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Feeling heat from a increasingly vociferous anti-offshoring lobby in America, many Indian call centers, including one owned by MsourcE that services Georgia's electronic benefits helpline for food stamp and temporary cash recipients, are hesitant to discuss their contracts. MsourcE refused to allow a reporter within its walls; the firm's agents who answer the helpline are instructed not to divulge their location.
Last month, Texas-based Dell directed some customer service calls back to staff in the United States after complaints that Indian technical support workers relied too heavily on scripted answers and were difficult to understand. "Some people don't want to talk to Indians," said Namrata Yadav, 23, an agent for Daksh, whose clients include Amazon.com, Yahoo, Sprint and Delta Air Lines. "I've had people ask me if I am sitting on an elephant or if I knew the positions of the Kama Sutra," Yadav said. "Others say they don't want to talk to terrorists. It can be disconcerting." Yadav sympathized with U.S. workers losing their jobs because of outsourced contracts. But in the end, he and other agents said, it was America's notions of free trade that gave birth to their industry in the first place. "Who are we to stop conglomerates from being business savvy?" asked i-Seva's Narayan. "What goes around comes around in this world."
A number of Shiite religious leaders pressed the U.S.-led occupation forces to withdraw now that ousted president Saddam Hussein has been captured, warning of armed resistance if they fail to do so.
Mortada Ga'afar El-Mousawy, representative of Shiite leader Moktada Al-Sadr in Baghdad, threatened that "armed resistance is, no doubt, the answer if the invading troops do not respect the will of the Iraqi people and leave our homeland."
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The following story is a radical account of what US marines are doing in Iraq ...
when the continued occupation of Iraq for petroleum extraction/consumption is no longer possible for the Halliburton/EXXON/Cheney/Bush cabal, we will need alternatives to obtain food and shelter..
..bikes are nice..hemp is good..
here is reposting of Charly Reese's latest zinger of a column...enjoy!
"Millions of Muslims in Germany and elsewhere show that Islamic and western values are very compatible, Annan said in a guest lecture at the University of Tubingen.. With view to the US, he said, tolerance and readiness for dialogue could be promoted in a society with the help of free elections, separation of powers and a multi-party system.."
Another brilliant article by political analyst Michael Parenti challenging the orthodox viewpoints about the causes of the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian man faces a possible lengthy prison term or even the death penalty for attaching a sticker to the rear window of his car proclaiming "The era of arrogant rulers is over," his lawyer said Thursday.
Air Force Secretary James Roche has been a strong supporter of the contract, pushing it even after the scandal erupted.
Roche is close to Rumsfeld and has been nominated by Bush to fill the now-vacant position of secretary of the army. He is a former vice president of another military contractor, Northrop Grumman. In collusion with Roche, Boeing initiated a propaganda campaign that included the mobilization of Boeing lobbyists and the placement of opinion pieces in different publications. Boeing has also committed $20 million in investments to Trireme Partners, a firm set up by Richard Perle in the wake of the September 11 attacks and shortly after he was named to the Defense Policy Board. Perle has aggressively pushed the Boeing tanker contract. He co-wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in August of this year supporting the deal.
"United for Peace and Justice will be organizing what we believe will be one of the largest demonstrations in this country's history," said organizer Leslie Cagan
SAVE THE DATE: ON AUGUST 29, 2004, THE WORLD SAYS NO TO BUSH  http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1810
"I have asked (CIA Director) George Tenet to be responsible for the handling of the interrogation of Saddam Hussein," the secretary told reporters, stressing that the civilian spy agency was better for the task than the military.
"He (Tenet) and his people will be the regulator over the interrogations -- who will do it, the questions that will get posed, the management of the information that flows from those interrogations. And my instinct is to leave it there," Rumsfeld said. But Rumsfeld reacted sharply when pressed by reporters on whether almost immediately releasing film to the world of an apparently confused Saddam being examined by a U.S. military doctor was a violation of the Geneva Conventions on treatment of captives.
How much more of this intimate relationship Saddam will recall when he gets a public forum is undoubtedly a concern of many current and past administration figures. The situation echoes the worries of former US president George H W Bush over what Panamanian strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega might say in open court about his long and intimate connections to US intelligence agencies when he surrendered to the US military after Washington's invasion of Panama in 1989. Of course, Noriega was recruited while he was still in the military academy, and his rise to power was facilitated tremendously by those ties.
He was a paid agent from the beginning, and, while a rogue who did not hesitate to intimidate and occasionally knock off a few dissidents to keep things quiet, he was never the mass murderer and serial invader of his neighbors that Saddam has been. On the other hand, Saddam was also a beneficiary of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) help - even if he did not get the kind of sustained attention that Noriega received - and long before Rumsfeld's visit at that.
