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Pacific Free Press RSS http://www.pacificfreepress.com/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:35:41 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 PacificFreePresshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Reeling in the Fish Farming Industry http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/rNLpUKjx5Ds/5061-reeling-in-the-fish-farming-industry.html <div><span>Farmed Salmon Exposed <br /> </span></div> <div><span>by<font size="3"> Damien Gillis</font> <br /> </span></div> <div><span><font size="4">T</font>his is an excerpt from a new film by Canadian documentarian Damien Gillis that visually portrays the damage caused by open-net salmon farms to marine ecosystems worldwide. </span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div align="center"><span><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eggrGn0V0fg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eggrGn0V0fg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="460" height="300"></embed></object> </span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div align="center"><strong><span>The film features firsthand accounts of the environmental, </span></strong></div> <div align="center"><strong><span>socioeconomic and cultural problems linked to global salmon farms.</span></strong> </div> <div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g1tLyu-KIaHT8xIFH0NlhN1mQIQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g1tLyu-KIaHT8xIFH0NlhN1mQIQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g1tLyu-KIaHT8xIFH0NlhN1mQIQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g1tLyu-KIaHT8xIFH0NlhN1mQIQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=rNLpUKjx5Ds:9uBUXvCgnpE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=rNLpUKjx5Ds:9uBUXvCgnpE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=rNLpUKjx5Ds:9uBUXvCgnpE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=rNLpUKjx5Ds:9uBUXvCgnpE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=rNLpUKjx5Ds:9uBUXvCgnpE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Damien Gillis <damien@slingshotcommunications.com> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:12:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5061-reeling-in-the-fish-farming-industry.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5061-reeling-in-the-fish-farming-industry.html Arresting the CIA Italian Style http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/8IpsimBDdFg/5060-arresting-the-cia-italian-style.html <div>Italy's Justice System Treads Where U.S. Courts Won't</div> <div>by <font size="3">David Swanson</font><br /> <p><a href="http://pubrecord.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/CIA.gif"><img style="margin: 5px" title="CIA" src="http://pubrecord.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/CIA-300x240.gif" alt="CIA" width="300" align="left" border="0" height="240" /></a><font size="4">T</font>he United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called “a nation of laws, not men” to Italian law enforcement. </p> <p>Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive crime spree by U.S. officials (and their Italian accomplices) would not have begun.</p> <p>In 2003, the CIA and the United States military kidnapped a man, a political refugee, in Italy. His name was Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.</p> <p>CIA agents spied on him from their luxury hotels and gourmet-meal lives in Milano (all paid for by U.S. taxpayers). They were told to kidnap Nasr and send him to Egypt to be tortured, and they did so.</p> <div>According to recent statements by two of them, they knew perfectly well they were violating the law. But they were not worried enough at the time to refrain from discussing the matter on their cell phones as they enjoyed the dolce vita and racked up credit card bills wasting the same currency the U.S. government claims it has a moral duty not to waste on healthcare.</div> <div> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5060-arresting-the-cia-italian-style.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/17RzLe8Hg_yWQkyRBr6XbBrh63Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/17RzLe8Hg_yWQkyRBr6XbBrh63Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/17RzLe8Hg_yWQkyRBr6XbBrh63Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/17RzLe8Hg_yWQkyRBr6XbBrh63Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=8IpsimBDdFg:qSDIXI8okUA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" 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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/nLmdsu7EF8c/5059-celebrating-the-holocaust-with-turkey-and-football.html <div>How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to be Afraid<br /> by <font size="3">Robert Jensen</font><br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-plymouth-meal-398x336.jpg" width="363" align="left" border="0" height="307" />I</font> have stopped hating Thanksgiving and learned to be afraid of the holiday.<br /> <br />Over the past few years a growing number of white people have joined the longstanding indigenous people’s critique of the holocaust denial that is at the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday. </div> <div> </div> <div>In two recent essays I have examined the disturbing nature of a holiday rooted in a celebration of the European conquest of the Americas, which means the celebration of the Europeans’ genocidal campaign against indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States. </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>Many similar pieces have been published in predominantly white left/progressive media, while indigenous people continue to mark the holiday as a “National Day of Mourning”.