Free Party Against the G8 – Scotland July 2005 hi everyone!
this is my first time on this site but i've got exciting news for all Free Party People.
the G8 Summit of the world's most powerful leaders (inc Blair & Bush) are meeting at Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland from 6th to 8th July next year. Airforce 1 is expected to touch down at Edinburgh airport and the word's most dangerous man (is Mr Bush a terrorist?) will be on Scottish soil.
up here in Scotland, we're not too happy about this. luckily for us, they've picked a very rural spot for this year's summit (although the roads around Gleneagles are very good) which means that we'd like to invite you ALL to the biggest free party scotland's ever seen!!
in fact the Free Party Against the G8 is going to be held in a number of locations around the G8. there'll be an 'Alternative Village' set up (camping, clean water, food, sanitation0 for all protesters headin up here. there'll be a big party within the Village (safety in numbers) but as well as this we've heard from people with rigs 'down south' who intend to set up wherever they fancy at the time. so lots of choice and we're planning to put on coaches to take free party people to the demos etc that are also planned.
info on the party will regularly updated at http://g8alternatives.movingpages.org/MoinWiki/FreeParty and at http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk/
the first url is editable web space (a Wiki) so feel free to add your own thoughts.
hope you can all come - should be a wheeze!
DorisDollxxx
China & MSN Hello.
What do these words/phrases have in common:
Freedom
Democracy
Demonstration
Human Rights
Taiwan Independance
Well, these are some of the phrases which are getting blocked when put on MSN's Chinese site.
story here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4088702.stm
I read it and my immediate thought was that Microsoft were doing the wrong thing, but then I started wondering whether company's actually have moral obligations at all. They are created to make money in a law abiding way, so unethical as this may seem, as an instruction to them by the Government, it would be illegal for them NOT to do it. Does this mean they are morally justified?
It's a wierd world.
peace
Bob Geldof Apologies for the crudeness but my heads not working properly so....
Just wondering what everyone else opinions are on Geldof's current schemes. Such as his sail 8 (dunkirk stylee flotilla picking up french protesters and bringing them to edinburgh) and bed and breakfast 8 (free bed and breakfast for sid frogs) and then the storming of Edinburgh....oooh 40miles from Gleneagles.
Much as I agree with the ideas behind the protest....COME ON TAE FUCK MAN. He really is taking the piss....has he thought about the negative impact on the campaign when the scum hiding within this one million folk decide aha we'll burn some cars or smash shit and loot these "coprotations". Has he thought about how these French protesters are planning on getting home.....or is he just planning on leaving them stranded here. Also has he looked at the history of French protestors.....RAR our fuel is still almost the cheapest in Europe lets riot an burn shit......rar youve got foot and mouth lets burn shit....rar im bored LETS BURN SHIT. Also its edinburgh it cant even handle the ammount of traffic on its roads at the moment and the royal mile is already gettin packed with tourists....how can it handle 1 million extra folk.
I accept that that is a fairly stereotypical view but I'm personally fed up with going along to a peaceful protest only to find a bunch of French extremists fucking things up. Apparently these arent even the proper extremist French though...their the more peaceful ones, they only throw stones at pigs rather than torch their cars.
IN : Indian trade unions show solidarity with outsourced workers in rest of world! From News.com
May 27, 2005 4:34 PM PDT
Report: outsourcing worries Indian union leaders too
U.S. techies aren't the only ones anxious about outsourcing. Union leaders in India also worry about the trend of farming out tasks to other companies, according to a report Friday on the Web site of the Union Network International Graphical organization.
At a union-organized seminar in Pune, India earlier this month, outsourcing was identified as one of the five major problems facing printing and newspaper employees in the country, according to the report. "[T]his was resulting in loss of employment of the existing workers in a company (and the) employer was paying a fraction for the outsourced work," the report said.
Perhaps surprisingly, the report indicated Indian union leaders feel empathy for European and American workers stung by offshore outsourcing. "As union members, we must understand that for every job that we get in India, a job is lost in the outsourcing country," the report said. "And the beneficiary is always the employer because in India he has to pay only a fraction of the wages that he pays in his own country."
Posted by [email="ed.frauenheim@cnet.com?subject=FEEDBACK:%20Report:%20outsourcing%20worries%20Indian%20union%20leaders%20too"]Ed Frauenheim[/email]
Another ageing rock star in the dock Bye bye baby.... baby goodbye.....
pranged my motor... now I must fly....
Bay City star admits crash charge
Bay City Rollers star Les McKeown has admitted crashing his car while he was more than twice the legal alcohol limit and leaving the scene of an accident. Thames Magistrates heard he claimed he had not been driving when stopped by police after hitting another car and a traffic island in north London in 2004.
The court heard the 49-year-old, of east London, was convicted of reckless driving after a woman's death in 1975.
McKeown was granted unconditional bail and will be sentenced on 12 May.
District Judge Jackie Comyns warned the singer: "If you are found driving while disqualified you will be sent to prison."
