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A television documentary claims that a Norwegian security company trains staff to torture and cites a report accusing the firm of executions.
05 Nov 2007, 16:35
On the Monday edition of Dokument 2 images from the Norwegian managed security company Special Intervention Group’s (SIG) extreme training course will be shown.
The company is led by two Norwegians and provides training for Norwegians, Swedes and Danes to become bodyguards in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, (…)

The National Transportation Safety Board’s historic ruling on the probable cause of the April 2006 Predator B unmanned aircraft crash in Arizona represents just the first of a series of unmanned systems accident investigations that will follow as drones of all sizes finally win approval by federal air safety regulators to operate unfettered in the National Airspace System (NAS).
November 6th, 2007 09:47 AM EDT
The Safety Board ruled that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) accident was (…)

Eric Prince & Company appear to be set to expand into both border enforcement and the Bush White House drug war with an operational role in Plan Mexico, the $1.5 billion U.S.-Mexico drug war scheme to fuse drug-fighting agencies on both sides of the border under Washington’s control.
November 9, 2007 By JOHN ROSS
If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily-armed operatives are forced to pull out of Iraq as the result of the September 16th rampage in (…)

Genetically Modified Foods Unsafe? Evidence that Links GM Foods to Allergic Responses Mounts
by Jeffery M. Smith
Genetically modified (GM) foods are inherently unsafe, and current safety assessments are not competent to protect us from or even identify most dangers. Overwhelming evidence to support this conclusion is now compiled in the book Genetic Roulette: The documented health risks of genetically engineered foods, which presents an abundance of adverse findings and theoretical risks (…)

Global Research
November 8, 2007
During the course of an October 17, 2007 press conference, President Bush Jr. terrorized the entire world with the threat of World War III if he could not work his illegal will upon Iran . Then Russian President Vladimir Putin responded in kind by likewise terrorizing the entire world with the prospect of yet another Cuban Missile Crisis if he did not get his way on the provocative anti-ballistic missile (A.B.M.) systems that the Bush Jr. administration (…)

SILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
AN ENQUIRY REPORSILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
AN ENQUIRY REPORT BY P.U.C.L.GUJARAT
Workers working in the agate industries are dying of silicosis in regular interval for last 40 years in Khambhat. Families are wiped out totally. But there is no respite from the death trap of economically impoverished people of this area.
The agate industry, is a household industry in the Khambhat region of Gujarat and its (…)

Bush Stumbles Bernacke Mumbles and Aqua Dots Crumble By David Glenn Cox
This week has been a wild ride on Wall Street. On Wednesday, Wall Street struggled with bad news, lots of bad news. GM lost 39 Billion dollars in the third quarter and the Chinese economics minister in a prepared speech before the peoples party Congress stated that the Chinese would seek strong currencies over weaker ones to invest in. The announcement pushed an already slumping dollar into a free falling dollar. As (…)

US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
Robert Burns – Associated Press November 8, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent.
The Army and Marine Corps are under enormous strain from years of heavy ground fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, the United States has ample air and naval power to strike Iran if President Bush (…)

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Iraq, Establishing Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Che Guevara’s Legacy and More on Democray Now (Amy Goodman)
In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. In a wide-ranging conversation, Morales discusses the impact of the war in Iraq on Latin America, warns against the use of biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and highlights the importance of indigenous (…)

North Sea surge brings flood risk A storm in the North Sea has left Britain and the Netherlands facing the worst flood threat in decades with tidal surges predicted early on Friday.
Flood defences have been put on alert on the entire Dutch coast and flood warnings are in place for the eastern and northern coasts of Britain.
A tidal wave in 1953 killed more than 2,000 people in both countries.
Oil platforms have been closed off the Norwegian coast and gales are expected in Germany (…)