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Bruce K. Gagnon 08.01.2005 15:05
LEVIATHAN: 'Give us your angry, video game-playing 18-19 year olds'
(article by space weapons and environmental activist Bruce Gagnon on new US military strategy for corporate globalization and oil grabs, posted on the Centre for Research on Globalisation  http://www.globalresearch.ca/ web site)
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Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island - he predicts that U.S. unilateralism will lead to the "inevitability of war."

In order to implement this new military vision," Barnett maintains that the U.S. military must move away from its often-competing mix of Air Force-Navy-Army-Marines toward two basic military services. One he names Leviathan, which he defines as the kick ass, wage war, special ops, and not under the purview of the international criminal court. Give us your angry, video game-playing 18-19 year olds, for the Leviathan force, Barnett says. Once a country is conquered by Leviathan, Barnett says the U.S. will have to have a second military force that he calls Systems Administration. This force he describes as the "proconsul" of the empire, boots on the ground, the police force to control the local populations. This group, Barnett says, "will never come home."

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I wonder what the truth really is 08.01.2005 14:07
Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Testing
with all the "theories" being presented as to the cause of the massive
Earthquake and Tsunami that hit on December 26th, it sometimes pays to
read something besides "official" stories as to what happened. Here is
an excellent article from December 30th's COUNTERPUNCH...

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Ulysses Ozaeta 08.01.2005 13:17
La Cloaca Internacional
Programa radial que busca expresar el pensamiento de varios jóvenes de México y otras partes del mundo. Se renueva cada semana y toca temas distintos con buena música rock.

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Manuel Valenzuela 08.01.2005 11:40
Valenzuela: Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity
another excellent valenzuela thought provoking read

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Michael Linden 08.01.2005 10:13
The Other Rage: Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder
Embitterment is a compound emotion that includes despair, aggression against oneself, against another person, hopelessness and mental blocks. Embitterment is a far wider and more comprehensive emotion than depression or fear.. Embitterment seizes everything.

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freemagic@isp.com 07.01.2005 20:25
Actual Astrology For Jan. 8-14
These predictions, based on Actual Astrology, are rather like a weather report. They relate how things will be based on the information recorded by the inventors of this art. No matter what your sun sign, these are the things that will be. Yours is the obligation to figure out what you're going to do in light of them.

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Dictator Watch 07.01.2005 19:14
The Logic of Military Intervention
Examples: Iraq, Burma, Sudan, Palestine/Israel

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Dahr Jamail- repost from Tomdispatch.com. by Eshinni 07.01.2005 18:14
Iraq: The Devastation
In the dark humor that has become so popular in Baghdad these days, one recently released Abu Ghraib detainee I interviewed said, "The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house!"

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Christoph Butterwegge 07.01.2005 13:19
Primal Fears Seize the Middle
Social justice decays to mere equal opportunities.. Demography often serves economic circles, established parties and the media as a tool for social-political demigogues in legitimating neoliberal reconstruction or dismantling the welfare state.

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city zen 07.01.2005 08:39
MONSANTO found guilty of BRIBERY
In their continued attempts at the commodification of Life and their sustained assault on global food security, St. Louis based Monsanto corporation scoffs integrity by bribing an Indonesian official.

(paraphrased from  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4153635.stm (so it hopefully doesn't get composted for being a copy of corporate news, which it is, but still good fodder for pdximc)

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libertythink.com/total411.info 07.01.2005 05:07
Dutch royal bribery and the Fortuyn/vanGogh assassinations
Libertythink puts on their tin foil hats, the only way to shield yourself from disinformation, corporate media lies, and government propaganda, it's not just for aliens anymore. Someone send foxnews the memo.

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Peter Lohmeyer 07.01.2005 03:12
Mr Mbeki recently accused white Aids campaigners of racism
Mr Mbeki recently accused white Aids campaigners of racism.

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expat in Thailand 07.01.2005 01:15
HARROWING 1ST HAND ACCOUNT OF TSUNAMI
An email from a dive instructor in Thailand. It is the best - and most harrowing - description of the tsunami I've seen. Incredible.

