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“Return Fire” PDF version (anarchist publication from the U.K.)

25-10-2013 09:54

The PDF version of “Return Fire” volume 1 is now hosted online by 325.nostate.net and volume 2 is in the works.

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Italy, Seveso dioxine disaster July 10, 1976

16-10-2013 01:09

The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 pm July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Milan in the Lombardy region in Italy.

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TV License Threats And Intimidation

06-10-2013 23:47

I do not watch television but am receiving threatening letters.

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Yahoo Allowing AdChoices To Delete Moderator Posts And Replace Them With Ads

02-10-2013 14:13

Yahoo Groups, part of the international Yahoo corporation, is allowing advertisers
to delete political and poetry posts and replace them with ads.

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UG#663 - Geoengineering for Fun and Profit (One Technofix To Rule Them All?)

24-09-2013 15:35

150 episodes on from our first show on geoengineering, we return to the topic with a pair of recent speeches from academics. In our second hour, an hour long speech by Clive Hamilton, author of "Earthmasters - Playing God with the climate". To set the scene we begin with a recent talk on education by professor Stephen Gough.

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Robotics and the real (sorry, Karl, you got it wrong) final crisis of capitalism

17-09-2013 16:56

Robotics is advancing rapidly. Probably within the lifetime of most people now living – and conceivably within the next ten years – there will be general purpose robots (GPRs) capable of doing the vast majority of the work now undertaken by human beings. When that happens international free trade and free market economics even within a closed domestic market will become untenable. The final crisis of capitalism will be the development of technology so advanced that it makes capitalism in the Marxist sense impossible because machines make humans redundant.

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UG#661 - Countering Intelligence 4 (Death Dealing Drones Return Home to Roost)

17-09-2013 16:45

This week, a radio adaptation of Drone Nation, the last part of Scott Noble's Counter Intelligence film, which begins by noting that the under the NDAA, the US president has claimed the power to kill anyone, any time, without notice. It traces the logic back from US drone attacks which trialled the same amorality abroad, but notes that US skies are increasingly populated by drones from the FBI, Police Forces or other government agencies. Next, a talk by Medea Benjamin, author of "Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control", followed by a keynote speech from Glenn Greenwald at a Civil Liberties conference.

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Message To Supporters From Imprisoned Anarchist Hacker Jeremy Hammond

21-08-2013 22:36

A statement written by North Amerikkkan imprisoned hacker Jeremy Hammond for the Barrett Brown/Jeremy Hammond fundraiser held in NYC on 19/08/2013...

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Audio: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

05-07-2013 23:29

The 2013 annual 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)

http://www.caab.org.uk/ featured a reading of the The People's Declaration of Independence from America and poetry from Mirzan – the Poet and was addressed by Andy Worthington and Salma Yaqoob.

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Photos: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

05-07-2013 09:03

Some photos from the annual Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill held on 4th July 2013.

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Getty Images Scam Letter

30-06-2013 22:03

Regarding the Getty Images Scam Letter that is going around and has been for some time.

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Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State

28-06-2013 09:48

The latest from Media Lens (reposted)
Original article here:

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/alerts-2013/737-snowden-surveillance-and-the-secret-state.html

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Edward Snowden Charged Under the Espionage Act

23-06-2013 18:28

On June 21, Obama's Justice Department charged Snowden with espionage. It did so ruthlessly, irresponsibly and unconstitutionally. It wrongfully accused him of violating 1917 Espionage Act provisions. It was enacted during WW I. It's long ago outdated. It has no current relevance. It belongs in history's dustbin.

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July 4: Independence FROM America Day Demo at Menwith Hill

11-06-2013 07:34

Join the annual Independence FROM America demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill, N. Yorkshire organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB).

Speakers to include Salma Yaqoob, Andy Worthington, Martin Wainwright, Mizan the Poet. Food provided by the 1 in 12 cafe

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UG#645 - Potemkin Justice (Whistleblowers & Surveillance in 21st Century USA)

07-06-2013 09:03

A stark contrast with UG#644, we look this week behind the facade of the separation of powers in USA. Do any effective checks remain on how the US government behaves itself? Or is the external threat of massive dissent the only check left to the ongoing rollout of the totalitarian state's surveillance and control grid.

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U.K. anarchist publication “Return Fire” released

23-05-2013 10:51

Our new zine Return Fire is now available. It's a diverse mix with liberatory aims, which we hope to be informative and inspiring for anyone who decides to make their life a weapon against the dominant order.

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UG#639 - Grave Reflections on Technology & Freedom (Techno-totalitarianism)

19-05-2013 01:35

We hear the voices of three now deceased authors on the topics of technology and Social Control. First a vintage 1962 recording of Aldous Huxley speaking on the prospects for technototalitarianism. Next it's a more relaxed interview with science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut and we conclude with a musical collage of 1970's wisdom from E. F. Schumacher.

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Ground the Drones Week of Action 2013

05-05-2013 21:51

This year's annual Week of Action against drone warfare, called by the UK Drone Campaign Network (www.dronecampaignnetwork.org.uk) will be taking place 5 - 12 October 2013. Please put these dates in your diary now, and help spread the word.

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The Robot Revolution

03-05-2013 11:05

Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously undermined world of employment. It has become a well-worn cliché to declare that the robots are coming but it is necessary to consider seriously how the creeping technologisation of production and services is going to affect many areas of employment considered today to be relatively safe from the machines.

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Oil: to level or to cancel!

02-05-2013 21:36

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There are now 30 billion barrels of oil, estimated at brutal 6 trillion R$ (three trillion US$), the equivalent to 3 or 4 Brazilian Union budgets that are under the risk of being delivered by derisory percentage of this amount, following the infamous "tradition" of the NPA.