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Posted: feburary 19, 2008
1) Castro retires: Will Osama last as long as Castro?
2) Musharraf soundly defeated in pakistan
3) Supreme court rejects constitution, 4th Amendment, and rule of law to protect criminal presidency
4) US, Slovenia, Croat, and Turkish embassies attacked in Serbia
5) Bush adds wolves to his kill list of natural victims
6) Arabs move away from "two-state" farce
7) US Claims to have lied to Blair, and Blair lied to UK about Torture Flights: A conspiracy of liars exposes itself
8) "Bhutto" Sharif parties form anti-musharraf coalition
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Posted: february 13, 2008
1) Criminal senate grants king george and private telecom illegal search powers
1b) Bush demands criminal powers from criminal congress
2) Scumbag Scalia supports torture
3) FBI trying to cover cia crimes against humanity, rule of law
4) Congress pussies to cite meyers and Bolton for contempt? I doubt it.
5) Another crooked US Attorney on HOT SEAT
6) Russia claims surprise, "our bombers buzzed japan and a carrier? Naw."
6b) pentagon assesses russian buzz
6c) Putin's state of the union
6d) Russia proposes space arms treaty
6e) Russia has low-cost answer to fancy us missiles
6f) UN weighs ban on space weapons: us resists
7) Venezuela breaks ties with exxon
8) Paki news
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1) Global warming Kills over 50: Floods, ice Storms, now tornadoes torment mid west, ap. February 6, 2008
WAR CRIMES ADMITTED BY US
2) White House Admits War Crimes, ap, Feb. 6, 2008
3) Mukasey refuses to prosecute War Crimes, ap, February 7, 2008
4) UN condemns US Torture, ap, February 6, 2008
FAKE TERM LIMITS DEFEAT ENDS NUNEZ-PERTA ERA
5) Term limit Fraud Defeated in CA, corrupt leadership thrown out of office, ap, February 6, 2008
OLD US CRIMES PROSECUTED IN ARGENTINA
6) Old US Crimes against humanity prosecuted in Argentina, ap,February 5, 2008
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us attorney general defends torture
1) mukasey: chief lawman of US finds no crime in torture, reuters, 1-30-08
lawyers speak for silenced torture victim
2) American Gitmo victim lawyers claim extensive torture, mcclatchy, December 8, 2007
3) Reprise 2006: Bush seeks retroactive war crime protection, ap, August 10, 2006
Bush Crimes are State Secrets
4) Reporter persecuted for exposing bush's illegal search programs, nyt, February 1, 2008
5) State Secrets: it's not the number, it's the crimes it hides, wp, January 30, 2008
Bush Destroys Evidence
6) White house destroyed 473 days of incriminating emails, Jan. 18 (UPI)
The Police State Here and There
7) Chinese police state seizes another person brave enough to expose their abuses, ap, 2-1-08
8) Freedom of association curbed for muslims, The Kansas City Star, Jan. 16, 2008
9) Padilla sentenced: the real criminals are in the white house, nyt, January 22, 2008
10) reprise, 2003: huge intelligence gathering bases established in iraq, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 113, june 23, 2003
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Environment Page 6
previous pages 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
master environment page
late posting: china pounded by another freak storm, reuters, Jan 28, 2008
1) American Geophysical Union: radical slash in Co2 required now, Scientific American, January 24, 2008
2) Ocean dead zones expanding, ScienceNOW Daily News, 25 January 2008
3) The human epoch: The Scumocene, ScienceNOW Daily News, 24 January 2008
4) American Geophysical Union: the document. we're in real trouble, American Geophysical Union, Adopted by Council December 2003, Revised and Reaffirmed December 2007
5) bush corrupts law to kill whales, Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2008
also see: Interior department manipulation puts big oil before polar bears, McClatchy January 17, 2008
6) Yangtze almost dead, The Guardian, Thursday January 17 2008
7) Medicinal plants face extinction, BBC NEWS, 1-19-08
8) Global warming killing sierra trees, usgs, 8/8/2007
9) Scientists finally have noticed seasons have already changed (they spoke of the "future" affects as radical changes occured), usgs, 5/11/2007
10) Crimigrants kill american jaguar, ScienceNOW Daily News
other important environment stories:
EPA ignored science to deny california auto smog rules, bloomberg, January 24, 2008
Water shortage limiting growth, lat, 1-14-07
south asian food shortages, bbc, 9 January 2008
China's farms struggle to meet growing demand, BBC News, 1-5-08, Henan
China institutes price controls on energy, food, nyt, January 10, 2008
Energy Bill: Dems Serve Big Oil, NYT, December 14, 2007
interesting
low energy bulbs bad for humans? bbc, 1-5-08
one cell can feel? bbc 12-22-07
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The Gaza Ghetto
1) Hamas breaks israeli blockade: blows down Rafa wall, African Press Agency, 1-25-08
2) Israel adds another crime to the list: abdication of responsibility for occupied territories, ap, 1-24-08
Impending Economic Chaos
3) Beating a dead horse: Stimulus package goes to congress, ap, Jan 24, 2008
4) Fed going the wrong way? iht, January 24, 2008
5) Call for Nunez corruption probe, bee, January 23, 2008
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Iranian War?
