http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/action-a-events/national-events/1658-july-14-protest-at-bahrain-embassy-in-london-2pm-in-solidarity-withbahraini-prisoners

and more details here on Facebook including a film showing.
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http://www.facebook.com/events/318853868192710/

There was a nasty moment when it looked as if Bahreini fat cats’ human rights to suck wealth from desperate immigrant labour might be endangered, but happily for freedomanddemocracy, the bolshie malcontents are being suppressed by Their Royal Highnesses…
http://www.opendemocracy.net/hasan-tariq-alhasan/bahrain-bids-its-economic-reform-farewell

“Cameron’s favourite dictatorship, Bahrain”
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How can you say that!!!, he has so many. Don’t like to disagree with you Craig, but I think his “favourite” is the UK one.

Michael Dixon the director of the National History Museum has taken the arms manufacturers’ shilling. Here he attempts and fails to defend his decision. CAAT have run a high powered campaign against which sadly failed.
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/feedback-michaeldixon/2012/05/18/hiring-the-museum-for-private-events?fromGateway=true#comments

SHAME ON ALL OF THESE.
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The current Trustees of the Natural History Museum are:
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Mr Oliver Stocken – Chairman
Daniel Alexander QC
Professor Sir Roy Anderson FRS FMedSci
Louise Charlton
Professor David Drewry
Professor Christopher Gilligan
Professor Alexander Halliday FRS
Mr Ian J Henderson CBE BSc FRICS
Professor Sir John Holman
Dr Derek Langslow CBE (also Audit Committee member)
Professor Georgina Mace CBE FRS
Sir David Omand GCB (also Audit Committee member)
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/corporate-information/museum-governance/board-of-trustees/index.html
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The Museum has a history with this sort of thing. They allowed Veoilia to hire their space for a reception and also collaborated with Ahava on research.
{http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/natural-history-museum-attacked-over-links-to-illegal-israeli-company-6290705.html}

Agent Cameron’s favourite dictatorship, Bahrain also imposed *martial law* last year in Bahrain to crush the uprisings.
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It seems to me a mild form, or a discrete *martial law’ has been imposed during the Olympic Games.
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That assertion is easily poo-poo’d until one considers how deputy commissioner Hayman misled us in his statement on the the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. He was later dismissed on unrelated charges.
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I also do not forget it was the SAS caught in 2005 dressing up as Arabs and shooting Iraqi police dead…
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The case for mixing SAS troops with the police and other counter-terrorism forces has been strengthened after the car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla was ambushed by protesters last year.
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Mr Hayman who investigated 7/7 now works for the media.
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Says it all, really.

Lord Haddon Cave caves in to higher authorities.
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Residents and Protesters 0 Military Industrial Complex 1
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London 2012: Missile tenants lose legal ruling R
esidents want an injunction preventing the siting of the missiles

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Are Olympic missiles just for show?
Missile tenants ‘fear terrorism’
Olympics missiles sites confirmed
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Residents have lost their High Court battle to prevent surface-to-air missiles being stationed on the roof of their tower block during the Olympics.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18778723#

Yates of the Yard is there in Bahrain too, replacing the other corrupt bastard Ian Henderson the head torturer. Meanwhile back at the land of “freedomfreedomfreedomdemocracydemocracydemocracy all you want” (s0 long as it is of certain brand), none are even hinting at the bizarre change of guard in the royal palaces of the pederast sheiks whom very well know they are not wanted, nor needed, neither tolerated by their suppressed and oppressed population.

Mary, I heard today from someone that most of the residents in Fred Wigg Tower are muslims. Does anyone have any info on that?

There seems to be a blackout in the media about the Saudi government’s handling of the demonstrations there.

Executive Order Grants Authority to Seize Private Communications Facilities
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“The White House has released a new Executive Order seeking to ensure the continuity of government communications during a national emergency. The Executive Order grants new powers to the Department of Homeland Security, including the ability to collect certain public communications information. Under the Executive Order the White House has also granted the Department the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications.
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In 2011, Congress considered similar provisions in cybersecurity legislation, which would have allowed the government to disconnect communications traffic in times of national security. Following public protest, congress abandoned the proposal.
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http://epic.org/2012/07/executive-order-grants-authori.html

MeBully?
“Mary, I heard today from someone that most of the residents in Fred Wigg Tower are muslims. Does anyone have any info on that?”

What is the relavence of your comment about muslims? And who was the somebody that you quote?
Another Troll in our midst.

Craig, please blog on the military presence for the olympics. Missiles etc..

