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Parachute Jump for Children Mobile Library in the Gaza Strip

Sheffield PSC | 25-07-2011 21:03 | Education | Palestine | Sheffield

On Saturday 23rd July 2011 Musheir did a sponsored parachute jump in aid of the first ever Children Mobile Library in the Gaza Strip.

Obama reaction to Norway massacre betrays US "war on terror" fundamentalism

Within hours of Norway’s deadly bomb and gun attacks claiming at least 91 victims it has become clear that the horror was perpetrated by a Norwegian loner with rightwing Christian fundamentalist affiliations.

However, this did not restrain Obama or his New Zealand guest from issuing wild insinuations about Islamic terrorism. Obama is reported to have been briefed by intelligence officials before he spoke on the matter. Which makes his response an all the more odious bit of politicking to turn a horrific, tragic event into a propaganda stunt to stir up anti-Islamic fears and shore up Washington’s illegal “wars on terror”.

What should be disturbing is the level of inculcation of such irrational propaganda. It seems that every and any horror no matter how obviously unrelated to Islamic countries can now immediately be attributed by Obama and other Western leaders to “Islamic terrorists”.

It is as astounding act of reality inversion. The US leader who has taken international wars of aggression to record heights of lawlessness and who has made such a big deal of “embracing the Muslim world” nevertheless shows a disgraceful ability to prolong these wars by twisting any tragedy into a snide vilification of Islam.

UG#560 - Cyberluddism (Reclaiming Luddism on the Bicentennial)

This week we look at the goings on in England which started 200 years ago this November, headed by the mysterious figure of Ned Ludd. Why did the Luddites break certain machines but leave others? Why did central government send more troops to crush Luddism that to fight Napoleon in France? But first, the soundtrack of two videos, Robots vs. Luddites and New Technology Whose Progress?'

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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship’s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast’s foreign editor.

Boy, Do We Need A Hippocratic Oath For Journalists

For the record: Around June 17 or 18, both Edward S. Herman and I each began submitting manuscripts to the Guardian of London, prompted by false and misleading claims that had been made by the British writer George Monbiot on June 14, in his weekly commentary for this prestigious newspaper. "Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers," was the title the Guardian had given it. At Monbiot's own website, the title he had chosen was more direct: "Naming the Genocide Deniers" (June 13).

JSTOR documents released in act of solidarity with Aaron Swartz

This essay originally appeared at The Pirate Bay as the description for the torrent of documents. You can see this message and the torrent here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331

See also Defend Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/07/482483.html

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Agents Provocateurs

The insurmountable problem for those who categorise any accusation of the state acting deliberately wrongly as a “conspiracy theory”, is truth. There is, beyond any doubt, a police operation to infiltrate left wing groups in the UK with spies.

10 questions the MPs did not ask Murdoch

As predicted the day before the Murdoch's were questioned by MPs, the difficult questions did not get asked.

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Court Judgement: Mark Kennedy acted as an agent provocateur

No doubt the defendants will be posting on their site

http://ratcliffeontrial.org/ about the court of appeal decision and also Tweeting about it,

https://twitter.com/ratcliffetrial but in the meantime following are extracts from a Guardian article.

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Why did police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”

Cairn obtains legal interdict: ‘Twitter ban’ and 'gagging order' for Greenpeace

In its latest move to cover up the truth about its Arctic drilling, Cairn Energy has obtained an extraordinary, wide-ranging legal interdict (injunction) against us, gagging us from posting Tweets and Facebook updates containing photos of yesterday's occupation of their Edinburgh headquarters.

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Defend Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz, who has been a life long progressive and highly ethical, internet activist, who founded Demand Progress, has been charged in the US for downloading academic documents and potentially faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. A political campaign to support Aaron Swartz has been launched and he deserves the widest support — the charges, threatened sentence and fine are truly outrageous.

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Transition in Cities and the #SpanishRevolution

Attached are three recordings from the UK Transition Network Conference 2011, which was held in Liverpool from 8th to 11th July.

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UK Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

“Knowing there’s guys and girls like you on the outside supporting us makes such a difference...It’s really nice not to be forgotten and I’ll be eternally grateful to everyone.” – Ravi Gill

The Post-9-11 Decade by Numbers: The American Holocaust

"The only thing that will save millions more Afghans from death will be that America can no longer afford to kill them."

UG#559 - Famine, The Fruit of Disconnection (Jailing Gardeners, Raw Milk & Soil)

A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

Leeds ABC Benefit Gig

Sunday 24th July.

Antifascist Benefit T-shirts

“Knowing there’s guys and girls like you on the outside supporting us makes such a difference…It’s really nice not to be forgotten and I’ll be eternally grateful to everyone.” – Ravi Gill

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The British security service is the elephant within the room in the Murdoch press hacking scandal

The Guardian, along with the rest of the MSM have so far managed to ignore the elephant within the room in the Murdoch press hacking scandal. One would have thought given the latest revelations about Gordon Brown and his family, someone might have asked the question exactly what was the British Secret Intelligence Service doing whilst News International hacked into the British prime ministers private life.

Harlan Exposed: Emergency National Demo - Sat

NAVA | 11-07-2011 10:39 | Animal Liberation | Birmingham | Sheffield

"One of the trainers went into a pen and held down a dog with his knee. He was kicking the dog while he held it down to try to subdue it. Then he started punching it and then he held it up by the throat and said to it: ‘So are you going to stop?’” - Ex-Harlan Employee, Russell Trigg

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