A Day in the Life: 3/8/8
President, USA Exile Govt
Free Americans Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning
to Breathe Free
Via <pr...@usa-exile.org>
March 8, 2008
From: dorothy toto <dorot...@hotmail.com>
Date: March 8, 2008 1:18:17 AM EST
Subject: CclNews> Japanese Open Fire on Sea Shepherd Crew: Three Injured
Sea Shepherd News
News Releases
Japanese Open Fire on Sea Shepherd Crew: Three Injured
Captain Paul Watson Shot in Chest; Cameraman and Crewmember Injured by
Flash Grenades
Japanese Coast Guard Throwing Flash Grenades
At 1545 hours (0445 GMT), a clash between the crew of the Sea Shepherd
vessel Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru turned
violent when the Japanese Coast Guard began to throw flash grenades at
the crew of the Steve Irwin.
Captain Paul Watson was struck by a bullet in the chest. Fortunately,
the bullet was stopped by his Kevlar vest. The bullet struck just above
the heart and mangled Captain Watsons anti-poaching badge, which was
worn on his sweater underneath the Kevlar vest.
Dr. David Page was videotaped prying the bullet from Captain Watsons
Kevlar vest. You have been hit by a bullet, he said.
The Kevlar vest and anti-poaching badge effectively saved Captain
Watsons life.
Additional injuries were sustained by crewmembers Ashley Dunn and Ralph
Lowe. Dunn, 35, from Launceston, Australia suffered a hip injury when
he tried to get out of the way of the exploding grenades. Lowe, 33,
from Melbourne, Australia received bruises to his back when one of the
flash grenades exploded behind him.
The Japanese Coast Guard was retaliating against Sea Shepherd
crewmembers for tossing rotten butter onto the decks to discourage
their illegal whaling activities. The clash came after a week long
pursuit by the Steve Irwin of the Nisshin Maru, in an effort to stop
illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
Earlier in the day at 0800 hours (1900 GMT), the Steve Irwin had
ordered the Nisshin Maru to leave French territorial waters. The
Japanese whaler complied and turned around, heading back west into
Australian waters.
The confrontation occurred inside the Australian Territorial Zone at
the position of 63 Degrees, 41 Minutes South and 133 Degrees, 27
Minutes East.
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From: Michelle Sura <michel...@verizon.net>
Date: March 5, 2008 1:14:03 PM EST
To: USA Exile Govt President <pr...@usa-exile.org>
Subject: Fwd: Resist in March
Resist in March
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March 19 marks the 5th Anniversary of the invasion and occupation of
Iraq. Peace and justice organizations will hold actions around the
country and in Washington, DC to demand an end to the funding of the
occupation, along with the impeachment of the president and vice
president who launched it. For the full range of activities, see
http://resistinmarch.org
The timing of these efforts could not be better, with Congress
considering another $105 billion for the occupation of Iraq, with Nobel
laureate Joseph Stiglitz putting the true costs of the occupation over
$3 trillion, and with awareness growing that Congress can simply stop
voting on additional funds. Here's what we want our Representatives to
do:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31397
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MARCH 10-12 in Washington DC: Stop-Loss Congress
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While Congress plans a vacation from March 15th to 30th, Bush's
stop-loss policy requires soldiers to involuntarily extend their tours
and prolong the occupation. It is time to Stop-Loss Congress!
On Monday March 10, and Tuesday March 11, we will deliver "official"
stop-loss notices to all members of Congress to notify them that all of
their LEAVES, VACATIONS and HOME VISITS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED until every
soldier and mercenary is home from Iraq. On Wednesday March 12, we will
take nonviolent action on Capitol Hill.
http://www.stop-losscongress.org
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MARCH 13-16, 2008 (Thursday-Sunday): Winter Soldier
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will testify in Silver Spring,
Maryland to crimes witnessed and committed in Iraq. Audio and video of
panels will be available live online, on satelite TV, and on Pacifica
radio.
http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier
Local events supporting Winter Soldier, and other events for peace,
justice, and impeachment:
http://www.5yearstoomany.org
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MARCH 16 to 18, 2008 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.:
Training, Lobbying, Restoring the Constitution
March 17th and 18th All day trainings & workshop at the Warehouse
Theatre in preparation for March 19th
March 18th, Tuesday: CODEPINK Action Day to Take Back the Constitution:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/section.php?id=347
Events are also planned around the country on March 17-18, including
events in support of impeachment and demanding an end to funding the
occupation. See: http://resistinmarch.org
Impeachment advocates are using this opportunity to advance a new
strategy modeled on what achieved the resignation of Richard Nixon:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/31481
A reborn Students for a Democratic Society has planned campus events on
March 17 to 21.
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MARCH 19, 2008 (Wednesday) Nonviolent Civil Resistance in All 435
Congressional Districts and in the Nation's Capital on the Fifth
Anniversary of the Occupation of Iraq
Locations in each congressional district, to be determined locally,
will include congressional offices (Congress Members and Senators will
be in their districts on this day), federal buildings, military
recruiters, weapons makers, war profiteers, or corporate media outlets.
In Washington, with Congress out of town, the focus will be on war
profiteers in the military industrial disaster-capitalism complex.
Events will include roles for people not wanting to risk arrest.
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LOCAL EVENTS: Post Yours! Update it.
FIND LOCAL EVENTS AT http://5yearstoomany.org AND IN A SEPARATE LIST
AT http://worldagainstwar.org
WASHINGTON DC EVENTS: Join us!
Resources for nonviolent activism: HERE.
Resources for promoting your event in the media: HERE.
Flyers and posters with room for local info: HERE.
Ideas for local actions: HERE.
