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Meet Roy James Sheffield BNP leader.

19-08-2006 17:32

Roy James (centre)
But then again who would desire to meet this racist fuckwit. We are told he often post to Stormfront is an active member of Covert Undercover Nusiance Tactics along with C18 and leader of Sheffield BNP who stood for them for Beighton in the local elections this year.

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BBC Today Gets Undocumented Migrant Arrested

19-08-2006 16:41

There was an outrageous piece on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme the other day exposing the 'scandal' of the Home Office not arresting and deporting undocumented workers. As part of the report, BBC reporter John Minel entraped a worker into talking about his immigration status, and then betrayed him to the Home Office, leading to the man's arrest and imprisonment.

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28%: 'Removals Failure' Rate

19-08-2006 16:18

The Daily Mail today published a report about "hundreds of asylum seekers escaping deportation." But whlie the newspaper, famous for its racist attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers, attributed this 'failure' to the "incompetence by the Government's shambolic immigration department", activists and anti-deportation campaigns quite surely have a lot to do with it.

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Hollywood Supports Israeli Mass Murder

19-08-2006 15:59

85 high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today’s Los Angeles Times newspaper. “We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” the ad reads.

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The Cachan Thousand Being Evicted

19-08-2006 15:44

A big operation has begun to evict up to 1,000 immigrants, who have been occupying a former student hostel in Cachan, on the outskirts of Paris, for over 5 years. The block, which is mainly occupied by undocumented immigrants and homeless people, is one of the biggest squats in Europe.

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Recent account of life in Baghdad from Iraqi refugee.

19-08-2006 15:04

This piece contains an eye-witness acount of life in Baghdad written by an Iraqi refugee who has recently returned to her home town.

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Boycott the Royal Navy

19-08-2006 15:00

There have been reports that the Royal Navy is to flood shops with goods bearing its logo to fund a recruitment drive. Shouldn't something be done about this?

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Israel mounts new air raids on Lebanon

19-08-2006 13:37

Obviously having no intention of observing its own ceasefire, in an act of unparralled cynicism, Israeli warplanes and helicopters launched fresh raids in eastern Lebanon today.

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American Concentration Camp located at Guantanamo Bay.

19-08-2006 13:20

It is called "Camp X-ray" as though it were some Comic Book or Hollywood movie camp. The reality is that "Camp X-ray" rings closer to "Arbeit Macht Frei". Then it was the Nazi Germans and Jews. Now it is Imperialist Americans and Muslims. History repeating itself.

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The Edukators @ Everything4Everyone

19-08-2006 11:33

Next weeks E4e Cinema screening at Everything4Everyone will be The Edukators.

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Poem for Lebanon

19-08-2006 10:57

This is a poem by Raja Chemayel

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Scan Dot Org - 'Nimbin bites back' part 1

19-08-2006 05:49

'Hoaxjoints'
Live re-enactment of the 1976 'cattle truck bust' length: 29 mins. 128 kb/s stereo 27 MB

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San Francisco Bay View Newspaper Under Attack - By Leuren Moret

19-08-2006 03:30

San Francisco Bay View newspaper - the Best Black
Newspaper in the US! [They print the truth when no one
else will.]

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Introducing Ghost Troop to the Army Inspector General

19-08-2006 00:58

The strange near-death of an active Army Ghost Troop seems more than suspicious, as the unit leader, Captain May, explains in this most revealing report to the Army Inspector General. Are Ghost Troops, who serve on a mission of conscience to spread the word about the 911 set up -- and prevent future ones -- on the Bush League hit list?

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U.S. Officials Part of Cigarette Racketeering Plot

19-08-2006 00:24

Government officials are the Dr. Frankensteins who created the homicidal monster of the industry that makes and sells the most industrially-contaminated products in history.
Dr. Frankenstein pretends to prosecute and condemn its own creation. Mainsteam news plays along.

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UK Electronic Frontiers Foundation to be created!

18-08-2006 23:42

"I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK but only if 1,000 other people will too."

— Danny O'Brien

Deadline to sign up by: 25th December 2005
1,038 people have signed up (38 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

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Lodhi lawyer welcomes Thomas appeal win

18-08-2006 22:52

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT?
Perhaps the abc should get another Walkley award?????????????????????

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This weeks SchNEWS - On The Fidel - The battle for the future of Cuba

18-08-2006 21:35

Hasta La Vista Socialist Club
Fidel Castro’s laid up in bed, with possibly weeks to live. He’s had to hand the reins of power to his brother Raul, only five years younger and not terribly popular. Cuba’s status as an alternative model of development for Latin America is clearly under threat. Over the water in Miami thousands of exiled Cubans were disappointed that Old Fifi made his 80th birthday earlier this week (13th August) but it’s the end of an era and what happens next is the hot topic on the streets of Havana.

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Delegation to Mexico Border Social Forum

18-08-2006 16:45

Border Social Forum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
October 13-15 2006

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Tesco - Every little hurts

18-08-2006 16:33

Is Tesco above the law? It would appear so on planning matters.
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