@ Mark Golding,
I believe that across the globe there is an awakening about what power structures in the world do and how they do it. The telecommunications revolution has brought this awareness about on a massive and unprecedented scale. Governments can’t lie as easily as they used to. Well they still can lie – but not as effectively and/or unquestioningly as before.
The powers that be, such as in the US, sensing the implications of the unrepayable and unsustainable deficit; loss of domestic jobs; and, US governmental commitment to annual increases in military budgetary expenditures – regardless of domestic expenditure needs – must signal to those within the military-industrial complex who think and analyse and prepare polices, that there is a crisis in process.
Having looked briefly at the Executive Order – section 1 says it all:-
“EXECUTIVE ORDER
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ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable, resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies, and other nations. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience. The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.”
As it says:-
“Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security,…”
and thus – “national security” will in practical terms be to ensure that those who are communicating and organising most effectively, in ways that the government ( read – “Executive Branch” ) are cut off from so doing in a time of crisis. Power needs to remain in control. So – what’s the difference now with what China does?

Hillary Clinton provides an answer, and she is correct :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI

Information, from a US governmental perspective, is more about winning a global propaganda war and domestically manufacturing consensus, as much as it is about either disseminating distorted facts – or – putting a spin on the facts to serve one’s end ( ask Rupert Murdoch – he will tell you how it is done).

We are witnessing in the West a black out ( sometimes partial – sometimes total) on the reportage of levels and types of dissent in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen because Western moneyed interests are served by the status quo in those countries and it is not in Western interests to promote “democracy” there. In any country with a “free press” one would have thought that many dispatches would appear daily in the mainstream media to explain and expose what is truly happening in those countries. But – not so – “freedom of the press” is a selective phrase –and – it thus chooses what it will and will not “freely” report –and – which country and/or countries it chooses regularly to report on.

Now – Screw Wikileaks. And even worse – horror! – hell! – there is this ex-Ambassador over there in the UK who publishes all kinds of subversive views on his snitch blog – and he has a growing audience. Can’t have that kind of “alternative” heard freely out there. Such commentators might be dangerous for the preservation of “democracy”. Why – just look at the trouble he stirred with his blabber about Uzbekistan. Shameful!

P.S. I spoke once with an old US CIA hand from Radio Free Europe. It was an eye opener. One observation of his sunk in with me – and he said that they ( the US) did not fabricate back then in the “cold war” era, but in a professional manner made interpretation of facts in accordance with US foreign policy. He contrasted that approach with what the Soviet bloc had done. This observation was made at a time when Bush 11 was in office. He went on to say that a big difference between his time and now(then) was that in the new era there was a loss of professionalism in the US.

Sorry – should have read:-

” in ways that the government ( read – “Executive Branch” ) disapprove of are cut off from so doing in a time of crisis.”

I have a view about these wars that the US is promoting and pursing in the Middle East, and General Wesley Clark sums it up this way:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARihMrxdjU

My point at the time of the US/NATO attacks against Libya, was not the blind support of its leader. Rather, the real point is about the abuse of global power and the violation of sovereignty and the rule of international law. Take those away and we truly have arrived at the point of the rule of the “international law of the jungle.”

My comments then, were:-

http://allafrica.com/stories/201109230886.html

And my comments now about Syria would be of similar ilk.

Surely Hillary Clinton would understand my point of view ( chuckle).

Yes Doug Scorbie. I did not respond to the obvious racist plant. I was finding out a little more last night about this decision hy Judge Hadron Collider (as he is being referred to on some blogs!) aka Haddon Cave. He is a scion of a Hong Kong family, one member of which, Sir Philip Haddon Cave, presumably his father, was Financial Secretary there in the 80s when Jardine Mathieson and Shire ruled the place.
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Haddon Cave was called to bar in HK in 1980 and presumably knows nothing of deprivation living as he does in a leafy enclave in Surrey where his wife, also legal, is active in local affairs (what sort of lamp posts should we have to fit in with our village? etc etc) and who is a governor of a posh girls’ school, The Royal School for Girls Haslemere. Grayshott where the Haddon Caves live is in Hunt’s constituency but that is by the way.
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Whereas the residents who live in the 16 storey tower block, the Fred Wigg Tower, look to Ascham Homes for the management of their homes. (www.aschamhomes.org.uk/) Ascham Homes Ltd was set up in May 2003 as an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO) , voted for by council residents of Waltham Forest. I bet the residents had little or no choice in the matter. I like the term ‘arms length management’. Says it all.
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In December there was a serious fire at the tower. Their solicitor, Mr Howe, said:’there was “real fear” in Fred Wigg Tower over tenants being forced to share their block with missiles. The fear was exacerbated by the fact that last December residents, including children and disabled, were evacuated “down a narrow and difficult smoke-filled staircase” in the middle of the night after a fire broke out in the block.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/judge-rejects-bid-to-stop-olympic-rooftop-missiles-7932339.html
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Many residents were temporarily rehoused and whilst away, there was a crime spree and because the management did not secure the building, many of the homes were burgled.
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{http://www.standard.co.uk/newsheadlines/17-rescued-from-tower-block-blaze-6377998.html}
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{http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/9554216.LEYTONSTONE__Crime_spree_at_fire_hit_tower_block/}
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There is a worry that the foundations have been compromised by the fire.
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Another blogger writes ‘Charles Haddon-Cave QC, is an interesting choice: he was a barrister specialising in cases about shipping and aviation, and is the former chairman of the Air Law Group Committee of the Royal Aeronautical Society (i.e. at a sufficient level of generality, we can say that he is someone who is unlikely to be made anxious by the thought of proximity to military technology).
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There are many really nasty comments on sites such as Yahoo News about immigrants in the Waltham Forest borough and any who live in the tower. Let them burn etc. What a horrible country we are living in.
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PS I found this redeeming fact about the judge. He walked along some of the length of the Thames with Lord Phillips to raise money for a legal aid charity.
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My reply now to MeBully? – We are ALL God’s children and we are ALL sisters and brothers. Have some compassion.

