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MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the abuses of faith and belief

27-12-2005 03:54

Those who held the most power and used it in like measure in the world during the past twelve months also invoked a strongly displayed and powerfully communicated allegiance to religious faith and even belief in God. They used peoples’ ordinary faith in God and religion to incite fear and alarm as tactic in the overall strategy to make people accept rules that they would otherwise reject. The power-holders’ behaviour was most contrary to anything that religion allowed them to do :-
Violate the innocent and deprive the weak and do so with no show of shame of remorse let alone faith.

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Iraq: Game Over

27-12-2005 03:09

The victory of the Shiite religious bloc means the big winner in the Iraqi elections is Iran. Next stop: civil war.

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Activist Commits Suicide in US Jail

26-12-2005 20:08

At 7a.m. on the 22nd of December, Bill Rodgers, a long-time community activist arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on radical activists in the US was found dead in his cell. The authorities have called it a suicide.

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COMMENTS ON NORMAN FINKLESTEIN'S NEW BOOK - BEYOND CHUTZPAH

26-12-2005 19:42

A review of Professor Norman Finklestein's important new book that exposes Israeli crimes against the Palestinians and Israel's supporters who approve of them

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CHILEAN POLICE USES GUNS AGAINST PROTESTING MAPUCHE COMMUNITY JUAN PAILLALEF

26-12-2005 18:00

Represion policial
In the last three days the Mapuche Community ‘Juan Paillalef’ was confronted with harsh police violence. The confrontations started during a peaceful act of protest by the Mapuche Community against illegal road constructions through several Mapuche lands. The police chased away the protesting group and entered the community using guns, teargas and clubs. The following day Juana Calfunao and her sister were arrested without a warrant. When released yesterday, both women showed bad injuries from being beaten by the police.

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Action on Climate Change planned for 7th January

26-12-2005 16:04

Action against climate change

In light of the growth in avaiation pollution and its detrimental effects on the climate, the Nottingham Dissent group invites you to a demo against flying on Sat 7th January 2006. Meet outside the council house at 12 noon. We have flyers, but would welcome people to bring banners, cotumes, improvised street theatre. We will be having a tour of the local travel operators and their clients to convince them that flying is not the best way to get to your holiday destination unless you want to totally screw the planets atmosphere.

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Going hungry for Christmas / UK detention

26-12-2005 15:29

No new hungerstrikes I'm aware of in immigration removal centres, but a number of detainees has refused to eat on Christmas day because the food was 'just the usual rubbish'.

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We're back at Tony's cafe... come and support!

26-12-2005 12:54

We have re-occupied Tony's cafe on Broadway Market this morning. We need help and support URGENTLY.

We'll celebrate resilience and resistance at the cafe tomorrow Tuesday 27th, 1pm with music and food. Bring anything festive.

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Derek Bailey has died

26-12-2005 11:49

Derek Bailey pictured playing in Hackney, circa 1991
Derek Bailey 29/1/30 - 25/12/05 RIP

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small WORLD Weex Mix: Afrobeat Special!

26-12-2005 07:31

small WORLD weekend MIX!!!
Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX Afrobeat Special!

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Reflections on Christmas

26-12-2005 04:57

In my christmas-message to the readers I reflect on the great contradiction between the real meaning of Christmas, being the appeal to human rights and respect and the hypocrisy, used by the ''christian'' polticians

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Crush Christmas Consumer Chaos Cardiff

25-12-2005 22:29

Outside starbucks
(re-posted 'cos I done it wrong last time) During the madness of christmas shopping some very depressed looking santa's sporting some anti-consumerist messages snaked their way through the shops in cardiff city centre...

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"Security Culture"

25-12-2005 21:09

Ingredients:

a small horde of friends
a mission
a set of risks
a strong since of communication

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Iraq: Depleted Uranium aka Baghdad Boils?!

25-12-2005 20:58

"On the other hand, we know already from the first Gulf War that: "Soldiers who served in Bradley fighting vehicles, where it was common to sit on ammunition boxes where depleted uranium ammunition was stored, are now reporting that many have rectal cancer."

CONSEQUENCES:

Having recognized the previous facts we are left with the following consequences:

(1) Depleted uranium explains the changes in the Master Code in the DNA caused by Baghdad Boils much better than the 'sand flies’ (if the sand flies are not simply considered as an army code word for 'uranium particles’ or alike)."

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MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the media loyalties to big business

25-12-2005 12:06

This week is being used by the state-approved and in effect the state-licensed media commentators to renew the plugs for loyalty to the agencies of profit big business and their ideological tributaries.

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Palo Daka EWB vs Zambia Food Crisis

25-12-2005 10:09

ples ples, e-mail me for the Adio and JPG files on the food crisis in Zambia. I cant send them over the net becus of a fir-wall in the internet caffay.
Thank you.
-John Coy.

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Bush’s Xmas Tantrum

25-12-2005 05:32

Bush is furious that patriot/s who still hold the values and laws of the USA sacrosanct, leaked the story of illegal bugging and surveillance to the media. The American Fuhrer’s indignation equals that of his historical Nazi counterpart. How dare someone expose the ‘commander and chief’ for the criminal that he really is!

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Xmas chortles

24-12-2005 22:16

Yes yes I know this is cut n paste from the Beeb's site.. but who could resist such seasonal fun?

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Iraqi elections - VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN

24-12-2005 18:35

The U.S. has a tradition of voting fraud.
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