Wednesday March 10 2010 - 04:52
by : William Hughes On March 9, 2010, a rally was held in Washington, D.C. championing Healthcare Reform. The demonstration began at Dupont Circle, at 10: 30 AM, and then moved south, about 10 blocks to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Fat Cats from the Healthcare Insurance Industry were holding a conference at that site. The event was organized by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), along with more than 50 major Labor, grassroots and religious leaders. For background go to: http://healthcareforamericanow.org/ Featured (...)
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Wednesday March 10 2010 - 00:20
by : William Hughes On March 9, 2010, around noon, about 14 pro-Healthcare Reform activists were arrested at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in down town Washington, D.C. They attempted to cross a police line set up at an entrance to the hotel, where the Fat Cats of the Healthcare Insurance Industry were holding a conference. Earlier, the protesters had convened at Dupont Circle for a rally. Then, they paraded down to the hotel, about ten blocks away. The crowd was estimated at about 5,500. The event was staged by (...)
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Tuesday March 9 2010 - 08:31
by : Solve et Coagula The Conscious Convergence: A Wave of Unity July 17-18, 2010
Creating the intention for the unity consciousness of the Ninth Wave of the Mayan calendar!
In recent years there has been a radically increased interest in the Mayan calendar and especially its end and so many ask what this tells us about the future. Surprisingly, many people ask this question as if the answer had nothing to do with themselves or the choices they make. Few seem to have considered that the fulfillment of the cosmic (...)
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Tuesday March 9 2010 - 08:12
by : johnny canuck Calgary Sun March 8, 2010
Political activist John Boncore [Splitting the Sky] was entitled to try to arrest US President George W Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush was justified.
Boncore is charged with obstructing a peace officer for repeatedly trying to get past security and into the Telus Convention Centre last March 17.
"Mr. Boncore had reasonable (...)
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Monday March 8 2010 - 21:27
by : La Louve Is a movie that “only” costs $11 million more « politically correct » than a $500 million one?
They can’t see the trees for the forest.
Or more bluntly, had the Academy Awards wanted to grant ‘its’ army an Oscar without thinking twice about it?
People will call it a ‘work of art’, a ‘movie’, ‘without an ulterior motive’ (yes I’ve already read it somewhere...) etc
On top of it all, was the great March 8th pet theme: “wow it’s awesome, it’s the first women director to get an Oscar” or « (...)
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Saturday March 6 2010 - 07:22
by : johnny canuck "Unredacted documents show officials hoped to gather intelligence expert says. If the allegation is true, such actions would constitute a warcrime.." http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010...
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Friday March 5 2010 - 23:01
by : William Hughes [Wandering Sage Publications, 2009, 370 pp., soft cover, $17.95]
If you’re going to write your first novel, and it’s a political spoof, then you might as well as set it in the White House. Well, Ted Venetoulis does exactly that in his “Hail to the Cheat,” which is not only a fun read, I predict it’s going to make one zany movie.
Venetoulis is an author who has lived politics and it shows in his book. The main characters are all credible and taken from that realm. As a young man, (...)
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Friday March 5 2010 - 03:30
by : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor "Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?"
Anthem of the Corporate (...)
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Friday March 5 2010 - 00:07
by : William Hughes On Thursday morning, March 4, 2010, a spirited protest action was held in front of the “Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center,” on north Gay Street, not far from the City Hall, in Baltimore. The demonstrators demanded “$100 million [in Maryland’s state budget] be converted from youth jails to youth jobs and education,” according to their press release. Students, teachers and community activists joined in the social justice action. About 13 of the activists made their way into the lobby of (...)
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Thursday March 4 2010 - 20:35
by : hrfa As organisations and individuals who stand for and support the universality of human rights, we have noted with concern the suspension of Gita Sahgal, Head of the Gender Unit at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, for questioning Amnesty International’s partnership with individuals whose politics towards the Taliban are ambiguous.
We come from communities that recognize and appreciate the work of Amnesty International in defending human rights and women’s (...)
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Thursday March 4 2010 - 14:30
by : BenAMarine The movement behind 9/11
http://www.campustimes.org/features...