In my post above, Shire should read Swire
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A page from the Glasgow Herald dated 22 March 1984
Traders who Wield a Wide-ranging Influence
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19840322&id=_sBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2qUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1582,4979596
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Sir Philip Haddon Cave was an obvious help to Governor Youde in the Hong Kong boom economy at the time.

People will remember how the Iraqi Sassoon family punmped opium into China with the help of Jardine Mathieson and others. {http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-war-on-drugs-a-2ndlook/}

And it’s not just Bahrain and Saudi Arabia we need to censure. Not since October of last year has anything been heard of the Malyshevs who were deported to Karimov’s nasty dictatorship of Uzbekistan where they bypassed normal entry procedures, were spirited off by Uzbekistani Secret Services, and, apart from a monitored telephone call, there has been no news since. Now Norway intends to do the same to a human rights campaigner against the despicable regime.
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http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/2012/07/uzbekistan-norway-jail-torture/

I should have mentioned to watch the video at the end of Michael Andersen’s article in my last post. You might see somebody you recognise.

Shamefully broadcast after most had gone to bed, last night’s excellent Channel 4 documentary, Kashmir’s Torture Trail, was a sobering account of the appalling treatment meted out to Kashmiris by the Indian security services in “the world’s largest democracy”. Interviews and evidence corroborated by human rights organizations show that victims of this almost forgotten conflict are regularly beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. Punishments for young men caught throwing stones include having their finger nails pulled out and chilli powder rubbed into the wounds. One elderly farmer accused of guiding militants through the valleys was beaten so badly that his leg had to be amputated below the knee (this was after soldiers cut chunks of flesh out of his leg and forced him to eat them). In one village, two out of every three inhabitants had been subjected to torture. Lawful demonstrations in Srinigar are limited to four protesters, social networking sites are shut down and mobile phone surveillance is used to trace and then beat “miscreants” whose only crime is to call for a free Kashmir. Some democracy.

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I urge anyone with an hour to spare to watch this harrowing but important documentary, which can be viewed on 4oD here:

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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kashmirs-torture-trail

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and will be repeated on Channel 4+1 this Friday in what must have been the least-viewed slot available, at 3.35am.

Hurray, today is my first day without Microsoft, thanks to Clark’s immense abilities I’m now a true convert to open software and shall proudly display my Gnu sticker.

The dire situation in the ME is coming to a head, the training in the skies of Norfolk is going on daily and the corruption of news channels is in full flow.

Saudi Arabia’s inability to reform its calcified royal hierarchy, currently measured by its poor handling of democracy demo’s and the repression on free speech should make it obvious to us that this site is important to the outside.
Thanks to Courtney we can see how our own systems are slowly strangled until they conform to US restrictions.
Thanks for the warning Courtney and Mary, the internet has finally become a battle ground.
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So what about giving this blog another distinct header right under Craig’s name up top.
Call it … THE AMBASSADORS MINISTRY OF TRUTH AND REAL INFORMATION….
it has got a ring to it and should work like a red rag to a bull.

So what about giving this blog another distinct header right under Craig’s name up top.
Call it … THE AMBASSADORS MINISTRY OF TRUTH AND REAL INFORMATION….
it has got a ring to it and should work like a red rag to a bull.

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‘A good idea, son!’ Do you remember Archie Andrews? probably not old enough.
Or even the Ministry for Truth and Justice.