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5059-celebrating-the-holocaust-with-turkey-and-football.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SVcPOMalI_iYDcdIkac6NubNanE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SVcPOMalI_iYDcdIkac6NubNanE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SVcPOMalI_iYDcdIkac6NubNanE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SVcPOMalI_iYDcdIkac6NubNanE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=nLmdsu7EF8c:MyBRWC_1gC4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" 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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/7hDxHaV97Ec/5058-post-mortem-anatomy-of-casino-capitalism.html <div> <div>Anatomy of Casino Capitalism Pt.3<br /> by <font size="3">TRNN</font><br /> <font size="4">J</font>ane D'Arista is an economist with the Financial Markets Center in Philomont, VA. She is a Research Associate with the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and author of the masterful study of U.S. financial regulation, The Evolution of U.S. Finance. For more than thirty years, Jane D'Arista has been one of the country's most insightful analysts of financial markets and regulation.</div></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dr11ErG5ivQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dr11ErG5ivQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="360" height="240"></embed></object> </div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><strong>Jane D'Arista: Banks' wild speculation led to the crash - it's happening again</strong> </div> <div> <div> <div><br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5058-post-mortem-anatomy-of-casino-capitalism.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-UnzVt9CSu7gJCVJLDXn50dsGSY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-UnzVt9CSu7gJCVJLDXn50dsGSY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-UnzVt9CSu7gJCVJLDXn50dsGSY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-UnzVt9CSu7gJCVJLDXn50dsGSY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=7hDxHaV97Ec:_a1YDOWtW7Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=7hDxHaV97Ec:_a1YDOWtW7Y:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=7hDxHaV97Ec:_a1YDOWtW7Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=7hDxHaV97Ec:_a1YDOWtW7Y:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=7hDxHaV97Ec:_a1YDOWtW7Y:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Chris Cook <editor@pacificfreepress.com> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:29:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5058-post-mortem-anatomy-of-casino-capitalism.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5058-post-mortem-anatomy-of-casino-capitalism.html Saving Juan de Fuca Camp Out http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/EXtHAXC0yWU/5057-saving-juan-de-fuca-camp-out.html <div> <div>CRD Camp-Out to Save our Wild Coast</div> <div>by <font size="3">Sophie Waterman</font><br /> </div> <div><font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/juan-de-fuca-straight.jpg" width="327" align="left" border="0" height="244" />H</font>ello everyone; at last, the date of the Camp-Out is almost here!</div> <div> </div> <div>As you might know, the Juan de Fuca region is under threat of being developed into subdivisions right now.  A few weeks ago the Outdoors Club heard a presentation about how imminent this threat is so we decided to do something about it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Its not right to let an area that means so much to our community be bulldozed so that a few people can profit off of it, so we are organizing a campout next to the CRD headquarters to tell our representatives how we feel.</div> <div> </div> <div align="center">Thank-you all for your enthusiasm and interest, we hope to see you all there, and bring your friends!<strong> <br /> </strong></div> <div align="center"><strong> </strong></div> <div align="center"><strong> </strong></div> <div align="center"><strong>Where and when</strong>: </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><em><font size="3">Centennial Square, 3:00pm,  Sunday, Nov. 15</font></em></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><strong>What</strong>: </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><em><font size="3">A rally to show the CRD that we want the whole CRD board to be voting on issues as important as preserving our forest lands on the South Island.   Its going to be a fun event with dinner, speakers, art projects and more.</font></em></div> <div> </div> <div>The next two days are a great time to spread the word, and encourage people to come out and show <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pfk_7ZkZWBqte-pNVXEXG31JeSk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pfk_7ZkZWBqte-pNVXEXG31JeSk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pfk_7ZkZWBqte-pNVXEXG31JeSk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pfk_7ZkZWBqte-pNVXEXG31JeSk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EXtHAXC0yWU:VfO_cDGDsY4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EXtHAXC0yWU:VfO_cDGDsY4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=EXtHAXC0yWU:VfO_cDGDsY4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EXtHAXC0yWU:VfO_cDGDsY4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EXtHAXC0yWU:VfO_cDGDsY4:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Press Release <lex@highspeedplus.com> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:21:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5057-saving-juan-de-fuca-camp-out.