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CounterPunch February 8 / 10, 2008
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16522127.html
The Other Whaling Industry
By Captain PAUL WATSON
On board the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.
"It does not matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
— Dr. Patrick Moore, President of Greenpeace Canada 1981
As the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society struggles to borrow and raise enough funds to return to the Southern Ocean, we feel incredibly (…)

Project Chanology is the large-scale plan to bring down the "Church" of Scientology. In January, 2008, ANONYMOUS began to spread the message that batshit insane fucktard Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was a batshit insane fucktard.
Thus began the effort to shed much-needed light on this criminal racket & cult, and get its tax-exempt "religion" status in the USA revoked for great justice. This cult has harmed many people yet they get a free ride from many governments. Join (…)

Declan Ganley writes in The Irish Daily Mail’s Saturday Essay on why Ireland must reject The Lisbon Treaty. On this past Thursday morning at 11 am Irish time, a group of 27 European political leaders signed their names to the Treaty of Lisbon. As they wielded their pens, further empowering an unaccountable Brussels elite, one has to wonder if any of them felt the weight of betrayal of the citizens they were supposed to be representing. When was it that the 27 lost their belief in the (…)

An opinion poll published today indicates that nearly two thirds of voters have yet to decide how to vote in the planned referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Only 12% of people believe they have a satisfactory knowledge of what is in the treaty.
However, the poll which appears in today’s Irish Times suggests that of those voters who have made up their minds, supporters of the agreement are leading the way.
Ireland is the only EU country holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and the (…)

The FBI Deputizes Business Matthew Rothschild
Crimes & Corruptions of the New World Order
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. (…)

We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva. A physicist and ecologist, Shiva is author of many books, her latest is “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.” [rush transcript]
In India, more than three hundred farmers climbed water tanks in the country’s central Vidarbha region, many of them threatening to commit suicide unless the government fulfilled their demands to lift them out of poverty. Throughout India, more and more troubled farmers (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6900/print/
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16459645.html
by Robert Evans
GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Wednesday for urgent conclusion of a global pact to ban cluster weapons even if big powers like the United States, Russia and China were not ready to join.
The Swiss-based humanitarian body’s senior arms specialist, Peter Herby, told a news conference the ICRC hoped the text of a (…)

GlobalResearch.ca
Financial Crisis: Asset Securitization— The Last Tango
Endgame: Unregulated Private Money Creation
What had emerged going into the new millennium after the 1999 repeal of Glass-Steagall was an awesome transformation of American credit markets into what was soon to become the world’s greatest unregulated private money creation machine.
The New Finance was built on an incestuous, interlocking, if informal, cartel of players, all reading from the script written by Alan (…)

By William Hughes
“You get the government you deserve!” Jay Leno, in reflecting on the lack of political knowledge of the U.S. public.
As the John McCain presidential juggernaut rolls up the victories in GOP primaries across the country, forcing Mitt Romney to quit, a question remains: Who will the Senator from Arizona pick as his running mate in the Vice-President slot? Sen. “Turncoat Joe” Lieberman (IND-CT)? At just about every photo op recently on the campaign trail, Lieberman has (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/03/6818/
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16348019.html
February 3, 2008
by Edward Harris
ABO EBAM, Nigeria — In the gloomy shade deep in Africa’s rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.From Brazil to central Africa to once-lush islands in Asia’s (…)