World-News

Robert O'Harrow Jr. reports for The Washington Post: "The National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence opened its doors in 1991 with a $5 million earmark from a powerful lawmaker. Operating in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the privately run center has received at least $671 million worth of federal contracts and earmarks since then to research and develop pollution-abatement technology and other systems for the Defense Department."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122907Y.shtml



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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007712200482


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40613


Informant: John Calvert



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29622


Informant: John Calvert



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

Warum der Überfall von München kein Argument für mehr Videoüberwachung oder härtere Strafen ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26954/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Videoüberwachung

by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

Dec 29 2007

PLANNING procedures in Wirral are to be revamped following an investigation into a potentially costly blunder by the authority over phone masts.

Chief executive Stephen Maddox has promised councillors issues raised by an independent report into the blunder will “be embraced”.

Read More...
http://tinyurl.com/3cuzq4

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/289362



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Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times: "A proposal that Europe's top environment official made last month, to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain, sets up a bitter war within the European Union, where politicians have done their best to dance around the issue."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122807EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=altered+corn
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Bill McKibben for The Washington Post says the most crucial development in the fight against global warming this month was the findings of NASA scientist James Hansen, who has "offered a simple, straightforward and mind-blowing bottom line for the planet: 350, as in parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122807EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=carbon+dioxide
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Hansen
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Ellen Goodman, The Seattle Times: "The inconvenient truth of the 2008 election year is that climate change is still way down the dance card of most-talked-about topics. It's ranked No. 12 among Democratic candidates, and No. 15 among Republicans."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122807EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections

The dollar dropped against the euro for a sixth day, the longest decline since October, after a U.S. government report showed sales of new homes fell to a 12-year low last month.

http://snipurl.com/1vy8m



Defaults moving beyond sub-prime

Thought the mortgage meltdown was just a sub-prime affair? Think again. There's another time bomb waiting to explode, experts say: risky loans made to people with good credit.

http://snipurl.com/1vy8n



Housing prices are headed way down

The cold, hard truth is that foreclosures are serving only to hasten the painful process of shifting housing prices back to a level the market can sustain. Prices must and will fall. Everywhere. Probably 25% to 30% from their peak.

http://snipurl.com/1vy8q


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dollar+fall
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
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"There was a time when I served with pride ... Sadly, no more."
http://snipurl.com/1vxj9


From Information Clearing House

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Waterboarding response leads Gig Harbor JAG to resign his commission
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6998/


From Next-up

Informant: jensenmk



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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez here on Wednesday warned of a murder plot against him which may prevent him from going to Guatemala next month.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/27/content_7321539.htm


From Information Clearing House



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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada condemned Bush's veto of the $696 billion defense policy measure. The Democratic leaders noted that the bill includes "urgent national security priorities,'' a 3.5 percent pay raise for U.S. troops and improved veterans' health care.

http://snipurl.com/1vy8a


From Information Clearing House



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By Stephen Lendman

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an American contingent of about 2800 volunteers who fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the country's 1936 - 1939 Civil War against the fascist Nationalist rebellion under General Francisco Franco. From 1937 through 1938, it aimed to stop international fascism under Hitler and Mussolini that led to WW II. This essay explains who the "Lincolns" were, why they're important, and what their relevance is to America today under George Bush.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18964.htm



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Will Brattleboro Indict Bush?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=949

Vermont town seeks Bush, Cheney arrests
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10614


Informant: John Calvert



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A PROPOSED mobile phone mast on a busy St Albans road is dangerous as it will obstruct a speed camera, according to neighbours as well as police.

An equipment cabinet on the eight-metre mast at the corner of Sandpit Lane and Gurney Court Road would obscure images of speeding motorists from a mobile camera van for which a special lay-by has been constructed.

The planning application by Pha Communications Ltd has already been refused by the district council, but the company has appealed.