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5057-saving-juan-de-fuca-camp-out.html Apartheid America http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/NuT1UnAYkzY/5056-apartheid-america.html <div> <div>Apartheid in America<br /> by <font size="3">Brenda Norrell l </font><font size="1">Censored News</font><br /> Photo: Splitting the Sky, Mohawk<br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/splitting-the-sky-425x304.jpg" width="320" align="left" border="0" height="229" />R</font>acism in America did not disappear when Barack Obama became president. Native American homelands are still targeted by corporations and some tribal governments, targeting Native homelands for coal mining, power plants, oil drilling and toxic dumps.</div></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="1">John 'Splitting the Sky' Boncore</font><br /> <div> <div><br /> The Four Corners region, homelands of the Navajo, Ute and Apache, and Lakota lands in South Dakota, were selected by the United States as National Sacrifice Zones, where the US poisoned the people, land, water and air, leaving behind strewn radioactive waste, poisoned rivers, cancer alleys and trails of deaths and broken hearts.<br /> <br />At the border, Indigenous Peoples in their homelands are still oppressed, harassed, detained and abused by the US Border Patrol and Native American tribal governments who have been coopted by Homeland Security. Here, too, on Tohono O'odham landis a cancer alley from copper mining that released radioactive uranium into the groundwater.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5056-apartheid-america.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c2U3QygCQnSoxlhVekGEhaKN1Ts/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c2U3QygCQnSoxlhVekGEhaKN1Ts/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c2U3QygCQnSoxlhVekGEhaKN1Ts/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c2U3QygCQnSoxlhVekGEhaKN1Ts/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NuT1UnAYkzY:iSiE3Uu-4qg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NuT1UnAYkzY:iSiE3Uu-4qg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=NuT1UnAYkzY:iSiE3Uu-4qg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NuT1UnAYkzY:iSiE3Uu-4qg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NuT1UnAYkzY:iSiE3Uu-4qg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Press Release <lex@highspeedplus.com> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:10:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5056-apartheid-america.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5056-apartheid-america.html High Noon at Planet Earth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/NQxeFHT1J00/5055-high-noon-at-planet-earth.html <div> Time is Running Out: We Need to Foster a Sense of Urgency:</div> <div> If time is almost up, what are you doing before high noon?<br /> by <font size="3">Mickey Z.</font><br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/high_cooper.jpg" width="298" align="left" border="0" height="340" />W</font>e need a loud eco-alarm clock and we need it now. In fact, we could use a bunch of 'em--tick-tick-ticking in every city and town on the planet to remind us humans that time is of the essence. Our eco-system is finite and there is a point of no return. With this in mind, we could all kick things up a notch or three in terms of urgency and methods. Maybe such an escalation could begin with a showing of High Noon?<br /> <br />I watched this classic 1952 film for the thousandth time recently and found myself focused on the moment when Amy (Grace Kelly), the pacifist wife of Marshal Kane (Gary Cooper), shoots and kills a man to save her husband's life. Earlier in the film, Amy had declared:<br /> <br />"My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live."<br /> <br />However, she not only <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5055-high-noon-at-planet-earth.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xpc2C7xzftoXUV_ShnjVCX_458E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xpc2C7xzftoXUV_ShnjVCX_458E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xpc2C7xzftoXUV_ShnjVCX_458E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Xpc2C7xzftoXUV_ShnjVCX_458E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NQxeFHT1J00:tfhFrcip2c4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NQxeFHT1J00:tfhFrcip2c4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=NQxeFHT1J00:tfhFrcip2c4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NQxeFHT1J00:tfhFrcip2c4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NQxeFHT1J00:tfhFrcip2c4:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Mickey Z <info@mickeyz.net> Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:02:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5055-high-noon-at-planet-earth.