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luna moth 06.01.2005 22:01
Towards Earth-centered Sufi Islam
Sufi Islam returns the peaceful mystic to the center stage, the militant Wahhabist fundamentalist becomes a distant memory..

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Akbar Aslanbek 06.01.2005 21:54
Electoral Victory for Authoritarianism & State Terrorism in Uzbekistan
L'Etat, c'est moi Despite all this sanctimonious posturing by the Bush gangsters regarding the pro-democratic policing of Asian elections, little if anything has been said by the White House about the outrageously fraudulent parliamentary elections held in Uzbekistan last week.

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Jean-Guy Allard 06.01.2005 21:00
NEW 'TWIST 'AT END OF THIS ARTICLE RE: GARY WEBB'S 'SUICIDE'
A Cuban Perspective on Gary Webb
The Journalist Who Exposed the Crimes of Luis Posada Carriles

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Clint Clark 06.01.2005 19:17
What Constitutes Life?
--- For a long time now, millions of Homo sapien colonies have been very disappointed in the brain members of their colonies, especially in the last 8,000 years. They have been crying out, by way of stress and illnesses brought on by stress, "Why have you abandoned instinct, sight, sound, and smell, and placed so much more value on what is heard?"

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DANA 06.01.2005 18:15
Which so-called Patriot Organizations are 'bought and paid for'?
It seems strange that the 'gestapo-type' laws which were recently passed in the Patriot Act II are not being exposed to the American public by organizations who have the money to air national commercials.

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Dan Roberts 06.01.2005 15:56
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/7/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba.

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twospiritwarrior 06.01.2005 14:06
International Amerikan Stalags
The Empire has built several permanent detention camps
(prisons)abroad........as well as camps set up through-
out the Empire, for detaining "domestic 'terrorists'".

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Matt Marriott 06.01.2005 13:08
When the compass suddenly points south ( Magnetic Pole Flip, latest SHOCKING news, 2005 )
Magnetic Pole Flip, Magnetic Field disappearing - latest news : among the facts that are now revealed to the public : the magnetic field over the South Atlantic Ocean is now so weak that planes and satelites have now been forced to change their routes. Among the facts that are withheld : Beryllium 10 analysis in polar ice cores in Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Bremerhaven , Germany, shows human life a few thoudand years was IMPOSSIBLE on earth.

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sindy airwaves 06.01.2005 12:16
Radio Bronka off the air
Radio Bronka, pirate radio station broadcasting for over 18 years, was surprised to find its signal covered up by National Spanish Radio

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Friends of Jeff 'Free' Luers 06.01.2005 10:46
Please sign solidarity statement for Jeff 'Free' Luers
Jeff Luers 2004 This is a statement that was written by supporters of Oregon political prisoner Jeff "Free" Luers. If you're willing to endorse this statement, please contact  breakthechains02@yahoo.com and be sure to include a brief self-description [for instance, you can mention what organizations you belong to or books you have authored]. The goal of the statement is draw attention to the case of Mr. Luers, and to positively affect his appeal. For more info on the case of Jeff "Free" Luers, visit www.freefreenow.org Questions, comments, or concerns may be addressed to  breakthechains02@yahoo.com or  freefreenow@mutualaid.org

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Dave Lindorff 06.01.2005 08:02
Colin Powell's Selective Sense of Horror
The outgoing Secretary of State says he's shaken and horrified by the tsunami's destructive power, yet has nothing to say about the far greater destruction and death wreaked in Iraq by the U.S. military that he was so instrumental in sending over there. The difference isn't the degree of destruction and death, it's what caused it.

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Croatia 06.01.2005 00:42
CROATIA ... A LAND OF CRUELTY?
an essay expressed by Croatians... for the world to read
"A small country for great holidays ... But a small country for great cruelty!"

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xyzzy 05.01.2005 20:42
The Truth Behind the Parkfield Seismic Puzzles
There's a good reason new, strange, and puzzling data have been recorded there, and it has nothing to do with HAARP.

