tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35126872008-12-01T16:51:07.445-08:00World EventsA random walk through world news.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-696375882592573092008-12-01T16:45:00.000-08:002008-12-01T16:51:07.460-08:00#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
Osama 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 Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-59775413313152223892008-11-25T11:31:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:37:44.169-08:00Protesters 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-80580177299065255982008-11-25T10:59:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:04:40.705-08:00China 'winning cyber war', US told
China 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-31132869720177961592008-11-07T10:52:00.000-08:002008-11-07T10:53:35.249-08:00An Honest British Reporter Covering the U.S. Election
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-24114578014841522582008-11-05T13:15:00.000-08:002008-11-05T13:24:22.297-08:00World 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 Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-83184761536440439482008-10-30T15:09:00.000-07:002008-10-30T15:14:34.229-07:00U.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 officialsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-57047943113425856212008-09-18T11:44:00.001-07:002008-09-18T11:44:59.847-07:00Wafa Sultan Debating Islamic Cleric
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-52965886611781038582008-08-20T18:45:00.001-07:002008-08-20T18:52:53.586-07:00Peru'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-46889383801239490062008-08-13T10:19:00.000-07:002008-08-13T10:21:17.526-07:00Edgar Mitchell Confirms UFO Visitations
No 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.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-10386487104751835682008-08-07T19:05:00.000-07:002008-08-07T19:18:09.635-07:00The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
(Naomi Klein, Huffington Post, August 7, 2008)
Chinese corporations financed by U.S. hedge funds, as well as some of American's most powerful corporations -- Cisco, General Electric, Honeywell, Google -- have been working hand in glove with the Chinese government to make this moment possible: networking the closed circuit cameras that peer from every otherLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-19305705334321413282008-03-18T09:24:00.000-07:002008-03-18T09:32:40.134-07:00Phorm Internet spying software 'illegal' says policy group
(BBC News, 17 March 2008)
Online advert system Phorm is illegal in the UK, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (Fipr), has argued in an open letter. . . . BT, Talk Talk and Virgin have all signed up to use Phorm, which targets adverts to users based on web habits. . . . Fipr believes Phorm contravenes the Regulation of Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-86801858309541705132008-02-11T16:57:00.000-08:002008-02-11T17:08:18.390-08:00Mysterious cuts on Internet Cables plagues mideast
By Richard Sauder, PhD, Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. 2-5-8)
The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea communications cables that has severely disrupted communications in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of cut cables remain in question, but likely number Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-14639709372075334692007-10-01T13:13:00.001-07:002007-10-01T13:31:58.134-07:00Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
(MARCUS OSCARSSON, Daily Mail, 1 October 2007)
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. . . . The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-61453082227013693732007-02-26T09:45:00.000-08:002007-02-26T09:48:59.844-08:00 Blair ignored Chirac`s warning on Iraq 'disaster'
(ZeeNews.com, February 25, 2007)
A senior aide of Tony Blair has said the British Prime Minister ignored French President Jacques Chirac's warning that an invasion of Iraq would have "disastrous" consequences. . . . Sir Stephen Wall, formerly Blair's chief policy adviser, accused Blair and then-press secretary Alastair Campbell of deliberately Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-9052418138561117732007-02-12T07:43:00.000-08:002007-02-08T08:22:47.864-08:00Bush Orders Iran Attack Preparations
(Larry Chin, Al-Jazeerah, carolynbaker.org, February 12, 2007)
Bush administration pushes for attack with provocations, espionage, official deceptions, and false flag terror . . . The Bush administration will attack Iran as early as spring 2007. The administration is on total war footing. . . . Over the next few months, the administration and its allies and Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-71353970197842396062007-02-08T07:41:00.000-08:002007-02-08T08:05:00.784-08:00Bush Planning Massive Nuclear Attack on Iran
(Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, March 2007)
The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactics—alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on W.M.D.—to push for the bombing of Iran. . . . In a clear reference to the Islamic Republic and its sometime ally Syria, Bush vowed to "seek out and destroy the networks providing Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-12507001300095075132006-12-31T07:43:00.000-08:002006-12-31T07:54:45.014-08:00Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism
(AntiWar.com, December 29, 2006)
. . . using Ethiopia, a major recipient of American arms and technical support, as our proxy – in a new project that ought to be named Operation Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here. In the post-9/11 Bizarro World alternate universe that our leaders and policymakers seem to have slipped into, the Bad Guys have become the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1165084457201580422006-12-02T09:43:00.000-08:002006-12-02T10:34:17.406-08:00StopKillingUs.org Campaign Launches with a Song
If you haven't yet seen the StopKillingUs Web site, just click the link above to see what this campaign is all about.
And to hear the theme song for this campaign, check out the StartHearingUs Web site where you can download this inspiring music.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1165008480244191002006-12-01T13:23:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:28:03.510-08:00Fracas mars Mexico inauguration
(BBC News, 1 December 2006)
Felipe Calderon has been sworn in as Mexico's president to jeers, after brawls in Congress between lawmakers, divided by the nation's tight election. . . . Just an hour before the ceremony, deputies seized the speaker's platform and blocked the doors of the chamber. . . . Members of the left-wing (sic) Democratic Revolution Party say Mr Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1163096743745532252006-11-09T10:24:00.000-08:002006-11-09T10:25:43.766-08:00Open Letter to the Mexican Government
An open letter from Independent media organiziations working in Oaxaca to the
Mexican Goverment, Mexican and International Human Rights agencies, and
international civil society.
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. 7 de noviembre, 2006.
A Vicente Fox Quezada, Presidente de la República
A Carlos Abascal Carranza, Secretario de Gobernación
A José Luis Soberanes, de laLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1162664462615597232006-11-04T10:08:00.000-08:002006-11-04T10:21:02.650-08:00Good News from Nicaragua
(Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 2006)
"The Godfather," "Commander Bull's-Eye" and "the Alligator": To a man, they either fought in or backed the contra war that sought to overthrow Ortega's revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s. Now all three are working to get him elected president . . . Once the contras' top political negotiator, Morales lost hisLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1160707846427096342006-10-12T19:45:00.000-07:002006-10-12T19:50:46.476-07:00British Army chief calls for Iraq pullout
(CNN, October 12, 2006)
The chief of the British Army has called for a pullout of British troops from Iraq "sometime soon" and said that post-invasion planning for that war was "poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning." . . . Gen. Richard Dannatt told London's Daily Mail newspaper that he had "more optimism" that "we can get it right in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1158158525295263432006-09-13T07:33:00.000-07:002006-09-13T07:42:05.713-07:00Genocide in Gaza - Israel is starving millions of Palestinians
(Patrick Cockburn, Information Clearing House, 13 September 2006)
GAZA is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the worldÂ?s attention has been diverted by wars Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1157908675786583862006-09-10T10:07:00.000-07:002006-09-10T10:17:59.953-07:00Obrador Plans Parallel Rule
(The Australian, September 9, 2006)
Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans a shadow government, insisting he is the rightful leader of Mexico even as president-elect Felipe Calderon seeks reconciliation. . . . "We will decide if we want to obey an obsolete government that is run by a minority or if we will declare the abolition of this corrupt regime,Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512687.post-1156333801068304312006-08-23T04:44:00.000-07:002006-08-23T04:50:01.156-07:00Israel Accused of War Crimes
(BBC News, 23 August 2006)
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon. . . . The human rights group says attacks on homes, bridges, roads and water and fuel plants were an "integral part" of Israel's strategy in the recent war. . . . The group also calls for a UN investigation into Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com