tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126872010-04-09T12:39:43.691-07:00A random walk through world news.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-5882126087646739112010-02-26T15:26:00.001-08:002010-04-09T12:39:43.701-07:00

THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.

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More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation(Arun Gupta, AlterNet, February 12, 2010)Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-65550959507440690902010-02-11T11:43:00.000-08:002010-02-11T11:49:26.535-08:00

Watch the British Police Act Like Nazi Storm TroopersBe sure to watch to the end when the police attack the campers. It reminds me of the Chicago police riot in 1968. Is it any wonder that sensible people no longer can trust the police? It's a sad day when parents must tell their children that the police are our enemies.Investigation of Policing at Climate Campby undercurrentsvideo

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700 Military Bases Spread Across Afghanistan, More than 1,000 Around the World(Nick Turse, Alternet, February 10, 2010)Nearly a decade after the Bush administration launched its invasion of Afghanistan, TomDispatch offers the first actual count of American, NATO, and other coalition bases there, as well as facilities used by the Afghan security forces. Such bases range from relatively small

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-20845152333614556272010-01-20T20:22:00.000-08:002010-01-20T20:34:00.082-08:00

US Corporations, Private Mercenaries and the IMF Rush in to Profit from Haiti's Crisis(Benjamin Dangl, Alternet,January 19, 2010)US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people. . . . In the aftermath of the

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-62027147018954895432009-08-19T07:31:00.000-07:002009-08-19T07:34:39.168-07:00

Prince Bandar coup d'état failed after turning in favor of Putin's RussiaSaudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom's former ambassador to the United States, is reportedly under house arrest over a conspiracy against the monarch. ... Saad al-Faqih, head of the opposition group Islamic Reform Movement, told Arab-language TV al-Alam that Prince Bandar has been disappeared and the media has

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India's Farming Economy on the Verge of Crisis(Gethin Chamberlain, The Observer, 12 July 2009)In Bhopal, and across much of northern India, a late monsoon and the driest June for 83 years are exacerbating the effects of a widespread drought and setting neighbour against neighbour in a desperate fight for survival. ... India's vast farming economy is on the verge of crisis. The lack of rain has

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-68922222766056596352009-06-15T16:44:00.000-07:002009-06-15T16:51:05.407-07:00

Top French Court Declares Internet Access 'Basic Human Right'(The Times, June 12, 2009)France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet. . . . The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-51942299609702180272009-06-13T21:06:00.000-07:002009-06-13T21:20:29.264-07:00

Some amazing photos of the riots after the Iranian electionsFor a photo show you aren't seeing on the news right now, Click Here.

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Irish Reform Schools: Thousands Beaten, Raped(SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Huffington Post, May 20, 2009)A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades _ and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. . . . Nine years in the

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-32755378175026305392009-05-07T14:02:00.000-07:002009-05-07T14:03:40.686-07:00

What the rest of the world sees when the USA kills civilians ...IN YOUR NAME!

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-23525867678632963382009-04-26T08:16:00.000-07:002009-04-26T08:22:00.876-07:00

The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet'Capitalism is leading humanity and the planet to extinction. What we are experiencing is a global economic crisis of a systemic and structural nature, not another cyclic crisis. Those who think that with a taxpayer money injection and some regulatory measures this crisis will end are wrong. The financial system is in crisis

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-39550677846476254782009-03-28T23:03:00.000-07:002009-03-28T23:12:56.409-07:00

'Blue-eyed bankers' prompt G20 divide(Gaby Hinsliff, The Observer, 29 March 2009)The struggle of the world's poorest to survive a crisis minted by the richest is shooting up the agenda of this week's G20 summit in London, the largest gathering of world leaders here for 46 years. And Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister, fears the economic storm buffeting a fragile continent may have

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White, blue-eyed bankers have brought world economy to its knees': What the Brazilian President told Gordon Brown(JAMES CHAPMAN, Daily MailOnlin,27th March 2009)President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, launched a bizarre tirade in which he warned that next week's G20 summit in London would be a 'spicy' affair. . . . Gordon Brown's efforts to broker an 80billion (pound) bailout for world trade on a

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-4866610758826544042009-03-25T08:01:00.000-07:002009-03-25T08:08:04.788-07:00

UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt(Jonathan Leake and Brendan Montague, The Sunday Times, March 22, 2009)JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. . . . Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he

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Three Million People Take to the Streets in FranceThe protests, which polls show are backed by three quarters of the French public, reflect growing disillusion with Sarkozy's pledges of reform as the crisis has thrown tens of thousands out of work and left millions more worried about their jobs.Streets in central Paris were packed with protesters waving anti-Sarkozy placards and chanting slogans,

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#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" poster.On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-59775413313152223892008-11-25T11:31:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:37:44.169-08:00

Protesters Flood Thailand's Main Airport, Shutting Down Flights(Tim Johnston, Washington Post, November 25, 2008)Activists trying to bring down Thailand's government seized key parts of the capital's main airport Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all flights and dealing another blow to the country's reeling tourist industry. . . . "We want to seize the airport to show the media that the

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-80580177299065255982008-11-25T10:59:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:04:40.705-08:00

China 'winning cyber war', US toldChina has developed such a sophisticated and active cyber warfare programme that the US "may be unable to counteract or even detect" an attack, a US congressional panel has warned. . . . In its annual report presented to the US congress on Thursday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said China was already stealing "vast amounts of sensitive

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-31132869720177961592008-11-07T10:52:00.000-08:002008-11-07T10:53:35.249-08:00

An Honest British Reporter Covering the U.S. Election

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-24114578014841522582008-11-05T13:15:00.000-08:002008-11-05T13:24:22.297-08:00

World celebrates Barack Obama victory(Philippe Naughton, Tom Coghlan, Richard Owen, TimesOnline, November 5, 2008)World leaders rushed to congratulate Barack Obama today, basking in the reflected glory of his election as America's first black president and looking forward to a new, less confrontational era in US foreign policy. . . . "What an inspiration. He is the first truly global US president

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-83184761536440439482008-10-30T15:09:00.000-07:002008-10-30T15:14:34.229-07:00

U.S. Attacks Syria(BBC News, 30 October 2008)Thousands of people have marched through Damascus in protest of a US raid on a village that Syria says killed eight people. . . . Many at the government-backed demonstration carried banners, shouted anti-US slogans and waved pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. . . . Riot police surrounded the US embassy in Damascus, which American officials

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-57047943113425856212008-09-18T11:44:00.001-07:002008-09-18T11:44:59.847-07:00

Wafa Sultan Debating Islamic Cleric

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-52965886611781038582008-08-20T18:45:00.001-07:002008-08-20T18:52:53.586-07:00

Peru's Army About to Attack Indigenous Tribes(Daniel Howden, The Independent, 21 August 2008)Peru is considering sending in the army to break up protests by Amazonian Indians who claim the government is preparing a massive land grab in the country's remote jungles. . . . Indigenous groups have blockaded roads and a river and set up pickets at energy installations to protest changes in the law

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-46889383801239490062008-08-13T10:19:00.000-07:002008-08-13T10:21:17.526-07:00

Edgar Mitchell Confirms UFO VisitationsNo matter where you stand on the UFO issue, you will most likely find this interview with the sixth man to walk on the moon to be extremely interesting.

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