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5055-high-noon-at-planet-earth.html "Little" Jason Kenney Comes to Vancouver http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/wtjpamcMDs0/5054-qlittleq-jason-kenney-comes-to-vancouver.html <div>Jason Kenney Coming to Town</div> <div>by NOII </div> <div><font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px; width: 358px; height: 273px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/JasonKenney.jpg" align="left" border="0" />S</font>upporters, Allies, and Friends; we have some news. Jason Kenney is coming to town. That's right -- our favourite racist Immigration Minister will be in Vancouver TOMORROW (Saturday November 14th) and we're getting ready to welcome him in style. Join us!<br /> <br />WHERE? Marine Drive Global Lounge (Bldg #1), Marine Drive Residence @ UBC. (<a href="http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=377-1" title="">See map here</a>)<br /> <br />WHEN? 3.15 PM with free pizza! Organized by the UBC Campus Conservatives.<br /> <br />**** OR MEET US**** We will be meeting at the UBC Bus Loop (at the 99BLine stop) at 2.15 PM and will leave at 2.30 to walk down to the residences. If you are unable to make it earlier, feel free to meet us there. Bring signs, noisemakers, or other creative props! To reach us, contact 778 552 2099.<br /> <strong><br /> </strong> <div align="center"> <div align="center"><strong>Curious why? Top Ten List of Reasons to be Concerned About Jason Kenney</strong></div></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"><a href="http://noii-van.resist.ca" title="">http://noii-van.resist.ca</a> <div align="center"> <div align="center"><br />   </div></div></div> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5054-qlittleq-jason-kenney-comes-to-vancouver.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sQ_dQdIeQj5_HfPow5qcLIhAUCE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sQ_dQdIeQj5_HfPow5qcLIhAUCE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sQ_dQdIeQj5_HfPow5qcLIhAUCE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sQ_dQdIeQj5_HfPow5qcLIhAUCE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=wtjpamcMDs0:pKhEkJuwLkY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=wtjpamcMDs0:pKhEkJuwLkY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=wtjpamcMDs0:pKhEkJuwLkY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=wtjpamcMDs0:pKhEkJuwLkY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=wtjpamcMDs0:pKhEkJuwLkY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Press Release <lex@highspeedplus.com> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5054-qlittleq-jason-kenney-comes-to-vancouver.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5054-qlittleq-jason-kenney-comes-to-vancouver.html Ambassador at Odds with Obama Administration over Afghanistan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/IO0VHR-cDbs/5053-ambassador-at-odds-with-obama-administration-over-afghanistan.html <div>US AMBASSADOR URGES O: NO NEW TROOPS NOW, LOU DOBBS OUT, </div> <div>BRIAN ROSS BLOWS IT, BANKSTERS WANT MORE</div> <div>by <font size="3">Danny Schechter</font></div> <div> <div><img style="margin: 5px; width: 242px; height: 174px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/eik1_01.jpg" align="left" border="0" />LAST NIGHT: U.S. ambassador dissents on Afghan troop increase. The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government demonstrates that it is willing to tackle the corruption and mismanagement that has fueled the Taliban’s rise, said senior U.S. officials.</div></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div><font size="1">U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, </font></div> <div><font size="1">(fmr) General Karl W. Eikenberry</font></div> <div> </div> <div>JUAN COLE: OBAMA’S AFGHAN END GAME (METRO TIMES)<br /> <br />PRESIDENT UNDER PRESSURE (WP): War and tragedy are putting President Obama through the most wrenching period of his young administration. Visibly thinner, admittedly skipping meals, he is learning every day the challenges of a wartime presidency.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5053-ambassador-at-odds-with-obama-administration-over-afghanistan.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gfBeqgtAw8m8PwZ_4cpC3khTW48/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gfBeqgtAw8m8PwZ_4cpC3khTW48/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gfBeqgtAw8m8PwZ_4cpC3khTW48/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gfBeqgtAw8m8PwZ_4cpC3khTW48/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=IO0VHR-cDbs:7uE6ZcdU9Ds:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=IO0VHR-cDbs:7uE6ZcdU9Ds:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img 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Support Campaign </font>- Vancouver<br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/war_resisters_may_21-450x253.jpg" width="353" align="left" border="0" height="198" />T</font>he Vancouver Courier has printed an extensive story on Rodney and his situation. </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://letthemstay.ca/" title="">image</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Please write letters of support for Rodney's decision and condemning our government's support of the Iraq war by not allowing war<br /> resisters to stay in Canada.