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  • Vomiting bug ’hits three million’
    12 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Vomiting bug ’hits three million’ Almost three million people have been affected by the norovirus stomach bug so far this winter, figures suggest.
    Surveillance from the Health Protection Agency shows cases in England and Wales are double those seen last year.
    Doctors advise people to stay at home for 48 hours after symptoms have gone to cut the risk of the bug spreading.
    The HPA said the norovirus season began unusually early. For every one of the 1,922 reported cases, it is (…)

  • Media Blackout Ordered As UK Begins Mass Burials
    6 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media Blackout Ordered As UK Begins Mass Burials
    January 6, 2008
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Disturbing reports from Britain today are showing that their government has invoked their dreaded Official Secrets Act as a mysterious pandemic sweeps their Nation leaving an, estimated, 3,000 people dead and leaving ‘no choice’ for British Health Officials but to begin mass burials.
    British media sources are reporting on this pandemic as being due to a virus, (…)

  • British retreat from Basra brings us closer to a war with Iran: Seymour Hersh and Agent Provocateurs
    19 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s analyse the implications of the British ‘withdrawal’ from Basra Iraq.
    In 2003 two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra by the British military after they were caught “wearing Arab clothes” and “shooting at policemen”. From the car that they were driving, they opened “fire on a police checkpoint, killing one. In pursuit, the police surround(ed) and detain the drivers and (found) the vehicle packed with explosives.”
    “That’s right – two members of the British Armed forces (…)

  • Israeli avoids UK arrest threat
    7 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israeli avoids UK arrest threat An Israeli minister has cancelled a visit to the UK over concerns he could be arrested on war crimes charges.
    The foreign ministry said an "extreme leftist" organisation was likely to file a legal complaint against Public Security Minister Avi Dichter.
    He was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader’s house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians.
    British law allows private citizens to file (…)

  • How Canadians and the Environment will be treated when Shell Oil takes control of Northern BC
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following is a video on how the Irish were treated when Shell made its way through Ireland. This is exactly how Canadians will be treated when Shell’s Coal-Bed Methane Project begins operation in Northern BC.
    Blood and oil in Ireland - “We hear about a looming energy shortage and we see high fuels prices. The media talks endlessly about global warming, but when do we hear about what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ of oil and gas extraction projects?
    “Shell Oil, one of the most notorious (…)

  • DECLARATION OF WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE (LONDON, DECEMBER 1st)
    4 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    This conference of delegates from peace, anti-war, anti-imperialist and liberation movements across the world declares its opposition to the “endless war” prosecuted by the US government against states, peoples and movements in all parts of our planet.
    We oppose the interference of the US and its allies in sovereign states, and assert the right of all peoples to self-determination. We support all people fighting for peace and against imperialism.
    In particular, we demand:
    * An (…)

  • Dec 1st London World Against War Conference: Videos
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Stop the War Coalition hold a successful international peace conference in London on 1st December
    The World Against War conference was a follow up to international conference hosted in 2005.
    Peace and anti war groups from South America, the Middle East, USA, South Asia, Canada and Europe participated in the conference. The conference discussed the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and opposition to any attack on Iran. It also looked at the broader struggle against war and for (…)

  • Racist Police arrest Campaigner for leafleting in Scotland
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Message from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group.
    "We are circulating this email around all the socialist, solidarity, campaigning and progressive organisations.
    On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November, the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group. Michael was distributing his organisation’s newspaper and handing out leaflets about the forthcoming Speaking Tour of Cuban comrades. The police arrived at the (…)

  • US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.
    A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
    The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen (…)

  • Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sherwood Ross November 19, 2007
    By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
    So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."
    "More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (…)