London Newswire Archive

29-09-2007 00:07

The Alternative Yellow Pages released - ‘The Guide to Freeconomy - Episode 1'

Check out this really funny new short film about The Freeconomy Community, the new skill-sharing, free help website that has just been launched. It’s called the ‘Guide to Freeconomy – Episode 1’ and is essential viewing for all non-freeconomists. You can view it at

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wLPOEQcZiQo . And remember, the yellow pages is just a load of old tosh! Read more >>

28-09-2007 23:37 | 11 additions

Burma is Free! It has to be

As you may know, the Junta have now cut internet links out of Burma so there is a near news blackout. Information is still getting out via mobile phone signals near the borders.

The latest news is reported here:
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28-09-2007 20:31

Protest at Burmese Embassy.

Some pictures from yesterdays lunchtime demo. Mostly Burmese dissidents, many of them survivors of the last massacre 19 years ago. Read more >>

28-09-2007 20:22

Dear Sir Richard Branson

N.B. I also need to clarify, in open court, as to whether bollocks may be uttered in connection with the word Brown as I am not terribly fond of his idea of dealing with pension and education funding and thievery. Justice must be seen to be done.
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28-09-2007 19:49

UK-US Military Alliance Creates Fascist UK-Faslane

Who can deny it 'go l**ney, go p*ki, go n*gger, go p**ftah as well as sch*z, go y*ppee and lesser verbal intimidation is heard every day in the UK moreso then most other places in western europe. This is the most common that I have known such verbal abuse since being born in 1961. Who can block now at Faslane? Read more >>

28-09-2007 16:30

Climate urgency builds parliamentary support for Simultaneous Policy

Another MP signs the Simultaneous Policy Pledge bringing the world closer to global co-operation to solve global problems such as war, poverty and environmental destruction. Read more >>

28-09-2007 15:40

Burma : The Old Covert Ops Criminal Types Tax Haven Of Choice

1 : daily demos, 12 - 1 lunchtime . . . . BURMESE EMBASSY 19a charles st,
2 : this sunday, 11.30 trafalgar square to the Burmese Embassy
3 : pass these facts to media types, those with actual influence. . . . each other!
4 : where you are, all the time, if you could : researching the publicity organs or western corporations trying to influence media opinions, or playing "tail wag dog" games with some of the "junta". There is talk of recent actions of some soldiers seeming those of "automatons", or use of drugs to machinate them in these current times . . . . its possible some of this has more subtle effects, but Read more >>

28-09-2007 15:29

73,846 U.S. Troops Dead

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ISSUES OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMING 73,000 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ
SAME GOVERNMENT AGENCY REPORT CONFIRMS 1.6 MILLION "DISABLED" BY THE WAR
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28-09-2007 13:31

Return of Sunday Picnic

Picnic to debate the issues of the day Read more >>

28-09-2007 13:23

burma protest sunday 30th september london

a facebook-organised 'march for freedom' is planned for sunday, starting from trafalgar square at 11.30 Read more >>

28-09-2007 13:14

Support migrant arrested during no borders demo at Lunar House, Croydon

The distressed asylum seeker who was arrested as protesters gathered outside the Border and Immigration Agency headquarters last Friday, remains on remand at Croydon’s HMP Highdown. Please support him by: providing a bail address, attending court, writing to him. Read more >>

27-09-2007 19:58 | 2 additions

Large turnout at Burmese and Chinese embassies in London

Large numbers of protesters rallied outside the Burmese embassy, before marching to the Chinese embassy to demand China's support for the pro-democracy uprising in Burma.
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27-09-2007 19:17 | 2 additions

SOCPA - gordon brown's hypocricy over burmese protests

while 'red' ken and his gla can offer no explanation for the continued 2-metre high fencing around parliament square, and while burmese demonstrators are hassled by inspector price of the met for not asking permission to protest about the sudden crackdown by the burmese military, we are still waiting for gordon brown to honour his 'promise' of repealing the SOCPA law banning 'unauthorised' protest near parliament. Read more >>

27-09-2007 14:25 | 4 additions

Policing the No Border Camp

There was nothing all that unusual about the policing of the Gatwick No Border Camp last week: intimidation and harassment, spin and lies, unlawful arrests.. all too familiar to those who've been around enough to realise that the police are not only about stopping crime and fighting terrorism. But it is always worth knowing the details of exactly what happened, how and why. Read more >>

27-09-2007 13:38

We are ALL burmese, in this little 2007 world .Cyberslavery. . . . then you?