"WTC 7 fell at free-fall speed for a period of over 2.5 seconds. Not noted in NIST’s revision was the clear implication that this feat defies the laws of physics if a gravitational collapse did indeed occur."
"All three coloccur with near zero resistance such as a controlled demolition collapse rather than a gravitational collapse.
Multi-ton steel ejections were also calculated to be ejected at speeds of over 60 mph and over (...)
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Wednesday March 3 2010 - 23:54
by : ELISABETTA POVOLEDO By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
MILAN — In an effort to heighten awareness about the contributions made by foreign workers to the Italian economy, the promoters of the first strike by immigrants in the country invited workers to stay home and to boycott shopping for one day.
Similar protests took place in other European countries on Monday (the initiative started in France and found supporters in Spain and Greece, as well). A comparable boycott, “A Day Without Immigrants,” championing full rights (...)
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Wednesday March 3 2010 - 23:11
by : Dr Gideon Polya Politically correct racist (PC racist) White Australia is treating its domestic Aboriginal (Indigenous) subjects and its overseas Muslim subjects (in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan) like animals. White Australians vigorously object to being labelled as “racist” but are involved in the racist subjugation of other people and resolutely ignores the horrendous human cost of such involvements, notably the continuing dispossession and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians and (...)
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Wednesday March 3 2010 - 18:15
by : kakine March 1st, 2010
Mister President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
(Translate by William Peterson)
Mister President, When you receive this letter, five Cubans: Fernando González, René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández and Antonio Guerrero, will have been imprisoned in your (...)
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Wednesday March 3 2010 - 14:19
by : Vittorio Longhi by Vittorio Longhi
The 1 March protests saw immigrant workers in Europe down tools to raise awareness of the discrimination they face
A peaceful and colourful spectre seems to be haunting Europe. It’s a grassroots movement of migrants and activists claiming for participation and protesting against discriminatory immigration laws in France and in Italy. Monday 1 March, the first "day without immigrants, 24 hours without us" cannot but be considered a milestone in foreign workers’ fight for (...)
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Monday March 1 2010 - 21:34
by : Dr Gideon Polya There were 2.1 million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths under Sanctions (1.2 million, 1990-2003) and US Coalition Occupation (0.9 million, 2003-2010) - however this has occasioned egregious Iraqi Holocaust Denial by the US Occupier and its Puppet Iraqi Régime. Not only is the US involved in an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (post-1990 violent and non-violent excess deaths 4.4 million), the US and its Iraqi Puppet Régime are grossly understating post-invasion mortality (...)
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Monday March 1 2010 - 19:38
by : William Hughes On Thursday morning, Feb. 25, 2010, a sidewalk summit advocating “Medicare for All,” was staged in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Park, North, not far from the White House. To close the rally, Dr. Margaret Flowers sang her rendition of “It Isn’t Nice,” a ballad authored by the late, great songwriter and activist, Malvina Reynolds. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina_Reynolds Dr. Flower was introduced by activist Katie Robbins. For background on the Sidewalk Summit, go to: (...)
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Monday March 1 2010 - 15:00
by : Diaspora Saharaui A recent post of the moroccan press agency, MAP, reported on 25 Feb 2010 that britannic MP, Derek Conway told that moroccan autonomu plan is "a viable and serious proposal" that will help settle the Sahara issue. It’s important to highlight that the Derek Conway who proposed, two years ago, a deliberately deceptive Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament in favour of Morocco’s autonomy plan is the same Derek Conway that later faces fraud investigations after being sacked by his party for (...)
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Monday March 1 2010 - 13:39
by : Alan The underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports.
So to protest, members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal airport.
The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as, Something to hide? and Be a good citizen — drop your pants.
One woman has the word diaper scrawled on her lower back with an (...)
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Sunday February 28 2010 - 02:16
by : William Hughes Ed Norris is the former Police Commissioner of Baltimore City. Currently, he is a popular radio talk show host, on 105.7 WHFS (FM), in town. On Feb. 24, 2010, he appeared on a panel to discuss the crime situation in Baltimore. The event, held at a local bistro/pub, was sponsored by “Investigative Voice,” See: http://investigativevoice.com/ To learn more about Mr. Norris, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Norris and http://ednorris.com/mainsite/ Mr. Norris said that the HBO’s “The (...)
