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Did Israel President Moshe Katsav aid Muslim Terrorism or only fraud ?

11-03-2006 05:33

The land of International penny stock fraud makes for strange bedfellows and here often right wing cons of all stripes lie together.So it should come as no surprise that by touting or allowing his name to be used to tout a Michael Zwebner pump and dump penny stock scam(one of many over the years) President of Israel Moshe Katzav not only mixes his name and reputation with American mafia and international crooks and gangsters but also Mr.Zwebner's business partner in a number of scams over the years including UCSY or Universal Communications Systems is the infamous Mohamed Hadid,a Palestinian of ill repute connected to the Herndon,Virginia Muslim charity suspected in both money laundering and terrorist funding activities,including Al Qaeda.

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Venezuela 2006: Anarchism against all odds

10-03-2006 21:36

Our friends from abroad continuously ask us to explain our views about the current situation in Venezuela. This reply is based on two recent texts by the editing team of El Libertario, already published in their entirety in the internet (in Spanish), and from which we extract our main points.

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Youth Against Heavy Industry invade offices of Icelandic National Power Compnay

10-03-2006 14:23

DOWN WITH BOGUS "GREEN" ENERGY!!
The Reykjavík offices of the much loathed Landsvirkjun, the Icelandic National Power Company, were gatecrashed yesterday by over thirty angry young people who banged drums, shouted and blew whistles in defiance against Landsvirkjun, heavy industry and ecocidal dams in the Icelandic highlands.

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London Stop WTO Noisy Protest

10-03-2006 11:53

six of the world’s most powerful countries are now meeting in secret session in London to hammer out a deal to liberalise the world’s economy.

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George Fox 6 - trial on Monday - Lancaster

10-03-2006 11:06

Reminder:

**Monday 13th March - 10am outside Crown Court (back of Castle) Lancaster**

the George Fox 6 are appealing their conviction for 'momentarily disrupting' a corporate networking conference at Lancaster University in 2004.

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NEW SchMOVIES 2006 ON LINE

10-03-2006 00:04

Two new SchMOVIES are available to download free. Covering the recents demos at EDO/MBM since the injunction has come down and the anti-TESCO site at Shepton Mallet.

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Life without Water? public meeting

09-03-2006 20:39

22nd March is World Water Day and the World Water Forum (WWF), (private sector think tank) is being held in Mexico City.

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Haiti: the resilience of workers, peasants and urban poor

09-03-2006 11:57

The announcement late last week that blank ballots cast in Haiti's presidential election were to be discounted, effectively acknowledging René Préval's victory without recourse to a run-off, sparked massive celebrations in the poorest districts of this devastated country.

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Lockerbie & the FBI: Fakes Bureau International!

08-03-2006 18:07

The FBI put pressure on the Scottish police to ensure evidence was 'swept under the carpet'. This way the FBI and CIA avoided any embarrassment in the framing of Libya in the Lockerbie 'trial', where according to the UK police evidence also was 'made by the CIA'.

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McDonalds driven out of Newcastle

08-03-2006 14:33

McDonalds tried to film their latest ad campaign in Newcastle, but found themselves besieged by fat clowns and others determined not to let them use Newcastle as part of their brand. Shooting was gloriously interrupted in town, and they were completely prevented from filming on the Quayside.

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SHEPTON MALLET TREE PROTEST UPDATE!

07-03-2006 21:24

STILL RUNNING!

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Corporate Accountability event 8 March - Westminster

07-03-2006 10:32

The Simultaneous Policy is a package of measures being developed by people around the world to address global problems such as climate change, unfair trade and unsustainable development. One of the issues SP could address is unregulated corporate power with measures that can effectively old corporations to account. Join the discussion.

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Anti-poverty campaigners ask “Where next after Make Poverty History?

07-03-2006 08:45

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM), leading global justice campaigners and founding members of Make Poverty History are organising a conference in Oxford asking ‘Where next after Make Poverty History?’

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MENZIES (MoD) Finally FORCED TO ADMIT CIA TORTURE FLIGHTS to Campbell

07-03-2006 07:03

The UK Ministry of Defense has just admitted (March 3, 2006) that a large CIA transport, such as the one picture with torture prisoners and US Army policemen, has landed at RAF bases in Britain and Ireland. Were these people treated thus on British soil? Here are the flights reported:

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Need for critical theory

06-03-2006 17:34

A profound social need exists today for critical theory.
Not theory as a separate sphere—there are already too many separate spheres.
Not theory, as direction of praxis—often praxis knows how to manage very well on its own.
Not theory as a closed language of a clerical caste, but as an element of revolutionary political action for whomever would like another time.

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NUS presentation

06-03-2006 13:07

The National Union of Students have done a powerpoint presentation which they have distributed to Student's Unions around the country, and is available here as a MS Powerpoint file (sorry not openoffice format too - it has sound in it. if somebody has a few minutes to seperate out the sound file and then include it into an openoffice version that would be cool).

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SEC Commissioner Christopher Cox vows to bring James Dale Guckert/Jeff Gannon t

06-03-2006 02:34

According to a quote from Mr.Cox of a few days ago this would appear to be the case. The truth is more likely his and SEC attorneys' wish to gag both professional business journalists including at the WSJ as well as defrauded investors such as myself who wish to blow the whistle on SEC corruption and fraud.

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Fairtrade Fortnight Events in Oxford

05-03-2006 22:03

This Fairtrade Fortnight, events across Oxford are exploring the impact of Fairtrade – as well as the wider global networks that come together in this city considering issues of the empowerment and representation of voices from the global South.

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Do Not Believe Bush On Afghanistan

05-03-2006 15:53

Bush recently dropped into Kabul and talked of the fantastic progress there has been here.

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CIA James Woolsey,Asa Hutchinson, Fortress America,offshore money laundering

04-03-2006 21:44

I note also that your Fortress America partner ex-CIA Director Mr.James Woolsey has an offshore account in the Caymans(Palidin) famous or should I say infamous for penny stock fraud and money laundering.Yes you and he set a fine example along with Asa Hutchinson and Oklahoma's Don Nickles of how decent Americans should NOT behave. Somehow your priviledged lifestyles have led you to perceive American ethical standards legal or not are for other Americans and not for yourselves.