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Internet access is not conditional

Everyone who owns a website has an interest in defending the free use of Internet… so has everyone who uses Google or Skype… everyone who expresses their opinions freely, does research of any kind, whether for personal health problems or academic study … everyone who shops online…who dates online…socialises online… listens to music…watches video…

Millions of Europeans now depend on the Internet, directly or indirectly, for their livelihood. Taking it away, chopping it up, ‘restricting it’, ‘limiting it’ and placing conditions on our use of it, will have a direct impact on people’s earnings. And in the current financial climate, that can’t be good.

The internet as we know it is at risk because of proposed new EU rules going through end of April. Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look
at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options’ which people can choose from. People will be offered TV-like packages - with a limited
number of options for you to access.

It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to access and to put up content could be severely restricted. It will create boxes of Internet accessibility, which don’t fit with the way we use it today. This is because internet is now permitting exchanges between persons which cannot be controlled or “facilitated” by any middlemen (the state or a corporation) and this possibility improves the citizen’s life but force the industry to lose power and control. that’s why they are pushing governments to act those changes.

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The debate about the use of stop and search – be it protesters or young black and Asian men, be it in the case of stopping knife crime or deterring terrorism – is one that has (understandably, perhaps) been fixed on the police results rather than the times they get it wrong.

But it is in the cases where they get it wrong that attitudes towards police are sharpened and the rights we feel we have as citizens practically defined. So I offer this card for readers to download, print and carry. It warns police officers that if a stop and search is intrusive, unlawful or malicious, you will pursue the issue through the Independent Police Complaints Commission and, if necessary, to civil proceedings. You might want to offer this card to an officer before a search takes place. Enjoy.

Click here to download a pdf of the card. Then print, cut it out, fold it in half and carry it around with you.

Looks like today the British workers outside the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire have been twinned with the striking workers at the shipyards at Gdansk in 1980: and for any worker, there could be no greater honour.

Gdansk was the moment when Polish workers stood against the Soviet empire and said there would be no more submission: ‘On our knees before God, but on our own two feet before all men.’

Their strike spread across Poland, and cracked the power of the quislings in Warsaw who did Moscow’s work. The strike was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.

Today the strike in Lincolnshire has spread across Britain to contractors at the nuclear power plants Sellafield and Heysham, to Grangemough oil refinery and power stations at Longanet, Warrington and Staythorpe, to contractors at the South Hook LNG terminal in Milford Haven, and to Croyton oil refinery in Essex.

Thousands have gone out. The strikes have gone wild cat.

And all of it is right. For what else can British workers do when their own parliament has turned over the power to control Britains’ borders and Britain’s labour laws to the Brussels empire?

There is no point in saying, ‘The workers must obey the laws that govern employment.’ The laws which now govern employment in this country are no longer legitimate. They are no longer the laws drawn up by British democracy.

They are the laws drawn up by the European Commission. They are laws to which a generation of Britain’s politicians have signed up, giving away powers they had no right to give away.

Britain’s politicians signed up to these laws in Treaties most of them have never read, and if they did read them, they didn’t believe every ‘Europe without frontiers’ clause would be enforced.

Well, surprise: the rootless cosmopolitan euro-zealots all over the Continent (though mostly in France) and the career eurocrats in Brussels (mostly led by the French) who wrote the European treaties put this stuff in because they meant to see it enforced.

But just listen to the whining of Peter Hain, the former work and pensions secretary who was part of Tony Blair’s EU-pandering government, at the weekend. He told one paper that he thought something had gone ‘badly wrong’ with the way EU legislation was being enforced.

What he means is it is actually being enforced. The only thing that is ‘badly wrong’ is that Britain should ever have agreed to it in the first place.

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‘On 8 October 2008 Lloyds TSB wrote to the Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB), giving them 60 days notice of withdrawal of their services as a clearing bank, unless they agreed they would no longer process transactions for Interpal, a charity sending aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

In effect, this meant that the IBB would have to close down or freeze Interpal’s account or lose clearing facilities for all its customers’ accounts. After representations from The IBB, Lloyds TSB agreed to postpone this action until 30 January 2009.’

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• Our civil liberties, Constitution and Common Law are under attack and being dismantled.

• Governance of our country is being handed over to the European Union and other unelected and unaccountable supranational corporate bodies without our consent.

• Our economy has been handed over to a transnational corporate and banking oligarchy.

