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earlier that britain would be taking cluster bombs out of service a spokesman for the british foreign office had said one of the sticking points was expected to be the issue of interoperability this involves deciding how to deal with a situation where troops from a country that has signed the treaty are involved in coalition operations with forces from a country that has not another point of contention was the degree of obligation that should be placed on signatories to clear unexploded sub munitions the bbc s paul adams said he understood the agreement would effectively outlaw the two cluster munitions currently held by uk forces but would not prevent countries from developing future generations of weapons based on the concept of sub munitions he said it appeared the uk was seeking a deal which other countries not present in dublin notably the us might be persuaded to accept later the united states has not sent an envoy to the conference but the uk s involvement may increase pressure on the us to become involved the us says that the proposed convention would hinder humanitarian activities because its military has such weapons on its inventories stephen mull an assistant secretary of state said any country that signs the convention in effect would make it impossible for the united states or any of our other allies who rely on these weapons to participate in these humanitarian exercises israel pakistan china and russia along with the us are among the main producers and stockpilers of the weapon they all oppose any ban britain did not initially express support for the ban but appears to have changed tack the us says that the proposed convention would hinder humanitarian activities war really is peace to the empire see the list of users producers and stockpilers during the lebanon offensive in 06 the uk refused to back the ban so assuming there is not overwhelming small print and this is not a big load of spin this is a significant change of policy so bye bye to the lsraeli designed m85 artillery weapon used during the 2003 invasion of iraq and in attacks on lebanon two years ago and the m73 part of a weapons system for apache helicopters but lots of work to do the empire and its zionist chum are still cluster crazy and these countries need massive clean ups areas with significant unexploded cluster bomb submunitions nagorno karabakh lebanon indochina especially in laos and central vietnam s former demilitarized zone kosovo afghanistan iraq western sahara countries that have been affected by cluster munitions include afghanistan albania bosnia herzegovina cambodia chad croatia eritrea ethiopia iraq israel kuwait laos lebanon montenegro pakistan russia chechnya saudi arabia serbia including kosovo sierra leone sudan syria tajikistan vietnam western sahara posted in imperialism militarism war criminals tags politics war 3 comments criminal regime state sponsor of terror expand nuclear ambitions 28 may 2008 rickb gordon brown has said the uk needs to increase its nuclear power capacity raising the prospect of plants being built in new locations the prime minister said that with oil prices soaring it was time to be more ambitious for nuclear plans posted in imperialism war criminals tags nulabour politics comments off on criminal regime state sponsor of terror expand nuclear ambitions always enough troops to keep aung san suu kyi contained 27 may 2008 rickb at the start of her current period of house arrest in 2003 her detention was for six months at a time the regime is once again breaking its own laws by extending her detention for a total of more than five years the state protection law 1975 under which she is held only allows the regime to detain her for a maximum of five years this being the anniversary of the 1990 elections the military lost yet oddly in 2008 they have been in power for 46 years apppb briefing says aid access still in limbo it s clear what the junta s priorities are control about 20 police vehicles and military trucks have been deployed with personnel in uniform near the nld headquarters and repression eighteen members of the national league for democracy have been detained in rangoon on their way to the house of detained nld leader daw aung san suu kyi the un and asean push on with trying to assess relief needs nargis hit 25 days ago left 134 000 people dead or missing and another 2 4m clinging to survival donors pledged nearly 50m 25m in aid at a landmark summit in rangoon on sunday rice prices have spiraled out of control in northern burma which is partly dependant on rice transported from southern burma following the devastation caused by cyclone nargis in irrawaddy river delta the rice bowl of burma local sources said a sack of ordinary rice called chin tong has increased to over 24 000 kyat est us 21 3 from about 10 000 kyat us 9 in january conditions ripe for disease in irrawaddy delta relief group church world service has reported finding elderly and child survivors of the cyclone dying from dysentery in some areas because many have no choice but to drink dirty water other groups have detected a number of ailments including pneumonia malaria cholera and diarrhea save the children uk has warned that some 30 000 children in the delta were severely malnourished before cyclone nargis struck with thousands facing starvation in the next two or three weeks the monsoon season which begins next month adds yet another challenge tensions have been raised between cyclone refugees and government authorities in irrawaddy divisions as officials have continued to force storm victims back to their villages in bogalay where women from the central national league for democracy went on sunday to give help only one tenth of the cyclone victims who came seeking refuge remain the rest having been forcibly relocated to other areas you can make a donation through the mae tao clinic donation page please put cylcone nargis disaster relief in the purpose field posted in burma tags burma comments off on always enough troops to keep aung san suu kyi contained don t know what you ve got til it s gone 27 may 2008 rickb you can take a coffee can and turn it into a rocket ship you see you create the story if you have the story and you want act out and then you create the object to act it out television turns that around backwards and says you can t have this story unless you buy the object the exact opposite of what we re born to do posted in capitalism culture media tags culture comments off on don t know what you ve got til it s gone infection 27 may 2008 rickb guidelines on commercial sector donations of health equipment should be clarified after concerns were raised over a two tier nhs an msp has urged it follows the gifting of one of the world s best ct scanners to edinburgh by the royal bank of scotland rbs staff will have access to the machine for 25 of the time but nhs lothian said it would not be a problem professor allyson pollock of edinburgh university said the move undermined the nhs principle of equal access for all prof pollock head of the university s centre for international public health policy called it philanthropy with conditions prof pollock told bbc radio s good morning scotland programme the whole point is that we have equal access on the basis of need introducing this system of public private partnership actually undermines that because some people are going to have better access with lesser needs than others she called it a disturbing