SchNews!!!! (SchNEWS 644, Friday 29th August)

cuz its cool........ :cheers2:
(p.s. sorry a lot of it is all cut up but i've been copy/pasting and its just not working out for me right now!!)​

WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! IT'S YER DIGGING DEEP...:toetap05::hat:​

From Transition Town workshops to the city slickers at the
Financial Times (to overexcited pieces in ill-researched journals like​

SchNEWS), there’s been more and more

interest in ‘Peak Oil’. Perhaps it’s got something

to do with the price of a barrel reaching
$140+ (down to a mere $115ish at the mo),
and more noticeably for most, petrol at the
pumps is at record highs. Not to mention UK
power companies pushing the burden on to
punters with up to 35% price increases.
So, is the reality of scarce energy really
beginning to hit home? Is the oil now
running out?
The basic premise is what’s known as
Hubbert’s Peak. Oil, a ​

finite commodity with an ever expanding demand, will reach

its halfway point somewhere in the early

2000s (now) and from then on will irreversibly

decline. Hubbert developed his theory
in the 1950s when he predicted that America’s
domestic oil would peak by the mid 70s.
In the mid-80s they realised he was right.
Since then others have taken his predictions
and expanded them to ​

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fit the whole globe, where the consensus has been for a peak in

the ​

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first decade of the 21st century.​

Scary stuff, and not just for gas guzzling​

SUV drivers but for all of us; it’s oil that

fuels the equipment that sows and reaps our

crops (and makes the pesticides to slowly
kill us with blemish-free uniform produce)
and oil that fuels the trucks that drive the
food to our shops. Add to this plastics,
fertilisers, and all the other by products it
becomes easy to predict apocalypse if the
pumps ever run dry (see SchNEWS 499).
Something like this actually happened
not so long ago, back in the ‘90s, in that
wacky dictatorship called North Korea.
The industrialised and oil dependent nation
found itself without petroleum after its sole
provider - the Soviet Union - collapsed. The
result was that, far from western eyes, over a
million people died as the infrastructure collapsed.
And, so warns the Peak Oil doomsayers,
this could happen on a global scale.​

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WELL WELL WELL

All of this has some anarcho-primitivists

jumping with glee at the prospect of the
imminent collapse of earth-raping industrial
capitalist society. But, before you stock up
on tinned goods, shotgun cartridges and bottled
water, here’s a few things to consider:
Firstly, there’s no oil shortage. This may
come as a bit of a surprise to all those who’ve
been watching the prices rise and rise. As the
Saudis recently pointed out to outgoing President
Bush - pumping more oil won’t lower
the price. Actually, there’s a glut of oil in
the supply markets. The Iranians (one of the
oil nations pumping under their maximum
capacity) have tankers full of the stuff that
they just can’t shift because no one wants it.
What’s lacking is re​

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fining capacity.​

While oil use in the US has increased​

35% in the last 30 years, no new re​

fineries have been built to keep up with demand. The

ability to turn oil into petrol, diesel, aviation

fuel etc is massively underdeveloped

by the oil corporations, who generally like
to keep re​

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fining to ‘safe’ (i.e. Western and​

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friendly) countries. By artificially creating​

a bottleneck in the amount of usable oil, the​

price just goes up and up, leading to massive

pro​

fits for the oil business as this nice little​

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scam can keep functioning. Exxon Mobil​

made pro​

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fits of $11.8 bn in the last quarter​

alone, and the other big ​

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five oil companies are making similarly obscene dosh. The

scam has worked pretty well so far.

The predictions of world oil reserves

are based on proven, reachable oil. This
is a tricky concept because, as it turns out,
there’s a whole lot of ‘unproven’ marginal
oil that’s already making its way on to
world markets. The most known about of
these are the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.
Until very recently (when the technology
became economical on a large scale) these
were considered ‘unproven,’ yet a lot of
these are now making their way to the US
(and world) oil markets.
The tars sands, also known as bitumen,
are a very dirty form of oil, one that’s very
expensive, polluting and energy hungry to
exploit and process. It takes the equivalent of
one barrel of oil to extract six barrels of oil
from the tar sands. They also happen to be
located in an area of unspoilt natural wilderness,
but hey, what pro​

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fitable minerals aren’t​

these days? Canada’s tar sands contain an

amount of oil in excess of that under Saudi

Arabia’s sands. And exploiting them is fast

becoming its most pro​

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fitable activity.​

Venezuela has similar deposits of bitumen

in Orinoco, and signi​

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ficantly larger than​

Canada’s. They’re estimated at around 260

million barrels (i.e. another Saudi Arabia)

on top of the 80 million or so of ordinary

oil. They’re easier to exploit than Canada’s
and are barely touched. It’s no wonder that
the US has got such a keen interest in the
actions of Venezuelan President, Hugo the
Chavmeister. Industry experts had been
saying that these areas will become among
the world’s future energy heartlands, but
that until oil was worth over $40 per barrel
it was too expensive to develop. Oil’s now
worth over $100 and will be so for some
time to come, so go ​

