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Keep Space for Peace Week: October 5 - 12

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Keep Space for Peace Week

International Days of Protest to
Stop the Militarization of Space

October 5 - 12 2013

 

 

No Missile Defense
No to NATO Expansion
End Afghanistan Occupation
Stop the Drones Surveillance & Killing
No Nuclear Power in Space or on Earth
End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy
Convert the Military Industrial Complex

 

 

October 5-12
LOCAL ACTIONS (list in formation)

 

Gambia pulls out of 'neo-colonial' Commonwealth

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PressTV - 10/03/13, MN/AS/MHB

 

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The Gambian government has announced it is withdrawing from the Commonwealth, saying it will "never be a member of any neo-colonial institution."
 

"The general public is hereby informed that the government of the Gambia has left the Commonwealth of Nations with immediate effect," the government said in a statement issued on Wednesday, AFP reported.
 

"(The) government has withdrawn its membership of the British Commonwealth and decided that Gambia will never be a member of any neo-colonial institution and will never be a party to any institution that represents an extension of colonialism," the statement added.

 

Video and more: PressTV.ir

 

Vatican Bank To Shut All Embassy Accounts To Halt Money Laundering

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Source: Zero Hedge - 9/30/13, Tyler Durden

 

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Followng Pope Francis' demand that the Vatican Bank review its procedures, Reuters reports that the bank is likely to close all accounts held by foreign embassies, following concerns about large cash deposits and withdrawals by the missions of Iran, Iraq and Indonesia, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The private bank IOR has around EUR7.1 billion in assets but is concerned it could be "an unwitting vehicle for money laundering and other illicit finances."

 

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Pentagon Spent $5 Billion on Weapons on the Eve of the Shutdown

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FP - John Reed, 10/01/13

 

 

The Pentagon pumped billions of dollars into contractors' bank accounts on the eve of the U.S. government's shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed.

All told, the Pentagon awarded 94 contracts yesterday evening on its annual end-of-the-fiscal-year spending spree, spending more than five billion dollars on everything from robot submarines to Finnish hand grenades and a radar base mounted on an offshore oil platform. To put things in perspective, the Pentagon gave out only 14 contracts on September 3, the first workday of the month.

More: ForeignPolicy.com

 

10,000 Walruses Gather on Shore as Ice Retreats

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Discovery.com - Kieran Mulvaney, 10/02/13

 

 

If you see a walrus in the wild, chances are you’ll see other walruses with it. A lot of other walruses. And it doesn’t matter if the ice floe that they have chosen as the spot on which to rest is seemingly far too small to accommodate such a massive quantity of blubber and tusk: Like a Great Dane that doesn’t know it isn’t supposed to be a lap dog, they will somehow squeeze their collective bulk onto it. It can be, candidly, an amusing sight: a floating platform of ice barely visible beneath a mound of giant pinnipeds.

‘Waddington Six’ to go on trial next week

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Source: Drone Wars UK - Chris Cole, 9/30/13

 

The Waddington Six: (from left) Revd Keith Hebden, Chris Cole, Fr Martin Newell, Penny Walker, Susan Clarkson and Henrietta Cullinan.

The Waddington Six: (from left) Revd Keith Hebden, Chris Cole, Fr Martin Newell, Penny Walker, Susan Clarkson and Henrietta Cullinan.

 

Next Monday (7th October) six peace activists will go on trial at Lincoln Magistrates Court following an anti-drone war protest at RAF Waddington in June 2013.   The six, Susan Clarkson, Chris Cole, Henrietta Cullinan, Keith Hebden, Martin Newell and Penny Walker, were originally charged with conspiracy and aggravated trespass, but these charges were dropped and replaced with a single charge of criminal damage to the perimeter fence.  All six intended to plead ‘not guilty’ arguing that their actions were reasonable in the circumstances.

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show

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The Guardian - James Ball, 9/30/13

 

NSA internet network cable

Any computer metadata picked up by NSA collection systems is routed to the Marina database, the guide explains. Photograph: Felix Clay
 

The National Security Agency is storing the online metadata of millions of internet users for up to a year, regardless of whether or not they are persons of interest to the agency, top secret documents reveal.

ATF “Misplaced” 420 Million Cigarettes and “Misused” $162 Million From Raids

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IntelliHub - JG Vibes, 10/01/13

 

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As the “government shutdown” fear mongering is parroted by the mainstream media, many people are actually stopping to question the necessity of all these senseless and expensive bureaucracies. 

Recently the ATF was faced with an audit and it was discovered that they “lost” over 420 million cigarettes and $162 million.

More: Intellihub.com

 

Romania's Spy Agency Monitors Gold Mine Protests

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ABC News - 9/30/13, Alison Mutler/AP

People shout slogans on a rainy evening during a protest against plans to open Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in Romania, in Bucharest on September 29. Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

 

Romania's domestic spy agency has been monitoring a planned Canadian gold mine for years, its chief acknowledged Monday, saying that some demonstrations against the project had been manipulated by people he called "eco-anarchists."

On Sunday, however, President Traian Basescu said the protests opposing the mine were genuine while rallies in support of the mine in Transylvania were "fabricated."

More: ABCNews.go.com

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