development and questioned whether there was a commercial contract underpinning the gift nhs lothian medical director charles swainson said there was no contract but simply an agreement about how the scanner would be used and dismissed prof pollock s concerns as nonsense scottish conservative health spokeswoman mary scanlon said we should be thanking rbs for this generous donation yes you obsequious buffoon bow and scrape and thank the great corporation for scraps off the table rbs profits 10 3bn 20 4bn i m right with you prof pollock yet she is alone the health authority the political parties all love it to bits a corporation not actually giving but simply allowing others to use its machine three quarters of the time that s generous but it is not a donation this is how the mushroom soup works after decades of neoliberal privatisation under both parties it has not become acceptable we are acclimatised acculturated to private capital have domain in the nhs they should take the scanner tell rbs to fuck off patients get access on need period what are rbs gonna do take it back look like right bastards to all except in the slowly changed culture people are led to think this private infection is ok the corporate apparatchiks of rbs should have preferential access they paid for it they are in the rbs tribe they are better looked after than you with corporate collaboration comes great benefits once upon a time such cheek would not even be considered if you were to help out a hospital the most you would feel entitled to ask for is the thing be named after you now though in our church of the free market theocracy push those peasants out the way superior corporate citizen s want their treatment luckily i have a much cheaper piece of equipment that can allow you to examine the insides of a banker s body ya feel me posted in church of the free market class war corporatism tags corporatism health neoliberalism comments off on infection academics for hicham yezza 27 may 2008 rickb from freehichamyezza wordpress com as concerned academics at the school of politics and international relations at the university of nottingham who have been involved in the campaign for academic freedom and the release of hicham yezza in the wake of the false terror arrests at our university last week we request that the registrar dr paul greatrix amends the statement that he is currently circulating in response to letters of concern sent by academics from across the world to the university of nottingham the statement contains a number of inconsistencies and we feel it necessary to point these out both to dr greatrix and to the wider public firstly dr greatrix seeks to label the coverage of the incident in the media and in the times higher education supplement in particular as inaccurate however all the evidence he provides for this claim are the two minor points that the administrative member of staff involved in this case was not working at the department of engineering and that there was no armed response by the police during the arrests at the university these facts however are in themselves irrelevant when compared to the fact that the academic freedom and civil liberties of a student and a member of staff have been grossly violated indeed it should be noted that the times higher education supplement was substantially correct in its coverage of the case finally it should also be noted that the claim that there was an armed police response to the campus stems from the bbc news reports on the incident last week which do not seem to have attracted a correction from the university secondly dr greatrix claims that this was a low level investigation this claim however does not stand up to scrutiny students had their bags searched by uniformed police before entering the trent building the day after the arrests the student and member of staff that was arrested was held from wednesday may 14 until tuesday may 20 without charge in spite of the fact that rizwaan sabir s supervisor and personal tutor both confirmed to the police that the document they had downloaded and printed was legitimate research material on friday may 16 the homes of the two men were raided they had their computers impounded and they have still not been returned the family of rizwaan sabir was ejected from their home during the police s search several colleagues in the school of politics were interviewed for hours by the police a low key investigation would have resolved this matter within hours by contacting the relevant members of staff at the school of politics and international relations indeed a low key investigation to use dr greatrix s term would have been conducted by the university itself without any police involvement at all thirdly dr greatrix claims that the university has contacted those involved in this matter to offer support and discuss the incident that took place in fact none of the staff members interviewed by the police have been contacted by the university with the offer of support moreover the university has offered nothing in terms of official support or counsel to rizwaan sabir and hicham yezza thus neglecting the welfare and well being of its staff and students to the extent that rizwaan sabir and hicham yezza have received support it has been from the members of staff and the students that dr greatrix s statement appear to be slurring fourthly the claim that the times higher education supplement is wrong in its claim that the university does not deem the document that led to the arrests to be relevant research material is unconvincing the university did in fact state that it deemed the document illegitimate and only at a later stage retracted this and replaced with the modified statement that it was appropriate for academic members of staff to be in possession of such materials this is of course in itself a deeply problematic argument due to the simple fact that the material is available to the general public via perfectly respectable web sites we find it surprising that a university would express such disregard of the rights of engaged citizens to educate themselves on issues of public concern the conduct of the university in this matter stands in stark contrast to dr greatrix s claim that the university is committed to ensuring that its staff and students are free to study and work in a safe secure and tolerant environment and that the university works towards ensuring that everyone at nottingham is able to enjoy freedom of speech and expression within the law in fact the university has been deeply reluctant to enter into any kind of dialogue with students and staff that are concerned about the status of academic freedom and civil liberties it is clear to us therefore that the university of nottingham will not be an open and free arena for debate and dissent until an apology is offered to rizwaan sabir and hicham yezza and until the university guarantees the academic freedom civil liberties and human rights of its staff and students alf nilsen bettina renz vanessa pupavac posted in human rights tags freedom hicham yezza human rights comments off on academics for hicham yezza free hich latest 26 may 2008 rickb hicham has lived in nottingham for 13 years while he studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and worked at the university where he has built up a large network of close friends the huge campaign to prevent his deportation is a testament to this he served as a member of 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