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CBS 60" interview: Iranian Leader Opens Up

14-08-2006 16:29

CBS TV is a very important part of the US war machine. Les Moonves is the 'Project for a New American Century' (PNAC) as President and CEO of CBS News, and CBS is owned by the infamous US/Israeli propaganda giant VIACOM. The double nationality and multinational VIACOM is owned by Sumner Rothstein.

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Climate Camp Meeting Number 3

14-08-2006 14:39

There will be a third meeting Friday 18th August at The Occupied Social Centre in Sparkbrook at 7.00pm ( The Cottage of Content Occupied Social Centre, 147 Kyrwicks Lane, Sparkbrook, B11 1SS:[url] http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=B11+1SS&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=52.463011,-1.881216&spn=0.003059,0.010729[/url]) for anyone interested in coming to climate camp from the West Midlands/Birmingham.

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G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 5

14-08-2006 13:44

I woke on 17 July to endless text messages and phone calls about Lebanon. I found a television and watched bombs falling on so-called Hizbullah strongholds that looked like poverty-stricken Lebanese housing estates.

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Anti-War Film Screening - Tonight

14-08-2006 09:06

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An evening of films on Monday 14th August as part of this years Portobello Film Festival in West London curated by Filmmakers Against War, includes, from the Independent Film School in Baghdad, 'Baghdad Days'

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Camping, Discussing And Action

14-08-2006 07:20

10 days of camping close to Heiligendamm in North East Germany, the little town
where the next G8 summit will take place, are over. More than 100 workshops were
announced in advance, in the end it were probably more, not to count all the spontanous
meetings and discussions. A quick overview on the discussions.

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Peace Demo in Edinburgh, Saturday, 12th of August

13-08-2006 22:12

The demonstration to support a ceasefire in the current Lebanon/Israeli conflict, gathered at around 1.30pm at the Meadows path. Lots of flags there, but the spectre of the demonstrators was varied.

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What drives warmongers at home and abroad- Stop Thames GREEDWAY!

13-08-2006 19:58

Why the economic war on the East End is just as bad as other forms of war

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Sources claim latest "terror plot" a hoax cooked up to divert attention from Bla

13-08-2006 17:10

According to knowledgeable sources in the UK and other countries, the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly cooked up a new "terror" scare to avert the public's eyes away from Blair's increasing political woes.

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9-11 "conspiracy theorists" vindicated: Pentagon deliberately misled public opin

13-08-2006 16:50

Recent revelations by members of the 9-11 Commission (quoted in the Washington Post, 2 August 2006) have far reaching implications. They confirm that the Pentagon was involved in criminal wrongdoing by deliberately distorting and/or withholding information concerning the September 2001 attacks

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Camping Against G8 And For Something Completely Different.

13-08-2006 07:46

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“Camp Inski”, the preparation and information camp for the forthcoming G8 summit in Germany, took place from August 4th-14th in North West Germany. There, hundreds of activists prepared for the protests against the G8 2007 summit, to be held in the nearby town of Heiligendamm. Numerous (more than 100) workshops and action trainings provide information and skills while at the same time direct actions are already being carried out in the area. A first summary.

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Who? Me?! - Israel prepared Lebanon genocide for 3 years!

12-08-2006 10:31

''According to the reports, the Israeli army has been preparing for this war for more than three years. The last exercise took place a month before the war started and included the invasion of Lebanon by land forces.''

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Fake air terror: Bank of England freezes assets of accused?

11-08-2006 13:15

The giant Bank of England is a privately owned institution; which is not subject to regulation by the British Parliament, and is in effect a sovereign world power. Like the privately owned money printing shop called 'Federal Reserve' in the United States, the biggest heist ever concerning mankind

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bike caravan 2007

11-08-2006 12:17

This is going to be a nice bike-caravan with a lot of fun and actions!

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Blair Government Concocts Terror Threat - Scares British People Into Silence

11-08-2006 10:44

Yawn! Even if I wasn't actually tired, that would still be my response to the latest "terror alert" from the UK government office of Machiavellian nonsense. I mean, seriously, at what point do people start to smell a rat? Is the mass mind of the British public destined to be forever child-like and easily scared, or does the threat of the boogeyman eventually wear off? I mean, how many times can you arrest a group of patsies and claim that they were planning to attack the British public before people begin to wonder if you are just making it up?

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Public Service Announcement for Electronic Lebanon

11-08-2006 07:48

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In the weeks after Israel launched its attack on Lebanon, a team of New York-based artists, designers, and multimedia producers converged on a warehouse location in Brooklyn to create a Public Service Announcement for Electronic Lebanon. The two minute PSA is intended for wide distribution and public viewing. A laptop version of the PSA, for projection, is also available for download. Activists and others seeking broadcast-quality versions of the PSA are asked to contact EI.

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Totalitarian Arabic press better than UK corporate press

10-08-2006 18:49

During the Iraq war, I went to a BBC meeting, mostly to complain about the bias during the so-called glory days of Greg Dyke. Oddly enough, Iranian and even Saudi Arabian journalists who were there said, we thought our press was limited but you are into self-censorship and described how ignorant and misrepresentative news stories were. Many will know about D-notices and such as the like... But now we have a terrorist threat for which these culprits are not guilty, no evidence, Blair on holiday

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India: Kerala Throws Out Coca-Cola and Pepsi

10-08-2006 12:15

The state government of Kerala in south India has banned the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state. The companies will be asked to close their operations entirely.

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G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 4

10-08-2006 10:00

I woke late. The sun was up and the head of a large and round-faced Russian policeman was poking through the tent entrance. He said something in Russian.

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Anti-War Film Screening

09-08-2006 19:28

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An evening of films on Monday 14th August as part of this years Portobello Film Festival in West London curated by Filmmakers Against War, includes, from the Independent Film School in Baghdad, 'Omar Is My Friend'

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Dutch Airport illegal weapons transport center for Israel

09-08-2006 15:03

The Netherlands officially confirms 23 uncontrolled flights with military cargos of great quantities of weapons and ammunition from the United States via Holland to Israel during the last two months. This according to the 'very underreported' gov't answers given to MP Farah Karimi.
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