Democrat Bill Nelson said he was among around 75 Senators who received a classified briefing shortly before a Congressional vote last October, which authorised the removal of Saddam by force.
In a speech last October President Bush warned of a "grave threat" from a "growing fleet" of UAVs which might be used to carry out a September 11-style attack: "We have also discovered that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas." But Senator Nelson said the classified briefing went further, warning that Iraq had actually developed ways of hitting the eastern seaboard with biological and chemical weapons, notably anthrax, delivered via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones.
One of her last entries in the ship's log read: "Now we are in the Amazon, wow! There are so many trees to hug I don't know how I am going to do any radio work.
"We have to stop the illegal logging in this amazing place. We are in the lungs of the world and they are disappearing, stolen from our future children by greed and in an astonishingly violent cut-it-all-down attitude."
Cheney also criticized what he considers a proliferation of "cheap shot journalism" about the administration. "People don't check the facts," he said.
"It's the hypocrisy that sometimes arises when some in the press portray themselves as objective observers of the passing scene, when they obviously are not objective," he said. "Cheap shot journalism. Not everybody is guilty of it, but it happens." He said coverage has changed over the years, asserting that there is "such an emphasis now on getting there fast with a story that oftentimes accuracy goes out the window." Cheney did not give examples. But he said many journalists have not tried to find out "the real facts" when writing about Halliburton, a Houston-based energy conglomerate of which he was chairman before becoming Bush's running mate. "There are an awful lot of people in the press who don't understand the business community," Cheney said. "I think our political opponents have spent a lot of time hammering away on trying to find some allegation that Halliburton got favoritism on contracts, or trying to make some kind of connection they've never been able to make. There's no evidence to support anything like that, but if you repeat it often enough, it becomes sort of an article of faith."
The DOE's new Annual Energy Outlook 2004 report says the US is being forced to increase oil imports to accommodate growing demand amid declining domestic supply. In 2002, net imports of oil were 54 per cent.
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday dismissed any distinction between whether former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein actually had weapons of mass destruction or planned to acquire them.
"So what's the difference?" he asked in an interview with ABC television in response to a question whether Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction or was just trying to acquire them.
Al-Raya, citing Nasser Mahmoud - a top Iraqi politician with close links to the interim council, reported that "Sharon, accompanied by intelligence officers, landed at around 20:00 at the Baghdad airport."
According to the report, top civil administrator Paul L. Bremer received the Israeli leader and accompanied him during the meeting with Saddam Hussein.
Free Labor by Frances Harper. There is a website at the bottom where you can go to read ex slaves poetry. There is a great selection of both men and women African American early poets listed there. I was browsing more radical art sites when I happened upon this appaerntly dull site, when I realized I had found this goldmine historical poem written by a woman. Also why can't I find the words to Black Panther Song by Elaine Brown? I hope that everyone is warm tonight, dreaming bright stars and love, for the time is soon.... Resist! Recycle!
Four years after it was "liberated" by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al-Qaeda sympathizers, say security officials and Balkan experts
A rambling, raucous, reeking rattrap of ranting, raving, rEvolutionary writing.
Beleive it or not the FDA is wanting us to eat cloned meat, and OUR "Congress" is considering just that right now folks.
Corporate industry benefits from reductionist science when attempting to measure biodiversity. Nature does not live in a box and cannot be separated into internal and external components. When a monkey is removed from a rainforest the lack of native plant air alter the biochemistry of the primate, resulting in her slowly dying inside when s/he cannot escape the four walls that deprive her of freedom. The same pharmaceutical industry that benefits from testing chemicals on animals also tests chemicals on human prisoners in the form of psychiatric medication.
Saddam in captivity, like Charles Taylor in exile, poses for the world the questions of who should be prosecuted for what, to whom the moral spoils of war belong, what is sovereignty without liberation, the role of the United Nations and International Court, the recent history of US unilateralism . . .
An international criminal court held in Iraq can be organized by Iraqi prosecutors for the Iraqi people. Prosecution of the victors is a matter to take up at The Hague
Saturday, Forest Pharmaceuticals Christmas party was stormed by activists in Cincinnati (Howard Solomon, CEO, was in attendence). Multiple stink bombs, leaflets and personal security alarms were thrown by angry, screaming activists. The overwelming stench forced many to leave the party and go outside.
socialized health care system
Meaningless Rant!?
Perhaps this gives some truthful substance to bu$h's reading of the quip "supurb work of intelligence analysts" and similar cooked reports from the domestic embedded.
