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  • The battle for ayurveda: India is racing to record the details of its traditional medicine
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The database, totalling more than 30 million pages and known as the Traditional Knowledge Data Library, has come about for one very simple reason: to prevent Western pharmaceutical giants and others using this traditional Indian information to create a product for which they then obtain a patent.
    By Andrew Buncombe Published: 23 November 2007
    They range from the everyday to the decidedly obscure, from items with a specific, specialised use to those with a host of applications. Their (…)

  • An Open Call for the Mother-of-all-Jihads Upon this Evil Government!
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The openly racist oppression of Muslims by the State and its politicised judiciary in Britain goes on. The latest case is that of the 25-year-old Pakistan-born Abdul Rahman who has been convicted for having a letter encouraging a call-to-arms in Afghanistan!
    Not in Britain but in Afghanistan!
    According to the BBC, "Rahman admitted having the letter with a view to circulating it to encourage others to join the jihad." And when Police raided Rahman’s house in Manchester,
    they found (…)

  • Iraq asks Britain to return hundreds of missing artifacts
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The government has asked British authorities to hand over to the Iraq Museum 654 priceless archaeological pieces that went missing shortly after U.S. invasion troops landed in Baghdad in 2003.
    Azzaman, November 8, 2007
    A statement by the Ministry of Archaeology and Tourism said the pieces were among the thousands of artifacts that were looted from the Museum and the British authorities were under obligation to return them.
    The statement faxed to the newspaper said the artifacts were (…)

  • JOHN PILGER : LEST WE FORGET
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    1/15/07 "ICH" — — On Remembrance Day 2007 – Veterans Day in America – the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies. Hypocrisy was a presence. No one mentioned Iraq. No one uttered the slightest remorse for the fallen of that country. No one read the forbidden list.
    The forbidden list documents, without favor, the part the British state and its court have (…)

  • A Dark Age is Upon Us
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just how oppressive must a government become before we can justifiably say that it has turned a country into a police-state?
    Midnight knocks on the door? Security squads in black uniforms? The indefinite imprisonment of innocent individuals in prison cells and the immediate assumption of their guilt until proved innocent? Imprisonment for thought crimes? The use of torture to extricate information which may never otherwise be given? The permanent surveillance of a population at large?
    If (…)

  • Remembering on ‘Remembrance Day’: Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have a ‘Remembrance Day’
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.”
    How unfortunate that we have a need (…)

  • Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt
    By Sean O’Grady, Economics Editor
    Published: 06 November 2007
    A new phase in the credit crunch, one of “$1 trillion losses” seems to be dawning. The crisis at Citigroup and renewed doubts about some of the world’s leading banks disquieted stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday, with the fractious mood set to continue.
    The FTSE 100 fell 69.2 to 6,461.4, with Alliance & Leicester (down 4 per cent) and Barclays (off (…)

  • UK navy warship to head for Gulf
    2 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UK navy warship to head for Gulf A Royal Navy aircraft carrier is to head to the Gulf next spring, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
    HMS Illustrious will be in waters near Iran alongside the destroyer, Edinburgh, and a frigate, Westminster.
    Earlier this year, 15 British service personnel were captured by Iranians as they searched a cargo boat in the Gulf.
    The ships, accompanied by two minesweepers and three support vessels, will spend six months in the Gulf, the Indian Ocean (…)

  • London World Against War Conference on 1st December (STOPWAR.UK)
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Stop the War Coalition will be holding an international peace conference in London on 1st December. The World Against War conference is a follow up to the successful international conference we hosted in 2005.
    We expect peace and anti war groups from South America, the Middle East, USA, South Asia, Canada and Europe. The conference will discuss the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and opposition to any attack on Iran. It will also look at the broader struggle against war and for (…)

  • A world under surveillance
    7 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From surveillance cameras to data pirating, every bit of life is scanned and stored to meet economic and political agendas. Until awareness is heightened and proper legislation put in place, our right to privacy will continue to be violated, said privacy activists at the Privacy Rights in a World under Surveillance conference held last weekend at Montreal’s Sheraton Centre.
    By Stephanie Stein 2007-10-03 10:16:57
    An explosion of new technologies that enable the tracking and monitoring of (…)