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The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send Assange to a hell-hole prison for the rest of his life, are the reactions of a rapacious system exposed as never before.

A Preston couple, Chris and Susan Field, are among a growing number of home owners objecting to bank fraud and injustice in the courts.
In late December the Fields were the lead story on both A Current Affair and Today Tonight at the same time. They have already been EVICTED from their home, BUT THEY WENT BACK IN a week later and are still living in their own home.
Serena Moeau was also featured on the Current Affair story, about her four year battle against the bank that wants her home.

Torrential Rains and flooding have battered 25 provinces in the Philippines over the last two weeks. Flooding and mudslides have killed 42 people, with 8 injured and 5 people missing. A damage bill to agriculture, housing and infrastructure has been estimated to be 900 million pesos (about US$23million).

Want to vote for the world’s perceived most evil corporations in a prominent naming and shaming exercise?
Six are in the running, in this order:
BP, whose oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico cost 11 people their lives and has killed off vast marine areas for years to come.
Under the misleading name of “Green Diesel", Neste Oil of Finland mass-produces biofuel that results in the clearing of rain forest.
Axpo obtains uranium from the most radioactive place on Earth and has been concealing this fact for years.

Below is a very interesting article from the World Socialist Website that examines how "the Australian floods crisis is laying bare a toxic combination of chronic infrastructure decay, government under-funding, and profit-driven development that has become a danger to the lives and well-being of millions of people.". Just like with Black Saturday, the media and politicians don't want to talk about how factors such as climate change or privitisation worsen "natural" disasters.

Reprinted from the Workers Solidarity Network website. Striking cold store workers at Swift Australia voted against the latest in a string of condescending offers from management today, as Workers Solidarity Network members and union activists assembled at the site. The workers’ supporters blocked trucks throughout the day, sending a message to the company that endless stalling and bad-faith negotiation must end.Confident despite their five-week ordeal, the workers reminded those attempting to cross the picket that Swift cannot be allowed to set this precedent for the mistreatment of workers, and that ‘touch one, touch all’ applies now more than ever.

On Friday January 8, 2011 the Socialist National Executive adopted the following statement in solidarity with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community's campaign against the planned Brighton Bypass bridge.

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A radio - fication of "Global Haywire" - a movie by Bruce and Sam Petty - music by Paris Acid Reflux

Narrator: Tom Baker, voices: Silke Ackerman, Idi Amin, Suad Amiry, Rochi Avital, George Bush, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, J.F. Kennedy, Rami Khouri, George Monbiot, Ronald Reagan, Arundhati Roy, Abdel Said, Armin Saikal, Prof Sarriek, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Tripp, Gore Vidal and more...

GLOBAL CALLOUT (Jan15/16) -
Simultaneous Vigils to mark the first bombardment of the now 20 year ongoing War on the People of Iraq
(SATURDAY Washington D.C. 7pm, London midnight, SUNDAY Baghdad 3 a.m., Sydney 10 a.m.)
STOP THE WAR ON THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
FREE BRADLEY MANNING
http://www.bradleymanning.org/

GLOBAL CALLOUT (Jan15/16) -
Simultaneous Vigils to mark the first bombardment of the now 20 year ongoing War on the People of Iraq
(SATURDAY Washington D.C. 7pm, London midnight, SUNDAY Baghdad 3 a.m., Sydney 10 a.m.)