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Dude 05.01.2005 20:08
Imperial Occupation
Take your time and listen to the show My favorite MLK quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make
violent revolution inevitable"

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twospiritwarrior 05.01.2005 14:59
The End Of War
A good article by Gwynne Dyer, but filled with naivete
and misconceptions.
My "remarks" in quotations.

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twospiritwarrior 05.01.2005 14:15
300 Words That Make The CIA, FBI, & NSA Look At Your Site
Well, let's give Snooper & Blabber what they want.

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the predictor 05.01.2005 09:57
My Predictions
my predictions

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open source 04.01.2005 23:42
Experts: Tsunami disaster might ease terrorism
Several hundred people were killed this past year in southern Thailand in the festering insurgency between Islamic separatists and the Thai military. And Aceh, the hardest hit area in Indonesia, is the home of GAM, a separatist group that has been waging a sporadic conflict with the Jakarta government.

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Richard 04.01.2005 23:22
I’m Richard Gere, and I speak for the world!
Richard Gere has made a TV commercial for the Palestinians to urge them to vote.

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Robert Lindsay 04.01.2005 20:11
The Catastrophe of the Iraqi Resistance
Criticizes the Iraqi Resistance from a Left POV and finds them wanting. Poses the Palestinian resistance as a better model for a nationalist resistance against occupation.

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overview 04.01.2005 19:49
TO UNDERSTAND HAARP: NWO's Scalar Electromagnetics: secret 20th century parallel tech path
I've been promising this description of scalar energy physics and technology ever since posting this:

Title: HAARP-watch: fake HAARP tremors rock earth deep beneath San Andreas Fault, Author: haarp-watch, Michel Chossudovsky, Date: 2004.12.11 07:02, Description: Mysterious tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault near the quake-prone town of Parkfield are shaking the earth's brittle crust, FAR BELOW THE REGION WHERE EARTHQUAKES NORMALLY STRIKE -- and scientists say THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING or what the motions mean. Seismic researchers are monitoring the strange vibrations..."..."We see this kind of tremor activity inside volcanoes like Mount St. Helens," Nadeau said, "but that's due to the movement of rising magma, and in the tremors we've recorded there's NO EVIDENCE OF VOLCANISM and NO SEISMIC WAVES TYPICAL OF ORDINARY EARTHQUAKES." "In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions."  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/305741.shtml

Here it is.

TOM BEARDEN QUOTE: "I'm. . .trying to finish my book: Energy from the Vacuum: Concepts and Principles, and get it to the publisher for publication later this year. Hopefully the book will turn all the interested young grad students and post-docs loose in the free-energy area. They will not have to spend 30 agonizing years to get to where I am, and where a few others are, but can simply start here and go forward."

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Steve Best and Richard Kahn 04.01.2005 18:19
Globalization, Capitalism, Democaracy, and the SHAC 7
Please note; This is not a repost of the previous article, "Trial by Fire." Those posts were heavily edited for their original appearance on pressaction.org. This new version is the full, uncensored article and deals more heavily with the impacts of the SHAC 7 case on capital, and globalisation. It is available online at  http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue3/Trial%20by%20Fire.htm

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LLO 04.01.2005 17:41
Email sent to Mike Ruppert
Suicide may not be what it appears to be.

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Reality Dweller 04.01.2005 15:25
Disaster Strikes; Conspiracy Theories Abound
HAARP Did It! Aliens Did It! Neutron Bombs Did It! Bush/Cheney Did It!

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C & L 04.01.2005 15:16
Unbelievably startling footage of tsunami hitting shore at Phuket
Unbelievably startling footage of tsunami hitting shore at Phuket


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Video Shows Suicide Attack on US Convoy

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cruncher 04.01.2005 14:46
Rush Limbaugh Proves Muslim Countries More Generous Than US
Of course, that wasn't his intent. He was railing about how little Muslim countries were giving compared to the US in tsunami aid. But, in his typical obfuscating style he never bothered to discuss the wealth of the various countries involved. That is, the US has the largest economy in the world, and is the wealthiest country in the world. And the question that should be asked is who is more generous, those that have a lot and give a little of what they have or those that have a little and give a lot of what they have. Here then is the aid given by the countries Limbaugh rails against ordered by aid as a percentage of GDP. As you will see, the US is not the least generous, but far from the most.

