London Newswire Archive

08-08-2004 12:13 | 0 comment(s)

Venezuela Tense Over Referendum

Authorities are ready to arrest people who dump nails on highways, cut down trees, slick streets with oil and burn tires to create turmoil and stop people from voting.
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08-08-2004 12:06 | 0 comment(s)

e-voting furor

The world's fifth largest producer and exporter of oil will be using a e-voting system produced by an american company in a presidential recall referendum called for by the Venezuelan elite and backed by Washington. Despite the use of a paper record of votes, some people claim to have found security flaws and weak cryptography. "Computers can be made to produce any outcome that you want without anybody really knowing that's what was done," said one US observer. One thing is clear, who ever wins the vote, the use of the untested e-voting system will leave room for doubt from either side about the results... Read more >>

07-08-2004 23:29 | 0 comment(s)

View US Man Fakes Beheading in 'Iraq Video'

Hostage murder video a hoax
A VIDEO aired yesterday that purportedly showed an American being decapitated in Iraq was a hoax. Read more >>

07-08-2004 20:51 | 1 comment(s)

The Great Dance

Indymedia Cinema in the upstairs bar @ The Ritzy, Brixton
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07-08-2004 20:14 | 4 comment(s)

Rampart resturant report

3rd week
Skipping Vegan Restaurant Report:

http://rampart.omxtra.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=12
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07-08-2004 16:57 | 1 comment(s)

English Boarding Schools

After 20 years and just at the onset of my 40’s I finally realize that my time from the age of 7-13 and 13-20 at Dorset House School and then Seaford College Boarding Schools in Sussex England were the most violent and hellish experience of my life. Dante nor Blake or Dickens could do it justice. Read more >>

07-08-2004 13:12 | 0 comment(s)

Lottery for venezuela future

The cash starved campaign backing Hugo Chevez has turned to selling lottery tickets in order to raise funds. Polls vary, many predicated over 60% support for Chavez while others suggest (and hope for) the opposite. Meanwhile, the info war facilitated by the media in Venezuela apparently favors the opposistion by almost 10 to 1. Read more >>

07-08-2004 13:03 | 0 comment(s)

New crisis in Venezuela

There is a beautiful little section in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: It says that every elected official can be removed from office half way through his/her term of service (Article 72). The Constitution became the law of the land after being given a 70% voter approval in December 1999... Read more >>

07-08-2004 12:49 | 0 comment(s)

Rockets and Bars

Kabul at the moment is a mixture of unfounded optimism by many Afghans, pesimism by internationals, rocket attacks, international parties and cold beer by the pool. There is lots of speculaation about what will happen with the run up to the elections but Afghanistan will be as unpredictable as ever.Have a glance at some of the articles I have attached to get a better feel of what is going on here. Read more >>

07-08-2004 12:45 | 0 comment(s)

Unrest in Venezuela likely

The president, Hugo Chavez, will face a revocatory referendum on his tenure on August 15th. The date was announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on June 8th, after it ruled that a campaign by the opposition to garner signatures from 20% of the electorate in support of a petition demanding a referendum had been successful. The result of the referendum is uncertain, as are its implications for the Chavez regime. Whatever the outcome, there is a high probability that the losing side will challenge it, either in the courts??whose neutrality is disputed by both government and opposition??or on the streets. Political instability and a policy environment subservient to the government's priority of self-preservation therefore appear likely to persist for some time...
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07-08-2004 12:39 | 0 comment(s)

electronic voting

In this year's U.S. presidential elections, electronic voting systems will be used by an estimated 30 percent of those who vote. If you were the type to validate the partical political system by voting, would you trust your vote to these systems?

This year, a US company sold 20,000 of its election machines and licenses for their software to Venezuelan authorities for $63 million and won a $27-million contract for service during the recall vote against Hugo Chavez which takes place in August. This controversial and critical referendum may end up putting the technology on trial...

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07-08-2004 12:29 | 0 comment(s)

Referendum on the Revolution

It took a while for Venezuela’s political opposition to figure out the best way to get rid of a president it doesn't like. First it tried general strikes, then a coup last year, then the shutdown of the country’s main industry, then an unconstitutional petition drive. Now, about two years after its campaign began, it's opting for the only constitutional way to oust an elected president: a recall referendum...
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06-08-2004 13:33 | 26 comment(s)

Boycott M&S

Another excellent protest of Britains Biggest corporate sponosr of Israel - Marks and Spencer. Read more >>

06-08-2004 00:57 | 0 comment(s)

"Rebel Voices:" Photos, Art Needed for Unique Book Project

This is an international call for photos and art for us in an upcoming book called "Rebel Voices," to be published in 2005 in the u.s. Read more >>

05-08-2004 13:08 | 0 comment(s)

Invitation to the Dissent! Network Gathering in Edinburgh 17th - 19th September

The G8 (Group of eight most industrialised nations) Summit will be held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, about 40 miles/70 kilometres away from Edinburgh, in Scotland from 6-8th of July 2005. In past years, everywhere they have tried to meet they have been met with a massive response from the world's social movements. Now, in Britain, a network of groups and individuals is emerging that resists the Summit, and forms a lasting movement against capitalism.

The next Dissent! Gathering will take place in Edinburgh on 17th-19th September 2004.

Come along and get involved!

05-08-2004 10:04 | 0 comment(s)

Broken lives and masterpieces in Burma

Tin Oo and Aung San Suu Kyi are mistreated in isolation and poor living conditions by the low-minded brutes who were unfit to lead Burma. The international community should worry about the health of Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo because history showed that the Laos monarchs, King Thibaw and Sao Shwe Thaik all died in confinement, spiritually abused by the armed governments. Read more >>

05-08-2004 08:42 | 0 comment(s)

Burma Protest Friday (Tomorrow)

Friday 6th August, 1-3pm, protest against Burmese dictatorship at Burmese Embassy Read more >>

05-08-2004 00:15 | 0 comment(s)

Animal groups call for amnesty on Greece's stray dogs

With the Olympic Games less than two weeks away, the fate of the thousands of stray dogs in Athens remains in doubt. Read more >>

04-08-2004 23:25 | 3 comment(s)

Darfur - Another Brit COlony Abused - British Hypocrisy Everywhere

In any instance, it is clear that the gunmen who have caused so much havoc in Darfur have had considerable outside assistance. The 'Sudan Liberation Army' were reported by Agence France Presse to have "weapons, vehicles and modern satellite communications". (12) UN media sources have also noted claims by tribal leaders that the rebels have better weapons than the Sudanese army. (13) The rebels have also been receiving military supplies by air. (14) And, in a disturbing resonance of the gunmen who have dominated parts of Somalia in four-wheel drive "technicals", the gunmen have also been operating in groups of up to 1,000 men in four-wheel drive vehicles.( Read more >>

04-08-2004 14:41 | 0 comment(s)

Protest against BNP fascists & Griffin, this Saturday! Chelmsford, Essex.

The Fascist BNP are holding a meeting in Chelmsford this Saturday. BNP wannabe fuhrer Nick Griffin may be speaking at this event. The facists have chosen Chelmsford railway station as their re-direction point. We will assemble here to stop them!

Assemble: 6pm Outside Chelmsford Rail Station. Sat 7th August 2004.

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