This n-th intervention of the French colonial troops to support the dictators in Africa and in the Chad throw of the opprobrium on a country which claims to defend democracy and human rights in the World. The regime of the General - president Idriss Déby Itno is responsible for the murder of more Chadian 25000 in 16 years of dictatorship according to the reports of the associations of the rights of the Man. Never of memory of Chadian, the country knew such a level of misery: The President and the regime specialized in the systematic diversions of the public deniers. Chad occupies the 173éme places on 177 countries according to The classification 2005 IDH of the PNUD and the first place for the corruption according to Transparency International's report on 2005. Hospitals miss cruelly medicines and became of real old people's homes, the civil servants add up more than 24 months of back pays, no infrastructure is constructed. The country sinks into the abyss.

Glasgow the Caring City tries for the third time to evict elderly disabled refugee.

A memo from John Sawers, the political director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been leaked. It's between UK, US, French and German officials arranging a way to get Russia and China on board with whatever it they're planning, whether you think that's military or economic action is up to you. Knowledge of different types of UN resolution might help you interpret it.

This new (to me) weblog covers safety, wages, general workplace stuff going on around Aberdeen and the offshore oil industry.

This appeal for contact between "Carnival for Full Enjoyment" defendants is reposted from IMC UK. "Appeal to anyone arrested at anti-G8 Carnival in Canning Street Ediburgh on 4th July 2005. Trials are still going ahead. I am a defendant & want to compare charges..."

A deer farm praised for its animal welfare standards was attacked by animal rights activists late on the night of Wednesday 22nd March. Hundreds of metres of fencing were cut down and slogans painted on the road leading to family-run Reediehill Farm near Auchtermuchty.

A "POTENT cocktail" of nuclear waste from six countries has been imported to Scotland for storage, it has emerged. Some of the radioactive material, which comes from countries including the former Soviet republic of Georgia, could be kept permanently in the UK…