UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Taking Power Back from Corrupt Corporate Banker Politicians in Ireland

27-12-2010 18:15

The power of bank and corporate money in Ireland, was on full display in the last year, particularly on budget day. With Irish citizen's cuts and taxes to finance a bailout of billions subsidizing fraudulent banks and their off-shore owners.

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The 'Foxification' of British News

22-12-2010 15:12

The tale of a large media congolmerate and its bid to take over the British media. Why does one man need to control this much?

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Some thoughts about wikileaks

20-12-2010 17:14

The other night, I was thinking about, well if I was the head of the CIA, or the NSA or the president of the world or whatever, what would I do about wikileaks.

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USA/Sweden: Curiosities Abound in Assange Case

20-12-2010 15:46

USA/Sweden: Curiosities Abound in Assange Case ....... An interview with John Pilger by Dennis Bernstein ......... John Pilger writes in The Independent defending Assange against a defamatory piece published by the Guardian. ... John Pilger: Swedes are smearing him and encouraging the US ........... M O R E:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-pilger-swedes-are-smearing-him-and-encouraging-the-us-2164320.html

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Militarism and Economic Crisis - War Profiteers' News

20-12-2010 11:33

http://wri-irg.org/epublish/19/409

It was between 9/11 and the ensuing war against international terrorism (in Afghanistan and Iraq) initiated by the USA, with the help of the majority of European countries, that the already sizeable military spending of the USA’s allied countries began to increase significantly. In this regard, the USA has spent $1100 billion. In Europe spending has not gone so far. However, these defence budgets have increased above their national GDPs, with an annual average 5% increase.

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Now Athens Riots - happening riot now

15-12-2010 13:14

London last thursday, Rome yesterday and today Athens. A day of general strike across Greece sees protesters out in force and the inevitable happens - a third west European capital city sees riots in the space of a week. Cops have fired tear gas and flash grenades while rioters use molotovs and set fire to cars. A former transport minister has been stoned and protesters attempted to torch two luxury hotels near parliament. The economic blockade has paralyzed the country - grounding flights, shutting schools, halting public transport.

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Afghan attack kills 6 US-led soldiers - Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:27AM

12-12-2010 11:41

A militant attack has claimed the lives of six US-led soldiers in southern Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of foreign soldiers in the war-torn country closer to 700 so far this year

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UG#529 - Unite and Conquer 1 (The Realisation of Unity)

11-12-2010 23:27

This week we question the reductionist science of the discrete and separate self. Our opening talk, by Paul Bloom, looks at research into the human moral sense, and presents findings which suggests that children even only a few months old are possessed of some kind of moral sense. We follow this up with a heartfelt talk from peace activist Brian Willson, on the need for US culture to break out of its self-imposed box and relate healthily with the world at large. Our major talk, by evolutionary biologist and gift economy activist, Elisabet Sahtouris, is a wide ranging one. She directly challenges reductionist models of evolution, preferring a holistic view, concluding that humanity is undergoing a change akin to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

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Show me the money (Oxford)

11-12-2010 00:04

The richest 1% of the world's people have 40% of the wealth.

Article taken from Issue 2 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://oxfly.theoarc.org.uk

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Nobel Peace Prize Petiton: Julian Assange

10-12-2010 13:19

Please sign online petition: Nobel Peace Prize for Julian Assange ....... HUMAN RIGHTS - Background (Preamble): Julian Assange is the public face of Wikileaks, the organization that has done so much to expose the evil actions of the US and other governments - actions which those governments would rather keep secret.
He is currently under lock and key in the UK, on trumped-up charges widely seen as an excuse to get him into captivity with the aim of discouraging further disclosures of information which it is so evidently in the public interest to disclose. An award of a Nobel Peace Prize to this courageous man would recognize his contribution to justice and would encourage further leaks of information from those who are considering revealing facts but who might otherwise decide not to. An online petition has been launched, urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Julian Assange. ..........

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41314.html ........... OK this idea comes from the Kremlin, but never mind that. Ditto the fact that Kissinger, Peres, and Obama also got given this prize. And the hacking is brilliant. But let's fight on more than one front.

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Manchester hunt sabs new Facebook page

09-12-2010 20:38

Please note Manchester Hunt Sabs now have a Facebook page the link is below.

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Australia: WikiLeaks cables reveal secret ties between Rudd coup plotters and US

09-12-2010 13:08

The latest batch of the several hundred leaked US diplomatic cables concerning Australia, provided by WikiLeaks to the Fairfax company’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, provide further extraordinary evidence of Washington’s direct involvement in the anti-democratic coup against former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last June.

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2005: The US and North Korea

08-12-2010 19:35

"The North [Korea]...wants to phase out its nuclear program, but through dialogue, since the U.S. is directly threatening the North with nuclear weapons."
"..the U.S. should come with sincerity and honest minds to resolve this issue...the current U.S. proposal that we [North Korea] dismantle our nuclear program, after which they will give assurances is not fair - the two gestures should occur simultaneously.."

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Stop GM gathering

07-12-2010 15:29

GM – Gathering Momentum
Anti-GM update, networking and strategy session for grassroots and NGO campaigners
Saturday 22nd January 2011, 10am – 6pm
Central London

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Today in central metro station Athens - VIDEO

06-12-2010 21:50

Today in central metro station Athens - VIDEO

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'Nothing' snapped up by Oxford street shoppers

02-12-2010 21:59

On a chilly Saturday afternoon on 27th of November, Oxford street shoppers
were distracted by the launch of London Rising Tide's sales and advertising
team's new product, Nothing(c).

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Grolsch tax avoidance

01-12-2010 23:43

Everyone has heard of the Vodafone £6 billion unpaid tax bill, a tax bill which if paid would mean the £7 billion welfare cuts would not have been necessary. Another tax avoider is SABMiller, owner of Grolsch (the beer in the fancy bottles).

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And if there was a leak from the Chinese Embassy...

01-12-2010 20:49

While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:

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Goodbye Irish Sovereignty

30-11-2010 21:02

Now that Ireland is a vassal state of the EU, and its democracy as its citizens know it, is finished, it was only a matter of time before the EU's Economic Affairs counsel started telling Ireland what and how to conduct its affairs. Sure enough, it took all of 24 hours between the "bailout" and the first order. RTE reports that Olli Rehn "says it would not be advisable for any new government to try to renegotiate key aspects of the IMF/EU deal." In other words, the EU is promptly realizing that the new Irish government is likely to reneg in part or all of the just struck deal and is therefore interjecting itself in the process.

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WikiLeaks Has Said It Holds Bank of America Documents

30-11-2010 20:58

“We are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange said in the Oct. 9, 2009, interview with Computerworld magazine, referring to five gigabytes of data. “To have impact it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search and get something out of it.”

WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes, declining to identify the bank from which the documents came."