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NOVANEWS Dear , The government wants to use the budget deficit as an excuse to make massive changes to the NHS. Experts have warned that these plans are a big threat to our services and will lead to privatisation of the NHS. Old Tory dreams of privatising the health service could finally come true.[1] No one voted for this. During the election, 'Freemason' David Cameron told us the NHS was "safe in his hands"?? .[2] But now, Cameron thinks he has the momentum to push through an extreme programme with the backing of hardliners and private health companies. Together we can make him think again. Right now the 'Con-Dem' government is weighing up how much they can get away with.  How deep can they cut? How much privatisation can they force through at the same time?  We can't leave this debate t...

NOVANEWS August 25, 2010 Many thanks to an anonymous contributor calling themselves "zionist thug" in the comments to an earlier post for drawing my attention to this astonishing apology by Jonathan Hoffman, a Co-Vice Chair of the UK's Zionist Federation, in his Jewish Chronicle hosted blog: On my Jewish Chronicle blog I described a photograph taken on 14 August 2010 at the pro-Ahava demonstration as "fraudulent". I also wrote "That photo was 'Photoshopped' -- and it is bloody obvious that it was 'Photoshopped' I do not discuss but I do identify lies and fraudulent Photoshopped photos." These statements were entirely without foundation and I had made no attempt to check their accuracy. I accept that the photo was absolutely genuine and had not been tampered with in any way. The photograp...

NOVANEWS Nobel Peace Laureate Slams BBC Program on Israel’s Massacre on the Mediterranean August 23, 2010  by Michael Leon   Freedom Flotilla: Massacre at Sea   Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com)  Dear BBC Panorama Team  I write to you regarding your programme of 16th August, 2010, about the Freedom Flotilla and particularly the killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli Navy Seals on the ship MV “Mavi Marmara’, on 3lst May, 2010.  I have been campaigning for the rights of Palestinians for over ten years.  I have visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories many times.  I was part of the Freedom Flotilla in May on the MV ‘Rachel Corrie’, my third journey on a Free Gaza boat. I am deeply disappointed at the misrepr...

NOVANEWS Brighton Magistrates rule that Stalls having a Collection Box do NOT Require a Permit from the local Council. At a day long hearing at Brighton magistrates court, Tony Greenstein was found not guilty of collecting money contrary to s.5 of the Factories and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1916. Brighton magistrates decided that because the Council's implementing regulations stipulate that each collector has to have their own collection box, Mr Greenstein could not be guilty of being a ‘collector’ under the Act. On most stalls there is usually just one collective tin. The Defence argued strongly that the effect of making stalls apply for a collection permit, when permits are only for one off events or at most a series of events, would be to make it more difficult to run campaigns such ...

NOVANEWS Legal history in the making at Brighton magistrates' court today, where local activist Tony Greenstein has been arraigned by the rozzers under the Miscellaneous Provisions Act (1916) for running a stall last January for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which had a tin for donations to the cause. They claim the collection was unauthorised, but Tony's arguing no other groups have been prosecuted, and anyway he's been running the stall for years unmolested. He's got legal aid too, so the forces of law'n'order may live to regret taking him on.

NOVANEWS August 21, 2010 Israel's London embassy promotes PSC event I wasn't sure if it was a hoax or not but this report appeared in a Jerusalem Post blog by an Isi Leibler: A number of British Jews wrote to me complaining bitterly that the Israeli London Embassy was promoting a tour by Haaretz journalist Gidon Levy. For those who are unaware, Levy is regarded as one of the most extreme and outspoken of the Israeli anti-Zionist journalists, notorious for demonizing Israel and supporting the most anti-Israeli groups. He repeatedly brackets Israeli behavior with that of the Nazis, accuses Israel of practicing apartheid and committing war crimes, and defines himself as anti-Zionist. He accuses Meretz, Peace Now and others on the far left in Israel of lacking the courage to open "the 1948 ...

NOVANEWS  Dear Mr MALI   Thank you for your feedback regarding ‘Panorama – Death in the Med’ as broadcast on 16 August. Please be assured that your concerns were forwarded to the programme’s production team. Kind Regards BBC Audience Services We understand the strength of feeling regarding the Israeli Defence Force’s operation against the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. We recognise the complexity of the subject and note its ramifications within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a whole. This programme intended to explore the considerable confusion about what actually happened on the Mavi Marmara on the day in question. Israel has been accused of breaking international law by seizing a Turkish ship. Israel says the protesters were terrorists. Turkey insists they were innocent...

NOVANEWS Action Alert: Death on the Med - The Next Steps  Thank you to all who wrote to the BBC following its Panorama broadcast on Monday (16 Aug). Many of you will have by now received a reply from BBC Audience Services, justifying the broadcast about Zio=Nazi's deadly assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as 'balanced and impartial'. This is not good enough, and we're now asking you to take the next steps needed to keep up the pressure on Zionist BBC and bring it to account for this shockingly biased piece of reporting. What to do next:   Write back to the Zionist BBC  Stage 1:  a) Tell them you're not satisfied with their response, and that you now want your complaint to be dealt with formally by Zionist BBC Executive.  b) Include the case number given to you by Zionist BBC Audience Se...

NOVANEWS August 20, 2010  The Guardian reported today that two Israeli groups have set up training courses in  subversive Wikipedia editing aiming  to 'show the other side' of the Jewish State. Those who lend their pen to the Palestinian cause know about Wikipedia Jews, a term that was coined a few years ago. It refers to a bunch of rabid and crypto Zionists who constantly vandalise encyclopaedia entries to do with Palestine, Palestinian activists and Israeli atrocities. Click to read more ... http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-united-against-knowledge.html Print Article Email Article Share Article

NOVANEWS August 17, 2010 by: www.birminghamresist.wordpress.com A statement by Birmingham Socialist ResistanceThe erection of over 200 CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) spy cameras in the Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath areas of the city, including 72 covert or hidden cameras, combines state racism, Islamophobia, the surveillance state and the “war on terror” all rolled up into one. They should be rejected completely and taken down immediately.  This “Project Champion”, is a police operation, funded by anti-terrorist money and was installed without consultation with the local communities. Not that this lack of consultation was an oversight of course. If there had not been a huge outcry of anger from the local, mainly Muslim, community, the cameras would all be smoothly insta...