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Chinese tiger has nothing in tank
Rowan Callick, China correspondent | November 28, 2007
CHINA is running out of fuel. Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars.
In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are stranded.
A truck driver named Li told the Chuncheng Evening News he had been stranded at the Stone Tiger Gate petrol station (…)

For years Leaders and Universities in America have pushed Education and Technology as the way to the country’s future success.
What has happened? The exact opposite.
What has instead taken place are educated people without any wisdom. The result is a country on the skids. An Economic, militarily, and morally bankrupt society. Once a symbol to the world of prosperity, with strong determination and the strongest military now spends $40 Billion a week or more keeping liquidity in the (…)

Judy Wallman, a professional genealogical researcher, discovered that George Bush’s great-great uncle, Remus Bush, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows. On the back of the picture is this inscription:
"Remus Bush; horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889."
Judy (…)

Welcome To the Machine By David Glenn Cox
I walked past the sign in the window almost unnoticed. But as I past, it caught my eye, an American flag then underneath the words united we stand. A relic, a leftover from a time of make believe, a time that never was. An illusionary fairy tale we told ourselves to blunt our fears with the facade of outrage and national unity.
As I past I thought to myself, yeah, united we stand, right. Bullshit on both counts as we are neither united nor (…)

Sarkozy vows to bring rioters to justice
By Nicola Clark and Katrin Bennhold
Published: November 28, 2007 PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Wednesday to bring those who shot at police officers to justice as a wave of rioting by angry youths in the suburbs north of Paris showed signs of ebbing.
"What has happened is absolutely unacceptable," Sarkozy said after he was whisked to a bedside meeting with a wounded police captain upon his return from a three-day state visit to China. (…)

by Prof James PETRAS
Venezuela’s D-Day: Democratic Socialism or Imperial Counter-Revolution The December 2, 2007 Constituent Referendum
On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday (December 2, 2007). The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the head of (…)

Video: Charlie Chaplins amazing "Speach for Humanity"
Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable director and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field.
In this clip we will see a speech given by Chaplin which was written by him. He would later give thoughts on the words he wrote and (…)

November 27, 2007 Police union reports 77 injured By Nicolas Garriga, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and - in an ominous turn - shot at officers.
A senior police union official warned that "urban guerrillas" had joined the unrest, saying the violence was worse than during three (…)

Cannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year, to 173,000 acres from 123,550 in 2006, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its 2007 opium survey. The crop is being grown in at least 18 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, according to the survey released last month. The U.N. report singles out Balkh as a "leading example" of an opium-free province, saying other areas should follow "the model of this northern region where leadership, incentives and security have led (…)

The following article, “A plan to attack Iran swiftly and from above” by Paul Koring published in the November 22, 2007 issue of The Globe and Mail is an attempt to convince Canadians that a war with Iran is legitimate, and that it will have minimal consequences.
What sane human being would read this article and not feel anger, sorrow, and the putrid smell of a neoconservative agenda to sell a war, a Nuclear World War.
This propaganda piece disguised as a juvenile analysis of the (…)