John Goss,
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I posted about deportation of fellow Uzbek from Norway earlier and had no reaction from the public here. I see no reaction for your posting either. Is karimov now a friend officially not only to Mr Cameron but to others on this blog?

Mark Golding
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Using as you mentioned it “civilian communications” to bring down certain regimes in North Africa it seems that US authorities are now seriously concerned with the same methods being used against their own authority in their own country.
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There are many projections of civil unrest in the US (and in the EU) with regards to declining economy and raise of poverty and social uncertainties. As it happened in the past such times are the best feeding ground for many kinds of extreme ideas on both rights and lefts.

Don’t Come To London: George Galloway’s Message to Prince Nasser of Bahrain:
A personal message from George Galloway MP to Bahrain Olympic Chief and the son of King Hamad Al Khalifa, Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa: Do not come to London because you won’t enjoy it and I will chase you until you are arrested
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdo9RtmTDd8&feature=player_embedded#!
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I admire his spirit and like the way he rolls his ‘r’s

Uzbek in the UK. Whenever you are ready to recruit people to stand up against the dictator Karimov, you will find that we are ready to support you and those who take up arms against this evil man.

I mean its very well to blog here amongst the converted, how about the Arsenal fanzine, or careful write ups on karimov’s stooge A.Usmanov on their website. I’m sure many fans don’t even know who this ex con is holding all the shares in the club.
http://arsenal-mania.com/forum/
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So much for shareholding, greed will always overrule ethics and those who let that man into the club by selling him their shares will have to lot to answer for,.

What’s the latest on the Malyshevs, have they ever been seen again, Uzbek, have you heard any news of their whereabouts?

As in the case of USSR, US empire is failing and those of us caught inside the sphere cannot see the wood for the trees. Troubling fact is, unlike the case of USSR, here in the west no one is talking about transparency and restructuring, instead there is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate and legislate to maintain the current constructs that have so patently failed and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, these are not fit for the purpose.
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The attempts in maintenance of the existing failed structures start with the comical efforts as in case of “Jeremy Kyle show” whom harangues at the jobless: “go get a job!”, and he is constantly seeking to get the “dead beat parents” to shoulder their responsibility of providing for their offspring (an attempt in social engineering pointedly in the direction of lowering children’s care costs and benefits associated thereof that state is “lumbered” with). On the other hand lethal measures as in the case of murder of a bank of England manager, presumably to prevent the scandal of rate fixing of the banks to come to light.
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Also as in the case of the above executive order, the retrograde steps are to ensure the survival of the constructs that have so spectacularly failed, yet we find so many of the “Western Elite” and their bought and paid for proxies posing as political leadership are fixated in their belief, as ye olde apothecaries’ nostrum of leeches treatment is not working because there were too few of these leeches, hence more leeches are prescribed and more of the same money printing that is now called “quantitative easing” (Orwell’s undulating grave ought to be an indication of his rate or turn).
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The threads on this board and elsewhere are filled with anxiety of the commenter: uncertainty, fear and doubt, with the additional facet of their singular mistrust of the current arrangements which have brought the world on the brink of poverty, and war. Further, with a future that is bleak and its hopelessness is further compounded by the wrong decisions of the said “Western elite” who are trying to regain some measure of control through application of more force from within and from without the boundaries of their spheres of influence.
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The powers be, would have all of us believe; it is the credit crunch wot done it, whilst before the banksters’ heist coming to light, these were busy delivering their endless lectures on savings and living within the means of one’s budget. The fact that City accounts for approximately ten percent of the UK economy somehow does not deter the appointed apparatchiks of all of the relevant political charade from waxing lyrical about it, fact that where is the other ninety percent of the UK economy which is comprised of approximately 30 percent of the UK economy employing seventy six percent of the work force as in the Small and Micro business sector. Note not the SME (Small Medium Enterprises a cup out to massage the figures and misrepresent).
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This sector relies on custom from wage earners, and whence there are no wage earners to spend then there is no economy regardless of the lines of credit being available or not. The question is not the fucking banks not lending, the question is there are too few a jobs and far too few wage earners to kick start the economy.
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Years of attrition, and destruction of the means of production in the way of “saving the city”, and the constant measures of retaining surplus labour to keep the wages depressed have resulted in the most spectacular fuck up that is now being addressed with the same polices on steroids.
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However the fact that large enterprises and multi millionaires and billionaires will care to furnish job opportunities for the “job seekers” (“workers awaiting jobs”, taken from the Chinese communist dictionary and Anglophied). Although this line of thinking has proven to be flawed and failed in practice (trickle down economy, the millions/billions earned by the hedge fund managers and banksters were carefully husbanded and never sprang a leak), yet the same bunch is insistent; give it time and more of the same will work. Hence the secondary and concurrent course of these scoundrels in getting ready to suppress and oppress the masses through “legal” and legislated constructs.
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Fact that these days even for street busking there is a need for a license to be obtained from the relevant local authority (new revenue streams of the authorities under squeeze from central government) and the plethora of the health and safety regulations and environmental regulations and any other regulation that is not as yet thought of but soon will be enacted against ordinary punters intent on earning a living in a jobless world.
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Hence it should come as no surprise that missiles are set amidst the residential areas and army is pulled out to man the Olympics. These are rehearsals for the coming show down, between the population and their masters.