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Saturday February 27 2010 - 07:50
by : Michael David Morrissey This is for all you techies and hackers out there. As I said last time, the fate of the world may be in your hands, and I’m not joking. The fact that you are reading this, perhaps passed on from a progressive friend even though your politics may be quite different from his or hers or mine, or even non-existent, makes my first point. I don’t have to tell you, of all people, what an enormously powerful tool the internet is, or that (my second point) there are powerful forces gathering to (...)
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Friday February 26 2010 - 23:45
by : Rel-UITA Another murder in broad daylight
A little after noon on Wednesday, Feb. 24, in the city of San Pedro Sula, there was a knock on the door at Claudia Larissa Brizuela’s house, where she was celebrating her 36th birthday. As soon as she opened the door she was gunned down, with three shots to the head that killed instantly. Claudia was an active member of the trade union of employees of the Mayor’s Office, where she worked. She was also the daughter of Pedro Brizuela, a prominent local (...)
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Friday February 26 2010 - 07:58
by : Alan A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Pr Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war. http://www.globalresearch.ca
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Friday February 26 2010 - 02:45
by : William Hughes On Thursday morning, Feb. 25, 2010, a sidewalk summit advocating “Medicare for All,” was staged in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Park, North, not far from the White House. Here are some sights and scenes from that spirited event. For background, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org/
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Thursday February 25 2010 - 12:41
by : Diaspora Saharaui Letter sent on 02/24/2010, by Mr Thomas Schmidt, General Secretary of European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) to the european governments :
Dear Sir/Madam,
With interest but also with great concern we have read the Statement by the Council of the European Union after the Eighth Meeting of the EU-Morocco Association Council, dated 7th December 2009.
We fully agree with the statement of the European Union when mentions the need of “promotion of human (...)
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Thursday February 25 2010 - 10:57
by : Solve et Coagula Dalai Lama: CIA monk exposed (Vidoes)
The Dalai Lama’s visit with Obama and the future of US-China relations
In the first video CrossTalk on Dalai Lama: CIA monk exposed, Webster Tarpley joins Andrew Leung in London and host Peter Lavelle in Moscow to evaluate the role of the Dalai Lama and the current and future trends of the US-China bilateral relationship. Crosstalk will be broadcast numerous times today Friday Feb. 19 on Russia Today.
In the second video US-China relations could get (...)
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Thursday February 25 2010 - 05:35
by : William Hughes Ed Norris is the former Police Commissioner for Baltimore City. He said our drug policy doesn’t work. Norris urged ‘legalizing” all drugs. He said prohibition doesn’t work. Norris said: “As long as it is illegal, they’re [the drugs], going to be in demand...They’re not killing each other for the drugs. They’re killing each other for the money. And, that’s the problem... You can’t legislate morality.” The ex-Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon also participated in the exchange of views. (...)
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Wednesday February 24 2010 - 16:34
by : Michael David Morrissey "George Washington" suggests that we use the tools of the enemy, "psychology or marketing techniques," i.e., propaganda, to "promote the truth," and he is quite right to anticipate "ethical reservations," but my reservations are not only ethical but tactical. He is "completely opposed" to using to using these techniques to spread "disinformation," but what in the world does he think would then enable us to distinguish "good" propaganda from bad?
The answer is of course the very "facts and (...)
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Wednesday February 24 2010 - 06:15
by : Amerikagulag By William A. Cook
February 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" — Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a letter carried by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The issue eliciting the need for such a public letter, essentially a letter written to the world, stood boldly as a heading: “How Long Can We Stand Idly (...)
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Monday February 22 2010 - 23:48
by : William Hughes On Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, the Pulizter Prize winning author Taylor Branch, spoke in Baltimore, MD. He talked about the necessity of Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Mr. Taylor drew some parallels with this current struggle for social justice and with the heroic battle for Civil Rights in America, under the leadership of the legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Taylor is a noted biographer of MLK. See: http://taylorbranch.com/ The event was held at the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore. It (...)
