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  • Meeting of the Rainbow Warriors
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.greenpeace.org.au/ Music video featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead’s "Bomb the World" with images of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Real Player Rainbow Warrior Anniversary Video News Piece This is a four minute news feature on the nuclear threat and the significance of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in 1985. It features interviews with former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, Guardian journalist Paul Brown, and Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd (…)

  • Italy sets date to pull troops out of Iraq. Speculation over terror fears as 300 to leave in September
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Hooper in Rome
    Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday confirmed that he would start pulling his country’s troops out of Iraq within two months.
    Speaking at the G8 Gleneagles summit, Mr Berlusconi said the withdrawal of the first of Italy’s 3,000 troops would start in September.
    "We will begin withdrawing 300 men in September," he said, adding that the decision would depend on the security situation on the ground.
    He said he had discussed the plan with allies and (…)

  • There have been several explosions on the London Underground Tube network this morning...
    7 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Reporters’ Log: London explosions
    There have been several explosions on the London Underground Tube network this morning, and on a bus in central London. BBC News correspondents are on the scene with the latest details.
    Alison Freeman : Edgware Road Underground Station : 1245 BST
    There are hordes of press here but it’s difficult to contact the office because the phone networks are down. The whole area is cordoned off and there are crowds of people at the cordons.
    There are several (…)

  • Enemy is at the G8
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fears were growing overnight that today’s G8 summit in Scotland was set to be derailed by violence and political bickering.
    Sir Bob Geldof, the organiser of the weekend’s Live8 concerts to fight poverty, was downbeat last night.
    "We have the potential to make this an historic G8," Geldof said.
    "But I don’t think they (G8 leaders) are anywhere near there."
    More than 60 people were arrested in Edinburgh as violent protesters infiltrated mass demonstrations for G8.
    Police fears that (…)

  • Sex selection: a global issue
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear friend,
    Here is a notice for a meeting that may be of interest to you. We would be grateful if you could pass it on to any relevant newsletters, email lists and friends who may be interested. Thanks for your help with this, we look forward to seeing you on July 7th.
    David King Director, Human Genetics Alert www.hgalert.org
    Sex selection: a global issue A meeting organised by Human Genetics Alert, and The Cornerhouse
    In India millions of female foetuses are being aborted, (…)

  • Britain declares Independence from US at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-Official Communiqué #2.5: (CIRCA): Britain declares Independence from US at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire - 04.07.2004
    The largest US spy base in the world is located in the heart of rural England at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Today, July 4th, people assembled at Menwith to declare Independance from America.
    Mobeen Arzard, Co-chair of Leeds Stop the War Coalition; Jean Lampert, green MEP for London; and John Sloboda, Co-founder of Iraq Body Count spoke to the people who then walked (…)

  • We’ll bring our troops home, whether Bush likes it or not
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush and Rumsfeld reject the idea of a timeline to withdraw from Iraq. Bush says we need to "stay the course." Rumsfeld says we’ll be there another 10 years. I wonder if these men would be willing to go through what our soldiers do: Occupying a country that is increasingly hostile to U.S. presence, where more and more we look like a foreign occupying power than a liberating army.
    I am sickened every time I hear about another soldier killed in their Humvee, or scores of Iraqi kids blown up (…)

  • G8 Edinburgh : protesters scuffle with police
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HUNDREDS of anti-capitalist demonstrators took to the streets of Scotland’s capital today in a series of protests ahead of the G8 summit.
    The centre of Edinburgh was brought to a standstill as an estimated 500 anarchist protesters were involved in tense stand-offs with police.
    The demonstrations, under the banner of The Carnival For Full Enjoyment, were said by organisers to be aimed at highlighting their anti-war and anti-wage slavery message.
    A heavy police presence, drawn from (…)

  • ’Last throes’ or latest quagmire?
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Which is it? Do we need 12 more years in Iraq to defeat the violent insurgency, or is the insurgency in its "last throes"?
    Is this war essential to stop terrorism from invading our shores, or was shaky intelligence "fixed" to justify a pre-planned invasion?
    Our own independence celebration this weekend is an appropriate time to take stock of just where we stand on Iraq, given the duplicity of information and mixed-messages coming from the White House and from our British allies.
    The (…)

  • Auditors: Halliburton Overcharged Taxpayers $1 Billion
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON: A top US army procurement official said today Halliburton’s deals in Iraq were the worst example of contract abuse she had seen as Pentagon auditors flagged over $US1 billion ($NZ1.42 billion) of potential overcharges by the Texas-based firm.
    Bunny Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers’ top contracting official-turned whistle-blower, said in testimony at a hearing by Democrats on Capitol Hill that "every aspect" of Halliburton’s oil contract in Iraq had been under the control (…)