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Three weeks of warfare or one year of health coverage for kids
by Bob brown
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 at 8:13 PM
Three weeks of warfare or one year of health coverage for kids
Indymedia says: we love working for The Man!
Martial law coming with TOPOFF IV?
persistent sources
sites:
911videomashups.com
Astronomy Pic of the Day
ATPTennis.com
informationclearinghouse.info
waynemadsenreport.com
WSWS.org
J. Orlin Grabbe (nudity warning):
http://64.33.76.120/archive271.htm
lists:
911InsideJobbers (at) yahoogroups.com
CatapultThePropaganda (at) yahoogroups.com
PlaneHuggers (at) yahoogroups.com
blogs:
http://www.Legitgov.org
http://www.Rense.com
http://911tvfakery.blogspot.com/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com
click here for yesterday's attempted illustrate mirror:
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15996/index.php
*HOW MANY GM EXECUTIVES DOES it TAKE to TURN ON AN ELECTRIC CAR?*
********CLIMATE CHANGE********
US cites 'rapid change' in Arctic:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21347288/
Our drinkable water supply is vanishing:
http://www.alternet.org/story/64948/
Ice caps melting fast: Say goodbye to the Big Apple?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/64735
Earth getting wetter and stickier:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/india_nm/india299467
Global greenhouse gas emissions already beyond "worst case" scenario:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/09/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-Climate-Change.php
Most of US warmer than normal this winter:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071009/us_nm/usa_weather_winter_dc
(October 9th and so far i haven't worn any of my fall sweaters. Today will be in the 90s!)
Asian storms force evacuation of millions of Taiwanese:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C%2C2185766%2C00.html
Several people collapse in Chicago marathon:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071008/ap_on_sp_ot/run_chicago_marathon;_ylt=Aj0Yj3dM1voBOOZOsiRza7sLMxIF
Amazon jungle could be lost in 40 years:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/02/conservation
Antarctic: the bugs that came in from the cold:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2999306.ece
Arctic sea ice reaches record minimum
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/ice-s26.shtml
Record ice melt in Arctic:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2507843.ece
Rising seas to flood US cities:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_sc/rising_seas
Scientists report severe retreat of Arctic ice:
http://tinyurl.com/3ax7fr
--or--
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/science/21arctic.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190380244-xm/qfxSIhr/XwJlqzUBMSg
Polar ice levels lowest on record:
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/index.html
Arctic ice continues record melting:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/09/22/eaice122.xml
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=3582433
"An area of Arctic sea ice the size of Florida has melted away in just the last six days as melting at the top of the planet continues at a record rate..."
2008 predicted to be the warmest year in a century:
http://tinyurl.com/2yfb6r
--or--
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2007/09/11/old_farmers_almanac_2008_will_be_the_warmest_year_in_a_century/
Greenland icebergs raise sea levels:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3579084
Ice fjords, lifeblood for polar species, at risk in melting Arctic:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZXHBB6dyuV52jVF3ZfxV5p0ZjLg
********FALSE-FLAG NEWS********
*911 GRAFFITI*
Long Island expressway made more beautiful with 911 graffiti:
http://www.rense.com/general78/graf.htm
*NIST*
NIST admits total collapse of Twin Towers unexplainable:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/161007_nist_admits.htm
*BALI*
"Possible" police role in 2002 Bali attack:
http://tinyurl.com/87x96
--or--
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Possible-police-role-in-2002-Bali-attack/2005/10/12/1128796591857.html
*TV NETWORK NEWS
Empty streets on 9/11? Terror Drill Footage
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3074574836036766575
*NEW ORLEANS*
HUD demolitions draw noose tighter around New Orleans:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18457.htm
New Orleans deliberately flooded:
http://www.media-criticism.com/New_Orleans_Flooded_Links_2006.html
*911: NUCLEAR BOMBS at WTC*
New York willing to talk settlement in 9/11 suit:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/us_nm/newyork_wtc_dc;_ylt=AibNaH_PAhbyqOsFfaVn2FWs0NUE
"...9,000 rescue and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center disaster site who may be sick..."
