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Aborigines “shivering with fear” over Australian uranium plan 
Aboriginal elders from Wiluna in central Western Australia have slammed the approval of a nearby future uranium mine by the state’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). It now appears only a matter of time for the state government to endorse the EPA decision. The go-ahead is for the Toro Energy company's proposal to develop the first uranium mine in Western Australia 30 kilometres from Wiluna....
Posted: Tue, May 29, 2012 12:18am PDT
Spratly Islands Dispute: Unity Statement 
The contending states claiming territorial jurisdiction over sections of the ‘Southeast Asian Sea’ are only heightening regional tensions to a frightening degree. In particular, the contentious row between the Philippines and China is being amplified by certain quarters to a near-conflict level for seemingly nationalistic, but in fact chauvinistic reasons. And as the almost daily sounds of fury raise the stakes for the region’s masses of humanity, many more sober voices of concern must now ...
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 2:27am PDT
China asks WTO to look into discriminatory trade practices by the U.S. 
China has challenged the United State’s alleged discriminatory trade practices in the form of import duties on 22 Chinese products by asking the World Trade Organization (WTO) to look into the matter. According to Chinese officials, this practice has resulted in loss worth $7.3 billion to their country....
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 1:02am PDT
Halliburton Won Kursk Rescue Deal Cheney had a long history of working in Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. Last year (1999), he lobbied for a $489 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States for Tyumen Oil Co. — even though TNK was at the time accused of violating shareholders’ rights and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was declaring the proposed deal a violation of national security....
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2012 7:34pm PDT
Australian Aborigines launch their own government 
MEDIA RELEASE 25 May 2012
Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union – National Unity Government
A meeting of representatives from across the continent gathered to confirm their intent to form a National Unity Government of the Sovereign Union of First Nations Peoples in Australia.
This intent was confirmed with representatives formally signing an Act of Sovereign Union between First Nations Peoples in Australia....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2012 9:09pm PDT
Living in brave new Sweden, recalling the 1930s - Pravda Throughout much of Europe, economic reforms have brought human hardship, many blaming such hardship on other than the political leadership whose decisions brought it. Reports by the Swedish government have revealed pervasive 'structural discrimination' against both those of foreign origins and other minorities, discrimination from official sources posing a particularly difficult threat. Of course, history demonstrates too well what may occur when xenophobia enters the official structures of ...
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2012 4:19pm PDT
Next: Police Drones—Recording Conversations In Your Home & Business To Forfeit Property? Any conversation picked up by a drone inside a home or business, police can take out of context to institute arrests; or civil asset forfeiture to confiscate the home/business and other assets....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2012 7:07am PDT
Solidarity Means Attack - Call For Support From Montréal! 
“You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.”
- poster circulating around the strike...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2012 6:03pm PDT
Debt Tribunal and Green Socialism Qualitative growth, breaking out of the box of quantitative growth, is the key to solving mass unemployment, environmental destruction and trade imbalance. A job in education costs 1/10 what a job in a chemical dye plant costs. The media is part of a system that refuses change. Alternative economics includes reducing working hours, community centers, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment and soft power....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2012 6:15am PDT
Bankers, Hear the Signals! The people may freely elect their governors. But the game ends whenever they want to force a redistribution of social wealth-even if the economic system only functions with this redistribution. Democracy is social action, not a gift or a state (of rest). The pressure on politics will not slacken as long as the crisis is not really overcome and its causes removed....
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2012 6:36am PDT
On the Front Lines: 'Lawfare' in Probate Court “At some future date, historians will look back on this period in the United States as the equivalent of a Dark Ages in terms of political oppression, evidenced in part by corruption of the legal system."...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2012 7:35pm PDT
U.S. and Canada Implementing Beyond the Border Perimeter Security Initiatives As the U.S.-Canada action plan implementation process continues, there still remains many concerns with the further integration and militarization of the northern border. This includes the loss of sovereignty and risks to privacy rights related to more cross-border sharing of personal information. While there have been online consultations surrounding the perimeter security agreement, there has yet to be any open public hearings or congressional and parliamentary debates....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2012 4:57pm PDT
May 21 Deadline to Change Your Party Status to Peace & Freedom or Green to Save Both You have until May 21, 2012 to change your party status or register to vote for the 6/5/12 election Peace & Freedom Party or Green Party to save these two parties, due to the anti-democratic “Top Two” Primary Prop 14 passed in June 2010. These 2 parties have been on the ballot only due to receiving enough votes in November elections, but not due to registration. Now, it must be by registration only. The Decline to State voters are 21% of the registered voters, or some 3 million people....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2012 6:11am PDT
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