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http://www.next-up.org/pdf/AnalysePropositionDeLoiNr358AssembleeNationale29122007.pdf
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Ron Paul, grass farming and global warming

Many people within the libertarian community are skeptical about the science behind global warming. I happen to think the threat of global warming is of uncertain magnitude but of real concern. Most people who share my concern are eager for the government to step in and regulate carbon emissions, and for this reason find it difficult to bring themselves to support Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, fearing that a Paul administration would stand back and do nothing to combat global warming. But this is hardly the case. In fact, a Paul presidency would be a great asset to anyone concerned about global warming...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/masterjohn3.html



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On Pakistan and US foreign policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff188.html

What Bhutto's Assassination Means to America
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski196.html

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Pakistan Government Reveals How Benazir Bhutto Was Killed

By IBNlive.com

Mystery shrouds the death of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In an explosive revelation, Pakistan's Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz on Friday said that Bhutto did not die of bullet wounds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18963.htm



Police Abandoned Security Posts Before Bhutto Assassination

By Nick Juliano

No autopsy performed on body; docs say bullet wounds not found.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18962.htm



In Memory of Benazir Bhutto

Cut U.S. Ties to Musharraf

By Medea Benjamin

Musharraf's use of US funds to crack down on the country's democratic forces has led to growing anti-American sentiments among the nation's moderate, secular forces. The U.S. government should withhold assistance until Musharraf steps down and a caretaker government restores the independent judiciary, lifts restrictions on the press and sets up the conditions for fair elections.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18961.htm



They Don't Blame al-Qa'idam, They Blame Musharraf

By Robert Fisk

Weird, isn't it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People's Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi - attached to the very capital of Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf lives - and we are told by George Bush that her murderers were "extremists" and "terrorists". Well, you can't dispute that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18971.htm



Bhutto said she'd blame Musharraf if killed

Two months before her death, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto sent an e-mail to her U.S. adviser and longtime friend, saying that if she were killed, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf would bear some of the blame.

http://snipurl.com/1vy7r



Bush, Musharraf, and the Slaying of Bhutto

Musharraf never faced a serious demand from the Bush administration to protect Bhutto.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=23712



U.S. Brokered Bhutto's Return to Pakistan

For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed during a telephone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before Bhutto flew home in October.

http://snipurl.com/1vy7v



Tariq Ali: A tragedy born of military despotism and anarchy

Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto's behaviour and policies - both while she was in office and more recently - are stunned and angered by her death. Indignation and fear stalk the country once again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2232700,00.html



Pakistan: The "Other" Bhutto

A graduate of Columbia University, the 25-year-old spends her days writing and campaigning against her aunt, who, she says, is "one of the most corrupt leaders the world has seen."


http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2007/12/pakistan_the_ot.html#



Anglo-American Ambitions Behind the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan

By Larry Chin

The Pakistani election, if it takes place at all, is a simpler two-way choice: pro-US Musharraf or pro-US Sharif.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18969.htm



Pakistan TV station shows Bhutto shooter, contradicts government

The footage clearly shows Bhutto collapsing into her armoured- vehicle before the suicide blast, contradicting official government claims that she recoiled only after the blast and cracked her skull on the sunroof.

http://snipurl.com/1w266



Benazir Bhutto: US Policy Causes World Terrorism

Condemning what she called "A False Choice for Pakistan", the late Benazir Bhutto laid "terrorism" at the White House doorstep, blaming US policies for causing, fueling and inspiring what US regimes call "terrorism".

http://snipurl.com/1w26v



Bolton: US 'helped precipitate' conditions for Bhutto's assassination

John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, said it was a mistake to collaborate with Bhutto's "desire to get back into the game in Pakistan" and view her as an alternative to the country's current leader, Pervez Musharraf.

http://snipurl.com/1w26y


From Information Clearing House

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The Battle After Bhutto

Truthout's J. Sri Raman says that "Bhutto may have been Bush's candidate as Musharraf's successor or subordinate in a system with a mere semblance of democracy. But those in Pakistan and elsewhere, who stay loyal to her memory and do not miss the primary lesson from her martyrdom, must resist and rebuff Washington-led efforts to save and strengthen the country's military and militarists further."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807S.shtml



