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Events in Pakistan are moving fast. Yesterday General Musharraf quit as army chief, and was hastily sworn as president on the same day. The general hopes that in this way he will win respectability in the run-up to the election promised for January 8. This sets the stage for a big shift in Pakistan. The splits and conflicts at the top are providing a breach through which the accumulated discontent of the masses is thrusting itself forward. Events will then take on a logic of their own.
The dictatorship has been brought to its knees by mass demonstrations and protests and by the intolerable contradictions that afflict Pakistan at all levels. As we predicted, the return of Benazir Bhutto brought millions of workers and peasants onto the streets. This is not thanks to, but in spite of, the policies and conduct of Benazir, who is an ally of US imperialism and until recently was attempting to reach a compromise with Musharraf. The return of Benazir Bhuttto and Nawaz Sharif, and the formal exit from the army of General Pervez Musharraf spells the beginning of the end for the dictatorship, which has run out of steam and is collapsing under its own weight. Although martial law is still in place, the dictatorship has been exposed as a paper tiger. Its days are numbered.
Markwet forces may soon look like the events in the Sci Fi book of that title....Lets put on our connect the dots thinking caps and consider these announcements.
1. NAB, the most internationally-focused Australian bank with operations in the UK and New Zealand, will acquire Great Western from the Hamann family. John Stewart, NAB chief executive, said the acquisition would strengthen the group's agribusiness relationship bank model in the US. NAB said agriculture was a high growth sector, estimating global trade had grown 50 per cent in the last five years. Agriculture contributed US$310bn to US gross domestic product, a figure 10 times larger than Australia. 2. Policymakers already concerned about the relentless rise in global food inflation are facing more bad news in the shape of soaring soyabean prices. Soyabean prices have risen to their highest level in 34 years, boosted by strong Chinese demand and fears that current prices are not high enough to swing acreage from corn to soyabeans in the US, the world's largest producer. =...do any of you, perhaps clued in by your reading come to a conclusion like my title, cortesy the infamous French Lady Aristocrat? Let them eat unleaded.....indeed and you thought it would be heating oil OR feed the kids....skinny chance WARNING : don't race to conclusions, they will come fast enough as the world gets flatter and reaction times shrink to the speed at which 24/7 markets can "respond" alas for the good old days when a moment of reflection was imposed by the slow speed of things. Now there is no need to ponder, reflect, discuss...markets can do their magical blind reasoning algorhythms faster than the mind can take it all in. Market advice. But bullets, buy plows, buy draught horses. Don't worry, be prepared
As November 2007 draws to a close, it will be full three years since American forces razed the Iraqi city
of Fallujah to ground. It was in November 2004 that George Bush's forces played havoc with that city and its unfortunate inhabitants in the name of God. While the American media chose to remain blind to the utter horror of it all, busy as it was with keeping a close watch over the life and death of Terri Schindler Schiavo, Dr. Hafidh al-Dulaimi, the head of "the Commission for the Compensation of Fallujah citizens" reported the destruction that American troops inflicted on Fallujah. According to the report, there were some 7000 totally destroyed, or nearly totally destroyed, homes in all districts of Fallujah. 8400 stores, workshops, clinics, warehouses, etc. were completely destroyed. 65 mosques and religious sanctuaries were demolished. 59 kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools and technical colleges were flattened. 13 government buildings leveled. Four libraries, that housed thousands of ancient Islamic manuscripts and books, were gutted completely. The number of human beings slaughtered in those buildings, of course, is any body's guess. Here once again is a reprint of the article that was one of the first to report the atrocities to the truth seekers in America, and to the world at large, amid a chorus of applause, accusations and denials.
I am concerned about the health of all these teenage girls and their "diets" and "concerns with health" as they pound sodas, non sugar 'juices[10% or 3%] in order to look "good." I remember the dispair of every teenage girl I knew. It is time for that to end.
No Child Left Behind? - Tomorrow, Nov. 30th 2007, pupils in the whole country again will protest against the 'dumbing down' via their schools: they want 'quality' in their education. Not the government prescribed 'quantity' of 1040 school hours. The present school system - according to a dutch education professor - is dangerous.
Halliburton moved to UAE for what reason?
Students across France have been voting on the next step in the ongoing struggle against the so-called reforms of the LRU law.
November 28th, 2007 by jef costello Reposted from www.libcom.org
Riots may turn into urban guerilla warfare, said a police officer. Police men were wounded by rioters shooting with pump guns.
Video: French riots continue  http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4lNVTuRjw&feature=related
report about yesterdays'riots on portland indymedia: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/11/369109.shtml
Here is what the mainstream media write:
Clark Public Utilities plans to kill off nesting parakeets.
