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By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - As his plane lifted off the runway here in August 2003, Brian Dean Curran rewound his last, bleak days as the American ambassador in this tormented land.
Haiti, Mr. Curran feared, was headed toward a cataclysm, another violent uncoupling of its once jubilant embrace of democracy more than a decade before. He had come here hoping to help that tenuous democracy grow. Now he was leaving in anger and foreboding.
Seven months (…)

Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee ’Tipping Point’ When It Is Too Late to Act
By Juliet Eilperin
Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend.
This "tipping point" scenario has begun to consume many prominent researchers in the United States and abroad, because the answer could determine how (…)

By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON Published: January 29, 2006
New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 accelerated in the first year that President Bush and Congress cut taxes on capital.
In 2003 the top 1 percent of households owned 57.5 percent of corporate wealth, up from 53.4 percent the year before, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the latest income (…)

KUTCHH AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EARTHQUAKE - AN OVERALL VIEW A REPORT INTRODUCTION- Five years have passed since the 2001 Killer Earthquake, which devastated the life of Kutchh and killed thousands of people. Socialist Unity Centre of India (S.U.C.I.) reached Kutchh on the second day after the Earthquake, set up its base camp at Bahchau, and undertook intense medical and material relief work along with educational and cultural relief. A tarpaulin school was constructed in the early days, (…)

Pentagon Document Shows ’PSYOP’ Messages Boomerang to U.S.
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer January 27, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) A Pentagon "road map" to more effective use of information as a weapon says psychological warfare messages targeted at foreign audiences are increasingly finding their way into the United States.
The 78-page document, released Thursday by the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research group, spells out the Pentagon’s reasoning for putting greater emphasis (…)

Top NASA Scientist Warns Global Warming Is Here, Claims Censorship by Bush Regime Jan-29 2006
NASA’s top climatologist accused officials President Bush’s administration of trying to keep secret a warning he issued about potentially catastrophic changes in Earth’s climate caused by rapidly rising levels of greenhouse gases. Do you think global warming is a real and present danger?
Dr. James Hansen, 63, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University’s Earth (…)

Related: De Menezes Shooting: All the facts point to a cover up
Extraordinary allegations that Special Branch officers deliberately falsified vital evidence to hide mistakes which led to the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes at a south London Underground station were made last night.
According to claims in the News of the World, police altered the contents of a logbook, which detailed the Brazilian electrician’s final movements, in a bid to cover up their blunders.
The 27-year-old was (…)

by Mary MacElveen
Dear Folks,
Many of us have just read: Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst It is incumbent upon all of us and I do mean all of us to start faxing the articles of impeachment into every single elected official’s office. Republicans and Democrats alike must impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld in order to save this republic. Go to your library or your local convenience store to fax the articles of impeachment. To find your elected official’s fax (…)

by The August Review
America is For Sale. The sale is "under the table" in that the American people don’t have a clue that it’s being slowly sold out from under their feet, one piece at a time. The sale is deceptive because as the red ink grows larger and larger, we are told by these same globalists that trade and budget deficits don’t really matter that much.
The sale is dishonest because it was planned from the beginning by elitist groups like the Trilateral Commission, to twist and (…)

DALLAS A HORRIBLE WORLD!
Culture of the fear, denouncement, organization of petition against pay during their stop disease, installation of the talks of return after a stop disease, here the daily newspaper of certain American companies which are windy to apply a modern management... Now discover the back of the decoration... Saturday January 14, 2006 21:02 Statute: "Confidential Company information", here the title of the memo that the employees of the group office Depot France could (…)