UK Newswire Archive
Scandal-Ridden Blackwater Changes Name
14-02-2009 17:37
The scandal-ridden security firm Blackwater USA is officially changing its name effective immediately as the company moves to rebrand itself after being fired last month by the State Department from its job protecting diplomats in Iraq.February 13, 2009
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Blackwater/story?id=6873331&page=1 RIP Beverly Eckert, 9/11 Widow
14-02-2009 16:57
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/578061.html
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Second time round - Mel Broughton found guilty
14-02-2009 14:39
He is sentenced to 10 years - similar to the SHAC defendantsWhy the police riot? - part 5
14-02-2009 13:42
This is part 5 of a series, for parts 1-4 see:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf
Post Office campaign: 140 MPs now support EDM 428 ‘Royal Mail’
14-02-2009 12:52
We're pleased to inform you that 140 MPs have now signed up in support of EDM 428 which calls on the government to abandon plans to privatise Royal Mail and the Post Office. Please continue to lobby MPs who've not yet signed up. We must urgently get new MPs to sign up, in order to keep up the pressure on the government to think again its proposals for privatisation of post services.What's Really In Your Food
14-02-2009 12:51
You may be grossed out, but insects and mold in our food are not new. The F.D.A. actually condones a certain percentage of “natural contaminants” in our food supply — meaning, among other things, bugs, mold, rodent hairs and maggots.
In its (falsely) reassuringly subtitled booklet “The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans,” the F.D.A.’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition establishes acceptable levels of such “defects” for a range of foods products, from allspice to peanut butter. . . .
Israelis, in Crisis, Vote for a Government of War
14-02-2009 12:46
Dust of Tuesday's voting battle settled down and the battle of forming the next Israeli government has just begun. With Benjamin Netanyahu poised for premiership and Avigdor Lieberman, leader of a “racist and fascist” party (as condemned by Talia Sasson of the Merez party) very well positioned to be the king or queen maker of the next ruling coalition, the Palestinian people and the whole region will have to brace as from next March for an Israeli government of war.Church of England: Dumping Caterpillar
14-02-2009 12:42
God whispered in the Church of England's ear and it dumped its shares in Caterpillar. This House of God had about £2.5m invested in a company that manufactures one of Israel's weapons of mass misery and destruction. After saying for years that they couldn't see anything unethical about it, Church bosses finally agreed with the rest of us that Caterpillar’s D-9 bulldozer, which is used in the Holy Land for the ugly purpose of demolishing Palestinian homes, uprooting olive groves and destroying civilian infrastructure, is more like a vicious weapon in Israel’s hands than a civil engineering tool.
More mayhem, please
14-02-2009 09:32
ANDREW MURRAY argues that, even though the elite wants to keep the rest of us in our place, green shoots of resistance may soon sprout.Public Action against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures
14-02-2009 09:02
Demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Convention Rights Violations, Institutional Failures and unaccountability in the UK; every week outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE; commencing from 12pm until 3pm.aWEARness call to Action! Support the Angola 3 in Louisiana
14-02-2009 04:29
ghost bike tribute to dead riders for safe driving
14-02-2009 01:41
this is a good idea to help promote bike safety,"More than 100 old bicycles painted white and chained to lampposts and railings have sprung up at ‘danger-spots’ over the past year. Dubbed ‘ghost-bikes’, they have been put there to warn motorists approaching dangerous bends to look out for cyclists and, in many cases, have been left at locations where riders were killed."
Madan Lal Dhingra Public Meeting
14-02-2009 01:26
RGA Statement on Energy Sector Strikes
14-02-2009 01:12
A statement by Reading Grassroots Action on the current wave of energy workers strikes.Milan COX18 Historical Social Centre has been re-occupied
14-02-2009 00:45
The COX18 social centre in Milan has been re-occupied tonight !
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NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution
14-02-2009 00:29
News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any firm which can offer reliable eavesdropping on Skype IM and voice traffic.Torture, Rendition, Terror & Oil: A Primer on "Deep Politics"
13-02-2009 22:41
Why is the Obama administration hell-bent on continuing rendition, and covering-up torture? Why are Western states complicit in these illegal activities? How can the systematic perpetuation of such criminal practices under the rubric of the 'War on Terror' be conducted by the very states who claim to be the guardians of 'international law' and 'human rights'?
Alternative lady bird book for bedtime/police
13-02-2009 22:40
policman lotAbolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Fe
13-02-2009 21:11