December Cine Club Screening: The Take
Please join the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee for this inspiring film about the struggle for worker controlled factories in Argentina. Film will be followed by an exciting update about the struggle for worker control a the Sanitarios Maracay porcelain factory in Maracay, Venezuela, as well as a more general discussion about the revolutionary process in Venezuela.
Last night CNN en Español aired the above image, which captions at the bottom "Who Killed him?" by "accident". The image of President Chavez with the caption about killing him below, which some could say subliminally incites to assassination, was a "production error" mistakenly made in the CNN en Español newsroom. The news anchor had been narrarating a story about the situation between Colombia and Venezuela and then switched to a story about an unsolved homicide but - oops - someone forgot to change the screen image and President Chavez was left with the killing statement below. Today they apologized and admitted it was a rather "unfortunate" and "regrettable" mistake. Yes, it was.
On a scarier note, an internal CIA memorandum has been obtained by Venezuelan counterintelligence from the US Embassy in Caracas that reveals a very sinister - almost fantastical, were it not true - plan to destabilize Venezuela during the coming days. The plan, titled "OPERATION PLIERS" was authored by CIA Officer Michael Middleton Steere and was addressed to CIA Director General Michael Hayden in Washington. Steere is stationed at the US Embassy in Caracas under the guise of a Regional Affairs Officer. The internal memorandum, dated November 20, 2007, references the "Advances of the Final Stage of Operation Pliers", and confirms that the operation is coordinated by the team of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) in Venezuela. The memo summarizes the different scenarios that the CIA has been working on in Venezuela for the upcoming referendum vote on December 2nd. The Electoral Scenario, as it's phrased, confirms that the voting tendencies will not change substantially before Sunday, December 2nd, and that the SI (YES) vote in favor of the constitutional reform has an advantage of about 10-13 points over the NO vote. The CIA estimates abstention around 60% and states in the memo that this voting tendency is irreversible before the elections.
Farooq Tariq is the General Secretary of the Labour Party in Pakistan. Quite amazingly, people can receive daily email updates from him!!! He has also been arrested a few times in the last year -- in which case people who had telephone contact with him would then post updates. During the most recent state-of-siege in Pakistan he chose to go underground. He tells many stories of courageous people of Pakistan -- most striking were his accounts of gallant young women: publishing their small socialist newspaper, or leading protests regardless of the consequences, etc.
One can join the listserv, or read the accounts at the yahoogroups.com --  socialist_pakistan_news@yahoogroups.com
As you know, when I was here in April/May 1992, I thought things could get no worse. Yet in July this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations note in a Report: '..with deep regret', all the: 'pre-famine indicators being in place'. Further that an appreciable proportion of the population now had less calorific intake than the most famine stricken parts of Africa.
The so-called global imbalance today seems more dangerous for all other countries than for the US. A fundamental reform of the international monetary system is overdue. The US dollar is no longer the stable anchor of the world monetary system.
French 'charity' Zoe's Ark tried to fly out 103 children they kidnapped in Chad. The plan was to present the children to the world as 'Darfur orphans': 'poor war torn kids' in need of parents. Who however were very much alive, worried to death and desperately looking for their stolen children. Can you imagine the pain?
A New Feature Length Documentary on the rise and fall of a large anti-war movement in Ireland directed against the use of an airport in the West of Ireland as the main stop off point in Europe for the US military transiting to Iraq from 2002- The present.
Robert Jensen's newest book, "Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity" fuses investigative journalism with compelling personal testimony to make the argument for why men should stop consuming pornography. Local radical feminist S.M. Berg recently spoke with Robert Jensen about men, pornography, and the quest to be human.
A recent report from Datanalisis (1) [the Venezuelan statistical service] revealed what already many people knew and suffered from. Scarcity of basic foodstuff is becoming intolerable. This study established that milk, beef and sugar have become very difficult to find. Other products like chicken, cooking oil, cheese, sardines and black beans are also very scarce. The analysts who compiled the report interviewed 800 people in some 60 different shops, supermarkets and markets, both in the private sector and the public distribution network, Mercal. 73,3% of the places visited had no milk powder for sale. 51,7% no longer had refined sugar, 40% had no cooking oil, and 26,7% no black beans, a basic staple in Venezuela.
Two thirds of the shoppers declared that they experienced food scarcity to one degree or another in the shops where they usually buy. Queues of a few hours, sometimes up to four hours, to buy some milk are no longer the exception. This is reminiscent of the situation in Chile when wholesale economic sabotage was used against the left-wing Popular Unity government of the 1970s. Without giving in to the panic stories and exaggerated reports of the right-wing media, we must understand that this is a serious situation. The bosses have even threatened to extend this situation into the first quarter of 2008, especially because of the uncertainties related to the questions of private property included in the new constitutional reform. They are grabbing the revolution by its throat.
