Anti-cuts campaigners meet to debate next move

Anti-cuts campaigners meet to debate next move (at NetrootsUK summit)
Source: The Guardian Student and union Activists join with anti-tax avoidance and anti-racism campaigners to discuss tactics at NetrootsUK summit Matthew Taylor| Tuesday January 4 2011 17.33 GMT - Hundreds of online activists, student leaders and union officials who have been at the forefront of anti-government Protests over the past six months are meeting this week to co-ordinate the next stage of their anti-cuts campaigns. The conference, which is modelled on the successful Netroots Nation cam...

UK police release video of royal car attack
LONDON — British police released Tuesday a video of a mob kicking and hitting a limo carrying Prince Charles and his wife during Student Protests last month, hoping to find witnesses and suspects in one of the worst royal security breaches in recent years. The closed-circuit security camera video shows several people attacking the vintage Rolls-Royce after the car was forced to slow down during the violent Central London demonstrations. A young woman is shown hitting the Rolls-Royce twice...

Photos of protesters during royal car attack released
British police have released photos and video from the Dec. 9 Student Protest where a car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla was attacked. The images and footage show a woman with dark hair and glasses hitting the car and breaking the back window of one of the cars in the convoy. In other images, a man is seen running alongside and striking the car carrying the royals and a second man is also seen hitting the car. "The Student protests saw a number of incidents of violence escalate across centr...

Girl quizzed over student protest
A teenage girl has been questioned over a mob attack on a police van during Student Tuition fees Protests in Central London. The 16-year-old, from Beckenham, south east London, was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and violent disorder in Whitehall on 24 November. An abandoned police van was smashed up, covered in graffiti and looted during the Student Protest. The girl was released on bail until June, pending further inquiries. Officers have set up a specialist team to identify those res...

Royal Motorcade Attack Video Released
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, were on their way to the theater in early December when a mob of angry Students protesting Tuition hikes set upon their royal limousine, striking it with fists, sticks and bottles. In the frenzy, some chanted: "Off with their heads!" Now, London's Metropolitan Police Service have released CCTV footage of the attack in the hope they will be able to identify some of the assailants. In a Statement, Police said: "Although the images are grainy, officer...

UK Police Release Video Of Royal Car Attack
LONDON -- British police released Tuesday a video of a mob kicking and hitting a limo carrying Prince Charles and his wife during Student Protests last month, hoping to find witnesses and suspects in one of the worst royal security breaches in recent years. The closed-circuit security camera video shows several people attacking the vintage Rolls-Royce after the car was forced to slow down during the violent Central London demonstrations. A young woman is shown hitting the Rolls-Royce twice, be...

UK police release video of royal car attack
LONDON - British police have released a video of a mob attacking a limo carrying Prince Charles and his wife during Student Protests last month. The closed-circuit security camera video shows several people kicking and hitting the Rolls-Royce after the car was forced to slow down during the violent Central London demonstrations. Thousands of students took to the capital's streets on Dec. 9 to protest university Tuition fee hikes. The future king and his wife Camilla, who were on their way ...

UK police release video of royal car attack
LONDON (AP) — British police have released a video of a mob attacking a limo carrying Prince Charles and his wife during Student Protests last month. The closed-circuit security camera video shows several people kicking and hitting the Rolls-Royce after the car was forced to slow down during the violent Central London demonstrations. Thousands of students took to the capital’s streets on Dec. 9 to protest university Tuition fee hikes. The future king and his wife Camilla, who were on...

Pro-Life Groups Release DVD for March for Life Bus Trip
The 2011 Pro-Life Road Trip DVD will be sent free to any bus captain or group travel coordinator to help motivate and train pro-life advocates while on their way to and from the events in Washington, D.C. during the annual March for Life weekend. Kristan Hawkins, the director of Students for Life, told LifeNews.com about the New Media presentation. “The new DVDs have been put together for traveling pro-life students and adults to help educate thousands of pro-life Americans and give them t...

Fee waiver plan 'may be dropped'
Does Rioting change anything? Student leaders say the government may drop proposals to pay first year Tuition fees for students in England qualifying for free school meals. Ministers expressed support for the plan ahead of the Controversial vote to raise fees to up to £9,000 a year. But NUS president, Aaron Porter, said the committee developing the proposal might now let universities choose how to support poor students. The government said the student support plan was still under discussio...

Goldman Sachs boosts Facebook value to $50 billion
A major infusion of financing that has elevated the projected value of Facebook Inc. to $50 billion may be the most concrete sign yet that the social-media king is becoming the center of Online Advertising and commerce, experts said Monday. The social-media world rippled with news over the weekend that the Palo Alto firm has received a $500 million infusion - $450 million from the formidable Wall Street Investment Firm Goldman Sachs Group and $50 million from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russ...

"The University of Wisconsin at Madison beat out the University of Chicago and Harvard to be the top national university by inte
Internet brand equity, baby! You hear that? We're #1! What's internet brand equity? It's a measure of who's talking about you online, based on Internet data, Social Media, blogs and the top 75,000 print and electronic media outlets. The resulting tool, the group claims, gauges the relative value of the various institutions and how they change over time. The Global Language Monitor created their ranking system in order to eliminate what they described as inherent bias in the other published rank...