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Monday February 22 2010 - 18:08
by : Diaspora Saharaui The European Parliament will hold a mini plenary session in Brussels this week (24-25 February). The reform of the common fisheries policies is one of the items on the agenda. The EPs opinions on the EU’s fisheries policies have become very important, since the institution now has full co-decision rights within this area. I think that one particular area of the fisheries policies of the EU deserves special attention, namely the fisheries agreements with developing countries.
The (...)
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Monday February 22 2010 - 17:35
by : Michael David Morrissey 67 years ago today Sophie Scholl was beheaded by the Nazis for distributing leaflets published by the White Rose Society, along with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst. She was 22 years old. I suppose many of us have seen the movie, but I feel a proper tribute to her and her fellow resisters would be to read their words, as printed in their first leaftlet, especially if we substitute "American" for "German" and (with a bit more gumption) "New York City" (WTC) for "Cologne":
“Nothing (...)
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Monday February 22 2010 - 15:36
by : William Hughes [Publisher, Novelzine, 2010,164 pp., soft cover, $15.99]
Baltimore, MD — Stephen Janis is an awarding-winning investigative reporter. The urban crime scene is his beat. His engrossing, surreal novel, “This Dream Called Death,” is his second book.
The fast-paced story is set in the decaying, crime-saturated and once-highly industrialized, “City of Balaise.” It’s a look into a grim, but maybe a not-too-distant future, where your worst fears of an ultra-controlling “Homeland Security-like” (...)
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Sunday February 21 2010 - 22:00
by : Jill Starr What It’s Like to Chill Out With Whom the World Considers the Most Ruthless Men in the World Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and Goran Hadzic (+) Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator
Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the (...)
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Sunday February 21 2010 - 21:59
by : Jjill Starr Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case
http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa
(The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images)
This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr Karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not.
Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at (...)
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Sunday February 21 2010 - 18:10
by : Daveparts Why Republicans Make Things Up By David Glenn Cox
It has long been offered that politics is the art of telling your constituents to go to hell and then convincing them that they really want to go. It’s the art of convincing them that what they think is good for them really isn’t. Sometimes it’s a promise to make the sunshine brighter or the rain fall on command.
When you ran for office as a Democrat in the good old days you could promise new and better schools, highways and more jobs. It (...)
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Saturday February 20 2010 - 17:34
by : jim tiger showed more class than many of the news commentators whio only wanted to know when he was going to golf again. evidently winning bAck the love and respect of his wife and family are more important to him than making money for the PGA, his sponsors and television. it came across to me that many of the nbc contributors wanted to hear him say he was getting divorced and returning to golf next week. what tiger did was horeribly wrong, but he is doing what is right by first getting (...)
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Thursday February 18 2010 - 11:13
by : Nicola Nasser By Nicola Nasser*
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s warning on February 18 that it could take months to form a new government in Baghdad after the Iraqi elections, scheduled for March 7, and that in turn could mean considerable political turmoil in Iraq, and the warnings of observers and experts as well as officials against the looming specter of a renewed sectarian war in the country, indicate that security, stability, let alone democracy, and a successful “victorious” withdrawal of (...)
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Thursday February 18 2010 - 06:33
by : William Hughes On Wed. evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, Md. Before the controversial law professor could get into his talk, however, it was interrupted by two activists. They stood to his right in front of the auditorium and held a banner, which read: “Try Yoo for Torture!” The protesters refused to sit down, but they were not arrested and remained in the same position during Yoo’s entire speech. Yoo had served in the administration of the (...)
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Thursday February 18 2010 - 04:12
by : johnny canuck Where’s That Olympic Truce? by Derrick OKeefe
"The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted in protest of the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Then - US president Jimmy Carter announced the boycott in February 1980, and Canada and dozens of other countries soon followed suit. Thirty years later it is the United States, Canada and other NATO countries that are occupying Afghanistan...
It’s now fair to speculate that the Games have been used even more cynically—as (...)
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