• Our privacy is being constantly violated and our democracy degraded.

• Our politics are dominated by a culture of stealth, deceit, treason, duplicity and criminality.

• Our law is no longer a friend and protector, but increasingly onerous, invasive, disproportionate, corrupted by special interests and institutional gravy trains, and itself illegal and unconstitutional.

• Reject the new political dispensation, whilst re-affirming the supremacy of our Constitution and Common Law.

• Outline the stepping stones to the creation of an active national network to defend and protect non-violently but effectively our Democracy.
• This is not a plan for another political party- this is a movement coming from the grassroots made up of h onest and decent people, armed with practical and effective suppressed knowledge to frustrate and defeat the traitors and criminals who are destroying our country and communities.  

• Prepare ourselves to make a solemn commitment to renounce citizenship of the European Union; to declare that our membership of the European Union, and all the treaties, purported laws, courts and institutions pertaining to it, having been foisted upon us by stealth, deceit and treason, is unconstitutional and illegal, and to defend our Democracy, Constitution, Common Law and Civil Liberties. All people of honesty, good will, energy, truth, courage and compassion must now stand together.

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A Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is a community-owned and run currency system based on a zero-sum model, as opposed to monetary systems in which the money-suppliers continuously add interest, thereby increasing the money supply. Each member’s account is usually set to start at zero; in order to trade on average half the accounts will be “in commitment” but with no interest being charged or earned at either end.

The zero-sum system enables members who engage in mutual exchange activities to record the value of that exchange, as a simultaneous plus and minus in each other’s accounts. Historically, some LETS groups keep manual ledgers, others use stand alone database systems to carry out these transactions. The next generation of networked community currency systems is changing the scene, immensely.

During Wsfii, a local currency was used to manage internal accounting between organisers, and provide attendees with food tokens redeemable in the local shops. The “Lime” (short for Limehouse in London, where Wsfii was held) was not a LETS system proper, but an Event Currency only usable within a discrete period of time. This seemed like excellent way of bootstrapping what could become a fully-developed local currency, because it established with local traders the idea that Limes are real, they equate to the mainstream currency, and they work for all. Once confidence is established, it becomes possible to take the currency “virtual”; so traders would not necessarily feel the need to cash out in sterling, but could keep a balance on their Limes account.

An ideal scenario: perhaps they need some help to serve behind the counter. They could connect to a local information portal and consult a directory to find someone willing to do this kind of work in exchange for Limes, which are redeemable in other local shops. This scenario may be some way into the future, but the Limes experience at Wsfii laid a good foundation for proving the concept could work.

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Demonstrators demanding an end to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza hurled their shoes at the gates of Downing Street yesterday during a wave of global protests.

Riot police were also pelted with missiles and fireworks as about 5,000 pro-Palestinians descended on the Israeli Embassy in London in the evening.

Earlier in the day, around 12,000 people marched through the centre of the capital, including singer Annie Lennox, human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger and former mayor Ken Livingstone.

Elsewhere in Britain, 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Manchester and 500 braved the cold in Edinburgh.

Paris held the world’s biggest protest, with 25,000 people showing up to condemn the Israeli offensive, which has killed at least 436 Palestinians since December 27th.

The death toll includes 75 children, according to Gaza medics. And almost 2,300 people have been wounded inside the territory.

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Demonstrations against the killing were seen in cities across the continent with left-wing radicals and other sympathisers taking to the streets.

In Spain, 11 protesters were arrested and several police officers injured when clashes took place in Madrid and Barcelona.

In Copenhagen, 32 people were arrested when their protest in support of the Greek protests turned violent.

In neighbouring Turkey, about a dozen left-wing protesters daubed red paint over the front of the Greek consulate in Istanbul.

Around 150 people belonging to a Danish underground movement took to the streets, throwing bottles and paint bombs at buildings, police cars and officers. In Moscow and Rome, protesters threw petrol bombs at Greece’s embassies.

Journalists came under attack for the first time in the riots, with a Russian news crew assaulted by a mob of about 50 youths, some of them reportedly drunk.

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And in Britain one man send a strongly worded letter to his MP and then snoozed off again!

‘Passengers at London’s Stansted Airport are facing a morning of chaos after climate change protesters forced their way into a secure area, causing the complete closure of the runway. The protest, by 54 campaigners, saw demonstrators occupying a runway and taxi area which had been closed for maintenance work at around 3am.’

