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  • ICC complaint re Australia’s Aboriginal, Iraqi, Afghan & Climate Genocides
    3 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Formal Complaint to International Criminal Court (ICC) over Australia and Aboriginal, Iraqi, Afghan & Climate Genocides
    Chief Prosecutor
    International Criminal Court
    Office of the Prosecutor
    Post Office Box 19519
    2500 CM The Hague
    The Netherlands
    Dear Sir,
    Formal complaint to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court re
    Australian Government involvement in Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide
    For your convenience I (…)

  • Gazza Crisis
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Save the lifes of innocent civillians at Gazza/Palestine.
    Since last wendesday more than 65 Palestanians have been killed, and more than 200 were injurred. Most of the casualties are from children and elderly !.
    The Israelli army is commiting another genoside against the innocent palestanians.
    Your kindly requested to call for stoping of further civillian casulties.
    Mohamad Younis

  • Israeli official warns Palestinians of "shoah"
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joseph Nasr and Adam Entous, Reuters
    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official warned Palestinians in Gaza on Friday they risked a "shoah" if rocket fire continued, using the Hebrew term for holocaust as the Jewish state contemplated invading the Hamas-run enclave.
    Aides rushed to insist the deputy defense minister had meant the word only in its alternative meaning as a general disaster.
    But the strength of the language reflected Israel’s anger over the recent rocket fire. (…)

  • Israeli minister warns of Holocaust for Gaza if violence continues
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
    Israel’s deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger shoah," using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.
    The choice of vocabulary from Matan Vilnai, an often outspoken former army general, was unusually grave - the word is not normally used for anything other than the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews.
    Vilnai was speaking about (…)

  • Who Wants a Mercenary Army Training Camp in Louisa County?
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Firm Wants to Build Military Training Facility in Louisa
    By Christina Mora, NBC 29
    A private military training firm has its eyes on 1,000 acres of Louisa County land. The group wants to build a training center equipped with firing ranges, driving courses, and shooting houses.
    It could boost the county’s economy, but there are still a lot of hurdles to jump. The Cincinnati-based O’Gara Group currently has a training facility in Danville, but they want to expand it. That’s where Louisa (…)

  • France heads for war games in the Gulf
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall in Paris and Simeon Kerr in Dubai
    French armed forces will take part in large-scale war games in the Gulf next week, underlining France’s growing military presence in the region as heightened tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
    France will deploy 1,500 personnel, two frigates and eight Mirage fighter jets to the defence exercises, held in conjunction with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
    Paris has long-standing defence co-operation agreements with the two (…)

  • Canadian government authorizes American troops to occupy Canada
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    For all those who have been warning us about the Integration of Canada, United States and Mexico with the emergence of the North American Union, this latest agreement between Canada and the United States confirms what everyone feared.
    The Canadian government has yet again signed an agreement in secret with the United States in an attempt to dismantle Canada. This latest agreement allows the US military to occupy Canada in case of an ‘emergency’, and vice versa.
    What constitutes an (…)

  • The Implications of the opening of Iran’s Oil Bourse : End of American Empire
    19 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Sunday 17 February 2008 the first phase of Iran’s oil and petrochemical bourse in Kish Island was inaugurated, paving the way for “all major currencies of the world” to be used in future oil transactions. To understand the significance of this event, let’s take a look back at our history, starting with World War I. The following short video (2:08) recaps the events that resulted in Britain landing troops in Iran in 1914, and consequently occupying Iraq. A more detailed and glorified (…)

  • The Lost Kristol Tapes
    18 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Imagine that there were a Beatles record only a few people knew existed. And imagine you got the chance to listen to it, and as you did, your excitement grew, note by note. You realized it wasn’t merely as good as Rubber Soul, or Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper’s. It was much, much better. And now, imagine how badly you’d want to tell other Beatles fans all about it.
    That’s how I feel for my fellow William Kristol fans. You loved it when Bill said invading Iraq was going to have (…)

  • Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Assaults by security firms in IRAQ
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults Left, Andrew Cutraro for The New York Times; Right, David Ahntholz for The New York Times Jamie Leigh Jones, left, a former employee for the military contractor KBR, told Congress that she had been gang-raped by co-workers in Iraq in 2005. Mary Beth Kineston, also a former KBR worker, said she was sexually assaulted by one driver, groped by another worker and fired after complaining.
    By JAMES RISEN Published: February 13, 2008 WASHINGTON — (…)