Saturday December 27 2008 - 15:56

Bellaciao: solidarity with the Palestinian People

More than 230 dead

The blood-soaked Israeli occupiers has staged massacre after massacre on the people of Palestine.

Their pretext is always the same: "to fight terror", but the hidden aim has always been the eradication of the Palestinians.

On 27 Dec 2008, the occupation has escalated its indiscriminate air attacks on populated urban areas in Gaza.

This pattern of actions constitutes genocide under international law. This massacre should raise condemnation, disgust and protest from peace loving people and human rights defenders worldwide.

The continued years of destruction and death should have taught the Israeli administration that its desire for killing serves no purpose and leads only to moral suicide for the Israeli government.

Humanity is in distress in Gaza. Our role and duty is to save it.

Act to stop the massacre in Gaza.
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6 comments Friday December 5 2008 - 00:47

A coalition of Indigenous elders, social justice activists, community activists and organizers are voicing opposition to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

"We are the poorest peoples in the country. Not because the country is poor, but because the government continues to violate the human rights of the Indigenous peoples, by not recognizing our Aboriginal Title and Treaty Rights."

http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php...

http://www.no2010.com

NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LANDS!
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1 comment Thursday December 4 2008 - 12:08
By David Glenn Cox

When is enough, enough? Sometimes reading news stories can be unsettling and then sometimes it can just make you damn angry. Here in America we live with a multi level media colossus that spews out garbage on every level, they too also lie who just ignore the truth. We are all familiar with Fox news 24 hour running propaganda network but they have to get these stories from some where, they can’t make them all up. They would if they could but they’re just not smart enough.

In 2007 thousands of family pets worldwide died due to melamine tainted wheat and rice protein imported from China. American pet food companies sales were devastated by the poisonings. I personally will never buy Iam’s products as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow, they’ve saved an estimated ¼ penny per can by using Chinese wheat gluten in their products rather than domestic but just for fun lets look at what melamine is and what it does.
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By Clarence Hummer

Need proof that the economy is collapsing. Deflation of prices is a a sure sign. How about a computer for under a C-note?

If you want to see what your surroundings will look like in an economic depression, consider electronic gadgets "then", in the 1930s Great Depression, and now.

Back then, a radio was the must-have gadget, and makers came out with low-priced, low-performance so-called "midget" radios. Now comes a "depression era" computer or PC, the midget genre, which is smaller and cheaper than the netbook types like the Asus EEE or the OLPC (the so-called people’s laptop for $100 which actually sells for 2 or 3 times that).
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1 comment Tuesday December 2 2008 - 22:27
By Orphée

On November 11th 2008, French Anti-Terrorism Police arrested around twenty people in connection with five incidents in the preceding weeks in which electric train lines were shut down, causing delays.

Nine of these were subsequently accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”, four of them were released on bail and five remain in custody. Because many of the accused were arrested in Tarnac, a small village in the Corrèze region of central France, they have become know in the press as the “Tarnac 9".

They have been associated with certain political texts, including the journal Tiqqun and the bestselling book The Coming Insurrection, texts which the press has dubbed ”anarcho-autonomous” following the Ministry of Justice which has been conducting a crusade against this supposed movement for some time.
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By Michael P. Wright

The new information in this post provides more “dots” to be connected to this earlier BellaCiao post, which displays two interesting videos:

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar...

1. an ABC news broadcast with evidence strongly suggesting that Skull and Bones is a Satanic cult, and

2. a video with David Boren admitting that he is a member of Skull and Bones.

Boren is a former U.S. Senator and 9/11 suspect who is widely known as the mentor and sponsor of George Tenet. He also assisted in installing Robert Gates as CIA director in 1991. This was a favor to the elder George Bush. After the gay press began to out Boren and accuse him of sexually harassing his male staff members, in 1994 Boren persuaded the University of Oklahoma regents into appointing him as president of that school and then resigned from his prominent and seemingly invulnerable U.S . Senate seat.
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By Chycho

The following will remain the top post for the next few days. It is an update of “10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III ”, which in turn was an update of “7 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 7 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III.”

For those who have been following this series, minor updates were made to events 1 through 10 and the Implications section, and event 11, the Short selling ban, was added. I also reformatted the piece and have supplied permalinks for ease of reference.

Since 1999, the following events have either caused or been the symptom of the present economic crises
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3 comments Monday November 24 2008 - 20:38

By Giorgio Agamben

TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?

On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and “accused of criminal conspiracy with terrorist intentions.” The newspapers reported that the Ministry of the Interior and the Secretary of State “had congratulated local and state police for their diligence.” Everything is in order, or so it would appear. But let’s try to examine the facts a little more closely and grasp the reasons and the results of this “diligence.”

First the reasons: the young people under investigation “were tracked by the police because they belonged to the ultra-left and the anarcho autonomous milieu.” As the entourage of the Ministry of the Interior specifies, “their discourse is very radical and they have links with foreign groups.” But there is more: certain of the suspects “participate regularly in political demonstrations,” and, for example, “in protests against the Fichier Edvige (Exploitation Documentaire et Valorisation de l’Information Générale) and against the intensification of laws restricting immigration.”
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By Elly von Murk

The head of the secret service of the German State of Brandenburg who also is the chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers in Germany broke the news on the weekend that "Scientology will not be banned" in Germany.

