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Archive for November, 2011
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 Wednesday will see about three million public sector workers walking out on strike, as civil servants join teachers in opposing government cuts to pensions.PCS, UCU, NUT and ATL had all previously balloted for further industrial action, so their members will be out. But added to them are a seemingly ever-growing list of other trade unions, including Unison, GMB, Unite, UCATT and NASUWT. (To see a more comprehensive list with breakdowns of ballot results, see Who’s out on Nov 30 on libcom.org.)
Nov 30: We’re All In It TogetherAs UK Prepares for Biggest Strike in Generations….Well, it’s been a long time coming… Wednesday 30th November will see the first mass strike in the UK for four decades. 17 unions, including the biggest ones Unite, UCU, Unison, various teaching unions and PCS, have balloted to strike on pension reform which will see an estimated 3 million off work and, hopefully, cause massive disruption. Demonstrations and pickets are planned across the country – see http://www.n30strike.org for a complete list. Amongst the strikers are some unlikely suspects: 18,000 Border Agency workers are expected to strike leaving the government having to employ sinister private security firm Serco to take over for a day. Even the National Union of Probation Officers voted to join the strike four-to-one. The government wants public sector workers to forgo 3% of their salary as pension contributions, which equates to a pay cut. So far workers have had to accept a two year pay freeze during a time of high inflation (in other words a pay cut), if they haven’t already been thrown out on their arse during the waves of mass redundancies (a total pay cut). The government’s arguments are designed to play on long term disgruntlement among the private sector that they have to deal with, on the whole, a shockingly shit pensions scenario and the public sector have had it a bit better off. Rather than aiming to sort out the private pensions mess which leaves millions in poverty on retirement, the PM wants the country to believe the public sector pensions are ‘gold plated’, unfair and unsustainable. Actually, most public workers end up with less than £5000 a year pension. They’ve also been reformed already: through a mix of negotiated and underhand changes, public sector pensions have been reduced to the tune of 25p in each pound over the last few years. read lots more here WITH THANKS http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/Nov-30-Were-All-In-It-Together/ |
There is a myth amo
ng the climate change denial industry that the climate of Antarctica is actually cooling rather than warming, and that this disproves the case for global warming. One theory is that the (man made) ozone hole has temporarily cooled the stratosphere and this makes for local cooling in spite of global warming; but needless to say, even this week, outright deniers claim that the thinning and breaking of huge swathes of glaciers is meaningless.
This surprising claim is in the face of the 1.2C average increase in Antarctic temperatures between 1959 and 1996. And it also ignores the plain fact that on a more front line level, there is clear warming taking place – for example, the Antarctic tourist industry (yes, there is such a thing, now) is rubbing its hands with glee at the profitable prospect of being able to take tourists deeper into Antarctica - one tour has been extended from 11 to 14 days because there are far more opportunities to disembark and sight see compared to a few years ago.
And study after study, including this year, has shown increasing thinning and melt of ice shelves, with massive icebergs resulting. while a plague of parasitic crabs moving south with warmer water is currently causing concern for local flora and fauna. By contrast, the supposed cooling evidence comes from data collected at just one location on the Continent – the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research Station, along with rather a lot of extrapolation.
Antarctica has been described as the canary of the world – perhaps we should be listening harder to its faltering song.
from Viridis Lumen with thanks http://viridislumen.blogspot.com/2011/11/antarctica.html
- greedy politicians doom our children
The latest climate Talks in Durban are set to be an obscene farce as countries vie to be the greediest, stupidest, cruelest and most destructive. We need a revolution NOW, since the Nation States REFUSE to adopt any reformist solutions, in the name of humanity and the millions of other species threatened with extinction…lets Occupy the Environment
Not content with burying the remains of the Kyoto Protocol the proposal is to DO NOTHING until at least 2015.
Both India and the now anti environment Brazilians have joined the criminal USA, Japan and Russian delegations in demanding a ”period of reflection”. Meanwhile a ”scientific” study has been trotted out to prove the threat is slightly less imminent.
(The only one in 100′s to say this, and based on dodgy estimates from the last ice age, and highlighted by the BBC). Quite enough for everyone to deny what’s staring us in the face, and turn up the air conditioning in their SUV monsters on the way 
to the Mall.
Okay the 1% are the worst, but the entire western middle class are now in collective denial, as even the most moderate, progressive and job creating Climate Mitigation Initiatives are willfully cut. Now our political masters have seen there is power and money for them in promoting
Climate Change Denial Syndrome, and developing countries have seen that the US is incapable of change.
Let’s hope people have a change of heart, and soon. All the alternatives exist now, only the political will is lacking.
For instance CO2 free fuel could be on the streets in a question of months..see HERE http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/
Harry Potter and yoga are evil’, says Catholic Church exorcist
Father Gabriele Amorth, who for years was the Vatican’s chief exorcist and claims to have cleansed hundreds of people of evil spirits, said yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation”.
Reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books is no less dangerous, said the 86-year-old priest, who is the honorary president for life of the International Association of Exorcists, which he founded in 1990, and whose favourite film is the 1973 horror classic, The Exorcist.
The Harry Potter books, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, “seem innocuous” but in fact encourage children to believe in black magic and wizardry, Father Amorth said.
“Practising yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter,” he told a film festival in Umbria this week, where he was invited to introduce The Rite, a film about exorcism starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as a Jesuit priest.For most people it is a way of toning the limbs and soothing the stresses of everyday life, but the Catholic Church’s best-known exorcist says yoga is evil.
“In Harry Potter the Devil acts in a crafty and covert manner, under the guise of extraordinary powers, magic spells and curses,” said the priest, who in 1986 was appointed the chief exorcist for the Diocese of Rome.
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In what may go down as one of the worst environmental crimes of the 21st Century, the Brazilian Senate voted on Wednesday to retain most of the bad changes to the national Forest Code that had passed the House of Deputies earlier this year.
Brazil’s international commitments to mitigating climate change, maintaining biodiversity and it’s status before the upcoming RIO+20 global environmental meetings are now on collision course with the insatiable demand of its agri-business sector. In the coming months the issue will be laid squarely before President Dilma Rousseff who has thus far avoided comment.
re-posted from JustMeans A revised version of Brazil’s Forest Code, a piece of legislation that regulates the use of forest coverage on private properties in Brazil, and whose draft was approved in Congress on Wednesday (23), has sent shockwaves through the sustainability community in the country and abroad.
An incensed debate has gripped the country over the last year, which culminated in yesterday’s vote. The new draft, which is designed to meet the requirements of the rural business, has been rushed through the House and the Senate and did not take into account expert opinion from scientists, who object to the new version of the law vehemently.
“The report continues to pardon those who deforested illegally and will promote more deforestation. What used to be an environmental crime now has become fantastic business”, said Mrcio Astrini, Greenpeace’s head of Amazon campaign.
Scientists have warned the new law will open way for the clearance of more than 175 million acres, or roughly the size of Germany, Italy and Austria combined,
which would be come mostly pasture for livestock and soy monocultures to feed cattle, mostly.
This volume of deforestation would release more than 25 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, or four times the goal for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol during 2008-12.
WWF, which has been campaigning against the revised legislation from the beginning of the debate, said the proposed changes severely contradict Brazil’s efforts to become an environmental and sustainability leader on the global stage.“Brazil will be cutting itself off from a growing global market for responsibly sourced goods, in addition to forgoing the countless benefits provided by a healthy Amazon, such as clean air and water, stable weather patterns and various other environmental services”, it said.