Pakistan Government Shifts Story on How Bhutto Died

Saeed Shah and Warren P. Strobel report for McClatchy Newspapers: "Violence and recriminations grew Friday over the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as Pakistan's government changed its account of how she died while her supporters charged that the government withheld personal protection she'd requested."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122907Z.shtml

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Pakistan and 9/11
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/243.html

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Bhutto told Frost Osama is dead
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/a78daae91cd03995?hl=en

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The Dream that was Benazir Bhutto

by Shahid Mahmood
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/26/6085/

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New video footage shows Bhutto was shot dead

A dramatic new footage of former premier Benazir Bhutto assassination today lent credence to her Pakistan People's Party's claim that she was shot dead, a claim vehemently contradicted by Pakistan government.

http://snipurl.com/1w8jt



Watch New Video Footage of Bhutto's Death

Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained dramatic new footage which shows in clear detail the moment of Benazir Bhutto's death.

http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=10619



Hospital lawyer: Pakistani police stopped doctors from conducting Bhutto autopsy

The police chief of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on the corpse of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, according to a lawyer on the hospital's board.

http://snipurl.com/1w8jv



Bhutto 'blocked from hiring US bodyguards'

President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, according to senior aides.

http://snipurl.com/1w8k8



Musharraf Is 'A Total Failure'

An interview with Pakistan's main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif : Everybody in this country holds him and his policies responsible for the murder.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,525943,00.html



Pakistan to delay vote by at least four weeks: officials

Pakistan will delay parliamentary elections by at least four weeks after a wave of violence triggered by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, senior government officials told AFP on Monday.

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071231154830.rikq0jsm.html



Sharif demands Mush`s resignation

Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif today demanded his resignation and renewed call for the formation of a government of national consensus to ensure free and fair general elections on January 8 as scheduled.

http://snipurl.com/1w8ka



Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: The Destabilization of Pakistan

The process of US sponsored "regime change", which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken.

http://snipurl.com/1w8kd



Bush's best-laid plans

The Bhutto assassination demonstrates anew the folly of the administration's efforts to manage history.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimesE34.html


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/scheuer7.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard166.html



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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/29/engine-car-stop-02.html
http://www.slashgear.com/microwave-beam-used-to-stop-cars-dead-048821.php
http://eurekaaerospace.com/hpems.php

http://tortureontrial.org/support.html


Informant: Don B Fanning



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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1226-01.htm



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Informant: John Calvert

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Walking To Impeach: Bound For DC, Vermont Man Arrives in the East Village
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/28/6041/



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Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian UK, "The centre cannot hold, and that's the good news in the United States these days. Quietly, doggedly, cities, regions, counties and states have refused to march to the Bush administration's drum when it comes to climate change, the environment and the war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807H.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rebecca+Solnit

Chris Adams, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "The VA's ability to provide adequate care for veterans with mental ailments has come under increasing scrutiny, and the agency says it's scrambling to boost its resources to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, prevent suicides and help veterans cope."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123107G.shtml



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Eine sich abzeichnende neue CIA-Affäre könnte sowohl den Watergate-Skandal als auch die Iran-Contra-Affäre und sämtliche darauffolgenden Skandale der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in den Schatten stellen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26947/1.html



Hallo, Mr. President ...

