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Mad, bad and dangerous to know

30-01-2010 15:40

Cartoon: Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry.

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Kentish Town and Camden UDA : A History Of Child Abuse and Snubbed By Soldiers

30-01-2010 13:29

UDA joke John Coyne was evicted from his pub by anti racists, Kentish Town residents, Camden National Union of Teachers etc when it was found that he was watching porn in his pub where only children and under age teenage drinkers were let in. Everyone else was barred from the former IRA pub, Gloucester Arms in Kentish Town. His chum Frank Portinari hid guns in a Kentish Town infants school.

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Journalists paid by UK government to promote chinese goods

30-01-2010 13:26

A government programme paid over £550 each in subsidised trips to sixty journalists & buyers every six months to report on shoes and clothes made overseas for London Fashion Week. MPs with shoe factories in their constituencies - Peter Bone in Wellingborough and Patricia Hewitt in Leicester East - did not write a single letter to protest..

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Gaza’s children: Sarah Irving talks to Manchester artist Jane Lawson

30-01-2010 11:30

Following the attacks on Gaza by Israeli forces at the start of 2009, Manchester-based artist Jane Lawson responded to the images and stories of death and destruction by creating a series of unique prints of some of Gaza’s children.

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Book review: “Gaza: Beneath the Bombs”

30-01-2010 11:28

One year on from the carnage of the so-called Gaza war the 1.5 million people of the strip are still prisoners in their own land, trapped by the active efforts of Israel and the silent complicity of her allies in the international community.

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CLASS WAR POLL TAX SPECIAL - 20th Anniversary

30-01-2010 11:28

Getting ready for the reunion events and to mark the 20th Anniversary of the infamous Poll Tax Riot. Class War Classix is reissuing the "CLASS WAR POLL TAX SPECIAL".

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Mainshill Solidarity Camp evicted – not an end, but a beginning

30-01-2010 11:13

Yesterday was the fifth and final day of the eviction of the Mainshill Solidarity Camp – the last two arrests as the final occupiers were dragged out of the rapidly shrinking Wood. A total of 45 arrests were made over the course of the eviction with close to 70 people taking part and supporting the camp.

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UK KFA-Whose fault is the Exchange of Fire in the Korean West Sea

30-01-2010 09:01

Explains the recent so called "Armed clash" in the West sea explaining that the real
culprits are the south Korean puppets and the US imperialists.

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Why did MI5 attack Somali community but let UDA nazi porno pub remain untouched?

30-01-2010 08:40

The Gloucester Arms in Camden was evicted, eventually by the brewery and council following a harrowing experience by residents living near to the pub who had to put up with UDA, nazis, underage drinkers etc. MI5 didn't ask for the pub to be ASBO'd unlike their attack upon the Camden Somali community who have been harrassed by MI5 constantly.

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Camden Fascist pub has been closed - absolute confirmation from police & council

30-01-2010 08:17

The Gloucester Arms has been at the centre of a row between anti racists and the landlord John Coyne who let ultra right wing racists the Jobbik Party hold meetings. The UDA supporter Coyne also let children into the pub and watched porn on the bar's TV. We have absolute confirmation that the brewery and police have evicted John Coyne.

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Space Hijackers G20 charges dropped

29-01-2010 23:16

Spot the Cop
All charges have been dropped against the Space Hijackers for our G20 RIOT SQUAD action.

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Tony Blair's Judgement Day – Pix-&-Vidz, 29 Jan 10

29-01-2010 22:06

A0. From John Pilger, via Chris Holden's art, and a Dalinian camera
Dateline: Iraq Inquiry, Little Sanctuary, Westminster, London, UK, 08:30-11:00, Fri 29 Jan 10 – Hundreds of angry protesters gather outside the QE2 Conference Centre, where Sir John Chilcot and all his little wizards are having a cosy chat with War-Criminal-in-Chief Tony Bliar about what lessons British imperialism can learn from the mountains of corpses in Iraq. The reward offered at www.arrestblair.org for a citizen's arrest attempt on Bliar was promoted, but not claimed, yet... (AFAIK).

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Sheffield Humanist Society meeting: Why Social Inequality Persists

29-01-2010 22:04

The next Sheffield Humanist Society meeting on 3rd February will be on "Why social inequality persists" with Prof. Danny Dorling as our speaker.

The meeting is at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday 3rd February at the University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7HG.

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Anthony Blair Testimony, Iraq Enquiry, London - pictures.

29-01-2010 20:14

WMD?
On an emotional day for many, the Iraq Enquiry hears testimony from former British Prime Minister, Anthony Blair, over his part in the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.

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Camden fascist pub and conflicting reports from Camden Council about closure

29-01-2010 19:52

The Gloucester Arms in Camden has been the subject of demos due to landlord John Coyne's decsion to let hardcore neo nazis the Jobbik Party hold meetings in the pub. The pub is also at the centre of a feud between local tenants & the landlord Coyne, who lets children into the pub where he watches porn. A councillor for Kentish Town told us in an email that the brewery and police are evicting him however Camden Council say different.

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AstraZeneca Day of Action - Cambridge

29-01-2010 19:17

KuDOs Cruelty Campaign
Activists from Cambridge supported SHAC's Global Day of Action against AstraZeneca who are a customer of Europe's biggest Contract Testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

The day of action is today 29th Jan 2010 (the demo was on 28th Jan 2010).

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Blair heckled inside Iraq Inquiry

29-01-2010 18:35

Blair heckled inside Iraq Inquiry at the end of his 6-hour appearance there today.

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Flashback: Impeccable politicians who order the mass killing of ordinary people

29-01-2010 18:11

Blair, Bush and Aznar at the Azores Summit, March 2003
On 29 January 2003, 50 days prior to the launch of the invasion of Iraq, John Pilger wrote the article below.

Exactly seven years later, UK's former Prime Minister Tony Blair, during his testimony before the "Iraq Inquiry", made the following statement:

"The decision I took - and frankly would take again - was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) we should stop him,"

(source: "I have no regrets says defiant Blair", Independent, 29 January 2010  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-insists-he-was-right-to-stop-saddam-1882847.html)
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