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A message from the queen

25-12-2006 22:08 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

The full text of the Queen's Christmas message to UK armed forces, intended to lift moral and convince these saps that they are doing something worthwhile. We've taken the liberty of reading between the lines and addinh what she was really thinking as she read this nonsense.

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Pre-empting Arab Mediation in Palestinian Divide

25-12-2006 14:20 | Analysis | World

The U.S administration and Israel are accelerating their coordinated meddling in the internal Palestinian divide between the Fatah-led presidency and the Hamas-led government to pre-empt a series of Arab mediation efforts, the latest of which is a UAE-Syrian try according to a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

The Myth of Nuclear Disarmament

25-12-2006 09:19 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Nuclear disarmament has become one of the most important elements of safe future and peaceful cooperation between the countries around the world. President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin signed in 2002 the treaty that calls for each country to cut inventories to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by 2012.The treaty outlined the direction for further cooperation in this field, but the USA has found a loophole and are going to turn the treaty to their advantage and to use it to gain their aims.

"New 9/11 crisis could be catalyst to merge U.S., Mexico & Canada"

25-12-2006 07:22 | World

Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

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Inanity for Xmas

25-12-2006 05:41 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The arch-conservative Anglican Dean of Sydney's St. Andrews Cathedral, Phil Jensen, has delivered a Christmas message worthy of the most mindless, inane comment that the infamous neo-con war monger and lunatic Donald “uknown knowns” Rumsfeld could have delivered. The Dean stated that “Christmas is about God giving, that God gave the gift of God and the gift of God, is God," (!) Those Australians who imagined that mindless, unqualified statements only issued from American neo-cons be advised, conservative pro-American Evangelicals are alive and very ‘unwell’ in conservative Anglican Sydney.

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movilizaciones masivas del EZLN en 5 caracoles, solidaridad con Oaxaca y Atenco

25-12-2006 02:02 | Repression | Zapatista | World

Exigimos la salida inmediato del autodenominado gobernador de Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Y también Policía Federal Preventivas, porque sólo están generando más torturas, represión, maltratos. Son los verdaderos criminales y responsables de lo que está sufriendo el pueblo de Oaxaca.

A Terrible Day for International Diplomacy

24-12-2006 16:05 | Anti-militarism | World

This is arguably the first time in history of the Security Council that an entire nation is being punished based not on actual violations of international law, but on pure speculation on the part of some powerful countries, regarding its hypothetical future conduct. As Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker, both the CIA and the Israeli intelligence have been unable to substantiate any nuclear weapons program in Iran.

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Resource warfare intensifies across "Grand Chessboard" and Horn of Africa

24-12-2006 15:32 | Anti-militarism | World

With the world now one full year off the Peak Oil and Gas cliff (according to work of geologists such as Kenneth Deffeyes), it is no surprise to see geostrategic tensions superheating quickly in several key oil and gas regions, as the world’s superpowers and multinational energy giants (supported by their nation’s militaries and intelligence agencies) intensify their combat over remaining energy supplies.

Alleged Liquid Bomb Plot Credibility Crumbles

24-12-2006 15:02 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

The alleged ringleader of a much vaunted plot to blow up multiple transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives has been cleared of terrorism charges and of being a member of any terrorist group, rendering August's terror scare another hyped creation of government scare mongering.

“Gorleben suitable, but seeking other sites”

24-12-2006 03:24 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

The German environment minister says the salt deposit in Gorleben is geologically suitable for a final nuclear waste depository but other locations will be considered.
“The findings so far about a dense rock cover and hence the barrier function of the salt were positively confirmed,” wrote the minister, Sigmar Gabriel, in response to an open letter from opponents of nuclear installations in the north German village.

Uniting Australia against racism

23-12-2006 21:50 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Regarding your article 9/12 incidents at cronulla beach I think you were able to capture main points and problems people face in today's age of "fair and balanced" media... sad thing is that 90% of Australians will never benefit from it...

Boycott Bulgaria, Boycott Sofia

23-12-2006 18:35 | Animal Liberation | World

We call on the concerned authorities and world community alike to boycott and reproach Bulgarian officials till enactment and enforcement of a modern Animal Protection Act takes an effect, one which will guarantee the protection and welfare of animals in Bulgaria.