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figure.​

CRUDE THOUGHTS

A real danger of Peak Oil, or rather, the fear

of peak oil, is that it risks handing states and

corporations even more planet-wrecking
power. If people believe the oil is running
out, then pressure from consumers and businesses
alike is to ​

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find more at any cost. This​

is already being written into the US election

strategy of the republicans, where John

McCain is promoting drilling in the Arctic

Circle as a way out of the energy ‘crisis’.
This could lead to a seriously deadly
irony: The warnings of Peak Oil by environmentalists
could lead to the erosion of
the public’s psychological barriers protecting
the few remaining areas of wilderness
left. There’s oil in unknown (but quite
possibly huge) quantities in Greenland, as
well as plenty in Alaska, where the Bush
junta has already green-lighted the destructive
process of exploring and exploiting.
The Russians have laid their claim to their
chunk of the Arctic Circle too, with an eye
to expansion for more oil.
And, in a genuinely insane piece of
economic logic, as global warming melts
the Arctic’s frozen seas, the previously
unreachable oil reserves that lay under
the ice become more exploitable, and,
as they are burned, yet more undersea
oil becomes available. Or if that runs out
there’s always the Antarctic…
And if these reserves still don’t prove to
be quite enough to satisfy demand, there’s
always ole king coal. China, main producers
of the world’s plastic consumer tat, is
rich in coal but virtually empty of large
oil deposits.
To keep their economy expanding at
its current pace they are building two coal
fi​

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red power stations a week. However,​

they need oil as well for their cars and

trucks (and tanks). As oil’s expensive

and foreign suppliers can be notoriously

unreliable (they haven’t as yet turned to
Amercian-style invasion of oil producers)
what they really crave is a domestic
source of oil, which they don’t have.
Or at least didn’t, until they turned to
the combined wisdom of the Nazis and
the apartheid-era South Africans. Both
the Nazis during the war and the South
Africans during sanctions found it hard
to import oil. Luckily for them a German
scientist found a way to turn coal into
synthetic oil, known as the Fischer-Tropsch
Synthesis. It’s a very energy hungry
process (of course) and needless to say
massively polluting (obviously) but it
does mean that, even if oil is tricky to get
hold of, you can just magic some out of
coal - kind of like a very dirty alchemy
that’s bad for the planet.
China has already constructed its ​

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first huge synthetic oil refinery in Chinese​

Mongolia.​

PRICE OF SUCCESS?

The current cost of oil, often mistaken

as a indicator of its scarcity, is actually
driven by far more complex forces.
As a commodity like any other, it’s
traded on the international markets via
brokers. In recent years the power of the
cartel that set the price of oil, OPEC, has
been signi​

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ficantly reduced, and now it’s​

the speculators that call the shots on its

price (more or less - OPEC still caries a

lot of weight, but it’s a player now rather

than the whole game). That means that, as
long as the price of oil is rising, speculators
will push the price even higher.
It’s estimated that as much as 60% of
the price of today’s oil is pure speculation.
To give an example of the logic of nonsense
capitalism: Today oil is worth, say
$125 a barrel. As the price is going up, you,
a speculator, ​

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figure that if you buy some at​

that price today, you can sell it in a week or

two for $135. Because you’re buying oil,

other speculators have more con​

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fidence​

the price will continue upwards, so they’re

happy to pay $130 after you.

This continues until no one who actually

needs to use oil for their cars, homes
or businesses etc. can even afford to re​

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fill​

their zippo lighters, at which point the

entire economy crashes, taking the price

of oil with it.