A year ago plans in this direction had been announced broadly and reported about internationally.

A secret 46-page report on Scientology of the German internal secret service, Office for Protection of the Constitution was leaked to the media earlier last month and revealed that the German government had not found any evidence for criminal or anti-constitutional activities of the Church of Scientology and strongly recommended not to start a banning procedure.
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By Brian McAfee

The conditions in the democratic republic of Congo are dire for millions of its people despite the fact that the Congo has more mineral wealth than any other part of the African continent. Over a quarter of a million people are displaced because of the civil war currently raging in the eastern part of the country. Women and children have been primary targets of both sides in the conflict with rape used as a weapon by both sides. The war between the government forces and "the Congress in Defense of the People" has overrun numerous small towns and villages targeting civilians, killing the men, raping the women, and in some cases, forcing the children to become child soldiers.

In the midst of this scenario there are mining encampments extracting cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, silver, and zinc as well as uranium and timber. None of the massive wealth that the "Democratic" Republic of Congo have been allowed to reach the majority of the Congolese population that live in abject poverty. The outside acquisition of Congolese resources, many would say theft of, began in the Belgium colonial period of the Congo from 1885-1960.
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By David Glenn Cox

“Here’s what the American people need to know: that the United States government is acting; we will continue to act to resolve this crisis and restore stability to our markets. We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal. We’re using these tools aggressively.” (George W. Bush)

Or, this won’t hurt, the check is in the mail and I won’t..., well, I think you get the idea. We are not a prosperous nation; we once were but we no longer are. We do have immense resources at our disposal but we are using those resources to save only those who are still prosperous.

“The decline in the housing market has left many Americans struggling to meet their mortgages and are concerned about losing their homes. My administration has launched two initiatives to help responsible borrowers keep their homes. One is called HOPE NOW, and it brings together homeowners and lenders and mortgage servicers, and others to find ways to prevent foreclosure.” (George W. Bush)
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2 comments Sunday November 16 2008 - 16:03

By William Hughes

On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, a demonstration protesting the “Summit on Financial Markets, G20,” was held in Washington, D.C., Activist and attorney, Sarah Rimmington, was one of the individuals voicing her outrage about the $700 billion Bailout of the Wall Street bankers and fat cats by the taxpayers.

She said: “It’s the rich counties that created this crisis.” They are now acting, “as the gatekeepers to the money...The poor countries don’t’ even have a seat at the table...We want to see this process opened up to the global community and the trade unions...They [the police authorities] are not letting the people come and protest here.” Ms. Rimmington is associated with the Global Justice Action group.
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By William Hughes

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” - Arthur Miller

If you are a Hollywood film buff and a political junkie, too, as I am, you will just love Marc Eliot’s latest book, “Reagan: The Hollywood Years.” The author touches on Ronald Reagan’s early days in Dixon, Illinois, but mainly focuses on his film career in which he was cast in one bad B movie after another. The main expose in this absorbing tome is that during the days of the “Red Scare,” late 40s through the 50s, Reagan was a snitch for the FBI! The author writes that Reagan became a “secret informant, code name ‘T-10,’ for J. Edgar Hoover’s red-baiting FBI.” He regularly met with them in LaLaLand and “handed over names of Screen Actor Guild (SAG) members who ‘might’ be Communist sympathizers.” Reagan would also contact his brother, Neil, “from a pay phone on Sunset Boulevard to pass along information” to the FBI.

What brought Reagan, who served as President of SAG, (1947-52), and again in 1959, to do such a terrible thing? I think he was mostly a hollow type of man, vain, insecure and highly self- righteous. The record shows that to protect his rear end, he had become “a commie hunter;” he also carried a gun. The exact number of colleagues on whom Reagan ratted, will probably never be known. Once tagged as a Red “sympathizer,” no matter how scanty the evidence, an individual was subjected to being “blacklisted” and barred from working in the Hollywood Industry. The fact that one’s political beliefs were protected by the First Amendment didn’t stop the witch hunts. Some victims of the blacklisting process were so scarred, that they committed suicide. Mr. Eliot mentions two: Philip Loeb and Barry Crum.
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By Robert Fisk

How is Barack Obama going to repair the titanic damage which his vicious, lying predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the US itself?

He will have to get out of Iraq, and he will have to tell Israel a few home truths

American lawyers defending six Algerians before a habeas corpus hearing in Washington this week learned some very odd things about US intelligence after 9/11. From among the millions of "raw" reports from American spies and their "assets" around the world came a CIA Middle East warning about a possible kamikaze-style air attack on a US navy base at a south Pacific island location. The only problem was that no such navy base existed on the island and no US Seventh Fleet warship had ever been there. In all seriousness, a US military investigation earlier reported that Osama bin Laden had been spotted shopping at a post office on a US military base in east Asia.
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2 comments Friday November 7 2008 - 20:54

By David Glenn Cox

We, as a country, seem to have little problem saving the wealthy from the clutches of poverty. We’ll bail out banks and insurance companies, mortgage funds. The formerly big three automakers will meet with the new administration this week to arrange a further multi-billion-dollar bailout.

