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Wow... it has been 30 days since we started our OccupyLSX action and I haven't even thought about putting something on my blog. I guess that's because my time is so stretched as I camp for 4-5 days then come home for 2-3 days (to cram work and family love). My income is down to a fifth of its original size once you factor insane £74 train fares, life is looking just a tad wobbly at the moment!So

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I was there outside of the London Stock Exchange on Saturday 15th October 2011 at noon. I was amidst around 3,000 others as part of the ‘Occupy London Stock Exchange’ movement that was in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and so many other Occupy actions across the world on that day.Encountering others with shared views, is like balm for all the times you have had to fight to be heard, believed

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Occupy Wall Street Occupy London Stock Exchange organizer - YouTube

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Intrigued about the future of QR Codes... so got one all my own :)In a nutshell:The info you want to share on a business card 'bar code' - no matter who has your card, where they are or how long they have had it - your details will be current if you ensure you keep your account details accurate.Recipients of your card or even just the QR code - simply scan with their Smart phone to download your

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Tina Louise: Fragmented People, CoagulatingAs each individual, regardless of position or role in society, regardless of title or faith, accepts that he is first and foremost a human being, we begin at last to realise not only the sameness we share with our fellow man but the power we have as individuals; when we are of one intent, together. The mass that is forming looks like ‘we the people’ and

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"Here I am, here to watch the daytime television, to buy the designer clothes, to consume industry-approved placation after placation? No. There is more, and more still." Jacques Fresco

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What Lib Dem members think about the coalition government: LDV poll resultsSo delighted with the results of the survey by the Liberal Democrats, that echo my views/hopes/expectations/concerns. The negative voices against the new coalition government have been loudest in the days following the election… for many of us though, I believe we are prepared to accept that things have indeed changed. The

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Dear Nick & Liberal Democrat Party,Our political system seems designed to confuse and alienate. I have struggled to explain this election to my daughter and her friends who voted for the first time (for the Liberal Democrats) and now feel it was a waste of time.They have asked me how a system could be so unfair, how their votes could mean less than others and how I tolerate this as a legacy. I in

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Labservative is the most perfect reflection of what 'we the people' see - that I can hope to imagine. Sheer brilliance and such a right angle. For so long, the Liberal Democrats have worked to increase awareness through (mostly) good policies, that make sense - but it seemed they could not be heard through all the spin or seen through all the gilt of the other parties. The morphing of the

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I have to question if I have misunderstood what I am seeing as the UK election approaches. I gather information to help me decide who to vote for and keep encountering just three sides: Labour, Conservative ...or none. Is this because of habitual, influenced views on UK politics for some and complete repulsion at the whole damned system for others ...or are voters’ views truly informed about this

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Bill Nighy and Richard Curtis take Robin Hood tax campaign to Parliament | News

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I finally committed to a political party a few years ago - I had a moment of hope that the Liberal Democrats might just be the party that could fix the wrongs. As my membership came up for renewal though, I reflected on my decision. I wrote to Nick Clegg today:.............................................................................Dear Nick,With the political scandals (financial) that have

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The Summer of 2009 was the most unique of summers for me. I may have had only one hour on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square as 1/2400th of Antony Gormley's 'One & Other' project... but the influence of this experience that was begun on 8th June 2009 (when I first read that I had a place), carried through the Summer, until the final hour of the One & Other art installation and beyond.I lived this

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I was thinking tonight about Allies.Groups form around us at times and phases in our lives - we ally with 'youth', when we are them, we ally with 'gender', when gender-issues arise, we ally with our 'religion', when we have it and it differs from some other and we ally with our 'class/social group' when it serves to do so; we ally with whatever reflects our image of our selves at the time.Not

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Dr. Vinay Goyal is an MBBS,DRM,DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist) with over 20 years of clinical experience. He has worked at the Hinduja Hospital, Bombay Hospital, Saifee Hospital, Tata Memorial etc.. Presently, he is heading the Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid clinic at Riddhivinayak Cardiac and Critical Centre, Malad (W). The following message given by him, makes a lot of sense

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I wonder each day, in many moments, how it is for whichever Plinthian is on the 4th plinth. My hour was at 11am on Sunday 12th July and the ‘come down’ goes on despite the absence of a cherry picker. Click blog entry for original on One & Other website

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So it is that some of us have found ourselves to be figments of Antony Gormley’s rich imagination; fragments of an artwork that will be 100 days in the making, whilst simultaneously being dismantled hour by hour. We ‘others’ seem to be akin to mercury, as we begin to find each other here on the internet; scattered on blogs and ‘Tweets’ and status updates. The mood of those chosen seems to reflect

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I once enquired about standing as a PPC (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) - went to an informative day and read everything. Then I decided I wouldn't fit what was required. I didn’t give much thought to anyone else feeling the same until today when I read this:From Charlotte Gore“Amongst the many reasons why I would make a terrible PPC my personal favourite is this blog. Oh, it’ll take a day