DETAILS ON DC EVENTS: http://www.5yearstoomany.org
World Can't Wait Events in DC on 19th
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Join in acts of creative non-violent civil resistance:
http://resistinmarch.org
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Sick of It Day
Something else that anyone anywhere can do on the 19th:
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Student Involvement and Leadership
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http://www.ourspringbreak.org
March 20 SDS Campus Protests
Students for a Democratic Society Campus Events
March 22 Teach-In at American University in Washington DC
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March 20-23 Split This Rock Poetry Festival
Stick around to TALK about what you've been doing, with Split This Rock
in Washington, D.C.
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From: Isabelle Delforge <idel...@viacampesina.org>
Date: March 7, 2008 4:18:44 AM EST
To: Via Info En <via-i...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [via-info-en] Solidarity with the women of Rio Grande do Sul
(En)
Reply-To: via-i...@googlegroups.com
Farmers' repression in Rio Grande do Sul:
Solidarity with the Women Defending Life and Biodiversity
We express our solidarity with the women of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil in
their action against green deserts.
On March 4th, around 900 women of Via Campesina Rio Grande do Sul
occupied the 2.100 hectares Fazenda Tarumc in Rosario do Sul. The
women cut the eucalyptus and planted native trees in a land illegally
purchased by the giant Finish-Swedish paper and celluloses company
Stora Enso. The police violently attacked the peaceful gathering,
injuring badly as many as 50 women.
This action was taking place among other activities organised for the
International Women Day on the 8th of March. Women farmers are the most
affected by the current export-oriented agriculture model based on the
plundering of natural ressources and the exclusion of small farmers by
transnational companies.
All around the world, eucalyptus plantations as well as other
monoculture plantations (green deserts) destroy the environment and
prevent small farmers from making a living and producing food for all.
We strongly condemn any violence against farmers, women and men,
defending their right to live and feed their communities in a socially
and ecologically sustainable way.
Via Campesina members all around the world promote a model of peasant
or family-farm agriculture based on sustainable production with local
ressources and in harmony with local cultures and traditions.
We promote equality between women and men!
We promote food sovereignty!
Henry Saragih,
General Coordinator of La Via Campesina International
Jakarta, 07 March 2007
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19463.htm
The Attack on Ecuador:
Underestimating Rafael Correa
By Fidel Castro Ruz
03/03/08 - --- - I remember when he visited us, months before the
electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for
the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in
the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige
who had also visited us as Vice President, before becoming the
President in an unexpected situation that took place in Ecuador. He had
been receptive to a program of ophthalmologic operations that we
offered him as a form of cooperation. There were good relations between
our two governments.
A while earlier Correa had resigned from the Ministry of the Economy.
He was unhappy with what he called administrative corruption instigated
by Oxy, a foreign company that explored and invested important sums of
money, but was holding on to four out of every five barrels of oil that
it extracted. He didn4t talk about nationalization, but about taxing
them heavily; these taxes would be assigned in advance to specific
social investments. He had already approved the measures and a judge
had declared them to be valid.
Since the word "nationalize" had not been mentioned, I thought he felt
apprehensive about the concept. It didn4t surprise me because he had
graduated as an economist with much acclaim from a well-known U.S.
university. I didn4t bother getting into much depth; I bombarded him
with questions from the arsenal accumulated in the struggle against the
Latin American foreign debt in 1985 and of Cuba4s own experience.
There are high-risk investments that use sophisticated technology and
that no small nation like Cuba or Ecuador could take on.
Since this was already in 2006 and we were determined to promote the
energy revolution, --ours was the first country on the planet to
proclaim this as a vital issue for humankind-- I had dealt with the
subject particularly emphatically. But I halted, as I understood one of
his reasons.
I related to him the conversation I had had a while ago with the
president of REPSOL, a Spanish company. This company, associated with
other international companies, would undertake an expensive operation
to drill the ocean floor, more than 2000 meters down, using
sophisticated technology, in Cuba4s jurisdictional waters. I asked the
head of the Spanish company: How much is an exploratory well worth? I
ask you this because we would like to participate, even if it is for
one percent of the total cost and we would like to know what you want
to do with our oil.
Correa, for his part, had told me that for every one hundred dollars
taken out by the companies, only twenty remained in the country; it
didn4t even get into the budget, he said; it was left in a separate
fund for just about anything other than improving the living conditions
of the people.
I abolished the fund, he told me, and directed 40 percent towards
education and health, technological and highway development, and the
rest towards buying back the debt if the price was favorable, and if
not, investing it in something more useful. Before, every year we had
to buy a portion of that debt which was becoming more expensive.
In the case of Ecuador, he added, oil policies verged on treason
against the country. Why do they do it? I asked him. Is it because they
are afraid of the Yankees or due to unbearable pressure? He answered:
If they have a Minister of the Economy who tells them privatization
would improve efficiency, you can just imagine. I didn4t do that.
I encourage him to go on and he calmly explains. The foreign company
Oxy is one that has broken its contract and according to Ecuadorian law
it requires an expiration date. It means that the oil field operated by
this company must go over to the State, but because of Yankee pressure
the government does not dare to occupy it; a situation is created which
is not contemplated by the legislation. The law just states that an
expiration date must be set, and nothing more. The judge at the court
of first instance at that moment was the president of PETROECUADOR and
he made it happen. I was a member of PETROECUADOR and they called an
emergency meeting to expel him from his position. I didn4t attend and
they couldn4t fire him. The judge declared the expiration date.
What did the Yankees want? I asked him. They wanted a fine, he quickly
replied. Listening to him I realized that I had underestimated him.
I was in a hurry because of a great number of commitments. I invited
him to sit in on a meeting with a large group of highly qualified Cuban
professionals who were leaving for Bolivia to be part of the Medical
Brigade; it had staff for more than 30 hospitals including 19 surgical
positions that could do more than 130 thousand ophthalmologic
operations per year; all in the manner of free cooperation. Ecuador
possesses three similar centers with six ophthalmologic positions.