1) Necons promoting war with iran, iranmania, January 20, 2008
1b) Right wing Birchers freaking out about neocon push for iranian war, john birch society, 10-18-07
Pakistan
2) Can Pakistan's new military chief reign in the army? Does he want to? aljazeera, JANUARY 19, 2008
3) Musharraf the dictator begging for support in europe, cnn, January 21, 2008
Nunez Term Limits Fraud
4) Fake Term Limits, Prop 93: SF Chron View, January 22, 2008
US protects Israeli Crimes against Humanity
5) Israeli crimes protected by us at un, bbc, 1-23-08
posted: Jan 24
Pakistan
6) Retired paki officers call for musharraf to step out of politics, lat, January 24, 2008
7) US planning action in paki mountain regions, lat, January 23, 2008
The Chicago Machine
8) Obama supporter rezko faces trials, ap, January 23, 2008
EPA Corrupt
9) EPA ignored science to deny california auto smog rules, bloomberg, January 24, 2008
Defender of Torture renominated
10) Bush renominates bradbury, author of torture memos, for office of legal counsel, nyt, January 24, 2008
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1) US troops to be in Iraq forever, McClatchy Newspapers, 1-17-08
2) Interior department manipulation puts big oil before polar bears, mcclatchy, January 17, 2008
3) Judge questions torture tape destruction, nyt, January 18, 2008
4) Russia lays claim to bush's policy of pre-emptive nuclear strikes, RussiaToday, January 19, 2008
Danger: Even the john birch society is freaked out by the bush push for war with iran
5) First-strike nuclear capability in place and ready for use against iran, wp, May 15, 2005
6) Gov Arnie's budget cuts everything, (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) Jan 11, 2008
6b) Arnie tries debt, econ tricks, smoke and mirrors, to lessen deficit, chron, January 15, 2008
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Term Limit Fraud
1) Arnie betrays democracy again: serves dems who are serving big money, upi, 1-14-08
1b) Arnie sells out to corporate-dem monopoly of politics in ca by weakening term limits, lat, January 15, 2008
bush wars and other Crimes
2) Govt plans to stay in iraq permently, nyt, January 15, 2008
3) Bush guns up the whole middle east, International Relations and Security Network, Zurich, 12-15-07
4) Israeli manipulation, bribery, and corruption conditions american presidential election, aljazerra, DECEMBER 30, 2007
5) Bush visits dictator mubarak, makes a mockery of american version of "democracy," lat, January 17, 2008
Pakistan
6) Zardari rejects musharraf deal, Daily times, -17-08
6b) Sharif rejects musharraf, Dawn, 1-17-08
6c) Rand reports to congress on american crimes in pakistan, the nation, 1-18-08
7) A mirror for "freedom house," economist, Jan 17th 2008
California Quagmire
8) Eminent domain initiative qualifies, bee, January 17, 2008
8b) Eminent domain initiative has a hidden agenda, California Alliance for Retired Americans, November 23, 2007
9) Bad levies limit growth around sacramento: Finally. bee, January 16, 2008
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Enviornment page 5
Grim news from the natural world
1) Himalayan glaciers in full retreat, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, 1-10-08
2) Eight years? Man has already irrevockably changed earth's seasons, guardian, January 3 2008
3) Warming driving species north, BBC, 29 December 2007
3b) Humans bad for animals, BBC, 27 December 2007
4) Hansen: Past the tipping point, national geographic, December 14, 2007
5) 2007 one of warmest on record, BBC, 13 December 2007
6) oceans warming, sea ice melting, National geographic, December 14, 2007
7) Dengue, tropical diseases spreading, National Geographic News, September 21, 2007
8) Global warming threatening corals, NYT, December 14, 2007
9) Global warming accelerates smog formation, bee, January 3, 2008
Freak Weather around the World
10) Iran, afghanistan, and pakistan: snow in the deserts, upi, 1-9-08
11) Freak tropical storm, tornadoes, hit mid west, nyt, January 9, 2008
12) Atlanta gets a short break: rain, NYT, December 31, 2007
The Power of Political Bribery
13) Bush climate program drags its feet, has climate research satellites stripped, nyt, September 14, 2007
14) Fed judge upholds ca auto emissions rules, NYT, December 13, 2007
15) And Bush bats them down: EPA rejects ca waiver. (Big Oil vs. democracy. We Lose, again.) Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Vehicles Program, December 19, 2007
16) Ca sues EPA for emissions waiver, lat, January 2, 2008
17) Political thieves busted trying to steal our last forests: New forest "rules" withdrawn, ap, January 9, 2008
Food Shortages, and more coming
18) World fish stocks collaspe: africa feeling it first, nyt, January 14, 2008
19) Rice yeilds very sensitive to warming, BBC News, Tokyo, 12, 29, 07
20) Greenpeace and sea shepard on jap whalers in antartic waters, The Observer, Sunday January 13 2008
21) China at minimum arable land for food safety, china daily, 2007-12-26
22) Fish farms threaten salmon with extinction, NYT, December 13, 2007
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1) Bush guns up middle east as iran conflict looms, ap, January 14, 2008
2) Israel ready to attack Iran, ap, January 14, 2008
3) Kibaki on Kenya election: I stole it, I keep it, bbc, 1-14-08
4) Consumer spending drops like a rock, nyt, January 14, 2008
5) Leg analyst: Arnie budget sucks, lat, January 14, 2008
6) Water shortage limiting growth, lat, 1-14-07
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