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Climate Change Day of Action

05-02-2009 11:44

Information about Christian Aid's Climate Change protests and campaigns - speaking out against E.ON's coal-fuelled power plants. Join us and help make a difference!

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Revealed: the truth behind Tory support for South-East airport expansion

05-02-2009 07:59

Last week Tory Transport supremo Theresa Villiers admitted in the third runway debate that a Conservative government would not rule out airport expansion in the South-East. This rightly confused many people: if there is no case for expanding Heathrow or Stansted, then where do the Tories want to expand? And why, if they are persuaded that climate change = bad, do they want to expand any at all?

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Is economic growth sustainable?

04-02-2009 23:03

The debate surrounding the extent to which the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change misses a more fundamental point. That is, fossil fuels are an inherently finite resource. This resource is dwindling at an accelerating rate as economies such as those of China and India expand rapidly. Fossil fuels will run out. Maybe not in the next 10, 20 or 30 years but they will run out.

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A call out for common actions against the construction of a new nuclear power st

04-02-2009 09:27

Present-day Belarus is a post soviet country, on which territory a regime, police state in form and neoliberal in essence, fortified its position. For already 14 years the country is run by one and the same person Alexander Lukashenko, a populist at the beginning of his governing and openly pursuing antisocial reforms now.
The freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly is not about our country. These basic values as well as the political opposition are suppressed. Peaceful gatherings dispersions, political trials, preventive detentions all this has become a norm of political practice in Belarus.

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Q&A : Water Pushed to the Limit

30-01-2009 14:12

Manuel Baquedano
SANTIAGO, Jan 30 (Tierramérica) - When it comes to water, "humanity does not have the full awareness of the danger it is facing and will only act under extreme circumstances. The bad news is that those extremes are drawing near," Manuel Baquedano, president of the Chilean non-governmental Institute of Political Ecology, told Tierramérica. *

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E.On Ref Off!

26-01-2009 12:59

Every fan counts...
Disrupting E.ON's image at the Chelsea vs Ipswich football match.

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Save the Earth (step 1 of 1)

25-01-2009 14:34

Low Tech, Low Pollution
James Lovelock is revered by greens for his Gaia theory and getting CFCs banned globally, and then dismissed by them for advocating nuclear power for the UK. He was just interviewed in New Scientist, saying he can see only one way to avert climate change - burying charcoal.

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Energy War: NATO meddling in Sudan to block China

25-01-2009 09:32

The US is slowly shifting its military needs towards Africa and Sudan in particular. While the Barack Obama administration will force the UN to declare a no-fly zone over Darfur, the US forces in so called peacekeeping missions will establish their bases in Darfur or Kenya and other surrounding nations in order to keep Sudan under its umbrella.

Clearly, the NATO will be brought in to support the US in its 'conquest' mission and its global strategy of controlling the 'energy' reserves across the African continent.

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No Third Runway Decision Day Flashmob

17-01-2009 23:00

Give MPs a vote
Following the government decision to press ahead with airport expansion and build a third runway at Heathrow despite the environmental consequences announced earlier in the week, several hundred people turned up at Terminal 5 for a 'flashmob' protest at 12 noon on Saturday (16 Jan 2009.) Pictures Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

17-01-2009 09:40

Although the Israelis intentions to drive the Palestinian people of Gaza out of what is now basically Israel have been pretty clear for so;e time the fact that British Gas (BG Group Plc) have the rights to extract a large quantity of Gas from just off the gaza coast could give them an added incentive. BG negotiating with the Israeli government but not anymore.
 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680

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No to Taxpayer guarantees of BAE Systems/ BA debt

16-01-2009 12:02

According to Robert Peston many of Europes largest companies are approaching the time when they have to renew their loans. But banks and pension funds are reluctant to lend and so it would appear that the Government is preparing to offer guarantees on the debt to 350 of the UKs largest companies including BA and BAE Systems.

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Renewables Grants monopolised by British Gas

15-01-2009 14:01

Shocked to find that the renewable energy 'green' grants for charities, public and non-profit sectors are being monopolised by British Gas and E.ON. Most schools and charities have not even heard about the scheme - and these companies have an interest in keeping it quiet...

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Prince Andrew promoting nuclear power

14-01-2009 13:29

As if it isn't bad enough that Gordon Brown's brother Andrew is the UK media chief for 85% French state-owned energy giant EDF (Energy), it seems the royal connection is now needed to convince us that we need more toxic nuclear white elephants.

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BE: Dungeness N station on a possible 'C' station

10-01-2009 16:46

British Energy are holding several 'public meetings' in the local area (Kent-Romney Marsh) to tell all about their wonderous new plans for a third nuclear station at the site.

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The Transition Town Movement: embracing reality and resilience

08-01-2009 17:36

The Transition Handbook

Following is a review of The Transition Handbook written by Carolyn Baker. The first version of The Transition Handbook is available on paper, the second version is being developed through open revisions of the first version, see The Transition Handbook 2nd edition. Previous articles on the Transition Initiative on UK Indymedia include, Rob Hopkins on “The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review, Keith Parkins on Transition Towns and John Michael Greer: Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?.

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The End of Capitalism? Not quite, but nearly....

08-01-2009 14:34

The following article was originally published in Fourth World Review - A Transition Journal., see also this talk by Nafeez Ahmed, Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio).

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Transition Sheffield: Local Meetings in Burngreave and Heeley/Meersbrook

08-01-2009 11:59

Following on from last years 3x3 Film Festival  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/09/408442.html local Transition groups are forming in Burngreave and Heeley/Meersbrook, details for their next meetings, on Tuesday 13th January, follow.

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Peak Oil And The Century Of Famine

07-01-2009 09:09

Around the beginning of the twenty-first century, there began a clash of two gigantic forces: overpopulation and oil depletion. The event went unnoticed by all but a few people, but it was quite real. As a result of that clash, the number of human beings on Earth must one day decline in order to match the decline in oil production.

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Tom Blees: Rebuttal to Greenpeace on nuclear

06-01-2009 06:44

Tom Blees, author of Prescription for the Planet and proponent of Fourth Generation nuclear power, takes on Greenpeace.

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shell-sponsored play closed at national theatre

05-01-2009 22:12

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yesterday saw the last performance of the run of sophocles' oedipus at the national theatre. it has been met by continued stunts from the 'artnotoil' group, including a spoof press release, mass leafletting of theatre-goers, and on saturday, an impromptu performance in the foyer