– Cops Raid UK Social Centres –

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…Apparently the warrant at the RatStar was for stolen goods…….Nothing must be allowed to interfere with the fawning lackyism that our rulers like to refer to as patriotism. There have been a number of arrests. And the Green and Black Cross have set up a legal helpline for those affected on 07946 541 511.

….During the attack on Grow Heathrow, sleeping people were dragged out of their beds by up to 40 cops.  The police left having seen mostly vegetables and some bees. I’m unconvinced that vegetables (organic or not) required the possibly illegal presence of dozens of riot cops to stop them from being repurposed as guillotines or whatever mad nonsense the cops will inevitably say they……….

cont/  from Squatageddon – Cops Raid UK Social Centres — New Internationalist.

Extract – Noam Chomsky’s new book – Power and Terror:

The Arab world is in revolutionary turmoil. How will America react and adapt? To understand the role of the US in the Middle East we need to understand some simple – but concealed – truths. In a new book published this month Noam Chomsky does just that.

Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
Mohammed Ameen/Reuters..When the US is involved in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, that’s called ‘stabilization’. If Iran tries to increase its influence, that’s destabilization..

Extracted with permission from Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Power and Terror:
continued here,,New Internationalist

Permaculture – Nature as our Teacher

In my first blog, I introduced the ethics of permaculture. This time I want to explain the principles. We need these principles to provide a set of universally applicable guidelines that can be used in designing sustainable systems. Otherwise, permaculture becomes merely a lifestyle choice within an existing unsustainable system.
These principles can be inherent in any permaculture design, in any climate, and on any scale. They have been derived from the thoughtful observation of nature, and from earlier work by ecologists, landscape designers and environmental science.

Each principle can be thought of as a door that opens into a whole system of thinking, providing a different perspective that can be understood at varying levels of depth and application. David Holmgren, the co-originator of permaculture, redefined permaculture principles in his seminal book, Permaculture – Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.
 When I started giving talks about permaculture to all sorts of different audiences, I decided to write my own explanations and apply the principle not only to designing gardens and farms but to business, society and culture…. CONT/

via Introducing The Principles of Permaculture Design – Using Nature as our Teacher.

rave reviews for The Free

Whoosh. That’s how I feel. Incredible, beautiful prose and an original style that creates a niche of it’s own. Clever, and funny but with a thread of darkness woven all the way through. This book belongs on my shelf in print, or at least in my Kindle library.   samtsuji@authonomy samtsuji@gmail.com

Congratulation .Wow. This is exceptional – an absolutely riveting read. It is hilarious and then tragic. The characters bounding off the page. One moment I was laughing, the next almost in tears for Linda and the terrible abuse. It was also so true to life and dramatically exaggerated, but so funny. It is so cleverly written. First person can be difficult but even so you had such well rounded characters, settings and dialogue. Barney was so credible and endearing. I will read on defintely with this.                                                Katy Roberts oakwood-arts.co.uk kathleen@oakwood-arts.c        author of  Stone Relics

No cash for still leaking Chernobyl-Falta dinero para tumba de Chernobyl

La falta de fondos para construir un confinamiento definitivo del reactor nuclear de Chernobyl empeora la secuela de enfermedades y tes.

BERLÍN, 25 abr (Tierramérica).- La ruina del reactor nuclear ucraniano de Chernobyl, que explotó hace 25 años provocando una de las peores catástrofes ambientales de la historia, aún contiene casi 95 por ciento del combustible original, altamente radiactivo.

Por eso, y puesto que el sarcófago que cubre esas ruinas no es hermético, la radiación actual del sitio, 100 kilómetros al norte de Kiev, es 100 veces superior a la natural, indican mediciones recientes llevadas a cabo por expertos ambientalistas.

leer más…..

via Lugar del siniestro de Chernobyl con 95% de su radioactividad letal filtrandose tendrá nuevo sarcófago recién en 2015 – cinabrio blog.

BP worst ever disaster

       The spill here in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst environmental disaster in the history of our continent,’ according to Greenpeace, which has been working with independent scientists from universities around the country to find out what has really happened to the oil, and what the long term impacts will be on this critical, fragile ecosystem….

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see Video here

via The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster: one year on – Video – The Ecologist.

France: Occupations of 100s of Schools –

parents occupy schools!France: Occupations of Secondary, Primary and Infant Schools   Since the very end of March, there have been increasing amounts of schools occupations throughout France. Provoked by the suppression of nearly 16,000 teaching posts, the closure of classes, the threatened closure of some of these schools and the consequent increases in class sizes, these occupations have been particularly concentrated on infant schools and primary schools, but have also included “Middle Schools” (“Collèges” for 11 to 14 or 15-year-olds) and those lycées with “Collèges” attached to them. Though it’s hard to gauge how many occupations there have been, it must be at least 250.

Starting off with just a 3 hour occupation at the end of March in an infant school in a

via France: Occupations of Secondary, Primary and Infant Schools – Infoshop News.