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Al Gore commenting on the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision and intrusion into Florida Election law in 2000 said, “I had to either accept the decision or continue to fight it which could have brought about a revolution.” He is right of course, and a revolution could have potentially cost thousands of lives and millions of dollars and thrown the nation into turmoil. Instead we had the peaceful if unlawful transference of power and what has that brought us since?
But I’m not trying (…)

U.S. senator says military action in Iran possible
By Reuters
06/10/07 " — — WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a long-time supporter of the Iraq war, said on Sunday military force might be necessary to stop Iran from training and equipping extremists who are killing U.S. troops.
"I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," the Connecticut independent said on CBS’ "Face the (…)

Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
May 11, 2006
An Iraqi who asked not to be identified had disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and bombings in markets that aim at sparking (…)

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.—Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
Unfortunately, nuclear-powered submarines were his idea too...also known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
However, he said this in his old age:
"I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of (…)

A BAN ON CLUSTER BOMBS Jonas Gahr Store http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=37960
JUNE 2007 (IPS) - According to a new report from Handicap International an estimated 400 million people in 25 countries are directly or indirectly affected by unexploded cluster munitions, writes Jonas Gahr Store, Foreign Minister of Norway.
Wars and conflicts always hit civilian populations hardest. Certain types of weapons, such as landmines and cluster munitions, affect civilians particularly (…)

Published on Sunday, June 10, 2007 by the Seattle Times (Washington)
Growers Fear the Sting of Bee Die-Off
by Lynda V. Mapes
LONG BEACH, Pacific County - The moon rose fat and full, and evening mist was licking the cranberry bogs as Eric Olson and his “girls,” as he calls them - several million of them - arrived for work late last month.
“I’m glad to see them,” said cranberry grower Bob Weyl, 79, as Olson unloaded pallet upon pallet of honey-bee hives.
“Without bees,” Weyl said (…)

Ban products with a criminal flavour Adri Nieuwhof and Mieke Zagt, The Electronic Intifada, 7 June 2007
Produce from illegal Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley is sold at a Palestinian Market. (Anna Baltzer)
One of the reasons why Dutch consumers choose to buy organic products is the use of environmentally friendly cultivation methods. To protect consumers against improper use of the hallmark ’organic’, the European Union published the Regulation on organic production of (…)

The world knows that George W. Bush has always touted "compassionate conservatism". He’s out to prove it now with a brand new proposal for the future of Iraq.
Bush and his gang of military advisors including thinktank professors, generals and "yes" men, have concluded that what’s best for Iraq is a task force of caring and concerned troops to stay in the Green Zone and on various large bases for the forseeable future and beyond...waaaay beyond!
This has been our pattern in the past; we (…)

TBR News.org – June 8, 2007
I have two subjects of general interest to discuss today. The first concerns the flap over the Turkish threats to invade northern Iraq in the wake of Kurdish terrorists cross-border murderous activities inside Turkey and the second deals with a very serious problem with rising sea levels and genuine economic chaos for our east and gulf coasts. First, let’s look at what could very well become a major political disaster. To reduce the problem to basics, the Kurds (…)

Israel and the Refugees Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession
By SAMER ASSAD
For Palestinians, 15 May represents the date when they lost 78 percent of their historic homeland and the date that turned them into the world’s oldest and largest refugee population. Palestinians refer to 15 May as the al-Nakba, or catastrophe, to describe their dispossession when over 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled prior to, during and after the 1948 war. This May, Palestinians memorialize 59 years of (…)