Nevermind
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Well, it is not easy to recruit people to do the job that in sense is impossible or undoable. Not at least until Uzbekistan changes its location or at least until nature takes the old man to where he belongs. Impossibility is dictated by being squeezed between Russia, China, Afghanistan and having vested western interests in the region and by the fact that karimov plays sides against each other masterly when his survival is on the table. If only Saddame, Muborak, Gaddafi had similar circumstances, who knows what would have happened.
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I doubt anyone would really want to get nasty, well paid lawyers from Shillings (that once managed to bring down this blog) on their back. And if someone is brave enough to speak against “Uzbek” (Usmanov’s nickname in Russia’s quasi criminal circles) one could post information from this web site
http://rumafia.com/person.php?id=88
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Unfortunately, or following “no news good news” logic, fortunately have heard nothing about Malyshev’s. The only thing that calms me is that it is very rare when non Uzbeks and to be more precise non Muslims are charged with crimes against constitution. And also considering the fact that Malyshev’s are over 50 years old, one (and me certainly) would hope that authorities had very “convincing” discussion with Malyshev’s , “asked” them to sign few documents (that will put them onto the black list) and let them go.

Uzbek, I’m sure there are very few on this site not opposed to Karimov’s regime. What I found disturbing was the horror of the photographs in the video at the end of the article. I read ‘Murder in Samarkand’ and horrific though the descriptions of what the Uzbeki dictator is capable of are, they do not prepare you for the evidence. It is also important because in that short video by Michael Andersen Craig, as former ambassador, is interviewed. So apologies for those who have read the article and seen the video, I post again. Feel free to distribute it in order to rouse awareness from a sleeping public of what can be expected in Karimov’s dictatorship, and of Norway’s complicity in the general sucking up to a despicable family.
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http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/2012/07/uzbekistan-norway-jail-torture/

O/T – a disgusting new report about Guantanamo:
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‘EXCLUSIVE: Department of Defense Declassifies Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees’
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/10248-exclusive-department-of-defense-declassifies-report-on-alleged-drugging-of-detainees

Passerby
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Despite agreeing with most you said in your last posting, it seems that yet again you put too much (and often contradicting) in one long and yet informative posting.
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My first pick would be on your comparison between US and USSR. Although it seems that there are too many common things, at the same time there are quite a few obvious differences. Legitimacy of power in the USSR was extremely limited due to One Ruling Party law that was embedded in all (in my memory 4) soviet constitutions. USSR had no freedom of media and no freedom of expression at all, there was NO space or place where those who are questioning the authority of ONE ruling party were able to even voice their concerns. Ideologically soviet system was not only different but actually opposite to what US ideology was at that time (and to what it is at present time). Soviet economy was again not only different but was opposite to what capitalist economy was/is. Soviet economy had 100% employment rate (although in most cases jobs were artificial and not economically productive) and soviet citizens had better social guarantees than most of US citizens. And final point is that ONLY when things in the last sentence (employment and social guarantees) had shaken ONLY then soviet system collapsed.
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Despite yours and many others criticism of capitalism I still think that it is much better than socialism. There is a law (social or even natural) that dictates that human to contributes most (to either work or otherwise) when level of benefits are connected to the contribution. One cannot be expected to contribute more than the other when both are getting the same benefits from their contribution. This is what at large brought down soviet system. Every society is diverse comprised of different people with different talents and only by appropriately measuring their talents, and what is even more important by rewarding them per contribution of their talents to the benefits of society, we can built successful society.
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Where I agree with you is that an income of a footballer cannot be 10000 times higher than an income of a supermarket staff or that an income of an investment banker cannot be 1000 times higher than an income of a teacher. When this keeps happening, this indicates inflated income which itself is a sign of poor economic management.
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And yes, economy needs to be managed. Adam Smith was theoretically right and practically wrong. Just like old chap Marx was.

Nuid, and that’s just what they declassified. Military personnel are themselves desensitised to the mistreatment of the ‘enemy’. I hope Rumsfeld is brought before an international court for his involvement. These so-called ‘medical’ people are sick, Josef Mengele being one of the worst examples of the sickness. They need to re-read the Hippocratic oath.

