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CIA James Woolsey,Asa Hutchinson, Fortress America,offshore money laundering

04-03-2006 21:44

I note also that your Fortress America partner ex-CIA Director Mr.James Woolsey has an offshore account in the Caymans(Palidin) famous or should I say infamous for penny stock fraud and money laundering.Yes you and he set a fine example along with Asa Hutchinson and Oklahoma's Don Nickles of how decent Americans should NOT behave. Somehow your priviledged lifestyles have led you to perceive American ethical standards legal or not are for other Americans and not for yourselves.

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Surveillance of Nottingham city centre

04-03-2006 00:32

Nottingham city centre is one of the most heavily surveyed places on the face of the earth, outside of London. All in aid of 'crime reduction policies' they say.

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ID Cards and Labour's "Enabling Act"

28-02-2006 19:32

Wanted!
Examination of the government's continued press ahead with it's universally discredited ID Cards Bill, particularly in light of the "Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill", which seeks to give ministers the power to amend acts of Parliament without calling a vote.

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Transhumanism, human “enhancement” and eugenics: day of information for action

28-02-2006 13:28

Transhumanism, human “enhancement” and eugenics: day of information for action

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Watercycling The Palm islands of Dubai

27-02-2006 15:56

waterbike action
A novel new way of highlighting human right and environmental issues using a water bicycle story of a developing business plan, in which campaign issues are embedded with research links to businesses that will help anyone considering a business start up in Dubai. or searching for holiday activities.

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Department of Justice still after Google

27-02-2006 12:39

Evil google is trying to hold on to the last scraps of it's integrity by holding out against the Bush administration over handing over search logs...

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UK awarded for villainous data retention laws

26-02-2006 13:33

This year's ISPA Internet Villain is the UK government, although BT may have put in an early bid for the 2007 award with some on-stage banter at the awards ceremony

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Computer sale for activists and community groups this weekend 25-26 Feb

25-02-2006 19:35

Due to Lambeth council evicting local business's Communitty Technology are having to downsize their recycled stock.
"We're outta here" COMPUTER-TAT Sale.
10.30am-6pm 25th and 26th Feb 2006
Angela Davis Estate, Somerleyton Road, SW9 8ND
(7 minute walk from Brixton tube)

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Google is evil but copyright more evil still.

23-02-2006 14:51

A judge in the USA has ruled that Google’s search services breaches copyright by displaying thumbnail photographs, in a case brought by porn magazine.

"Google’s display of thumbnails in image search results pages would not be likely to fall within a “fair use” exception to copyright law,", Judge Howard Matz ruled.

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North Wilts District Council say no2id

22-02-2006 19:53

Following the lead of Swindon Borough Council (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332459.html ), North Wiltshire District Council have voted to oppose the introduction of national identity cards.

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iTTACK! Apple mud slinging

22-02-2006 00:02

Something strange appears to be happening, the last week has seen three stories about so-called security flaws in relation to the Mac OSX operating system. Macs have previously been immune to the kind of nonsense which Windows users have grown up with so what is going on?

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Monsanto back track on terminator technology

21-02-2006 15:24

Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator:
Biotech Giant reverses pledge on GM Terminator Technology as global
alliance calls for a ban.

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FOSS Means Business : Belfast -16th March 2006.

20-02-2006 11:54

FOSS Means Business
The FOSS Means Business conference will focus on the adoption and use of Free Software/Open Source Software (FOSS), with particular emphasis on the economic and competitive benefits for both the public and private sector.

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Climate Prediction Experiment

19-02-2006 19:59

glob
The BBC have teamed up with Oxford University to conduct the world's most ambitious climate modelling experiment. We want to do better than the world's supercomputers, using a technique known as distributed computing. Join in the largest climate prediction experiment ever, developed by climate scientists for the BBC using the Met Office climate model.

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The failure of representative democracy – a case study

18-02-2006 20:39

This is a sorry tale of the government’s ID card Bill, a misquote in the local press and an MP who doesn’t answer questions.

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Anti-I.D. OPEN PLANNING MEETING, READING, TUE 21ST FEB, 7PM.

17-02-2006 18:08

MISTAKEN IDENTITY!

TUE 21ST FEB, 7PM

ROOM 106, PALMER BUILDING, READING UNIVERSITY (CONTACT FOR DIRECTIONS)

 RAGECOLLECTIVE@HOTMAIL.CO.UK, 07833758317

An open planning meeting to organise a Reading based group to research and effectively oppose the introduction of Identity Cards and the National Identity Database, which goes hand-in-hand with increasing social and economic control via restrictions of freedom of movement, access to public services and welfare.

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Renewable energy: biofuels and local power generation

17-02-2006 16:02

An interesting renewable energy scheme based on farm waste is currently underway in Hampshire.

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21 new community radio stations

16-02-2006 11:12

Ofcom, the UK regulator, has announced 21 new 5-year licenses for community radio stations.

This is great news for the community broadcasting sector and excellent news for grassroots broadcasting.

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Israeli President Moshe Katzav aids massive penny stock fraud,possible money lau

16-02-2006 02:47

One can say of Saddam Hussein what they wish but to my knowledge Mr.Hussein never aided a penny stock fraud of a mafia connected con artist who may well be responsible for tens of millions of dollars if not well over $100,000,000 + in frauds against Americans caught up in his penny stock scams over the years. Israeli President Moshe Katzav gets credit for that....

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Court slaps down German police billing of anti-nuclear activists

15-02-2006 17:29

German police have failed with another attempt to scare off anti-nuclear protesters by billing them for police activities. An appellate court in Schleswig, northern Germany, has ruled illegal cost recovery demands by the federal police for protests by activists against transportation of nuclear waste.