Dinner with the Ecuadorian economist took place into the morning hours
of February 9, 2006. There were scarcely any view points that I didn4t
cover. I even spoke to him about the very harmful mercury that modern
industry scatters throughout the planet4s oceans. Consumerism was of
course a subject that I emphasized; the high cost of the kilowatt/hour
in the thermoelectric plants; the differences between socialist and
communist forms of distribution, the role of money, the trillions spent
on advertising which people had no choice but to pay for in the prices
of goods, and the studies made by university social brigades who
discovered, among the 500 thousand families in the capital, the number
of elderly folk lived alone. I explained the stage of university
courses for all that we were involved in.
We became friends even though he perhaps received the impression that
I was self-sufficient. If that happened, it was truly not my intention.
Since that time I have observed his every step: the electoral process,
focusing on the concrete problems of Ecuadorians and the people4s
victory over the oligarchy.
In the history of our peoples there are many things that bring us
together. Sucre was always a highly admired figure, along with The
Liberator Bolivar; as Marti said, what he hasn4t done in America
remains to be done, and as Neruda exclaimed, Bolivar awakens every
hundred years.
Imperialism has just committed a monstrous crime in Ecuador. Deadly
bombs were dropped in the early morning hours on a group of men and
women who, almost without exception, were asleep. That has been deduced
by all the official reports right from the beginning. Any concrete
accusations against that group of human beings do not justify that
action. They were Yankee bombs, guided by Yankee satellites.
Absolutely no one has the right to kill in cold blood. If we accept
that imperial method of warfare and barbarism, Yankee bombs directed by
satellites could fall on any group of Latin American men and women, in
the territory of any country, war or no war. The fact that this
happened on undisputed Ecuadorian territory is an aggravating
circumstance.
We are not an enemy of Colombia. Previous reflections and exchanges
demonstrate how much of an effort we have made, both the current
President of the Council of State of Cuba and I, to abide by a declared
policy of principles and peace, proclaimed years ago in our relations
with the rest of the Latin American states.
Today, with everything at risk, we have not been transformed into
belligerent people. We are determined supporters of that unity among
peoples which Marti named Our America.
If we keep quiet we shall become accomplices. Today they would like to
have our friend, the economist and President of Ecuador Rafael Correa,
seated in the dock; this is something we couldn4t even conceive that
morning of February 9, 2006. At that time it seemed that my imagination
was capable of embracing all kinds of dreams and risks, but never
anything like what has occurred in the early morning of Saturday March
1, 2008.
Correa has in his hands the few survivors and the rest of the bodies.
The two which are missing prove that Ecuadorian territory was occupied
by troops that crossed the border. Now he can cry out like Emile Zola:
J4accuse!
Fidel Castro Ruz, March 3, 2008, 8:36 p.m.
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From: Stephen Leiper <stepp...@yahoo.com>
Date: March 5, 2008 6:24:10 PM EST
To: pr...@usa-exile.org
Subject: kurt nimmo's take on columbia's raid in ecuado
The Murder of Razl Reyes: Border War or Wall Street
Mafia Hit?
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
March 3, 2008
From Bloomberg:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs orders to close his Bogota embassy
and send tanks to the border raise tensions beyond his previous
rhetoric and to the point where miscalculation could trigger a military
clash.
Chavez, who ordered 10 armored battalions to the border yesterday, said
Colombias air strike March 1 on a rebel camp in Ecuadorean territory
risks a regional war. He pledged to support Ecuador under any
circumstances. The raid killed Raul Reyes, reputed to be second in
command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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Is it possible Colombia crossed over into Ecuador to assassinate Razl
Reyes in classic Tony Montana fashion?
If we are to follow the corporate media line, Chavez and Ecuadors
Rafael Correa, both oft characterized as rotten commies, are to blame
for the prospect of impending war with Colombia, even though Colombia
is at fault for a violent violation of Ecuadors national sovereignty.
After all, according to Reuters, Colombia apologized to Ecuador for
the troops crossing the frontier, but said the attack on a rebel camp
was necessary after its forces came under fire from across the border.
In order to minimize this egregious violation consisting of air
strikes and the deployment of ground troops we are told Colombia, a
U.S. ally, also said it found documents at the [FARC] jungle camp that
linked the leftist government of Correa to the Marxist guerrillas a
charge Ecuador dismissed because the evidence was not presented for
public scrutiny.
It is part and parcel of an ongoing demonization process, designed to
portray Chavez and Correa in league with FARC and the Devil. FARC was
long ago fingered as a narco-terrorist group by the United States and
the shadowy revolutionary, i.e., communist, organization plays a
leading villain role in the State Departments International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report, issued this month.
Of course, all of the supposedly diligent work under the guise of the
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, passed in June 2000, may be
considered little more than a useless spinning of wheels and a huge
squandering of tax payer money so long as the Drug Enforcement
Administration ignores ground zero of the illegal drug trade, situated
squarely on Wall Street. It should come as no surprise Wall Street has
traditionally gone where the money is, no matter communism or any
other distant second consideration, stuff good for Sunday school
lectures but useless for investment purposes.
Back in 1999, Agencia de Noticias Nueva Colombia reported Richard
Grasso, president of the New York Stock Exchange, flying off to
southern Colombia to meet with the recently deceased Razl Reyes:
Grasso was accompanied by Finance Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo and
presidential commissioner for peace Victor Ricardo. The Argentine daily
Clarin reported that Grasso was also accompanied by NYSE vice president
Alain Murban and adviser James Esposito. The meeting took place inside
the rebel-controlled peace zone in an area near the village of La
Machacha, in southern Caqueta department Local media said Grasso had
asked to meet a representative of the FARCs high command to discuss
foreign investment and the future role of US businesses in Colombia.But
why would a NYSE big fish want to talk with a communist revolutionary
about foreign investment and the future role of US businesses in
Colombia?
