From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 1 14:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Two States or One State: Debate Between Avnery and =?utf-8?q?Papp?= =?utf-8?b?w6k=?= Message-ID: <20070901214009.9693.qmail@resist.ca> Transmitted below is a transcript (an excellent translation notwithstanding a few typos) of the public debate in Tel Aviv earlier this month between Uri Avnery and Ilan Pappe on the subject "Two States or One State". While long, this transcript is a mind-expanding read as these two eminently decent, courageous and thoughtful Israelis ably and articulately defend their respective sides on the quintessential question facing those who still believe that peace, on any basis, is possible in Israel/Palestine. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/two_states_or_one_state_debate_between_avnery_and_pappe URL: http://mostlywater.org/two_states_or_one_state_debate_between_avnery_and_pappe From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 1 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] YouTube Video of Joel Kovel: "Overcoming Zionism" Message-ID: <20070901221704.14852.qmail@resist.ca> Professor Joel Kovel on "Overcoming Zionism" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/youtube_video_of_joel_kovel_overcoming_zionism URL: http://mostlywater.org/youtube_video_of_joel_kovel_overcoming_zionism From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 1 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why I Am Not Going to the Protest Message-ID: <20070901221704.14853.qmail@resist.ca> I am not going to the protest. I am tired of protests: they don't stop wars. Not protests that are mostly about sign waving and hooking up with friends and strangers and feeling the solidarity and then going back to work or school on Monday...Here is what I propose: let's stop messing around. No more anti-war. Let's stop the war...Shut 'er down. No more business as usual. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_i_am_not_going_to_the_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_i_am_not_going_to_the_protest From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 1 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The AFL: The Boom, Union Busting, and Temporary Foreign Workers Message-ID: <20070901221704.14854.qmail@resist.ca> The Boom, Union Busting, and Temporary Foreign Workers Plans to Import Workers a "Lose-Lose Proposition" Alberta is in the middle of a boom. There is no question about that. Due to the pace of economic activity, the labour market is tight. Employers are having to work harder to find workers for their projects. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_afl_the_boom_union_busting_and_temporary_foreign_workers URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_afl_the_boom_union_busting_and_temporary_foreign_workers From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 1 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Intellectuals and the "War on Terror" Message-ID: <20070902031703.16980.qmail@resist.ca> The 'war on terror' has an intellectual arm, and many of the most significant contributors are 'liberals'...Those who have attempted to understand causes have been portrayed as themselves a cause of 9/11. A prime example is the work of **Alan Dershowitz**, a Harvard law professor with a reputation for liberal stances on civil liberties. For Dershowitz, attempting to understand and eliminate the root causes of terrorism was "exactly the wrong approach"...For Dershowitz, the sensible response to terrorism is to send out this message: "we will hunt you down and destroy your capacity to engage in terrorism." What is most troubling here is the wilful blindness to root causes, combined with the old fantasy that terrorists are finite and can be physically hunted down and destroyed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/intellectuals_and_the_war_on_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/intellectuals_and_the_war_on_terror From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Mighty are Falling: The Pine Beetle is Not Done Yet Message-ID: <20070902181704.19137.qmail@resist.ca> >From a helicopter flying west of Williams Lake, B.C., over the majestic Chilcotin Plateau and seemingly endless waves of dead, red trees, the mountain pine beetle appears nothing less than invincible. In fact, it's not: The beetle remains vulnerable to fire, freezing temperatures and predatory birds. It can also be killed by cutting down infested trees. But in British Columbia at least, it has proved virtually unstoppable. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_mighty_are_falling_the_pine_beetle_is_not_done_yet URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_mighty_are_falling_the_pine_beetle_is_not_done_yet From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran Message-ID: <20070902181704.19138.qmail@resist.ca> Washington - The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/pentagon_three_day_blitz_plan_for_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/pentagon_three_day_blitz_plan_for_iran From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 11:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia Presents Documents on US interference Message-ID: <20070902184017.22409.qmail@resist.ca> The Bolivian government has declared it has documents that prove the US illegally interferes in the country's domestic affairs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bolivian_presents_documents_on_us_interference URL: http://mostlywater.org/bolivian_presents_documents_on_us_interference From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Link to Video) Message-ID: <20070902191704.28464.qmail@resist.ca> In 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba experienced an 'energy famine.' Transportation and agriculture virtually came to a stop due to lack of diesel fuel and fertilizer shortages. This film explores what changes were put in place. The makers of the film "The End Of Suburbia" went to Cuba to explore it as a test case for what the conditions after Peak Oil would look like. This is that story. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/power_of_community_how_cuba_survived_peak_oil_link_to_video URL: http://mostlywater.org/power_of_community_how_cuba_survived_peak_oil_link_to_video From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 12:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Lessons from Yugoslavia's experience Message-ID: <20070902194013.14718.qmail@resist.ca> -President Mugabe, President Vladmir Putin of Russia and President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia were at different times vilified and attempts were made to encircle and isolate them for refusing to go along with the Western agenda. If we look at the former Yugoslavia, Russia and Zimbabwe, we find more lessons for Zimbabwe in its current economic struggle against remnants of Rhodesian capital now allied to Western and South African corporate interests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lessons_from_yugoslavias_experience URL: http://mostlywater.org/lessons_from_yugoslavias_experience From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 12:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] NGO's and Imperialism Message-ID: <20070902194013.14722.qmail@resist.ca> Are some major Western non-governmental organizations really just an arm of imperialism?...Facing the reality that most development NGOs are heavily reliant on Western government ?aid,? which is usually directed towards countries of geopolitical importance to the captains of capitalism, may be unpleasant for some ?progressives,? but it is true nonetheless. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ngos_and_imperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/ngos_and_imperialism From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 15:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Poverty Committee Strikes Again: Delivers Garbage to NPA Councillor's Doorstep Message-ID: <20070902221714.15469.qmail@resist.ca> ...[I]n solidarity with [Canadian Union of Public Employees] workers on strike, frustrated residents of Vancouver and people of the [Downtown Eastside]...unloaded ?Sam?s baggage? on Kim Capri's front doorstep...?The [Non-Partisan Association] refuses to negotiate in good faith and today we are sharing the nasty reality of everyday life in our neighborhood to encourage the city to stop wasting taxpayer money on PR stunts and end the strike with a fair deal that meets the needs of Vancouver's public workers." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_poverty_committee_strikes_again_delivers_garbage_to_npa_councillors_doorstep URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_poverty_committee_strikes_again_delivers_garbage_to_npa_councillors_doorstep From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 15:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Hotel Workers Vote to Strike Message-ID: <20070902221714.15470.qmail@resist.ca> Workers in four of Vancouver's largest hotels have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike...Saying their employers aren't taking them seriously, they have voted 85 per cent in favour of hitting the picket lines. The vote gives union leaders the authority to call a strike if they feel negotiations with the employer aren't going well. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_hotel_workers_vote_to_strike URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_hotel_workers_vote_to_strike From seinforma at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 18:27:54 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Seinforma Canada Headlines Message-ID: <2513.24.57.91.109.1188782874.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Canada headlines this week: Mining company will destroy a Peruvian town The town lies on a deposit of about 12 million tons of mineral, but all this richness brings sadness instead of joy because the town, with all its memories and traditions, is condemned to disappear. And to make matters worse, nobody knows where all of them will be moved out. www.seinforma.ca/cerrodepascoeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/cerrodepascoesp.html ----------- THE HISTORY THAT WE CANNOT FORGET 25 years since the Sabra and Chatila massacre Three thousand Palestinians who had taken refuge in the camps of Sabra and Shatila, on the outskirts of Beirut, were massacreed between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Christian phalange of Elie Hobeika, a Lebanese militia which operated under the Israel Army control, and with its logistical support. www.seinforma.ca/sabraychatilaeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/sabraychatilaesp.html ------------ A PILL OF THE EXCESSES IN CONFLICTS POST COLD WAR Lords of War unveiled in Blood Diamond VIDEO Blood Diamond shows the horrors of civil war in Sierra Leone, 1991-2001. www.seinforma.ca/diamantedesangreeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/diamantedesangreesp.html 50th anniversary VIDEO --------- AMERICAN MERGER OF CHRONICLE AND LITERATURE Massacre Operation 50th anniversary ?A man that?s been shot dead is still alive?, Rodolfo Walsh was told in a bar in Argentina. These words were the inspiration for his most outstanding non-fiction novel: Massacre Operation. www.seinforma.ca/operacionmasacreeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/operacionmasacreesp.html -------------- COLOMBIAN JOURNALIST WILL TALK ABOUT FAIR TRADE COFFEE -WINDSOR ONTARIO The impact of coffee industry on coffee-producing communities The presentation will be discussing the future of small coffee producers beyond the statistics. www.seinforma.ca/fairtradecoffeeeng ------- LESSONS OF ARGENTINEAN ANTI-POLITICS: MAURICIO MACRI AND HIS PROJECTS 20,000 people will be expelled to build malls and hotels The elected Chief of Government of Buenos Aires and current president of Boca Juniors Soccer Club, made the proposal www.seinforma.ca/macrieng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/macriesp.html --------- DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA, CRY FOR HIM Are we really looking for Julio L?pez? Incredibly, one year after his disappearance there?s not a trace of him anywhere, the media has issued no statement on the matter, you don?t hear people shocked, and the Government is not making efforts to find him. www.seinforma.ca/juliolopezeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/juliolopezesp.html ---------- THIS THING SOUNDS, LOOKS AND SMELLS DIRTY Buying a wife from Colombia? Ron Wade who was closely involved with GW Bush's election campaign committee is photographed with a young woman, Laura, his Colombian wife, in a web site that promotes this weird business. www.seinforma.ca/buyingawifefromcolombiaeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/buyingawifefromcolombiaesp.html ------ "WITH BOLIVAR, CHARGE!" Bolivarian Manifesto for Our America "There is no better way to achieve freedom than to fight for it": Simon Bolivar. www.seinforma.ca/bolivarianmanifestoeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/manifiestobolivarianoesp.html ----- LATIN FARMERS SPEAK OUT IN NEW YORK Global Struggle for Food Sovereignty on debate The panel will be moderated by Colleen Ross, Ontario Program Manager of Heifer International and the Women's President of the National Farmers Union of Canada. www.seinforma.ca/farmersspeakouteng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/farmersspeakoutesp.html ------- To stop receiving Seinforma headlines please reply this email with the legend ?unsubscribe? in the subject. We respect your right to privacy From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 2 19:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Shawn Brant Released From Custody (With Conditions) Message-ID: <20070903021703.6738.qmail@resist.ca> In a most surprising move, the Judge agreed to release Shawn Brant yesterday on...conditions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shawn_brant_released_from_custody_with_conditions URL: http://mostlywater.org/shawn_brant_released_from_custody_with_conditions From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 3 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Shell Backs Away From Court Showdown Over Sacred Headwaters Message-ID: <20070903181704.15198.qmail@resist.ca> August 31, 2007 (Vancouver, BC) ? First Nations and concerned citizens in Vancouver and Smithers today say Royal Dutch Shell?s delay of legal action against the Sacred Headwaters blockaders shows Shell is concerned about growing opposition. Members of the Tahltan First Nation are blockading Shell?s coalbed methane project in the Sacred Headwaters, the birthplace of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine Rivers. Shell was to appear in Vancouver court today to request an injunction that would allow them to have the blockaders arrested. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29142 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29142 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 3 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate Change Protests Start APEC Meeting in Sydney Message-ID: <20070903181704.15199.qmail@resist.ca> The [APEC Meeting (Police Powers) Act 2007][1] came into force on August 30 and remain valid to September 12, 2007. It includes a list of people the police can exclude from the city centre, plus expanded powers of stop, search and detention, and confiscation of items from people, including prohibition of photographs by tourists of security areas. The measures in this Act amount to a new form of detention without trial, and constitute [a direct attack][2] on freedom of political expression and movement, aimed at outlawing dissent and stifling opposition to the APEC meeting. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ampa2007252/ [2]: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/apec-m21.shtml [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29146 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29146 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 3 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Residential School Survivors' Awards Message-ID: <20070904021705.7853.qmail@resist.ca> Awards could complete the Genocide if survivors forget that the Culture was the target, not individuals; don't keep talking about the past- move forward. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/residential_school_survivors_awards URL: http://mostlywater.org/residential_school_survivors_awards From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 3 21:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions? (Part 1 of 2) Message-ID: <20070904041711.5154.qmail@resist.ca> To date capitalists have financially supported two types of revolution: they have funded the neoliberal revolution to ?take the risk out of democracy?, and they have supported/hijacked popular revolutions (or in some cases manufactured ?revolutions?) in countries of geostrategic importance (i.e. in counties where regime change is beneficial to transnational capitalism). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/do_capitalists_fund_revolutions_part_1_of_2 URL: http://mostlywater.org/do_capitalists_fund_revolutions_part_1_of_2 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Middle East Madness Message-ID: <20070904181705.8657.qmail@resist.ca> The madness of war with Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/middle_east_madness URL: http://mostlywater.org/middle_east_madness From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Religious School Closes Amid Allegations of Sexual Improprieties & Cult Practices Message-ID: <20070904191704.16809.qmail@resist.ca> Citing rising costs and a drop in enrolment, officials at Grenville Christian College...announced at the end of July it would close...Students who attended the school over a period dating back to the 1980s paint a picture of a bizarre environment, involving so-called "light sessions" where teenagers were ordered from their beds in the middle of the night, made to sit in a dark room with a bright light shining on their face and accused repeatedly of being sinners by teachers and staff they couldn't see. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/religious_school_closes_amid_allegations_of_sexual_improprieties_cult_practices URL: http://mostlywater.org/religious_school_closes_amid_allegations_of_sexual_improprieties_cult_practices From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 12:40:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:40:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Holland Arrests Filipino Revolutionary at the Behest of U.S. Message-ID: <20070904194022.411.qmail@resist.ca> In August 2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced with some fanfare that it had decided to declare [Jose Maria] Sison a "terrorist." The [Communist Party of the Phillipines] as well as the [New People's Army] were already on the list of "foreign terrorist organizations" prepared by the State Department and rubber-stamped by Congress every two years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/holland_arrests_filipino_revolutionary_at_the_behest_of_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/holland_arrests_filipino_revolutionary_at_the_behest_of_u_s From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Neo-Nazis in Germany Message-ID: <20070904201704.9688.qmail@resist.ca> In many towns and villages, especially in eastern Germany, many local governments and judges either sympathize with or fear the Nazis, who call these areas "liberated zones". A few show more courage, together with church and union groups. But when young antifascists actively defy the many...[marches] of the [far right] [National Democratic Party]...every weekend in city after city all over Germany, they often find themselves being apprehended and arrested, while the Nazis get police protection. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/neo_nazis_in_germany URL: http://mostlywater.org/neo_nazis_in_germany From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Bush Can Get Away with Attacking Iran Message-ID: <20070904201704.9687.qmail@resist.ca> Many people in the antiwar movement try to reassure themselves: Bush cannot possibly attack Iran. He does not have the means to do so, or...even he is not foolish enough to engage in such an enterprise. Various particular reasons are put forward, such as: If he attacks, the Shiites in Iraq will cut the US supply lines...[T]he Iranians will block the Straits of Ormuz or will unleash dormant terrorist networks worldwide. Russia won't allow such an attack. China won't allow it -- they will dump the dollar. The Arab world will explode...All this is doubtful. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_bush_can_get_away_with_attacking_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_bush_can_get_away_with_attacking_iran From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 4 13:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Right-Wing 'Political Correctness' Rules Decal Row in Calgary Message-ID: <20070904204009.12231.qmail@resist.ca> With ['Support Our Troops']...decal mania sweeping Calgary and the country, right-wing political correctness has reached hysteria pitch...It's considered bad form to even question the now infallible slogan, while valid doubts about Canada's involvement in Afghanistan are drowned out by the yellow sticker distraction. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/right_wing_political_correctness_rules_decal_row_in_calgary URL: http://mostlywater.org/right_wing_political_correctness_rules_decal_row_in_calgary From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Peak Everything Message-ID: <20070905171703.32403.qmail@resist.ca> by Richard Heinberg ... Upon first encountering Peak Oil, most people tend to assume it is merely a single isolated problem to which there is a simple solution - whether of an eco-friendly nature (more renewable energy) or otherwise (more coal). But prolonged reflection and study tend to eat away at the viability of such "solutions"; meanwhile, as one contemplates how we humans have so quickly become so deeply dependent on the cheap, concentrated energy of oil and other fossil fuels, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we have caught ourselves on the horns of the Universal Ecological Dilemma, consisting of the interlinked elements of population pressure, resource depletion, and habitat destruction - and on a scale unprecedented in history. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29191 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29191 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 12:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The White House Terrorist Message-ID: <20070905194012.17423.qmail@resist.ca> The **Posada Carriles** case strongly undermines the credibility of the U.S. ?war on terror.? President Bush, who has declared many times that any nation that protects a terrorist will be considered an accomplice, is now faced with his own contradictions. Indeed, Posada Carriles was tried for illegally being in [the] U.S....He was arrested only after holding a press conference during which he boasted of having no fear of the U.S. government, which he loyally served for several decades. The seven charges against him only referred to migratory fraud and false testimony and not his criminal activities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_white_house_terrorist URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_white_house_terrorist From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 13:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mexican Rights Violated by Canada in Free =?utf-8?b?VHJhZGXigJlz?= Name Message-ID: <20070905201703.21969.qmail@resist.ca> Published September 3rd, 2007 in Opinion ALEX HUNDERT | JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS In mid-August, I spent several days in a small vacation town called Montebello, located between Ottawa and Montreal. In this town on the historic Ottawa River is a resort complex owned by a prominent hotel chain. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mexican_rights_violated_by_canada_in_free_trade_s_name URL: http://mostlywater.org/mexican_rights_violated_by_canada_in_free_trade_s_name From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 15:17:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] A Defining Moment: Standing With Finkelstein at De Paul Message-ID: <20070905221721.19031.qmail@resist.ca> I am an untenured, assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago, where Norman G. Finkelstein, the most heroic critic of U.S. and Israeli policy in Palestine ever to set foot in the U.S. academy, was denied tenure over nearly three months ago. I was, and am, deeply saddened that DePaul University, the institution where I have chosen to make a career, has so effectively undermined its social justice mission in a series of actions that have put us, as a faculty body, in grave peril. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_defining_moment_standing_with_finkelstein_at_de_paul URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_defining_moment_standing_with_finkelstein_at_de_paul From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 18:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Data Show Israel Stole Land Message-ID: <20070906011706.22192.qmail@resist.ca> Peace activists say Palestinians own West Bank tracts An Israeli peace group said Tuesday it has obtained government data showing that nearly 40 percent of land covered by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians, including big portions of blocs that Israel intends to keep under any future peace agreement. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/data_show_israel_stole_land URL: http://mostlywater.org/data_show_israel_stole_land From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 5 23:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Steve Point Stalo Lieutenant Governor, Second Indian Message-ID: <20070906064009.4888.qmail@resist.ca> Stalo Out Point Iona; Salish Indian Accepts Lieutenant Governor Sword; Will Ecology and Haida Title get recognition? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/steve_point_stalo_lieutenant_governor_second_indian URL: http://mostlywater.org/steve_point_stalo_lieutenant_governor_second_indian From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 6 07:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Avatars of the World, Unite! Message-ID: <20070906144013.25364.qmail@resist.ca> by Derek Blackadder Italian union's virtual demonstration against IBM launches new world of job actions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/avatars_of_the_world_unite URL: http://mostlywater.org/avatars_of_the_world_unite From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 6 08:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NYC Charges the Homeless Rent Message-ID: <20070906151703.31185.qmail@resist.ca> The mayor does what his predecessor always wanted to: charge for shelter stays by Graham Rayman | The Village Voice August 28th, 2007 6:35 PM Dusting off an idea dating back to the Giuliani era, the Bloomberg administration has quietly started charging rent to homeless people who stay in emergency city shelters, the Voice has learned. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nyc_charges_the_homeless_rent URL: http://mostlywater.org/nyc_charges_the_homeless_rent From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 6 08:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] USA's WMD: Nuke-armed B-52 Overflies US by "Mistake" Message-ID: <20070906151703.31186.