<br /> <br />Here's the link to the story:  <a href="http://www2.canada%20com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=6490531e-b2d9-4e1e-ab9a-511a51ef106e" title="">http://www2.canada<br /> com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=6490531e-b2d9-4e1e-ab9a-511a51ef106e</a><br /> (full text below)<br /> <br />Please send a letter to the editor in support of Rodney Watson to<br /> blink@vancourier.com<br /> 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demanding they provide an Indianapolis grand jury with "details of all reader visits on a certain day," the feisty left-wing news aggregators fought back, CBS News reported.<br /> <br />Investigative journalist Declan McCullagh revealed that the "change" administration's legal eagles issued an order that required the "Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site 'not to disclose the existence of this request' unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization."<br /> <br />Kristina Clair, IndyMedia's Linux administrator, told CBS she was shocked to have received the subpoena with its flawed demand not to disclose its contents.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5051-court-reversal-for-media-spies.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5OUUa2sgGKcaE0nvp96L-m99VWM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5OUUa2sgGKcaE0nvp96L-m99VWM/0/di" border="0" 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Michael Werbowski, in "America: After the Fall", tells us ...</div></div> <div> <div><br />     "20 years after the fall of communism, American-style capitalism has also fallen. But the downfall was silent, without any visible walls toppling or crumbling. The 9/11-like collapse of the financial firms of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers left no piles of rubble or slabs of fractured concrete on the ground, just lots of laid off traders and deal makers. But the brokerage and investment banks' end signaled the death knell of market capitalism as we knew it; another misbegotten ideology born out of the musings of Adam Smith, Ricardo and Milton Friedman was laid to rest unceremoniously. The troika which presumed that man’s most bestial instincts can be curbed in the pursuit of profit and happiness were wrong ...<br /> <br />    "The president’s inverted version of “perestroika” (that is, the restructuring or retooling of the economy) has been fine tuned to meet the need of the oligarchs and corporate barons who support him and prompt him behind the curtains. Obama and his czar–commissars (and his adoring minions of PR spin operatives) have deftly in a brilliant slight of hand in one swift jest, effectively expropriated the entire financial and industrial sectors in America by means of massive taxpayer funded <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5050-the-truth-wont-free-you.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aL3R6CikWycXNB6SldtHhGG_4kQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aL3R6CikWycXNB6SldtHhGG_4kQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aL3R6CikWycXNB6SldtHhGG_4kQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/aL3R6CikWycXNB6SldtHhGG_4kQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=uKzarwpo0zo:AkCU0pTiywA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=uKzarwpo0zo:AkCU0pTiywA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=uKzarwpo0zo:AkCU0pTiywA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=uKzarwpo0zo:AkCU0pTiywA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=uKzarwpo0zo:AkCU0pTiywA:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> ddjango . <ddjango@myway.com> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:49:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5050-the-truth-wont-free-you.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5050-the-truth-wont-free-you.html Indy Media Reader Records Subpoena Revealed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/ZvQrJcLZAYQ/5049-indy-media-reader-records-subpoena-revealed.html <div>U.S. Attorney Sought Readership Information </div> <div>from Internet News Site<br /> by <font size="3">Scott Horton</font><br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/imclogo2.gif" width="146" align="left" border="0" height="237" />CBS</font> News reports that on January 23—days after Barack Obama’s inauguration, but before his designated senior team had taken charge at the Justice Department—federal prosecutors in Indiana issued a subpoena to IndyMedia, a Philadelphia-based Internet news service.<br /> <br /> <blockquote>    In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.<br /> <br />    The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.<br /> </blockquote><br /> The subpoena demanded “all traffic to and from” the IndyMedia website on a specific date: June 25, 2008. Moreover, IndyMedia was threatened with obstruction of justice charges if it failed to comply promptly with the subpoena. IndyMedia responded by turning the matter over to attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who acted on its behalf. </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>They objected to the subpoena on a variety of technical grounds and also noted its probable illegality. EFF also noted that, acting consistently with EFF guidelines designed to thwart government snooping, IndyMedia <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5049-indy-media-reader-records-subpoena-revealed.