Its a no-brainer, really. Because the numero uno foreign investment
opportunity in Colombia is anchored in the drug trade, not bananas and
cut flowers. Plenty of money is to be made laundering drug money, a
Wall Street specialty.
Colombias infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads have long been
in the business of laundering drug money with the assistance of DEA
agents.
It was not reported what became of the discussion between Grasso and
Reyes, but it really does not matter because Reyes is now pushing up
daisies. The State Department may finger FARC as the cause of all evil
in the region, but it completely ignores the groups competitor, namely
Colombias infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads, in the
business of laundering drug money and with the assistance of DEA
agents, according to Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent.
Is it possible Colombia crossed over into Ecuador to assassinate Razl
Reyes in classic Tony Montana fashion? After all, the State Department
has long accused Reyes of setting the FARCs cocaine policies,
including the production, manufacture, and distribution of thousands of
tons of cocaine to the United States and the world.
Of course, the corporate media is not interested in the underlying
dynamic of the situation in South America, as the point is to portray
Hugo Chavez as a warmonger, increasingly so especially after the CIA
failed to overthrow him and the Venezuelan leader takes pleasure in
thumbing his nose at Bush and his coterie of neocons.
) 2008 Alex Jones | Infowars.com is an Alex Jones company. All rights
reserved.
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From: Peter Myers <peter...@mailstar.net>
Date: March 7, 2008 6:25:43 AM EST
Subject: Think Tanks & the Privatization of US Foreign Policy
Think Tanks & the Privatization of US Foreign Policy
(1) Countries must cede independence to Global bodies - Richard Haass,
President of CFR
(2) The Role of Think Tanks in U.S. Foreign Policy - U.S. Foreign
Policy Agenda, Nov 02
(3) Think tanks provide a steady stream of experts to Government - CFR
head
(4) Advocacy think tanks combine policy research with aggressive
marketing techniques
(5) How A Think Tank Works, By Strobe Talbott, President of The
Brookings Institution
(6) How Think Tanks interact with the Military, by Michael D. Rich,
Vice President, RAND
(7) A list of some prominent Americans who have served both in
government and in think tanks
(1) Countries must cede independence to Global bodies - Richard Haass,
President of CFR
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/02/21/
2003294021
State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era
In the age of globalization, states should give up some sovereignty to
world bodies in order to protect their own interests
By Richard Haass
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006, Page 9
For 350 years, sovereignty -- the notion that states are the central
actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to
do what they want within their own territory but not within the
territory of other states -- has provided the organizing principle of
international relations. The time has come to rethink this notion.
The world's 190-plus states now co-exist with a larger number of
powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely)
independent actors, ranging from corporations to non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), from terrorist groups to drug cartels, from
regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds. The
sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as
much as it is able to influence them. The near monopoly of power once
enjoyed by sovereign entities is being eroded.
As a result, new mechanisms are needed for regional and global
governance that include actors other than states. This is not to argue
that Microsoft, Amnesty International, or Goldman Sachs be given seats
in the UN General Assembly, but it does mean including representatives
of such organizations in regional and global deliberations when they
have the capacity to affect whether and how regional and global
challenges are met.
Less is more
Moreover, states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world
bodies if the international system is to function. This is already
taking place in the trade realm. Governments agree to accept the
rulings of the WTO because on balance they benefit from an
international trading order even if a particular decision requires that
they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to
address the threat of global climate change. Under one such
arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012, signatories
agree to cap specific emissions. What is needed now is a successor
arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the US,
China, and India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards
because they recognize that they would be worse off if no country did.
All of this suggests that sovereignty must be redefined if states are
to cope with globalization. At its core, globalization entails the
increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows -- within and
across borders -- of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars,
drugs, viruses, e-mails, weapons and a good deal else, challenging one
of sovereignty's fundamental principles: the ability to control what
crosses borders in either direction. Sovereign states increasingly
measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond
their control.
Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker
in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to
weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot
insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no
longer a sanctuary.
This was demonstrated by the American and world reaction to terrorism.
Afghanistan's Taliban government, which provided access and support to
al-Qaeda, was removed from power. Similarly, the US' preventive war
against an Iraq that ignored the UN and was thought to possess weapons
of mass destruction showed that sovereignty no longer provides absolute
protection.
Imagine how the world would react if some government were known to be
planning to use or transfer a nuclear device or had already done so.
Many would argue -- correctly -- that sovereignty provides no
protection for that state.
Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty
when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy,
is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens. This reflects
not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can
lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists
to take root.
The NATO intervention in Kosovo was an example where a number of
governments chose to violate the sovereignty of another government
(Serbia) to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide. By contrast, the mass
killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate
the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing
little to prevent the slaughter of innocents.
Conditions needed
Our notion of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even
contractual, rather than absolute. If a state fails to live up to its
side of the bargain by sponsoring terrorism, either transferring or
using weapons of mass destruction, or conducting genocide, then it
forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and opens itself up to
attack, removal or occupation.
The diplomatic challenge for this era is to gain widespread support for
principles of state conduct and a procedure for determining remedies
when these principles are violated.
The goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of
globalization, to find a balance between a world of fully sovereign
states and an international system of either world government or
anarchy.
The basic idea of sovereignty, which still provides a useful constraint
on violence between states, needs to be preserved. But the concept
needs to be adapted to a world in which the main challenges to order
come from what global forces do to states and what governments do to
their citizens rather than from what states do to one another.
Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
author of The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course.
Copyright: Project Syndicate
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NOTE: These next two are also from Peter Myers. -- kl, pp
(2) International experts foresee collapse of U.S. economy
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:26:23 +0900 From: Richard Wilcox
<wilco...@ybb.ne.jp>
"We are not experiencing a "remake" of the 1929 crisis nor a repetition
of the 1970s oil crises or 1987 stock market crisis. What we will have,
instead, is truly a global momentous threat - a true turning point
affecting the entire planet and questioning the very foundations of the
international system upon which the world was organized in the last
decades."