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON (AFP) - A B-52 bomber flew the length of the United States last week loaded with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles in a major security breach, US military officials said Wednesday. "At no time was there a threat to public safety," said Lieutenant Colonel Ed Thomas. [uh huh. i always feel safer with a few nukes flying over.] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/usas_wmd_nuke_armed_b_52_overflies_us_by_mistake URL: http://mostlywater.org/usas_wmd_nuke_armed_b_52_overflies_us_by_mistake From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 6 18:40:27 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:40:27 -0000 Subject: [news] NATO Not Welcome: Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Center Attacked Message-ID: <20070907014028.13737.qmail@resist.ca> Early this morning the recruitment center on Georgia Street, [in Vancouver, BC] was attacked by anti-war activists. Buckets of red paint where thrown against the window and a sign reading "Bring the War Home" was posted to the front door..._"By bringing the war home we mean to inflict economic and political damage upon the war machine. Our actions will intensify"_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nato_not_welcome_canadian_armed_forces_recruiting_center_attacked URL: http://mostlywater.org/nato_not_welcome_canadian_armed_forces_recruiting_center_attacked From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 6 19:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] GUTS Calls for Immediate Ban of Police Tasers in Guelph Message-ID: <20070907021704.18144.qmail@resist.ca> The Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters is calling for an immediate ban on Tasers being issued to city Police...Currently only Supervisors and the Tactical Squad are issued Tasers. The Police Chief has called for Tasers to be issued to every front-line officer. There are several recent reports of inappropriate and excessive use of Tasers in Guelph. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guts_calls_for_immediate_ban_of_police_tasers_in_guelph URL: http://mostlywater.org/guts_calls_for_immediate_ban_of_police_tasers_in_guelph From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] APEC Protesters: 'We Will Not be Silenced' Message-ID: <20070907181704.4412.qmail@resist.ca> Thousands of people will gather at Sydney Town Hall on September 8 in what is expected to be the largest protest demonstration during the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/28859 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/28859 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Harper's Middle East Envoy Gets 'Earful' from Muslim Leaders Over Canada's Pro-Israel Stance Message-ID: <20070907181704.4413.qmail@resist.ca> [Member of Parliament] Wajid Khan heard strong criticism of Canada's pro-Israel approach to the Middle East under the Conservative government as he toured key Muslim and Arab states in the region last fall, documents show...Mr. Khan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's adviser on the Middle East, was also warned that a "clash of civilizations" looms unless the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is resolved shortly. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/harpers_middle_east_envoy_gets_earful_from_muslim_leaders_over_canadas_pro_israel_stance URL: http://mostlywater.org/harpers_middle_east_envoy_gets_earful_from_muslim_leaders_over_canadas_pro_israel_stance From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Open Letter to Council of Canadians Message-ID: <20070907184009.6808.qmail@resist.ca> I must admit that I've found it a little bit strange that I haven't seen any messages on anti-SPP email lists indicating that you're looking for the petitions. And no one has been in touch with me directly. But then, who would have thought some anarchist from the People's Global Action Bloc would bother to pick up three crates of petitions calling on the government to defend Canadian sovereignty and resources by putting the SPP to debate in parliament? Fair enough. I probably wouldn't organize a campaign around a petition ?- especially not a petition about the SPP that contains no reference to migration justice, indigenous sovereignty struggles, or the fact that the precious energy and environmental resources that the SPP throws into jeopardy might not be 'ours' or 'our parliament's' to debate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_council_of_canadians URL: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_council_of_canadians From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 13:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] All your Bases are Viewed by Us Message-ID: <20070907201704.1680.qmail@resist.ca> [![All Your Bases: US Military Bases][1]][2]**All Your Bases: **US Military BasesA Google Earth map is now available for download from the Transnational Institute which allows you to begin to see the extent of US and other military coverage of the planet. Over 800 bases are mapped so far and the launch of this project will help ensure the most complete space visual of just how war-crazy this world has become. Zoom in on Guantanamo Bay, NATO headquarters and others. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/allyourbase.thumbnail.png (All Your Bases: US Military Bases) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/all_your_bases_are_viewed_by_us URL: http://mostlywater.org/all_your_bases_are_viewed_by_us From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Who Are the Fanatics? Message-ID: <20070907211703.8543.qmail@resist.ca> When the facts are considered...the Bush/Cheney/neoconservative/Zionist propaganda that "we must fight them over there before they come over here" is such a transparent hoax that it is astounding that so many Americans have fallen for it...To the extent that there is any Muslim threat, it is one created by the US and Israel...If America is hated, America created the hate by its arrogant and dismissive treatment of the Muslim Middle East. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/who_are_the_fanatics URL: http://mostlywater.org/who_are_the_fanatics From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 7 22:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Backs Two-Tier Internet Message-ID: <20070908054012.11886.qmail@resist.ca> The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic. The agency said it was opposed to "network neutrality", the idea that all data on the net is treated equally...Net neutrality advocates argue that a two-tier internet would allow broadband providers to become gatekeepers to the web's content. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_backs_two_tier_internet URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_backs_two_tier_internet From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 8 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] An inside look at how U.S. interrogators destroyed the mind of Jose Padilla Message-ID: <20070908201704.11278.qmail@resist.ca> President Bush then classified Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant, stripping him of all his rights. He was transferred to a Navy brig in South Carolina where he was held in extreme isolation for forty three months. The Christian Science Monitor reported: "Padilla's cell measured nine feet by seven feet. The windows were covered over... He had no pillow. No sheet. No clock. No calendar. No radio. No television. No telephone calls. No visitors. Even Padilla's lawyer was prevented from seeing him for nearly two years." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_inside_look_at_how_u_s_interrogators_destroyed_the_mind_of_jose_padilla URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_inside_look_at_how_u_s_interrogators_destroyed_the_mind_of_jose_padilla From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 8 13:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Keeping Canada Safe Message-ID: <20070908204010.13759.qmail@resist.ca> The release of previously censored portions of the **Maher Arar** report adds a few new details to the now familiar story of his despicable treatment by the federal government and its security agencies...[F]or the entire time that Arar was in jail in Damascus, [Syria], the Canadian government publicly denied he was in danger of torture. We now know Ottawa was lying. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/keeping_canada_safe URL: http://mostlywater.org/keeping_canada_safe From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 8 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Study Shows U.S. Jews Distance Themselves From Israel Message-ID: <20070909004010.7858.qmail@resist.ca> Feelings of attachment to Israel [are] declining among non-Orthodox American Jews, and are replaced by indifference and even alienation, [a] study finds. Only **48 per cent** think Israel's destruction would be a personal tragedy for them [and] only **54 per cent** are 'comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state'... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/study_shows_u_s_jews_distance_themselves_from_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/study_shows_u_s_jews_distance_themselves_from_israel From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 8 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Spotlight on APEC Message-ID: <20070909021704.1422.qmail@resist.ca> Follow the links to all of the APEC coverage as it comes in at [http://mostlywater.org/other_criteria/apec_spotlight][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/other_criteria/apec_spotlight (http://mostlywater.org/other_criteria/apec_spotlight) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/spotlight_on_apec URL: http://mostlywater.org/spotlight_on_apec From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 8 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Potlatch Ecology Improvement for Protest Message-ID: <20070909021704.1421.qmail@resist.ca> Potlatch Positive Protest. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/potlatch_ecology_improvement_for_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/potlatch_ecology_improvement_for_protest From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 9 11:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] A Message from Leonard Peltier Message-ID: <20070909184010.10014.qmail@resist.ca> There are some who have voiced their opinion in one way or another, that I should give up after all these years of trying to win my freedom. Aside from the oppressors who put me here, some of them are people who were at times, part of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee...My answer, to put it in a simple, colloquial phrase, that anyone can understand, ?it ain?t gonna happen! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_message_from_leonard_peltier URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_message_from_leonard_peltier From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 9 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The UN: An Instrument of Terror Message-ID: <20070909191704.15388.qmail@resist.ca> It is na?ve and grossly ignorant to suggest that the UN's new role in U.S.-British occupied Iraq is anything other than an active complicity in [the] Iraq Genocide. The wanton destruction of Iraq, the looting of Iraq?s wealth and cultural heritage, the mass murder of innocent Iraqi civilians and the ongoing suffering of the Iraqi people under the radar screen of the UN is evidence that the UN is an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. It provides a fig leaf for U.S. wars of aggression and terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_un_an_instrument_of_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_un_an_instrument_of_terror From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 9 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Labor Activists in Burma Jailed for Up to 28 Years Message-ID: <20070910001704.30183.qmail@resist.ca> By Aye Aye Win/AP Writer/Rangoon Six labor activists were given jail sentences of up to 28 years by a court in Burma for organizing a seminar at a US Embassy center earlier this year, a defense lawyer said Saturday. [So, while the US works hard to bust unions and demonize organizers at home, they provide resources to organizers in Burma. -r] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/six_labor_activists_in_burma_jailed_for_up_to_28_years URL: http://mostlywater.org/six_labor_activists_in_burma_jailed_for_up_to_28_years From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] How Can We Organize Across National Borders? Message-ID: <20070910071704.24940.qmail@resist.ca> As the world becomes more integrated, the need for solidarity grows. An increasing number of goods are now manufactured by Chinese workers, assembled by Mexican workers, sold by American workers and serviced by Indian workers. Although workers are divided by national boundaries, global capitalism is forcing them to unite to defend their common interests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_can_we_organize_across_national_borders URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_can_we_organize_across_national_borders From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 08:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Chiapas] Coca-Cola's Raid on a Sacred Mountain Message-ID: <20070910151703.19450.qmail@resist.ca> By JOHN ROSS As the source of water for San Cristobal and the neighboring municipality of Zinacantan plus dozens of Zapatista rebel communities nestled in the valleys of Los Altos, Huitepec is both revered by the highland Maya as a sacred site, and besieged by national and transnational capital seeking to suck the Hill of Water dry. Riding the ridge between San Cristobal and Zinacantan, Huitepec's water wealth is drained off to feed expanding urban needs in the big city below. Foreign-owned