CIA-Direktoren hatten mit ihren Präsidenten schon immer ein Kommunikationsproblem.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26940/1.html



Langsames Ertrinken

Um die Ecke gedacht: Warum ein Justizminister nicht weiß, ob "Waterboarding" Folter ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26909/1.html



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Das Versprechen von der Durchlässigkeit der Klassen und der sozialen Mobilität der Marktwirtschaft bleibt für die Meisten, die in der Falle der Armut stecken, nur ein leerer Traum.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26948/1.html



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While most Americans have been celebrating the holidays, officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration have been working behind the scenes to pave the way for the *killing of hundreds of wolves in the Greater Yellowstone area. *

Don't let them get away with it! Urge U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to abandon his efforts to allow states to start killing wolves and stop promoting the premature de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.

http://go.care2.com/e/XBPi/sIrE/k.jp

Over the last several weeks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been quietly moving forward with rule changes that would allow officials in Idaho and Wyoming to begin killing wolves even before gray wolves are removed from the list of federally protected threatened and endangered species.

*This latest proposal would jump start plans to use fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and other means to kill hundreds of wolves in Idaho, leaving just over 200 wolves in the state.* In fact, three-quarters of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest could be removed ... even before they are de-listed.

And hundreds of wolves in Wyoming could be shot and trapped under the new rules, whether wolves are removed from the endangered and threatened species list or not.

A decision on this devastating proposal is expected in the next few weeks. *Take a stand now.*

Please email Secretary Kempthorne right now and let him know that you oppose any proposal that would threaten the long-term future of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region.

http://go.care2.com/e/XBPi/sIrE/k.jp

Our partners at Defenders of Wildlife are mustering their resources to fight these terrible proposals in the weeks ahead. But right now, we need you to speak out for wolves with your message.

Thank you for acting today to save wolves!

Rebecca Young, Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wolves

Barry Meier and Eric Lipton report for The New York Times: "In 2002, the drug maker, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., hired Mr. Giuliani and his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, to help stem the controversy about OxyContin. Among Mr. Giuliani’s missions was the job of convincing public officials that they could trust Purdue because they could trust him."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani

Eric Gorski reports for The Associated Press, "The probe by Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has brought new scrutiny to the underlying belief that brings in millions of dollars and fills churches from Atlanta to Los Angeles the 'Gospel of Prosperity,' or the notion that God wants to bless the faithful with earthly riches."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807L.shtml



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by Nigel Baudains

EXTRA mobile telephone equipment will be put up at Beau Sejour if the Environment Department approves.

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http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=003122



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By Alex Ross

ANGRY residents in Coalpit Heath are demanding a phone company withdraws a mast application after it failed to notify households near the planned site.

Vodafone has submitted a planning application for a 12 metre high phone mast at the junction of Badminton Road and Woodside Road.

Read More...
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CounterPunch
by Jacob Hornberger

12/27/07

I couldn’t help but be struck by the vicious smear of Ron Paul by a Virginia Heffernan in the New York Times. …. Sure, politics is a nasty business but I just couldn’t help but wonder why the New York Times would publish garbage like this. Here’s the thrust of Heffernan’s attack: that Ron Paul has received donations from neo-Nazi extremist groups and has spoken at events attended by right-wing extremist individuals. …. Is this ludicrous or what? What are Heffernan and the New York Times suggesting - that Ron Paul, one of the most committed libertarians around, has instead been a closet Nazi the whole time he has been in Congress? Or maybe they’re suggesting that this committed libertarian has, all of a sudden, decided to convert to Nazism. Or maybe they’re saying that libertarians don’t really advocate individual freedom, free markets, and limited government but instead advocate statism and government control over economic activity...

http://counterpunch.org/hornberger12272007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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In These Times
by Laura S. Washington

12/27/07

The old antiwar horse is still kicking. In 1972, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern (once a World War II bomber pilot) won the Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform. In 2007, he’s still got game. In March 2007, McGovern called on Vice President Dick Cheney to resign. A month later, opining in the Los Angeles Times, he revisited the trauma of the Vietnam War era and excoriated George W. Bush and Cheney for blithely sacrificing American lives once again. ‘We, of course, already know that when Cheney endorses a war, he exempts himself from participation,’ he wrote. ‘On second thought, maybe it’s wise to keep Cheney off the battlefield — he might end up shooting his comrades rather than the enemy’...