The anarchist film collective "a-films" announces three new videos from South Lebanon. In October 2007, a-films did video workshops in Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp and the village of Siddiqine.
Joe Banister to Host Radio Show on WTPRN
A report reveals that French President Nicolas Sarkozy worked for Israeli intelligence for a long time before he was elected president.
In the mainly kurdish city of Djerbakir, Turkey, 100 000s of Kurds protested against a turkish military strike on Kurds in Northern Iraq.
Paris - More than 60 police officers were injured, five of them seriously, when bands of youths rioted late on Monday for a second consecutive night in the suburbs of Paris after two minority teenagers riding a motor bike died when a police car crashed into them.
Public buildings, cop shops, cars, were set on fire by angry youths. A police station has been attacked with petrol bombs and guns. This incident oocures in the context of national mobilsations by french civil movements over the last few weeks and ongoing clashes between strikers and police around France.
People at LM Ericsson in Sweden went on strike three decades ago because they refused to make telephones with build-in bugging software for the dictatorial Stroessner regime in Paraguay. Nowadays people - like in Greece - are killed or 'suicided' if they talk about what really can be done via a cell phone.
The purpose of this forest project management is to find effective manager role of poverty through improved forest management, with community participation, specifically, by tribal forest-dependent communities (regions), to assume full responsibility for the development of forest project management. The three main components include: 1) the establishment of an enabling environment for community forest management, by supporting policy, and institutional changes, as well as capacity building, both of the government, community organizations, and nongovernmental organizations. The Government's institutional framework will be strengthened, to allow the implementation of community-based forest management, while project management support will be provided, to include monitoring and evaluation, consulting services and studies, and operational costs; 2) forest management, focused on improving the productivity management duties, manager power and politics, the way for conservation of forest and wildlife and environment and, 3) forest project management, to improve forest model measures for adverse impacts
Global warming seems mysterious to most of
us. A 1 degree rise in annual global temperature sounds minuscule, doesn't it....... until you remember that the oceans are involved ........ ... very heavily involved. The oceans are simply unfathomably immense! Their mass is actually incomprehensible, being 70% of the earth's surface (310 million cubic miles). If you could stack water 100 cubic miles long and 100 cubic miles wide, that column would reach 31,000 miles into outer space. That is truly an astronomical amount of water!
Olmert does not want any inclusion of the conflict with Syria or the Golan heights occupied by Israel. Everything essential like participation of Hamas should be excluded. Residents of Tel Aviv could be among those who willpay dearly for the mad plans of George W Bush.
Since 2000 the small rural community of Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland have been engaged in an epic battle trying to prevent Shell from building a devastating onshore gas refinery and high pressure pipeline in their remote and environmentally sensitive region. Despite Shell's status as one of the world's largest multinationals and it's enjoyment of the full support of the Irish state, the spirited and effective resistance of the local community means that four years after the refinery was intended to be fully operational, the project is still in its infancy.
Nicolas Gaubert of Leeds copped a shock when trigger-happy armed police tasered him for being asleep on the bus. Although the incident happened in 2005 (just a week before the shooting of innocent Jean Charles de
Menezes by London police), Nic didn't speak out 'til now as he was naively expecting officers to be charged over the incident. He was later left handcuffed in a severe state by police depsite hospital staffs pleas.
The purpose of this forest project management is to find effective manager role of poverty through improved forest management, with community participation, specifically, by tribal forest-dependent communities (regions), to assume full responsibility for the development of forest project management. The three main components include: 1) the establishment of an enabling environment for community forest management, by supporting policy, and institutional changes, as well as capacity building, both of the government, community organizations, and nongovernmental organizations. The Government's institutional framework will be strengthened, to allow the implementation of community-based forest management, while project management support will be provided, to include monitoring and evaluation, consulting services and studies, and operational costs; 2) forest management, focused on improving the productivity management duties, manager power and politics, the way for conservation of forest and wildlife and environment and, 3) forest project management, to improve forest model measures for adverse impacts.
On Nov. 20th Turkish F-16s returning from an operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were unable to land in Diyarbakir last week due to a lack of communication caused by sabotage.
A police station in Paris has been attacked by angry youths with petrol bombs after two teenagers will killed when hit by a police car. Guns were used in the attack against the Sarcelles police station in the suburbs in northern part of Paris and at least one senior police officer seriously injured. Cars were also torched and police had to call in reinforcements from other parts of the city to secure the police station.
