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Concerned citizens of irc.indymedia.org 16.07.2008 20:28
Colombian Government Admits War Crime in Fake Rescue Operation
The Colombian government, in their "fake rescue" of Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries, are such a sophisticated covert ops team that they accidentally filmed their own war crime.

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Richard Mellor 16.07.2008 11:42
Fannie, Freddie, Food and Fuel
The financial crisis deepens with the nationalization of IndyMac and the likely bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie May by the US taxpayer. The financial crisis has company as inflation, and in particular huge increases in global food and energy prices, enters the fray.

The American economic model has been discredited and the American century has lasted but a few decades. These developments have and will further open up a new period in the struggle between capital and labor on the world stage and the US working class will have a major role to play as it re-connects with its militant traditions.

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Movimiento Libertario Cubano 16.07.2008 10:14
ALB interviews the Cuban Libertarian Movement
* During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas www.alasbarricadas.org posed several questions to the MLC www.mlc.acultura.org.ve, an affinity group of Cuban anarchism abroad. The complete text of this interview follows.

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anonymous 16.07.2008 09:01
Eagle Asset Management does not hold shares of Life Sciences Research also known as LSR.
Eagle Asset Management and Raymond James Financial do not hold shares of Life Sciences Research also known as LSR.

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Lucy Roessler 16.07.2008 05:23
Colombia-Urgente: El bombardeo mediático como ablandamiento previo...
Tendremos que esperar que el bombardeo mediático en torno a la reciente liberación de Ingrid y demás rehenes obtenida con la "Operación Jaque" continúe todavía durante unos días, como si fuera una prolongada fase destinada al ablandamiento previo, después vendrá el "asalto final".

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dude 15.07.2008 21:19
future shock
we can end occupation 1972 video of future shock narated by orson wells.

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Zagovor 15.07.2008 17:22
Sea Shepherd's call on Musashi. And a Whale poem
In their 2008/9 Antarctic Anti-Whaling quest Sea Shepherd will call on the spirit of the 17th century Japanese Warrior "Musashi". Although the correct application of "Musashi's" principles of combat in the Whaling/Anti-Whaling conflict would swing success toward Sea Shepherd it is most unlikely that the organization has the strength to do so.

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Laura Carlsen, Huffington Post 15.07.2008 15:44
U.S. Mercenary Company Implicated in Mexican Torture Videos
Two videos of a torture-training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human rights under the Calderon offensive against organized crime. For readers with strong stomachs, the videos can be found here.

The videos leaked by the local paper El Heraldo de León hit the media just one day after President Bush signed into law a $400 million aid package to support President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs and organized crime. The tapes show graphic images of torture techniques used on victims who city officials claim were volunteers from the police force. In one, a debilitated victim is insulted and dragged through his own vomit. In another, a victim receives shots of mineral water up the nose and has his head forced into a pit of "rats and excrement."

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Sierra Sherpa 15.07.2008 12:03
Wild Freudian Computer Fragmenting the Hard Drive Dream Sequence 1
Scientist are studying computers dreams. It is really intense stuff. Kind of boggling at times. Will we ever understand 1/3 of our life our are we doomed to repeat it over and over and over again... computers may help to uncode the world of dreams...

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author 15.07.2008 09:18
Italian officials convicted over G8 protest. Cops recieve sentences from 5months to 5years
An Italian court has found 15 officials guilty of mistreating and torturing protesters following violent demonstrations at G8 meeting in the city of Genoa in 2001.
A judge handed down prison sentences ranging from five months to five years to the accused - who include police, prison officials and two doctors.
Another 30 defendants were cleared of charges, including assault.

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Karl Homann 15.07.2008 05:06
"Ruin Your Neighbor"
System criticism is repressed in many ways. Private vice does not bring public virtue. Everyone pursuing self-interest does not usher in public welfare. Inequality, competition, growth and market fundamentalism are not panaceas or inevitabilities but false securities.

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Peter Little 14.07.2008 13:31
Gun Shows and Immigration in Portland
At key points in history the state and ruling class have directly utilized the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups as an instrument of terror, yet recently it has also seen necessary to attempt to reign in these tendencies, with differing levels of success. As the white nationalist Right grew increasingly militant into the 1990s, the Clinton government launched very real attacks on the militia movement and the militant wing of the anti-abortion movement. The rise and terror of,"The Order,( http://www.freetheorder.org/)" serial killings of abortion doctors, the shoot-out at Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma City bombing all provide evidence of the potentially insurgent capabilities of these movements, and the state's need to confront it.

