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World Leaders, Reading the Same Script

21-09-2006 09:17

Wake up and smell the sulphur....

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Australian government’s role in ousting East Timor’s prime minister Alkatiri

20-09-2006 20:11

Ousting of Alkatiri
The record of the Howard government in the ousting of Alkatiri demonstrates yet again that Canberra will stop at nothing to assert its economic and strategic interests in East Timor and throughout the Asian Pacific region. Having dispatched troops to the island in 1999 and 2006, the Australian government, with US backing, is determined to undercut its rivals and install a compliant regime.

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Muslim radicalisation and British Foreign Policy

19-09-2006 23:13

Amidst world-wide Muslim protests at the Pope's recent remarks, Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Muslim organisation Tony Blair wanted to proscribe with his Anti-Terrorist legislation) called a typically (for HT) peaceful and low-key meeting.

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La Jornada: George W. Bush, Culpable

19-09-2006 22:39

Major Mexican paper covers the delivery of guilty verdict at White House gates by Bush Crimes Commission

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SOCPA - barbara tucker in court again today - report

19-09-2006 15:49

the police tried more confused and bizarre tactics against barbara tucker in a pre-trial hearing today at westminster magistrates court. superintendent terry is behaving more and more like a madman obsessed by a personal vendetta against this peaceful anti-war campaigner

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Netcu Watch update Sept 19th

19-09-2006 15:28

"Old Bill close in on garden gnome" - see NW website
Netcu Watch (National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit-Watch) has been updated September 19th 2006.

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President’s Incitements to Commit Genocide

19-09-2006 14:59

On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, President George Walker Bush delivered an illegal speech and may have committed an international crime, that is, the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide of a religious group. Determined to rally disbelieving Americans behind a failed Iraqi war, the President drifted into calling for open-ended violence against Muslims... The 9/11speech is one among many through which the President has engaged, and continues to do so, in direct and public incitements to commit violence and other crimes against Muslims as a religious group.

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Palestinians suspect Israeli agents behind fire-bombing of Churches

19-09-2006 14:32

Three churches in Nablus, Tulkarm and Tubas in the northern West Bank have been attacked with fire-bombs by unknown perpetrators resulting in minor damage.

The mayor of Tubas, where a small Greek Orthodox Church was attacked, accused "suspicious elements," a reference to Israeli Shin Bet (Israel’s chief domestic intelligence agency) agents of "having embarked on this ugly act and criminal act."

"It is either Israeli collaborators or some overzealous fools upset by the remarks of the Pope," said Iqab Darghmeh (Abu Ahmed), in a telephone interview.

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2006, But Has 1984 Finally Arrived?

19-09-2006 14:31

Big Brother Is Watching You.....
Watched, recorded, numbered, catalouged, and your whereabouts always known. Voices of authority bark orders at you from thin air on street corners and in town centres. The Government knows where you are, who you are, and what you are doing. A sci-fi totalitarian state from a George Orwell novel like 1984, or twenty-first century Britain? You decide.

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Using Tax Payers Money To Subsidise Your Business -The Reality of Prison Labour

19-09-2006 13:42

Having plundered the third world with impunity for so long, first-world capitalism has now turned its attention to the incarcerated working class in its own prisons, potentially a rich source of exploitable labour. Prisoners are paid around 30 pence per hour, but even these pitifully small wages are seen as fair game by capitalism.

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Anarchists Against the Wall in Manchester 26.9

19-09-2006 12:07

Two speaking dates of representatives from Anarchists Against the Wall (Israel/Palestine) who are on a fundraising tour in the UK - please come and show your solidarity!

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Anarchists Against the Wall – UK Speaking Dates

19-09-2006 12:02

Speakers from Anarchists Against the Wall are on a fundraising tour of the UK - please come and show your solidarity.

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insurrection

19-09-2006 11:53

momentous events are unfolding in HUNGARY

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Police midnight raid for offensive garden ornament...

19-09-2006 09:50

the offending ornament!
Police threaten man in night in his home with arrest for offensive ornament
(it pays to have connections in a police state!)

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Day for Darfur: Tens of Thousands Rally in Global Day Against Genocide

19-09-2006 03:18

Darfur Rally
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied around the world on Sunday in a global day against genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The global day of protests was organized to coincide with the start of the United Nations General Assembly debate this week on Sudan. We speak with Darfur refugee Mohamed Yahya as well as the head of a Sudan divestment campaign.

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SOCPA - protestor held at gunpoint, handcuffed and arrested for swearing

18-09-2006 22:23

outside downing street this evening, barbara tucker was arrested by machine-gun carrying police, thrown against the railings, and rear-restraint handcuffed. her alleged crime? - behaviour liable to cause alarm or distress - namely swearing.

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Forced Child Labour

18-09-2006 10:41

... are this lot just skiving then? ...
... and yes its our old partners for peace, the israelis, using forced child labour ... against every known priciple, standard and international law.

So no suprise there!

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SOCPA - babs is back in town

17-09-2006 22:43

demo outside downing street this afternoon
after the rather public humiliation of superintendent terry this week in court  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/09/350716.html, barbara tucker was back outside downing street this afternoon, attracting crowds as she sang anti-war songs with fellow activist, charity. meanwhile, steve jago, whose own draconian bail conditions are likely to be lifted on tuesday in a further slap in the face to terry, stood near-by reading orwell's 1984.

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Resistance (Anarchist bulletin) - two issues for September 2006

17-09-2006 19:07

The Anarchist Federation (Britain) has published two new issues of its Resistance bulletin for September 2006: the usual monthly issue plus a Labour party conference/anti-war special. Articles on ID cards, databases & fingerprinting for children, Iraq corporate carve-up, Asylum-seekers get organised, Army desertion rise, Starbucks union, Climate change activism, School privatisation, & more.

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Kari Rajamaki resign appeal due to asem 06 Finland

17-09-2006 18:52

Resign appeal of finnish interior minister Kari Rajamaki due to human right violations by police
at ''Smash Asem'' demonstration in Finland 2006.