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‘Britain could be signed up to a controversial European Union Constitution within a year, it has emerged. Ireland  -  which derailed the so-called Lisbon Treaty when voters rejected it in June  -  has been forced into holding a second referendum on the agreement. One diplomat said: ‘There is still some tweaking to do, but there is an understanding.’ Critics say that the Treaty is almost identical to the EU Constitution, rejected by the French and Dutch in 2005.’

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‘Thousands of Icelanders marked the 90th anniversary of their nation’s sovereignty with angry protest Monday, and several hundred stormed the central bank to demand the ouster of bankers they blame for the country’s spectacular economic meltdown.

Tiny Iceland has seen its banks and currency collapse in just a few weeks while prices and unemployment soar — leaving a country regarded as a model of Scandinavian prosperity in a state of shock.

“The government played roulette and the whole nation has lost,” writer Einar Mar Gudmundsson told a noisy but peaceful anti-government rally of several thousand people in downtown Reykjavik.

After the rally, hundreds of protesters stormed the headquarters of Sedlabanki, Iceland’s central bank, demanding the sacking of its chief, David Oddsson.

The demonstrators staged an hour-long standoff with shield-wielding riot police inside the bank’s lobby, singing songs and chanting “Out with David” and “Power to the People.” The protest ended peacefully when both police and demonstrators agreed to withdraw.’

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And what do the British sheeple do? Bleat and moan about how awful it all is then snooze off infront of the mind control box again !

Those that listened to my radio show last night, will know the second hour was one of the hardest interviews I have ever had to do. It choked me so much I could hardly speak as we went into the end of hour two.

My guest was Brian Howes. He and his wife Kerry have four young children and are facing extradition to the USA under this unfair and unjust extradition treaty I keep going on about. They face up to 95 years in a max-security prison and will never see their children again.

Brian at one point made this emotional statement “Kerry has vowed she will not go to America, and never see her children again, she has said she will commit suicide instead, and if she goes, I go”.

The pair have already spent 214 days in prison, and during this time Brian spent 30 days on hunger strike. Their bail  conditions mean they have to sign in at their local police station THREE TIMES EVERY DAY.

Their crime? They had a LEGAL chemical sales company, but one US citizen found that one of the chemicals legal in the UK, could be used to make “crystal meth”. On that alone, they are being sought for extradition to stand trial in the USA.

Our government offer NO PROTECTION of UK citizens any more, and just like Gary McKinnon, these people are being thrown to the lions. A British passport used to mean something, we knew as citizens we could travel the world and be protected by our government and our embassies, but no longer it would seem!

The ironic thing is, we cannot get an American citizen extradited without him/her first being proven guilty through trial in their own country!

We MUST act to get our government to review this unjust and unfair treaty which is a breach of our human rights. PLEASE sign the petition NOW and ask everyone you know to do the same…. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/US-extradition

Ross

Ross Hemsworth
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Police attempts to outlaw the monthly Critical Mass cycle ride through the streets of London unless its route was notified in advance were blocked by the Law Lords today.

The House of Lords allowed a challenge by cyclist Des Kay to a Court of Appeal ruling that the Metropolitan Police had the right to demand prior notice of the ride’s date, time and route and the names and addresses of the organisers.

Cyclists who gather on the South Bank and ride through the city to celebrate safe cycling have in the past been handed written notices by the police stating that the event was unlawful because no advance notice was given.

But the Law Lords held that the event, which had no organisers or set route and proceeded on a “follow my leader” basis, was not governed by section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Friends of the Earth Rights and Justice Centre, which acted for Mr Kay, hailed the ruling as “an important victory for the right to peaceful protest and for cyclists to take part in this monthly celebration of cycling”.

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The University of Oxford is seeking a permanent exclusion zone around its animal research laboratory, which opened yesterday.

A temporary injunction already in place restricts people from demonstrating within a certain radius of its Biomedical Sciences Building but the university wants to make this permanent at a court hearing scheduled for next year.

Demonstrations and the intimidation of contractors and staff by animal rights activists delayed the building’s completion by about two years and although the university said that it does not yet have a figure for the lab’s final cost it is believed that the total sum far exceeds the published figure of £18m.

As well as restricting demonstrations near the laboratory, the injunction prohibits picketing or demonstrating within 100 yards of the residence of any protected person, and bans people from identifying or following vehicles entering or leaving the exclusion zone.

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