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Scoop Satire:
National Leader Announces New Leader Prize
Mexico: Oaxaca's Repression Widens To Close Churches
Israel/Occupied Palestine: Remembering
Palestine's Fallen Leader
Protest: 100s
Of Thousands Of Americans Take To The Streets
American Coup: First Ohio Recount Criminals Convicted
– Who's Next?
Law: Elizabeth de la Vega
On The Latest Developments In Bush vs Rule Of Law
Armageddon: Iran And The Doomsday Clock
Plamegate: Jason Leopold – Saving Bush's
Brain
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Satire: National Leader Announces New Leader
Prize
- Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed with thinly-veiled enthusiasm today’s announcement of the formation of the Hillary Institute and of a prestigious international prize for outstanding leadership... It will be awarded to a person who displays great leadership in their chosen field. The Prime Minister also suggested that "perhaps an interest in mountaineering might be taken into account". See... Hood: PM Welcomes New Leadership Prize Hint Hint [1]
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Mexico: Oaxaca's Repression Widens To Close Churches
- Oaxaqeño authorities have yet again demonstrated just how bereft they are of the most minimal observation of human rights. Only a week after attacking a peaceful march of a thousand people in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, detaining several including minors, disappearing several more, and terrorising family members of about 20 prisoners into seeking refuge in the church housing the International Civil Commission for the Observation of Human Rights (CCIODH), they have turned their attention to the churches themselves. See... Julie Webb-Pullman: Ulises Ruiz Turns to Religion [1]
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Israel/Occupied Palestine: Remembering Palestine's
Fallen Leader
- "IF ARAFAT were alive…" one
hears this phrase increasingly often in conversations with
Palestinians, and also with Israelis and foreigners. "If
Arafat were alive, what's happening now in Gaza wouldn't be
happening…" - "If Arafat were alive, we would have
somebody to talk with…" - "If Arafat were alive, Islamic
fundamentalism would not have won among the Palestinians and
would have lost some force in the neighboring countries!"
See... Uri
Avnery: "If Arafat were Alive…" [1]
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Protest: 100s Of Thousands Of Americans Take To The
Streets
- Truthout.org Editor's Note: The New York Times article below states that "tens of thousands" attended the March on Washington, Saturday. For many years now, the United States Park Police and other government agencies have refused to estimate crowd sizes. The organizers of the March, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 400,000. Our headline of "hundreds of thousands" comes down somewhere in between. See... 100s of 1000s of Protesters Converge on Capitol [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00369.htm
American Coup: First Ohio Recount Criminals Convicted
– Who's Next?
- The first felony convictions of
two Cleveland poll workers stemming from Ohio's stolen 2004
election confirm that the official recount in that contested
vote was, in the words of county prosecutors, "rigged." The
question now is whether further prosecutions will reach
higher up in the ranks of officials who may have been
involved in illegalities throughout the rest of the state.
See... Convictions
Confirm Ohio 2004 Recount Was Rigged [1]
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Law: Elizabeth de la Vega On The Latest Developments In
Bush vs Rule Of Law
- I hope I can be forgiven if
animal images kept coming into my mind during the Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing last week. On the eve of the
first such hearing to be held by the newly-elected
Democratic majority, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent
a letter to Committee Chairmen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and
Arlen Specter (R-PA) announcing that, henceforth, the
President's Terrorist Surveillance Program would be
conducted under the supervision of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. See... Elizabeth
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Armageddon: Iran And The Doomsday Clock
- We
cannot stop or slow the space/time/continuum that permeates
our world and the universe, but we must, if we really care
about the future and destiny of humanity, stop the time of
human folly that is leading toward a black abyss. This was
underscored this month when the hands on the famous
“Doomsday Clock” of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists (BAS) was moved forward from seven to five
minutes before midnight. See... If
Atomic Clock Strikes 12 – Midnight Is Forever [1]
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Plamegate: Jason Leopold – Saving Bush's
Brain
-Karl Rove's criminal exposure in the leak of
covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was so extensive
that the White House feared it could cost Republicans the
presidential election in 2004. So administration officials
sacrificed one of their senior cabinet members and set him
up to be the fall guy for the leak in order to protect Rove,
"the lifeblood of the Republican party" and the White
House's senior political adviser. See…Attorney
- "Libby Sacrificed to Protect Rove" [1]
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