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ePYU90cRWsQfu4rSkrXsWbvdYiU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ePYU90cRWsQfu4rSkrXsWbvdYiU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ePYU90cRWsQfu4rSkrXsWbvdYiU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ePYU90cRWsQfu4rSkrXsWbvdYiU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=ZvQrJcLZAYQ:gCJ8HHOx7LE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=ZvQrJcLZAYQ:gCJ8HHOx7LE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=ZvQrJcLZAYQ:gCJ8HHOx7LE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=ZvQrJcLZAYQ:gCJ8HHOx7LE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=ZvQrJcLZAYQ:gCJ8HHOx7LE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Scott Horton <shorto@law.columbia.edu> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5049-indy-media-reader-records-subpoena-revealed.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5049-indy-media-reader-records-subpoena-revealed.html The Moms of War http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/5WuYFG_lt7Q/5048-the-moms-of-war.html <div> <div>U.S.:  Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan<br /> by <font size="3">Dahr Jamail</font></div></div> <div> <div><font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/hutchinson_final.jpg" width="136" align="left" border="0" height="200" />U.S.</font> Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.</div></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div><font size="1"><span>U.S.</span> Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson with her son, Kamani. </font></div> <div><font size="1">/ Credit:Courtesy of Alexis Hutchinson</font></div> <div> <div><br /> Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care system.<br /> <br />Hutchinson has been threatened with a court martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan on Sunday, Nov. 15. She has been attempting to find someone to take care of her child, Kamani, while she is deployed overseas, but to no avail.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5048-the-moms-of-war.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Zi2skfnL-Giluh_9nbV_EMAm4E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Zi2skfnL-Giluh_9nbV_EMAm4E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Zi2skfnL-Giluh_9nbV_EMAm4E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Zi2skfnL-Giluh_9nbV_EMAm4E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=5WuYFG_lt7Q:O5Zl1MgGEyo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=5WuYFG_lt7Q:O5Zl1MgGEyo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=5WuYFG_lt7Q:O5Zl1MgGEyo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=5WuYFG_lt7Q:O5Zl1MgGEyo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=5WuYFG_lt7Q:O5Zl1MgGEyo:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Dahr Jamail <mail@dahrjamailiraq.com> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5048-the-moms-of-war.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5048-the-moms-of-war.html How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/EZUu-tJO2F0/5047-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties.html <div> Welcome Home, War!<br /> How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties<br /> by <font size="3">Alfred W. McCoy</font><br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/mccoy%20policing.gif" width="130" align="left" border="0" height="235" />I</font>n his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could "reverberate for generations," warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on American soil. Yet surprisingly few Americans seem aware of the toll that this already endless war has taken on our civil liberties.<br /> <br />Don't be too surprised, then, when, in the midst of some future crisis, advanced surveillance methods and other techniques developed in our recent counterinsurgency wars migrate from Baghdad, Falluja, and Kandahar to your hometown or urban neighborhood. And don't ever claim that nobody told you this could happen -- at least not if you care to read on.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5047-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5EVBlWYsIeoJZ1RJBKRfDR85qA4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5EVBlWYsIeoJZ1RJBKRfDR85qA4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5EVBlWYsIeoJZ1RJBKRfDR85qA4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5EVBlWYsIeoJZ1RJBKRfDR85qA4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EZUu-tJO2F0:sHivNSo8TY8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EZUu-tJO2F0:sHivNSo8TY8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=EZUu-tJO2F0:sHivNSo8TY8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EZUu-tJO2F0:sHivNSo8TY8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=EZUu-tJO2F0:sHivNSo8TY8:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Tom Engelhardt <Tomeditor@aol.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:43:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5047-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5047-how-americas-wars-are-systematically-destroying-our-liberties.html The New Palestine: From the River to the Sea http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/yW2aHXu6wJ8/5046-the-new-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-.html <div>From the River to the Sea </div> <div> <div>by <font size="3">Gilad Atzmon</font><br /> <font size="4"><img style="margin: 5px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/gaza_graffiti_01_thumb.jpg" width="210" align="left" border="0" height="280" />L</font>et’s once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to  freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of  Zionist spin. It is there to divert attention from the root cause of the conflict: The robbery of Palestine and  Palestinians in the name of a ‘Jewish home coming’. The call to stop Israeli construction in the West Bank is there to leave us with the false impression that the robbery of Palestine started in 1967. The facts are known to many of us, but not to all. The vast majority of Palestinians were expelled from their towns, villages, fields and orchards in 1948.