Video Exposing Blunders of 9/11 Commission Report Airs on New Zealand Television

23-12-2006 18:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Controversial September 11th documentary exposing inconsistencies and contradictions in the 9/11 Commission Report erupts onto New Zealand television. This recent national airing of "In Plane Site" on New Zealand television represents a historic turning point in the global collective consciousness regarding the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Bushmen and Botswana are the Winners

23-12-2006 16:51 | World

The Bushmen have won the court case in Botswana, giving them access to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a landmark ruling in favor for the rights of minorities.
The court rejected the false accusations used by Survival International in it's campaign.

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Christian Morality and Economic Reason

23-12-2006 13:52 | Social Struggles | World

Finance capital circling anonymously around the globe seeking only short-term profit must expect the resistance of the affected and of the church that turns to the affected. The question is who really profits from the globalization of the finance world and when the concentration of wealth and creative possibilities in thehands of a few endangers the social peace.

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We cum in peace

23-12-2006 13:09 | Anti-militarism | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

I was going to write a piece about yesterdays synchronized global orgasm for peace but see little point wasting my time writing original articles for Indymedia only to have the gatekeepers to open publishing remove them (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358704.html,

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358696.html). Maybe when the IMC admin team get their act together I might post a proper write up but in the meantime here is a shameless collection cut and paste from various other reports on the event.

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Al Qaeda greater than Nazis says Sir Ian Blair

23-12-2006 12:42 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, today told the press that he considers Al Qaeda to be even greater than Hitlers Nazis in terms of threat to civilian life. Although Sir Ian admitted that he had no intelligence, relating to a specific attack, he warning of possible outrages this Christmas saying that the threat was "unparalled and growing".

Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism

23-12-2006 11:31 | Anti-racism | World

The "speech of Rabbi Cohen in Teheran: Orthodox Jewish attitude to the 'Holocaust'" repost has, so far, over 50 comments, many of a dubious nature:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358533.html?c=on

The WSWS web site has just published an article on "Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism":

http://wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/iran-d23.shtml

An extract appears below.

List of Exhibitors at the Counter Terror World Exhibition

22-12-2006 23:02 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Earlier this month, London's Olympia hosted the first Counter Terror World exhibition, at which companies and countries from around the world "shared with each other lessons learned in the war on terror." The official website of the exhibition (

http://www.counterterrorworld.com) has been taken down and now re-directs to

http://www.isnrlondon.com. So the information that the site provided (list of exhibitors etc.) is not available on the web any more. Therefore, we reproduce some of that info below.

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Report exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights

22-12-2006 19:29 | Repression | World

The European parliament has produced a report on the complicity of European governments in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) practice of extraordinary rendition—the illegal transferring of detainees to locations where they stand a high risk of being tortured. Issued in draft form on November 28, the report will be debated in the European parliament in January 2007. It finds 11 European nations had knowledge of flights carrying detainees to secret prisons and overseas torture chambers, including Britain, Germany and Spain.

World Newswire Archive

A message from the queen

Pre-empting Arab Mediation in Palestinian Divide

The Myth of Nuclear Disarmament

"New 9/11 crisis could be catalyst to merge U.S., Mexico & Canada"

Inanity for Xmas

movilizaciones masivas del EZLN en 5 caracoles, solidaridad con Oaxaca y Atenco

A Terrible Day for International Diplomacy

Resource warfare intensifies across "Grand Chessboard" and Horn of Africa

Alleged Liquid Bomb Plot Credibility Crumbles

“Gorleben suitable, but seeking other sites”

Uniting Australia against racism

Boycott Bulgaria, Boycott Sofia

Video Exposing Blunders of 9/11 Commission Report Airs on New Zealand Television

Bushmen and Botswana are the Winners

Christian Morality and Economic Reason

We cum in peace

Al Qaeda greater than Nazis says Sir Ian Blair

Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism

List of Exhibitors at the Counter Terror World Exhibition

Report exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights

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