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  • Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act The Senate will sit today to pass legislation the Federal Government says could help authorities deal with a specific threat of terrorism.
    The Government says the new laws are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat.
    The Government says the new laws broadening the definition of a terrorist act are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat of terrorism in the last few days.
    It says the legislation will (…)

  • Shots fired as French riots escalate
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rioters shot at police and fire fighter crews in the worst night of a week of violence in poor suburbs that ring Paris, as France’s conservative government struggled to quell the unrest.
    Youths who rampaged on Wednesday night left a trail of burnt cars, buses and shops in nine suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society.
    "It’s a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we (…)

  • The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
    by Geoff Andrews
    In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…)

  • Mapping Out Catastrophe
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    Does anyone remember that quirky little document called "the roadmap," the proposed path to peace initiated by the Quartet-the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia-involving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
    If you remember it and its contents, you can recall that Israelis and Palestinians should be in phase two (of three) of the plan by now: the creation of a quasi Palestinian state with "provisional borders" and the markings of (…)

  • THE INCOMPETENT CONSPIRACY
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    As we watch the events of our lives unfold millions of people breathe the word “conspiracy” as if everyone is out to get them. Why?
    The only conspiracy is the conspiracy of incompetence.
    It begins by being afraid - very, very afraid. Of what - the men with guns? That happens later, much later. This fear is far more simplistic, and it truly threatens your way of life.
    The conspiracy begins with very small people living in fear of being discovered - to protect (…)

  • URGENT: Stop the Trafficking of Human Sex Slaves
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen!
    I just finished watching that movie on Lifetime TV called “Human Trafficking” and it turned my stomach to know how young girls and young boys are trafficked world-wide and even within this country.
    So we must be their voices and their power to end their slavery where they are worked to death for years as sex slaves. According to this movie the selling of human beings ranks third after the selling of weapons and drugs. Also according to this movie approximately (…)

  • European Preparatory Assembly for the European Social forum in Athens 5- 9 April 2006 (Itsanbul 24-25 Sept. 2005)
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Manchester Social Forum
    Decisions on the programme
    Following the main debate and numerous discussions on the political and social situation, the Istanbul EPA came to an agreement on several points in order to put together the programme:
    Agreement on general objectives:
    1. Create an alternative to the European neo-liberal programme and anti-social policies.
    2. Raise the profile and awareness of these alternatives as well as concrete responses to them.
    3. Encourage the convergence (…)

  • AOL Hires Cheney Daughter
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yuki Noguchi
    America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday.
    Cheney starts the job later this year and will work primarily with longtime AOL executive Ted Leonsis, who as president of AOL’s Audience Business focuses on increasing viewership of its Web sites, said Nicholas Graham, a spokesman for the Dulles-based company. He declined to disclose additional (…)

  • Aziz denies naming British MP in oil probe
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has denied telling investigators that a maverick British lawmaker personally profited from the United Nations’ oil-for-food program for Iraq.
    By Reuters
    US congressional investigators said this week they had evidence that George Galloway had profited from the defunct UN program created to protect Iraqis from the harsh effects of sanctions against their Government.
    The report said Mr Aziz, under questioning by the subcommittee, said he had (…)

  • MOUNTAIN VIEWS: FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH’S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Hanchette
    OLEAN — Last week’s column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response.
    The bill (S. 1873) — a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry — is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
    In essence, (…)