“We are watching, just before Brazil hosts Rio + 20, a clear attempt to dismantle Brazil’s environmental legislation,” stated WWF-Brazil’s CEO Maria Cecilia Wey de Brito. “This is something unprecedented in our history.”
The bill will go back to the House before being sent to President Dilma Rousseff, who can still veto it. “In the next phase, she will have to keep her word to veto or break her campaign
promises”, said Mr. Gasparini in reference to Ms. Rousseff’s promise to not pardon those who have deforested.
The current Forest Code was written in 1965 and requires landowners to keep a certain percentage of their land as untouched forest, from 20 percent in certain areas to 80 per cent in the Amazon. The new laws would give amnesty from heavy fines to landowners who cleared forest illegally between 1965 and July 2008.
Rules related to the clearing of hills would be relaxed and forest areas near rivers would have to be between 100 and 330 feet from the river bank, which conservationists say will are not enough.
A recent report compiled by Imazon and Proforest found that Brazil lags behind other BRIC countries in terms of legislation that protects forest coverage. Compared with China, Russia and India, Brazil loses the race towards sustainability by deforesting more than it reforests.
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Belo Monte site OCCUPIED. Work still stopped..
Filed under: dictators, ecology, indigenous, save the planet, solidarity, squat, Stop State and Capitalist criminals, take the streets, workers — Leave a commentOctober 30, 2011Altamira, Brazil – Hundreds of indigenous leaders, fishermen and riverine people from the Xingu River basin have gathered to occupy the Belo Monte Dam construction site in a peaceful protest to stop its construction in Altamira, located in the state of Pará in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. They Poor barrio of Altimira to [...]
Tags: Occupy Belo MonteBrasil mani’s em defesa da Amazônia
Filed under: anti-nationalist, ecology, indigenous, permaculture, prison, renewable, resistance, save the planet, solidarity, Stop State and Capitalist criminals — Leave a commentAugust 21, 2011On sat 20th Aug a massive demo took place against the ongoing Amazon destruction for the Belo Monte dam. Also against the new Forest Law, now in the Senate, which ‘relaxes’ the already unenforced deforestation code. Brazil had been a constructive leader in Climate talks, which came to nothing due to the greedy demands of [...]
McDonalds behind Amazon slaughter
Filed under: crap food, crooks and liars, ecology, organic farm, permaculture, save the planet, social revolution, solidarity, Stop State and Capitalist criminals, vegetarian / vegan — Leave a commentAugust 19, 2011The greedy corrupt Brazilian politicians are voting to give free rein to their fascist landlord colleagues and the McDonalds backed Ranching industry to destroy the Amazon Rainforest. The politicians appeal to nationalist sentiment.. saying we have already destroyed our forests and they have every right. But 79% of Brazilians are AGAINST the new laws going [...]
Brazil politicians sell out Amazon
Filed under: climate change/deniers, ecology, save the planet, Stop State and Capitalist criminals — Leave a commentJune 30, 2011BRAZIL Politicians Out of Sync with Public Sentiment on the Environment By Mario Osava* Trans-Amazonian Highway outside Altamira in the northern Brazilian state of Pará. Credit:Mario Osava/IPS with thanks BRASILIA, Jun 29, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The environmental movement continues to gain credibility and support as scientific findings confirm its warnings and natural disasters become increasingly [...]
Destroy the Amazon: Cashing in on Impunity..
June 18, 2011Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011.The analysis by Imazon suggests that the Forest Code debate may be a factor in rising deforestation. It found a 363 percent increase in forest degradation — logging and burning of forest that typically precedes deforestation — over the past 10 months, reaching 6,081 sq km. Most [...]
Tags: save the planetMost Brazilians reject Forest Destruction Law
Filed under: anti-nationalist, climate change/deniers, crooks and liars, save the planet — 1 CommentJune 12, 2011”The surprise passing of the new Forest Law in the lower house of the Brazilian congress is due to a campaign by multinational agribusiness and the big landlords who still own most of the country. The proposed amnesty for forest crimes has caused a 6 fold increase in deforestation already. The huge majority in favour [...]
Tags: save the planetA Dark Day for Brazil’s Amazon Jungle
May 26, 2011Dark Day for Brazil’s Amazon Jungle By Fabiana Frayssinet
Tags: save the planetJosé & Maria killed by loggers/ranchers.
May 25, 2011foto. José and Maria. ‘They gunned them down and cut off their ears” An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police. José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of [...]
URGENT AMAZON FOREST ALERT
Filed under: climate change/deniers, ecology, indigenous, save the planet, Stop State and Capitalist criminals — Leave a commentMay 22, 2011URGENT AMAZON FOREST ALERT [UPDATE 20 May 2011: The Guardian UK reports, "Brazil forms 'crisis cabinet' following unexpected deforestation surge".] Events are moving quickly in Brazil’s epic battle over a new national Forest Code. The struggle has has reached a critical stage full of both danger and opportunity. Please take action. EMERGENCY — BRAZIL’S NATIONAL [...]
BRAZIL ..New Forest Code sellout.
May 21, 2011By Clarinha Glock* A solitary cow in a slash-and-burn clearing where there was once Amazon rainforest. C PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 16, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The adoption of a new Forest Code in Brazil could threaten efforts to curb Amazon deforestation, which was reduced 70 percent between 2004 and 2010. The proposal to amend the [...]
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality
Naomi Wolfguardian.co.uk, US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memothat revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors’, city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.
in the US they celebrate it on'black Friday'. here on Sat 26th Nov
On its twentieth anniversary, Ad Busters plan to take it up a gear, marrying Buy Nothing Day with Occupy in order to #OCCUPYXMAS
En su 20 aniversario Ad Busters intentan casar el DIA SIN COMPRAR con el movimiento OCCUPY..para OCUPAR NAVIDAD
This year Ad Busters effectively merged Occupy and Buy Nothing Day to create Occupy Christmas, or for shoppers and shop keepers, a general nuisance. The havoc has already begun State-side as hundreds of people occupy store fronts and shopping malls with sit-ins and flash mobs. It will certainly be interesting to see how this translates across the pond and if the momentum will carry through to December 25th.
For those who want to take part in one of the most exciting anti-capitalist movements of recent times or just refrain from spending money for a day, there is a point to be made and pennies to be saved. Either way take solace in nothing and appreciate that you have something.
When: Friday 25th November (US only, but feel free to take part, or not) Saturday 26th November
Where: Everywhere and nowhere
Cost: nothing
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Building Occupied in Seattle! |
From Tides of Flame
On Saturday, November 19th, a group of about 60 people marched from the occupation at Seattle Central Community College in solidarity with Occupy Oakland and against the police repression and evictions of occupations across the country. At the beginning of the march, it was announced that a building would be taken over at the end of the march.
The group moved through Capitol Hill chanting “Banks and landlords, we don’t need ‘em/ All we want is total freedom!” before plunging down 12th Avenue to the King County Juvenile Detention Center. The group stopped outside the main cell areas and made noise for the children and teenagers imprisoned inside. Marchers chanted “Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons,” and screamed that those on the inside would not be forgotten.
After the noise demo, the group marched into the Central District, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the country. The term ‘skid row’ was coined here at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Central District was 80% black in 1970. Now it is 15% black, with many new condo developments and apartments having sprung up within the last decade. As the march came closer to the soon-to-be-occupied building, the majority of the drivers passing by yelled and honked their horns in approval.
