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  • USED THE PHONE LATELY? WORRIED?
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Anticipating that the U.S. federal government would invoke the so-called "state secrets" privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government’s biggest spy agency, a major civil rights group has embarked on an alternate course.
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed complaints in more than 20 individual states demanding that their utility commissions and (…)

  • London - With Shoreditch TV, everybody is a Big Brother !
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This channel allows you to view Community Cameras in the public spaces in your community. It’s like having a number of windows that you can look through before you leave home. Find out how the police are working to make Shoreditch a safer place. Interactive Action Maps enable you to report problems such as abandoned cars, and see when action will be taken
    http://www.digitalbridge.org.uk/sdtv/crimechannel.php
    Site francophone contre la surveillance video : Souriez vous êtes filmés (…)

  • Chile’s Left Waits For Bachelet To Fulfill Promises
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    As Chile struggles to overcome the past and restore justice and human rights, an obstacle remains in the system. In the 1980s Chile’s then dictator, Augusto Pinochet, installed an electoral law that in effect blocked the left from participation in the electoral process. The "binominal" sometimes called binomial system, was composed by the far right and imposed on Chile by Pinochet.
    The Pinochet imposed system allowed the far right to have 35 percent of votes and to have (…)

  • Chickenshit Nation:
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chickenshit Nation:
    What is up with people these days? The feds have got you looking under every shoe for a dirty bomber, every turban for a nuclear handkerchief, every bed for the Bogeyman.
    All they had to do was say a bunch of bull-puckey on the TV day after day after day and make it look like anyone that is even slightly cross-eyed or tanned is OUT TO GET YOU. Every day you watch the NEWS. This many people died here, that many people died there, this was done to them, that was (…)

  • "They Hate Our Freedoms"
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Have WON the War Against Terror; We no longer have any freedom for them to hate us for. Who can argue with logic like that?
    http://thomasmc.com/

  • Chávez and Venezuela Deserve the Support of All Who Believe In Social Justice and Democracy
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1730
    Chávez and Venezuela Deserve the Support of All Who Believe In Social Justice and Democracy
    Tuesday, May 16, 2006
    By: Ken Livingstone - The Guardian President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will today become the second head of state - after the Queen - to be welcomed to London’s City Hall. When it comes to the social transformation taking place in Venezuela, the political qualifications often necessary in our imperfect world can be set aside. (…)

  • Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    the Logic of "Humanitarian Intervention" Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests
    by Brendan Stone
    May 13, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    On his recent speaking tour across Canada, former Haitian minister of defense Patrick Elie, an elected representative in the first government of Jean Bertrand Aristide, was asked by a member of the World Federalists NGO to support Canada’s new “Responsibility to Protect” (RtP) doctrine. The idea behind the “RtP” is that other countries should (…)

  • VENEZUELA : As Elections Loom, Venezuela’s Opposition Won’t Commit to Participation
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1701
    Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006 By: Eric Wingerter - VIO
    Last Thursday the New York Times ran a remarkable profile of the Venezuelan opposition. Titled “Rifts Plague Anti-Chavez Venezuelans[1],” Times reporter Juan Forero details the chaos that marks Venezuelan opposition parties in the run-up to this year’s presidential elections. Significantly, these rifts are not ideological in nature-precious little of the discussion centers on values, (…)

  • Release of Pentagon Strike Tape
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 16, 2006 Contact: Press Office 202-646-5188
    Judicial Watch to Obtain September 11 Pentagon Video at 1 p.m. Today
    Department of Defense Responds to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act Request and Related Lawsuit
    (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American (…)

  • Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy:"Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples’ minds."
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Media/CorpMedia_ThreatDemocracy.html
    "Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples’ minds."
    "There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of (…)