In fact, herein lies one of the central​

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flaws in the theory of peak oil - supply​

and demand: that fundamental essential

of capitalism. If the price of oil goes up

as its demand goes up (and its availability

goes down) then at some point it will be
too expensive for oil based industrial
capitalism to afford. At that point we enter
a new depression/recession. Businesses
collapse, people can’t afford to run their
cars, factories grind to a halt and so on.
The effect of a depression means that,
with the entire economy in free fall, the
demand for oil drops. As the demand
drops so does its price, until at some point
people can afford to buy it again, and, hurrah,
capitalism reasserts itself (albeit in a
leaner, less carbon-heavy form).​

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DRILLER KILLER

The truth is that the oil has already peaked

for Western multinationals. In the 70s,
major Western oil giants controlled over
half the world’s oil, they now only own
13%. As Arjun Murti, an energy analyst
at Goldman Sachs puts it: “What we have
now is geopolitical peak oil.”
There’s plenty of oil left, but it’s all in
either politically unstable / US-unfriendly
states (Iraq, Iran, Russia) or dif​

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ficult and​

expensive to get at (the Arctic, Canadian

tar sands). These alternative sources of

fossil fuels could keep us going well into

the future, past our lifetimes and maybe
even that of our grandchildren. The problem
is: exactly that. The effect of burning
a trillion tons of coal and perhaps a trillion
barrels of oil is that the planet will burn
up faster than a petrol-soaked moth near
a candle. The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (the world’s leading
authority) predict a global temperature
rise of at least 3°C by 2050, with further
predictions that CO² and climate temperatures
will rise and rise.
Mother nature has been steadily locking
away excess carbon under the ground
for the last three billion years in order to
maintain a steady, liveable temperature
for all of us life-forms. Suddenly, us
wayward children have begun reversing
the process, sticking it back in the air. In
the process we’re experimenting with the
atmosphere on an unprecedented scale,
causing massive changes to the climate
and biosphere, driving many species to
extinction on a par with the extinction of
the dinosaurs.
The real problem isn’t that we’re going
to run out of fossil fuels. The problem
is what happens when we don’t.​

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STORMING THE​

BARACK AIDES

The 1999 WTO protests – the Battle in Seattle

– were a watershed moment in contemporary
direct action history. On the one hand, people
power showed it could disrupt, interrogate
and even block those in power from their
largely misguided work (or evil self-interested
work, if you prefer). A self-consciously global
movement against neo-liberalism shook
capitals (and capitalists) around the world.
And, on the other fist, the authorities
swiftly took a long hard look (no, not into
their consciences, but) at their ongoing
security arrangements. G8 and WTO style
shenanigans have been held in increasingly
remote, water-surrounded, illiberal, police
state type locations ever since.
In America, Seattle helped spark the political
will for a Neocon inspired clampdown on
civil liberties to begin in earnest, culminating
in a draconian new raft of measures brought
in under the cloak of 9/11 and ​

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flag-waving​

patriotism. The War on Terror® masked a new

wave of resistance-crushing. But is a new

backlash against all this finally emerging

back in the Homeland of the brave?
With Iraq smouldering away like a new
Vietnam, over 9,000 anti-war protesters descended
on Denver last week, marching to the
gates of the Pepsi building – the un-ironical
union-busting choice of venue for the Democratic
Party convention being held to proclaim
Barrack Obama as the latest saviour of the
planet. OK, activists were helped with pulling
in punters by a free Rage Against the Machine
gig, but nonetheless this was one of the biggest
such demonstrations seen in years.
And that was only the warm up. Even bigger
things are planned for next week’s Republican
National Convention (RNC) in city of St Paul,
Minneapolis. A large mobilisation, self-styled as
the ‘RNC Welcoming Committee’, is expected
and a full support infrastructure is in place, including
convergence centres, training, legal aid,
free use of bikes and more. Repression has been
extensive in the build up with raids on social
centres, indymedia of​

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fices and private homes.​

And the ​

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flip side of the rampant post 9/11​

expansion of military-gear-being-​

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flogged-toparanoid-​

consumers means that this time the

black bloc are expected to turn up in body

armour and gas masks. It all looks set to kick

off so watch this (convergence) space. www.
protestrnc2008.org www.NoRNC.org and
http://twincities.indymedia.org​

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52 anti-war protesters, arrested in New York in

April 2003 at the height of the Iraq Invasion,

[COLOR=black]have won $2 million compensation. They were[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]arrested outside of[/COLOR]​

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fices of the Carlyle Group​

– the Bush-connected investment ​

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firm heavily​

involved in military contracts (See SchNEWS

380), but had criminal charges dismissed in the

months that followed.