Green California Schools Summit
December 4-6, 2007 Pasadena Conference Center Pasadena, CA
According to the merchants of information the corporation finds acceptable for the masses, this has been a very bad year for cops. They are being killed in record numbers, despite their hi tech tools, less lethal weapons, and far superior trauma medicine. They do not understand why. Do you?
Stuff on the web that shows how we view our impacts on Earth.
A Canadian parliamentary committee and a provincial government each launched a review into the use of hand-held stun guns amid reports of another death following a shock from one of the devices.
Stockholm, Sweden - A new group calling itself "The Indians of the Concrete Jungle" has claimed credit for vandalizing more than one-thousand SUVs in order to draw attention to climate change and discourage motorists from driving vehicles that create such a high impact on the environment.
The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real option being discussed within the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff cabinet. According to our sources, admiral William Fallon made clear that if such an order was given, he would refuse to follow it and would hand in his resignation along with the entire Centcom headquarter's. So far only the Navy and Army's superior officers' resistance has prevented the neoconservatives and the Air Force to launch the operations.
Four grown neo-Nazi men wrestled a 17-year-old girl to the ground and carved a swastika into her thigh when she stopped them bullying a six-year old foreign girl in a small east German town. This is reported on the German IndyMedia site at
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/11/200381.shtml and confirmed by mainstream media.
The attack happened three weeks ago in Mittweida, located 125 km southeast of Leipzig. Media said it's only come out now because the girl delayed confiding in her mother.
The database, totalling more than 30 million pages and known as the Traditional Knowledge Data Library, has come about for one very simple reason: to prevent Western pharmaceutical giants and others using this traditional Indian information to create a product for which they then obtain a patent.
Neoliberal globalization is a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to overcome the crises of overaccumulation, ov erproduction and stagnation.
Sicko
The statue of Manneken Pis in Brussels, which is now the administrative Capital of Europe, is exactly the symbol of why Belgium once sought and found independence from (overregulation in) the Netherlands.
For nearly two years, Blackwater has been developing an airship to tap a growing government demand for aerial surveillance and security - from patrolling U.S. borders and coastal waters to guarding military bases in hostile lands.
Institutionally unwilling to consider America's responsibility for the bloodbath, the traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion.
They came in their tens of thousands, in their hundreds of thousands. They came from schools, from colleges, from universities, from teachers' unions and trade unions, and from the Social Missions concerned with education. They came in their red shirts with different names but all saying the same thing, Si in the referendum. Here in Venezuela learning is on the order of the day. Everyone is studying in one way or another, everyone is a student, so they came in all ages.
We gathered in the Plaza de Venezuela and as each minute passed we grew in numbers. In all parts of the gathering crowd there were sound systems belting out different rhythms and people were dancing, singing and shouting slogans. It was a carnival atmosphere with a serious message. The small group of students also dressed in red but with No placards quickly disappeared after having been confronted by revolutionary students shouting "No pasaran", they shall not pass. We moved off chanting slogans such as "Eduacion Primero para el hijo del obrero; Educacion después para el hijo del burgues" (Firstly, the children of workers should be educated and only then the children of the bourgeoisie), "Obreros y Estudiantes, Unidos en Combate" (Workers and Students united in Struggle) and very importantly "Alerta, Alerta, Alerta Camarada, Que ya esta Preparada la Resistencia Armada" (Watch out Comrades, Armed Resistance is Ready). As the slogans were shouted red flags were being waved.
The Bush administration is turning Iraq into a test tube for modern techniques of repression, from sophisticated biometrics that track populations to devastating weapons systems that combine night-vision optics from drone aircraft, heat resonance imaging and deadly firepower from the sky to kill suspected insurgents. The harsh repression surrounding the "surge" has drawn far less U.S. press attention. The grim reality, however, is that an increasingly desperate American military has stepped up its indiscriminate killing and jailing of Iraqis, especially "military-age males" or MAMS.
By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to the military contractor. Buzzy says different.
President John F. Kennedy was shot to death during a midday motorcade in Dallas, Texas. It was a tragedy that shook the nation and the world.
For all of you who work so hard to make the world a better place, you have my profound gratitude.
Written by Eva Golinger
Thursday, 13 September 2007 Source: Venezuela Analysis http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/891/68/
The United States government has almost perfected a method of intervention that is able to penetrate and infiltrate all sectors of civil society in a country which it deems to be of economic and strategic interest
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Summary of the KBOO am news for Thursday, November 29th, 2007.
It's a good life if it doesn't kill you