In london, the address of the burmese embassy is necessary to discover it . . . . this lunchtime the present day "representation" had hidden their flag.
Shame, or cowardice . . . . people are choosing against the cyberslavery put upon them in test case new deliberate designs of "repression-cities", as much a test for the world as was the nazi slave labour deathcamps - or peenemunde. Could global institutions have had pride in their actions if the retort to, say, the attempts at a breakout in Sobibor have limits of stopping the passports or overseas credit of the Auschwitz troops? A town a week is destroyed as we "wait."

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27-09-2007 12:17

Demonstrate at Communications House Tue 2 October

Show solidarity with asylum seekers.
Protest against reporting and detention centres!
Demonstrate outside the UK Immigration Service
Communications House
210 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BR
(nearest tube – Old Street )
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27-09-2007 10:13

Another own goal for BAA

Aviation Minister orders investigation into night flight numbers at Heathrow after
investigation shows night flights significantly exceeding legal limits. Read more >>

26-09-2007 20:53

Force feeding stunt exposes Selfridges

Seated at a well-set dinner table near the entrance to Selfridges, an elegantly dressed woman was "force-fed" through a funnel by a man who was dressed as a waiter. This was the scene that made hundreds of shoppers stop and stare, yesterday(25-9-07) in Birmingham City Centre. The aim was simply to expose and shame Selfridges for their sale of foie gras - torture in a tin!! Read more >>

26-09-2007 17:07

Cleaning House : the dodgy functionaries in whitehall . . . .etc

. . . . the people that leave MOD procurement to join US-based arms corporations seem to have got very little publicity in comparison to the MPs or political appointees that put a foot wrong to the tune of getting a couple of extra trips out of expenses . . . . the "rotten burrough" of westminster that threw poor people out of theit homes to install influential friends was checked out, but this creeping petty criminal coup of " you scratch my back i scratch yours" is asking for much sharper enquiries - despite the large amount of sacrificial patsies it has got waiting, "pseudo-group" omertas, or old pre-"cyberbullying" scams it twists. Read more >>

26-09-2007 16:05

Upsidedown begging bowls! Spititual traditions reject the "Muggers" Tithe: Burma

recent NEWS . . . . monks take casualties to shield people, to protect future free thought, to keep the integrity of parents, mothers mothers, fathers fathers, to break the "western" media shrug-blockade.

Demos at embassy - easy access - loads of tubes, buses etc,(google Burma Embassy location)
Pressure good - of serious sorts - see comment with "time for movement against war to evolve"-
"voice of democracy burma" also has background.
"boom, boom" - people ARE dying - but - ACT.
Open door - push. Despite the "media-opinion-influencers" doomgloom-crusade that is something we should all expect, then see past, this IS a moment for burma, etc. In burma the armed forces high-ups must have a mix of opinions about all this - they did ALLOW that democratic election in recent times - despite reneging upon its results - so if they are encouraged to listen - forced to listen - to people saying they should come to some accomodation with the democratic forces - but allowed a way out of the current-dictatorship situation too, a responsible, bounce-back global popular bit of effort, with imagination, acceleration, etc, then GLOBAL peoplepower should work.
Without ruling out actual armed intervention, with the actual or tacit support of china - perhaps with the involvement of china too - of a multi-national force - several different SHARP economic measures are possible that dont harm the poulation, or are so fast in effect, that , say, with fooddrops etc the iraq disaster of almost deliberately stupid economic measures could teach us how to do it a different way. But all the actual gravytrain corporate types in the west - or "offshore tax havens" as most are these days - shouldnt get away with the usual distractions this time - or the twisting of the news against china for some old "coldwar replay" either.
"BOOM BOOM"
I Expect the media spin to show a "threpressionwastotalitsallover" - but, in actual fact - its "boomboom - they've blown the bloody doors off!"
That media blockade is extinct.

If you are in the media, or a spiritual tradition, different religion, different culture or different people - these shots might get used as a "media-influencers attempt at a full stop" or you might see it as a sort of trumpet intro for the new "drum'n'bass" of a quickening, STRENGTHENING pulse - with a grin that reflect strength back to you - that reminds you of what it is to act WITH the good spirits, the good intentions of community- of all people - if we are to have a free future - or a future at all. Read more >>