How can we say no? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on these industries. So I guess we must help them, but our society is so far out of economic whack. Most all of our problems seem to evolve from a falling standard of living in America’s working class, and yet when we call for help for America’s working poor we are told that it can’t be helped. Here in Atlanta a local food pantry advertises that 40% of all its recipients are employed.

Just yesterday I read this: “Liberals are traitors, losers, punks, criminals, baby-killers, homos, and the scum of our country. They are godless, plus they costa lotta money and ya gotta burp em frequently.” How is it that we have come to hate our own people so? Is it then to be assumed that the heads of the banks and insurance companies are liberals? The state of Georgia gave Hyundai motors a $100 million, ten-year tax credit to build its parts distribution site here in Georgia. That’s a $25,000 per year per employee subsidy; is that liberal or conservative?
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4 comments Friday November 7 2008 - 14:53

By David R. Hoffman

Over twenty-five years ago, in January of 1983 to be precise, I wrote my first newspaper article, arguing for the creation of a federal holiday honoring America’s late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later that same year a reluctant Ronald Reagan—over the vociferous objections of North Carolina’s rabidly racist Senator Jesse Helms, and the “nay” vote of Arizona Congressman (later to become Arizona Senator) John McCain—signed a bill into law designating Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday.

At the time I did not realize the impact this article would have on my life. After its publication, family and friends who read it encouraged me to return to college to complete the education I had abruptly abandoned years before. Encouraged by them, and inspired by Dr. King’s life and legacy, I not only completed my undergraduate degree, but continued on to law school, hoping that the knowledge I gained would help me make a positive difference in the world.
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4 comments Thursday November 6 2008 - 16:27

What is Radio Venezuela Live?

Radio Venezuela Live is a radio station that transmits over the Internet. It was founded by a group of internationalists based in Caracas and some of Venezuela’s other large cities. The aim was to provide on-going objective information about the true situation in Venezuela during the on the constitutional reform referendum in December 2007. That broadcast was followed by a special programme “Bolivia” when the illegal referendum on the autonomy statutes was held in the Santa Cruz department in Bolivia. Radio Venezuela Live is an internet broadcasting station which, so far, functions sporadically and when appropriate. It broadcast mostly in English and French, but extends it coverage by broadcasting in Arabic and Portuguese.

Why did we start up Radio Venezuela Live?

The members of Radio Venezuela Live —all of whom are internationalists who are closely following the democratic process underway in Venezuela— have seen how the media’s lies about the situation in which we live and work have become common currency. With the aim of re-establishing the objectivity so sadly lacking in the huge corporate media, Radio Venezuela Live offers you reports from its network of analysts, on-the-spot reporters and correspondents, all direct from Venezuela.
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By Prensa Popular Comunistas Miranda

An initiative as risen up in Spain: " The Crisis they must pay it themselves",. We are alluding to this parallel movement to of a governmental meeting of the most important countries which was carried out, intenting to take measures toward a salvation from the crisis for the big monopolies owners of the world.

Meanwhile, with those planned measures they throw away the crisis on the working class and the popular masses of the whole world, by means of increase in unemployment, losts of private housings, dismissals of workers, police interventions against workers protest, and generalization of working precariousness for toilers or deprived persons in the whole world.

Moreover, at the same time greats, inmmense ressources are kept in reserve for the "salvation" of capitalistic enterprises which incur in crimes—as it can be seen in the USA—with the deviation of allowed public funds for allocating generous dividends to ejecutive officers or to cancelling astronomical debts to banks executives and owners.
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4 comments Wednesday November 5 2008 - 14:12

President elect Barack Obama has addressed supporters in Chicago after beating John McCain to become the next US president. Below is the speech.

Obama:

Hello, Chicago.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
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3 comments Tuesday November 4 2008 - 08:21

By JOE MOWREY

Name That Candidate

This week came exciting news. Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yippie! The blogosphere is all atwitter. Our guy has worked hard, taken solid positions on all the most important progressive issues and managed to convince the exalted Mr. Powell to throw his support our way. Celebrations are in order. We’re one step closer to the Oval Office thanks to this latest breaking development. Oh, and for those of you who may have forgotten who Colin Powell is (history is so boring, isn’t it?) let’s take a moment to highlight some of his stellar qualifications as a supporter of the Left.

Powell is the guy who, as a bright young 31 year old Army Major, did his level best to keep information about the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam from becoming public. Specifically, he was charged with investigating a letter from a whistle-blowing soldier giving detailed accounts of many of the atrocities committed by U.S. military personnel in Vietnam under the auspices of the Phoenix Program. That program was a lovely little package of war crimes intended to "identify and neutralize (via infiltration, capture, or murder) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (the Viet Cong).
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