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UG#560 - Cyberluddism (Reclaiming Luddism on the Bicentennial)

23-07-2011 03:54 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

This week we look at the goings on in England which started 200 years ago this November, headed by the mysterious figure of Ned Ludd. Why did the Luddites break certain machines but leave others? Why did central government send more troops to crush Luddism that to fight Napoleon in France? But first, the soundtrack of two videos, Robots vs. Luddites and New Technology Whose Progress?'

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This Week in Palestine week 29 2011

22-07-2011 16:03 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 16th to the 22nd 2011.

What did he know and when did he know it? Cameron Coulson and those pesky emails

22-07-2011 13:23 | Analysis | History | Other Press | World

The political/corporate class must be rueing the day email arrived, it is proving to be the undoing of many a powerful individual and perhaps even the downfall of the government? But only if the media do the job they claim to be doing, investigating malfeasance at every level.

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African Children Vaccinated At Gunpoint. Does Bill Gates Approve?

Poster's note:
"Vaccines" are developed by killing captive animals. The World Health Organization's 'smallpox vaccine' spread AIDS throughout Africa. (See London Times Science
Editor P Wright May 1987) Now Bill Gates' 'vaccines' are being administered at gunpoint
while Gates along with others who are billionaires through theft.... meet together to discuss
depopulation.

9 current Animal Rights Stories: Canada, Colombia, China, US, Scotland Etc

fox beaten to death, horse dragged behind truck, seal slaughter filmers threatened
with arrest etc

Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual

21-07-2011 22:40 | Analysis | Other Press | Sheffield | World

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship’s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast’s foreign editor.

Boy, Do We Need A Hippocratic Oath For Journalists

For the record: Around June 17 or 18, both Edward S. Herman and I each began submitting manuscripts to the Guardian of London, prompted by false and misleading claims that had been made by the British writer George Monbiot on June 14, in his weekly commentary for this prestigious newspaper. "Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers," was the title the Guardian had given it. At Monbiot's own website, the title he had chosen was more direct: "Naming the Genocide Deniers" (June 13).

JSTOR documents released in act of solidarity with Aaron Swartz

This essay originally appeared at The Pirate Bay as the description for the torrent of documents. You can see this message and the torrent here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331

See also Defend Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/07/482483.html

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Is America Fascist?

21-07-2011 19:08 | Analysis | Repression | World

Before we can determine if America has succumbed to fascism, we first must have a good definition and understanding of what fascism really is.

What we can do in other countries to SUPPORT the Californian HUNGERSTRIKERS!

21-07-2011 16:34 | World

Since July 1, thousands of prisoners across California have participated in a hunger strike against torturous conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit. It started with roughly one hundred prisoners that stated that they will refuse food until death if their demands for basic human rights are not met. At least 400 prisoners at Pelican Bay continue to refuse food and thousands more around the state are striking in solidarity. Now MORE than 6,600 prisoners in California, many of whom are in maximum isolation units, have gone on a hunger strike.

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Smash EDO wants your messages!

Do you have a message you'd like to send to the worker's of the notorious EDO/ITT arms factory in Brighton? Or maybe you know a poem/piece of writing about war or the arms trade that you think they should hear? E-mail your ideas to

smashedo@riseup.net and we will shout it over the loud hailer as the arms dealers leave work at our weekly noise demonstrations.

AUSTRALIA - Ploughshares action on Australiam Army Tiger Attack Helicopter

21-07-2011 15:22 | Terror War | World

AUSTRALIA - Ploughshares action on Australiam Army Tiger Attack Helicopter at "Operation Talisman Sabre" Joint U.S./Australian Military Exercises.

You Tube Video– WIN NEWS – see the ACTUAL ACTION watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VpFaKoK9kE

Italy: NO TAV / Genoa / Naples / Other News

21-07-2011 14:10 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Update on the last few weeks in Italy: NO TAV movement, Genoa 10 years after the G8, labour struggles in Naples, and more.

Agents Provocateurs

21-07-2011 09:12 | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

The insurmountable problem for those who categorise any accusation of the state acting deliberately wrongly as a “conspiracy theory”, is truth. There is, beyond any doubt, a police operation to infiltrate left wing groups in the UK with spies.

Direct action @ Kensington & Chelsea Council’s Cabinet Meeting

20-07-2011 20:02 | Health | Public sector cuts | Repression | World

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

at 5.30pm on Thursday 21 July 2011

The Supreme Court has ruled in support of Kensington and Chelsea council’s withdrawal of overnight care to Elaine McDonald to save money.

Palestine Today 07 20 2011

20-07-2011 16:19 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Wednesday July 20th, 2011

10 questions the MPs did not ask Murdoch

As predicted the day before the Murdoch's were questioned by MPs, the difficult questions did not get asked.

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Court Judgement: Mark Kennedy acted as an agent provocateur

No doubt the defendants will be posting on their site

http://ratcliffeontrial.org/ about the court of appeal decision and also Tweeting about it,

https://twitter.com/ratcliffetrial but in the meantime following are extracts from a Guardian article.

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Why did police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”

Cairn obtains legal interdict: ‘Twitter ban’ and 'gagging order' for Greenpeace

20-07-2011 00:04 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Sheffield | World

In its latest move to cover up the truth about its Arctic drilling, Cairn Energy has obtained an extraordinary, wide-ranging legal interdict (injunction) against us, gagging us from posting Tweets and Facebook updates containing photos of yesterday's occupation of their Edinburgh headquarters.

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World Newswire Archive

UG#560 - Cyberluddism (Reclaiming Luddism on the Bicentennial)

This Week in Palestine week 29 2011

What did he know and when did he know it? Cameron Coulson and those pesky emails

African Children Vaccinated At Gunpoint. Does Bill Gates Approve?

9 current Animal Rights Stories: Canada, Colombia, China, US, Scotland Etc

Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual

Boy, Do We Need A Hippocratic Oath For Journalists

JSTOR documents released in act of solidarity with Aaron Swartz

Is America Fascist?

What we can do in other countries to SUPPORT the Californian HUNGERSTRIKERS!

Smash EDO wants your messages!

AUSTRALIA - Ploughshares action on Australiam Army Tiger Attack Helicopter

Italy: NO TAV / Genoa / Naples / Other News

Agents Provocateurs

Direct action @ Kensington & Chelsea Council’s Cabinet Meeting

Palestine Today 07 20 2011

10 questions the MPs did not ask Murdoch

Court Judgement: Mark Kennedy acted as an agent provocateur

Why did police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

Cairn obtains legal interdict: ‘Twitter ban’ and 'gagging order' for Greenpeace

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