John Goss
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Another piece of criticism coming from me.
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A year ago I provided a web link to the source below.
http://www.fergananews.com/article.php?id=7157
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The person on that video claimed to be a former criminal convict who was regularly employed by SNB (uzbek security services) in order to assassinate enemies of the state. He also claimed that there were number of such criminals who formed special assassins group and who were let out of prison for day or two in order to accomplish the task. His detailed description of ways of how people were assassinated and how he and his fellows disposed of bodies is shocking.
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In addition to it he also claimed that he was not only let out of prison to accomplish the tasks but was also very often employed in prison in order to torture political convicts (mostly Muslims). His detailed explanation of different methods of torture are also shocking.
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After this material appeared some suggested that this was all set up in the war between inter-security apparatus between SNB and MVD (ministry of internal security, police supervisory ministry). But interestingly that after this material was made public some people commented that they have shared a prison cell with the person on the video and partly confirmed his statements.
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It is also not surprising that after this material was made public the person on the video had disappeared. Nobody have heard of him ever since this interview.
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I strongly suggest you to access this web link and watch the videos. The only downside for most of reader on this blog would be that the interview is in Russian and you will need a Russian speaking translator. But you will be shocked by chilling facts and will look at karimov regime slightly differently.

“Russia sends warships to Syria, U.S. sees no cause for concern”
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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/10/225649.html

Guest
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I did not even know that Russia had active worships left.
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Well, at least when Karimov slaughtered 800-1000 people in Andijan Russia did not need to send worships to kick out US military from K-2. It then took US 6 years and number of high profile visitors along with number of concessions made to karimov to win his heart back.
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Probably it would be wiser for Russia to ask karimov to replace Assad for few months in order to show US and their allies yet again how real business is done.
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Interestingly that at times of political crisis at home Putin and co are trying to shift public attention to foreign policy and awake a notion of patriotism. Something that was done back in 2005, start of putin’s second term, that time citizens of Andijan paid the price of Putin’s everlasting presidency. This time is time for Syrians to die for Mr P.

I am really sorry Uzbek but you are not likely to get many people who can sit through 2 hours of a Russian confession, however revealing. When I started learning the language I was 35. Even then I had difficulty distinguishing between words like ‘musyka’ and ‘yazyka’ when the word preceding ‘yazyka’ ended in an ‘m’. And I did not get much time speaking the language and I’ve never lived in a Russian-speaking country. It only constituted a 6th part of my degree. Unfortunately this recording is poor quality (or the ‘executioner’ has as bad an accent as Brezhnev) and I would be listening for hours to understand much of it. Your summary is good enough for me.
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Perhaps for the benefit of readers of this blog you might give a few instances of how we would look at the Karimov regime slightly differently after watching the video.

Guest, interesting piece. The thing that stuck out most for me was with reference to the port of Tartus ‘It is Moscow’s only naval base outside of the former Soviet Union and its navy regularly sends supplies there.’ The US has naval bases all over the known world.

O/T More bizarre and farcical by the minute.
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Armed forces on Olympics standby
The armed forces were due to provide some 13,500 servicemen and women
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London 2012: Security measures
Olympic security test is unveiled
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The UK’s armed forces are on standby to provide up to 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 London Olympics, the BBC has learned.
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It comes amid fears that private contractor G4S would not be able to provide enough trained staff in time.
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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that soldiers serving with the British Army in Germany have had their notice to move shortened.
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This means they could be transferred to London within a matter of days.
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The armed forces were already due to provide some 13,500 servicemen and women to provide security, but under these contingency plans they will be providing 17,000.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18804547

“Perhaps for the benefit of readers of this blog you might give a few instances of how we would look at the Karimov regime slightly differently after watching the video.”
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I would hope that readers of this blog would have better understanding of what karimov is (yes, what and not who). It is not just 10000 political prisoners or dozens of tortured and boiled alive convicts it is machine of terror, that can only be compared to the worst of Nazis or Stalin’s NKVD.
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And Russia and China, which many on this blog supports and see as “good guys” supported this bloody dog when there was the only slightest possible chance of pressuring him to leave.

“The US has naval bases all over the known world.”
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Yes, I think the US has now overtaken the UK as being the biggest warmongers the world has ever known…

Just been listening to the Moral Maze R4 8pm re the “moral” case for intervention in Syria – the second speaker (didn’t catch his name) did a splendid job demolishing Portillo and AN Other. Sorry I can’t post links etc but well worth a listen.

Had Communism survived, American capitalism could probably also have survived indefinitely, as it would have had to continue to be on its best behavior competing with Communism. It would not have dropped its mask and resumed its formerly predatory behavior as it did once Communism died.

