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Welcome to Fantasy Air

19-12-2007 14:12

Airlines and the government agencies that oversee them are projecting stunning growth for air travel and air freight over the next couple of decades. That seems to fit with the story of the amazing rise of the Asian economies, particularly China and India. And, it is consistent with the clear-sailing-ahead outlook of several prominent energy forecasters. The U. S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actually predicting a 1 percent annual drop in the price of aviation fuel between now and 2020.

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Morons at the Home Office reach new low in removals

19-12-2007 13:24

A Liverpool family of six who have been in the UK 6 years 9 months were all snatched on the morning of the 18th December and all taken to Yarl's Wood IRC.

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harassment / dutie of care:(social landlord)

19-12-2007 13:21

their are so many tennant whom suffer from the unlawfull tactic employed by their social landlord;harassment,constant threats of court action: abuse of their dutie of care:(tennants).enforce their dutie of care to protect staff:employement their first dutie of care is to the tennant.???????

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Blockade of North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre

19-12-2007 12:11

press release from the blockade

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U.S. isolated on the Human Rights Issue in CUBA

19-12-2007 11:20

The recent Cuban decision to sign the International Pact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Civil and Political Rights is a clear example of the island's conduct when it is not subjected to external pressures...

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Darfur is a right mess – but that does not absolve us.

19-12-2007 10:56

The situation in Darfur may be tangled beyond belief, but we still have an obligation to seek a solution.

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"World Heritage Org"

19-12-2007 09:45

Many of us have been hearing
much about being bared from many of our National Park regions.

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2nd Screening of Videoactivism and Independent Documentaries, Caracas 2008

18-12-2007 21:48

* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008.

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Pensioner Jailed for Opposing Trident Nuclear Weapons

18-12-2007 21:45

IRENE WILLIS, a 62-year-old peace activist from Southend, Essex was today sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court for refusing to pay a fine of £50 (+ £50 court costs). The fine was for deliberately obstructing traffic around Parliament Square during an anti-nuclear protest on 14th March 2007, the day Parliament voted to replace Trident, despite a huge Labour backbench rebellion.

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Sequani.Support.

18-12-2007 20:41

A big thank you to all Sequani Marchers. Plus update on trial.

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Palestine: PFLP Launches English Website

18-12-2007 20:31

We are launching this English website today, on our historic anniversary, for a number of reasons. We stand today amidst an ongoing assault on our people, marked by occupation, exile, imprisonment, siege, assassination, destruction and invasion, an assault that has continued for sixty years.

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Shell Oil and the Institutions Greenwashing them feel the ‘Heat’

18-12-2007 20:04

It hasn’t been an easy week for the organisers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award and the Bristol Museum, or their sponsor and proud wildlife destroyer— sugardaddy Shell Oil Company. All week, concerned individuals from around Bristol have been exposing the truth about Shell and the public institutions who are helping to greenwash them. **CK sHELL !

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3 Years On: A People's Tribunal on Status of Tsunami Rehabilitation

18-12-2007 19:33

The tribunal aims to conduct an impartial and independent enquiry on status of rehabilitation after three year of Asian Tsunami losses in Indias and to compile a policy report based on the testimonies by the affected people, observations of experts and community leaders.

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On The Ground - Calais, France: Migration, Immigration, Starvation

18-12-2007 17:18

Homeless refugees queue for food
On a day when the main news headliners strike out with the Diana Inquest and the Lib-Dem D-Day between Nick Clegg, unfortunate name, and Chris Huhme, the international day against immigration detention and deportation goes unnoticed by the masses. And all the while the cold wind bites into skin and bone, freezing deep within the bodies of those refugees I met not two weeks ago, living rough on the streets and in the forests of Calais, France.

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UK students and education workers support jailed Iranian students

18-12-2007 16:31

Please add your or your organisation's name to this statement; it will be translated and sent to activists in Iran. Email your name to Daniel at  skillz_999@hotmail.com

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Palestine Today 121807

18-12-2007 16:14

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday December 18th, 2007.

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Ransmayr Attacks Bush's Permission for Barbarism

18-12-2007 15:34

Ransmayr spoke of a strategically fomented panic that seizes all democratic societies in our day, making the abolition of civil rights, offensive war and mass murder seem inevitable as self-defense measures.

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London Home Office HQ Blockaded by Refugee Support Groups

18-12-2007 14:30

Home Office Blockade
9.45am, 18 December 2007: Five people from refugee support groups including No Borders London managed to successfully blockade the front entrance of the Home Office headquarters on Marsham Street in London.

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Short haul flight adverts cancelled

18-12-2007 14:27

Flybe cancel 1
Shocking U-turn from short-haul carrier!

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Urgent appeal for British resident Binyam Mohamed, “close to suicide” in Guantánamo

18-12-2007 14:13

An appeal for readers to write to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband to demand the return to the UK from Guantánamo of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who, as his lawyer explains, "may be close to suicide."
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