RIP Tony Hart.. he inspired a lot of people to do creative stuff back in the day.
Random fact - he served in the 1st Gurkha Rifles during the war!
Artist and children's presenter Tony Hart has died, aged 83.
Hart, who lived in Surrey, had suffered from health problems for a number of years, including two strokes. His family said he died peacefully.
BBC NEWS | UK | TV presenter Tony Hart dies at 83
Democracy Now: Waterboarding is Torture & 1100 Dead in Gaza Democracy Now covers how Barack Obama's appointment for attorney general has pronounced waterboarding a form of torture and promises to close Guantanamo Bay, and continue their coverage of the bloody attack on Gaza...
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Democracy Now: Israel’s State Terror & Banned Munitions Democracy Now reports a leading Israeli scholars' comments on his government committing acts of state terror and it's use of banned or experimental munitions such as white phosphorous and dense inert metal explosives...
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End Israel’s Barbarity STOP THE WAR COALITION
NEWSLETTER
No. 1066 29 December 2008
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
T: 020 7278 6694
Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
END ISRAEL'S BARBARITY
EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE
SATURDAY 3 JANUARY: ASSEMBLE 2.0 PM
CENTRAL LONDON (LOCATION TO FOLLOW VERY SHORTLY)
Israel has launched a terror bombing against the people of
Gaza, with over 300 hundred dead and many hundreds more
injured. Not content after three days of devastating
slaughter, the Israeli government promises more barbarity to
come. The head of the Israeli military says, "This is only
the beginning". The people of Gaza are asking, if this is
only the beginning, what will the end look like? (See
Cutting the wire: Gaza today: 'This is only the beginning')
An eye witness describes what happens when the world's
fourth most heavily armed nation rains down such devastation
on the civilians of the world's most densely populated area:
"People are going through the dead terrified of recognizing
a family member among them. The streets are strewn with
their bodies, their arms, legs, feet, some with shoes and
some without… Hospitals and morgues cannot cope and some of
the dead are still lying in the streets with their families
gathered around them, kissing their faces, holding on to
them. Outside the destroyed buildings old men are kneeling
on the floor weeping. Their slim hopes of finding their sons
still alive vanished after taking one look at what had
become of their office buildings." (See
ei: "The amount of death and destruction is inconceivable")
Protests against these atrocities have already taken place
across the world with two big demonstrations in London,
called at the shortest notice, blocking the roads to the
Israeli Embassy.
Now a national emergency demonstration in London has been
organised for Saturday 3 January. Called by Palestine
Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim
Initiative and many more organisations, the demonstration
will assemble in central London at 2.0 pm (location to
follow very shortly).
We need to mobilise in the largest possible numbers for the
emergency demonstration. Gordon Brown needs to be reminded
that Tony Blair's support for Israel's attack on Lebanon in
2006 lead to him being forced from office. The British
government must call for the bombing to stop now and for an
end to Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza over the past year,
which has inflicted near starvation and lack of essential
resources on its people.
Please do all you can to mobilise for the emergency
demonstration:
* Spread the word as widely as you can among your friends,
neighbours, work colleagues, fellow students.
* Download the demonstration flyer from the Stop the War
website, photocopy or print it, distribute it as widely as
you can (available shortly Stop the War Coalition Online)
* Take leaflets to your local community centre, mosque,
church, etc. Help leaflet tube and bus stations.
Stop the War is asking all of its local groups around the
country to mobilise support for the demonstration as widely
as possible.
EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE
SATURDAY 3 JANUARY: ASSEMBLE 2.0 PM
CENTRAL LONDON (LOCATION TO FOLLOW VERY SHORTLY)
********************************************
EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR FUNDS
Helping to organise national demonstrations is very costly.
Stop the War urgently needs funds for Saturday's
demonstration and for the other activities we have planned
for the coming months. Israel's onslaught on Lebanon, the
continuing catastrophe of Afghanistan and Iraq, the threats
to extend war into Pakistan, the instability in the
Caucasus, Somalia and elsewhere show that the need for a
strong and active anti-war movement is as necessary as ever.
Please donate as generously as you can.
DONATE:
* ONLINE: Stop the War Coalition Online
* BY POST: Cheques made to "Stop the War Coalition". Send to
27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP
* BY CREDIT/DEBIT CARD (from 5 January): Telephone 020 7278
6694
********************************************
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Democracy Now: Bush’s Legacy and More Gaza Coverage Democracy Now interview veteran white house correspondent Helen Thomas on the subject of Bush's final press conference yesterday and continues to cover the situation in Gaza with reports of pro-israel rallies and Jews speaking out against the attacks...