This has occurred as a new, internationalist and globalized capitalism has emerged, and concurrently, the structures of white supremacy have shifted. The new, "multicultural" face of the state and official institutions under this new regimen now find tensions with an old form of white supremacy still fostered by nationalist elements. Although the leadership and core of these elements appear to be composed of a dying 'middle' class (landlords, cops, real estate agents and dentists), their pandering appeals to new fears and lingering white supremacist notions within white workers. Many of these groupings, initially supported by or even formed by agents of Capital and the US State, now find themselves in (or moving towards an increasingly) anti-government stances.

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ACLU 14.07.2008 12:22
ACLU: Terrorist Watch List His 1 Million Names
I believe there are now more people on the watchlist than are actual people who use terror as a means of social and political manipulation (fear)

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Tobias Pflüger, German Socialist Party "Die Linke" 14.07.2008 11:55
The effects of the Lisbon No on EU plans for a Constitution
Now in the aftermath of a No vote the real reasons for the so called EU treaty (which is in fact a constitution for europe) are increasingly being made public despite the difficulty in getting these topics on the agenda even now as the Irish government 'reflects'. The rejection of the treaty has caused a headache for those politicians who favour EU unification, a unified EU military and further free trade liberalization.

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The paper of the occupied Center of the Unions 14.07.2008 11:47
French sans-papiers occupation : two months !
French undocumented immigrants, workers but isolated, begun the occupation of the Center of the Unions in Paris two months ago !

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Convergence for Climate Action 14.07.2008 11:44
Australian Climate Change protestors block trains and ports
Australian coal train and world’s largest coal port peacefully blockaded. In the last few days Australia' Climate Camp was established at Newcastle,
Australia. Yesterday, people from the camp chained themselves to a
coal train, blocking access to Carrington coal terminal for most of the
day and costing the company an estimated 1.2 million US dollars.
Today, more climate camp activists are blocking work at the world's
largest coal port at Kooragang.

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West Coat Convergence for Climate Action 14.07.2008 10:02
1000s of people take direct action against coal in Australia - blockade train, etc.!
The US version of this camp starts in 2 weeks! climateconvergence.org DAY #1:

Around 1,200 people today took direct action to stop the disastrous environmental impact of the world's biggest coal port in Newcastle. The spirited and colourful protest was made up of a diverse mix of people including families, coal workers and activists ... even some zombies were spotted. A number of people made it on to the rail line and coal transport in Newcastle was shut down for the entire day. This is a victory for everyone disappointed by the government's inaction in the face of the biggest environmental crisis we have ever seen &#8211; instead of phasing out coal, the NSW Government last year gave coal companies permission to more than double their exports from Newcastle to 211 million tonnes per year. Coal exports are Australia's biggest contribution to climate change and the greenhouse pollution from our coal exports exceeds all of our domestic pollution combined.

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EcoWaste Coalition 14.07.2008 06:27
PHILIPPINES: Ban Endosulfan!
PHILIPPINES: Ban Endosulfan! Citizens Press for Total Ban on Endosulfan to Put Off "Toxic Time Bomb"

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Felix Lee 14.07.2008 05:27
"Stop the Biofuel Madness!"
The high oil price and the food crisis threaten the existence of over a hundred million people. (Walden Bello) "People in rich countries must starve so the rich can continue driving their cars." Growing plants for biofuels is a crime against humanity.

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JAILBUSH 13.07.2008 12:25
Morgellon's Disease A Nanotech War Against US - MUST READ
Morgellon's disease, a particularly horrific condition, seems to be dormant in all of our bodies and has been identified in samples of chemical trails administered to our atmosphere via military airplanes. This has all been documented by a presidential award winning toxicologist, Hildigard Staniger.

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Frei Betto 13.07.2008 04:04
Spiritual Counsel
Spirituality is a new consciousness and allegiance based on interdependence, a way of resistance to militarism and greed. Resistance is part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies. As carrots and beans can grow together, people can coexist. Diversity is not a threat.

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Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Philippines 12.07.2008 06:07
End G8 Domination!
End G8 Domination! Joint Statement on the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan

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Andy Worthington 12.07.2008 04:11
Scandal of Diego Garcia rendition flights strains US-UK relations
Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantánamo Files", reports on the latest developments relating to the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia: the exiled islanders' latest salvo in their 40-year pursuit of justice, and the British government's failure to tackle its US allies over the use of Diego Garcia for "extraordinary rendition" flights.

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Wladek Flakin 12.07.2008 04:03
A wave of school students' strikes hits Germany
students' strike in Berlin On 22 May, about 8,000 students in Berlin demonstrated through the inner city. On 12June, there were students' strikes in at least eight different cities, from Tübingen in the south-west to Bad Doberan in the north-east, with a total of 15,000 participants. On 16 June, another 3,000 Berlin students protested in front of the city hall.