FDNY thyroid cancer shock:
http://tinyurl.com/2ka8ms
--or--
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/news/regionalnews/fdny_thyroid_cancer_shock_regionalnews_ginger_adams_otis_____and_susan_edelman.htm
9/11 sicknesses consistent with environmental radiation contamination:
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/06/22/01625.html
WTC cancer cluster 'like Hiroshima':
http://www.total411.info/2006/12/wtc-cancer-cluster-like-hiroshima.html
********NORTH AMERICAN UNION/OCEANIA********
*NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY: TURNING AMERICA into NEW JERSEY/
SUPERHIGHWAYS as PRISONS*
Congress to begin "debate" on North American Union/NAU highway-prison:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57817
Why the superhighway is really being built for US military invasion of the US heartland:
http://www.channelingreality.com/NAU/dispelling_the_myth_of_the_urban.htm
The ten lane NAFTA/NAU highway:
http://www.rense.com/general77/ten.htm
*NORTH AMERICAN UNION*
Canadian/US business mergers boost North American Union fears:
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=49792
The elite re-configuration of North America:
http://tinyurl.com/27hdjc
--or--
http://www.augustreview.com/issues/regionalization/conquering_canada:_the_elite_re-configuration_of_north_america_2007071671/
the militarization and annexation of North America:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18044.htm
********FOURTH REICH********
*STATE NATIONAL GUARD UNITS: FIGHTING FOREIGN WARS of AGGRESSION*
Half of New Jersey National Guard to head to Iraq next year:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21351707/
Pentagon to alert 8 Guard units for duty in Afghanistan:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/national_guard_iraq_6
*REAL ID*
Real ID rebellion brewing:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven25.htm
"...Real ID goes into effect on May 11, 2008....without a Department of Homeland Security approved conversion of one’s driver’s license or other personal ID into the Real ID, law-abiding U.S. citizens will not be able to board an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security, obtain a passport, enter federal buildings or otherwise do business with the federal government or other commercial endeavors requiring federally-mandated standards of personal identification..."
*INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS*
Verizon says it has turned over data without court orders hundreds of times since 2005:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR2007101501857.html
*POLICE STATE*
US demands air passengers ask its permission to fly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/flying_into_data_hell/
Carolyn Baker - American law enforcement out of control, beyond the pale:
http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/158/
(video, about 10 minutes.) Preparation for Martial Law:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/164.html
Florida police to carry sub-machine guns:
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=4194
*WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE*
Senate deal on immunity for phone companies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18nsa.html
House readies vote on un-Constitutional surveillance bill:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_go_co/terrorist_surveillance
Bush Dicatorship wants a permanent law allowing spying on all private conversations:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19992.html
Bush signs spy bill in spirit of Hitler's Third Reich:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3432anti-fisa_bill.html
*HABEAS CORPUS: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS*
Senate blocks Habeas Corpus, a right first established with the Magna Carta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/washington/20detain.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190291494-jphJtEAfPSZH/lXJp6ICIw
Senate decides not to restore Habeas Corpus:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091900873_pf.html
"Enemy combatants" can be held indefinitely:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008572372
*COUP D'ETAT PREPARATIONS?*
Biggest terror rehearsal in history starts in Oregon:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003953706_webterrorex16.html
US to stage dirty bomb "attack":
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4655
TOPOFF IV - Largest terror rehearsal set to start October 15th:
http://www.total411.info/2007/10/saic-to-practice-dirty-bomb-false-flag.html
Naval bases in lockdown next week:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3511
NORTHCOM plans 5 day martial law exercise:
http://tinyurl.com/2upgx5
--or--
http://infowars.com/articles/ps/martial_law_northcom_plans_5_day_martial_law_exercise.htm
(thousands of G-men, thousands of people with guns and authority to arrest participating in what, exactly?)
*CONCENTRATION CAMPS on US SOIL*
Civilian prisons coming soon to US Army base near you:
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57404
*CONCENTRATION CAMP on ILLEGALLY-OCCUPIED SOIL*
(inmates denied access to all courts to hear their cases. they have no fundamental human rights that the Bush dictatorship will acknowledge.)
Supreme Court denies Habeas Corpus to a Guantanamo prisoner, effectively turning back the clock to 1209:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0130232120071001
Military court advances military trials for detainees:
http://tinyurl.com/2j7sas
--or--
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/washington/25gitmo.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190726813-/F9bL9O3jU7St6wyBaUH/w
US builds for more Constitution-shredding military tribunals at illegally-occupied Guantanamo:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0526877120070906
*DICTATOR BUSH*
Dictator Bush restricts travel of more than 100K Americans:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00044.htm
New law gives Bush Dictatorship six months to turn Internet and phone systems into permanent spying architecture:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/analysis-new-la.html
Bush gets six month dictator powers:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/060807_dictator_powers.htm
********WAR AGAINST INTERNET********
*AT&T*
AT&T says blame the government:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/telcos-respond-.html
Free speech could lead to online disconnect:
http://www.rense.com/general78/discon.htm
"...last month...Verizon Wireless blocked an abortion-rights group from sending text messages over the company's network, deeming the messages too controversial..."
AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize the company!
http://tinyurl.com/2ck9vn
--or--
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070930-att-threatens-to-disconnect-subscribers-who-are-critical-of-the-company.html
1. the Internet is owned by the public.
2. Corporations like AT&T are chartered by States, on behalf of the public.
*BURMA*
Net shut off in Burma:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9787051-7.html?part=dht
*INTERNET, II*
Federally funded parasites plan to scrap the Internet:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WAT20070418&articleId=5423
*MICROSOFT + YAHOO = DISASTER*
Folks, if Microsoft and Yahoo merge it will mean the end of the Internet as a place where people can communicate with each other without the government listening in.
Microsoft + Yahoo = Government Watches Every Keystroke
IE8 = Major Spying
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********NEXT WORLD WAR/ESCALATION********
(meanwhile, about 95% of Americans want an end to the Iraq/Afghan wars. also, don't forget that future generations bear the cost.)
*TURKEY*
Turkey votes to open new front in illegal Iraq war (and permanent occupation):
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3070606.ece
Conflict between Turkey and the US intensifies
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/turk-o17.shtml
NATO, US aiding PKK terrorists in Turkey:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/101007_aiding_terrorists.htm
"...to crush the democratic process and prevent the election of a populist government in Turkey..."
*SYRIA*
US must commit war crimes in Syria, says former White House senior advisor:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/05/wiran105.xml
*WAR GAMES*
Dangerous crossroads - US sponsored war games:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6997
Forty-two (42) country terrror drill off coast of Japan!
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iURMiNuEn_ZOxPmr3OuWprG3UiNw
"...China and South Korea were notable absentees from Pacific Shield 07, the 23rd drill under the Proliferation Security Initiative put forward by US President George W. Bush in 2003..."
3,000 US troops to arrive in Manilla for two-week "war games":
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=regions3_oct8_2007
*IRAN & ISRAEL: DOUBLE STANDARDS*
Dictator Bush, invader/occupier of Afghanistan and Iraq, warns of nuclear holocaust if Iran develops nuclear weapons:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/washington/17cnd-prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*IRAN/WORLD WAR*
Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/iran-o18.shtml
Russia steps up bomber exercises near Alaska and Canada:
http://tinyurl.com/2vp8t2
--or--
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Russian-Bombers-Alaska.php
New Yorker article points to advanced US preparations for war on Iran
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/iran-o03.shtml
*SYRIA*
US/Israel planned and executed the recent barbarous strike on Syria, signalling a new world war is coming:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/israel-us-conferred-before-syria-strike/20070921041509990001
********BLEAK ECONOMICS********
*US WORKERS*
UAW deal opens door for Chrysler carve-up
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/chry-o18.shtml
General Motors tells Wall Street: UAW deal will save billions
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/gmua-o16.shtml
How the falling dollar affects Americans:
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-falling-dollar-affects-americans.html
*...LATEST BAILOUTS...*
US government brokers scheme to bail out Wall Street banks
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/bank-o18.shtml
Banks may pool billions to avert securities sell-off:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/business/14bank.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Banks and US treasury discussing $100 billion support fund:
http://tinyurl.com/3dg4ve
--or--
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/10/13/banks-siv-treasury-biz-wallst-cx_pm_1013citicorp.html
Fed injects 31.25 billion more:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070906150105.ba6jjyzu&show_article=1
Fed and ECB inject £44 billion to unglue money markets:
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2938985.ece
*US DEBT*
US $10 trillion in the red!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/256336.html
*ECONOMIC INEQUALITY*
Social inequality in US hits new record
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/usa-o16.shtml
Income-inequality gap widens:
http://tinyurl.com/2zrzqm
--or--
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119215822413557069.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
*GOLD: CONSPIRACY*
Controlling the price of gold:
http://www.rense.com/general78/control.htm
Bank of England's gold not good enough for delivery:
http://www.gata.org/node/5536
How central bankers control the price of gold:
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/ash/2007/1001.html
*US DOLLAR*
Hyperinflation will blow the economic doors off:
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Wiegand/oct112007.html
*REAL ESTATE MARKET*
More than a million UK homeowners paying their mortgages with credit cards:
http://tinyurl.com/29eoxx
--or--
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488032&in_page_id=1770
Housing starts skid, inflation flares:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1141029220071017
US foreclosure filings nearly double since a year ago:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071011/foreclosure_rates.html?.v=3
********GENERAL NEWS********
*INSECTS*
Following Honeybee disappearance, bumblebees begin vanishing act:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C299982%2C00.html
*NAVY SONAR*