[COLOR=black]The four-year civil lawsuit which followed[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]against the City of New York has resulted in[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]this bumper pay-out. Police footage of the[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]demonstration showed that the legal demonstration[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]on the pavement gave ample room for[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]other pedestrians, and that police arrested 94[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]without warning or giving the opportunity to[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]leave. The lawsuit was focused on the police[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]violating good ‘ol US constitutional rights.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]* See [/COLOR][URL="http://www.ccrjustice.org"][COLOR=black]www.ccrjustice.org[/COLOR][/URL]​

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[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]The Israeli military had said that it was[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
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[SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]fi[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]re on the unarmed civilian[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE]​

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[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]

[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]This was not a threat to be taken lightly given[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]

[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Israel’s willingness to shoot internationals[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]who come peacefully supporting Palestinian[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]rights - both Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]were murdered by the Israeli army in the Gaza[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Strip (See SchNEWS 405).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]The last half century have been hard on[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Gaza. Since it was made the reluctant home[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]of some 300,000 refugees from Palestine in[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]1948 (the bits now known as Israel), Gaza[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]has always been at the forefront of Palestinian[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]resistance. Gaza was where the First Intifada[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]started, and it was in Gaza that the Palestinians’[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]urban guerilla war persuaded the Israelis[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]to leave, dismantling their settlements and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]pulling their troops out. Ever the sore loser,[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Israel simply moved its forces to Gaza’s borders,[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]ensuring that virtually nothing gets in or[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]out of Gaza without their say so.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]The noose around Gaza has been tightening[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]year on year. Following the election of[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Hamas to government, the capture by Palestinian[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]armed groups of an Israeli soldier, and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]then Hamas’ armed takeover of the Strip, the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]stranglehold on Gaza has gotten tighter and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]tighter until now only tiny number of certain[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]types of goods are allowed through. Gazan[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]hospitals are virtually empty of medicine -[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]107 classes of basic medicines are denied and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]there’s no fuel for vehicles (and barely enough[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]for cooking). Malnutrition amongst children[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and adults is reaching shocking levels.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]For what it’s worth the UN Palestinian[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]refugees director John Ging has made some[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]harsh comments (well, harsh for the UN),[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]calling the siege ‘profoundly inhumane and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]counter-productive’ (you don’t say).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]A group of dedicated internationals did[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]what they could to send a lifeline and message[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]of solidarity to Gaza. Forty four people[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black](including activists, academics, holocaust[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]survivors and, not to forget, Tony Blair’s[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]sister in law) sailed with the two boats, arriving[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]safely across the 200 miles that separates[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Cyprus from Gaza, despite having their communication[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and navigation gear jammed by an[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]‘outside party’. In the end though, the Israelis[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]decided not to intervene and try to stop the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]two ships - no doubt in large part due to the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]seriously bad PR they’d get from attacking a[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]humanitarian mission (again).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]The ‘Free Gaza’ movement has scored a[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]major victory in challenging the Occupation[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and Israel’s brutal siege of the Strip. It has[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]shown that if the will and the creativity is[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]there it’s possible to defy the Israeli brutality[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and get needed supplies through. Amongst the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]much-needed medical supplies they brought[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]with them were hearing aids for children[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]deafened by the constant explosions and sonic[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]booms from Israeli warplanes.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]The boat’s breaking of the blockade has[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]put Israel on the back foot - either they try[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and stop the boats and look like bullies in[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]front of the world’s press, or let the boats[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]pass through and admit that international[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]public opinion can have an effect on halting[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the Israeli state’s actions.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Huwaida Arraf, a longtime Palestine activist[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]who joined the seaborne siege breakers[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]said, “We recognize that we’re two humble[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]boats, but what we’ve accomplished is to[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]show that average people from around the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]world can mobilize to create change. We do[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]not have to stay silent in the face of injustice.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Reaching Gaza today, there is such a sense[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]of hope, and hope is what mobilises people[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]everywhere.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]www.freegaza.org [URL="http://www.palsolidarity.org"]www.palsolidarity.org[/URL][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
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[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]Back in SchNEWS 593 we reported on the sudden[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]

[SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][LEFT][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]extinction of millions of bees, in countries[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE]
[LEFT][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]all around the world, and the effect it all might[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]have on food crop pollination. In America three[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]quarters of a million colonies (60-70% in some[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]areas) were lost but, despite coining the natty[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]phase ‘colony collapse disorder’, scientists[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]were at loss as to what was causing it. In the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]meantime, the costs for farmers using rented[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]bees to pollinate their crops doubled.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Finally though, a breakthrough has been[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]made and whaddya know! the [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT][/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][LEFT][/left][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][LEFT][/LEFT]
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[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]friends-to-the-people multi-national corporations![/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]

[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Bayer pharmaceutical in this case.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]In recent years they’ve been peddling a[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]new pest-controlling chemical concoction containing[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]a nerve toxin called Clothianidin. The[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]always-slack and amenable-for-a-backhander[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]US Environmental ‘Protection’ Agency duly[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]acknowledging the lack of necessary safety research[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT]



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[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]about submitting it at some time later. With the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]US market at it’s mercy, the pro[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/LEFT]
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[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]could begin to be exploited by Bayer, despite[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT]



[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the French having banned an older relative of[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]