Scipio Aemilianus thought it was dangerous for Rome to destroy Carthage, as then there would have been no major power that Rome would have had to compete against. He proved right in the end, although it took several centuries for Rome to finally die. American extinction after the death of Communism has proved to be much swifter.

Anyone know what’s going on today? BBC News online out this evening. O2 network failure. Broadband in my area was dropping out all day. BT gave a long list of area dialling codes this morning where problems were being encountered and saying that they were trying to identify the problems and rectify them.
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This is O2 with 23m subcribers.
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O2 hit by nationwide network failure: ‘Millions of users’ unable to make calls or text and firm has no idea when it will be fixed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172211/Mobile-operator-O2-hit-nationwide-network-failure-left-users-unable-make-calls-text.html

This is what the USA does to its African American political activists. Shocking, shameful, there are insufficient words of opprobrium.
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http://www.angola3.org/
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And in the UK, we have Babar Ahmed, in jail without charge for 8 years and the poet, Talha Ahsan, in jail without charge for 6 years. No evidence has to be produced, nor has any been prodcued. The CPS decided there were no grounds for a prosecution in the UK. The USA can just demand extradition of UK citizens – and if extradited, these two young men will be held in similar conditions – solitary confinement for years and years – as the Black Panthers of the Angola 3. Please remember to put maximum pressure on your MP to sign the Early Day Motion 128 which is aimed at chnaging/scrapping the stupid and unjust Extradition Treaty 2003 which Blair rushed through Parliament. I know I keep banging on about this, but I think it is absolutely crucial and is part of the swath of torture against which around the same time, Craig honourably and courageously set himself. Today, we all are Talha Ahsan.
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http://freetalha.org/

San Bernardino files for bankruptcy as officials admit to ‘cash flow issue’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/11/san-bernadino-bankruptcy-cash-flow
,http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/11/san-bernadino-bankruptcy-cash-flow
The second town to declare bankruptcy in US, the US is imploding and as in the case of the failing USSR the cracks are appearing.
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What would be the result of this failure?
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How would the US collapse affect the ordinary lives of the people trapped in the sphere of the influence of the Empire?
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Getting worried.
The MSM are saying that GS4 can’t muster the numbers they need to cover the Olympics. Same company that are taking over large chunks of Police work.
Same company that roughs up Palestinians on a daily basis.
So is this the excuse to bump their numbers up and take over even more roles in corporate Homeland Security? Or is it just a reason to get us used to more uniforms on our streets? The Olympics were about putting conflict aside but the London version is becoming spooky ? What the hell do they think will happen that they are mobilising one third of our army for?

loved this bit about the troops at the Olympics:

Last night’s move will boost the number of servicemen and women involved in venue security to 11,000 and the overall number of troops involved in the Olympics to some 17,000 – 7,000 more than are fighting in Afghanistan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172194/London-Olympics-2012-3-500-Army-officers-drafted-protect-Olympics-security-failed-hire-staff.html

Why dont all the army types contest the Olympic sporting events and the athletes police it all?

The whole thing is a farce.

You are probably right Clark. I hear that O2 are still having problems.
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The flooded sewers have washed out the rats but obviously not those in Westminster.
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Rat warning as sewers flush out pests
Health experts have warned homeowners to take measures to stop “huge numbers” of rats flushed out by floods from re-establishing themselves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18793045
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The Westminster variety are off on their holidays.
Summer Recess 17 July 2012 Return 3 September 2012
I make that seven weeks!

I see that the price of dining with a war criminal went up from £120 to £500 according to this. What a revolting crowd. Bradshaw, Watson, Prescott, Milibands and all the other in the clique.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172300/Looks-whos-come-Tony-Blairs-new-job-Labour-shares-stage-Ed-Miliband.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline
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Tone has rather a haunted/hunted look wouldn’t you agree? Cherie should know by now that shiny is not a good look. Enlarges. Just proves that money doesn’t buy style or quality.

Thanks for that Uzbek, if there is too much fear and no chance of getting an opposition up on the ground, then there are alternatives, but it would be foolish to speak about them here.If there are funds available, then there is a way.
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The whole militarisation will become a farce once visitors start saluting soldiers and/or mock marchers goose step round the Mechano structure. I can also envisage a well organised Mc arches demo in which 50 plus people order burgers and turn them upside down on to the counters. To say that those with tickets can’t do anything to raise attention to the corporate tax dodge and mass feeding with sugar/salt rich foods, are mistaken.

