-01-2014 08:48

Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley challenged by protesters outside the court
It takes one very simple sentence, to explain -how- an Inquest Jury in the High Court, erroneously produced the widely reported media headlines, that Mark Duggan was "lawfully" killed by the Metropolitan Police.

The Judge improperly -directed- the Inquest Jury, over what could be called evidence, and the Duggans' lawyers, did not properly challenge that.

Ultimately if the Duggan family had proper legal representation, a European Court ruling, would lead to the proper verdict of unlawful killing.

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A future without fracking?

08-01-2014 19:15

Shale gas and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have been hitting the headlines for months, surrounded by debate on controversial extraction methods. But if the future of fracking is uncertain, what are the alternatives for a secure energy future?

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The Myth of Turkish Secularism

08-01-2014 19:13

Map of Turkey
If Turkey is ever to be secular, it must allow the free exercise of all religions – including Islam – and guarantee the rights of the faithful to be free from harassment and compulsion.

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Petition of Unconditional Basic Income for the UK

08-01-2014 17:56

A developed country with a developed society; every adult receives an unconditional basic annual Income of £11, 375... farewell hidden inequality, benefit fraud and fragmented communities and hello new horizons of an evolved society and true democracy.

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Global Freezing And Baking: How To End The Extremes

08-01-2014 17:34

44 ways to help trees reforest the earth and prevent freezing, baking, drought, famine,
etc.

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Open Day: Meet The Neighbours & Open Mic Acoustic

08-01-2014 16:19

Open Day for 52B Well Street Social Centre this Saturday from 4pm...

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The Saudi Bull in Arab China Shop

08-01-2014 13:46

The kingdom stands now almost isolated politically. Its “going it alone” in the Syrian conflict has cornered Saudi Arabia into a self-inflicted foreign policy no-win deadlock.

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Fukushima: Who Profits from a Cover-up?

08-01-2014 02:58

Fukushima: Who Profits from a Cover-up?

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Anti-Fracking Protesters deny attacking a Police Helicopter

07-01-2014 19:07

The anti-fracking protest camp at Barton Moss in Manchester was yesterday (06/01/2014) overun by Greater Manchester police who have alleged that just after midnight (04/01/2014) a flare was fired at or into the path of a police helicopter landing at nearby Barton Aerodrome. Protesters reject the claim that a flare was fired from the protest site...

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They're Dun Blaming me cuz now I'm exposing Them.

07-01-2014 09:56

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Child sexploitation and the Unethical legal and Elicit drugs trials and trades