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Matt Marriott 04.01.2005 13:57
Indonesia, Aceh, photo : Islam in denial of the apocalypse
The graffiti in the wall of Meubolah, one of the cities that was wiped out the face of the earth : "Be aware, the doomsday is coming "

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MK 04.01.2005 10:52
A Leftie Libbie's Argument Against Liberitarnism
I recently exchanged email with a libertarian columnist on the Lew Rockwell web site. It was very useful in helping me clarify my complaint with libertarianism.

Without consideration of the natural world, libertarianism is fatally flawed.

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Liam Scheff 04.01.2005 02:16
“Knowing is Beautiful”
As a journalist who writes about AIDS, I am endlessly amazed by the difference between the public and the private face of HIV; between what the public is told and what's explained in the medical literature.

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reader 03.01.2005 17:38
This Happened on Their Watch - First-World Governments and the Tsunami
I'm reposting this revised comment as a stand-alone message because it is seriously insane that trolls are now coming to the defense of those most powerful in the world who knew a tsunami was underway and made - effectively - no effort to warn people. If these governments with veto power and special privledges in the UN - the US, the EU, Japan - cannot warn others of impending disasters which they monitor worldwide, they cannot be trusted to warn their own people in times of disaster. They should be dismantled immediately and heads should roll.

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HAARP watch 03.01.2005 12:42
a GLOBAL STANDDOWN! in earthquake warning revealed: intentional deaths, for what purpose?
Aceh Before (Jan 10 2003) Machiavelli lives.

Based on the analysis of the time sequence in which these Governments received information and failed or decided not to act is alarming. --- Indian Military, for example, clearly got the information two hours before the Tsunami hit the India's mainland. An Indian Air Force base was wiped out in Andaman Nicobar island near Sumatra [how convenient, assures U.S. is the "first eco-terrorism responder"]. . .India is notified of loss of its military base TWO HOURS BEFORE tsunami hit mainland India. However, though Indian Military tried to inform the civilian pro-Bush government of India, it did nothing with this two-hour foreknowledge and instead simply waited for the tsunami to stike India without issuing any warnings to its citizens. Thus, many Indians are killed INTENTIONALLY due to purposeful criminal negligence. --- How do you justify that all six Governments failed separately in their own domain one by one. --- The most amazing thing is that United States Geological Survey and Ocean Monitoring agencies came to know about the Tsunhe Tsunami and earthquake but decided not to do anything. --- The whole world decided to fail to do anything together, at the same time. --- In Thailand, some in the Government said they decided not to act because it would just scare people. Really? Are we not supposed to get scared of scary things?

U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, WILLIAM COHEN SAID, ON AN "ECO-TYPE OF TERRORISM":

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations... It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." (1997 QUOTE)

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EcoNews Service 03.01.2005 11:14
Was the Christmas/Boxing Day 2004 Earthquake-Tsunami Event Caused by Seismic Warfare?
Was the Christmas/Boxing Day 2004 Earthquake-Tsunami Event Seismic (Tectonic) Warfare?
There at least eight (8) "frames" of preliminary alternative analysis or perception regarding cause-effect cycle of the Earthquake-Tsunami Event of Christmas/Boxing Day 2004. Seismic (Environmental) Warfare: One "frame" of analysis or perception places the event in the context of Environmental Warfare, as tectonic (seismic) warfare.

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Maka Fairman 03.01.2005 10:31
Dance, Sing and Pray
Poetic solution to Peace

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sami 03.01.2005 08:00
Sami in Palestine: Not Depressed
Thanks once again for all the letters of support and encouragement. I think about you all quite frequently. This is just a short communique to address the concern or should I say rather the assumption that many of you have expressed that I must be finding it very difficult to be happy given the horrifying political climate of my surroundings. Let me please begin by assuring you that I am doing quite well. If I am depressed at all it is because I have to leave this land in less than 12 days.