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Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http://www.squeakyw 12.07.2008 02:26
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary --http://www.btlonline.or
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary -- http://www.btlonline.org

Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions  http://www.squeakywheel.net

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brian 11.07.2008 19:01
9-11 Barry Jennings UNCUT
9-11 Barry Jennings UNCUT

Given the recent BBC hit piece on WTC7, and Barry
Jennings apparent recanting, here is the uncut Jennings interviews by Loose Change team

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Tony Ryals 11.07.2008 18:23
Israeli Foreign Agent Sharon Tzur, Media Watch International,PM Ehud Olmert,Rudy Giuliani
Reasons why Sharon Tzur,founder of misleadingly named Media Watch International is indeed a foreign agent.Sharon Tzur was born in Canada and thus is not a U.S. citizen.She has served in the military(Air Force)of Israel and misleads in claiming her Media Watch International has no Israeli political allegiances.She been active in both the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu,Ariel Sharon,Ehud Olmert and convicted money launderer Menachem Atzmon whose ICTS International guarded,(unsuccessfully),Logan Airport,Boston, Massachusetts on 911.......

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Marc Batko 11.07.2008 17:55
Workers of the World, Relax!
All the labor-saving technologies were going to usher in the Age of Leisure. But people are working longer. This new movie by Conrad Schmidt, author of "Workers of the World, Relax," could empower us to critical philosophy and free us from a sense of helplessness.

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Ecotopian Yeti 11.07.2008 10:58
NAFTA and SPP, Securing U.S. Access to Canadian Resources
Why we, Cascadians, also NEED to get out of the Amerikan Hegemony

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R. Brems 11.07.2008 03:25
Theses on the Basic Income Discussion
Poverty can only be overcome globally. A change in perspective is necessary where social assistance is seen as positive and not negative. Social stability and public spirit require sacrifice and redistribution, love of life and trust in the social project.

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Dan Roberts 10.07.2008 17:04
The Shortwave Report 7/11/08 Listen Globally
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.

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Lucy Roessler 10.07.2008 15:31
Colombia, urgente: Crónica de un montaje anunciado
En solo unas horas más, Hugo Chávez y Alvaro Uribe se reunirán en territorio venezolano, al parecer en Paraguaná. Como punto principal y quizás único de la agenda, figurará sin lugar a dudas, la propuesta uribista de que el presidente de Venezuela Bolivariana se haga cargo del "jaque mate" que a la actual dirección de las FARC el régimen colombiano le tiene preparado.

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geral 10.07.2008 10:49
The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network Begins Gratuitous Attack
The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network Begins Gratuitous Attack, Thereby Revealing Their Ominous Agenda

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Sierra Sherpa 10.07.2008 07:48
Money is a vice I wore
this is to Barak Obama who wants to only listen to his "Con Tributes" or also known as picking up the undecided vote. I vote no. How about that FISA? How about that death penalty? Gun laws? How about I vote NO Obama? No CON tributors> no moderates > justice is just us.....

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Bob Kavanagh - WSM - Workers Solidarity 10.07.2008 06:31
Why class matters
The concept of class is fundamental to the anarchist understanding of society. The goal of anarchist communism is to create a classless society where everyone is on an equal footing, where all have equal access to wealth and contribute to society as best they can. Why then do anarchists argue that only the working class has the power to create a free and equal society? Many figures in the economic and political elite argue that we now live in a classless society. While it is true that class as an economic and social phenomenon has changed as capitalism has developed, this is not to say that we are no longer divided by class, just that the boundaries and definitions have become more complex.

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Philipp Hersel 10.07.2008 05:32
Anatomy of a Crisis
The problem is that a large part of US real estate financing, the so-called subprime market for real estate credits to poor borrowers, functioned according to the model of a chain letter. Radical redistribution, national and international, is the command of the hour.

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pray for them 09.07.2008 10:45
G8 Call for Solidarity- Protest Japanese Embassies!
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514208.php

* Arrestees are still in jail and face years in prison
* Local organizers may face arrests
* Arrestees and organizers friends and families are facing harassment and possible house raids by police

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Dan Scott 09.07.2008 09:12
Today—U.S. Senate Votes Whether to Shoot Down 1st and 4th Amendments
If this Act is passed, it will be Free Speech in America only "if you—Dare!"

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Jody Paulson 08.07.2008 14:18
The London bombings -- who *really* did it?
Yesterday marks the 3rd anniversary of the public transportation bombings in London, England which took 52 lives.

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Anne Fitzgerald 08.07.2008 12:01
Radioactive leaks in Germany
Confirmation that radioactive brine has been leaking for two decades from a German underground deposit for nuclear waste is yet another blow to the idea that nuclear power can safely increase electricity generation and simultaneously reduce emissions.

