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Veteran Indian social activist has been arrested and 1400 of his supporters detained as authorities defy a protest to force tougher laws against corruption.
Anna Hazare,74, was taken into custody early Tuesday as he prepared to lead a parade to a public park in New Delhi where he was to begin a “fast unto death”.
Hundreds of of his supporters gathered outside the building as he was driven away.
“Police have detained us,” Arvind Kejriwal, an aide to Hazare, told NDTV broadcaster before being taken away by plainclothers police in a white car early on Tuesday.
In a pre-taped appeal, Hazare urged his supporters to protest despite his arrest.
“My dear countrymen, the second freedom struggle has begun, and now I have also been arrested. But will this movement be stopped by my arrest? No, not at all. Don’t let it happen,” he said.—…
…Hazare’s protest has tapped into deep public anger against corruption in India as the Congress party-led government battles a series of graft scandals.
These include the sale of mobile phone licenses and the hosting of last year’s Commonwealth Games, which together lost the country as much as $40bn, according to government auditors.
The Indian parliament has been paralysed by anti-corruption protests for two weeks, stalling crucial legislation.
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A great comic telling of Emma G’ extraordinary life. (For pricing see new catalogue)
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CULTURE SHOCK the band that entertained the “protestors” at Stonehenge after it became illegal and many more besides. All their tracks in one new package. Active 25 AVAILABLE now!
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KISMET HC, first full album after 15 years of tireless political HC punk. Active 23 is available now!
Spanner, Crisis CD. angry ska punk crew from Bristol UK release a new 13 track album with us and others.
A Prisoner Support benefit compilation cd featuring new, unreleased and rare stuff from 22 bands including Oi Polloi, Cress, Anthrax, Burnt Cross, Doom, Eastfield, Active Minds, Trauma Unit and more. Things don’t get much more anarcho-punk than this release!.
Moral Dilemma’s first -and best- re-released by Active and the band! Considered one of her top ten punk rock records of all time by Laura of Rabies Babies!. Active 22
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Interesting
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Gay and Lesbian birds are just as attached and faithful to each other as those paired with a member of the opposite sex.
lesbian albatrosses mate with any male and raise the chicks together
The insight comes from a study of zebra finches – highly vocal, colourful birds that sing to their mates, a performance thought to strengthen the pair’s bond.
Scientists found that same-sex pairs of finches sang to and preened each other just like heterosexual pairs.
Bonded birds, Dr Elie explained, perch side by side, nestled together. They also greet each other by “nuzzling” beaks.
There are many other examples of same-sex pairing in the avian world.
In monogamous gulls and albatrosses, it gives females the chance to breed without a male partner.
“Female partners copulate with a paired male then rear the young together,” Dr Elie explained.
Gay Emperors flirt with other males.
In captivity, there have been at least two cases of male penguins forming long-term bonds when there are females available.
Perhaps the most famous of these was two male chinstrap penguins in Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo, named Roy and Silo. They bonded and paid no attention to females in their enclosure for at least a year. They even built a nest together and incubated and hatched a fertilised egg donated to them by one of the keepers.
this in is response to your post about that fracking article that in the independent.
I did a little researching and here are some interesting things I found out about how it prob got published even though it is BOLLOX.
One, The Independent is own by the O’Reilly family.
Two, Anthony O’Reilly Jr owns a gas company, that is currently mainly focused on off shore drilling. It’s called Providence.
Three, Turns out that Providence are working partners with company the author of the article works for.
“Providence operates Barryroe (50%) with partners San Leon Energy (30%) and Lansdowne Oil & Gas (20%)”
an excerpt from http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/idUS39371+18-Apr-2011+HUG20110418
NO FRACKING IRELAND
we need to get this out in the open people dont know about this, if we dont act soon it will be 2 late dont let them drill for gas in ireland please save our country. you wont be able to drink or bath…
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.Campaign for CO2-free fuel.. please help.
We live in a fragile skin of breathable gas in an immense vacuum. The imminent danger is of uncontrollable climate change which could make the whole planet uninhabitable, like all others in our Solar System. The only solution is to immediately change to an economy without CO2 releases.. This is perfectly possible. See other posts on NH3 fuel,.. cheaper, safer and CO2 -Free!https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/
3,000 march through Hackney & Haringey on Saturday 13th August to demand:
Give Our Kids A Future!
