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

26-09-2007 15:05

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.

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CUBA Calls for End to Insensitivity...

26-09-2007 14:45

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque spoke on Monday, September 24, at a UN high-level event on climate change in New York, United States. We offers here the full text of the Cuban diplomat's speech.

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Ecuador - Indigenous leaders kidnapped, left for dead

26-09-2007 11:42

At the end of August, two Indigenous Leaders in Puyo, Ecuador, were
attacked after months of receiving death threats for their efforts to
protect the territory of the Zapara people in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Anti-Tesco meeting venue vandalised

23-09-2007 15:24

In the run up to this week's meeting against Tesco moving into Mill Road local retailer, Libra Aries bookshop, who is to host the meeting has had their shop front covered in graffitti.

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Stricken lender Northern Rock has attracted a buyer.

23-09-2007 13:51

Institutions see no value in purchasing Northern Rock. The alternative exists: the Depositors are acknowledged as the de-facto owners of Northern Rock and the whole enteprise is mutualised. Northern Rock has a buyer: its depositors.

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Keep Tesco off Mill Road, Cambridge

23-09-2007 12:57

Tesco hope to move into Mill Road, Cambridge. The over whelming majority of residents and local traders absolutely do not want this to happen.

The campaign against Tesco has well and truly begun

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The BBC and 'others' 'war' on George Galloway - a Bethnal Green commentary-1

23-09-2007 11:51

By©Muhammad Haque
1150 GMT
London Sunday 23 September 2007

Last Friday's edition of the BBC2 programme 'NEWSNIGHT' promoted the voters-rejected candidate Oona King as if she had just come back from climbing Mount Everest! As had the Andrew Neill-fronted 'THIS WEEK' slot the previous night shown on BBC1. There is such an acceptance of this token of 'multiple ethnicities and affiliations' being flaunted on all the mainstream media channels that the ordinary people face a serious risk of being almost told that defeat at an election in Britain no longer means that.

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Urgent - Zapara Leaders in Grave Danger

23-09-2007 09:16

Today, September 22, the offices of the Zapara organization were broken into. Computers, files and more were stolen. This break-in comes just as investigations are underway on two recent attacks on the Zapara.

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Bolivia needs our solidarity

23-09-2007 08:27

As Evo Morales said, "right from the start Bolivia's right wing said this little Indian is only going to be president for three or four months. That day passed and now they say this little Indian is going to be here for a long time, we have to do something about it; and that means encouraging confusion or destabilisation." That is why today a resurgent right wing is determined to destabilise the country and government — even if it means plunging the country into civil war or provoking a violent military coup...

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A Critique of Citizenism

23-09-2007 05:42

Written in French in April 2001, this text is a critique of the anti-globalization movement from an anarcho-communist perspective. This is the first time it has ever been translated into English.

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Venezuela today: complexities and outright lies

23-09-2007 00:06

* A member of the editorial collective of El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario; in Spanish & English) prepared this article for the 6th edition of the Costa Rican (A) journal La Libertad [September 2007;

http://revistalalibertad.blogspot.com] in response to an inconsistent effort to establish impossible affinities between Chavism and Anarchism.

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Crossrail- latest costs deadlock is symptomatic of the spin rail. Scrap it

22-09-2007 12:37

UK Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has given a publicly stated deadline of next Tuesday by when the City of London and Big Business interests should come up with 'real money'. She has been reported to have asked to see the colour of the Big Business money. This impasse has been
painted in the pro-Crossrail Big Business media including the Financial Times and by the USA outlet Bloomberg as an unfair demand on the conglomerates. They are citing this demand as evidence of sloppy and unrealistic thinking on the part of Gordon Brown's administration. This is not so. The problem lies with the sloppiness and the lack of merit in the present Crossrail plan itself.

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Philippines: Another Scandal rocks Arroyo regime

22-09-2007 01:29

ZTE deal to cost US$527 million after 20 years of repayment

Wearing white elephant masks to depict the potential character of the controversial national broadband network (NBN) project, members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a picket outside the Senate Tuesday in time for the Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the project won by Chinese firm ZTE Corp., and stressed its debt burden on the Filipino people.

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suicider worlds end, or . . . . we remember EACH of us. "CYBERBULLYING". "stop".

21-09-2007 12:50

latest news, suicide from tower overlooking hyde park, london, 10.30 a.m, eye witness thoughts about stopping this happening, with reference to latest news about the world waking up to the effect of "cyber-bullying" - a worlwide factor, but also a metaphor for all of us, the way tech is getting used against peoples happiness - by a few inadequate bullies, cheats or frauds sacrificing others to cover-up their lack of thought - for others - the worlds - or for their own imminent future -

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Deliberate Lies, Strange Deaths and Agression to the World Economy

19-09-2007 20:15

Fidel Castro denounced that the United States government is using unimaginable economic means to defend a right that violates the sovereignty of all the other countries.

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Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine

19-09-2007 18:35

Following is a review of Naomi Klein's new book, The Shock Doctrine by Stephen Lendman.

See also this short film:

The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc

And this 6 part lecture on The Shock Doctrine:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3Pb_StJn4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Du3mpRkaz8g

http://youtube.com/watch?v=og2gYUVURAI

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRvuGLM_Pe4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7FcoU0LLUU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CG_xRZW32X0

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Crossrail costs overruns already on ! At this speed, it will become CURSED rail

18-09-2007 15:55

UK Finance Secretary Alistair Darling is reported today to have admitted that his job was on the line, in the wake of the globalising financial market collapse as typified currently by ‘Northern Rock’ in the UK.

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Philippine Protest Marks The First Senate Hearing On The JPEPA

18-09-2007 02:40

14 September 2007, Manila, Philippines. – A crowd of more than 300 workers, farmers, fishers, and environmentalists from the Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) today called on the Senators of the 14th Congress to look beyond the rosy projections and government hype surrounding the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), and to carefully assess its short-term and long-term implications. The group’s call came on the day of the first scheduled Senate hearing for this historic, precedent-setting treaty.

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