Yes, the occupation fills me with a heart-wrenching guttural rage that makes my face twist up involuntarily if I think about it too much. Yes, sometimes I feel like an angst-ridden adolescent, crushed under the weight of the helplessness that I feel towards this madness, this sadistic arbitrary cruelty that I am powerless to stop, wanting to scream until I am hoarse and skin is stained red with hot tears, wanting beat my fists against the wall until they bleed. Yep, the occupation sucks, and it gives you sick, drowning feeling if you let it, but so does everything, if you let it, because I have known that feeling for years. Certainly, I find the political climate inside the United States no less horrifying, and no less aggravating. My palms have known the crescent-shaped fingernail imprints of exasperation for a long time, but you just can't walk around that way forever. The Palestinians don't(and certainly the soldiers don't, they let their tasteless Israeli techno ring loud and clear from every mountainside). You still have to live life.


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repost 03.01.2005 01:47
New York Times Times Starts to Warn of Myths and Conspiracy Theories about the Tsunami
That bastion of right thinking and reason, the NY Times, has an article making light of all the wacky myths and conspiracy theories about what caused the Tsunami. So for all you believers in HAARP, listen to the New York Times and give up your silly little conspiracy theories. Next thing you know, you will be asserting that 9-11 was actually committed by the American Government. ;)

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repost 02.01.2005 14:11
Riverbend on Iraqi elections
Riverbend's blog post today on the elections is really good. Her URL is  http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com

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Manfred Koch 02.01.2005 13:07
Globalization and the Social State
The economy exists for people, not vice versa. The economy needs a framework offering orientation to economic actors and showing the limits of the tolerable. This framework is not a limitation of freedom but the necessary condition for successful economic conduct.. The market and economic success can become anti-divine principles..

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Gary Sudborough 02.01.2005 11:14
Tsunamis and Wars
An examination of the nature of US tsunami relief aid and the reasons for the differences in US corporate news coverage of wars and natural disasters.

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twospiritwarrior 02.01.2005 08:57
Let Them Stay
A song to support American War Resisters seeking refuge
in Canada.

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Sri Pramati Kalkin 01.01.2005 23:31
US Nuclear Testing Possible Culprit for Indian Ocn Quake
This article appears in the Indian Indymedia site

 http://india.indymedia.org/

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a random dude 01.01.2005 23:26
US Military Base in Indian Ocean Received Tsunami Warning
spt 01.01.2005 21:51
Grand Coalition
Grand Coalition

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pix 01.01.2005 18:52
A mother's letter to George Bush - Her son died because George lied
Dear George,

You don't mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis.

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Canada tour announcement- The Tre Arrow Defense Committee 01.01.2005 10:52
Media as the Judge: The case of accused Eco-Terrorist Tre Arrow National Speaking Tour
Tre Arrow, an environmentalist, refugee and political prisoner, has been incarcerated in Canada for over nine months. He's awaiting an extradition hearing which would see him returned to his native country, the United States. While incarcerated, Mr. Arrow's case has gained international attention. The United States Government is seeking Mr. Arrow's extradition in connection with the destruction of logging equipment in Oregon, 2001.

This case is highly political, and Mr. Arrow is repeatedly and constantly referred to in the corporate media as an 'Eco-Terrorist'. Although Judge James Redden, in his ruling on the 2001 arson case against Jacob Sherman, stated that "The term 'terrorist' is not to be used in reference to this case or the defendants," the FBI and the Corporate Media continue to sell news by branding Mr. Arrow as an Eco-Terrorist.

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sami-updates from Palestine 01.01.2005 10:16
Sami in Palestine: Talluza
Not sure where the link to these articles went, so I'm posting this one here because it was inspiring to me and I think others would like to see it.

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KCTU/ETU-MB 01.01.2005 04:13
S. KOREA. Lasty Year's Last Struggle Report...
...by still drunken activists in Seoul

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Tony Blair's dog 01.01.2005 02:55
Happy New Year!
Going from the dark 2004 into the bright 2005.

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