Sheffield Newswire Archive

Chris Martenson, Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, presented to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas on the issue of Peak Oil and Economic Growth, on February 23rd 2010 to a full Grand Committee Room in the Houses of Parliament.

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Unite black, white and Muslim workers against racism and fascism!

ORGANISING AGAINST EDL RACISM AND BNP FASCISM

A conference to discuss building a working-class anti-racist and anti-fascist network

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The pressure is cranking up on Iran. During her recent tour of the Middle East, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton declared that Iran is "moving toward a military dictatorship", because the civilian government is being "supplanted" by the Revolutionary Guard, which "poses a very direct threat to everyone." She added: "We don't want to be engaging while they're building a bomb." About a week earlier US National Security Adviser Jim Jones described the Iran nuclear issue as the "top global security threat."

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Focuses on prisoners whose torture has been exposed by UK courts and is being investigated by police

Former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist Andy Worthington will be speaking at screenings across the country

"Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" is a new documentary film, directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and journalist Andy Worthington (author of The Guantánamo Files). The film focuses on the stories of three particular prisoners - Shaker Aamer (who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (released in 2009) and Omar Deghayes (released in 2007) - and the tour coincides with a mounting scandal involving British complicity in torture, which focuses on Shaker Aamer and Binyam Mohamed.

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The sinking of cadeby main colliery near Doncaster began in 1889 and the Barnsley seam was reached in 1893, the colliery remained open untill 1986.

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Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climategate". Further media frenzy erupted over an erroneous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that 80 per cent of Himalayan glacier area would very likely be gone by 2035. Other climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.

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STATEMENT ABOUT YESTERDAY’S ARRESTS ON EDL WEBSITE

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Report from a visit to Cuba’s medical brigade in Haiti

Monday, 1st March 7.30pm

Venue: St Matthews Rooms, Carver St, Sheffield S1

Speaker: Phil Lenton, Coordinator of ‘Salud International’, a trade union-sponsored NGO [‘Salud’: Spanish for ‘Health’]

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| UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public |

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Attached is a recording of a communist discussion group meeting held in Sheffield on 16th February 2010 titled, the rise of the far right and anti-fascism.

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A group called the Really Open University has been established to help resist the £35 million of cuts being made at the University of Leeds.

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Talk by Terry Fox and Jenny Patient about the promised new technology to save the world from climate chaos. Organised by Sheffield Humanist Society, all welcome.

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Come and rave your face off!

Friday, 19 February 2010 10pm till 3am, at the Casbah, 1 Wellington Street, Sheffield
£3 before 11pm, £4 after
(Donations welcome!)

Sequoia Sound System, Tinnitus and Sheffield Social Centre have teamed up
to bring Sheffield a night of the best Drum and Bass, Reggae, Jungle,
Ragga, Dub and Breakcore there is to offer.

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Nick Griffin: “For one thing they can’t call us racist any more.”///
Nick Griffin, you racist twat. There, you see, I can.

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In what is likely to be the first of many such atrocities, two US military rockets slammed into a house near Marjah, the target of the current offensive, killing 12 people. US military authorities admitted that the victims were innocent civilians sheltering in their own home, as they had been advised to do by US and NATO officials.

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When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy.

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"Dirt" (2008) by David Montgomery deals with the relation between soil erosion and civilization collapse. It is neither the first nor the only book that examines this subject. It is, however, written by a soil scientist, and it brings to a deeper level the understanding of how soil disappears and how this affects agriculture and, in turn, society.

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The anarchist writer Colin Ward, who died on the night of 11th February, I later met, I’d been vaguely collecting Colin’s Anarchy (first series), still the best anarchist magazine produced in this country.

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Everyone: call on Google not to make a deal with the NSA:  http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=3DTXS9fqBu5Q0JEcYvZoJvlQ

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By unleashing this new generation of American, Canadian and British etc. mass murderers on the town of Marjah in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Barrack Obama continues to prove that he is just as much a tool of Yankee Imperialism as was George W. Bush.

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