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January 20, 2008
Water Diversion Still a Problem for Navajo and HopiWith global warming out of control, coal-fired power plants should not be allowed to further destroy scarce resources. Although the efforts to re-open the Black mesa Mine were abandoned last year, the matter cannot be considered closed. MORELabels: aquifer, coal, hopi, mining, navajo, sacred February 05, 2007
War Against the Poor Enters New Phase "...two officers got out of the car and approached Common Ground volunteers. One of them, officer Lusk (badge number 1811) was involved in a previous incident where, he ... and another off duty officer in uniform broke into the office without a warrant and took computers and files belonging to Common Ground." story continues in DOGSPOTJanuary 10, 2007
Why is the UN Complicit in the Rape of Haiti?Since 1981, when the "Santa Fe Statement" was drafted, powers within the Republican party have been trying to install Marc Bazin as the ruler of Haiti, with the help of a crew of pirates trained by the School of Americas. The recent outrages of MINUSTAH are merely an extension of the same tired old policy, executed by graduates of the School of the Americas. RAPE OF HAITIJanuary 04, 2007
Goodbye John Lennon, Welcome to the 80s John Lennon was born during the Bombing of Britain, and died at the hands of a mysterious assailant on 8 December 1980 (mirror), at the age of 40. He was an inspiration for the kids a decade younger than himself who became known as "The British Invasion". At an early concert that drew unexpected crowds he was asked what he thought of his young fans. "Look at their teeth," he said, "they're working class heroes". December 08, 2006
Dumpster Divers Needed for EPA Bailout"...the EPA has already destroyed documents. The Christian Science Monitor reports that "scientific journals worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were thrown in dumpsters in October." An EPA chemist told the Kansas City Star that one library was told to throw away journals. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility uncovered documents ordering one library to recycle materials?"as many as possible."full story at The Union of Concerned Scientists May 11, 2006
Laughing Off Disaster at the Bush White HouseLaughter in response to tough questions isn't unusual in the Bush White House. Yesterday's reponse to the 18 page letter from Iran's President Ahmadinejad was not much different from what we recently experienced when Bush was questioned by an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University about contractor impunity - although it was not nearly as abusive as the incoherent joking and laughter that Secretary Rumsfeld launched at public news broadcasters when questioned about the bombing of Afghanistan - where, by the way, we are still deeply involved in a full scale war.full story and more at DOGSPOT April 13, 2006
Coastal Commission Staves off Special InterestsLast I heard, the coastal commission successfully asserted it's independence from Arnold Schwarzenegger, prevailing against an attempted take-over bid by friends of the governor's office.November 07, 2005
New Lies Attempt to Smooth a Bad Week for BushJohn King of CNN has eaten too many bananas. The load of compost he dumped on TV viewers via CNN has aged considerably since the original lies that got us into Guatemala in 1952. Now a re-colonization of South America is being planned, and along with it the same stale CIA lies promulgated by smirking reporters, who, knowing the truth, nonetheless collaborate to mislead the American people because only they know which side their bread is buttered on.story continues in this site is temporarily down.PBR Weekend EditionOctober 14, 2005
Peace Activist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
In his politics a proponent of peace, and in his art a master of silence, Harold Pinter has received his just reward from the Swedish Academy with their announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature. It was Pinter's adaptation of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1981 that helped launch the careers of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Pinter also began his career as an actor, and in the 50 years since has become one of the world's most widely respected playwrights, winning accolades from Tom Stoppard and Vaclav Havel. The occassion was true to form, by his own account: "I was called 20 minutes before the official announcement. The chair of the Nobel committee phoned and said, 'You have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature'. I remained silent, and then said, 'I'm speechless.'"In a report from ABC news, Nobel permanent secretary Horace Engdahl added to the academy's explanation for Pinter's win, saying the playwright "restored theatre to its basic elements - an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles". His style even saw the word 'Pinteresque' added to the artistic lexicon, meaning "a work of drama full of atmospheric silences peppered with half-stated insights". DOGSPOT UK April 08, 2005
In June of 2000, several writers for the Wall Street Journal won awards for daring reports of specific instances of terror: terror that continues systematically throughout Columbia. A frightening timeline leads to a trail of US funded terror squads operating in a similar manner today.
"Parmilitaries routinely induced fear in the rural population by entering villages and rounding up the residents in the town plaza. They would then brutally kill a handful of villagers, often dismembering them with machetes and chainsaws, before ordering the rest of the people to leave the region...
By forcibly displacing the rural population in this manner, the paramilitaries hoped to eliminate local support for the guerrillas. This strategy has aggravated the already grossly inequitable distribution of arable lands as large landowners, as well as multinational corporations interested in oil, coal and natural gas resources, have taken over much of the abandoned land."
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