The group surrounded an abandoned building on 23rd and Alder. A banner reading “OCCUPY EVERYTHING – NO BANKS – NO LANDLORDS (A)” had been draped across the front façade. Someone opened the front door and everyone streamed inside, celebrating the occupation of this new space. People started redecorating with paint and other items while a group outside held an assembly to figure out what to do. At the time of this writing, people are still occupying the building. The current plan is to hold it until Sunday where a public re-furbishing of the building can take place.
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by Feministes Indignades |
24 Nov 2011 |
| Desde hace años, del 25 de noviembre (día internacional contra la violencia hacia las mujeres y las niñas) hasta el 10 de diciembre (día de los derechos humanos) pasando por el 1 de diciembre (día internacional de la lucha contra el SIDA), diferentes colectivos se unen para alzar su voz reclamando la eliminación de todas las violencias contra las mujeres. Se trata de la Campaña Internacional de 16 días de Activismo contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres. | |
| Feministas Indignadas (Barcelona), nos sumamos a esta convocatoria y realizaremos cada día una acción (manifestación, charlas, teatro, videoforums, talleres… y hasta una fiesta!) para visibilizar los diferentes tipos de violencias de género. | |
See also:http://feministesindignades.blogspot.com/2011/11/feministes-indignades-presentan-16-dias.html |
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Documental] Emma Goldman, una mujer sumamente peligrosa
Documental dirigido por Mel Bucklin. Título original: Emma Goldman: An exceedingly dangerous woman, 2003. Duración: 90 min.
Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años como el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.
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Documental de Mel Bucklin que gira en torno a la figura de Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años cómo el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.
Con una vida apasionante, Emma Goldman, junto a Alexander Berkman, se encontrará en el ojo del huracán del movimiento anarquista. Célebre anarquista de origen lituano conocida por sus escritos y sus manifiestos radicales, libertarios y feministas, también fue una de las pioneras en la lucha por la emancipación de la mujer.
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730 políticos encausados por corrupción (numeros de Abril)
Muchas de los acusados han sido reeligido en las elecciones así que YA TIENEN LUZ VERDE PARA ROBAR TODO LO QUE QUIEREN.
Casí ninguno irá nunca a la carcel, ya que tienen un ejercito de abogados, policias y jueces, igualmente corruptos, que los protegen
English: 730 politicians of all parties have been accused of corruption in Spain 8figures from April). Many of the accused have now been reelected, soi they HAVE A GREEN LIGHT TOM ROB WHATEVER THEY LIKE!! hardly anyone will ever go to prison, as they have an army of equally corrupt police, judges and lawyer protecting them.
El sistema ya tiene credibilidad ZERO, la democracia apenas existe, falta hacer una revolución de verdad .
Conde Pumpido ha declarado que hay 730 políticos y cargos públicos que tienen procedimientos abiertos o están siendo investigados por casos de corrupción. Desconozco que tanto por ciento del total es este número pero sinceramente no me sorprende lo más mínimo.
Una vez en casa, un pequeño recorrido por internet desvela más detalles, que quien tiene más, que quien tiene menos, cuando de lo que no se dan cuenta es que la gran mayoría ya estamos hartos de estos canallas sean del color que sean NO IMPORTA EL PARTIDO POLÍTICO AL QUE PERTENECEN.
El ranking es ….
264 del PSOE.200 del PP.43 de Coalición Canaria.30 de CiU.24 del Partido Andalucista.20 de IU. ETC ETC
Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in the middle of Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least four protesters were killed.
It was the second day of clashes marking a sharp escalation of tensions on Egypt’s streets a week before the first elections since the ouster of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak in February. The military took over the country, promising a swift transition to civilian rule. But the pro-democracy protesters who led the uprising have grown increasingly angry with the ruling generals, and suspect they are trying to cling to power even after an elected parliament is seated and a new president is voted in.
The military-backed Cabinet said in a statement that elections set to begin on Nov. 28 would take place on time and thanked the police for their “restraint,” language that is likely to enrage the protesters even more.
“We’re not going anywhere,” protester Mohammed Radwan said after security forces tried unsuccessfully to push the crowds out of Tahrir, the epicenter of the uprising. “The mood is good now and people are chanting again,” he added after many of the demonstrators returned.
Two protesters were killed on Saturday, bringing the toll for two days of violence to six. The clashes were some of the worst since the uprising ended on Feb. 11.
The Egyptian Kronstadt
by Libcom.org November 20. 2011
As violence intensifies in Egypt, the new Egyptian dictator accuses the protesters of being counter revolutionary. Are we going t
o see the Egyptian workers facing their Kronstadt or are they on the verge of a genuine Arab Spring?
A year ago thousands of working class Egyptians battled the police and army throughout the streets of Cairo. They were seeking to overthrow a brutal, corrupt, and undemocratic regime who made it clear that they would not go willingly.
Following a huge stand-off in Tahir square the regime was swept away. The Egyptian revolution then became the spark that kick started similar actions around the Arab world.
To say I was cynical about the Egyptian revolution is an understatement. To rid themselves of the Mubarak regime was fantastic, however I didn’t have much faith in what was to replace the old regime. It seemed that they were just swapping one set of bastards for another.
Twelve months down the line, what has changed in Egypt? Absolutely fuck all has changed. The lived experience of the Egyptian working class is no better. They do not have a democracy, or anything resembling one and the people are now back in the streets of Cairo fighting with the new regime. The new regime is suppressing the people just as the last one did. Nine hundred protestors have been injured so far.
The new Egyptian dictator Essam Sharaf, has called on the protestors to leave Tahir square as they are “threatening the revolution”. Spoken like a true Leninist!
There is no revolution in Egypt, all that has happened is that one group of bosses have replaced the other, and anyone who dares question the new regime is labelled as counter revolutionary.
I sincerely hope that there is a now a ‘real’ revolution in Egypt, where there is genuine workers control rather than just a new set of bosses who are friendly to the West. The coming weeks will show whether the Egyptian workers are facing their Kronstadt, or a genuine ‘Arab Spring’.
Saw a great documentary last night and was both horrified and inspired by it that I thought I would recommend itto as many as I can. It is about the environmental catastrophe caused by Donald Trump building his golf course in Aberdeenshire and the resistance of local residents.
China syndrome inevitable says architect of Fukushima Reactor No. 3 — Warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion — Melted fuel inevitably sank underground
Architect of Reactor 3 warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki, November 19, 2011:
Nov. 17 interview with Uehara Haruo, former president of Saga University and architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3
- “He admitted Tepco’s explanation does not make sense, and that the China syndrome is inevitable.”
- “He stated that considering 8 months have passed since 311 without any improvement, it is inevitable that melted fuel went out of the container vessel and sank underground.”
- “If the underground water vein keeps being heated for long time, a massive hydrovolcanic explosion will be caused.”
SOURCE: news.livedoor.com (Japanese)
DATE: 2011 November 18th 19:16
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Ya son dos o tres los bancos ocupados por Barcelona en pocos dias.
Los indignad*s de La Floresta hacían una Cercavila por los Bancos de Sant Cugat, luego la Paella Popular
en la Plaza, y actuaron una pequeña drama que terminó..SORPRESA con la entrada en un banco anterior en La Plaza.
Participaron hasta 200 personas incluyendo l*s niñ*s. El Banc Indignat está cerca al Castillo CSO, ocupado hace 10 dias,
así que hay movimiento, también una cooperativa de consumo y varias cosas más
in EEenglish
Now there are I think 3 ex banks OCCUPIED around Barcelona. And on Friday a big crowd played cat and mouse with the 
baffled police, before successfully occupying another huge building as a ‘home for evicted mortgage defaulters’.
