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  • Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney
    16 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Hughes
    “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” - Mohandas Gandhi
    The late Philip Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, wrote in 1997: “The empire’s wars are killing us.” (1) One of the big props for that empire is the clique in our society, known as the “Military-Industrial Complex.” This is the same powerful special interest that President Dwight D. Eisenshower warned the nation about in his “Farewell Address.” (2) Peace activist Berrigan felt, as a result of the arms (…)

  • What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vincent Browne
    Last Wednesday afternoon, I visited the offices of the European Commission in Molesworth Street, Dublin. I wanted a copy of the Lisbon Reform Treaty, on which we will vote in a few months. One of the three gentlemen at reception gave me a photocopy of the document, the only form in which this treaty is available.
    I noted that on page 10 (I think it was on page 10, for even the page numbers are confusing) Article 1 stated: ‘‘The Treaty on the European Union shall be (…)

  • Stop Blair !
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Petition against the nomination of Tony Blair as "President of the EuropeanUnion"
    http://www.stopblair.eu/
    We, European citizens of all origins and of all political persuasions, wish to express our total opposition to the nomination of Tony Blair to the Presidency of the European Council.
    The Treaty of Lisbon provides for the new post of President of the European Council, to be elected by the Council for a mandate, renewable once only, of two and a half years. Under the terms of the (…)

  • The World’s Rubbish Dump : A Garbage Tip That Stretches From Hawaii to Japan
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden, The Independent
    A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.The vast expanse of debris - in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump - is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting “soup” stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost (…)

  • Adieu, France
    5 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lisbon Treaty gets Versailles vote
    French MPs have voted to amend their constitution to permit the adoption of the revised European Constitution.
    EU Observer quotes Prime Minister Francois Fillon as hailing the decision as "a vote that distinguishes the actors of history from the spectators."
    Held in a special session in Versailles, the vote by France’s Chamber of Deputies was passed 560 to 181. Opposition Socialists abstained, arguing that while they supported the Lisbon Treaty, they (…)

  • $cientology : I will be on trial tuesday, february 7th in paris
    4 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    They accuse me of death threat and "death or destruction intent toward their organization " with a fake letter, one guy was also violently harrassed by a drunkard
    I suppose also being part of a plot I was witness the police asked me to give a statement and why I didn’t react, which actually I did by calling two scienos to get to help the guy which was in big trouble they are manipulating people they do it the way some famous mediteranean criminal mobsters organization done it for years, (…)

  • On the simplified European treaty - Pour un nouveau referendum (video)
    24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Révolte au Parlement de l'UE - INCROYABLE
    Dear European friends, et chers amis français de l’étranger,
    I’m really sorry of French speaking only to the following words... but I cannot use other language assuring that there will not be misunderstanding. The subject is of The simplified European treaty from a country that had voted No.
    C’est au sujet de la ratification du traité européen contre la majorité des suffrages exprimés lors du premier référendum que je vous écris (…)

  • Events planned for march 10-19, 2008, to resist the US occupation of Iraq
    23 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Davids Wanson
    Events Planned for March 10-19, 2008, to Resist the U.S. Occupation of Iraq, Oppose New Wars, Demand Impeachment
    FEBRUARY 1, 2008 in New York City: Planning Meeting for March 19 in Washington, D.C. Details here
    MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 (Monday to Wednesday) in Washington, D.C.: Stop-Loss Congress This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the (…)

  • ’the french are miserable but sarkozy’s my napoleon,’ says his lover (or wife)
    20 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Phil Meadley
    Former supermodel Carla Bruni may have maintained a dignified silence about her relationship with the French president.
    But in a startlingly frank interview conducted not long before she met Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla revealed her true feelings about the "miserable" and "negative" French people and the "unbearably polluted" Paris.
    She even likened the 52-year-old President - who some reports claim she has secretly married - to the pop star Prince and Napoleon Bonaparte, (…)

  • one of africa’s most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed
    19 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of Africa’s most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed by a hydroelectric project in Gabon, according to reports from a Gabonese NGO and the Inter Press Service (IPS).
    Kongou Falls, a 184-foot (5 6m) two-mile-wide (3.2 km) cataract on the Ivindo river in the Congo rainforest, will be flooded by a dam to provide power for a $3.5 billion plan to mine iron ore at Bélinga in northeastern Gabon. The project — financed by a Chinese consortium led by CMEC, a Chinese company — is scheduled to (…)