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China Accused of Olympics Merchandise Child Labor
Reuters
Monday June 11, 2007
BEIJING—Chinese factories are churning out licensed bags, caps and stationery for the 2008 Beijing Olympics using child labour and paying workers less than half the minimum wage, a reports says.
As members of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) gather in London for a progress update on the 2012 Games, the report–"No Medal for the Olympics"–finds evidence of children as young as 12 producing Olympic (…)

Colonialism-Imperialism-Corporationism-Capitalism is about taking, killing, lies, and propaganda. But mostly its about a lack of concience and about MONEY!MONEY made not by the legitamate work in society as a ethical, honorable, and reality oriented indviduals.
Since the transformation of the existus of the Roman empire from the what was to become the nation states of europe the elite for generations have been using the DIFFERENCES between people. Religion vs Religion. Man vs. Woman. Right (…)

UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees Half of displaced people have no access to food aid By Patrick Cockburn Published: 10 June 2007
Omar, a Sunni driver, lived in a pleasant house in a Shia neighbourhood of al-Jihad district in west Baghdad until he decided that it was too dangerous for his family to stay.
He moved with them to Damascus, but it was too expensive and he had no chance of getting a job.
He returned to his home in al-Jihad, but when he arrived his neighbours said (…)

http://www.rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm
Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone By Sue Mueller 6-28-6 Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure. To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to a person. Howe (…)

The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 11 June 2007
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has (…)

ZNet | Venezuela
Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example by Federico Fuentes; Green Left Weekly; June 11, 2007
Under the banner of "For freedom of speech and against imperialism", hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on June 2 in defence of their revolution, and as a direct response to the domestic and international campaign being whipped up by Washington in the wake of the non-renewal of Radio Caracas TV’s (RCTV) broadcasting concession, dwarfing all (…)

by Stephen Lendman
Near the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi King ibn Saud on the USS Quincy. It began a six decade relationship guaranteeing US access to what his State Department called a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history" - the region’s oil and huge amount of it in Saudi Arabia. Today, the Middle East has two-thirds of the world’s proved oil reserves (around 675 billion barrels) and the Caspian basin an (…)

US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat
By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
Global Research, June 6, 2007
These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, as explained in my book "The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence"
By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the (…)

Published on Saturday, June 9, 2007 by The Nation
Neoconned Again
by John Nichols
One vote decided the race for World Bank president: that of the only world leader who thought neoconservative lothario Paul Wolfowitz was doing a heckuva job managing the troubled lender of last resort for developing nations. So it came as no surprise that voter in chief George W. Bush chose a Wolfowitz with an even sharper bite, former US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, to create the impression of (…)

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was confronted by a hostile audience this week at an event in Trento, Italy, where he spoke at a conference on economics. The "No Dal Molin" movement from Vicenza, Italy, which is opposing the construction of a new U.S. military base protested outside the event and inside.
In an attempt to satisfy the audience, the moderator permitted the citizen activist leader Cinzia Bottene to come on stage with Prodi and address him. She did so, and the people (…)