This year's G8 promises to be different for a number of reasons. G8s and G8 protests have, by now, become something of a ritual. One where each side already knows the rules of the game. The great and good come together to discuss how they might set the world to right, and the protestors outside condemn them for not doing it quickly enough – or not really intending to do it at all. Charity is promised to Africa, and folks like Sir Bob Geldof will proclaim that a successful G8 has been had. Other folks will throw bricks and bottles at the police, and feel that they have stuck a blow for the cause. What cause exactly is not always clear. The media have a field day – a morning glimpse of presidents and prime ministers, and then spend the rest of the day with the unwashed outside; hoping that they will start a riot – or, at least, do something that looks good on camera and will fill thirty seconds on primetime news. And the general public have a little bit of entertainment to lighten the daily drudge of work, or more and more commonly, unemployment. So why should the G8 Summit on the 17th and 18th of June 2013 be any different?

Related Links: Dublin Alternative G8: March on the American Chamber of Commerce | Dublin Alternative G8 Summit | Anarchists Condemn G8 Scaremongering - press release | Another World is Possible! - Festival of Alternatives to the G8 | Dublin Alternative G8 | Irish Republican Alternative to the G8 | G8 Summit Fermanagh | Statement from Stop the G8 regarding the summit in Fermanagh this year | Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty | Final sentences for police forces involved in Diaz school butchery at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa | Genoa isn't over: new support campaign for G8 2001 in Genoa, Italy | Ten Reasons Why We Need a New, Anticapitalist Alternative | 2010: Blockades, direct action and demonstrations in France. 2011: G8-G20 in France | 30th of January 1972, 14 civil rights activists were shot dead. 38 years later Justice came to Derry | Genoa riot police get 5 years | Blair & Geldof's Africa panel? | From the Hill District in Pittsburgh - where the real G20 Action is taking place | Food Sovereignty in Africa | FDC to G8-funded World Bank: Cancel all illegitimate debts | Italy - Document of summit protest against G8 economy in Lecce, June 12-13 2009 | Interview: NYC anarchist at the G8 in Japan

Make this the week you come to visit Rossport

Call Out:
Come to the Rossport Solidarity Camp, Pullathomas, Co. Mayo for a week of action in June against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. This week has been called to coincide with one of Shell’s busiest work times. Come to act in solidarity with the 13 year old campaign in Mayo against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. The week will be jam packed with a wide variety of actions! There will be something useful for everyone to do, regardless of your experience and skills. The Rossport Solidarity Camp is being erected specifically for this week, and will be taken back down when the week is completed. So if you are planning on traveling to Mayo this summer – make it this week!

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Deja Vu?

The central bank is planning changes to the Code of Protection on mortgage arrears, these changes will mean it will be easier for people to be counted as non co-operating and thus make repossession easier, please send the submission below to [email protected] or make your own submission and send before April 10th to ensure your opposition to this is taken into consideration, with 95,000 people in arrears because of this banking led recession, the people who are bailing out the banks need fairness, there is nothing fair in all powers of discretion, supervision and appeals being with the banks who will not consider the good of the person or common good of the country.

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The EU bailout in Cyprus seems, on the surface to have taken on board some good ideas such as burning bondholders, capital flight controls, and much more limited small depositors state bank guarantee scheme, but does this stand up to closer inspection or have they just used these good ideas in a rather twisted way to further the same old financial terrorist agendas?

External Related Links: The European Union’s looting of Cyprus | Cyprus faces deep recession, high unemployment after bank bailout | Global Deposit Confiscation Called For By Bilderberg Member and CEO Of Italy’s Largest Bank | Canada Includes Depositor Haircut Bail-In Provision For Systemically Important Banks in 2013 Budget! | Laiki Bank: Some Depositors Are More Equal Than Others | The Lesson From Cyprus: Europe Is Politically Bankrupt | Cyprus Wealth Grab: The BIG TELL! | Jim Willie’s “Most Important Article Ever”- USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate -this is a newsletter from financial investor Jim Willie who is following events very closely for many years and suggests that Cyprus is the trigger for much larger events and thus is an important piece of a much larger jigsaw. It is intriguing to say the least.

Fig 1: Methane emissions from Arctic Sea Floor and Arctic Albedo

All the worry about Global Warming has tended to focus on carbon dioxide emissions but the real threat may be methane emissions.... In the past 5 years there have been major changes happening up in the Arctic. The annual summer melt of the sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean has greatly increased, exposing a much larger area to heating during the summer months which in turn has warmed the ocean enough that the frozen methane hydrates on and below the seabed are beginning to melt, causing methane gas to bubble to the surface. The trouble is methane is up to 100 times (over initial 20 year period of release) more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and the estimated quantity of methane hydrates suggests the amount of carbon contained in them exceeds all the coal, oil and gas burned so far. And should the tundra melt in Siberia then the huge area of peatland will resume decomposing thereby emitting a very large quantity of carbon dioxide. This scenario would take us past extinction danger point which is reckoned for a rise of 6^oCelsius or more would be close to certainty.

Related Indy Links: Study: Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years | Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking At 'Unprecedented' Levels | Special issue on the Arctic: After the ice | Arctic sea routes open as ice melts | Arctic Turning into a Sea of Foaming Methane. Positive Feedback has kicked in |
Arctic May be Ice-Free in Summer of 2070 -This is from 2004 and shows how quickly events have moved on.
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