greenhouses in Zinacantan that grow flowers for the global market drink up much Huitepec water. But the great predator here is the Coca Cola plant operated by Mexican bottler Femsa that sprawls at the foot of Huitepec Mountain like a temple to consumer greed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chiapas_coca_colas_raid_on_a_sacred_mountain URL: http://mostlywater.org/chiapas_coca_colas_raid_on_a_sacred_mountain From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] More Pipeline Bombings in Mexico Message-ID: <20070910181704.12780.qmail@resist.ca> [In what is becoming a time-honoured tradition in places where indigenous land and resources are being stolen by governments which don't represent the desires of the people, more strategic oil pipelines were blown up in Mexico earlier today. Meanwhile, in another time-honoured tradition, the corporate media coverage of the events failed to mention possible motivations for the bombings while racing to assure businesses that security along the pipeline has be increased. -r] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/more_pipeline_bombings_in_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/more_pipeline_bombings_in_mexico From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Unrecognized" Palestinians Message-ID: <20070910181704.12779.qmail@resist.ca> Stephen Lendman Israel violates international law and its own Basic Law by denying its Arab citizens their legal rights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unrecognized_palestinians URL: http://mostlywater.org/unrecognized_palestinians From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 12:40:31 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:40:31 -0000 Subject: [news] Thousands Protest APEC in Sydney Despite Police Intimidation Message-ID: <20070910194033.4279.qmail@resist.ca> Ten thousand people gathered in Sydney on Sept 8 to protest and march against the war in Iraq, US president Bush, climate in-action, and the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum leaders meeting. There was a heavy police presence with many streets barricaded by Police buses and police lining the approved route to Hyde Park North. Despite the heavy police presence and provocation the rally and march was largely peaceful. [Also see a related [Infoshop article][1].] [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29463 [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29464 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29464 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 13:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's water 'on the negotiating table' Message-ID: <20070910201709.12456.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's water 'on the negotiating table,' report says Vague wording in NAFTA doesn't protect country against bulk shipments and other forms of sale to the U.S. MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT September 10, 2007 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_water_on_the_negotiating_table URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_water_on_the_negotiating_table From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 13:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Politics Imitating Art?: "Law & Order" D.A. Running for Republicans Message-ID: <20070910204009.15345.qmail@resist.ca> Apparently, playing the gruff, conservative and cynical District Attorney _Arthur Branch_ on the popular television series **Law & Order** isn't much of a stretch for Actor/Lawyer/Republican Politician **Fred Thompson**. Like another former Republican Presidential candidate and Actor, Thompson has 'spectacularly bad politics' and is not known for being much of a deep thinker: "[Fred Thompson] loves tax cuts for the wealthy and free trade, thinks that global warming is a hoax, wants to overturn Roe [Versus Wade], is big on the Iraq war, beats up on immigrants, and makes the [National Rifle Association] happy at every turn." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_politics_imitating_art_law_order_d_a_running_for_republicans URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_politics_imitating_art_law_order_d_a_running_for_republicans From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Capitalism Needs Terror: An Interview with Naomi Klein Message-ID: <20070911021705.14325.qmail@resist.ca> "...[D]isasters are moments where people are blasted out of the way...or just picking up the pieces after having been bombed, or their entire world view has just been shattered...[S]o you have...these think tanks as sort of idea-warmers -- they keep the ideas ready for when the disaster hits. Milton Friedman said that only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change, and when that crisis hits, the change that occurs depends on the ideas that are lying around." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_capitalism_needs_terror_an_interview_with_naomi_klein URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_capitalism_needs_terror_an_interview_with_naomi_klein From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] PNAC Revisited: Road Map to Iraq Message-ID: <20070911021705.14326.qmail@resist.ca> We are quickly approaching the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and I thought we should revisit an important document from the [Project for a New American Century][1] entitled [Rebuilding America?s Defences][2]. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.newamericancentury.org/index.html [2]: http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf [3]: http://mostlywater.org/pnac_revisited_road_map_to_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/pnac_revisited_road_map_to_iraq From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 10 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Victoria: Protests Target NATO Meeting Message-ID: <20070911021705.14327.qmail@resist.ca> On the night of September 7, the locks of Victoria city hall were glued shut and the tires of a Posscan security company van were slashed. These small actions and the action on the night before where an army recruiting center was attacked can be seen as preemptive strikes against NATO's visit to Victoria... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_protests_target_nato_meeting URL: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_protests_target_nato_meeting From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 11 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Project Censored "Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2006-07" Message-ID: <20070911071703.17321.qmail@resist.ca> Project Censored releases its pick of the 25 most important under-covered news stories of 2006-07. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/project_censored_top_25_censored_news_stories_of_2006_07 URL: http://mostlywater.org/project_censored_top_25_censored_news_stories_of_2006_07 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 11 10:17:45 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:17:45 -0000 Subject: [news] Review: Renewable Energy cannot Sustain a Consumer Society Message-ID: <20070911171747.15278.qmail@resist.ca> [![Renewable Energy cannot Sustain Capitalism][1]][2]**Renewable Energy cannot Sustain Capitalism**Graham Strouts Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer's new book. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/renewable+energy+cannot+sustain.thumbnail.jpg (Renewable Energy cannot Sustain Capitalism) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29484 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29484 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 11 10:17:46 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:17:46 -0000 Subject: [news] Study Finds Left-wing Brain, Right-wing Brain Message-ID: <20070911171748.15280.qmail@resist.ca> Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show. By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 10, 2007 Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/study_finds_left_wing_brain_right_wing_brain URL: http://mostlywater.org/study_finds_left_wing_brain_right_wing_brain From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 11 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Meet General David Petraeus: Fanning the Flames of Middle East War Message-ID: <20070911184010.8411.qmail@resist.ca> With a Ph.D. from Princeton University, [General David Petraeus] exemplifies the new breed of warrior who combines scholarly insight, cultural understanding and steely determination...Petraeus' record has largely escaped scrutiny. If any one General symbolizes the failure that is Iraq, it is Petraeus. Having served in multiple positions in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, Petraeus bears enormous responsibility for the Iraq debacle. And he hasn?t seemed to have learned anything as he is replicating policies that deepened the quagmire in the first place. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/meet_general_david_petraeus_fanning_the_flames_of_middle_east_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/meet_general_david_petraeus_fanning_the_flames_of_middle_east_war From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Potlatch Originated on North Beach Message-ID: <20070912071704.6186.qmail@resist.ca> Potlatch Principle connects life with spirit. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/potlatch_originated_on_north_beach URL: http://mostlywater.org/potlatch_originated_on_north_beach From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions? (Part 2 of 2) Message-ID: <20070912071704.6187.qmail@resist.ca> **Part one** of this article reviewed some of the ways by which liberal philanthropists work to co-opt the activities of progressive groups all over the world...**Part two** of the article will continue to review the recent literature pertaining to the insidious anti-radicalising activities of liberal philanthropists and their foundations, and conclude by offering suggestions for how progressive activists might begin to move beyond the _Non-Profit Industrial Complex_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/do_capitalists_fund_revolutions_part_2_of_2 URL: http://mostlywater.org/do_capitalists_fund_revolutions_part_2_of_2 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 01:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Canada=E2=80=99s?= First Post-9/11 Rendition Survivor Demands Public Review Message-ID: <20070912081704.29069.qmail@resist.ca> While most Canadians are familiar with the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian survivor of rendition to torture, few have heard of **[Benamar] Benatta**, an Algerian refugee claimant who was handed over to the Americans on September 12, 2001. Canadian officials wrongfully identified Mr. Benatta as a suspect in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 solely based on prejudicial suspicions ? he was a Muslim man who knew something about airplanes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_s_first_post_9_11_rendition_survivor_demands_public_review URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_s_first_post_9_11_rendition_survivor_demands_public_review From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 08:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Bigger, Uglier Story of Addicted Women Goes Untold Message-ID: <20070912154010.17422.qmail@resist.ca> By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich | WeNews commentator Tabloid entertainment media is making young female celebrities with drug problems seem chic. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich says this trivializes the depth of their actual addiction and the strung-out reality of everyday women lost in our streets. Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Kate Moss, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse and other beautiful young celebrity women have become prime-time poster girls for the fast life. Court-ordered ankle bracelets that electronically track abusive levels of alcohol in the body are glamorized as fashion statements. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bigger_uglier_story_of_addicted_women_goes_untold URL: http://mostlywater.org/bigger_uglier_story_of_addicted_women_goes_untold From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 16:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Book on Hold Message-ID: <20070912231704.19439.qmail@resist.ca> The University of Michigan Press last month halted distribution of _Overcoming Zionism_, which argues that the creation of Israel was a mistake and urges adoption of the ?one state? solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Israelis and Palestinians would form a new country, without a Jewish character. The book was written by **Joel Kovel**, distinguished professor of social studies at Bard College. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_book_on_hold URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_book_on_hold From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 12 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Backlash Arises Over Labour's Push to Right Message-ID: <20070913014009.3701.qmail@resist.ca> There's a new family fight within...the **Vancouver and District Labour Council** [which has] voted to endorse a controversially moderate "group of seven" slate of candidates for the...executive [board] of the [Coalition] of Progressive Electors (COPE). A small group of labour radicals responded by calling the decision "a gross breach of democracy",...[T]he President of the VDLC claimed..."We are used to hearing false and outrageous accusations from personalities involved with this particular group [of radicals]." An e-mail war has broken out [between] the so-called solidarity caucus within the VDLC against B.C. labour's established leadership, and not for the first time. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/backlash_arises_over_labours_push_to_right URL: http://mostlywater.org/backlash_arises_over_labours_push_to_right From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 13 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Free Speech is Not Given, but Taken Message-ID: <20070913071704.8583.qmail@resist.ca> Five little words on a picket sign ? **Victory to the Iraqi Resistance** ? were all it took. Suddenly, rightwing radio zealots, Christian news services and the website of a bayonet-loving militia group went nuts. The Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women in Seattle were committing treason! How to shut us up or, even better, kill us? Topping the list were bombing, shooting, hanging, and the advantages of knives...with fire ants an also-ran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/free_speech_is_not_given_but_taken URL: http://mostlywater.org/free_speech_is_not_given_but_taken From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 13 07:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] The Greatest Story Never Told Message-ID: <20070913144014.28425.qmail@resist.ca> Media distortion in covering Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_greatest_story_never_told URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_greatest_story_never_told From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 13 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Class is Still Critical Message-ID: <20070913171704.2443.qmail@resist.ca> A state of parallel worlds determines almost everything we do and how we do it, everything we know and how we know it. The word that once described it, **class**, is unmentionable, just as imperialism used to be...Just as elite power seeks to order other countries according to the demands of its privilege, so class remains at the root of our own society's mutations and sorrows. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/class_is_still_critical URL: http://mostlywater.org/class_is_still_critical From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 13 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] UN Supports Indigenous Rights (Except Canada, US, Australia & New Zealand) Message-ID: <20070914041703.10120.qmail@resist.ca> The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after 22 years of debate...The document proposes protections for the human rights of native peoples, and for their land and resources...It passed despite opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/un_supports_indigenous_rights_except_canada_us_australia_new_zealand URL: http://mostlywater.org/un_supports_indigenous_rights_except_canada_us_australia_new_zealand From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 14 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Queer Witch Hunt in Uganda Message-ID: <20070915024008.10016.qmail@resist.ca> A new chapter opened this week in a vicious, media-led witchhunt that is outing gays in Uganda, when a daily newspaper unveiled the latest installment of what it bills as its "Weird Sex Investigation," publishing the names and detailed descriptions of 40 men it claimed are gay..."This article fingers those named for physical attack"... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_queer_witch_hunt_in_uganda URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_queer_witch_hunt_in_uganda From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 14 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Meet Bush and Die: The Killing of Abu Risha Message-ID: <20070915031703.13946.qmail@resist.ca> ...[Y]esterday's assassination underlines that Iraqis in Anbar [province] and elsewhere who closely ally themselves with the US are in danger of being killed. "It shows al-Qa'ida in Iraq remains a very dangerous and barbaric enemy," General Petraeus said in reaction to the killing. But Abu Risha might equally have been killed by the many non al-Qa'ida insurgent groups in Anbar who saw him as betraying them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/meet_bush_and_die_the_killing_of_abu_risha URL: http://mostlywater.org/meet_bush_and_die_the_killing_of_abu_risha From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 15 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition to Democracy Message-ID: <20070915211704.15484.qmail@resist.ca> The primary...concern of the U.S. government in Spain was to preserve its military and economic interests. Democracy in Spain was the least of its concerns. As a matter of fact, the U.S. government would have preferred to keep both [Fascist dictator General Francisco] Franco and the...regime alive and in good health, rather than open up a democratic process with an uncertain outcome..._"It will be much easier to reach an agreement with the Spanish Government to renew the military bases in that country if Franco stays in power"_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_the_u_s_schemed_against_spains_transition_to_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_the_u_s_schemed_against_spains_transition_to_democracy From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 15 17:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] K-Ville Makes Police Brutality Acceptable Message-ID: <20070916004011.8221.qmail@resist.ca> ...Monday the Fox network presents a new television show called **K-Ville**. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the show promises to highlight the heroism of New Orleans cops...[K-Ville] also falls perfectly into an agenda of explaining and forgiving brutal police behavior...[by taking] one of the nation's most notoriously racist, violent and corrupt police forces, and [explaining] away their harmful acts as the natural result of the trauma of Katrina and its aftermath. When the cops on this show torture...it is because they are good people who have been pushed too hard. It makes us empathize with them and not...with their victims, who are seen as deserving of whatever punishment they receive. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/k_ville_makes_police_brutality_acceptable URL: http://mostlywater.org/k_ville_makes_police_brutality_acceptable From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 17 07:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Google as Big Brother Message-ID: <20070917144013.32059.qmail@resist.ca> Google Watch's articile provides us with a look at how Google tracks us, redirects us and alters our web experience. Running Google's tool bar? Good thing you have nothing to hide. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/google_as_big_brother URL: http://mostlywater.org/google_as_big_brother From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 17 08:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Open Letter to All Canadians Message-ID: <20070917151704.5226.qmail@resist.ca> On the 28th of February, 2005, pilot Arnie Feast and his passengers Dave Stevens, Fabian Bedard, Doug and Trevor Decock died following a survivable floatplane accident. All five men were working, or on their way to work and yet no investigation has ever been done into the Occupational Health and Safety hazards which contributed to these five deaths. There has been no coroner?s inquest. There has been no investigation for cause. An RCMP investigation remains open. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_all_canadians URL: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_all_canadians From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 17 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Righteousness & Self-Righteousness are Mutually Exclusive Message-ID: <20070917181703.27774.qmail@resist.ca> Israel?s nature as a state for the Jews rather than a state of all its citizens has embarrassed Jews both in Israel and in the diaspora for many decades. Just as Muslims who are horrified by what terrorists do in their name, many Jews find it hard to defend the morally indefensible, to bend their ethical standards in order to justify Israel?s actions in Jenin, Gaza or Beirut. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/righteousness_self_righteousness_mutually_exclusive URL: http://mostlywater.org/righteousness_self_righteousness_mutually_exclusive From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 17 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 25th Anniversary of Sabra & Shatila: On Massacres, Atrocities and Holocausts Message-ID: <20070917231703.1766.qmail@resist.ca> It happened twenty-five years ago ? **16 September 1982**. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it...For the victims and the handful of survivors, it was a 36-hour holocaust without mercy. It was deliberate, it was planned and it was overseen...**Sabra** and **Shatila** ? two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon ? were the theatres for this staged slaughter. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/25th_anniversary_of_sabra_shatila_on_massacres_atrocities_and_holocausts URL: http://mostlywater.org/25th_anniversary_of_sabra_shatila_on_massacres_atrocities_and_holocausts From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Predicted Financial Storm Has Arrived Message-ID: <20070918071703.19221.qmail@resist.ca> Contradictions now wrack the world's financial system, and a growing consensus exists between those who endorse it and those who argue the status quo is both crisis-prone as well as immoral. If we are to believe the institutions and personalities who have been in the forefront of the defense of capitalism, we are on the verge of a serious crisis-if not now, then in the near future. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_predicted_financial_storm_has_arrived URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_predicted_financial_storm_has_arrived From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 10:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Outremont Election Spin Message-ID: <20070918174014.2147.qmail@resist.ca> So, the conventional spin is that the Liberal lost all three by elections in Quebec today, including the "Liberal stronghold" of Outremont, and oh what a disaster for St?phane Dion. But the truth is, Outremont elected yet another Liberal in 2007... he just had orange campaign signs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29896 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29896 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Time for Canada to Exit NATO Message-ID: <20070918191704.16635.qmail@resist.ca> It should be obvious that NATO is led by the U.S. military. With its current role involved with the powers of the American empire in unilateral pre-emptive actions that generally work against international law, yes, NATO is nothing but an extension of that empire, a tool of the corporate-military structure that is part and parcel of the American government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/time_for_canada_to_exit_nato URL: http://mostlywater.org/time_for_canada_to_exit_nato From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 12:40:50 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:40:50 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq Expels American Mercenaries Message-ID: <20070918194052.2720.qmail@resist.ca> By ROBERT H. REID | Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi government Monday ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy. Sunday's shooting was the latest in a series of incidents in which Blackwater and other foreign contractors have been accused of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens. None has faced charges or prosecution. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_expels_american_mercenaries URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_expels_american_mercenaries From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel: Jewish Youth 'Acting Like Neo-Nazis' Message-ID: <20070918221705.4868.qmail@resist.ca> Until Israeli society begins seriously combatting this dark racism, it will continue to regard the "neo-Nazis" as aliens who suddenly landed here. Public opinion will continue to believe that if we only send them back to the distant planet from whence they came, everything will be resolved. This is really not the case. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_jewish_youth_acting_like_neo_nazis URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_jewish_youth_acting_like_neo_nazis From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 18 22:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] NATO Meeting in Victoria Including Street Protests Message-ID: <20070919054009.19167.qmail@resist.ca> Video Resource: Nato meeting in Victoria including street protests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/video_resource_nato_meeting_in_victoria_including_street_protests URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_resource_nato_meeting_in_victoria_including_street_protests From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 00:41:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:41:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia Needs Our Solidarity Message-ID: <20070919074108.16523.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]oday a resurgent right wing is determined to destabilise [Bolivia] and [its] government ? even if it means plunging the country into civil war or provoking a violent military coup ? to bring down [President Evo] Morales, and with him the hopes and dreams of millions of indigenous and non-indigenous people, not just in Bolivia, but throughout Latin America and the world. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_needs_our_solidarity URL: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_needs_our_solidarity From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 09:40:22 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" Message-ID: <20070919164024.26589.