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Spain suffering worst drought ever Mon 5 Feb 2007 4:44 AM ET
By Julia Hayley
MADRID, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Jose Maria Macias has been in the water business for the best part of four decades and cannot remember a drought as bad as the one Spain is suffering now.
"We are going through a terrible drought. This is the third year of it and it’s probably the worst there has been in Spain," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
Macias is president of the Tagus water basin, which (…)

By Pierre-Henri Lab, Special correspondent, Besançon (Doubs) ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE : M.-G. Buffet tire le signal d’alarme
Marie-George Buffet, now officially candidate in the French presidential election only two months away, appeals urgently for unity of the political Left against the political Right.
During her electoral meeting in the province of Franche-Comté in south-eastern France, Marie-George Buffet called on the political Left to “act responsibly, since the victory against the (…)

“Live by the truth..It is the only [choice] for a soul.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1)
On Feb. 2, 2007, the deaths of six more U.S. troops in Iraq were reported, bringing the total dead in that illegal war to 3,092. This is the same conflict, hatched by the scheming Neocons, that is costing the nation $8.4 billion a month, with some economists putting the total financial impact now at around $2 trillion. (2) Also, the Corps of Army Engineers, on Feb. 2nd, warned that 122 levees around the (…)

By Carolyn Baker
Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, during a meeting with working mothers
A frightening story came across the radio waves this week and was later reported by MSNBC:
“Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls.” Governor Rick Perry had just signed an order making Texas the first of what is likely to be many states to require that school girls be vaccinated against Human Papiloma Virus (HPV), implementing what at first blush appears to be sensible and humane (…)

so is it benevolent? fascisme "Say “fascism” to anyone you meet, and you will conjure images of coal-scuttle helmets, of Nazi boot-heels clicking in terrible unison down Berlin streets during dark days that only a few remaining among the living remember. Each day, members of the generation that heard those heels for themselves go into the ground, taking with them whispered words of warning. I saw it for myself, they whisper before they pass. See this tattooed number? See this scar? It (…)

By Zhang Shidong
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — China’s stocks had their biggest weekly decline in five years on concern that prices have climbed to unsustainable levels, after the Shanghai Composite Index more than doubled in the past 12 months.
``A correction is now in full swing,’’ said Zhang Shuntai, who oversees the equivalent of $127 million at Zhonghai Fund Management Co. in Shanghai.
Lawmaker Cheng Siwei and Haitong Securities Co., China’s fourth largest brokerage by assets, in the (…)

By Mary MacElveen
Have you ever heard of the term, bigger is better? It can apply to many things we often take for granted. Should a large store open up within our community, we as human beings are curious and we will visit these larger stores at the expense of the smaller one we have always shopped at. This is the case as the smaller Waldbaums in Miller Place. It has now closed its doors. It could no longer compete with the Stop N Shop that was built in close proximity to it.
Being (…)

by Stephen Lendman
Finding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East. Today, no solution is in sight nor are any serious efforts planned to find one despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary like what’s now being heard from Washington with similar disingenuous echos inside Israel.
Palestinians know otherwise from long experience. They’ve heard this (…)

When you start listening to that little voice that tells you go ahead take advantage of it , who will know, you are beginning a path leading you toward destruction of your very existence. That’s exactly what is happening to America by allowing george walker bush administration one more minute in charge, its like giving into the devil when he tempts you, and when we give in, leads us all down the realm of total destruction of not only our own souls and morals. so many unaware innocents caught (…)

If you want gossip on the love life of Ségolène Royal or a compromising video of Nicolas Sarkozy do not bother looking at the French newspapers or television, just switch on the computer.
Tales of the supposed dalliances and skulduggery of the presidential candidates are flooding the internet as the parties, supporters, bloggers, trouble-makers and comedians pile in before the April presidential election.
Distrust of France’s compliant media and a love affair with weblogs and video clips (…)