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This democratisation of artDoesnt start on a plinth Doesnt start with meDoesnt even start with Mr Gormley.It starts when we look upAnd evolves as we look inTo find the artistry within ‘We’. WeWho are more than just workersAnd daughtersAnd soldiersAnd sons.We Who are as unique as each new day’s sun.We Who have beauty however concealed.We Who are art..We the people

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Which cause, which fault, which action, which dilemma? Each day the news feeds or denies us information about terrorist threats, Iraqi deaths, police powers, police misuse of powers, government intelligence, government stupidity, Muslim extremists, democratic solutions, financial boom and financial bust and all the while we absorb this array of selected informataion - without feeling that we have

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Where would we be if 'we the people' hadn't been filming that day? -Ian Tomlinson would be quietly buried, having died of a heart attack-The protestors would have been remembered as having thrown a 'barrage of bottles' at those police trying to 'help' Ian Tomlinson-The images of the G20 protests that we would recall... would be of 'extreme protestors' smashing windows-The police and government

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-71189037925736397302009-04-17T16:46:00.001+01:002009-04-17T16:49:10.216+01:00

The claim that no CCTV caught this (there are photos of 3 cameras in the area); the rushed and convenient first post mortem and the initial police denials of any wrong-doing, coupled with claims of 'barrage of bottles' thrown - are all clear indicators of a cover-up that reached out from the police to other areas including medical examiner and media. That this has all been revealed because people

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-13856150053174629292009-04-09T08:55:00.004+01:002010-01-06T22:45:16.890Z

Excellent article offering insight into the IPCC willingness to accept police at their word.How Metropolitan police tried to manage a death http://bit.ly/mSyKX

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-28417621537501684762009-04-07T19:39:00.001+01:002009-04-07T19:39:14.806+01:00

Extraordinary footage filmed at G20 protests in London of baton-wielding police attacking the man who died. read more | digg story

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In light of the G20 demonstrations and police tactics - it is worth looking at who has what rights under these circumstances:------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some information and tips on the law, your rights, and how to react when police have enforced a "Section 60" order on a demonstration or picket. At some recent demonstrations, police have cordoned

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-47564006521628681442009-03-18T11:19:00.001Z2009-03-18T11:19:46.023Z

Quite astounding how approaching this growing problem with a very human, non-medical solution brings such instant and obvious results. read more | digg story

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...what is it good for?Really, what is it good for (apart from arms sales)?

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Watching the news is like witnessing a mugging and being unable to shout for help. It is astounding that we are fed statement after statement about how our taxes will be used to save the banks - the banks say they will only start behaving like banks if they get the money ... not 'like' extortion, this IS extortion.The figures of millions and billions and trillions just roll off the tongues of

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http://cspanjunkie.org/February 12, 2009 C-SPANread more | digg storyFascinating to see a politician saying so much that I feel.

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The video the title links to is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, with music by Moby and it draws attention the stark realities of the ways of life we live alongside. Regardless of whether we look, regardless of whether we turn away - there are professions and people fulfilling them, that are beyond comprehension.Our demands as consumers are usually blamed for these things - so as consumers, we need

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Well worth a listen http://www.wimp.com/bigvoice/

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Just reading about Nick Clegg asking Gordon Brown to close the loopholes that allow the wealthiest to avoid taxes... Brown's answer included putting the ball in some other country's court whilst waiting for international law to come into play (does he have to wait for everyone else in the world? Can't we ever act AS a country FOR our country?) - plus the fun last-line-dig (like children do)

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-66702728099568376002009-02-05T13:44:00.003Z2009-02-05T14:20:15.623Z

What bothers me a great deal is that we are constantly offered a choice of two political parties - never are we given the hope that if we all voted with our desire (rather than to get one bad party out to be replaced by a slightly less bad party), then we could get a complete change of the appalling status quo that has yet to work well for the people of this country.When I wonder how government

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I have been really fortunate to have travelled and lived in lots of places. My mum was in the horse racing business and it was through her work that my childhood and teenage years took me to wonderful, new countries. A love that stays with me and moves me too often for my daughter’s sanity! When aged about 9, she sweetly asked where ’home’ was – I answered that if the dog and I were there….then

Tina Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434465515735523539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3286911409957533393.post-25998945084226332112009-01-28T18:42:00.005Z2009-02-10T22:55:10.577Z

Today on the net:I was getting involved in forwarding videos about peace and was asked to join a group seeking justice for Palestine - I didn't join but felt I should explain why.............................................................Thanks so much for including me in your wonderful postings xI feel I should explain why I rarely join groups that are one 'side' or another... I refuse to

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Having got so curious I simply had to investigate 'Twitter' ,,,and then ended up with a Blog as well. No idea why Ikept following the little links, but I did and I'm here in Blogland, lost yet unwilling to admit defeat.Not that I have time for this. With Facebook, two websites, a literary site. political sites, activists sites and all sorts of other online/community activities - my fingers are

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Written in the run up to an historic election..................................................................................Political parties tempt the voters - 'we the people' - with lip service that pulls at our individual heart strings and plays to the masses. They say the words they know will pull us, sway us to them – without completing any pictures that would lead us to the realisation

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