[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the chemical in 1999 and subsequently declining[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]approval for Clothianidin. French researchers[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]found that bees were a lot more sensitive to[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the pesticides than Bayer claimed.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]But sales rocketed, although not under[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the name Clothianidin, as it's not really safesounding[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and snappy. It was rebranded as[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Poncho and now sprayed all over corn, sugar[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]beet and sorghum crops. The nerve toxin gets[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]into all parts of the plant that grows from the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]coated seeds.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Within two years, bees started disappearing[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]in large numbers.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]While Bayer CropScience bleat that[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]studies have shown that bees’ exposure to[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the pesticide is minimal or non-existent if[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the chemical is ‘used properly’, German[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]state-sponsored research recently examined[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]a large number of dead bees and established[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Clothianidin as the culprit, leading to German[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]regulators banning its use three months ago.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]German beekeepers and consumer advocacy[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]groups have launched a complaint to[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]group called the National Resources[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Who’d have thought humble pesticides[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]

[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]could have been bad for the environment.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Whether Bayer ever get more than a slap on[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the wrists (they certainly won’t be returning[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the loot they’ve made) or whether bee populations[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]recover as bee-keepers start trying to[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]keep their bees away from contaminated areas[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]remains to be seen.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]* See Coalition against Bayer Dangers www.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]cbgnetwork.org[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[LEFT][I][B][I][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]There will be an International Day of Solidarity[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]on September 5th for the ten animal rights[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]activists in Austria who have been detained on[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]remand since May 21st after a large-scale and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]violent police raid (See SchNEWS 636).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]After two court rulings, Mr Christian[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Moser was set free, after saying that he would[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]abstain from animal rights activism, and that[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]he had been suffering from depression and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]anxiety after being separated from his wife[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and three young children. The other nine[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]remain in custody.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]The “evidence” the police is relying[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]on has come to light through interrogation.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]This includes: that the VGT (Austrian Association[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Against Animal Factories) meets in[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]private places; that there were 5 emails out[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]of 5000 over an 11 year period that sounded[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]“radical”; and that some books, radio and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]TV programmes which Dr Maritin Balluch[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black](VGT President) was featured in mentioned[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the ALF! Such evidence comes from a billion[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Euro police operation, involving phone[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and email taps of 17 people for over one and[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]a half years, three houses had their entrances[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]them and at least seven homes and of[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT]
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[LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]were bugged. In addition, 20 people had their[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT]



[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]bank accounts monitored and 17 people were[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]

[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]watched and followed for months. All in an[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]attempt to smash the Austrian animal rights[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]movement under Austrian anti-terror laws.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I]
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[/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][LEFT][I][B][I][B][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]* In London there will be a demonstration[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/B][/I][/B][/I]
[LEFT][B][I][B][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]11am-3pm, outside the Austrian Embassy, 18[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia, London,[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I]
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[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]* More info: [URL="http://www.vgt.at/index_en.php"]www.vgt.at/index_en.php[/URL] or[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][URL="http://www.austriasolidarity.com"][COLOR=black]www.austriasolidarity.com[/COLOR][/URL][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]
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[LEFT][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][COLOR=black]Since 2001 over a million people have been killed worldwide by the[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]
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[B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]US-UK War of Terror. EDO MBM/ITT supply weapons components for[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][/left][/B][LEFT]

[SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][LEFT][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the US-UK war machine. Smash EDO has been campaigning for four[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B]
[LEFT][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]and a half years to close down EDO. Our movement is growing, in[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B][/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]
[B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]June this year over 600 people came from around the country to the[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]‘Carnival Against the Arms Trade’. The Carnival managed to reach[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]the Brighton bomb factory despite police attempts to stop us! This[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]time we expect a show of force from the police. We will not let them[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]stop us showing our anger at EDO MBM’s complicity in war crimes...[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[/FONT][/SIZE][B][I][B][I][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5][COLOR=black]Mass Demo against Brighton’s[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][I][B][SIZE=5][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]weapons factory, EDO-MBM/ITT[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/B]
[B][I][B][I][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][URL="http://www.smashedo.org.uk"][COLOR=black]www.smashedo.org.uk[/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B][/LEFT][/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][LEFT][/left][/left][/SIZE][LEFT][LEFT][/LEFT]
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[B][LEFT][B][I][B][I][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black]Wear RED! Bring whistles, banners, drums...[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/I][/B][/I][/B][/LEFT][/B][LEFT][/LEFT]



[B][B][LEFT][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][I][B][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]be ready to make some noise[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/I][/LEFT][/B][LEFT][/left][/B][LEFT][/LEFT]






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