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Terrorizer Magazine's alleged 'explicit Nazi band' explained on music news site

04-12-2008 14:09

In response to the anonymous claims made on  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414252.html from www.blabbermouth.net

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Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up

04-12-2008 13:15

The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn't mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. The growing strength of the Somali national resistance is a set-back, but it doesn't change the basic game-plan. The pirates are actually a blessing in disguise. They provide an excuse for the administration to beef up it's military presence and put down roots. Every crisis is an opportunity.

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John Bowden In Court

04-12-2008 13:07

On the 25th of November 2008 at Forfar Sheriff's Court in Scotland I was placed on trial for “Perverting The Course of Justice by absconding from lawful custody”. Despite my already serving a life sentence with no foreseeable time of release, the prison and prosecuting authorities in Scotland were determined to make an example of me following a high-profile manhunt for me last summer that ended with a massive armed police operation to re-capture me that was completely unprecedented in the apprehension of an absconder from an open jail.

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New interactive online map reveals the extent of police brutality during protest

04-12-2008 13:03

Sussex students arrested under anti-terrorism laws - Disabled student held in custody for 7 hours and denied access to doctor - Police set dogs on peaceful protesters

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Shelter Dispute

04-12-2008 11:24

Shelter staff campaigned and took strike action from March to May this year to defend jobs, conditions and services and, through this, to defend Shelter's reputation as an independent housing and homelessness charity.

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DAN blocks Whitehall against Welfare Reform Act

04-12-2008 11:23

Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd December, International Day of Disabled People 2008) at 2pm, activists from the UK Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) and London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) blocked traffic both ways on Whitehall, directly outside Downing Street, for over 45 minutes in protest against the new Welfare Reform Act, which replaces Incapacity Benefit with a much more punitive "Employment Support Allowance" and forces disabled people into "workfare" schemes which are effectively free labour for corporations.

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The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat

04-12-2008 09:50

PLO commitment to the Annapolis understandings was a milestone that vindicated Hamas fears and accusations that Abbas was leading and pursuing an older political coup d’etat to deprive the Islamic movement from its electoral victory

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Mumbai terror: U.S. scholars urge restraint as India angry

04-12-2008 07:53

Dawood Ebrahim.
There appears to be a stalemate on India's demand to extradite nearly 20 terrorists it believes are responsible for attacks on India from time to time. Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari says these people will be tried in Pakistan, if India provides enough evidence.

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GLOBAL MIGRATION IS PERMANENT

04-12-2008 04:42

Manila, December 3, 2008 – For those backroom economists and politicians eager to sanitize their economies by sending migrant labor back home the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had a nasty surprise this month: Migration is not going away and your solution is not expulsion but flexible new policies.

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PLEASE HELP stop the EU sacrificing Climate, People & Food‏

04-12-2008 03:28

EU legislation forcing up biofuel use in cars must be stopped - the harm that will be done simply cannot be underestimated.

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The Mad World of Work

03-12-2008 20:57

The latest issue of Nerve magazine is now out, and available free from the Catalyst office (85-89 Duke Street), News From Nowhere on Bold Street, and various other outlets around Merseyside. It is also online, at  http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk. This time the focus is on definitions and experiences of work.

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NDC: A brief history and critical examination

03-12-2008 20:40

The Neighbourhood Development Company (NDC) is the Nottingham partnership receiving money from the government's New Deal for Communities programme. It has had a controversial history, most recently resulting in the sacking of its entire Board for breaches of the Code of Conduct. This article takes a critical look at the organisation and proposes an alternative model for community development.

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Protest against ID cards on 10th December in Cardiff

03-12-2008 19:04

The last demo
On Wednesday 10th December the registration of non-EEA students and spouses for ID cards will begin in Cardiff. At 12 noon No Borders South Wales will be holding a protest outside the UK Border Agency at 31-33 Newport Road where this registration will happen.

We invite all opponents of ID cards to join us.

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Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?

03-12-2008 18:55

Launched by President Bush in 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, NORTHCOM has been mired in controversy since its
creation. Among its more dubious accomplishments were illegal domestic
spying operations in conjunction with the Pentagon's shadowy Counter
Intelligence Field Activity unit (CIFA) that targeted antiwar activists.

Despite CIFA's shut-down and the alleged dismantling of its TALON
database (now incorporated into the FBI's Guardian Threat Tracking
System), SourceWatch revealed that "in accordance with intelligence
oversight requirements, the DoD will maintain a record copy of the collected
data." One can't help but wonder whether that "record copy" of TALON
somehow migrated into a NORTHCOM database.

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After the Bankruptcy (Jürgen Habermas)

03-12-2008 18:40

The privatization mania has ended. Politics is necessary for the public interest, not the market. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a fatal triumphalism. A tension always exists between capitalism and democracy because the market and politics are based on opposite principles.

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Imperial justice: cops bully London protestors

03-12-2008 17:52

Protesters at the Woolwich Court on Monday.
Protest marred the trial of Hyrbyair Marri and Faiz Baloch in London. The two have tried to organize the Baluch resistance against Pakistan military atrocities in Baluchistan, that includeds killing, rape, torture and disappearances.

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What Are You Doing About It? 7 Years of Guantánamo

03-12-2008 17:35

The LGC is currently putting together its actions for January 2009 to mark the seventh anniversary of Guantánamo Bay opening up. It’s a real shame that it has come to this: that seven years later, Guantánamo Bay and other secret, illegal jails where people are held arbitrarily (imagine being locked up in a dark, narrow box for years on end with no end in sight…) and subjected to horrific psychological and physical torture are still up and running. What does it say about the state of the world and humanity in our day and our age? As the world moves towards celebrating sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December this year, will they be celebrating at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere?

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Police turn on anti-government Facebookers

03-12-2008 17:15

Croatian police have detained and questioned web activists who are criticizing or ridiculing the government, media and the opposition say, accusing authorities of violating basic civil rights.

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Palestine Today 120308

03-12-2008 16:59

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for Wednesday December 03 2008

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Get Blackwater out of London!

03-12-2008 16:47

Blackwater Worldwide, U.S. paid-terrorist group that calls itself "security contracter" is holding meetings in London about piracy in Gulf of Aden.
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