I guess that NGO’s have purchased tickets just to get in there, one by one, and then, on a given time, gather at a certain point and make their protests, unless, off course, they don’t want to/have been infiltrated by the police already.
So how was the STW mass demo against Bliar’s compatriots last night? anybody took part?
We should keep a list of visiting celebrity politicians/ nobbled entities ready for the next elections arguments. Those young socialists hopefully will still have brains to think outside the box, who knows.

I heard Leila Sansour speak earlier in the year. What she told us was very moving as is the film she is making. You can only weep just like the olive tree in this short.
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Russell Tribunal UK {http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/}
Subject: Help Palestinian Short Film get maximum exposure
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Dear all,
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It is very important that you take 2 minutes to make sure this short film get maximum exposure. Your vote and help is needed.
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For more info on the film and how to help, please read below, thanks.
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All the best
Frank (Barat)
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Dear everyone,
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I have started putting out short films that are born out of the longer film I have been making about Bethlehem. These shorts might not make the final cut but they are strong stand alone pieces. The following short “They came in the morning” is filmed in Walaja and the man who features in it really broke my heart. The short has been entered into Virgin’s shorts competition. It is unusual for a film like this to be out there against other more commercial films. All films have to be two minutes long. The judges will now shortlist 12 of them and a 13th film will be selected following the public vote. All selected films will be shown in cinemas all over the country and beyond (including on Virgin flights) and will be entitled to a further prize, one of which, will again be selected by the public. This is an opportunity to do an effective direct action by clicking few buttons so I hope you will all feel moved to do it. The deadline is the 19th of July so please make sure to do it before then.
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Watch film http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/3242/they-came-in-the-morning
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How to vote:
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Every time you share ‘They Came in the Morning’, you give the film a
vote: and the film with the most votes gets the lucky 13th place on
the shortlist. How to do this.

1) visit the site and ‘like’ the film on Facebook
2) visit the site and share on Twitter
3) Or simply tweet – but remember to include the film’s name, and the
hashtag #ShortsLucky13
Every time you watch a film and pass it on – via Facebook and Twitter
- you’ll be helping nudge it into the limelight.
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Thank you so much to all of you
Leila
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There today, here tomorrow.
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“Stockton is filing for protection from its creditors under Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code. In essence, it is insisting that retired workers—whose pension and health care benefits were contractual promises for decades of labor—be treated as creditors who have lost out on an investment. The unfunded liability for retiree health care benefits is reportedly $417 million.”
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/pens-j12.shtml
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“The news before it happens…”
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{http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/07/10/poor-people-to-be-allowed-access-to-landfill-sites-at-mealtimes/}
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Lets be honest here, its the way things are going.

Where once the Miwok Indians fished and navigated the waters, this is an aspect of Stockton C21.
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‘Downtown revitalization
Beginning in the late 1990s under the mayorship of Gary Podesto, Stockton has experienced some revitalization.
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Newly built or renovated buildings include the Bob Hope Theater, Regal City Centre Cinemas and IMAX, San Joaquin RTD Downtown Transit Center, Lexington Plaza Waterfront Hotel, Hotel Stockton, Stockton Arena, San Joaquin County Administration Building, and the Stockton Ballpark.
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The “sunken parking lot” in front of the Hotel Stockton was transformed in the late 1990s into a public space named “Dean DeCarli Waterfront Square.” The area is designed to provide for many different settings including a sunken plaza, shade structure, numerous trees and planters, stadia seating, bench seating, viewing platforms, a weir at the west end, and a cascading waterfall at the east end. DeCarli Square is now a popular location hosting music, art and religious events, festivals, Farmers Markets and social gatherings.
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A new Downtown Marina and adjacent Joan Darah Promenade were added along the South Shore of the Stockton Deep Water Channel during 2009. Various public art projects were also installed throughout the area (see Stockton’s public art section).
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Other projects under consideration by the city council or under consideration as of January, 2009 include South Shore housing, the revitalization of the Robert J. Cabral Train Station neighborhood, bridges across the Stockton Deep Water Channel, and a new San Joaquin County Court House.’
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Hugely affected by the sub prime crash of 2007, 20% of the 300,000 are now unemnployed and one in thirty homes have been foreclosed upon.
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The motto – Stockton – The All America City. Quite so. And sad too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California

On the way to extermination of, you know who I mean….

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=277178&R=R1

Mary, I’ve posted ‘They came in the morning’ to my Facebook page. This wall around Bethlehem is as segregatory as the Berlin Wall.

Well done John. You are a trooper.

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Saw this this morning. The governor of Hebron cannot visit his own people without permission. Note the Uzis at the ready.
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http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/palestinian-authority-being-controlled.html
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http://is.gd/m5zFUY Please sign this petition advocating for the release of Nabeel Rajab and all the other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain!