From info at mostlywater.org  Fri Nov 11 10:42:55 2005
From: info at mostlywater.org (Mostly Water)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:42:55 -0800
Subject: [news] News wire resumes
Message-ID: <4374E62F.6060905@mostlywater.org>

Hi all,

After a long pause, I have had time to look at the technical problems that were stopping the news from being forwarded to this list from the website. The regular feed will now resume daily. 

For those of you that don't know, the feed has been moved off of http://resist.ca and onto its new home at http://mostlywater.org. The content remains similar. As before, there will be about 3-6 stories every day. To unsubsribe from this list, go to https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news

The website also syndicates a dozen other news sources so if you aren't getting enough alternative press in your life, check out http://mostlywater.org/aggregator/sources

Ron (for the Resist News Collective)


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 11 02:09:57 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:09:57 -0000
Subject: [news] Bringing Out the Dead
Message-ID: <20051111100957.24858.qmail@resist.ca>

George Monbiot | Guardian | Nov 8, 2005

The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq

We can expect the US and UK governments to seek to minimise the extent of their war crimes. But it?s time the media stopped collaborating.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3583


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 11 10:12:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse
Message-ID: <20051111181207.23719.qmail@resist.ca>

The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could ?validate? the President?s war on terror and allow Bush to ?unite the country? in a ?time of national shock and sorrow.?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3585


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 11 10:12:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Seattle Police Kill Again
Message-ID: <20051111181207.23718.qmail@resist.ca>

Last night, Seattle Police killed yet another person for no apparent reason. At 70th NE and Roosevelt Way, in the University District last night, a car of people were chased and then one of them was killed, for some macho police chase that makes no sense. Apparently running a stop sign is now cause for deadly force in Seattle. This car was NOT stolen, NO weapons were involved?the only thing that caused this was the Police behaving irresponsibly, yet again.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3584


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 11 11:12:22 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] Blair Suffers Major Defeat on Terror Bill
Message-ID: <20051111191223.1115.qmail@resist.ca>

By ED JOHNSON | Associated Press

LONDON (AP) - In a political blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British lawmakers on Wednesday rejected tough anti-terrorism legislation that would have allowed suspects to be detained for 90 days without charge.

The House of Commons vote was the first major defeat of Blair's premiership and raises serious questions about his grip on power. Blair had staked his authority on the measure and doggedly refused to compromise.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3586


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 11 11:12:23 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:12:23 -0000
Subject: [news] Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ten Years Gone
Message-ID: <20051111191223.1116.qmail@resist.ca>

By SOFIRI PETERSIDE, PATTERSON OGON, MICHAEL WATTS and ANN ZALICK

There are a number of lessons to be learned from of the events of September 11th and the carnage in Iraq that followed. One is that oil politics is a violent, corrupt and authoritarian business. Another is that life in the oil states is often nasty, brutish and short. The life and memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian social activist, entrepreneur and acclaimed novelist is being celebrated this week, ten years to the day after he was hung by the Nigerian military tribunal on trumped up charges. Saro-Wiwa rose to international prominence precisely because he sought to expose, and to democratize, the sordid realities behind the quest for oil, money and power.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3587


From news at resist.ca  Sat Nov 12 14:12:14 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] France Still Burns: Day 16
Message-ID: <20051112221214.23978.qmail@resist.ca>

The number of cars torched overnight in France climbed slightly over the previous night to 502 in a 16th night of unrest that took its heaviest toll on the French provinces. Arson attacks were counted in 163 towns around France.

Security was boosted in the capital with some 3,000 police officers fanning out around strategic points to counter feared weekend attacks targeting Paris.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3591


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 02:12:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Rise Of America's New Enemy
Message-ID: <20051114101205.24993.qmail@resist.ca>

I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you here?" asked the man sitting opposite me in the packed jeep-bus that chugged up the hill. Like so many in Latin America, he appeared old, but wasn't. Without waiting for my answer, he listed why he supported President Chavez: schools, clinics, affordable food, "our constitution, our democracy" and "for the first time, the oil money is going to us." I asked him if he belonged to the MRV, Chavez's party, "No, I've never been in a political party; I can only tell you how my life has been changed, as I never dreamt."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3594


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 12:12:17 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Video sows seeds of controversy: GM grain film blocked by U
	of M: researchers
Message-ID: <20051114201218.13147.qmail@resist.ca>

Mon Sep 12 2005 | By Helen Fallding

TWO researchers accuse the University of Manitoba of blocking for three years the release of their video exploring the risks of genetically modified crops, while at the same courting funds from biotech companies. The case is being compared to a University of Toronto scandal over the suppression of drug research concerns.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3593


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 12:12:18 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:12:18 -0000
Subject: [news] One Guantanamo Captive: Canadian Omar Khadr (AI)
Message-ID: <20051114201218.13152.qmail@resist.ca>

Amnesty International USA | November 2005

"Young enemy combatants are treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status." - Letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Butler to Amnesty International, July 2003

Omar Khadr was taken into US custody when he was 15 years old. The US government has said that all detainees are "treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status". If this is true, then the case of Omar Khadr indicates that an "appropriate manner" involves torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as well as denial of any form of justice.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3597


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 12:12:17 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] House Battle Over Arctic Drilling Not Over
Message-ID: <20051114201218.13149.qmail@resist.ca>

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 11, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For a quarter-century, environmentalists have succeeded in blocking efforts to drill for oil in what they consider a pristine, cherished patch of tundra in an Alaska wildlife refuge.

But with sky-high fuel prices and a wider Republican majority in Congress, their long fight to keep oil companies out of the refuge looked to be in trouble. Then they got some help from an unexpected place: House Republicans angry over cuts to social programs.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3596


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 12:12:17 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Lobbyist Sought $9 Million to Set Bush Meeting
Message-ID: <20051114201218.13148.qmail@resist.ca>

By PHILIP SHENON | The New York Times | Nov 10, 2005

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3595


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 13:12:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Vancouver Legal Collective Taking Police Complaints
	Commissioner To Court
Message-ID: <20051114211208.23418.qmail@resist.ca>

Pivot Press Release | November 14, 2005 

Reliance on biased re-investigation and apparent ?back room? deal at heart of application for Judicial Review

Pivot Legal Society is launching a Judicial Review in Supreme Court to overturn Police Complaint Commissioner Dirk Ryneveld?s refusal to order public hearings into complaints of police misconduct filed in June, 2003.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3598


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 14:12:14 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Deforestation rate remains alarming
Message-ID: <20051114221214.6676.qmail@resist.ca>

Aljazeera | 14 November 2005

The world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate despite a slowing down in the net rate of forest loss because of new planting and natural growth, a UN agency says.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3600


From news at resist.ca  Mon Nov 14 15:12:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Making the Connections Between Canada and Africa
Message-ID: <20051114231208.4556.qmail@resist.ca>

By Chris Tenove | November 7, 2005 | TheTyee.ca

"I don't understand it," said Lewis, 67, who often speaks through a tight smile when he describes something galling or incomprehensible. "Why is there any resistance to plunging in and attempting to save millions of peoples' lives? We have the drugs, so why are we still losing them? It completely bewilders me."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3601


From news at resist.ca  Tue Nov 15 16:12:25 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:12:25 -0000
Subject: [news] Bus Riders' Union Fare Strike Nov  14 - 18
Message-ID: <20051116001226.12595.qmail@resist.ca>

[![BRU fare strike][1]][2] From November 14th to 18th, 2005, bus riders throughout Greater Vancouver will be participating in a fare strike called by the Bus Riders Union (BRU). Dozens of BRU organizers will be riding the buses throughout the week encouraging bus riders to participate in the political action.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/bru_fare_strike.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3608

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3607


From news at resist.ca  Tue Nov 15 17:12:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Beautiful -- Privatized -- British Columbia?
Message-ID: <20051116011207.9209.qmail@resist.ca>

[![storming the castle][1]][2]  
by Dru Oja Jay

When British Columbia's teachers defied laws passed by Gordon Campbell's Liberals to stage an "illegal strike" in October, it was the second major showdown with organized labour since the Liberals took power in 2001. The health care workers' strike in April 2004 had seen 43,000 workers in 11 unions join picket lines.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/storming_the_castle_web.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3609

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3610


From news at resist.ca  Wed Nov 16 10:12:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Rumsfeld Rejects UN Access to Guantanamo
Message-ID: <20051116181211.29787.qmail@resist.ca>

Foreign Policy In Focus - Nov 3, 2005

Amid growing concern over the fate and conditions of inmates engaged in a lengthy hunger strike at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday said he would not permit UN investigators to interview detainees there.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3613


From news at resist.ca  Wed Nov 16 10:12:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Planting the Seeds of Al-Qaidas Second Generation
Message-ID: <20051116181211.29792.qmail@resist.ca>

By Fawaz A. Gerges | Foreign Policy In Focus | Oct 27, 2005

The American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has provided al-Qaida with a new lease on life, a second generation of recruits and fighters, and a powerful outlet to expand its ideological outreach activities to Muslims worldwide.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3614


From news at resist.ca  Wed Nov 16 10:12:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Critics Blast Changes in Salvadoran Electoral Code
Message-ID: <20051116181212.29793.qmail@resist.ca>

Nov 11, 2005 | Prensa Latina

Opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) reiterated Friday that the recent modifications to the El Salvador electoral code would remove legitimacy and transparency from the 2006 elections.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3615


From news at resist.ca  Wed Nov 16 14:12:30 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:12:30 -0000
Subject: [news] Provoking Syria: Cambodia All Over Again
Message-ID: <20051116221233.28957.qmail@resist.ca>

In the wake of a United Nations investigation implicating a number of Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the Bush administration is calling for international sanctions, and leaking dark hints of war. But the United States is already unofficially at war with Syria. For the past six months, U.S. Army Rangers and the Special Operations Delta Force have been crossing the border into Syria, supposedly to "interdict" terrorists coming into Iraq. Several Syrian soldiers have been killed.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3621


From news at resist.ca  Wed Nov 16 19:12:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] DEA Charges Guatemalan Ally with Drug Trafficking
Message-ID: <20051117031210.16847.qmail@resist.ca>

(Adan) Castillo, who is accused of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the US, was detained after arriving in the (US)...Mr Castillo was in the US state of Virginia for a training course on how to fight drug trafficking through ports when he was arrested, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielman said.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3622


From news at resist.ca  Thu Nov 17 10:12:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. has detained 83,000 in war on terror
Message-ID: <20051117181212.10358.qmail@resist.ca>

Roughly 14,500 detainees remain in U.S. custody, primarily in Iraq.

The number has steadily grown since the first CIA paramilitary officers touched down in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, setting up more than 20 facilities including the "Salt Pit," an abandoned factory outside Kabul used for CIA detention and interrogation.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3618


From news at resist.ca  Thu Nov 17 10:12:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orpans & Mentally
	Handicapped Children
Message-ID: <20051117181212.10360.qmail@resist.ca>

Children who "cannot be reasonably consulted," such as those that are mentally handicapped or orphaned newborns may be tested on. With permission from the institution or guardian in charge of the individual, the child may be exposed to chemicals for the sake of research.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3620


From news at resist.ca  Thu Nov 17 10:12:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Ontario Works change a bad idea: doctor
Message-ID: <20051117181213.10362.qmail@resist.ca>

By W. Brice McVicar | BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER | November 14, 2005

A Trenton-based doctor is concerned the Ontario government is threatening the ability of local families to eat healthy, nutritious meals.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3623


From news at resist.ca  Thu Nov 17 10:12:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
Message-ID: <20051117181212.10359.qmail@resist.ca>

[A] document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3619


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 18 09:12:19 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:12:19 -0000
Subject: [news] America Only Bombs Countries It *Knows* Do Not Have WMD
Message-ID: <20051118171221.29136.qmail@resist.ca>

My son and I were talking recently about the bizarre double standard of treatment from America towards North Korea and Iraq. American officials said they *thought* there were nuclear weapons being made in Iraq by Saddam, so we have spent several years and billions of dollars on a war there now. Yet in North Korea, where we *know* there are nuclear weapons, our military is nowhere to be seen.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3627


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 18 10:12:14 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Legalities of legalised drugs
Message-ID: <20051118181215.11066.qmail@resist.ca>

UBYSSEY | by Munisha Tumato

A new study to be presented in the House of Commons [...] recently released by the Health Officers council of BC, recommends that ?hard? drugs [...] be legalised in a regulated, not for profit manner. It supports putting drug manufacture and distribution into a public health framework rather than an illegal one, with the goal of reducing harm to both addicts and society at large.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3629


From news at resist.ca  Fri Nov 18 13:12:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Law and Order Vancouver: A Cynical Bid for Votes
Message-ID: <20051118211207.17331.qmail@resist.ca>

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has hardly been out of the news over the last three years. Numerous brutality allegations, international attention about systematic abuses of human rights, huge budget over runs and an ever increasing proportion of the city budget have insured the VPD stay front and centre in city news. So, the lack of critical discussion around policing in Vancouver is glaring during the current municipal election campaign....The Non Partisan Association (NPA) and Vision Vancouver ? the minority split from the city?s governing party -- have raced to outdo one another in insisting that the status quo shall continue in regards to policing. Both of the major mayoral candidates, Jim Green and Sam Sullivan, have come out against elected police boards. Both candidates have rushed to promise more money to a department known for its inability to keep within budget. Both say they want more cops on the beat..."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3630