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Democracy Now: More Coverage of the Gaze Crisis! Democracy Now hosts another debate on Gaza, continuing US arm sales to Israel, the American Senate's near unanimous vote of support for Israel and the worldwide protests against the attack...
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Going UFO hunting. Right im going UFO hunting now before more of our turbines get damaged. my equipment is, 24 cans of stella, a few grams of chalk and an air rifle. Anyone fancy it? :weee:12
Democracy Now: A Debate on Israel’s Assault on Gaza and the US Role in the Conflict Norman Finkelstein and Martin Indyk (the Brookings institution) debate the current assault on Gaza by the Israeli military...
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‘UFO’Hits Wind Turbine. Anyone see this in the papers today? Apparently a wind turbine was hit by a 'ufo' and it mangled the fuck outta the turbine! god knows what hit it! If it was aliens they must of been fucked up on god knows what to of hit that! :laugh_at:
heres a picture of the turbine, anyone got any theories on how it got damaged? :wink:
Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
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THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs.
They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws.
The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room.
Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.
Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned.
A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years.
However, opposition MPs and civil liberties groups say that the broadening of such intrusive surveillance powers should be regulated by a new act of parliament and court warrants.
They point out that in contrast to the legal safeguards for searching a suspect’s home, police undertaking a remote search do not need to apply to a magistrates’ court for a warrant.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the human rights group, said she would challenge the legal basis of the move. “These are very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home,” she said.
“The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorisation. Without those safeguards it’s a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy.”
She said the move had parallels with the warrantless police search of the House of Commons office of Damian Green, the Tory MP: “It’s like giving police the power to do a Damian Green every day but to do it without anyone even knowing you were doing it.”
Richard Clayton, a researcher at Cambridge University’s computer laboratory, said that remote searches had been possible since 1994, although they were very rare. An amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 made hacking legal if it was authorised and carried out by the state.
He said the authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes.
“It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room,” he said.
Police might also send an e-mail to a suspect’s computer. The message would include an attachment that contained a virus or “malware”. If the attachment was opened, the remote search facility would be covertly activated. Alternatively, police could park outside a suspect’s home and hack into his or her hard drive using the wireless network.
Police say that such methods are necessary to investigate suspects who use cyberspace to carry out crimes. These include paedophiles, internet fraudsters, identity thieves and terrorists.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said such intrusive surveillance was closely regulated under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. A spokesman said police were already carrying out a small number of these operations which were among 194 clandestine searches last year of people’s homes, offices and hotel bedrooms.
“To be a valid authorisation, the officer giving it must believe that when it is given it is necessary to prevent or detect serious crime and [the] action is proportionate to what it seeks to achieve,” Acpo said.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, agreed that the development may benefit law enforcement. But he added: “The exercise of such intrusive powers raises serious privacy issues. The government must explain how they would work in practice and what safeguards will be in place to prevent abuse.”
The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.
Police set to step up hacking of home PCs - Times Online
Bush is a Miserable Failure Google may have erased George Bush's Failure from results but it's still up on Yahoo and MSN Live for anyone who hasn't seen it. And Google Trends was also attacked recently...
Democracy Now: Debate on Israel’s Invasion of Gaza Democracy Now hosts a debate on the subject of the siege and attacks on Gaza...
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On the tenth day of Israel’s continued assault on the Gaza Strip and in spite of mounting international protests, Israeli ground troops pushed deeper into Gaza. The death toll has risen to 531 Palestinians and five Israelis. Nearly 2,500 Palestinians have been wounded since the bombing began last week. Forty-nine Israeli soldiers have been wounded since the ground invasion began Saturday.
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Robert Fisk: War is the "Total Failure of the Human Spirit" Robert Fisk: War is the "Total Failure of the Human Spirit"
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We play an interview with veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk of the London Independent, speaking last month in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Fisk says, "The Americans must leave [Iraq]. And the Americans will leave but the Americans can't leave. And that's the equation that turns sand into blood.
Once you become an occupying power, you take on the responsibilities for the civilians, which we have not done. But you also have a responsibility to yourself. You have to keep justifying, over and over and over again to your own populations, you were right to do it."
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