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While U.S. efforts to deploy it’s microwave Active Denial System (which transmits a searchlight sized bean of energy when makes people downrange feel like their skin is on fire) continue to be delayed, another non-lethal system, LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) has been quietly deployed to Iraq. And there the story gets a little strange.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5028
.......Islamic terrorists tend to be superstitious and, of course, very religious. LRAD can put the (…)

Manhunt in Pakistan for British suspect
Laura King and Sebastian Rotella – Los Angeles Times December 17, 2007
Pakistani authorities said Sunday that they had launched a manhunt for a suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners who escaped from police custody a day earlier under murky circumstances.
Senior Pakistani officials did not confirm the escape of Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani origin, until nearly 24 hours after he fled Saturday. He was reportedly able (…)

The US and its climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal allies Australia and Canada are seriously threatening the World, and particular the Developing World and mega-delta Developing countries such as Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Burma, Nigeria, Egypt, India and Pakistan (see: “Climate Criminals & Climate genocide. Anglo-Celtia threatens final Bengal Holocaust”: ).
The Bali Climate Change Conference has ended in a FARCE due to the US veto of greenhouse gas (…)

Global Research, December 14, 2007
Kosovo: We’re On The Brink Of A Balkans Bloodbath
by George Galloway, MP
WHILE most were asleep, we’ve walked to the brink of yet another war in the Balkans.
Kosovo is a part of Serbia. That’s a legal and political fact. It wants to break away and appears to have secured British and American agreement, but not, alas, the agreement of either Serbia, whose land it is, or Russia, which will veto any breakaway in the UN. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) (…)

By David R. Hoffman
From the beginning he was destined to become an “American Rebel.” Even his name presaged this reality. Dean, his first name, was the last name of the actor James, who became a cultural icon after his 1955 appearance in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. Unfortunately that same year, just as this twenty-four-year-old actor was beginning to enjoy his fame, he died in a car crash.
His last name was Reed, shared with the radical journalist John, an eyewitness to the (…)

Commondreams.org
Reprint from The New York Times, December 12, 2007 by
by Jad Mouawad
Exxon Mobil said Tuesday that it would like to build a $1 billion floating terminal for liquefied natural gas about 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey, a move meant to deflect safety and environmental concerns about proximity to populated areas.
The company plans to anchor a boatlike structure in the Atlantic Ocean to process natural gas imported by cargo ships from faraway suppliers in the (…)

Last week I came across the following site which lists the total number of Taser deaths in North America from October to November of 2007.
With the use of Tasers, in the last few weeks, the police have killed the following nine people in the United States and Canada:
- Sammy Baker - Quitman, Georgia - Oct. 1, 2007 - Robert Dziekanski - Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 14, 2007 - Quilem Registre - Montreal, Canada - Oct. 17, 2007 - Jarrel Gray - Frederick, Maryland - Nov. (…)

Commondreams, December 14, 2007
reprinted from The Guardian/UK
by Ian Sample
The majority of the world’s coral reefs are in danger of being killed off by rising levels of greenhouse gases, scientists warned yesterday. Researchers from Britain, the US and Australia, working with teams from the UN and the World Bank, voiced their concerns after a study revealed 98% of the world’s reef habitats are likely to become too acidic for corals to grow by 2050.
The loss of big coral reefs would (…)

Appeal of Solidarity With The People, The Government, The Communist And Progressive Forces of Bolivia
The political process in Bolivia faces a critical moment.
The reactionary forces, the oligarchy, the US government and some European forces promote a large scale campaign aiming to reverse the progressive processes in this Latin American country.
The goal of all these forces is to block the changes promoted by the Constitutional Assembly for a democratic Constitution for the benefit (…)

Whilst teeming with a vast diversity of life, Indonesia’s lush rainforests are quite simply disappearing — meaning that its eco-system and climate processes are sorely being affected.
75 percent of the nation’s rainforests have already been cut down by loggers wishing to exploit the opportunity to make huge profits feeding the insatiable worldwide demand for timber.
Many of the logging companies act illegally, aided by distributive corruption at every level of bureaucracy.
The area of (…)