The latest Bank was taken in the La Floresta suburb. After a leafleting and graffiti march around local banks the local ‘Indignats’ cooked an enormous veggie Paella for up to 200 people. Finally they enacted a drama in the street which ended..SURPRISE in the occupation of an adjoining abandoned bank.(Still going strong). La Floresta is close to the new Occupied Castle Social Center (see post), begun just last week, so there’s plenty of local action, including a small consumers CoOp, an occupied community garden.. and more stuff.
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The Spanish OCCUPY movement, 15M, is re-taking 100′s of streets and squares today, despite a ban, to protest the ZERO CHOICE elections. Yesterday 1000′s gathered in Madrid and elsewhere to protest arrests in Thursday’s students General Strike. Health Centers and Hospitals have recently been occupied, and the law has decided NOT TO EVICT buildings occupied after the massive Oct demos to house people evicted for mortgage arrears.…
El movimiento 15M está en plena acción, con centenares de actos , la toma Asamblearia de Plazas en todo el país por motivo de Las Elecciones, una mani de miles por los detenidos en la Huelga General Estudantil de Jueves 17 Nov, vigilias por la muerte del Sistema de Salud Pública, y varios occupaciónes más….
The right wing Partido Popular are expecting a majority, while offering only blood sweat and tears to ‘make us competitive’ and ‘restore market confidence’. (Really to protect their own fortunes, mostly inherited from the fascist 40 year occupation or gained by blatant corruption which is rife in the party.)
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The right wing Partido Popular are expecting a majority, while offering only blood sweat and tears to ‘make us competitive’ and ‘restore market confidence’. (Really to protect their own fortunes, mostly inherited from the fascist 40 year occupation or gained by blatant corruption which is rife in the party.)
” el PP cuando entre: bajar de inmediato el sueldo a los trabajadores públicos -otra vez; quizá un 10% en esta ocasión-, recortar aún más en Sanidad, Educación y, ay, en Obra Pública -porque Alemania y Francia están muy sensibilizadas con esos aeropuertos muchimillonarios sin pasajeros y otras estúpidas infraestructuras infrautilizadas hechas durante la época dorada del ladrillo. Habrá una subida del IVA y seguro una reducción generalizada de subvenciones y ayudas. Todo esto llevará a una mayor contracción económica y aún más paro, con lo que se recaudarán menos impuestos y se tendrá que pagar más en subsidios – en algún momento se hablará de reducir el subsidio de desempleo y el salario mínimo. Y eso en un contexto donde los productos básicos subirán de precio.”
Mientras el 15M está an acción, con centenares de actos , la toma Asamblearia de Plazas en todo el país por motivo de Las Elecciones, una mani de miles por los detenidos en la Huelga General Estudantil de Jueves 17 Nov, vigilias por la muerte del Sistema de Salud Pública, y varios occupaciónes.
Discovery Channel has stated that it was taking out the last episode due to ‘scheduling conflicts’, but others believe the channel is cutting the episode ‘On Thin Ice’ because it deals directly with the impacts of global warming on the Arctic and Antarctic.
My bet is that Discovery and other channels were yet again quietly bought off by the Climate Change Deniers, financed by the swill of 100s of billions profit made by the criminal oil companies every year, while paying NONE of the costs to the climate, environment and pollution caused ill health and deaths which they caused.
And the US is not alone, around one third of the networks to air the series worldwide have opted on accepting the series from the BBC without the last episode.
“It’s a bit like pressing the stop button on Titanic just as the iceberg appears,” a representative with Greenpeace told The Telegraph. “Climate change is the most important part of the polar story, the warming in the Arctic can’t be denied, it’s changing the environment there in ways that are making experts fearful for the future.”
There is a cheap, CO2 and pollution free alternative to oil, at least for transport, suppressed by the oil companies.. That’s NH3 fuel, check it out here. http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/
Climate change already worsening weird, deadly, and expensive weather http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1102-hance_extremeweather.html |
Cops and media FAIL to crush OWS
The Occupy Wall Street movement, despite the efforts of the mass media to belittle it and the efforts of brutal police officers to scare it away, is growing and growing fast. There are a lot of stories from the past few days that we haven’t been able to cover. Check these out:
- Does Occupy Wall Street spell the end of the Tea Party?
- Police shutting down Occupy Wall Street/ San Francisco
- Occupy Wall Street’s first official release
- Cops get violent vs Occupy Wall Street
- The Climate Movement Stands with #OccupyWallSt, #OccupyingStateDept
- Why we should all occupy Wall St.
Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/13sk3) WITH THANKS?
Occupied 'Bank of Ideas, London
Bankrupt Banks to be Occupied Centers?
Brilliant work . Huge building with over 500 rooms seized by Occupy london as a ‘BANK OF IDEAS’ for the winter. Near Liverpool Street station – all support needed. Tops – keep the rolling occupations mobile. Very encouraging move – congratulations!.
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A car load of City police have just turned up. For some reason the police are heavily armed – even a machine gun. No idea why they’re here.
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Bank of Ideas
Welcome!
The Bank of Ideas is situated on Sun Street, Hackney in an abandoned office block purchased several years ago by the bank UBS. It is an enormous space complete with a 500-seater lecture hall.
It has been opened to the public for the non-monetary trade of ideas to help solve the pressing economic, social and envionmental problems of our time.
There is also room for community groups, youth clubs, nursuries and other public services that have lost their space due to Government spending cuts.
Artists, performers and creatives are welcome to come entertain and to help transform the space. We also encourage games, workshops and skillshares on anything from yoga to yahtzee.
The only prerequisite is that this space is not for financial transactions. Trade in ideas or skills, but no one should need to pay to take part in the Bank’s activities.
Murcia – Concentración Antifascista – 18 noviembre
www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/murcia-concentracion-antifascista-18-noviembre
Lugar: Plaza sto. Domingo
18 Noviembre – 20:00 horas.Convoca : C.A.s. Coordinadora antifascista del sureste
http://indysureste.wordpress.com/
OWS is calling upon you to participate in a national day of direct action on November 17 in celebration of the the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Occupy Wall St
7:00 Shut Down Wall Street
3:00 Occupy the Subways
5:00 Take the Square
This information and more at: occupywallst.org/action/november-17th
Occupy Colleges
Students across the country will gather together on November 17 to protest the rising costs of college education, and the diminishing quality in that education from universities. Students will strike by gathering in central locations throughout each school, or in solidarity at Occupy Wall Street.
More information at: occupycolleges.org
Portland
Occupying steelbridge in morning
Rally afterwards
Subsequently occupying banks
www.n17pdx.org
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104127476368742
Los Angeles
1,000+ people to take over the street of Downtown, Los Angeles. Activists will meet at Bank of America Plaza at 333 S Hope St. and march to the corner of Figueroa and 4th St., where we will shut down the intersection.
www.occupylosangeles.org/?q=node%2F1970
Boston
Mass Uniting’s Jobs Not Cuts March & Rally at Dewey Square
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185521434866267
Prior to March @ FSU: Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael, American Democracy, and the Search for Economic Justice: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Occupy Movement
Minneapolis
3:00pm Student Rally @ Northrop Plaza
4:00pm March onto the 10th Ave Bridge
5:30pm Rally on the Peoples’ Plaza (Government Plaza)
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189395914476438
Lexington
5:30 Solidarity March
INTERNATIONAL
Spain
A general strike of university students will be taking place in the following cities: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Tarragona, Palma, Sevilla, Santiago de Compostela, Murcia, Madrid, Valencia, Castello, Alicante, Zaragoza
17:00: Demonstration in Madrid
Place: From Nuevos Ministerios to Puerta del Sol Square
Call: Assembly UAM-CSIC / 15M
tomalafacultad.net
madrid.tomalaplaza.net/2011/11/08/17n-manifestacion-estatal-por-los-servicios-publicos
Belgium
Activists are mobilising for sit-ins at universities and schools to discuss the ongoing protests around the world, resist the increasing commercialisation of education and connect to the struggle on the global level.
ism-global.net/ghent_occupy_nov17
Germany
Massive student strikes, flash mobs, rallies, and other actions will be taking place in dozens of cities
Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the “New Military Urbanism”
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/16/police_crackdowns_on_occupy_protests_from
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BBC that she participated in a conference call with officials from 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy movement.As police forces violently crack down on protests across the United States and Europe, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces. Stephen Graham is professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K. His book is “Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.” “What the Occupy movement is so powerful at is demonstrating that by occupying public spaces around the world, and particularly these extremely symbolic public spaces, it’s reasserting that the city is the foundation space for democracy,” Graham says. [includes rush transcript]
- Ex-New York Times Freelancer Natasha Lennard on Quitting the Corporate Media in an Occupy Era
- As Occupy Enters Third Month, a Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement
- Occupy Wall Street Protesters Return to Zuccotti Park After 200 Arrested, Camping Barred
- Occupy Oakland Encampment Raided for Second Time: Live Eyewitness Report
- Global Day of Rage: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity, Big Banks, as Occupy Movement Grows
- FROM ‘DEMOCRACY NOW’ with thanks.. READ MORE HEREhttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/16/police_crackdowns_on_occupy_protests_from
Radioactive Particles Are Spreading Across Europe and Nobody Knows Why,
Mystery cloud of dangerous iodine-131 over Europe is absolutely cause for concern — Certainly deserves more than 129 words by IAEA
[...] So how would [the postulated reasons of pharmaceutical companies or nuclear submarines or transportation of radioactive materials] explain contamination that spans hundreds and hundreds of miles?
The International Atomic Energy Agency says “the current trace levels of iodine-131 that have been measured do not pose a public health risk,” but we’ve heard that so many times before. It’s not a cause for panic, but an unexplained cloud of dangerous radioactivity is absolutely cause for concern. It certainly deserves more than 129 words on the IAEA’s website. [Reuters
Related Posts
- Now Poland and Denmark report “radioactive dust” — IAEA official: “We are a little concerned” November 12, 2011
- Elevated radiation also in Germany, Sweden, Slovakia — UK expert claims iodine very unlikely from Fukushima since it was “so many months ago” November 11, 2011
- Hungarian gov’t radiation expert: Iodine-131 detected in Budapest, but it’s OK because “this is far below the levels found after Fukushima” November 11, 2011
- JUST IN: Iodine-131 now detected in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary… other countries — An indicator of nuclear chain reaction — 10 days after criticality talk at Fukushima November 11, 2011
- AP: Anonymous IAEA official says iodine-131 release appears to be continuing across Europe November 12, 2011
El Tribunal Supremo ha anulado hoy la sentencia que condenó por torturas a cuatro guardias civiles y ha decretado su absolución,
Spanish court pardons with ridiculous arguments almost the only police ever condemned for torture, giving the green light to all future police crimes and showing once more that the High Court is still controlled by the fascist right-
¿Se acuerdan de aquellos dos etarras detenidos que acabaron en el hospital, uno de los cuales casi se muere? Un tribunal de Gipuzkoa juzgó y condenó por torturas a varios de los Guardias Civiles que les habían detenido e interrogado. Además de las evidencias palpables en sus propios cuerpos, hasta tres testigos presenciales diferentes tiraron por tierra la versión de los policías.
Pues para una vez que se consigue sentar en un banquillo a policías presuntamente torturadores y se les condena, la historia ha de terminar como ha de terminar. Con una absolución en el Tribunal Supremo. Si uds. entienden algo de Derecho, por la mera crónica del periódico que viene abajo podrán darse cuenta de la ridiculez de los argumentos invocados por el tribunal para tirar por tierra la sentencia condenatoria.
Y es que a partir de unos ciertos niveles hay un círculo rojo de impunidad y los agentes de la ley deben tener más que claro que el estado va a estar ahí para garantizar todas y cada una de sus actuaciones en defensa del poder, sean cuales sean éstas. Nota de Tortuga. LEER MÁS http://www.grupotortuga.com/Nueva-sentencia-de-tebeo-del
Ver también:
¿Por qué hay tan pocos policías españoles cumpliendo condena por torturas?
“La gran mayoría de los torturadores condenados han sido indultados por el gobierno español”
Casos de torturas a detenidos en España: El caso Portu-Sarasola y otros
Once again the brutal criminal 1% set out to DESTROY anything they can’t control.. Starting with Free Speech and Occupy Wall Street
Police in New York have launched a pre-dawn operation to clear the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park.
The city mayor’s office said on Twitter that the protesters should “temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps” but could return once the park was clear.
Occupy Wall Street was set up in September to protests against economic inequality and had been followed by dozens of protests around the world.
A camp in Oakland, California was cleared overnight on Monday.
The New York Times said that as the operation in Zuccotti Park began at about 01:00 (06:00 GMT), police gave an announcement, saying: “The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.”
Leaflets were also handed out saying protesters would be allowed to return once the clearance had taken place, but not to bring camping equipment.
This means NO CAMPING and its impossible to stay on the NY streets in winter with no protection
The Eviction is similar to what happened in Barcelona 3 months ago when the Occupy Camp was cleared by brutal police by surprise at night, with the excuse of ‘cleaning’. On that occasion thousands of people took back the square the same day, and videos of police violence caused a surge in popular support.
bye bye rascist sexist cxapitalist B Boss
Miles de personas se congratulan por la salida de Berlusconi, pese a que no ha sido relevado por la presión popular sino por la presion de los mercados.
Wild Celebrations for the EXIT or Burlesconi
En medio de tanto agobio, las personas han buscado un motivo por el cual alegrarse aunque sea por unas horas.
Ante la inminente renuncia de Silvio Berlusconi, se multiplican a esta hora en Roma los carteles, eslóganes e ironías contra el premier: “12 de noviembre, fiesta de la Liberación”, afirma una de las pancartas exhibidas por los manifestantes frente a Palazzo Grazioli, residencia privada del jefe del gobierno.
No muy lejos de allí, frente al Palacio del Quirinal -sede de la presidencia de la República-, una muchedumbre canta coros de “aleluya” acompañada por una pequeña orquesta, mientras se ven flamear banderas con el tricolor italiano.
Mientras la gente comenzaba a acercarse al lugar, un grupo de militantes “anti-Silvio” llamado grupo de “Resistencia musical permanente” distribuyó pancartas en las que invitaba “a todo quien quiera a acercarse al Quirinale para cantar y sonar el Aleluya”.
NH3 Cost benefit analysis 1. draft report
Conversion of London Buses to zer0 % of CO2 and toxic gas emissions.
London Buses manages one of the largest bus networks in the world. Approximately 7,500 iconic red buses carry more than six million passengers each weekday on a network serving all parts of Greater London.
Carbon emissions (approx) = 1.3kg per kilometer www.carbonindependent.org/sources_bus.htm -
London buses covered 468m km in 2008 http://www.tfl.gov.uk/…pdf
468m km X 1.3kg = 608.4million kg p.a…. that`s about 608,400 tons of CO2 a year saved converting to CO2 free fuel!
Motor conversion costs.
Converting a Vehicle to run on Ammonia (NH3)
How does an ammonia dual fueled vehicle work? ”Any internal combustion engine can be converted to run on NH3. The simplest implementation of the dual fueled ammonia vehicle conversion is physically similar to a compressed natural gas vehicle conversion. A new on-board tank holds liquid ammonia at only about 150 PSI. Regulators, valves and an electronic control system meter the flow of ammonia to the engine as needed after the engine is started and warmed up on gasoline, ethanol etc. A small amount of gasoline is used to idle the engine, then as the load is increased the additional energy is provided by adding ammonia. This is all handled automatically by the engine control electronic module.” fuller details HERE http://www.greennh3.com/converting-to-nh3/
Converting diesel and petrol engines to run on NH3 is a proven technology and is relatively simple and inexpensive, and motors have a longer life,( Hydrogen Engine Center, who make NH3 fueled internal combustion engines and gense)
Approx costs between 2 and 5 thousand dollars per diesel bus, let’s say $5,000 to be safe. Purpose built engines would cost similar to normal ones. To convert the entire fleet (except for the 3 immensely expensive hydrogen buses) comes to 7497 X 5000 = $37, 48 5,000… That’s only $37.5m
To put that figure in context, the mayor of London claimed in 2011 to be spending 250m pounds a year in air pollution control measures.
The ‘New London Bus’, due out in Feb 2012, will cost 2.27m pounds each! http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/2010/02/05/new-bus-for-london-costs-shoot-up/So for just 15 of these wonderful new buses you could convert the whole fleet of 7500 to fuel 100% free of CO2 and toxic gas! ( We can’t believe this either.. please check our sums, we can’t find the mistake!)
Any reputable motor engineering company could be commissioned to do these conversions . University of Michigan NH3 Truck,
Fuel costs
Latest estimates put NH3 fuel costs, calculated to take into account different kilometers per liter rates, are slightly higher than current diesel prices (2011). This price comparison varies with production methods (set to fall with new technology coming on line), and oil prices (sure to rise). The storage and transport networks already exist (NH3 is the base of fertilizers) but would need to be extended but this cost would be paid by the producers who stand to profit. However it would be wise to invest some of the millions saved (About $450m year in health costs alone!) in production of the extra NH3 needed with the latest -cracking- renewable energy facilities now coming on line. Transport costs are much less than for oil based products as NH3 can be produced wherever the greatest demand exists.
Production
This diagram is the JACKPOT for those really seeking an answer to CO2 and Climate Change. An 'off the shelf' NH3 production process is CO2 free and makes a fuel that is also Co2 free and produces no toxic gases when burnt. Available from http ://www.protonchemie.com/NFUEL.html
At present NH3 is produced from Natural Gas, producing CO2. But running combustion engines on NH3 made from Natural Gas would by our estimate produce less than 50% of the CO2 emitted using oil based products.
In any case this technology is obsolete, new operational plants produce NH3 fuel from just air, water and electricity, and are ideal for cheap production with renewables. Plants can be equally efficient whether tiny or enormous and be situated anywhere there is air and water, and electricity, preferably sun, wind or hydro. info here..Freedom Fertilizer Wind to Ammonia Project
Even if the NH3 were made with Gas, Oil or Nuclear produced electricity the savings would be huge, in CO2 and in Oil dependency, but above all in clean air.. NH3 motors produce zero toxic gases as well as zero CO2, in fact you’re burning the hydrogen contained in it.
Savings in Climate Change Mitigation
‘Runaway’ Climate Change is now virtually certain with irreversible effects and incalculable costs. Indeed the very concept of money costs may become meaningless in the context of the consequent fall of Human Civilization. Converting networks like London Buses to Zero CO2 and toxic gas emissions at a low cost would have a huge knock on effect worldwide. In the unlikely case that CO2 emissions could therefore be contained the savings would also be incalculable. We estimate savings at 500Trillion p.a. for 100 years to neutralize excess CO2. Savings on the costs of Climate Change therefore vary between zero, (if it’s already too late) and approx. 50,000 trillion euros/dollars if the knock on effect passed to all transport, including planes, ships and cars going CO2 free. For the purpose of this study we can only guess the money value of Climate Change mitigation, placing it at a conservative $10 trillion (10.000 billion).
Safety
European standards for current NH3 production, transport and storage methods make accidents very few with hardly any injuries or deaths.. NH3 can’t explode and only burns at a very narrow temperature. As a gas it is dangerous and very smelly, but rises and disperses, being much lighter than air, so storage facilities have roof ventilation for safety. see Here NH3 Fuel risk analysis report carried out by Quest Consultants
Air Pollution Savings
In the case of London An estimated 4,267 Londoners are dying prematurely each year because of long-term exposure to airborne pollution. (Boris Johnston 2010). Estimating London buses as a conservative 10% of those we have 426 people a year who would avoid an agonizing unnecessary and uncompensated death. A saving in cash terms of at least $150 million p.a. allowing for lost years of work and medical costs . Then there are at least ten times that number who are frequently ill or permanently disabled due to air pollution, at an estimated cost of $300 million p.a. just for the 10% caused by bus pollution. (Some estimates are up to 30% but that includes taxis and fleets.)
(A brilliant new study (2011) by analyses a whole neighbourhood of Lancaster next to an industrial plant, with exact local pollution maps, distinguishing between toxicity from the factory and that from traffic exhausts. Read the Study here)
So we estimate the Savings in Air Pollution costs to be a minimum of $450 million every year, not including the incalculable costs in avoidable human suffering.
How to use ‘Green Gasoline’
As a fuel NH3 is stored as a liquid in gas bottles, like propane which is already widely used, only that NH3 liquifies at almost normal air pressure, so there is no danger of explosion. Cars would take two, bottles, and you exchange one at the petrol station when it runs out, instead of filling up. Ammonia Fuel Network
You have a new carburetor box which controls exactly the ignition temperature and air mix necessary, and your motor will last longer. Your fuel should be cheaper than present day petrol, plus you have the pleasure of knowing you’re not destroying the planet for your children, or causing death and illness from air pollution.
‘Knock-On effect Savings
To all this we could add estimated hundreds of millions as a ‘knock on saving’ calculating the number of individuals who would have their vehicles converted to NH3 if London Buses ran on it and it were readily available.
Conclusions
We can see already from this preliminary study that London Buses could be cheaply and quickly converted to CO2 free fuel that also emits zero toxic gases. Such a move would convey immense prestige on the city and politicians responsible, as well as plenty of lucrative knock on effects, tourism, etc .
It would save the lives of about 426 Londoners a year.
It would save approx $450 million a year in air pollution costs alone.
It would directly cut CO2 emissions by approx 608,400 tons a year.
Converting the buses to run on NH3 would cost about $37.5m.. the cost of just 15 new buses
Direct fuel costs would be similar, or cheaper.
Why then is it not done? Maybe because..
a) The immensely powerful oil and motor industry ‘own’ the corrupt and servile politicians., always receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies on top of their scandalous profits. In other words Capitalism. We cannot save the planet because it would tread on the toes of the 1%?
b) The oil industry has buried NH3 fuel and its supporters for over a century.
c) Just because nobody has done it. The oil companies cannot stop a determined push for change. If hundreds of reformers (LIKE YOU) were to start campaigning for NH3 fuel it could actually catch on.
This study was carried out to wake people up to the obvious advantages of NH3 fuel. It`s not scientific, but if the figures are even half way accurate it 1s important and explosive. Now it`s up to YOU to take it further. Or let this technology sleep for another 100 years!
See many posts on NH3 Co2 free fuel here http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/
A good site for basic information ans contacts http://www.nh3fuelassociation.org/
An excellent informative article on NH3 fuel http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=799
Another good site promoting pollution free NH3 Green Gas http://www.greennh3.com/
Info on NH3 IN SPANISH http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/los-petroleras-matan-16-000-el-ano-y-repriman-el-green-gas-nh3/
occupy together. org
An inspiring video from Bologna
en las generales del próximo 20 de noviembre.
20N Abstención Activa, Catalunya, CGT, Barcelona· 10.11.2011
Marcha por la Abstención Activa por diversos pueblos del Vallès Oriental
El próximo domingo 13 de Noviembre hacemos una marcha por la Abstención Activa que recorrerá diversas poblaciones de la comarca. Es por este motivo que os esperamos a todos y todas a las 09.30 h en el local del sindicato en la calle Francesc Macià 51 de Mollet del Vallès.
Salut i abstenció!!!
FC de la CGT del Vallés Oriental.
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Tariq , 16, was murdered from Virginia by remote control.
Last Friday, I met a boy, just before he was assassinated by the CIA. Tariq Aziz was 16, a quiet young man from North Waziristan, who, like most teenagers, enjoyed soccer.
Seventy-two hours later, a Hellfire missile is believed to have killed him as he was travelling in a car to meet his aunt in Miran Shah, to take her home after her wedding. Killed with him was his 12-year-old cousin, Waheed Khan.
Over 2,300 people in Pakistan have been killed by such missiles carried by drone aircraft such as the Predator and the Reaper, and launched by remote control from Langley, Virginia.
Tariq and Waheed brought the known total of children killed in this way to 175, according to statistics maintained by the organisation I work for, 
the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
The final order to kill is signed allegedly by Stephen Preston, the general counsel at the CIA headquarters. What evidence, I would like to know, does Mr Preston have against Tariq and Waheed? What right does he have to act as judge, jury and executioner of two teenage boys neither he nor his staff have ever met, let alone cross-examined, or given the opportunity to present witnesses?
It is not too late to call for a prosecution and trial of whoever pushed the button and the US government officials who gave the order: that is, Mr Preston and his boss, President Barack Obama.
FOR FULL StORY (with thanks) click HERE http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/afghanistan-and-pakistan/916-should-obama-be-brought-to-trial-for-the-murder-of-175-children
Iran has never attacked another country, the US, dozens.
Iran is obviously getting the bomb, but it has never yet attacked another country.(Unlike the US which has dozens of times). Right now Iran is controlled by religious nutters, just like Israel and the partly the US, who are threatening to BOMB its 78 million diverse and innocent people ‘into the stone age’. The people of Iran, Israel and the US should get together to smash the religious, capitalist and State institutions that threaten to burn them alive and blow their children to bits.
Pressured by the US, the UN’s atomic watchdog will say this week that Iran is developing nuclear arms .
The maniacs who control Israeli have said again they want to bomb Iran, which is surrounded by aggressive and psychotic Nuclear States..Israel, Pakistan, India and the good old USA.
The media is packed with commercial glorification of WAR.
WHY WHY WHY?? this is MADNESS.
It seems the US financial empire is tottering, despite its efforts to boost its ‘military industry’ with multiple wars, causing
up to a million dead bodies, just in Iraq. When I googled images with the tag ‘insane war industry’ I came up instead with 1000′s of photos publicizing
wonderful electronic war games and films. THIS is just OBSCENE MANIPULATION
War is the Logic of Capital, it seems, the modern State will stop at nothing to hold onto power, and the religious state is just a horror story.
The 1% need a new war, the infiltration, assassinations and black ops have already begun.. It remains to be seen if Obama can stop them, or if a horrific incident can be blamed on the Iranis, sweeping the way clear on a tide of nationalist hysteria.
WAR POSTPONED??
Reading lots of articles it seems to me that no country dares yet to start the Irani war. All are playing a criminally dangerous game of ‘Chicken’ to satisfy their nationalist, capitalist and religious supporters, but not really desperate enough to take that crazy step, unless some sector jumps the gun…. LET’S HOPE That’s True..
Student march and demonstration
Assemble 12 NoonUniversity of London Union ULU Malet Street London WC1E 7HY » MAP » Route of march
The route will take the march from its starting point on Malet Street, through Trafalgar Square and up the Strand, before passing St Pauls’s and rallying at Moorgate Junction. This follows the decision to march on the City, rather than to Parliament, in the midst of fresh financial crises and Occupy LSX. Website: http://nov9.strikenow.org.uk/ Background information: http://anticuts.com/2011/10/28/november-9th-national-demo-route-confirmed-as-students-prepare-for-the-autumn-of-discontent/
Electricians day of action
Rank and file construction industry workers called for a day of action against the attack on pay and contracts conditions. Background information: http://jibelectrician.blogspot.com/
Taxi drivers protests
London taxi drivers will be holding a day of protest over attacks on the licensed taxi trade, organised by RMT union: Background information: http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=151765
Occupy London permanent protest camp
OccupyLSX Teach-out10:30amRussell SquareLondon WC1B» MAP
General Assembly1:00pmOccupy LondonSteps of St Paul’s CathedralLondon EC4M 8AD» MAP
Website: http://occupylondon.org.uk/
With thanks from..http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2011/11/07/nov-9-day-of-action-events/
As many as ten thousand demonstrators gathered in Washington today, joining hands to encircle the White House in a human chain. They called on President 
Obama to live up to his campaign promises and NOT approve a pipeline to shunt some of the dirtiest oil in the world into America’s heartland.
For months, it had appeared that the Keystone XL pipeline was a done deal. But the pressure appears to be paying off, and just this week President Obama appeared to be backing off, saying he would do what’s best for the economy, but also what’s best for the health of the American people.
The pipeline is a $7 billion project that would carry oil derived from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada – some of the dirtiest oil there is – all the way across the heart of America down to gulf refineries in Texas. The threat has united an incredible range of opposition, from NASA scientist/climate activist James Hansen to the Republican-majority Nebraska State Legislature. (See: Why we should block the Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline – Sen. Bernie Sanders)
.The State Department is supposed to give its final recommendation by December 31, and prior to this week it looked like Obama might try to hide behind that State Department process to let approval slide through. But this week he “took ownership” of the process. “Only a day ago the President’s press secretary said the State Department would make the call,” noted Bill McKibben, climate activist and founder of 350.org. “Now, it’s very good to see the President taking full ownership of this decision and indicating that the environment will be the top priority going forward.”
Obama was playing golf for most of today’s demonstration.
What can you do?
- You can go to TarSandsAction.org to get plugged into the fight to stop the Keystone pipeline.
- Head over to OccupyTogether.org to find out more about joining the 99%.
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More on tar sands and the fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline:
- It’s not jobs vs environment – it’s clean jobs vs dirty jobs
- Tar sands battle plan, phase 2
- Which banks are the worst? Royal Bank of Canada funds tar sands
- Solidarity: Occupy Wall Street + the Climate Movement
- Tar sands oil pipeline could contaminate US heartland
- Bill McKibben faces jail to block Keystone tar sands…
Source: Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/13K7c)
Why have we OCCUPIED a bank?