The march was organised and publicised just 2 days before by the hastily formed North London Unity Assembly initiated mainly by Turkish organisations and the Haringey and Hackney Anti-cuts Alliances [see list of some of the supporters at the end].
The aim was to provide a united community response to the recent disturbances, especially those in Tottenham and Hackney, and to the causes of despair and frustration that can result in riots. The march was led all the way by a dozen children behind a huge ‘Give Our Kids A Future!’ banner, followed by a mass of placards and banners from a wide range of community groups, trades union branches and political organisations as well as hand-crafted placards from scores of individuals.
The Unity Assembly is calling for a culture of valuing, not demonising, youth and unemployed people; support for those affected by the rioting, including the immediate rehousing of people made homeless, grants for affected small businesses, and restoration of damaged areas; reversal of all cuts to youth services in our boroughs; no cuts to public services, but instead, investment into community-led regeneration of our communities, including access for all to decent housing, jobs, education and sports facilities; an independent community inquiry into policing methods in our boroughs, and an end to discriminatory stop and search; and availability of legal support for all those people arrested by police.
Sepahua, 22 de julio, 2011.- El lote 57 de Repsol YPF proyecta hacer sombra a las operaciones gasíferas de Pluspetrol en el Complejo Camisea. Uniendo mediante gasoductos los lotes 57,56 y 88 Repsol y Pluspetrol ampliarán en los próximos meses la frontera gasífera en las entrañas de la selva que separa los ríos Tambo y Urubamba.
A la perforación iniciada de varios pozos exploratorios, se le añaden la apertura de miles de kilómetros de líneas sísmicas y el tendido de varios gasoductos para conectar todos los pozos a la planta separadora de gas en Camisea.
ashanika and machiguenga girls
El primer pozo exploratorio de Repsol en el lote 57, el Kinteroni I, ha dado resultados positivos, como se presencia en las llamas gigantes de una foto colgada en la radio de la Comunidad Nativa Nuevo Mundo. En esta comunidad machiguenga, Repsol ha construido una mini ciudad como campo base y ha tendido una trama de relaciones clientelares con sus habitantes.
Cuadricular la selva
Como señalan sus Estudio de Impacto Ambiental, Repsol pretende concluir en 2011 su ambicioso proyecto de exploración sísmica 3D en el interior de las Reservas Comunales Ashanika y Machiguenga, así como en la Zona de Amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Otuquis.(1)
En total, nada menos que 2.360 Km2 de bosque amazónico será afectado por el tamizado de una matriz de líneas sísmicas que se cruzan perpendicularmente cada 240 metros. Una cuadrícula atroz para los ecosistemas. Pretender que la fauna no será impactada por este barrido sistemático de la floresta, con el denso tendido de caminos y zonas de descarga para helicópteros, pecaría de interés o ingenuidad.
Si el resultado de esta lustrosa campaña fuera negativa, Repsol informa – a modo de amenaza en un afiche colgado en la oficina comunal de Nuevo Mundo- que ejecutará una nueva campaña de prospección sísimica 2D, con la apertura de 892 kilómetros lineales de sendas sísmicas.
23 pozos en las cabeceras
A parte de la plataforma Kinteroni I, con 2 hectáreas de selva sepultadas bajo un manto de cemento y 3 bocas de pozo a punto de escupir gas, en 2011 Repsol pretende construir este año 2 pozos más: el Mashira GX y el Mapi LX y hasta 2022 serían un total de 23. Entre ellos, 10 pozos en la comunidad kakinte de Tsojora, 3 en Poyeni, uno en Nuevo Mundo y otro en un lugar inhóspito de la Reserva Comunal Machiguenga.
Ya es muy conocida la extraña obstinación que describen los pozos hidrocarburíferos para contaminar los recursos hídricos en ecosistemas tropicales. A modo de ejemplo, sólo empezar, Repsol ya tuvo un accidente “inesperado” por unas lluvias “inusuales”, que provocaron el derrumbe de lodos sobre una motobomba del pozo Kinteroni.
Bernabé Gómez, monitor machiguenga del Equipo de Monitoreo Medioambiental Comunitario de Nuevo Mundo, informó al equipo de Alerta Amazónica que este derrumbe, producido el 15 de diciembre de 2010, provocó un vertido de diesel a las aguas del arroyo Huitricaya.