<br /> <br />What seems as an American peace initiative putting pressure on Israel to halt its expansion into the West Bank is in fact an agenda that is promoted by Zionists within the US Administration who realise like the late Sharon, that the only chance for the Jewish state to survive the next decade, is to shrink into a little Jewish shtetle (ghetto). The Two state solution is indeed the last effort to keep Zionism alive.<br /> <br />Netanyahu is far from being stupid. He understands it all. He knows that his Zionist Revisionist father’s dream of ‘greater Eretz Yisrael’ is unattainable.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5046-the-new-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tyyksn5GBgNOXH-vWuHPLoxACeo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tyyksn5GBgNOXH-vWuHPLoxACeo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tyyksn5GBgNOXH-vWuHPLoxACeo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tyyksn5GBgNOXH-vWuHPLoxACeo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=yW2aHXu6wJ8:ZSszfRrKw_w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=yW2aHXu6wJ8:ZSszfRrKw_w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=yW2aHXu6wJ8:ZSszfRrKw_w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=yW2aHXu6wJ8:ZSszfRrKw_w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=yW2aHXu6wJ8:ZSszfRrKw_w:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Gilad Atzmon <gilad@gilad.co.uk> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:33:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5046-the-new-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5046-the-new-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-.html Veterans Putting the Nix on Afghanistan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/SNhjSnWJjCc/5045-veterans-putting-the-nix-on-afghanistan.html <div>Veterans to Obama: Do Not Escalate<br /> by <font size="3">Rethink Afghanistan</font><br /> <font size="4">D</font>ear President Obama; news reports indicate that you plan to send between 34,000 and 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We urge you to reconsider this decision.<br /> <br /> <div align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HnbhMlGnB9I&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HnbhMlGnB9I&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="375" height="304"></embed></object></div><br /> <div align="center"><strong>Expanding the war in Afghanistan will make Americans less safe, not more so.</strong><br /> </div> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5045-veterans-putting-the-nix-on-afghanistan.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWIIunYDfv1WHn3ufu8XRQxzJlw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWIIunYDfv1WHn3ufu8XRQxzJlw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWIIunYDfv1WHn3ufu8XRQxzJlw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iWIIunYDfv1WHn3ufu8XRQxzJlw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=SNhjSnWJjCc:Mb-HRkFR1P0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=SNhjSnWJjCc:Mb-HRkFR1P0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=SNhjSnWJjCc:Mb-HRkFR1P0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=SNhjSnWJjCc:Mb-HRkFR1P0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=SNhjSnWJjCc:Mb-HRkFR1P0:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Press Release <lex@highspeedplus.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5045-veterans-putting-the-nix-on-afghanistan.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5045-veterans-putting-the-nix-on-afghanistan.html The United Nations and the Rape of Haiti http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/bMbgzUE228Q/5044-the-united-nations-and-the-rape-of-haiti.html <div> <div>Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports on UN rape<br /> by<font size="3"> Ezili Danto</font><br /> <font size="4">I</font>n 2005, the Ezili Danto Witness Project reported on a Jordanian soldier's brutal rape and sodomizing a Haitian mother of five in Haiti. The report was sent to the UN, the victim complained to the UN. The investigation process never led to a resolution that was ever revealed to HLLN or the victim. (Read the English transcript.)<br /> <br />In 2007, it was discovered and reported that girls as young as 13 were having sex with U.N. peacekeepers for as little as $1 in Haiti. Moreover, Sri Lankan soldiers were accused of systematically raping Haitian women and girls, some as young as 7 years old.<br /> <br />Today, the UN said that dozens of UN peacekeepers were punished for sexual abuses. (UN peacekeepers involved in abuse are being punished, world body says, UN News Center, November 5, 2009, and Dozens of UN peace keepers punished for abuses, CBC News, November 5, 2009.)</div></div> <div> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5044-the-united-nations-and-the-rape-of-haiti.