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BLACKLISTSNEWS, December 17, 2007. Reprint from International Herald Tribune
ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
The (…)

Labor union “Unite Here” held a protest outside Countrywide’s financial center in San Francisco today (19 dec), expanding their ongoing “Don’t Deposit at Countrywide” campaign.
Protestors held signs that read “Don’t feed the bank that bites you” and passed out leaflets to passer-bys with the message, “Don’t Feed the Animals.”
The group wants Countrywide to help the scores of at-risk borrowers who are already behind on their mortgages, a group the union believes will be ignored in favor (…)

Last night PBS aired "An Unreasonable Man" — a brilliant documentary about Ralph Nader, the man responsible for seat belts, air bags, food labeling and safety, and a host of other humanist causes. Over time, however, America grew tired of this tireless advocate. His efforts to contain corporate power is a trajectory of liberal causes that sadly, ultimately fell on deaf ears. By the time he ran for President in 2000, the electorate — thanks to Bill Clinton and others — had turned not moderate (…)

Russian Security Analyst reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the offices of one of the United States top War Leaders, Vice President Richard Cheney, came under assault by ‘unknown’ US Military assailants who in retreating before what has been described as ‘withering fire’ from Secret Service Agents assigned to protect Cheney literally ‘blew up’ the Vice Presidents office complex.
Propaganda reports from US media organs, however, are reporting on this reported attack (…)

Let’s analyse the implications of the British ‘withdrawal’ from Basra Iraq.
In 2003 two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra by the British military after they were caught “wearing Arab clothes” and “shooting at policemen”. From the car that they were driving, they opened “fire on a police checkpoint, killing one. In pursuit, the police surround(ed) and detain the drivers and (found) the vehicle packed with explosives.”
“That’s right – two members of the British Armed forces (…)

Ironic the propigators of zionism should want a document which enshrines the Rule of Law. They probably want to erase evidence of Habeas Corpus
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Grabbed By The Mortgage Hairs:
People all over keep wondering where the American protest movement is. Why aren’t those lazy Americans up in arms over Iraq? Why aren’t they screaming about all the evil Georgie Boy is doing at the Bali conference on global Warming? Why are they using so much energy, so much oil, committing so much pollution?
It’s really simple:
When the corporations own 95% of your media, no one is going to hear any argument the corporations don’t want you to hear. (…)

GLOBALRESEARCH.CA
Mirage of Improvement in Iraq: Yet Another Facelift for the Failed Occupation
Half the population of Iraq are either refugees, in need of emergency aid, wounded, or dead
By Dhar Jamail
The New York Times Nov 19 announces, "Baghdad’s Weary Start to Exhale as Security Improves."
The Washington Post Nov. 23 reports, "Returnees Find a Capital Transformed."
People in the US are willing to believe the establishment media telling them that refugees are returning to (…)

“Tell Stalin I shall be dying with his name on my lips.” - Nikolai Ezhov, ex-boss of Russia’s feared secret police, the NKVD, prior to his execution on the orders of the dictator.
Before he was known as a Marxist revolutionist in his home town of Gori, Josef Stalin was a published poet. Gori, located in Georgia, a region of the Romanov Czars’ vast empire, was then known as the “Viceroyalty of the Caucasus.” It sits between the Black and Caspian Seas. Stalin’s tenor voice was so good, he (…)

Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 18, 2007
AVIANO, Italy — The mayors of two towns in Italy with U.S. bases thought to house nuclear missiles have signed onto a petition calling for a global end to such weapons by 2020.
Stefano Del Cont, mayor of Aviano since June, said he and Anna Giulia Guarneri, the mayor of Ghedi, joined hundreds of other city leaders around the globe in seeking the ban. (…)