'Effectively panicked'
Mark Parker, prosecuting, said McKeown had walked off after the accident, ignoring the request of a witness, trying to hail a cab.
The singer then went into a house and afterwards left with two other men and a baby in a Jeep Cherokee.
The witness called police, who tailed the vehicle and stopped it and then arrested the singer.
Michael Atkinson, defending McKeown, said he had "effectively panicked".
He failed a roadside breath test and was found to have a toxicity reading of 75 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - more than twice the legal limit.
When stopped by police he claimed he had not been driving the car and had just returned from a meeting with Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
McKeown, of Lower Clapton, east London, became famous in the 1970s as lead singer of the hugely successful Scottish band whose hits included Bye Bye Baby and Shang-A-Lang.
He still tours with an updated version of the group known as the Legendary Bay City Rollers.
Story from BBC NEWS:
positive benefits of immigration in my city are clear to see! As someone who has been short sighted since primary school days, I have virtually had a "season ticket" to nearly every optician in the city at one time or another... (if I did not wear my contact lenses or spectacles I would not be able to see this screen to type this message!)
Over the years, (and particularly since the 1990s) - I have noticed how often the optician who treats me is originally from outside the UK. Most seem to be from India - although others are from Eastern Europe.
This is hardly surprising; there is a long standing tradition of medical professionals immigrating from India to the UK since the 1970s; and many skilled opticians and optometrists come from ex-USSR countries.
Not only were modern contact lenses invented in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s; its fairly obvious an empire which spent years involved in surveillance operations would ensure that the personnel involved could see well!
Also the technology for contact lenses was a good generator of foreign exchange money (still needed even in Soviet days) - and in the USSR and its satellites all citizens of all genders were expected to peform some kind of national service, the services wouldn't want an otherwise good soldier being unable to make a surveillance report or fire accurately on a target because his (or her!) bins had steamed up........
At one point I had some concerns that drivers in Bangalore and Mumbai were routinely colliding into brick walls, rickshaws and random road-wandering cows because all their opticians were "over here" - but an Indian work colleague ensures me that there are still plenty of opticians who choose to stay in their native countries; and indeed many who work in both Western and Eastern nations throughout their careers (and transfer the skills they learn across the world by teaching others).
And this is not a case of "people taking "our" jobs" - in the opticians there are other white British staff, but it does seem that in many cases the immigrants are doing the more skillled jobs, because they have studied for the qualifications, whilst many of the native population (including British Asians and those from other people ethnic groups who were born in the UK) tend not to choose to study complicated scientific subjects (of which optometry is certainly one!)
At the same time over 60% of the British population require vision correction - as we often drive vehicles, ride bikes or do close work at computers good vision is vital. if we don't want to do these difficult jobs, someone has to - why should it matter what nation they come from?
UK : Wales/Cymru : BBC Cymru – neu *Heddlu?* welsh equivalent of "watchdog" becomes a police dog..
it is crime - but a bit concerned that the BBC are taking on law enforcement duties - particularly as they are subject to less "fair trial" restructions and their is an obvious commercial aspect of the entertainment value of the crime show..
Shoplifters caught by BBC cameras
Three women who were caught shoplifting by a BBC Wales television programme have been put under 18-month community rehabilitation orders. Linda McConkey, Beverley Hill and Wendy Bristock, all from Cardiff, were secretly filmed by Week In Week Out stealing from stores in south Wales.
The three admitted charges of conspiracy to steal at a hearing at Swansea Crown Court on Friday.
Judge Gerald Price said the women had been "shamed by the BBC".
The court heard that the defendants were followed by the Week in Week Out crew as they stole clothing from six shops in Swansea in October 2002.
McConkey, 51, from Splott, Hill, 42, from Tremorfa, and Gristock, 38, from Roath, were filmed using cameras hidden inside handbags.
Bill Peters, prosecuting, told the court that the women had carried empty, branded shopping bags into the stores and then shielded each other as they stole clothes.
The value of what they had stolen was not discovered but "the bags were bulging", Mr Peters said.
They then took the clothing to a fast food restaurant, hiding price tags and hangers in the toilets.
'Deeply ashamed'
A week later, the court heard, another Week In Week Out crew followed McConkey and Hill as they stole from three shops in Bridgend.
The footage was handed over to police and the women were arrested.
Mr Peters described them as "well-organised shoplifters", telling the court that McConkey had six previous convictions for the offence, and Hill and Gristock both had nine.
The women's defence barristers said their clients had been deeply ashamed at being publicly identified by BBC Wales and that members of their families had also been humiliated by the exposure.
They also criticised the two-and-a-half years it had taken for the case to be brought to court.
Judge Price said he had taken this into account when deciding not to hand down custodial sentences.
Instead, he imposed 18-month community rehabilitation orders on each of the women, and ordered McConkey and Hill to carry out 80 hours of unpaid community work, to attend a women's programme, and to pay £150 costs.
He ordered Gristock to carry out 60 hours' community work and pay £100 costs.
Judge Price told the court that each defendant has a criminal past for similar behaviour and had carried out their operations "with a degree of sophistication".
