UK Indymedia - UK Other Press Newswire Archive

Anti-Phorm Protest Event this Wednesday, July 16th, in London

12-07-2008 14:42

July 16th - Protest at the BT AGM, Barbican Centre, London

Boris cuts wages of London’s poorest!

10-07-2008 15:50

The Guardian reveal their true colours today with a story claiming that Boris Johnson is to raise the minimum wage for ten of thousands of Londoners to £7.40 an hour. (1)

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News International threatens Media Lens with legal and police action

10-07-2008 14:44

Following on from the news that News International threatened Media Lens with legal and police action, Media Lens has posted a new alert about the repression. This was in connection with their critical commentary on the bias of the Times over Iran and the nuclear issue. Media Lens, for those who have not encountered their work, are a small (three person) web-based team who analyse British media output, especially at the "liberal" end of the spectrum. Since 2001 they have been publishing free email 'alerts' about mainstream distortion and bias based on Chomsky and Herman's "Propaganda Model" in their book "Manufacturing Consent".

Related Indymedia article:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/402914.html

Posted from:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

Will be soon archived here:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/08/080710_news_international_threatens.php

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Virgin's lies about deportation flights

10-07-2008 00:57

Emails sent by Virgin employees to campaigners leading up to the proposed deportation of Kemi Ayinde (which was eventually cancelled, for the 2nd time) have left a trail of lies and deceit. Despite this Virgin's PR machine manages to spin the story in its favour and get them hailed as the hero of the hour in the Daily Mirror.

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Hated Mafioso Ken Livingstone plots return by rubbishing Boris with media help -

07-07-2008 17:06

Ken Livingstone has been plotting his return with the help of his dodgy Labour friendly Newsnight friend Emily Maitlis. The Ray Lewis story was a plant and Mr Livingstone was brought on there and oddly enough to deal with the newly released story questioning him. The Conservatives under Cameron and New Labour under most of them are busily trying to retain the status quo and doing anything to keep the neo-Liberalist corporate London agenda going. Dodgy Ken's record speaks for itself...

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Topical Fish Freesheet- response to the Corporate Media

07-07-2008 16:00

Please find attached a PDF of the Topical Fish freesheet bursting with political comment, artwork, prose, vox pop and evening gardening tips!
E-mail

topicalfish@gmail.com for more information.

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Times Newspapers threaten Media Lens with legal and police action

07-07-2008 08:42

Media Lens have felt the need to amend their 25th June alert, Selling the Fireball - George Bush and Iran following "repeated threats of legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers on June 28 and July 2". This has now been picked up by The Guardian, in todays issue Peter Wilby has an article titled, publish and be damned. The original Media Lens report, before the amendments were made due to the legal threats can be read on this site and following is the message posted by the Media Lens Editors about the threats.

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The Odds of Change: A Statistical Look at Our Democrat’s Voting Records

04-07-2008 16:36

We want change. Obama says he will deliver change, as did the Democrats in '06. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Even the statistics prove the Democrats have failed us.

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Remember Independence Day . . . .a new way to impeachment - Congressional opener

04-07-2008 09:59

Yesterday the hitherto "outsider" campaign to get the facts of the USAs faulty election process into the mainstream - in fact, into action - (see"freepress.org""election coverage") has at last got into Congress, after numerous semi-hushed up arrests, resignations, inquiries, then people doing actual jailtime for it in Ohio have taken it out of the realms of "theory" into actual proof, with results.

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Must Read Book - Crack House true story by Harry Keeble @ Stokey and Haringey

30-06-2008 13:39

A book about Stoke Newington aka "Cokey Stokey" and Haringey Drugs Squad has arrived. Having found a flyer on becoming a cop in the bin, Harry Keeble joins Cokey Stokey drugs squad and then Haringey drugs squad. He describes them as "drug dealers" and "naughty lazy coppers". They give him a cardboard desk, a box for a chair, a huge 80's phone, steal his answerphone & give him a decrepit purple car.

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Letter to the Times: Merchants of War

30-06-2008 09:18

The following letter to Bronwen Maddox and Oliver Kamm of the Times Newspaper follows the Medialens' correspondence with them regarding the US NIE and the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear programme. Bronwen Maddox is the Chief Foreign Commentator of the Times. Oliver Kamm, the Times’ columnist, is a founding member of the right wing Henry Jackson Society and a proponent of interventionism in foreign policy

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British Government should not recognize Burmese military Regime

26-06-2008 13:50

Burma Democratic Concern today called for the British government not to recognize Burmese military regime

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Galloway, Fake Protesters and the Daily Mail

26-06-2008 10:41

Journo Yasmin Whittaker-Khan, writing in the Fail on Sunday last week, claimed that a man she saw inciting the crowd, yelling abuse at the police and shouting ‘pigs out’ was himself of a porcine nature, a fully serving police officer.(1)

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Bath Bomb #11 out now

24-06-2008 12:51

Monthly tabloid rantfest fresh out of the mean streets of Bath

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John Pilger's keynote from a recent conference on Investigative Journalism

24-06-2008 09:57

On Friday the 13th June 2008 The Chinese Media Centre at Westminster University held a conference into the current state of Investigative Journalism around the globe.

Here is the keynote speech from the event by veteran journalist John Pilger.

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Refugee week special from Bristol - plus more Cider With Rosie

22-06-2008 23:38

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733

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New Nerve magazine launched in Liverpool

21-06-2008 20:26

As always, the magazine is available for free from local cafes, libraries, exhibition spaces, and News From Nowhere on Bold Street.

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Action Altert: Contact Eagle Asset - HLS Investor

21-06-2008 11:57

Action Alert: Contact Eagle Assets and tell them to divest from LSR! They are now Huntingdon Life Sciences' largest investor with over 15 million dollars in shares.

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Birthday Bash Benefit Gig Bonanza in Bath

18-06-2008 15:43

Benefit gig with proceeds being split between the upcoming Bristol Anarchist Bookfair and the Bath Bomb.

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CIA Malta Talons Hold Trusts In Golden Triangle

18-06-2008 15:22

EURO-AMERICAN MONEY FUND TRUST - Trust Group 3 of 14 Trust Groups' pooled assets balancing global economies, saw Trust Group 8 - led by Georges Pebereau of BANK INDO-SUEZ - with Günter Berthold Horn as the Western representative for inheritors of Golden Triangle China Triad Family gold bullion and more.