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=918803+
International experts foresee collapse of U.S. economy
Posted By Hielema, Bert
And you thought that I had a gloomy outlook on the economy. Now the bad
news pops up everywhere.
Harry Koza in the Globe and Mail quotes Bernard Connelly, the global
strategist at Banque AIG in London, who claims that the likelihood of a
Great Depression is growing by the day.
Martin Wolf, celebrated columnist of the U.K.-based Financial Times,
cites Dr. Nouriel Roubini of the New York University's Stern School of
Business, who, in 12 steps, outlines how the losses of the American
financial system will grow to more than $1 trillion - that's one
million times $1 million. That amount is equal to all the assets of all
American banks.
Every day now, thousands of people all over the U.S. and Great Britain
are walking away from their homes - simply mailing their house keys to
the banks - as housing bailout plans fail.
With unemployment growing, the next phase will hit commercial real
estate making the financial institutions the unwilling owners not only
of quickly depreciating houses, but also of empty strip malls and even
larger shopping centres.
The next domino to fall will be credit card defaults, and after that...
who knows? There are so many exotic funds out there, with trillions of
dollars in paper - or rather computer-screen money - all carrying
assorted acronyms, and all about to disintegrate into nothingness. Over
the next couple of years, scores of banks that have thrived on these
devices, based on quickly disappearing equities, will fail.
The most frightening forecast so far comes from the Global Europe
Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB), available for 200 euros - about $300 -
for 16 issues annually. Its prediction is quite specific.
Where my warnings never spelled out an exact date, this think tank has
it pegged precisely. Here are its very words:
"The end of the third quarter of 2008 (thus late September, a mere
seven months from now) will be marked by a new tipping point in the
unfolding of the global systemic crisis.
"At that time indeed, the cumulated impact of the various sequences of
the crisis will reach its maximum strength and affect decisively the
very heart of the systems concerned, on the front line of which (is)
the United States, epicentre of the current crisis.
"In the United States, this new tipping point will translate into - get
this - a collapse of the real economy, (the) final socio-economic stage
of the serial bursting of the housing and financial bubbles and of the
pursuance of the U.S. dollar fall. The collapse of U.S. real economy
means the virtual freeze of the American economic machinery: private
and public bankruptcies in large numbers, companies and public services
closing down."
The report goes on to say that we are entering a period for which there
is no historic precedent. Any comparisons with previous situations in
our modern economy are invalid.
We are not experiencing a "remake" of the 1929 crisis nor a repetition
of the 1970s oil crises or 1987 stock market crisis.
What we will have, instead, is truly a global momentous threat - a true
turning point affecting the entire planet and questioning the very
foundations of the international system upon which the world was
organized in the last decades.
The report emphasizes that it is, first and foremost, in the United
States where this historic happening is taking an unprecedented shape
(the authors call it "Very Great U.S. Depression").
It continues to predict that, although this crucial event is global, it
will be the beginning of an economic 'decoupling' between the U.S. and
the rest of the world. However, non 'decoupled' economies will be
dragged down the U.S. negative spiral.
Concerning stock markets, the GEAB anticipates that international
stocks would plummet by 40 to 80 per cent depending where in the world
they are located, all affected in the course of the year 2008 by the
collapse of the real economy in the U.S. by the end of summer.
The European authors of this report - it appears simultaneously in
French, German and English - state that they simply and without
prejudice try to describe in advance the consequences of the ominous
trends at play in this 21st-century world, and to share these with
their readers, so that they can take the proper means to protect
themselves from the most negative effects.
So there you have it. Three reports from three different sources, all
well regarded, and all pointing to a disastrous fall-out from our
monetary moves.
This and earlier columns can be seen at hielema.ca. Comments to
hie...@allstream.net.
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(4) 9/11 - Truth now Tour. Sydney Conference March 14th.- 16th
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:06:25 +1100 From: Cameron
<blackhe...@internode.on.net>
Truth now Tour. Sydney Conference March 14th.- 16th.Sydney.
Speakers Dr. Bob Bowman, Prof. Steven E. Jones, Mr. Barry Zwicker, Dr.
Helen Caldicott, etc.
Sydney Conference, Oz 2008, Truth Now Tour. Revealing truth about 9/11,
false flag operation. September 11 - a false pretext for war.
www.truthnowtour.com/ http://911oz.com/links/truthnow
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NOTE: Please visit the flyingsnail.com link below for an excellent
video "teaser" for this "Chicago 10" film. Anyone planning an action
at the Denver "Democratic" convention in August should see the
film--plus a Yippie documentary due out sometime this summer--as
homework because evidently those then manipulating the US police state
were determined to have a bloodbath in Chicago so the "Democrats" would
lose the '68 presidential election. The current generation of Backroom
Scoundrels may already be planning some sort of sequel for Denver. -
kl, pp
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Oh, I hope that I see you again I never even caught your name As you
looked through my window pane -- So I'm writing this message today
I'm thinking that you'll have a way Of hearing the notes in my tune --
Where are you going? Where have you been? I can imagine other worlds
you have seen -- Beautiful faces and music so serene -- So I do hope
I see you again My universal citizen You went as quickly as you came
-- You know the power Your love is right You have good reason To stay
out of sight -- But break our illusions and help us Be the light -
Message by Michael Pinder
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day
you'll join us and the world will live as one: Reflections on the
Spirit and Legacy of the Sixties by Fritjof Capra - December 1, 2002 -
Continue Reading
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http://www.flyingsnail.com/200803.html
'Chicago 10'
Recollects the Radical '60s
The infamous Chicago 8 trial that took place in 1968 and 1969 remains
one of the most memorable farces in the history of American justice.
Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and six others were charged with
conspriracy to organize a riot during the Democratic Convention in
Chicago in 1968. Brett Morgan's doc, Chicago 10, traces the protests
and police brutality that shook the nation and recreates the trial
using animation and actors' voices to tell the riveting story.
It begins with the convergence of MOBE and the Yippies - two groups
that opposed the Vietnam War and were determined to make a big splash
outside the convention. Thousands of protesters arrived in Chicago
that August with flowers in their hair and joints in their pockets.
However, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had plans of his own,
dispatching helmeted goon squads with batons and bayonets wherever the
peaceniks congregated - outside the Hilton hotel, inside Grant Park or
during marches that paraded through the city.
The gruesome footage peaks with beatings and arrests. Many of the
protestors were bloodied. It looks like the South during the Civil
Rights protests.
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Several months later, Hoffman, Rubin, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden,
Rennie Davis, Bobby Seale, John Froines and Lee Weiner were indicted.
Like the protests they organized, the Chicago 8 defendents turned the
trial into guerrilla theater with a touch of comedy that lightened the
heavy nature of the charges. Judge Julius Hoffman (voiced by Roy
Scheider) represents the out-of-touch establishment and attorneys
William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass do their best to unravel the
government's case. Still, they were found guilty until the charges
were overturned a year later.
One of key Yippie organizers who didn't get indicted, Paul Krassner,
appears in the film in footage as well as in several animated
sequences. He tells CelebStoner: "Stew Albert and I were among the
unindicted co-conspirators, and Bill Kunstler told us it was because
the prosecution was afraid we'd use a First Amendment defense."
Krassner and Albert were Yippie co-founders (Krassner is credited
with coining the group's name). Krassner published The Realist at the
time.
In his HuffPo column about Chicago 10, Krassner points out several
scenes that were omitted from the movie. One is when he dosed during
the trial:
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"I decide to take a tab of LSD at lunch before testifying. Ive
learned that if I drop acid with a big meal, it always makes me vomit.
That way, I dont have to memorize all those dates and places. And
itll be my theatrical statement on the injustice of the trial. Abbie
was furious...
"Although Brett 'loved, loved, loved' the scenes I wrote, the backers
objected to the use of LSD, fearful of diverting attention from the
main focus of the film. I was disappointed, if only for the sake of
countercultural history. The CIA originally envisioned employing LSD
as a means of control; instead, for millions of young people, acid
served as a vehicle to explore their own inner space, deprogramming
themselves from mainstream culture and living their alternative. The
CIA's scenario had backfired. Anyway, my suggestion - instead of
referring to it as acid, Abbie could yell, 'Hey, this is powerful
fuckin' aspirin' - was rejected."
Chicago 10 is currently playing at 11 theaters in New York, Illinois,
California and Massachusetts, and expands to nine more on March 14.
Click here to see the theaters. Note: There are several scenes
depicting marijuana use in the movie.
http://www.celebstoner.com/reviews/movies-tv/chicago-10-recollects-the-
radical-60s.htm
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From: carol <ro...@west.net>
Date: March 8, 2008 9:39:51 AM EST
Subject: Re: Missile Defense: "Longest Running Scam" Exposed
Missile Defense: "Longest Running Scam" Exposed
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=295515
Friday, March 7, 2008
In Congress yesterday, Representative John Tierney, Chair of the House
National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, convened the first
in a series of hearings to examine a US missile defense program that is
out of control, straining relations with allies, and renewing an arms
race with Russia.
This is the first comprehensive review of the program since 1993 the
year before Republicans took control of Congress and it's long
overdue. The focus yesterday was on the extent of the missile threat
as compared to other security vulnerabilities and whether spending
more than $10 billion annually on ballistic missile defense (BMD) is
justifiable from that perspective.
In his opening statement, Rep. Tierney pointed out that we have spent
over $120 billion on missile defense in the past 25 years; that the
annual budget is expected to double by 2013 to $19 billion; and that
the current $10 billion per year is equal to one-third of the Homeland
Security budget, roughly equal to the State Department budget, greater
than the FEMA budget, 20 times greater than public diplomacy
expenditures, and 30 times greater than Peace Corps.
Dr. Stephen Flynn, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the
Council on Foreign Relations and a retired Coast Guard Commander,
testified that the "non-missile risk" smuggling a weapon of mass
destruction into the US by ship, train, truck, or private jet is "far
greater than the ballistic missile threat." He noted that smuggling is
the only realistic option for a terrorist group like al Qaeda; it
offers anonymity to any attacking nation and therefore protection from
retaliation; seaports, borders, and overseas flights "provide a rich
menu of non-missile options"; and it has greater potential to "generate
cascading economic consequences by disrupting global supply chains."
Despite these risks, Flynn said, "The combined budgets for funding all
the domestic and international port of entry interdiction efforts is
equal to roughly one-half of the annual budget for developing missile
defense. Nowhere in the US government has there been or is there now an
evaluation of whether that represents an appropriate balance.The
amount of resources we dedicate to the [more serious threat of cargo
delivery] is miniscule compared to the kinds of resources we invest in
dealing with the ballistic missile threat. That's the kind of
disconnect we're operating in."
Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund and author of
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, provided the
Committee with an even more pointed assessment. He recalled his past
work for the House Armed Services Committee and the National Security
Subcommittee during the Cold War. "At that time, we were not worried
about a prototype Iranian missile that might or might not be deployed.
We were worried about 5,000 Soviet warheads destroying not just our
country but most likely this planet. I have known ballistic missile
threats, I have researched ballistic missile threats. Mr. Chairman,
this is not a serious ballistic missile threat that we face today.
[It] is limited and changing relatively slowly. There is every reason
to believe that it can be addressed through measured military
preparedness and aggressive diplomacy."
