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Residents in East London have lost their legal battle to prevent missiles being stuck on top of their block. The military (who knew about this for many years and did not bother to tell the residents) reasoned thus: we want to put them there and we don't want to put them anywhere else, and not a hint as to WHY they want to put them anywhere. Does Al Qaeda have an air force? Sure, they might (in a million years) hijack a plane, but where's the sense in shooting a plane down over a city of seven million people? 


With this in mind - what rights do we have left? London is an occupied city.

News: many and various

Sometimes I feel like a right sour old git, but sometimes I have the courage of my convictions, like when I see It's Time to Democratise Money Creation . I just think: "Is it...? Is it really?"

Meanwhile in Chile military service is obligatory, public education is not.

Chile has given nearly 57,000 18-year-olds one month to report for potential military duty, saying the government needs to fill gaps in its armed forces because a nationwide student protest movement has reduced the number of volunteers it usually gets.

Chilean government is preparing for war on someone, probably the Chileans.

New spaceport opens, new tax-funded (but privately owned) $209m spaceport offering $200,000 2 and 1/2 hour flights, 2 and 1/2 hour flights with 5 minutes zero gravity, new spaceport opens for test flight. We at TtSD are all in favour of this, on one condition, they set the controls for the heart of the sun. Blastoff! Feel the world getting lighter!

Follow coverage of the Dale Farm evictions, LIVE! Watch marauding police and bailiffs batter ordinary people, LIVE! Watch people's homes and lives being destroyed, LIVE! Then go back to your business as if nothing's happened.