These are the ultimate expression of capitalism, one of the clearest signals that may be taking profits from the suffering of the majority of the population
Every day, in Spain there are approximately 300 evictions, where banks tend to be those responsible for the evictions of families for non-payment of mortgages. In Barcelona there are thousands of people homeless or living in extreme poverty. On the other hand, just in our neighborhood there are 800 empty flats, and as many other sites continues beyond the residents in the neighborhood.
Per què hem ocupat un banc?
Aquests són la màxima expressió del capitalisme, sent una de les senyals més evidents el fet que puguin estar traient beneficis del patiment de la majoria de la població. Cada dia a l’Estat espanyol hi ha aproximadament uns 300 desnonaments, on els bancs acostumen a ser els responsables dels desnonaments de les famílies per impagament de les hipoteques. A Barcelona hi ha milers de persones sense casa o vivint en extrema pobresa. Com a contrapartida, només en el nostre barri hi ha uns 800 pisos buits, i com a tants altres llocs es segueix fent fora els veïns i veïnes del barri.
What are we doing?
Gradually the activities and workshops are being made (kind of guitar, vegan eatery, etc.). Or are being started (salsa classes, Jiu-Jitsu, etc..), Many people have passed to fix the space or bring things that could be used (tables, food, books, etc.).. Come and find out what equipment is needed, what activities are being organised or simply to collaborate with the project in the bank and drop a question.
Què estem fent?
Poc a poc són més les activitats i tallers que s’estan realitzant (classe de guitarra, sopadors, etc.) o que estan en procés de començar (classes de salsa, jiu-jitsu, etc.), com molta és la gent que s’ha passat a arreglar l’espai o a portar coses que poguessin servir (taules, menjar, llibres, etc.). Si vols saber què material fa falta, quines activitats s’estan fent o simplement per col·laborar amb el projecte passa’t pel banc i pregunta.
If there is the eviction of the bank:
Concentration-time in front of the space.
-Demonstration at 20pm the same day in Revolution Square.
We can be found every day from 17h to 22h or 19h every Thursday at the assembly space.
Si es produís el desallotjament del banc:
-Concentració en el moment davant de l’espai.
-Manifestació a les 20h del mateix dia a plaça Revolució.
Ens pots trobar cada dia de 17h a 22h o cada dijous a les 19h a l’assemblea de l’espai.
VINE I PARTICIPA!ALLIBERANT ESPAIS, CONSTRUÏNT ALTERNATIVES!
oThursday 10: 19pm meeting space. If you have any activity or part of the project, this is your time.ogle Translation
Wednesday 9: Sopador vegan (20h) + Season Video (21h): “End VIC: resist or die”
“Franklin Lopez Movie which examines addiction to violence and the systematic exploitation of the environment that dominates the culture” civilized “West. Based on the books “Endgame” by Derrick Jensen in which the author asks: If your land is invaded by aliens who are destroying forests, poisoning the air and water, and contaminate crops, resist the occupation? “
MORE INFO…AGENDA CLICK here
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/433822/index.php
Long abandoned in 2000 the castle returned to build life as a squatted social center, soon evicted and left alone again into oblivion. Today we have liberated it..we have taken back the castle, and now open to create a meeting space, creation, culture, policy debate and dissent against speculation, and capitalism. We open call to come to build with us your passionate projects…
Desde hace un siglo el castillo encima de la montañas de les planes ha permanecido en desuso, abandonado y detoriorandose, pasando de propietario en propietario sin ninguna intencion visible ya que se inicio como sanatorio nunca llego a ser completado. Durante la guerra civil fue utilizado por la resistencia antifascista como hospital, donde tambien estubo internado George Orwell.
For a century the castle above the mountains of Les Planes has been in disuse, abandoned and detoriorating, from one owner to another without any visible intention as it was started as a sanatorium never to become complete. During the Civil Warit was used by the anti-fascist resistance as a hospital, where George Orwell was also interned.
Luego en el 2000 volvió tender vida como centro social okupado y desalojado para solo volver ser dejado en el olvido. Hoy dia lo hemos vuelto a liberar! hemos tomado el castillo, y ahora lo abrimos para crear un espacio de encuentro, de creacion, de cultura, de debate y politica de disidencia contra la especulacion, y el capitalismo. Hacemos un llamamiento abierto para venir a construir junto a nosotros; tus projectos, ven a pasiar, a conocer.
FROM Indymedia Barcelona..Google Transalation
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/433756/index.php
November 5 has been designated Bank Transfer Day or Move Your Money day, the day to send the message to the too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks that they have failed us.
But it looks like the tsunami has already begun. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) says that some 650,000 people have opened credit unions in the past month – more than in all of 2010.
Customers were livid after Bank of America announced they would introduce a $5 monthly fee for using their debit cards, as a way of keeping their profits high after a new federal law had tried to limit them. But it looks like they’re feeling the heat – earlier this week they scrapped the fee. Other banks have also backed down from planned fees.
“These results indicate that consumers are clearly making a smarter choice by moving to credit unions where, on average, they will save about $70 a year in fewer or no fees, lower rates on loans and higher return on savings.” said Bill Cheney, president and CEO of CU
Read more HERE (with thanks): Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/13IUi)
note A great idea if you have ny money in a bank
It’s about time a worldwide SACK A BANK DAY was organised!!
Japan Times: It is now a “grave situation” at Fukushima — “Plutonium fission” mentioned for first time — “Criticality is very likely to have occurred”
The meltdowns are still out of control. Every day more radioactive ‘Hotspots’ are found, many 100′s of kms away, but latest reports shoe the stations may have GONE CRITICAL AGAIN.
Nov. 3, 8:30 pm ET Tepco announced Wednesday that, according to the Times, “There is the possibility that criticality, a sustained nuclear chain reaction, had occurred ‘temporarily’ and ‘locally’ in the No. 2 reactor.”During it’s testing, Tepco has detected xenon-133 and -135, “Products of uranium or plutonium fission.”
The half life of xenon-135 is about 9 hours, therefore, “Criticality is very likely to have occurred just before the gases were analyzed,” reports the Times.
“Clearly the reactor has not yet been stabilized,” and, according to the Times, “The fact that Tepco cannot deny the possibility of criticality irrespective of its scale is a grave situation.”
And the article notes, “Conditions are similar in the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors.”
Now is the time to get “serious” writes The Times:
- “Tepco should make serious efforts to accurately grasp the conditions of nuclear fuel inside the reactors.”
- “Tepco and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency should take a serious view of the fact that radioactive xenon pointing to criticality was detected from the No. 2 reactor. What happened in it can happen in the Nos. 1 and 3 reactors.”
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Read more HERE (with thanks) http://enenews.com/
Good afternoon Hospitalet !………. . On the 28th it was decided to take over the Health Center in protest for it being closed down from this weekend. Neighbors have occupied it permanently and expressed their discontent by cuts in health care.
Keep up the fight to strengthen public health in Bellvitge, after the occupation of the Health Clinic, there is a camp called for November 2. Continue with # tardorcalenta!
During the weekend talks were carried out, activities, various demonstrations and protests around the neighborhood, as well as meetings daily at 10am and 18pm. At the meetings residents have made it clear that this occupation is indefinite, and will not return until the entire medical staff, the doctors and specialists. A district with more than 30,000 people and many elderly people need local services and cuts mean loss of rights and welfare.
We have created a facebook page where we upload photos, impressions and actions of neighbors. Join! The name is: Bellvitge Cap Rambla Marina.
