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Showdown in Vancouver
by Jules Boykoff
...Just behind the slick, smiley-faced facade of Olympic spirit, the Canadian state is flexing its militarized muscles, employing an array of tactics designed to suppress political dissent.
I begin to sense what activist Harsha Walia of No One Is Illegal and The Olympic Resistance Network described as ’the overall militarization of Vancouver and an encroaching police and surveillance state.’
[Please forward and circulate] (…)

American history has been dominated by war; so, too, may the American future be.
The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan. So much so, in fact, that Afghanistan would be familiar to an American in 1900, and conventional wars such as World War II would seem strange.
In fact, in many ways (…)

Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?
David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of (…)

Days ago, while I was surfing the net, I came across this info about British Gas. It says that, for 5 consecutive years, British Gas is ranked among the top 50 places to work in UK. The ranking was based on a survey among British Gas employees. Considering the results, one would think it must be great to work for this company… not so sure, I thought…not in Algeria at least.
Obviously, those who rewarded British Gas didn’t know about the case of Meriem Mehdi. This Algerian woman was an (…)

The extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-coal, human rights-abusing, spin-driven Australian Labor Government has repeatedly declared that it is instituting an “education revolution”.
However a key element of the teaching and learning process called “education” is correct information (I must note here that this is my 5th decade of teaching science students at a leading Australian university and that, unlike most of my colleagues, I have a postgraduate qualification in teaching in Higher (…)

Last year I published on Bellaciao a very carefully researched and documented quantitative analysis of the mass murder of Muslim civilians, and notably of children, by the US Alliance in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under Barack Obama and entitled “Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: . This article comes up as #1 out of about 8,000 hits on a Google Search for the famous anti-war chant “Hey. Hey . USA, how many kids did you kill today?” (…)

Ah Houston, Space Rider here; we’ve got a problem. Space Rider, this is Houston, go ahead. Uh, Houston, Space Rider, we’re in the holding pattern just north of Jupiter and our Foreign Policy Extender Probe is jammed and won’t retract, over. Space Rider, we see the problem and the FPEP engineers are looking at a fix. Houston, Space Rider, we have run the emergency check list and there is no procedure for reentry with the FPEP jammed and generating all that parasite drag. Space Rider, (…)

The World is facing what an overwhelming international scientific consensus says is a worsening Climate Crisis, Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency from man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, AGW). However the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has given extraordinary coverage to the views of a visiting UK climate change denialist Mr Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. The following letter about politician and (…)

Mr. Barak Obama, President February 1st, 2010 The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Dear Mister President,
After the attempted terrorist attack, which luckily failed, on flight 253 Amsterdam-Detroit, you took the necessary measures to reinforce security on the airlines, which is normal.
When we read the list of the countries suspected of terrorism, for which passengers will be closely monitored, and we saw Cuba on this list, we burst out (…)

Haiti quake destruction lands smack dab in the middle of a burgeoning Socialist oil belt on the US’s doorstep.
See map below...
References:
Tectonic weapon: http://www.voltairenet.org/article163626.html
Cuba oil : http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/energy/2009/03/03/why-cubas-dreams-of-major-oil-discoveries-might-come-true.html
Haiti background: http://www.opednews.com/populum/link.php?id=105516
Oil band map background : USGS