UK police release video of royal car attack
British police have released a video of a mob attacking a limo carrying Prince Charles and his wife during Student Protests last month. The closed-circuit security camera video shows several people kicking and hitting the Rolls-Royce after the car was forced to slow down during the violent Central London demonstrations. Thousands of students took to the capital's streets on Dec. 9 to protest university Tuition fee hikes. The future king and his wife Camilla, who were on their way to the theater,...

No Labels is Really About No Hate
Writing in the Boston Globe, Cathy Young defends “No Labels” from the right and the left: Inevitably, critics on the right see No Labels as a liberal plot to stifle robust conservative Speech and force Republicans to Compromise with Democrats rather than take advantage of the GOP’s recent electoral victories. At the same time, critics on the left denounce the group as a conservative Trojan Horse designed to trick liberals into abandoning their principles. Stanley Kurtz, a comment...

Commander-in-Chief Signs GI Bill Fixes Into Law
The Obama Administration furthered its record of being the most Veteran-supportive Administration in history by signing a host of GI Bill tweaks into law this morning: [The law] still promises full Tuition, plus a living stipend and book allowance, for fulltime Students taking undergraduate courses at four-year public colleges and universities. For many students, it also covers the full tuition and fees for graduate studies and for attending private colleges. There is good news in the law. ...

Calls to save 'scrapped' Nimrod
A group of former air workers and enthusiasts are calling on the government to save the replacement Nimrod spy planes from the scrapheap. The multimillion-pound project to replace Nimrod MRA4 Surveillance and reconnaissance planes was ditched by David Cameron in October. Nine of the planes which were in production will now be dismantled by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Protesters have said it is a waste of more than £3bn and hundreds of jobs. The MoD and BAE signed a contract in 1996 to bu...

Police release images in search for protesters who attacked Royal car
Disturbing footage of the moment a mob descended on a car carrying the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall shows that a woman in her twenties was one of the main protagonists....

19 held at Moscow protests of opposition jailing (AP)
Moscow – Moscow police detained 19 people Wednesday in the latest Protests against the jailing of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders, whom Amnesty International has called a Prisoner of conscience. Nemtsov, a former deputy Prime Minister and member of parliament, was arrested along with more than 60 others at a rally on New Year's Eve and jailed for 15 days. His supporters have held Protests every day this week and at each one police have moved in to stop th...

South Africa's giant bonking bullfrogs go bedhopping
Yet their breeding grounds are being wiped out by man, writes Robyn Dixon. GLEN AUSTIN, South Africa: It's a lucky day for amphibian enthusiasts at Glen Austin wetlands: the giant bullfrogs of southern Africa are having sex. The mating ritual occurs just one day a year, after the first downpour of the southern summer. The shallows of the wetlands north of Johannesburg become a splashing commotion as bullfrogs attack and toss each other about like wrestling stars. The giant bullfrog is like Kerm...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station protesters sentenced
Source: BBC News Eighteen of 20 people who were found Guilty of Conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass last month were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court. > Judge Jonathan Teare, who commended the group for their personal commitment to the environmental cause, sentenced the group to a mixture of community orders and conditional discharges. > Prosecutor Felicity Gerry submitted to the judge an application for each defendant to pay costs of £5,000 which, she told the court, was a reductio...

Crazy Like A Fox
The 2010 Elections produced two contradictory historical novelties in Minnesota.  For the first time in 24 years, Democrats captured the Governor’s mansion.  And for the first time in the entire 40 years that Minnesota has had a partisan legislature, Republicans captured control of both houses. The new governor, Mark Dayton, enjoyed brief infamy in 2004 when he abruptly shut down his Senate office in response to a Terrorist Threat that no one else in the government had heard of.  Combi

19 held at Moscow protests of opposition jailing
MOSCOW -- Moscow police detained 19 people Wednesday in the latest Protests against the jailing of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders, whom Amnesty International has called a Prisoner of conscience. Nemtsov, a former deputy Prime Minister and member of parliament, was arrested along with more than 60 others at a rally on New Year's Eve and jailed for 15 days. His supporters have held Protests every day this week and at each one police have moved in to stop them. Po...

GOP votes down rule thatd prioritize budget over social issues
WASHINGTON — The debate held Monday among the Candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee was like an egg cream — the literal meaning isn’t the same as its contents. With one exception, current RNC Chairman Michael Steele and his challengers — former Michigan GOP Chair Saul Anuzis, former Bush Administration official Maria Cino, Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Reince Priebus, and former Missouri Republican Party Chairwoman Ann Wagner — avoi...

The Growing Social Security and Medicare Problem
It’s the beginning of a New Year, meaning crowded gyms, commercial breaks filled with weight-loss ads, and a glass-half-full attitude about the upcoming year. That glass half full should be just enough to dissolve my Alka Seltzer, because all this positivity is enough to give me heartburn. You’ll have to pardon my less than cheery spirits. I am, after all, in the minority amongst my generation, who happen to be the most optimistic age group when it comes to our financial circumstan...

Gothamist Call for Interns
We're looking for more enthusiastic interns to work out of our Brooklyn office (or sometimes from the comfort of your own home/dorm room, depending on the task at hand) through the winter and maybe on into spring. Responsibilities vary widely, hours are flexible, but we do want someone who can be available 2 days out of the week. Bloggers, journalism Students, photographers, English majors, autodidacts, quick wits, and anyone with a passion for NYC and the skills to write about it are encourag...