A estas alturas del partido, cualquier nueva perforación en la selva genera gran desconfianza sobre cuánto tiempo las aguas de los arroyos de la zona seguirán siendo limpias y cristalinas. Porque aparte de los ríos tributarios Tambo y Urubamba, una docena de cursos fluviales menores serán afectados por la perforación de los 23 pozos.
Por los vertidos, o por el bombeo de agua necesario para la perforación de pozos a 2 kilómetros de profundidad, entre los ríos amenzados por la perforación de pozos en sus cabeceras, destacamos el río Cheni, Erite, Poyeni, Mapayo, Sepa, Sensa, Huitricaya y Mapaya.
Gasoductos que acortan el camino hacia el mar
Para facilitar la exportación del gas perforado en las comunidades kakintes y machiguengas, se construirá desde Kinteroni I, un tubo de 16 pulgadas y 14,5 km hasta la estación de Repsol en la Comunidad Nativa de Nuevo Mundo. Ahí se le sumará el flujo proveniente de Mipaya (pozo de Pluspetrol en el lote 56) para conectarlo a otro pozo, el Pagoneri A, con un ducto de 42 kilómetros.
Desde allá, se conducirá el gas a la planta de Malvinas (Camisea) por tres gasoductos, dos de Pluspetrol ya existentes, y un nuevo ducto de 22 kilómetros que construirá Repsol en los próximos meses. Para todo este proyecto de desarrollo Repsol ha proyectado 202 millones de dólares.(2)
Vulnerabilidad para el pueblo Kakinte
El pueblo Kakinte, de la familia etnolingüística Arawak, está conformado por aproximadamente mil personas, ubicadas en 6 comunidades alejadas, en el distrito de Río Tambo: Taini, Tsoroja, Quitepampani, San Luis de Corinto, Maseka y Mangariari.
pollution destroys source of life
El aislamiento geográfico, la falta de información oportuna e independiente, la presión territorial de otros pueblos y la falta de titulación de tres de sus comunidades han ocasionado una débil negociación con Repsol YPF, la empresa que convertirá sus territorios en un rentable negocio gasífero.
En el 2006 el pueblo kakinte solicitó una compensación por el ingreso de la empresa a sus territorios obteniendo un pago efectivo y donación de un teléfono satelital, un local comunal y algunas casas de cemento. Pero “ Lamentablemente, la compensación no ha servido para asuntos de fondo como el fortalecimiento de la identidad cultural de los kakinte, la educación bilingüe intercultural, ni para fortalecer la seguridad territorial de las comunidades, especialmente las no tituladas” informaba Servindi en 2010.(3)
La desinformación, mal información y las ofertas compensatorias a corto plazo, juegan a favor de Repsol YPF en su irreversible intervención de los territorios comunales de los pueblos ashanikas, kakintes y machiguengas. Mientras tanto, el desarrollo gasífero avanza como una infrenable apisonadora cultural.
Prior to this Sunday’s match against Sunderland, Liverpool supporters backed by the Hillsborough Justice Campaign will be holding a demonstration in support of a continued boycott of the Sun. This serves as a timely reminder of the real and lasting damage media sensationalism can cause.
Fans will be distributing leaflets explaining the boycott around the Anfield area, but the hope in this demonstration is to spread awareness beyond those who are already very unlikely to buy the paper. Fans are encouraged to collect posters from the shop opposite the Kop and display them in the ground prior to kick off. There is also the possibility of escalating this campaign by displaying a mosaic at the subsequent Bolton match.
Of late, it was the Sun’s sister paper – the News of the World – which came under intense scrutiny, for the phone hacking scandal. However with that paper’s closure, and the sacking of a significant number of people, much of the furore has since died down. But it would be a mistake to presume guilt lay entirely with this one newspaper, or even stopped at News International.
As Adam Ford pointed out a while back, “every newspaper is subject to exactly the same pressures, in a dwindling but highly competitive market. Murdoch merely acted to introduce a lowest common denominator, a barrel-scraping standard against which all other papers must measure themselves.”
Nor is this a recent phenomenon, as the involvement of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign tells us. Scousers have no love for “the Scum” because of its horrendous reporting of that disaster, in which 96 people died as a result of a human crush, whereby it falsely accused fans of stealing from and urinating on the dead.
re urged his supporters to protest despite his arrest.
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