English Defence League come unstuck in Barking and Whitechapel
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[ Read Full Story ]Sea Shepherd and the Japanese fleet are in the Southern Ocean in their 8th annual showdown. Three Australian protesters are transferred to the Australian customs ACV Ocean Protector after gatecrashing the Shonan Maru 2.
[ Read Full Story ]Sleepy Sussex village becomes front line in UK fracking ban fight
[ Read Full Story ]French citizens hit the streets after fatal police brutality and the attempt to conceal it.
[ Read Full Story ]Shell to Sea keep on the pressure as woodland is cleared for gas pipeline.
[ Read Full Story ]Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.
[ Read Full Story ]On Wednesday 21st December Brighton squatters beat back bailiffs with a hail of crockery.
[ Read Full Story ]Sea Shepherd activists kit themselves out with a spy drone
[ Read Full Story ]Britain prepares for its biggest peacetime military mobilisation of all time. Iran invasion imminent? Libya campaign part 2? Not quite...
[ Read Full Story ]A squatted courthouse, a group calling itself 'Occupy Justice'- all of this will sound eerily familiar to oldtime SchNEWS hacks. Occupy London is going strong in three locations
[ Read Full Story ]Occupy Wall Street takes back Zuccotti Park to see in 2012
[ Read Full Story ]SchNEWS muses on the crazy year that was 2011 and prepares for impending doom in 2012
[ Read Full Story ]And the winner is...
[ Read Full Story ]Russian state clampdown on dissident activists
[ Read Full Story ]The Israeli boycott campaign (See SchNEWS 798) has struck again, as French multinational Veolia were thwarted in attempts to land a £485 million contract to provide waste treatment services in West London.
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[ Read Full Story ]EDL leader cries wolf as he blames enhanced blackeye on Muslim hordes.
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[ Read Full Story ]Since December 16th, major clashes have erupted between the state and the oil workers of Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan.
[ Read Full Story ]Three Ukrainian activists return home after being caught, abducted and abused by KGB security forces after taking part in a protest in Minsk, Belarus.
[ Read Full Story ]AS TORY MP LETS THE KHAT OUT
According to Tory MP Mark Lancaster, some 10 million tons of the drug khat are imported into the UK every single week. For those not down with the youth or up with their obscure drug lore, khat is a mildly stimulating, fairly pointless bitter narcotic grass, used by many East African men.
The Right Honourable Halfwit for Milton Keynes was just doing what comes natural to a Tory backbencher- trying to whip up some anti-drug, anti-immigrant hysteria during a House of Commons Early Day Motion- when he casually dropped the 10m figure. Ten million tons of khat means 200kg of the the stuff for every man woman and child in the UK, every single week. That's a lot of chewing to get through.
According to (way off the) Mark Lancaster, the UK consumes about ten times the amount of khat that it burns in coal (about 1m tonnes per week). Either some people are seriously trying to get a high off the stuff (although according to our team of dedicated pharmacological investigators, even 200kg might not give you as much of a hit as a Poundland energy drink) or a Tory MP is talking out of his arse. No prizes for guessing which.
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The German public has reacted to President Christian Wulff's evasiveness after being caught threatening a journalist by coining a new verb 'to wulffen' – meaning to talk on and on unprompted.
Inspired by their world renowned sense of humour we thought we'd have a go...
Blair (vb) – scheme and arselick your way to the corridors of power in order to cream off as much as possible for yourself. See also Bliar.
Brown (vb) – spend a decade desperate for a job, but never have the balls to apply for it, before finally getting it handed to you on a plate and completely screwing it up.
Clegg (n) – a unpleasant dry clump found firmly attached to a 'Tory arsehole'.
Thatcher (vb) – stomp on the working classes so effectively that by the time your finished there really is no such thing as society.
May (vb) – to spontaneously make outlandish claims about immigrants.
Obama (vb) – To Hope. As in the sentence “I Hope people don't see beyond my empty slogans”.
Johnson (n) – synonym for penis. See also Cheney.
Bush (n) – another word for shrub.
Abbot (vb) – to compulsively self-harm through social media.
Osbourne (vb) – to hog the pigswill all to yourself while reassuring the others that they must make sacrifices because they're all in it together.
Cameron (vb) – to do a Blair, but more overtly.
(n)- subspecies of blue blooded, parasitic British reptile