Cirincione, who organized the last serious hearings on the program as
a staff member of the Government Operations Committee, pointed out that
there are fewer ballistic missiles today than 10-20 years ago; fewer
hostile missiles potentially threatening the US; there are five more
countries that have started medium-range missile programs but they are
poorer and less technologically advanced than the countries that had
long-range ballistic missile programs some 20 years ago, and the total
number of medium-range missiles has decreased by 80 percent.
"The vast majority of nations with ballistic missiles have only
short-range missiles with ranges under 1000 kilometers, basically
Scuds," Cirincione said. "This is often ignored when officials or
experts cite the 30 countries with ballistic missile capability.'
That's true, there are approximately 28. But of these, 17 have only
Scud-B missiles or similar. Most of these are friends or allies."
Rep. Stephen Lynch asked whether the allocation of resources is
proportional to the threat.
"Absolutely not. I believe that the Ballistic Missile Defense program
is the longest running scam in the history of the Department of
Defense," Cirincione said. "This is an enormous waste of money, and if
you leave this decision to the Joint Chiefs they won't spend anything
near what this Administration is requesting. In fact, the last time the
Joint Chiefs were asked about this in 1993, [they] recommended to
then-Pres. Clinton that we spend only $3 billion a year on these kinds
of programs, and of that $2.3 billion should be spent on efforts to
intercept short-range missiles the ones that are a real threat to our
troops and allies. We're no further along in our ability to actually
hit a real ballistic missile now than we were 20 years ago."
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Venezuela: The Spectre of Big Oil
by Paul Kellogg
Global Research, March 4, 2008
The Bullet, Socialist Project e-bulletin
"Never again will they rob us -- the ExxonMobil bandits. They are
imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn
governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion
of Iraq."
This was the response from Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to the
successful lawsuit by the world's biggest corporation (ExxonMobil),
freezing $12 billion in assets of Venezuela's state-owned oil company,
PDVSA -- a serious escalation in Big Oil's long running dispute with
Chavez and the movement he represents.
ExxonMobil isn't suing PDVSA because it needs the money. The world's
largest publicly traded corporation recorded profits of $40.6-billion
(U.S.) in 2007, up three per cent from 2006's record of $39.6-billion.
"If Exxon were a country, its 2007 profit would exceed output of
two-thirds of the world's nations. Its 2007 revenue of $404-billion
(U.S.) would place it among the 30 largest countries, ahead of such
middle powers as Sweden and Venezuela."
ExxonMobil claims it is suing PDVSA because of a June 2007 deadline
given by Chavez to Exxon and other Big Oil corporations operating in
Venezuela, demanding they cede majority control in their heavy-crude
upgrading projects in the country. ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips filed
arbitration requests with the International Center for Settlement of
Investment Disputes, and ExxonMobil simultaneously took legal action in
courts in the U.S. and Britain, which on February 7 agreed with their
claim, and ordered the freeze of PDVSA assets.
But there is much more at stake than a simple legal disagreement. First
-- many other Big Oil companies have agreed to Chavez' terms and not
gone to court -- among them, Chevron Corp., Norway's Statoil ASA,
Britain's BP PLC and France's Total SA. Second, Venezuela is not the
only country to confront Big Oil and demand that old contracts be
renegotiated. Here in Canada, Newfoundland's Danny Williams demanded
and won an ownership share in the multi-billion-dollar Hebron offshore
oil deal. Even the Tories in Alberta are forcing Big Oil to pay higher
royalties. And in Russia, "both BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have
ceded control in big, lucrative Siberian projects to Russian gas
monopoly OAO Gazprom."
The truth is, ExxonMobil's ultimatum has more to do with politics than
economics. Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin holds office because of his
ties to the secret service, his crackdown on public debate, and his
commitment to pushing Russia back into the world of Big Power politics.
That world of corruption and repression is comforting and familiar to
the owners of ExxonMobil. Chavez, by contrast, holds office because
millions have again and again been willing to put their bodies on the
line against multinational corporations and their local allies. That
revolutionary movement is terrifying to ExxonMobil.
So -- working with courts in the U.S. and Britain (the two biggest
western imperialist powers) -- ExxonMobil is testing the water, seeing
just how strong the revolutionary movement in Venezuela is. This is
especially critical, given the setback faced by Chavez in the recent
constitutional referendum.
And we shouldn't doubt the capacity of multinational corporations to
use a legal fig leaf to pursue their "right" to pull exorbitant profits
out of the Global South. "BP won an arbitration case against Libya in
the 1970s ... and chased tankers of Libyan crude around the world to
seize them as payment." In 2006 and 2007, "Western companies that
purchased debt for unpaid construction work in the Congo have tried to
seize tankers of Congolese oil to satisfy arbitration awards."
The ExxonMobil attacks have been met with defiance in Venezuela. PDVSA
denies that any significant assets have been affected by the court
action. "PDVSA is operating at 100 percent and is exporting oil all
over the world," said Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez.
February 11, Chavez said that if ExxonMobil does succeed in freezing
PDVSA assets, he would halt oil exports to the United States. This is a
threat the U.S. has to take seriously. As well as being the fourth
largest exporter of oil to the U.S., if Venezuela succeeds in
certifying an additional 200 billion barrels of oil reserves to the 100
billion already certified, it will officially have the most proved
reserves of oil, in the world.
With so much at stake, U.S. imperialism and its corporate allies are
not at the moment in a position to launch a sequel to the failed coup
of 2002. Venezuela's movement is too big, and Venezuela's oil is too
important for that to happen -- for now. But we know from the bitter
history of Big Oil and the Global South that this is not the last
confrontation between corporate and popular power in Venezuela.
Paul Kellogg is a member of the International Socialists and blogger --
PolEconAnalyss (www.poleconanalysis.org) -- where this article was
originally published.
*** Stop ExxonMobil's theft from the poor! ** * Support Venezuela's
right to sovereignty! *
United States oil giant ExxonMobil Corporation has launched a major
attack on the Venezuelan people's right to independence and
self-determination.