He said they had been "shamed by the BBC" and that they should feel "absolute disgrace".
curiously no Welsh version of this article.... (or not an easily searchable one, stil getting to grips with the concept of mutations...)
Blair admits Iraq war was for economic reasons http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4507485.stm
The wife of the latest British soldier to be killed in Iraq has blamed Tony Blair for his death
...
His widow, Ms Toward, told the ITV News Channel her message to Mr Blair was: "You should not have sent the troops over, you should not have done that."
If it was not for Mr Blair's actions, "my children would still have their father today and I really do blame him for that", she said.
...
Mr Brown said the Iraq debate had now gone on for more than two years.
"We believe we were making the right decisions in the British national economic interest.
"Of course we have lessons to learn... about the way things were done, like the dossier.
"But at the end of the day we wanted the security of Britain and the British national interest to be advanced.
to me that comment screams the truth behind the war...
£££
:evil:
*edit: i've edited the title to match the report (ie Brown not Blair)
UK : Greens PPB trashed by media incompetence if the Greens are not given another PPB slot, an apology caption and financial compensation from both C4 and Auntie for this fuckup, then I would suggest all their supporters make a formal complaint to Ofcom about this.
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Ukip goes Green in C4 election blunder[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Julia Day
Friday April 29, 2005
[/font] [font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Channel 4 has been forced to apologise to the Green party after mistakenly transmitting its election broadcast with subtitles from the UK Independence Party.[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Last night's broadcast, promoting the party's vision of a green future, was directed by Repo Man film-maker Alex Cox and set to a Franz Ferdinand soundtrack. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]But subtitles for a Ukip broadcast, which cursed the European Union, were screened simultaneously.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Greens are furious that some viewers may now think they take Ukip's negative stance on Europe, immigration and political correctness.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"It's pretty awful, It totally lost the message," said a Green party spokesman, adding that representations are being made to Channel 4 about the mistake.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Channel 4 said overlaying the Ukip subtitles was a genuine mistake that was rectified during the broadcast, which began at 7.55pm in a prime slot after the network's flagship news bulletin.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"It was a rare and honest mistake. The subtitles were stopped before the end of the programme and replaced with an apology. Only a small percentage of viewers would have been affected," a spokesman added.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Green spokesman said Channel 4 told his party that the erroneous subtitles - which ran for three of the broadcast's five minutes - were added as a result of "human error" at BBC Broadcast, the company responsible for adding the subtitles. However, the Green election broadcast shown on other channels had the correct subtitles.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]He added that Channel 4 said it would have to consult its lawyers as to whether the broadcast could be reshown because of the strict rules governing party election broadcasts to ensure fairness.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Channel 4 was unable to say if any redress will be made to the Green party.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Greens - in common with other small parties such as Ukip and the British National party - are only entitled to one election broadcast, unlike the three afforded to the main parties. The election broadcast represents a single - and therefore vital - opportunity to attract voters.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Ukip is delighted with the mix-up, however. Its own election broadcast will be screened tonight and a spokesman for the party said he hoped the extra, albeit erroneous, exposure its policies received will help attract a few more votes.[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"We're not letting [the Greens] put their subtitles on our broadcast, though. Although we have a green octopus in our broadcast. It swims up the Thames and swallows the Houses of Parliament," he added.[/font]
what are you like? the old concept of 'left' and 'right' is a bit past it...
new labour are the friends of big business, lib dems find themselves in the odd situation of being seen as 'lefter' than the reds etc etc
this is a thingy that tells you where you fit your ideas
it's a political compass
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
french freeparty documentary.. i downloaded a programme by searching for freeparty vids, and found a file called 'reportage - free party (itv)', but its in french. has anyone seen this with subtitles or know anyway of working out wtf is being talked about in the vid?
- it looks pretty cool, with chiraq discussing techno in the intro, and some good interveiws (maybe? passionate at least...) the file is only 22mb, so if anyone wants it and has a way to get it off me, or wants a signpost to it, gimme a shout.
Germany – current sociopolitical situation? I've been reading a fair bit about Germany recently (unfortunately mostly only in English due to laziness), and see a lot of reports claiming that there are many problems and that social and economic growth has stagnated.
I'm aware that at the last elections the people elected [mostly] a red-green coalition of socialists and environmentalists, which coupled with the often progressive and pragmatic thinking found in Germany I would have thought would have produced a much better situation...
so what is going on here? I read about a Bundestag (like Britain's house of commons) and the Bundesrat (a cross between the House of Lords and our devolved government in Wales and Scotland, but unelected, or are they like a big city council?)
are there then powerful conservative elements in the other parliament house, who are blocking the progressive work of the peoples elected representatives (and vice versa) so nothing actually gets done? I also get the impression (from my travels there in 2001 on business) that the nation is divided and is more conservative in the south.. (hence easttek was left alone and south-tek busted) is this true?
I would like to go there again soon, but in these "interesting times" prefer to know what is going on in a country before I visit!
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