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- 'Unusual' fetishists face being locked up
  Posted by Kaerast from The Independent
  People who are not mentally ill risk being locked up because of the wording of the Government's new mental health proposals, a leading committee of MPs is warning. A damning report published today by the joint Human Rights Committee also says the Mental Health Bill fails to protect the rights of extremely vulnerable patients and their families.
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- Radical Images :: View Collection
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  Today at the Shell-sponsored Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum, 20 activists inspired by the Camp for Climate Action, smeared oil over the photographs. This was an act of outrage at Shell’s painfully transparent attempts to greenwash its reputation via cultural sponsorship.
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- Gay rights bill 'threatens hotel'
  Posted by Kaerast from BBC News
  A hotelier who runs a gay-only guest house has said the government's anti-discrimination bill would be a step backward for gay rights. The Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Mark Hurst, 47, said the proposed legislation would force him to open his hotel to heterosexual guests.
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- UK Indymedia - Indymedia and British Intelligence Services
  Posted by Kaerast
  Following the American pattern after 9/11, the UK government has used its own alleged terrorist attacks to push towards a police state. This has involved increasing the funds allocated to 'security services' and granting them extra-judicial powers; the systematic assault on civil liberties and human rights; media-spun fear based on dubious 'terror
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- CCTV to safeguard speed cameras
  Posted by Kaerast from BBC News
  Speed cameras in the Scottish Borders may soon be monitored by security cameras to protect them from vandals. Then, I suppose we need still other cameras to protect the camera-watching cameras.
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- Shocking Rape Statistics
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  Recently released figures have shown the shockingly low rate of convictions for rape in the UK. The average conviction rate is now 5.29% - this means that for every 100 reported rapes (and remember there are always more rapes occur than are reported) the number of perpetrators found and convicted is 5.
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- NHS workers to strike 31st January
  Posted by Kaerast from community.livejournal.com
  250 employees of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust will take their first day's strike on Wednesday January 31st. This follows a 91.6% ballot result in favour of strike action.
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Jeff comments on:
Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes

Strange story – it’s a Russian study .. sorry if I’m skeptical … but the suppression must have been for a reason (not a good reason).

GMO is a disaster.

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Billbar comments on:
Blair, Musharraf Pledge to Fight Terror

From the document obtained by the BBC:

The wars in Afghanistan and particularly Iraq have not gone well and are progressing slowly towards an as yet unspecified and uncertain result.

The War in Iraq…has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists from across the Muslim world.

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4:26 pm 9/28/06
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Details Emerge in British Terror Case
The NYT won't let UK readers access this article.
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1:33 am 8/30/06

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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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