In January and February, ExxonMobil used the courts in Britain, the
U.S. and the Netherlands to get injunctions that freeze up to $12
billion in assets of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petrsleos de
Venezuela (PDVSA), in those countries. The British injunction, granted
on January 24 without any prior notice to PDVSA, will be heard again on
February 22. The U.S. injunction was upheld by a February 13 ruling of
the U.S. Federal Court.
ExxonMobil's economic thuggery is an attempt to undermine and reverse
the Venezuelan government's decision last May to nationalise
ExxonMobil's 41.7% stake in the Cerro Negro project in the Orinoco
oilfield. The nationalisation was part of the revolutionary
government's efforts to recover Venezuela's sovereignty over its
natural resources. ExxonMobil rejected the Venezuelan government's
offer of compensation, instead using the legal system in various First
World countries to punish the country. In contrast, France's Total and
Norway's Statoil have agreed to accept from Venezuela close to $1
billion compensation for part of their holdings in the oil project.
ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company, and was a key
"stakeholder" in the US's bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq. The
corporation's attack on Venezuela is a continuation of its aggressive
response to any government daring to assert its nation's right to own
and control their natural resources. More fundamentally, the attack
also aims to destabilise Venezuela and undermine the socialist
revolution being constructed by the Venezuelan people.
PDVSA accounts for some 90% of Venezuela's foreign exchange and half of
its federal tax revenue, and it is the crucial source of funds for the
Venezuelan government's programs that provide free education and health
care to the poor. In 2006, the state-owned oil company spent $13.3
billion on such programs, up from $6.9 billion in 2005 and more than
double the $5.8 billion it invested in new domestic gas and oil
projects.
ExxonMobil's actions have angered poor Venezuelans, who have held
protests around the country. As oil workers' union leader Luis Carvajal
said: "This transnational has exploited our wealth, has exploited our
workers and violated our rights. All the workers in the Orinoco oil
belt support the nationalisation."
Venezuela supplies about 10% of the US's oil. On February 14, PDVSA
halted oil supplies to ExxonMobil and the government is now considering
suspending oil supplies to the USA. As Venezuela's energy minister,
Rafael Ramirez, has emphasised, the interests of the Venezuelan nation
are more important than any corporation, and Venezuela will not back
down from its policy of full oil sovereignty.
In light of these events, we the undersigned:
** Support the Venezuelan government's efforts to defend and extend the
Venezuelan people's common ownership and control over Venezuela's
natural resources, and defend the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's
right to assert its social, political and economic sovereignty.
** Condemn ExxonMobil's economic blackmail against Venezuela and call
for it to immediately withdraw its legal campaign against PDVSA.
** Reject as illegitimate and immoral the British, U.S. and Dutch
courts' order to freeze PDVSA's assets. Only Venezuela, through its own
courts and in accordance with its own Constitution, has the right to
decide the ownership and control of the resources in its territory.
So-called "international arbitration" on Venezuela's resources via
courts in the First World countries is colonialism.
** Stand in solidarity with the protest actions of Venezuela's people,
trade unions and social organisations against ExxonMobil and the U.S.
government's economic and political thuggery, and commend the words of
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "They will never rob us again, those
bandits of ExxonMobil."
Show your support by Signing on -
http://venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/2397
) Copyright Paul Kellogg, The Bullet, Socialist Project e-bulletin ,
2008
The url address of this article is:
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8252
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From: Rick Davis <rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: March 7, 2008 11:18:23 PM EST
Subject: News items, March 8, 2008
Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/03/06/
top_iraq_contractor_skirts_us_taxes_offshore/
Shell companies in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social
Security deductions
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PUKE PAIL ALERT: Hillary: I Have Felt the Presence of the Holy Spirit
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/334482.aspx
Bill Clinton profits from company tied to felon, China
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/
NATION/15653289&template=printart
Clinton-papers release blocked
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-06-clinton-library-
foia_N.htm?csp=34
Clintons to face fraud trial
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56868
Things to know about Hillary before the election
http://prorev.com/hillary.htm
Friends of Hillary
http://prorev.com/hillaryfriends.htm
The Clinton Legacy
http://prorev.com/legacy.htm
Comment: Holy Spirit, my ass.
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GE Lands Another $1 Billion Wind Contract
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47389/story.htm
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U.S. payrolls fall by 63,000 in February
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/payrolls-fall-63000-february-
suggesting/story.aspx?
guid=%7BCFA890F9%2D76C2%2D4E4A%2D860D%2D9BFD57C3E1F0%7D
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Seroxat makers escape prosecution despite failing to reveal link to
teenage suicides for FOUR years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?
in_article_id=527837&in_page_id=1774
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Real Estate and Credit Bubble Deflation: Anatomy of a Murder
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?
name=News&file=article&sid=3918&ref=patrick.net
"Bill Gross of PIMCO, only the greatest bond manager on Planet Earth,
says we're in the 'first inning' when it comes to the unfolding housing
crisis. Look out, world; Mr. Gross and I are on the same page."
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Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-epa29feb29,0,6191299.story
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Asia Bleeds Red as Financials Get Slammed
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23508499
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U.S. making no secret of its strategic buildup in the Pacific
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ea_china_03_06.asp
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A Culture of Death and Destruction
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=623
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Americas Fortunate 400 control vast wealth
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/rich-m07.shtml
Richest 2% own 'half the wealth'
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
business/6211250.stm
Comment: Are you picking up enough "trickle-down" crumbs?
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Relocalizing Eden
http://www.mudcitypress.com/mudeden.html
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The forgotten oil war in Sudan
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
opedne_abdus_sa_080306_the_forgotten_oil_wa.htm
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Adventurist yahoos (or police provocateurs?) attack Times Square
recruiting station
http://ww4report.com/node/5218
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BENIN: More than 40,000 children trafficked each year
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=77139
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