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From the same country that gave you Stephen Harper adviser Tom Flanagan urging the assasination of Wikileaks Julian Assange on national television, now comes Queens University’s Douglas Bland explaining why the Canadian Colonizer regime can treat members of Indigenous warrior societies as ’insurgencies’ and kill them just as Canada is doing so energetically in Afghanistan...
Merely Stating the Obvious - by Douglas Bland (Queens University)
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/M...
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The following is the statement of Gaza Youth Breaks Out. It was posted on facebook and there’s no website to be found (yet?), note there are contact links at the bottom. So for everyone’s benefit and with much respect, I repost it here in full:
GAZAN YOUTH’S MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA!
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of (…)

A proposal for 1,000 MW gas-fired power plant to be built 1.5 kilometres from the SE Queensland, Australia Lockyer Valley town of Gatton (population 6,000) has drawn the ire of local residents. The local Lockyer Valley Regional Council (LVRC) has rejected an application from the proponent, Westlink, to build the plant. Westlink is appealing this decision of the council. [1].
The local opposition to the gas-fired power plant has been stated by Chris Hall of Keep Lockyer Rural: “[ re (…)

At Christmas 2010 we celebrate the birth of Jesus and remember his parents fleeing as refugees from the slaughter of the children by cruel King Herod. 2 millennia after the birth of Jesus there are some 20 million Muslim refugees and a cruel and evil President Obama presides over an American Empire that murders about 1,000 children every day (see “Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill day? Answer: 1,000”, Bellaciao, 1 May 2009: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 ) and has (…)

The Age newspaper of Melbourne is arguably Australia’s most “liberal” newspaper. However, as described below, even after the horrendous Christmas Island (Australia) refugee disaster (50 refugees killed in a wrecked boat) The Age still censors the Awful Truth about 20 million Muslim refugees that anti-Asian Apartheid Australia has helped the US generate.
The Age (part of the Australian Fairfax media empire) is certainly more ethical and progressive than the Australian taxpayer-funded (…)

This is Insane. Don’t ever get scanned by TSA.
While the application of scientific knowledge creates technology, sometimes the technology is later redefined by science. Such is the case with terahertz (THz) radiation, the energy waves that drive the technology of the TSA: back scatter airport scanners.
Emerging THz technological applications THz waves are found between microwaves and infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum. This type of radiation was chosen for security devices because (…)

Wiki-Distraction: That is More like It.
(San Francisco) - Today I wondered what Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were all about? So, I did what a lot of people do: I asked Google for the number of hits on the word “WikiLeaks”.
Wow! Google reported “390,000,000 results.” I was kinda stunned. Google “God”
I Googled “God” next. He, She, It polled “532 Million results.” Well God beat WikiLeaks; but, it was closer that I thought it would be.
I Googled “G-d” next. Hmmmm, about 96 Million (…)

by Isabelle Metral and reviewed by Bill Scoble
Aziz Djellab, professor of sociology at the university of Lille-III, comments on the latest PISA report.
Both the media and the French Ministry for National Education were impatiently waiting for its publication: the PISA report [1] has just delivered its verdict. And the verdict is that the French system is getting more and more inegalitarian, and that social class remains a determining factor in students’ achievements.
This means that (…)

Reports indicate that the hardships from Pakistan’s earlier monsoon floods have been exacerbated by the onslaught of winter. The floods impacted 20 million of Pakistan’s population of just over 180 million people. As the temperature dips, hundreds of thousands of displaced children and adults are susceptible to pneumonia and other cold related diseases. According to Director of the National Institute of Child Health (Pakistan), Professor Jamal Raza states that the flood victims becoming ill (…)

The claim that common people govern ourselves in a democracy called the United States is a false claim. And the claim that common people can freely and fundamentally criticize our political and economic system and work to build one that is more democratic without reprisal is a lie. Fresia, 1998
Republican representatives and the US president who marketed himself on the need for "change" audaciously said in a statement yesterday that "Today, the Senate passed with strong bipartisan support (…)