tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126872008-08-20T18:52:53.571-07:00World EventsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger552125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-52965886611781038582008-08-20T18:45:00.001-07:002008-08-20T18:52:53.586-07:00Peru's Army About to Attack Indigenous Tribes
(Daniel Howden, The Independent, 21 August 2008)
Peru is considering sending in the army to break up protests by Amazonian Indians who claim the government is preparing a massive land grab in the country's remote jungles. . . . Indigenous groups have blockaded roads and a river and set up pickets at energy installations to protest changes in the law Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-46889383801239490062008-08-13T10:19:00.000-07:002008-08-13T10:21:17.526-07:00Edgar Mitchell Confirms UFO Visitations
No matter where you stand on the UFO issue, you will most likely find this interview with the sixth man to walk on the moon to be extremely interesting.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-10386487104751835682008-08-07T19:05:00.000-07:002008-08-07T19:18:09.635-07:00The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
(Naomi Klein, Huffington Post, August 7, 2008)
Chinese corporations financed by U.S. hedge funds, as well as some of American's most powerful corporations -- Cisco, General Electric, Honeywell, Google -- have been working hand in glove with the Chinese government to make this moment possible: networking the closed circuit cameras that peer from every otherLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-19305705334321413282008-03-18T09:24:00.000-07:002008-03-18T09:32:40.134-07:00Phorm Internet spying software 'illegal' says policy group
(BBC News, 17 March 2008)
Online advert system Phorm is illegal in the UK, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (Fipr), has argued in an open letter. . . . BT, Talk Talk and Virgin have all signed up to use Phorm, which targets adverts to users based on web habits. . . . Fipr believes Phorm contravenes the Regulation of Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-86801858309541705132008-02-11T16:57:00.000-08:002008-02-11T17:08:18.390-08:00Mysterious cuts on Internet Cables plagues mideast
By Richard Sauder, PhD, Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. 2-5-8)
The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea communications cables that has severely disrupted communications in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of cut cables remain in question, but likely number Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-14639709372075334692007-10-01T13:13:00.001-07:002007-10-01T13:31:58.134-07:00Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
(MARCUS OSCARSSON, Daily Mail, 1 October 2007)
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. . . . The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-61453082227013693732007-02-26T09:45:00.000-08:002007-02-26T09:48:59.844-08:00 Blair ignored Chirac`s warning on Iraq 'disaster'
(ZeeNews.com, February 25, 2007)
A senior aide of Tony Blair has said the British Prime Minister ignored French President Jacques Chirac's warning that an invasion of Iraq would have "disastrous" consequences. . . . Sir Stephen Wall, formerly Blair's chief policy adviser, accused Blair and then-press secretary Alastair Campbell of deliberately Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-9052418138561117732007-02-12T07:43:00.000-08:002007-02-08T08:22:47.864-08:00Bush Orders Iran Attack Preparations
(Larry Chin, Al-Jazeerah, carolynbaker.org, February 12, 2007)
Bush administration pushes for attack with provocations, espionage, official deceptions, and false flag terror . . . The Bush administration will attack Iran as early as spring 2007. The administration is on total war footing. . . . Over the next few months, the administration and its allies and Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-71353970197842396062007-02-08T07:41:00.000-08:002007-02-08T08:05:00.784-08:00Bush Planning Massive Nuclear Attack on Iran
(Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, March 2007)
The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactics—alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on W.M.D.—to push for the bombing of Iran. . . . In a clear reference to the Islamic Republic and its sometime ally Syria, Bush vowed to "seek out and destroy the networks providing Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-12507001300095075132006-12-31T07:43:00.000-08:002006-12-31T07:54:45.014-08:00Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism
(AntiWar.com, December 29, 2006)
. . . using Ethiopia, a major recipient of American arms and technical support, as our proxy – in a new project that ought to be named Operation Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here. In the post-9/11 Bizarro World alternate universe that our leaders and policymakers seem to have slipped into, the Bad Guys have become the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1165084457201580422006-12-02T09:43:00.000-08:002006-12-02T10:34:17.406-08:00StopKillingUs.org Campaign Launches with a Song
If you haven't yet seen the StopKillingUs Web site, just click the link above to see what this campaign is all about.
And to hear the theme song for this campaign, check out the StartHearingUs Web site where you can download this inspiring music.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1165008480244191002006-12-01T13:23:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:28:03.510-08:00Fracas mars Mexico inauguration
(BBC News, 1 December 2006)
Felipe Calderon has been sworn in as Mexico's president to jeers, after brawls in Congress between lawmakers, divided by the nation's tight election. . . . Just an hour before the ceremony, deputies seized the speaker's platform and blocked the doors of the chamber. . . . Members of the left-wing (sic) Democratic Revolution Party say Mr Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1163096743745532252006-11-09T10:24:00.000-08:002006-11-09T10:25:43.766-08:00Open Letter to the Mexican Government
An open letter from Independent media organiziations working in Oaxaca to the
Mexican Goverment, Mexican and International Human Rights agencies, and
international civil society.