We all know poor old Dick Cheney is overweight and with heart troubles, he needs to lose
weight. It's been elusive fight for long time, but now, due to breakthrough technology, we at Halliburtion-KBR Kitchens have devised just the diet that will assure him success....da da...(drum roll)...the Halliburton-KBR Diet. If it's good enough for your soldier's, it's good enough for Cheney!
take a look at the picture of Saddam flashed across the newspapers. Now look at the two marks just above his left eyebrow...
important developing situation in bolivia. attempts to discredit social justice movments in Bolivia are ramping up.
Israeli website claims Saddam was held captive by some Iraqis who wanted the $25 million. They argue that the US military decided to track down their captive rather than give the credit for Saddam's capture (and the reward money) to a group of Iraqi kidnappers.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities. it appears the Bush regime violated the Patriot Act by terrorizing Congress into supporting the war on Iraq, causing thousands of needless deaths, and costing billions of dollars.
Saddam, like Noriega, is now a tool of American Capital
A piece of good news. Rejoice!
This just heard on Alex Jones talk radio program originating out of Austin, Texa...it is a mind-
blower to those who'll be duped, and its par for the course for those of us that know what the GAME is!
Pesticide Action Network Updates Service - December 11, 2003 update
A few thoughts on Saddam's capture, the corporate media reaction and whether or not it will diminish the resistance of the Iraqi people to colonial domination.
This tragic news was spotted in a local British newspaper, "The Evening
Herald", yesterday (16/12/03)
75 years of Noam Chomsky - many happy returns!
This article was published in the German-English cyber journal Telepoolis, 12/03
This reposting of Pat Buchanan's article STAND UP TO SHARON sure makes
darn good sense to me...and, I'm sure to you as well...take look and see? reposter
Israeli commandos planned to assassinate Saddam Hussein with "smart" missiles that would hit him as he stood in a crowd at a relative's funeral in his home town of Tikrit, it emerged yesterday.
Dramatic videotape from the city of Ramadi 75 miles west of Baghdad showed unarmed supporters of Saddam Hussein being gunned down in semi-darkness as they fled from Americans troops. Eleven of the 18 dead were killed by the Americans in Samarra to the north of Baghdad.
Transitional by William Carlos Williams. I hated W C W. I had to read the stupid ones in lit class in college. Imagine my surprise when he turned out to have mind blowingly good poetry. Is this why the beats named him as a hero? Here I am shuffling through web pages, all disorganized when I come across this: Yes, I am so uncool as to have not read this before. Poetry is rad isn't it, it sums up a thought and then dismisses it so quickly. I do hope my loyal poetry geeks are getting ready to give it good and eloguent to Cheyney. Resist!
American soldiers held Iraqis yesterday in a pen in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, after some 700 people demonstrated to protest his arrest.
Perhaps the most significant difference between now and a decade ago is the extraordinarily rapid erosion of spare capacities at critical segments of energy chains. Today, shortfalls appear to be endemic. Among the most extraordinary of these losses in spare capacity is in the oil arena.
The world is currently precariously close to utilizing all of its available global oil production capacity, raising the chances of an oil supply crisis with more substantial consequences than seen in three decades.
Experts hope Saddam's arrest will spur shoppers
here is a reposting of HESS MYSTERY SOLVED? that any person who scoffs at so-called
"Conspiracy Theory" ought to read and ponder. If our so-called acclaimed "leaders" could do stuff like this in the thick of World War II, then why deny that underhanded and "secret" crap is going on now? Yank the veil of denial from your faces and see the world as it is REALLY, not some fairy-tale fantasy the PTB (Powers That Be) tell you it is! we repost, you decide
The strike by 70,000 grocery workers in Southern California has been dragging on for some time now. The outcome of the stike will have lasting implications for all workers, organized and unorganized.
Timing is all when exposing propaganda. It's best to let the hype ease, then pop the media balloon. At first, the mass perception can be persuasive. But, soon the magic show audience wonders: how did they do that?
So here's how they did it.
1.PFLP Militant Shows Solidarity with President Saddam Hussein
2.Anti-Imperialist Camp Rome's Iraqi resistance demo: We are tip of iceberg 3."Death to the Pigs that Live in Washington and Tel Aviv!!!"- Message Calling to increase Jihad a thousand Fold Recieved by the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network. 4.A.N.S.W.E.R. statement on recent developments in Iraq
What exactly is a "rape room"?
A British intelligence officer charged with leaking a top secret e-mail says she was trying to prevent an "unlawful war" in Iraq.
Didn't Saddam Hussein supposedly have all sorts of imposters for his own protection? Maybe they've just sacrifice the best-looking most loyal one.
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