California sues Navy over unecessary use of sonar:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/23/26/
beaked whales focus of Navy sonar "study":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_re_us/navy_whales
Court gives Navy go-ahead for whale & dolphin killing sonar off coast:
http://tinyurl.com/3984sq
--or--
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-sonar1sep01,1,4974217.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
*ANIMALS*
Gopher tortoises being buried alive in Florida:
http://tinyurl.com/yuqkco
--or--
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/13/AR2007101301181.html
Fish get insomnia, too:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_science_fish
Why are huge numbers of camels dying in Africa and Saudi Arabia?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071009083359.htm
Marine mammals fewer than outdated statistics show:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2007/2007-10-08-096.asp
Factory animal farming produce meat through routine torture and environmental destruction:
http://www.newstarget.com/022101.html
Polar bear endangered status "likely":
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0314002820071003
Receding ice displaces Alaska walrus:
http://tinyurl.com/36snv6
--or--
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i86-YHtGnJd2ZLbjp6bfON7YdCsQD8S41K003
Stark warning of extinction list: Life on Earth is disappearing:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2956437.ece
Gorillas now 'critically endangered':
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/endangered_gorillas
Threatened species list shows escalating 'global extinction crisis':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/12/internationalnews.greenpolitics
One in four mammals under threat:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/09/conservation
World's birds on death row/
race against time to save 190 species from extinction:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2856857.ece
*ENVIRONMENT*
Interior official backs Western drilling
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/west_oil_drilling
"...no letup in the aggressive pace for Western oil and gas drilling..."
EPA OKs 1-year use of pesticide despite scientists' concerns:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pesticide6oct06,1,7371216.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/farm_pesticide_3
"...saying [EPA's] own scientific review overrides concerns expressed by more than 50 chemists and other scientists..."
*MEDIA CONCENTRATION*
Bush Dictatorship wants to ease limits on media owners, a catastrophe from the point of view of restoring democracy in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/business/media/18broadcast.html
*MILITARY DRAFT*
Twelve former US Army captains: reinstate draft:
http://infowars.net/articles/october2007/161007Draft.htm
*SURVEILLANCE*
NYC Bloomberg announces that constant surveillance is a city necessity:
http://tinyurl.com/yr2neu
--or--
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-bloomberg-surveillance,0,4723795.story
*FEDS: CANCER*
FDA industry insiders derail approval of new cancer treatments:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_071009_fda_industry_insider.htm
*FORCED DRUGGING*
Bush Dictatorship forcibly drugging people it is deporting out of the US:
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=024989&From=News
*AGRICULTURE*
'Biotech bugs' could stop spread of diseases, scientists say:
http://usinfo.state.gov/ei/Archive/2004/Sep/22-233392.html
New study shows that GM corn could pollute aquatic ecosystems:
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/23718
At stake: safe steak:
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/10/01/at_stake_safe_steak.php
"...this farm bill provision will effectively end the federal meat and poultry inspection system..."
*DEPOPULATION/BIOWARFARE*
US labs manufacturing, mishandling deadly germs:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_he_me/mishandling_germs_3
"...'The risk that a killer agent could be set loose in the general population is real'..."
*PRIVATIZATION/GAS LOBBY*
Pennsylvania turnpike to be privatized, turned into toll road:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07285/824867-147.stm
(what a boondoggle. first the government builds an environmentally devasting highway that imprisons the general population. Years later, profits from tolls go to private interests.)
*MILITARISM
US is top arms seller to developing world:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/us/01weapons.html?_r=2&ref=us&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Appeals Court forces Yale Law to allow military recruiters access to their students':
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/nyregion/01yale.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*CRIMINALIZING DRUGS*
UK addicts given free drugs as reward for staying clean:
http://tinyurl.com/3xjytt
--or--
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488248&in_page_id=1770
*FOR-PROFIT HEALTH CARE*
Maternal mortality shames superpower US:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/14/4535/
Health care for US kids falls short:
http://tinyurl.com/2g7day
--or--
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc20071010_242000.htm?chan=search
"Insurance Is No Guarantee of Proper Care"
Health-care premiums expected to jump 8.7% in 2008:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119065894374437659.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
89.6 million lacked health insurance:
http://tinyurl.com/29cxkj
--or--
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-uninsured21sep21,1,1380065.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
One-third of US lacked health insurance:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/hl_nm/insurance_usa_dc_2;_ylt=Aku1G3BHQoORcP70OAPGSy8E1vAI
(Question: What's more barbaric than for-profit health care? Answer: Nothing.)
*CORPORATE POWER*
Criminal charges against Coca-Cola (for pollution) likely in India:
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2007/1053.html
*MANDATORY BIO-CHIPPING*
Microchip implants cause malignant tumors in lab animals:
http://www.citizensadvocate.net/newsletters/albrechtVeriChipAP.html
*ILLEGAL WAR/PERMANENT OCCUPATION BUDGETS*
Three weeks of illegal warfare or one year of health coverage for kids:
http://blog.thehill.com/2007/10/15/three-weeks-of-war-or-one-year-of-health-coverage-for-kids-rep-xavier-becerra/
Senate Democrats approve half a trillion dollars for Pentagon, US spy agencies
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/pent-o5.shtml
Visualizing $87 billion more for illegal wars:
http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/
Senate approves $150 billion (to be paid by future generations) in more illegal-war and permanent occupation funding:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq
"...authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan..."
Congress quietly approves billions more for Iraq war:
http://www.rense.com/general78/congg.htm
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/?pid=237751
Penta-Post announces the occupation of Iraq will continue 15 years from now:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003644061
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********ISRAEL: OUT of CONTROL, COMPLETELY LAWLESS STATE********
Israel has been enforcing the most brutal military occupation in world history -- for the last forty years!!
*MEDITERRANEAN*
Israel turning the Mediterranean into a septic tank:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0674312920071017
*ISRAEL: 'SEPARATION WALL'*
One Thousand, Two hundred and seventy-six people per week:
http://tinyurl.com/3ytult
--or--
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/141669-One+Thousand%2C+Two+Hundred+And+Seventy-Six+People+Per+Week
*ILLEGALLY-OCCUPIED WEST BANK*
Israeli army orders confiscation of Palestinian land in West bank:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0%2C%2C2187261%2C00.html
Israeli army invades several West Bank cities; kidnaps 5 Palestinians:
http://www.imemc.org/article/50765
Hebron settlements make Palestinian life nearly impossible:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8987.shtml
Israel (illegally) plundering the Jordan Valley:
http://uruknet.info/?p=m36088&hd=&size=1&l=e
"Land grab at an unimaginable scale"
*ILLEGALLY-OCCUPIED GAZA*
Eight Palestinians injured from illegal Israeli airstrikes:
http://www.imemc.org/article/50766
Israel kills 10 more in illegally-occupied Gaza, warns of big sweep:
http://www.rense.com/general78/kisl.htm
Israel's collective punishment of Gaza
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/gaza-s22.shtml
"...Gaza’s people are already on the brink of starvation, with more than 1.1 million totally reliant on food from the United Nations..."
********IRAQ: LAWLESSLY INVADED, BUTCHERED, DESTROYED********
*IRAQ: CARVED UP*
US plan to carve up Iraq will open up a bloody new phase in the permanent occupation of Iraq:
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10157557.html
*IRAQ: REFUGEES*
Refugees in their own land: 2m Iraqis forced to flee their homes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2172857,00.html
What Iraq's refugee problem would like in the US:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/Miasmaya/iraq_costs-2.gif
*IRAQ: ANOTHER WALL!*
Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bagh-s18.shtml
"...Construction on the two-kilometer long wall, part of a deliberate US effort to divide Iraq’s population along religious lines..."
*IRAQ: BARBARISM*
US air strikes kill 34 Iraqis:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/iraq-o15.shtml
Concealed bomb kills children at playground:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1223054520071012
(just who is motivated to do this?)
Another US airstrike kills children in Iraq, this time 9 children among 34 slain:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071011/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
US airstrike kills 25, including women and children:
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=20775&lang=en
Iraqis say US forces targeted civilians in latest barbarous, illegal attack:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003654908
Cholera spreads to Iraq's southernmost city:
http://tinyurl.com/3apofh
--or--
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070921.wiraq_cholera0921/BNStory/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092101374.html
********ELSEWHERE********
*UNITED KINGDOM*
British government accessing telephone records
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/ukda-o18.shtml
Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/oct/17/antarctica.sciencenews
(beach-front property pretty soon.)
UK postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/post-o15.shtml
*FRANCE*
French workers oppose "tax" on medical treatment
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/demo-o18.shtml
Pressure on Sarkozy as strikes set to cripple France:
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1657802007
*AFRICA*
US scrambling to seize African oil by force:
http://tinyurl.com/2o4bsc
--or--
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=37
*ZIMBABWE*
Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Inflation at 7,982%:
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