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. 7 de noviembre, 2006.
A Vicente Fox Quezada, Presidente de la República
A Carlos Abascal Carranza, Secretario de Gobernación
A José Luis Soberanes, de laLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1162664462615597232006-11-04T10:08:00.000-08:002006-11-04T10:21:02.650-08:00Good News from Nicaragua
(Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 2006)
"The Godfather," "Commander Bull's-Eye" and "the Alligator": To a man, they either fought in or backed the contra war that sought to overthrow Ortega's revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s. Now all three are working to get him elected president . . . Once the contras' top political negotiator, Morales lost hisLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1160707846427096342006-10-12T19:45:00.000-07:002006-10-12T19:50:46.476-07:00British Army chief calls for Iraq pullout
(CNN, October 12, 2006)
The chief of the British Army has called for a pullout of British troops from Iraq "sometime soon" and said that post-invasion planning for that war was "poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning." . . . Gen. Richard Dannatt told London's Daily Mail newspaper that he had "more optimism" that "we can get it right in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1158158525295263432006-09-13T07:33:00.000-07:002006-09-13T07:42:05.713-07:00Genocide in Gaza - Israel is starving millions of Palestinians
(Patrick Cockburn, Information Clearing House, 13 September 2006)
GAZA is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the worldÂ?s attention has been diverted by wars Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1157908675786583862006-09-10T10:07:00.000-07:002006-09-10T10:17:59.953-07:00Obrador Plans Parallel Rule
(The Australian, September 9, 2006)
Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans a shadow government, insisting he is the rightful leader of Mexico even as president-elect Felipe Calderon seeks reconciliation. . . . "We will decide if we want to obey an obsolete government that is run by a minority or if we will declare the abolition of this corrupt regime,Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1156333801068304312006-08-23T04:44:00.000-07:002006-08-23T04:50:01.156-07:00Israel Accused of War Crimes
(BBC News, 23 August 2006)
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon. . . . The human rights group says attacks on homes, bridges, roads and water and fuel plants were an "integral part" of Israel's strategy in the recent war. . . . The group also calls for a UN investigation into Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1155850303987250292006-08-17T14:20:00.000-07:002006-08-17T14:31:44.043-07:00The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?
(Craig Murray, August 14, 2006)
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time. . . . In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1155766128809635042006-08-16T14:45:00.000-07:002006-08-16T15:08:48.950-07:00Bush Administration Helped Plan War on Lebanon>
(Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, August 14, 2006)
The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel's retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1155006006948583442006-08-07T19:21:00.000-07:002006-08-07T20:00:09.313-07:00Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians
(Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com, July 29, 2006)
Esteemed depleted uranium expert Dr. Doug Rokke is pointing the finger at Israel for using deadly and illegal depleted uranium munitions against the Lebanese people which were sold to them by the U.S. government - and calls for an immediate halt to the practice. . . . Dr. Doug Rokke's militaryLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1154911781198570732006-08-06T17:19:00.000-07:002006-08-06T17:49:41.470-07:00Robert Fisk Details Israeli Atrocities
(Robert Fisk, The Independent, 6 August 2006)
Qana again. AGAIN! I write in my notebook. Ten years ago, I was in the little hill village in southern Lebanon when the Israeli army fired artillery shells into the UN compound and killed 106 Lebanese, more than half of them children. Most died of amputation wounds - the shells exploded in the air - and now Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1154551221288218872006-08-02T13:15:00.000-07:002006-08-02T13:40:21.410-07:00Israel Begins the Next Holocaust...in Lebanon
(Nasser Nasser and Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press, 2 August 2006)
Villagers outside this Hezbollah stronghold used the bucket of a front-end loader to carry away the dead Wednesday, after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid killed 16. . . . It was Israel's deepest assault on the ground into Lebanon in 12 years. . . . Sixteen civilians,Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1154398659354559592006-07-31T19:13:00.000-07:002006-07-31T19:17:39.376-07:00Castro Turns Over Power to Brother in Temporary Move
(Yahoo News, 31 July 2006)
Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans in a statement that he had undergone surgery. . . . The Cuban leader said he had suffered intestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba, according to Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1154304193671844982006-07-30T16:54:00.000-07:002006-07-30T17:03:13.733-07:00Millions Rally to Challenge Mexico Poll
"Hold on, the people are rising," they chanted as they marched to Zocalo, Mexico City's main public square. . . . Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is seeking a full recount of the vote which saw him lose to conservative Felipe Calderon by half a percentage point. . . . The Federal Electoral Institute has until 31 August to decide. . . . The dispute has Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com