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Protesters Rise Against Italy s Austerity Push
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/14-5

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UK unemployment increases to 2.51m

According to the official figures published on Wednesday, the rate of unemployment in Britain has faced its largest increase in nearly two years.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199149.html



UK Unions Plot a Winter of Discontent

Unions Ballot More Than a Million Workers for Biggest General Strike Since 1926.
http://bit.ly/oAiTBN


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By Nicholas Watt

Former prime minister warns that Middle East would be 'very, very badly destabilised 'if' Iran acquired nuclear weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29076.htm



How UK put Libyan dissidents under house arrest at Gaddafi s behest following Blair's 'deal in the desert'

Top-secret documents discovered abandoned in ambassador s residence by the Mail on Sunday reveal Blair government s double-dealing.

http://bit.ly/pDpAbn



British firms clamor to get a foot in the door in Libya:

Lord David Trefgarne, chairman of the LBBC, said members of his organization are keen to join him on an upcoming reconnaissance trip to the Libyan capital later this month, even with the UK s Foreign Office advising against all travel to Libya.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/06/165620.html



Tony Blair s six secret visits to Col Gaddafi

Tony Blair s close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six private meetings with the dictator in the three years after he left Downing Street.

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British soldiers beat to death an Iraqi civilian in an act of 'unjustified and brutal violence' that left a 'very great stain' on Britain s armed forces, an inquiry concluded on Thursday.

http://arabnews.com/world/article499211.ece



It is not the brutality that is 'systematic', it is the lying about it

It's the lying about it: Baha Mousa s nose was broken. There was blood above the corpse s mouth. The skin had been ripped off his wrists. According to his friend, Baha had been crying and pleading for his life from beneath his hood.

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Former News International executives insist that chairman was told of incriminating hacking email

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Hail to the True Victors of Rupert s Revolution

By John Pilger

Nicholas Sarkozy, a Napoleonic Islamophobe whose intelligence services almost certainly set up the coup against Gaddafi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29066.htm


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No Surprise Here: A New Scandal at News Corporation

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: 'I see that the Murdoch empire is facing another scandal - this time involving misleading advertisers rather than readers, by inflating circulation numbers.... So the Murdoch people lie routinely about politics and policy; they breach all normal rules of conduct by hacking into people s phones. They really should curb their proclivities when it comes to advertisers - I mean, truth and justice are disposable, but this is business!'

http://www.truth-out.org/no-surprise-here-new-scandal-news-corporation/1319562344



British Panel Finds Murdoch Unfit to Lead Media Empire

John F. Burns and Alan Cowell, The New York Times News Service: ''In a damning report after months of investigation into the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch s British newspapers, a parliamentary panel here concluded on Tuesday that he was 'not a fit person' to run a huge international company, amplifying a public outcry against him, but threatening further bruising divisions within the political establishment.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8840-british-panel-finds-murdoch-unfit-to-lead-media-empire



Rupert Murdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta

John Pilger, Truthout: ''Although [Murdoch] is now one of the West s accredited demons, thanks to his phone-hackers, he is but part of a media system that will not change when his empire is broken up.... A Melbourne journalist, Paul Chadwick, one of the few to rebel against Murdoch, described the media climate as 'akin to a small group of generals who sit above the main institutions ... a junta in all but name.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10104-rupert-murdoch-may-be-a-convenient-demon-but-the-media-is-a-junta



Will the FCC Give Rupert Murdoch the Powerful Gift of Media Consolidation?

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering changes to media cross-ownership rules that watchdogs say could good give Rupert Murdoch's massive conglomerate News Corporation the go-ahead to acquire more big media outlets.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12882-will-the-fcc-give-rupert-murdoch-the-powerful-gift-of-media-consolidation



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By Dan Sabbagh

Tony Blair, is godfather to Rupert Murdoch's nine-year-old daughter, Grace. The former Labour prime minister was present at the star-studded baptism of the child on the banks of the Jordan, at the spot where Jesus is said to have undergone the same ceremony.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29033.htm



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The Government faces a legal challenge next week over its decision not to hold a coroner s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.

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Call for full inquest into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly

Former Tory leader Michael Howard tonight put himself at the head of a powerful all-party campaign to force a full inquest into the death of Min­istry of Defence weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

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Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly

Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field... just like his friend.

http://bit.ly/JbDzM7



Death of Dr David Kelly ten years on

Gilligan says he was right about 'dodgy dossier' and blames government for outing of Kelly as source

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Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise 'unhelpful' term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/02/mi5-war-on-terror-criticism


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Accountability of Intelligence Services Worse, Despite MI5 Chief s Claims
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/10/09



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Die Unruhen in Großbritannien sind für den britischen Journalisten und Buchautor Mark Fisher eine Manifestation der umfassenden Krise des Neoliberalismus. Interview von Johannes Springer in der Jungle-World vom 25.08.2011 http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2011/34/43864.html


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John Pilger, Truthout: 'For the young at the bottom of the pyramid of wealth and patronage and poverty that is modern Britain, mostly the black, the marginalized and resentful, the envious and hopeless, there is never surprise. Their relationship with authority is integral to their obsolescence as young adults. Half of all black British youth between the ages of 18 and 24 are unemployed, the result of deliberate policies since Margaret Thatcher oversaw the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in British history. Forget plasma TVs, this was panoramic looting.'

http://www.truth-out.org/damn-it-or-fear-it-forbidden-truth-theres-insurrection-britain/1314021994

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Looters in suits

Three years ago this week, Lehman Brothers crashed. Since then, Britain s bankers have learnt nothing and have been let off the hook again.

http://bit.ly/plCcFN


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British police are cracking down on users of social media for allegedly encouraging mass uprising during a time ripe with riots. One message on Facebook even got two Brits four years behind bars recently for what they say was just a drunk joke. Now human rights groups are sounding the alarm, saying the courts are over-reacting by dishing out penalties which are far too harsh.

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