October 15, 2007 

Reporter For Post Is Fatally Shot In

 Baghdad

AUGUST 1, 2007

“James Laxer is a Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto.”(PHOTO:http://www.jameslaxer.com/about.htm)

James Laxer has identified an issue that the opposition parties SHOULD be able to work together on. Big oil, corporate control and militarization are all inter-related. However, with an electorate as fickle as can be, the opposition needs an issue that can be made to resonate. Sucking a non-renewable resource dry, AND perhaps doing it with nuclear power, is an insanity that Canadians must wake up to.

Read the post here.

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JULY 30, 2007

More privatization news from Haiti

HAITI: Workers Protest Privatisation Layoffs
By Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre (Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre contribute to HaitiAnalysis.com)

“PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jul 24 (IPS) - Late last month, President René Préval announced that Haiti’s public telephone company, Téléco, would be privatised. Meeting recently with the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Senator Jean Hector Anacacis of Preval’s Lespwa political party, the president finalised plans to sell off the aging enterprise.”

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JULY22

Just as it is crystal clear that President Bush will stall an US pullout from Iraq, an unelected White House official is publicly proclaiming an American right to fight Al Qaeda on Pakistani soil. How much more damage can the Bush White House inflict on the world?
(Photo: http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/townsend-bio.html)
Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

According to The White House website, “ Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend was appointed Homeland Security Advisor by the President on May 28th, 2004. Ms. Townsend chairs the Homeland Security Council and reports to the President on United States Homeland Security policy and Combating Terrorism matters. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism.

Ms. Townsend came to the White House from the U. S. Coast Guard, where she had served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence. Prior to that, Ms. Townsend spent 13 years at the U. S. Department of Justice in a variety of senior positions, her last assignment as Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy. Ms. Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York.”

Read the Herald Tribune article here.

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JULY 18

IRAQ: Mass Graves Dug to Deal With Death Toll
By Ahmed Ali

“More and more bodies of victims of the ongoing violence are being found every day in Baquba, capital city of the province, 50km northeast of Baghdad. “

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“”The morgue receives an average of four or five bodies everyday,” Nima Jima’a, a morgue official, told IPS. “Many more are dropped in rivers and farms — or it is sometimes the case they are buried by their killers for other reasons. The number we record here is only a fraction of those killed.”"

PLEASE READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE.

“IPS, civil society’s leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath. Another communication is possible.”

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July 12, 2007

The Catholic Church seems intent on making itself virtually irrelevant in the world - possibly dangerous. Likely because other Churches have modernized their beliefs - read recognizing same-sex marriages and allowing priests to marry - this Pope is drawing a line in the sand. How long the world can suffer closed-minded bigots is anyone’s guess.

Read the CBC article here.

“Pope Benedict XVI was elected Pope in April 2005.”
(Plinio Lepri/Associated Press)

July 11, 2007

From: Secret renditions are familar to Canadians ( well they should be) because of the Mahar Arar case. spiegleonline continues to expose this odious practice which will come to haunt us all in the future.

Editorial “The Road Home” Article Published: July 8, 2007 It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit. Read the full article here. • July 9, 2007 “Edgy Iraqi couples opt for mass wedding” By Haider Salahudeen in Baghdad, Iraq July 08, 2007 Read full article here. July 5, 2007 ” A message from the melting slopes of Everest The sons of Hillary and Tenzing speak out about climate change: “Believe us, it’s a reality” By Cahal Milmo and Sam Relph Published: 06 July 2007 “Fifty-four years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to scale Everest, their sons have said the mountain is now so ravaged by climate change that they would no longer recognise it.” Read the full article here. June 29, 2007 “Dongfeng Auto is 50/50 joint-venture between the state owned Dongfeng Group and Japanese automotive giant Honda. Its main plant in the provincial capital, Wuhan, increased production capacity in February 2006 to 120,000 units a year, mainly the CR-V and the Civic for sale within China.” Read the full article here HEALTH: Hope for 20 Million Emaciated Children By Nergui Manalsuren UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 (IPS) - When 189 world leaders met at U.N. headquarters in New York in 2000, they pledged to take a number of steps to make a real dent in poverty and hunger. Read the full article here.