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Source :"The Dawn"
SRINAGAR, Oct 27:
Shops, businesses, schools and government offices remained closed as people across occupied Kashmir observed a general strike on Monday to mark the anniversary of the day Indian troops took control of the region in 1947.
Thousands of Indian soldiers in riot gear patrolled deserted streets of Srinagar and prohibited any gathering of more than five people, said a police officer.
The ban was aimed at blocking a plan by Kashmiri lawyers to form a (…)

Courtroom Testimony that voting machines were hacked. America’s Democratic process is a joke. America is a fraud.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21a_1225010361

By Peter Walker and agencies
Source : The Guardian Monday October 27 2008
A missile believed to have been fired from a US drone aircraft has killed up to 20 people in Pakistan’s South Waziristan border region, Pakistani officials said today.
The strike targeted a house belonging to an aide to a local Taliban leader in what is thought to be a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida forces.
Up to 20 bodies were found at the scene, intelligence officials, quoting local sources, said. (…)

Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: October 06. 2008 10:38PM UAE / GMT
TEL AVIV // No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.
Dr Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the (…)

Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history
An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East
By Schlomo Sand
Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a Jewish people which has existed since it received the Torah (1) in Sinai. According to this myth, the Jews escaped (…)

By William John Cox
Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).
The pregnant woman is forcibly strapped to a Gurney and wheeled into the treatment room where her fetus is aborted and her fallopian tubes are tied. Why? A test has shown that the fetus has Down syndrome and she already has one living child. Where? (…)

How the masters of the universe outsmarted themselves Online Journal Oct 21, 2008, 10:23
How the masters of the universe outsmarted themselves, but don’t count them out yet
By Chronis Polychroniou
Online Journal Contributing WriterBy
Ralph Nader Wall Streer Protest Oct 16th Photo: Joëlle Pénochet
Even though it probably has deeper and more structural causes associated with it, perhaps due to over-accumulation, to use an old-fashioned Marxist economic term, the September-October (…)

Howard Zinn: The financial and war crisis have created an opportunity for real change
Source : southendpress.org
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24129011.html

The THE has published a survey in which 77% of lecturers denounce that they are pressurised to award higher grades to students than deserved. There are some important perversions of interest underlying the publication of such data by the THE.
If the THE, the universities, the QAA, the government, the pseudo-unions, or anyone else in the elite caste architecting the direction of British HE, wanted to really ensure meritocracy and student-centred learning in academia, they would first (…)

Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
© BY ERIC WALBERG
As the White House lame duck’s reign drags on, and political wars on the home front gather steam, it is pertinent we assess the legacy US President George W. Bush leaves us.
Part 1 – Inferno
Where to begin? The hell of Iraq and Afghanistan put everything else in the shadows. Those monstrous crimes will dominate the world’s agenda for decades to come. I have chosen here to deal with only a few major elements of the Bush (…)