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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

7 December - News Notes

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LAPD Arrests the Truth at Occupy LA

..... the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.

 

‎'Police raided the Occupy SF camp early today, arresting 70 campers and protesters at Justin Herman Plaza and clearing out the two-month-old encampment, authorities said. Officers, sheriff's deputies, firefighters and public works crews converged on the camp at the foot of Market Street at about 1 a.m. today and gave protesters five minutes to clear out ...
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Most did, but 30 Occupiers did not, and another 40 were arrested when they blocked Market Street in protest. The 70 were arrested on suspicion of illegal lodging and camping in a public park.' Will Kane, San Francisco Chronicle
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Oakland, California - When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the detention center in San...
 


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POLICE have come under fire for stripping an Occupy Melbourne protester down to her underwear and leaving her crying on the ground.

 Did you have any idea ? 

I'm doing this interview just one day after Julian Assange was given a Walkley award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism, and I guess one of the big questions about Wikileaks and Julian Assange has been: "Is he a journalist?".

I don't think there's any doubt that what Wikileaks has done is journalism. After all, journalism is about two things:

- collecting information; finding out what's happening; especially, finding out about stuff that other people don't want you to know;
- processing that information in one way or another and putting it out to the public.

 

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Michael Winship: One of the few pieces of good holiday season news coming out of this forsaken Congress is that they may finally be doing something about "access to market-altering information."

Sheila Rowbotham announced as Writer in Residence at the British Library

Trailblazing socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham has been announced as the first ever Writer in Residence at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies, alongside author Naomi Wood. In this role, both writers will work to raise awareness of the British Library's North American collections and also make use of them for their next projects with the generous support from the Eccles Centre.
Rowbotham was selected due to her “innovative ideas” and the uniqueness of her proposed use of the Library's collections in researching her forthcoming book with Verso, Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in the US and Britain 1880 to 1910. The book will trace a small network of British and American radicals during the turn of the century.

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Imperial history told “as no historian has done before”—Britain's Empire reviewed

There was no year, between 1750 and 1860, in which the history of the British Empire was not tainted by “conflicts, large and small wars, uprisings, repression and reprisals of astonishing brutality.” This is what the reader can learn from Richard Gott's Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt, Richard Drayton writes in a review for the Guardian. In his words,
Gott's achievement is to show, as no historian has done before, that violence was a central, constant and ubiquitous part of the making and keeping of the British empire.
Such a searing, detailed critique of imperial history is “newer than it seems,” Drayton points out. Apologist historians have never stopped “to profitably sell happy stories of the empire to the British public,” and the only other book that has rigorously challenged their narratives is John Newsinger's The Blood Never Dried (2006).

 Interior Troops Move Into Moscow After Protest Rally

 

Aisha Qaddafi: Target For Arrest or Assassination

outright lies became laundered as facts, to pave the way for UN Security Council and other political and military decisions to give NATO the green light to destroy one of the most advanced social-economic systems in the world and its achievements, which had become a threat for western bankers' hegemony over Africa.

The coverage and distortion of the Libyan army and "green" resistance volunteers and actions for the liberation of Libya from the invaders, is designed to consolidate the situation by attempting to confuse and demoralize the resistance. 

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Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out t...
 
‎'Ambiguous but alarming new wording tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and just passed by the Senate is reminiscent of the 'extraordinary measures' introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933. And the relative lack of reaction so far
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calls to mind the oddly calm indifference with which most Germans watched the erosion of the rights that had been guaranteed by their own constitution. As one German writer observed, 'With sheepish submissiveness we watched it unfold, as if from a box at the theater.'' Ray McGovern, Antiwar.com
 

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The City of London + City of Vatican + City of Columbia are the 3 independent states within states which forms the empire of the city. The first is financial control over earth economy. The second is religion control over the earth. And the third one is military control over the earth. Together the

( 'Canberra' is actually the Australian Capital Territory...and is mapped as such )

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Note: I am not offering any medical advice or diagnosis with the presentation of this information. I am acting solely as an independent researcher providing the results of extended observation and analysis of unusual biological conditions that are evident. Each individual must work with their own h...
 
When we think drones, we think combat and missile strikes. But as unmanned aerial vehicles become smaller and more accessible - they are being used for multiple purposes such as scientific research, agriculture and law enforcement. But critics say cheaper drone technology will inevitably compromise our rights and freedoms. Join our live conversation at 19:30 GMT.
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The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. As the tremendous growth of social networks moulds and transforms the news agenda, The Stream aims to share these possibilities and connect its global…
 
New research finds possible reason for obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics in kids
lack of vitamin D

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BILOXI -- A group of scientists painted a picture Monday night of contamination in the Gulf that differs from what the Coast has been told since the BP oil spill.
 
.This magical place is threatened by Enbridge's proposal to bring an oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands and supertankers to BC's North and Central coast..
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Starring grizzlies, eagles, humpback whales, and the legendary spirit bear! In 2010 Vancouver filmmaker Damien Gillis joined two separate week-long journeys ...
 
Reader Supported News shared a link.
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Secret Service agents protecting Vice President Dick Cheney may be sued for violating the free speech rights of a member of the public who made critical remarks about the Bush administration’s war policies.' Adam Liptak, The New York Times
 

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for. 

 American Justice

Two years ago Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy,called mine safety regulations "as silly as global warming. Then 29 miners were killed. Now the courts have found the company guilty of violating safety regulations,  and everybody is going to jail to join the Wall Street bankers who caused the economic meltdown oh sorry, they got fined. Corporations are people until they do something wrong. Only the Tim DeChristophers of the world go to jail.

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These special alloy sleeves protect e-passports, passport cards, contactless credit cards, and subway cards. Secure Sleeves, always keep your enhanced drivers licences and credit cards in them.
 

Facebook to Launch Subscribe Button for Websites

In practice, the Subscribe button will act very much like Twitter’s Follow button does for websites. If you want to get all the latest news from, for instance, The Washington Post, via Facebook, then you can just hit the Subscribe button.

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Facebook Timeline Is Here: Are You In?

Mashable showed us all how to build our Timelines early, ahead of Facebook’s broader rollout schedule. As a result, I, and millions of others, have had the opportunity to build and play with our Timelines. The fact that we could do so is, I believe, no accident on Facebook’s part. Last month, Facebook executives told me they wanted to seed savvier users with the feature to help guide newbies. Essentially, to prepare them for this day when average people would be confronted with this simple choice. Once they opt into Timeline, their profile page will never be the same, and they will look to those who have been using Timeline for more than two months for help.

 
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