http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1578



Creeping Fascism: History’s lessons

Consortium News

by Ray McGovern

12/27/07

You don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep. In his journal Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27, 1933. Haffner finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be broken into.”But it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/122707a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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This year's housing bust is shaping up to be one of historic proportions. Sales and construction have sunk to levels not seen since the 1990 savings and loan crisis, while foreclosures and price drops are the largest since the Great Depression - and expected to get worse next year.

http://snipurl.com/1vw8p


From Information Clearing House



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Despite a recent National Intelligence Estimate finding that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program, libertarian-leaning GOP presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says there is still "a great possibility" of US military action against the country.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Ron_Paul_Neocons_still_want_to_1227.html



Russia upgrades Iran's air defence

Iranian officials have said they have signed a contract to buy an advanced Russian anti-aircraft system, a move that could complicate plans for an air attack by US or Israeli warplanes.

http://snipurl.com/1vw8f


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
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According to an Oxfam International report released in July this year, "43 percent of Iraqis suffer from absolute poverty," and that according to some estimates over half the population are now without work. "Children are hit the hardest by the decline in living standards. Child malnutrition rates have risen from 19 percent before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to 28 percent now."

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40613


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=malnutrition

Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.

http://snipurl.com/1vw84


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+M.+Arkin

By Mary Pitt

Our nation, which spends more for health care than any other only rankS 45th in the quality of care. Those who can afford it have access to the most modern technology and life-saving procedures where those who cannot are left with medical care that is reminiscent of the nineteenth century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18959.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+care
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Pitt

By Eileen Fleming

We are living George Orwell's nightmare in the 21st century; for war is claimed to be the way to peace and nuclear weapons are promised as the way to provide security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18957.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nuclear+weapons

The U.S. Army's Intelligence Analysis of the April 2004 Fallujah Attack

By Stephen Soldz

"During the first week of April, insurgents invited a reporter from Al Jazeera, Ahmed Mansour, and his film crew into Fallujah where they filmed scenes of dead babies from the hospital, presumably killed by Coalition air strikes. Children were shown bespattered with blood; mothers were shown screaming and mourning."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18955.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Soldz

Josh Rosenblatt for The Texas Observer explores why Americans are so disconnected from the slave labor that produces so many of our products.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122707LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slavery

Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald: "The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, urged the mass planting of trees throughout Indonesia as rescuers yesterday dug with their hands through mud for survivors from a landslide that killed at least 67 people."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122707EB.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

Moises Velasquez-Manoff for The Christian Science Monitor reports, "With the fate of bluefin hanging in the balance, scientists are now calling for a more comprehensive and, presumably, effective 'systems' approach, one that takes the entire ecosystem into account when setting fishing quotas."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122707EA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bluefin

Scott Horton for Harper's provides an update on the trial of Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist Bilal Hussein.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122707R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bilal+Hussein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Horton

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/10/18426620.php

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 fm interviews Stephanie Seay, media coordinator of the Buffalo Field Campaign about the Montana state and the federal govt. practice of capturing wild buffalo on public lands and slaughtering them or transporting them hundreds of miles in trucks or trains. In Montana in the last two weeks state and federal authorities planned to slaughter 300 wild buffalo, including calves and their mothers. It was stopped by the BFC and public outcry, but this is not the first time this has happened. In the last 7 years the government has trucked 2,000 wild buffalo to slaughter, 1,000 last year alone. Stephanie also talks about the cattle industry, the power they hold in Montana and how they influence decision making on the treatment of wild buffalo, the huge subsidies that the industry receives, and their access to public lands. And she discusses what concerned citizens can do to help defend the last remaining wild buffalo in North America.

DOWNLOAD HERE (MP3 - 18.7MB) http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/06/10/buffalofieldcampaign.mp3


Informant: smileycoyote



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=buffalo+slaughter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Buffalo+Field+Campaign

http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200703/Sudden_collapse_initiation_impossible.pdf


Informant: John Calvert



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11