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  • Iran’s military says Britons "confessed" entry
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran’s military says Britons "confessed" entry By Fredrik Dahl
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s military said on Saturday British naval personnel seized in the Gulf confessed to entering its waters illegally, but Britain maintained they were detained inside Iraqi territory.
    Iranian forces captured 15 British sailors and marines on Friday at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which marks the southern stretch of Iraq’s border with Iran, sparking a diplomatic crisis at a time of increased (…)

  • Iran and the British Media
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran and the British Media http://www.ukwatch.net/article/iran_and_the_british_media
    By Medialens
    Exclusive to ukwatch.net an interview on the British media’s coverage of the confrontation between Iran and the United States with David Edwards and David Cromwell, editors of Medialens
    The noises being made by the British and american governments are eerily reminiscent of the build up to the Iraq invasion. How has the media responded to this propaganda re-run?
    The US-UK governments and (…)

  • Photos - BLAIR BOMB
    14 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-nuclear protestors block a road in Parliament Square in London Wednesday March 14, 2007. Lawmakers from Prime Minister Tony Blair’s party planned a major rebellion Wednesday over a proposal for a multibillion-dollar (-euro) nuclear missile defense system - a program critics claim could undermine efforts to stem the weapons ambitions of Iran and other countries. Blair has told the House of Commons that Britain’s fleet of four nuclear-armed submarines - due to be phased out from 2022 - (…)

  • U.K. Civil Servants Strike, Shutting 200 Departments
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Caroline Alexander
    Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — U.K. civil servants began a 24-hour strike today, with 200,000 people protesting against job cuts, pay awards and the running of public services, in what may be the biggest walkout by government workers in almost 26 years.
    Those on strike today aren’t faceless bureaucrats or high-flying mandarins but people at the heart of public services providing the everyday things we take for granted,’’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and (…)

  • FAKE TERROR,PURE THEATRE,MORE PSYOPS COMING OUR WAY!
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    FAKE TERROR,PURE THEATRE,MORE PsyOps. Remember The London 7-7 Bombing MI-5/SAS PsyOps?
    Read article and then see links below to the last Staged Terror PsyOps Event
    Alleged Beheading Terror Plot In UK Foiled
    Sky News Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    The eight people arrested by terror police in Birmingham were allegedly planning an Iraq-style kidnapping and beheading in the UK.
    Sky’s Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt says they intended to post a video of the hostage being tortured and (…)

  • UK ’using personal loans to cover tax bills
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UK ’using personal loans to cover tax bills’ 09/01/2007
    Personal loans may be used to help cover tax bills that are higher than they were originally expected to be, it has been suggested.
    Those who are looking to fund their tax bills in this way should shop around for the best possible rate, according to Sainsbury’s Bank, a company that provides the product.
    Sainsbury’s Bank draws attention to HM Revenue & Customs findings which show that 900,000 people missed last year’s tax (…)

  • Climate change: US economist’s grim warning to Blair’s Cabinet
    27 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Climate change: US economist’s grim warning to Blair’s Cabinet
    The stark findings of Nicholas Stern’s report yesterday increased the pressure on the PM to act
    By Andy McSmith and Colin Brown
    Published: 27 October 2006
    Global warming could cost the world’s economies up to 20 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes.
    That stark warning was given to Tony Blair and his cabinet yesterday by Sir (…)

  • Eamon McGuire: The Life of an Undercover IRA Activist
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.” - Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright
    Bahrain is an island nation located in the Persian Gulf. Like so many countries in the region, it was a former colony of Imperial Britain. (1) It’s the early 1970s, just outside its capital city of Manama, in the steaming hot desert. A young Irishman can be found testing what he labels “electronic counter measures,” to be used against British military forces in the Occupied Six Counties of northeastern (…)

  • Iraq: the people have their say. And it’s bad news for Tony Blair
    25 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
    72 per cent predict that Iraq will descend into civil war if British and American troops withdraw
    61 per cent believe Britain’s experience in Iraq makes them less likely to support military intervention
    72 per cent say that Tony Blair’s support for George Bush calls into question his political judgement
    62 per cent believe that British troops should be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible
    72 per cent believe that the war in Iraq is (…)

  • Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
    17 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sarah Meyer
    It is the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. We lived outside the US base near Newbury, Berkshire, where US Cruise missiles were to be installed. Sometimes there were two or three dozen of us. Sometimes there many more women, especially on weekends and holidays. The first big demonstration, "Embrace the Base,’ brought thousands of women to Greenham. Then Greenham became international. All Greenham gates had women living nearby. Women were supported by (…)