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kE0dHuzXcSnXRz7d9EKly-UUnjo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kE0dHuzXcSnXRz7d9EKly-UUnjo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kE0dHuzXcSnXRz7d9EKly-UUnjo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kE0dHuzXcSnXRz7d9EKly-UUnjo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=bMbgzUE228Q:blsnds2wphg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a 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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/dOmx0W48lhw/5043-federal-court-rules-on-canadian-lobby-rules.html <div>Forced By Federal Court of Appeal Ruling, Federal Commissioner of Lobbying Finally Bans Lobbyists From Giving Gifts and Doing Favours For Politicians, Their Staff and Government Officials<br /> by <font size="3">Democracy Watch</font><br /> <font size="4">L</font>ast Friday, forced by a March 2009 Federal Court of Appeal ruling won by Democracy Watch, federal Commissioner of Lobbying Karen Shepherd finally set out an ethics enforcement Guideline that, if effectively enforced, will essentially mean that she will rule that federal lobbyists violate Rule 8 of the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct if they give significant gifts to, or do significant favours (such as fundraising or campaigning) for federal politicians, staff, appointees and government officials they lobby or will lobby in the future.<br /> <br />The March 2009 Federal Court of Appeal ruling won by Democracy Watch completely rejected a guideline on Rule 8 of the Lobbyists' Code that was issued in 2002 by former lapdog Ethics Counsellor Howard Wilson and applied by his lapdog successor Registrar of Lobbyists Michael Nelson. </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>Together, Wilson and Nelson totally undermined enforcement of Rule 8 and federal lobbying ethics from 1997 (when the Lobbyists Code came into effect) until now.<br /> <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5043-federal-court-rules-on-canadian-lobby-rules.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4c3zTH7iBvqdxuFyNlVOKs4DjY4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4c3zTH7iBvqdxuFyNlVOKs4DjY4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4c3zTH7iBvqdxuFyNlVOKs4DjY4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4c3zTH7iBvqdxuFyNlVOKs4DjY4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a 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http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5043-federal-court-rules-on-canadian-lobby-rules.html Heroism in a Vanishing Land http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PacificFreePress/~3/NPN82kHc-tc/5042-heroism-in-a-vanishing-land.html <div>Heroism in a Vanishing Landscape:</div> <div> <div>1948 Again, in Sheikh Jarrah<br /> by<font size="3"> Ellen Cantarow</font><br /> <img style="margin: 4px" alt="" title="" src="http://www.pacificfreepress.com/images/stories/new2/moskowitz.jpg" width="206" align="left" border="0" height="157" />"<font size="4">D</font>isputed” is a word often used about East Jerusalem and homes in Sheikh Jarrah. Would the international community have considered the homes of American blacks attacked by the Ku Klux Kla as “disputed”? Or those of Jews ejected by Brown Shirts in the early 1930s?</div></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Florida billionaire Irving Moskowitz, </font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">to build twenty apartments in Sheikh Jarrah</font><br /> <br />The rule of law exists to protect the victims of war and occupation by imposing sanctions and responsibilities on invaders. It is not to be stretched for the convenience of the US at Guantanamo, Russia in Chechnya, Israel in Gaza, or in East Jerusalem. Under the law East Jerusalem and all the Arab homes it contains are part of the occupied West Bank. Despite endless palm-greasing, casuist apologetics, semantic distortions and brute force, Israel’s responsibilities towards the territories it occupies remain articulated in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and Chapter 5 of the 1907 Hague Convention IV. Occupying states are forbidden to seize the land and property of those they occupy, and forbidden to settle their citizens on occupied soil.<br /> <br />But Israel and its US patron have small regard for legal niceties, instead preferring Thucydides’ maxim: “The <p><a href="http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5042-heroism-in-a-vanishing-land.html">Read more...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_fXWPdiUyOdU930vSMHH4dEKq7A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_fXWPdiUyOdU930vSMHH4dEKq7A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_fXWPdiUyOdU930vSMHH4dEKq7A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_fXWPdiUyOdU930vSMHH4dEKq7A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NPN82kHc-tc:eZBHuv4I02M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NPN82kHc-tc:eZBHuv4I02M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?i=NPN82kHc-tc:eZBHuv4I02M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NPN82kHc-tc:eZBHuv4I02M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?a=NPN82kHc-tc:eZBHuv4I02M:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/PacificFreePress?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> Ellen Cantarow <ecantarow@comcast.net> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +0000 http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5042-heroism-in-a-vanishing-land.html http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5042-heroism-in-a-vanishing-land.html