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Animal Rights Movement 08.07.2008 11:52
Spain: Basic Rights granted for Great Apes
"If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then wymyn [women]. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights." -- Moby (1)

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Kristin Bricker 08.07.2008 11:49
Company that Led Torture Training for Mexican Police Is UK's Risks Inc.
To fully lay out the evidence for this article, HTML formatting is necessary. So this article includes a teaser and link to the Narco News article.

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gw 08.07.2008 10:52
Bush declares national emergency
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

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posted by F Espinoza 08.07.2008 05:08
Colombia: Pax Romana
I have honestly and strongly criticized the objectively cruel methods of kidnapping and retaining prisoners under the conditions of the jungle. But I am not suggesting that anyone laid down their arms, when everyone who did so in the last 50 years did not survive to see peace...

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Annette Groth 08.07.2008 04:17
Hunger, GKMs and Speculation
Like many other countries, Kenya provided its own staple foods until the 1980s. Today the country imports 80% of its food. To buy up the entire grain harvest of the US, only $120 billion is needed-a small amount for the speculators on the currency market.

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Brian the Green 07.07.2008 14:52
Ingrid Betancourt is a Columbian Green Party Leader
I have yet to see the corporate press acknowlege the fact that Ingrid Betancourt is a Green Party member and representative.

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anon 07.07.2008 13:41
The War at Home
Excerpts from The War At Home:
Covert Action Against U.S. Activists And What We Can Do About It
- By Brian Glick

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J-Red 07.07.2008 03:39
Fight song for the G8
A fight song for all who raise their voices in dissent

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Walter Porkite 07.07.2008 00:07
By Way of Deception - Victor Ostrovsky - Former Mossad Agent Exposes Israel's Terrorist Ce
PDF download of this interesting book

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Ross Wolf 06.07.2008 20:08
Compare Provisions in “Hitler’s Laws” with FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008
The FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 May be Passed by the U.S. Senate Before You Can Read this.

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John W. Murphy 06.07.2008 17:19
The Role of Philosophy in the Globalized World
"Philosophy has a very important role to play in the Age of Globalization. Carping about the need for social change, or protesting publicly against certain policies, is simply dismissed as irrelevant and unproductive. Utopian suggests all realities are at root imaginary.."

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MIA in Rostock 06.07.2008 17:03
Charles River attacked in solidarity with Austrian prisoners
anonymous communique; repost from  http://directaction.info/

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MIA in Rostock 06.07.2008 12:20
Ontario: Mining Corporation Bombed
On Canada Day morning bombs made with gas cans and timed incendiaries were left along with a warning painted on the wall at the office of Frontenac Ventures Corporation in Oakville. This is a mining company one of whose projects is uranium mining in the area of Sharbot Lake. Despite local opposition by native and non-native peoples they continue to destroy territory and lives that they have no claim to.

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cine rebelde 06.07.2008 05:29
film: the new attack (Chiapas)
para tod@s todo Interview with Ernesto Ledesma ( CAPISE) about the Mexican State's new offensive against the zapatist indigenous communities in Chiapas / Mexico.

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Concerned citizens of irc.indymedia.org 05.07.2008 19:11
The Real Operation to "Rescue" Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries
In order to understand the "rescue operation" of Ingrid Betancourt and the Northrop Grumman Corporation mercenaries who were released with her, it is necessary to piece together articles published in the media, filter the content and out of this is formed a true understanding of the facts of what happened here.

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Rosemarie Jackowski 05.07.2008 17:22
A 'Thank You' to a Great President
Thanking President Chavez

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Ingrid Wagner 05.07.2008 11:41
For an Unconditional Basic Income
Martin Luther King called us to a radical revolution of values, from a thing-oriented to a person-oriented society. Like community centers, the basic income could have multiplier effects. The price of oil rose three-fold in four years. Lifestyles and priorities must change.

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% 04.07.2008 23:34
Pete Zalewski - 9/11 ATC, also for EgyptAir 990
Pete Zalewski. [Source: NBC] Zalewski was "handling" American Airlines Flight 11 when it first changed course and its transponder was switched off; he was also responsible for United Airlines Flight 175 which hit the South Tower around 20 minutes later. He failed to follow normal procedures and treat it as an emergency for some time, delaying the possibility of NORAD fighter interception.

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Dan Roberts 03.07.2008 17:10
The Shortwave Report 7/4/08 Listen Globally
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.

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DemocracyNow.org 03.07.2008 15:53
“Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global Warming”–Leading
"Global Disruption" More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not "Global Warming"-Leading Scientist John Holdren
Leading scientist John Holdren says "global warming" is not the correct term to use; he prefers "global disruption." "'Global warming' [is] misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet," says Holdren. "In fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing. It's a sort of an index of the state of the climate. The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it." [includes rush transcript]

Guest:

John Holdren, professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the director of the Woods Hole Research Center and just completed a term as board chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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