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman A primer on everything wrong with the Bush administration. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_naomi_kleins_the_shock_doctrine URL: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_naomi_kleins_the_shock_doctrine From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 13:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Wildcat Strikes Continue to Sweep Across Alberta Message-ID: <20070919204011.26767.qmail@resist.ca> Booming Alberta crippled by wildcat strikes by frustrated tradesmen September 16, 2007 EDMONTON (CP) ? Alberta's booming construction landscape is being disrupted with pickets and protests as a complicated labour law that hobbles building trade unions from striking is being attacked by hundreds of workers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/wildcat_strikes_continue_to_sweep_across_alberta URL: http://mostlywater.org/wildcat_strikes_continue_to_sweep_across_alberta From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 15:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Montreal Activists call on Brian Mulroney to Denounce Israeli Aparthied Message-ID: <20070919224010.24215.qmail@resist.ca> [![The Wall][1]][2]**The Wall**On the 25th anniversary of the massacre of Sabra and Shatila Montreal, September 18th 2007: The Montreal network of the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid welcomed former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during a launch of his autobiography at Indigo bookstore by unfurling a banner denouncing the apartheid situation under which Palestinians are living. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/the+wall.thumbnail.jpg (The Wall) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/29945 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/29945 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 18:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Over 2, 000 Targets': Bush Setting America Up for War with Iran Message-ID: <20070920014009.10545.qmail@resist.ca> In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior [US] intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories...Under the theory - which is gaining credence in Washington security circles - US action would provoke a major Iranian response, perhaps in the form of moves to cut off Gulf oil supplies, providing a trigger for air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and even its armed forces. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/over_2_000_targets_bush_setting_america_up_for_war_with_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/over_2_000_targets_bush_setting_america_up_for_war_with_iran From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 18:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Over 2, 000 Targets': Bush Setting America Up for War with Iran Message-ID: <20070920014009.10548.qmail@resist.ca> In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior [US] intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories...Under the theory - which is gaining credence in Washington security circles - US action would provoke a major Iranian response, perhaps in the form of moves to cut off Gulf oil supplies, providing a trigger for air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and even its armed forces. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/over_2_000_targets_bush_setting_america_up_for_war_with_iran_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/over_2_000_targets_bush_setting_america_up_for_war_with_iran_0 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 19 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Natives Arrested En Route to Protest Message-ID: <20070920041703.10341.qmail@resist.ca> A group of nomadic Navajo Indians en route to support the aboriginal quarry protest near Deseronto have been arrested, says a member currently at the quarry...Twenty-eight members of the tribe...were on their way to Deseronto...to show support and respect for a group of Tyendinaga Mohawks...They travelled across western Canada without incident, but once in Ontario, were stopped by law enforcement three times - Wawa, Sault St. Marie and finally Kaladar, where they were taken into police custody Sunday... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/natives_arrested_en_route_to_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/natives_arrested_en_route_to_protest From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 20 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Hundreds Arrested in US Anti-War March Message-ID: <20070920071703.13019.qmail@resist.ca> Nearly 200 protesters have been arrested during a march in Washington DC held to demand the return of troops from Iraq and the impeachment of George Bush...The arrests took place as police used chemical sprays on protesters attempting to climb over barricades outside the Capitol building. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hundreds_held_in_us_anti_war_march URL: http://mostlywater.org/hundreds_held_in_us_anti_war_march From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 20 21:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Arrests at Six Nations (Two Reports) Message-ID: <20070921044010.10671.qmail@resist.ca> **Two reports** on the arrests of nine Six Nations protestors at the Stirling Street sub-division near Caledonia, Ontario. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/arrests_at_six_nations_two_reports URL: http://mostlywater.org/arrests_at_six_nations_two_reports From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 00:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Shawn Brant: Another Case of Canada's Political Persecution of Indigenous People Message-ID: <20070921071707.30947.qmail@resist.ca> The Canadian state and corporations view the country?s economic development in terms of extracting resources from the land and selling them off...for profit. In this model, indigenous people...are an obstacle, and have been treated that way historically...Canada has treated indigenous people as a colonizer treats its victim, disrespecting agreements with them, dispossessing and excluding them, and using force with impunity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shawn_brant_another_case_of_canadas_political_persecution_of_indigenous_people URL: http://mostlywater.org/shawn_brant_another_case_of_canadas_political_persecution_of_indigenous_people From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 01:17:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Agenda For Ethnic Cleansing and Transfer Message-ID: <20070921081719.22960.qmail@resist.ca> The stage for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been set in the Occupied Territories, and ethnic cleansing is in progress. At present, this is the major project of the state of Israel...The prime ethnic cleansing tool is...land grab of Palestinian property in conjunction with expansion of settlements. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_agenda_for_ethnic_cleansing_and_transfer URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_agenda_for_ethnic_cleansing_and_transfer From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 02:17:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Update from the John Graham Defense Committee--by =?utf-8?q?John?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZcw==?= daughters Naneek and Chusia Message-ID: <20070921091720.1041.qmail@resist.ca> The decision on the appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada could be made as early as the end of September, though it could take several months. Please write and ask that the Canadian government not hide behind intergovernmental procedures but respect the spirit of the law. Our dad?s rights have been violated since the beginning when the FBI tried three times to coerce him into lying to back their theory that AIM executed Anna Mae. In fact, he was threatened by the FBI. This is a serious violation of our dad?s rights. Press conferences were held on the steps of the FBI building calling him a murderer, news articles regurgitated the state?s ?evidence? and websites slandered his name and reputation, all before any trial or indictment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/update_from_the_john_graham_defense_committee_by_john_s_daughters_naneek_and_chusia URL: http://mostlywater.org/update_from_the_john_graham_defense_committee_by_john_s_daughters_naneek_and_chusia From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 10:17:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] TIP Native American Roundtable Coverage Message-ID: <20070921171722.29921.qmail@resist.ca> (Munising, MI) - The healing of the environment and changing people?s attitudes toward nature are vital to the survival of mankind founders of the Turtle Island Project said during a Native American Roundtable this weekend along Lake Superior in northern Michigan. Respect for the environment, despair, racism, poverty, teen suicide on reservations, the derogatory perversion of American Indian names were among the topics discussed at the conference at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, Michigan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tip_native_american_roundtable_issues_discussed_racism_poverty_teen_suicide_derogatory_names_centering_prayer_celtics URL: http://mostlywater.org/tip_native_american_roundtable_issues_discussed_racism_poverty_teen_suicide_derogatory_names_centering_prayer_celtics From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 11:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] New Foreign Minister Receives "Baptism of Fire" by Anti-war Protesters in Montreal Message-ID: <20070921181715.20397.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL, September 20, 2007 ? Canada's new Foreign Minister, Maxime Bernier, was interrupted more than 12 times last evening as he tried to deliver a speech in support of Canada's military role in Afghanistan. Bernier was attempting to speak at the Omni Hotel in downtown Montreal, at a dinner opening the "International Conference on Canada's Mission in Afghanistan". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/30088 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/30088 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 11:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime Message-ID: <20070921181715.20398.qmail@resist.ca> Mike writes "London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost ?200 million but an analysis of the publicly funded spy network has cast serious doubt on its ability to help solve crime. In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/30079 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/30079 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 21 18:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] A History of Violence Message-ID: <20070922014017.6057.qmail@resist.ca> The history of the **Zionist movement** in Palestine...has been attended by violence between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians...The history of this violence was contained in the Zionist idea itself. Violence is integral to Zionism: not incidental to it...This violent history of Zionism had been foreseen by the early Zionists...and certainly, the risks inherent in Zionism could scarcely remain hidden once its victims began to resist the colonization of their lands. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_history_of_violence URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_history_of_violence From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 22 07:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Jensen: Captive breeding of spotted owls "obscene" Message-ID: <20070922144017.9150.qmail@resist.ca> Capturing and breeding spotted owls is ?obscene? and a ?crime against nature,? charges Derrick Jensen, a best-selling author, environmental activist and lecturer scheduled to visit Vancouver and Victoria in October. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jensen_captive_breeding_of_spotted_owls_obscene URL: http://mostlywater.org/jensen_captive_breeding_of_spotted_owls_obscene From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 22 08:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Women's group closes after losing its funding Message-ID: <20070922151710.14214.qmail@resist.ca> Les Whittington | Toronto Star | Sep 21, 2007 Women's rights advocates accused the Harper government of ignoring their struggle for equality after a leading women's group closed its doors because of a lack of federal funding. NAWL [National Association of Women and the Law] lost its funding of $300,000 a year after government spending cuts announced last fall. Despite a $13 billion budget surplus, the government slashed outlays for women's advocacy projects and eliminated the Court Challenges Program, which funded legal actions by rights advocates. "How can we ... say we are promoting rights for women in Afghanistan when our government is forcing women's organizations to close?" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/womens_group_closes_after_losing_its_funding URL: http://mostlywater.org/womens_group_closes_after_losing_its_funding From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 22 16:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Jena Ignites a Movement Message-ID: <20070922234015.8289.qmail@resist.ca> Six courageous families in the small Louisiana town of Jena sent out a call for justice that has now been amplified around the world. Yesterday's mass protests in Jena were unlike anything I have seen in my life, a beautiful and enormous outpouring of energy and outrage that may have the potential to ignite a movement. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jena_ignites_a_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/jena_ignites_a_movement From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Two Million Displaced Inside Iraq Since US Invasion Message-ID: <20070923181703.21111.qmail@resist.ca> Al Jazeera Nearly two million Iraqis have fled their homes for other parts of Iraq since the US-led invasion, creating a "human tragedy without precedence," the country's Red Crescent said. Most of them are women and children - poor, sick, suffering from malnutrition - with little access to the country's health infrastructure or basic services. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/two_million_displaced_inside_iraq_since_us_invasion URL: http://mostlywater.org/two_million_displaced_inside_iraq_since_us_invasion From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Commandos Trained by U.S. Contractor Message-ID: <20070923191705.28525.qmail@resist.ca> Beginning in May 2004, U.S. authorities contracted with [U.S. Investigations Services] to create the first [Emergency Response Unit]. The non-sectarian (sic) force is supposed ?to respond to national-level law enforcement emergencies. The four-week training runs recruits through SWAT-type emergency response training focusing on terrorist incidents, kidnappings, hostage negotiations, explosive ordnance, high-risk searches, high-risk assets, weapons of mass destruction, and other national-level law enforcement emergencies? according to the Pentagon. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_commandos_trained_by_u_s_contractor URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_commandos_trained_by_u_s_contractor From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Red Bull for the Boys Message-ID: <20070923191705.28526.qmail@resist.ca> Around 140,000 tins of [Red Bull] are shipped into [Iraq] every month and being poured down the throats of heavily armed teenage US infantry. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/red_bull_for_the_boys URL: http://mostlywater.org/red_bull_for_the_boys From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] KBIC Tribe Wants Sulfide Mine Near Lake Superior Stopped Message-ID: <20070923221703.18773.qmail@resist.ca> KBIC Tribe and many others want to stop "Acid Mine" near Lake Superior Public hearings ended this week on a proposed sulfide mine near Lake Superior in northern Michigan. The Turtle Island Project, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, environmental groups and thousands of residents are opposed to the Kennecott Minerals Corp. mine in Marquette County, Michigan. Many people call it the "Acid Mine" because the process of removing nickel from the earth causes sulfuric acid. The KBIC tribe strongly opposes the "acid mine" on the Yellow Dog Plains because sulfide mining tramples ceded territorial rights and the treaties of 1842 and 1856. A famous theologian will be discussing the mine and other environment issues as they relate to the Bible when he visits northern Michigan in early October While much opposition has been vocal - there has only been silence from some prominent people who claim they love Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, a democrat; and famous actor Jeff Daniels, whose wife hails from the same area the mine is planned and who makes pro-business TV ads for the state. A coalition of local businessmen back the project because of Michigan's faltering economy, however the mine will create less than 100 jobs and close within seven years. When those business leaders are not promoting the ?Acid Mine? - they are bragging about two national awards in recent years declaring the area an All-America County and one of America's Most Liveable Communities. One environment blog is calling for the county to be stripped of those titles if the mine is built. The written public comment period ends October 17, 2007 after which the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is expected to approve the mine's permit without regard for the public comment. If the MDEQ approves the mine it will be the worse kind of irony because their job is to protect the state's environment. All admit the mine will be using new and unproven technology. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kbic_tribe_wants_sulfide_mine_near_lake_superior_stopped_silence_from_gov_granholm_actor_jeff_daniels_huron_mountain_club_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/kbic_tribe_wants_sulfide_mine_near_lake_superior_stopped_silence_from_gov_granholm_actor_jeff_daniels_huron_mountain_club_0 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 15:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Arctic Sea Ice Melts to its Lowest Level Ever Message-ID: <20070923224010.21559.qmail@resist.ca> By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, The Independent (UK) Published: 22 September 2007 In what will be widely seen as one of the most alarming signs yet of accelerating global warming, the summer melt-back exceeded the September 2005 low point by 22 per cent ? an area of 1.2 million square kilometres ? more than 385,000 square miles. This represents an area five times the size of the UK. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/arctic_sea_ice_melts_to_its_lowest_level_ever URL: http://mostlywater.org/arctic_sea_ice_melts_to_its_lowest_level_ever From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 17:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Polyfesto Message-ID: <20070924004011.19996.qmail@resist.ca> by Paige Turner A manifesto/affirmation/meditation for those that would dare love beyond the limits imposed by others. "An outline for loving relationships, a doctrine for intimate revolutionaries & relationship anarchists, and a reminder to myself to live each day authentically". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/polyfesto URL: http://mostlywater.org/polyfesto From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] France Proposes DNA Tests for Immigrants Message-ID: <20070924031704.21698.qmail@resist.ca> A bill currently being debated in the French parliament would encourage potential immigrants wishing to join family members already in France to undergo a DNA test to prove they are related. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/france_proposes_dna_tests_for_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/france_proposes_dna_tests_for_immigrants From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 23 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Migrant Deaths Along Arizona-Mexico Border on Record Pace Message-ID: <20070924031704.21699.qmail@resist.ca> Deaths along much of the Arizona-Mexico border are ahead of the record pace set two years ago despite tightened border security expected to discourage migrants from crossing...The office of Pima County medical examiner Dr. Bruce Parks...has tallied 181 bodies or sets of remains recovered between Jan. 1 and Sept 8...Last year, 148 bodies were recovered during that period. In 2005, officials found 166 during that period. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/migrant_deaths_along_arizona_mexico_border_on_record_pace URL: http://mostlywater.org/migrant_deaths_along_arizona_mexico_border_on_record_pace From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 12:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. to Patrol Manitoba Border with Drone Aircraft Message-ID: <20070924194009.23243.qmail@resist.ca> The U.S. is preparing to use unmanned drone airplanes for surveillance of Manitoba's border with Minnesota and North Dakota...The North Dakota branch will be the first on the northern border to use a drone, which will begin operations in April 2008. They are already used to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_to_patrol_manitoba_border_with_drone_aircraft URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_to_patrol_manitoba_border_with_drone_aircraft From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 13:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Dollar Sinks Below Loonie on Tar Sands Production Message-ID: <20070924201703.29034.qmail@resist.ca> The rise in value of the Canadian dollar "is an energy story," said Busch. With crude oil futures trading at more than $83 U.S., investment capital is pouring north to help extract oil from so-called tar sands, also known as oil sands, in the province of Alberta. "The average cost to produce a barrel from tar sands is $40 to $45," Busch said. The current world oil price "puts oil development from tar sands on steroids." Regardless of currency exchange rates, investing in Alberta is a bullish trend, boosting demand for the loonie. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dollar_sinks_below_loonie URL: http://mostlywater.org/dollar_sinks_below_loonie From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Security Guard by Day, Insurgent by Night Message-ID: <20070924211703.5164.qmail@resist.ca> By day Ahmed works for an Iraqi security company. By night the stocky 30-year-old fights the "American occupier" in his Baghdad neighbourhood..."Our mission" [is to]..."[k]ill the Americans, as many Americans as possible." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/security_guard_by_day_insurgent_by_night URL: http://mostlywater.org/security_guard_by_day_insurgent_by_night From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 14:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] RCMPig Loses Two Days Pay for Punching Diabetic Man in the Head Message-ID: <20070924214009.23128.qmail@resist.ca> [A] [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] disciplinary board has fined a Kamloops officer two days' pay after he punched a diabetic man in the head because he thought, incorrectly, that the man was driving drunk. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpig_loses_two_days_pay_for_punching_diabetic_man_in_the_head URL: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpig_loses_two_days_pay_for_punching_diabetic_man_in_the_head From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Puppet Leader Message-ID: <20070925014009.21917.qmail@resist.ca> **Mahmoud Abbas** has to stay home. As things stand right now, he must not go to Washington. Even his meetings with [Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Olmert are gradually turning into a disgrace and have become a humiliation for his people...It has become impossible to bear the spectacle of the Palestinian leader's jolly visits in Jerusalem, [kissing] the cheek of the wife of the very prime minister who is meanwhile threatening to blockade a million and a half of his people, condemning them to darkness and hunger. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/puppet_leader URL: http://mostlywater.org/puppet_leader From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 22:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Rejects Hamas' Offer for Cease-Fire in Gaza Strip Message-ID: <20070925051704.6005.qmail@resist.ca> Israel has rejected an offer by Hamas to renew a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported Friday...On Thursday, [Hamas Prime Minister Ismail] Haniyeh met with representatives of the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza and asked them to abide by any cease-fire agreement Hamas would strike with Israel. The groups expressed willingness to assent, but wanted to wait for Israel's response. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_rejects_hamas_offer_for_cease_fire_in_gaza_strip URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_rejects_hamas_offer_for_cease_fire_in_gaza_strip From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 24 22:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The War on Gaza's Children Message-ID: <20070925051704.6006.qmail@resist.ca> An entire generation of Palestinians in Gaza is growing up stunted: physically and nutritionally stunted because they are not getting enough to eat; emotionally stunted because of the pressures of living in a virtual prison and facing the constant threat of destruction and displacement; intellectually and academically stunted because they cannot concentrate...because they are trying to study and learn in circumstances that no child should have to endure. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_gazas_children URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_gazas_children From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 25 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] CRTC Proposal Threatens Community Television in Canada Message-ID: <20070925171706.4442.qmail@resist.ca> Community access television in Canada is once again at risk of being destroyed as an access medium for the Canadian public. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) wants to remove the community channel from the basic cable package, a move that would, in effect, gut community television as an access medium. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/30262 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/30262 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 25 22:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Demonizes Ahmadinejad in Preparation for War on Iran Message-ID: <20070926054009.15498.qmail@resist.ca> There is...remarkably little substance to the debates now raging in the United States about **[Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad**. His quirky personality, penchant for outrageous one-liners, and combative populism are hardly serious concerns for foreign policy. Taking potshots at a bantam cock of a populist like Ahmadinejad is actually a way of expressing another, deeper anxiety: fear of Iran?s rising position as a regional power and its challenge to the American and Israeli status quo. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_demonizes_ahmadinejad_in_preparation_for_war_on_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_demonizes_ahmadinejad_in_preparation_for_war_on_iran From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 04:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] A Culture of Violence Message-ID: <20070926114010.17882.qmail@resist.ca> In-depth analysis of a nation addicted to war and violence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_culture_of_violence URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_culture_of_violence From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 15:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Zionism's Bad Conscience Message-ID: <20070926224009.25833.qmail@resist.ca> **Let me begin with some blunt questions**...Why have a substantial majority of Jews chosen to flaunt world opinion in order to rally about a state that essentially has turned its occupied lands into a huge concentration camp?...Why does the Zionist community, in raging against terrorism, forget that three of its prime ministers within the last twenty years...are openly recognized to have been world-class terrorists and mass murderers? And why will these words just written...be greeted with hatred and bitter denunciation by Zionists and called "self-hating" and "anti-Semitic"?...[W]hy do they see yet deny, the brutal reality that this state has wrought? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zionisms_bad_conscience URL: http://mostlywater.org/zionisms_bad_conscience From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A Pandemic of Police Brutality in the U.S. Message-ID: <20070926231703.29139.qmail@resist.ca> Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Ironically, Bush's "war on terror" has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing US civil [liberties] and turning an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic...The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_pandemic_of_police_brutality_in_the_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_pandemic_of_police_brutality_in_the_u_s From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Weapons Left by US Troops 'Used as Bait to Kill Iraqis' Message-ID: <20070927014009.7049.qmail@resist.ca> By Kim Sengupta in Baghdad | The Independent UK | 25 September 2007 US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by scattering military equipment on the ground as "bait", and then shooting those who pick them up... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/weapons_left_by_us_troops_used_as_bait_to_kill_iraqis URL: http://mostlywater.org/weapons_left_by_us_troops_used_as_bait_to_kill_iraqis From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] GUTS Exposes Liz Sandals' Policies on Accessibility to Message-ID: <20070927014009.7047.qmail@resist.ca> This morning at 8am, GUTS dumped bull manure all over the front of Liz Sandals' campaign office. This was done to express our concern that the Ontario Liberal government has done very little for those with disabilities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guts_exposes_liz_sandals_policies_on_accessibility_to URL: http://mostlywater.org/guts_exposes_liz_sandals_policies_on_accessibility_to From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 26 21:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Fascism: A False Revolution Message-ID: <20070927044009.5213.qmail@resist.ca> **Fascism** is a false revolution. It makes a revolutionary appeal without making an actual revolution. It propagates the widely proclaimed New Order while serving the same old moneyed interests...The danger of fascism comes not from skinheads or the militia or the Christian right fanatics. It comes from the ongoing practices of the National Security State and its various enforcement agencies; it comes from the boardrooms of corporate America. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fascism_a_false_revolution URL: http://mostlywater.org/fascism_a_false_revolution From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 27 10:41:39 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:41:39 -0000 Subject: [news] Fear, Impunity and State Power Message-ID: <20070927174144.27359.qmail@resist.ca> David Parker/independent/September 27th, 2007 Although a traveler passing through the cities of Colombia might see a country moderately developed, an urbanized population and a burgeoning middle class, while liberal economic journals describe Colombia?s economy as a prosperous, growing market, rich in natural resources and ready for investment, the situation in Colombia should only be understood as war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fear_impunity_and_state_power URL: http://mostlywater.org/fear_impunity_and_state_power From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 27 11:17:52 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:17:52 -0000 Subject: [news] Is the Burmese Military Softening to Popular Opinion? Message-ID: <20070927181756.18687.qmail@resist.ca> The Hindu [![Protest in Burma][1]][2]**Protest in Burma** SINGAPORE: Defying the Myanmar military junta?s warnings against any further mass protest, nearly 50,000 Buddhist monks and an equal number of civilians swarmed the streets of Yangon and other centres on Tuesday. [...T]he junta stayed its hand and did not order crackdown, which was implicit in the warnings issued on Monday following a similar demonstration over economic and political hardship. There were, of course, no confirmed signs of defection by soldiers to the ranks of protesters, but it was becoming ?hard for the regime to crack down,? it was emphasised. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/burmese+monks+protest.thumbnail.jpg (Protest in Burma) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_burmese_military_softening_to_popular_opinion URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_burmese_military_softening_to_popular_opinion From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 27 13:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Did Israel Attack Syria? Message-ID: <20070927201709.32266.qmail@resist.ca> Israel's air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighboring Lebanon...[W]hat was the purpose and significance of the attack?...The reasoning was simple: before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hizbullah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_did_israel_attack_syria URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_did_israel_attack_syria From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 27 19:17:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Billions over Baghdad - The Missing $9 Billion Message-ID: <20070928021719.10016.qmail@resist.ca> by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele | October 2007 | Vanity Fair [![Missing Iraqi Billions][1]][2]**Missing Iraqi Billions** Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency?much of it belonging to the Iraqi people?was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Following a trail that leads from a safe in one of Saddam's palaces to a house near San Diego, to a P.O. box in the Bahamas, the authors discover just how little anyone cared about how the money was handled. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/iraq_billions.thumbnail.jpg (Missing Iraqi Billions) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/billions_over_baghdad_the_missing_9_billion URL: http://mostlywater.org/billions_over_baghdad_the_missing_9_billion From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 27 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 'A Coup Has Occurred' Message-ID: <20070928061704.11083.qmail@resist.ca> **Daniel Ellsberg**, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20...[Here] is an edited transcript of Ellsberg?s speech. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_coup_has_occurred URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_coup_has_occurred From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 09:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The New British Empire? UK Plans to Annex South Atlantic Message-ID: <20070928164010.7318.qmail@resist.ca> Owen Bowcott | September 22, 2007 | The Guardian Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall in the hope of annexing potentially lucrative gas, mineral and oil fields, the Guardian has learned. Britain is accelerating its process of submitting applications to the UN - which is fraught with diplomatic sensitivities, not least with Argentina - before an international deadline for registering interests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_new_british_empire_uk_plans_to_annex_south_atlantic URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_new_british_empire_uk_plans_to_annex_south_atlantic From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 15:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Ongoing Struggle to Stop Uranium Mining Near Sharbot Lake Message-ID: <20070928221709.31528.qmail@resist.ca> The continuing blockade of a proposed uranium mine near Sharbot Lake, by the Ardoch Algonquin and Shabot Obaadjiwan nations, is an incredibly important struggle with many interesting dynamics that continues to receive very little media coverage. As it stands, most of the leaders of the blockade have warrants out for their arrest and are facing a $77 million lawsuit. Despite this, they are absolutely firm in their stance that the mine will never go through and they will not leave their land. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_ongoing_struggle_to_stop_uranium_mining_near_sharbot_lake URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_ongoing_struggle_to_stop_uranium_mining_near_sharbot_lake From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 15:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Zapatistas Under Attack, Suspend Southern Mexico Plans Message-ID: <20070928221709.31529.qmail@resist.ca> "We will do what we have to do: resist. It does not matter if we have to do it alone. It wouldn?t be the first time; before we became coffee-shop kitsch, alone indeed we were." --**Subcomandante Marcos** [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zapatistas_under_attack_suspend_southern_mexico_plans URL: http://mostlywater.org/zapatistas_under_attack_suspend_southern_mexico_plans From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Youth Steal Border Patrol Car & Return to Mexico Message-ID: <20070929011703.2935.qmail@resist.ca> Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/youth_steal_border_patrol_car_return_to_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/youth_steal_border_patrol_car_return_to_mexico From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 18:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops Want Jocks Message-ID: <20070929014010.20305.qmail@resist.ca> Remember that bully in high school who used to slam your head into the lockers? You know, the one who was captain of the football team? You may soon be seeing him again wearing a Vancouver Police uniform. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cops_want_jocks URL: http://mostlywater.org/cops_want_jocks From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 28 23:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] When Anthropologists Become Counter-Insurgents Message-ID: <20070929061705.20285.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]he value of culture is taking on a greater role in military and intelligence circles, as new military doctrines increasingly rely on the means, methods and knowledge of anthropology to provide the basis of counterinsurgency practices. The Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and military contractors are aggressively recruiting anthropologists for work related to counter-insurgency operations. These institutions seek to incorporate cultural knowledge and ethnographic intelligence in direct support of US-led interventions in the Middle East and Central Asia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/when_anthropologists_become_counter_insurgents URL: http://mostlywater.org/when_anthropologists_become_counter_insurgents From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 29 08:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Third Person Protesting Message-ID: <20070929151704.15191.qmail@resist.ca> What causes and political situations affect you in the first person? What causes do you lend your support to in the third person? How does your participation differ between the two and why? Positionality plays into protesting. If you are protesting about something that does not actually affect you directly, you may be able to take a more moderate, patient approach. This actually explains an often encountered consternation within many political movements. People protesting in the here and now, in first person, often have immediate grievances and often employ tactics quite different than those lending support from the periphery. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/third_person_protesting URL: http://mostlywater.org/third_person_protesting From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 29 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Arab League Aghast at US Senate Vote to Partition Iraq Message-ID: <20070930021704.31659.qmail@resist.ca> The US plan to crack up Iraq into homogeneous ethnic and sectarian entities - approved not by an Iraqi referendum, but by the US Senate with 75 to 23 votes yesterday - created upheaval at the headquarters of the Arab League. Reuters - Sep 27, 2007 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/arab_league_aghast_at_us_senate_vote_to_partition_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/arab_league_aghast_at_us_senate_vote_to_partition_iraq From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 30 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Correa Wins Majority in Ecuador Vote: Move to Left Continues in South America Message-ID: <20071001031703.25581.qmail@resist.ca> Reuters: By Carlos Andrade and Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa's party won an overwhelming majority of seats in Sunday's election for a national assembly to rewrite the constitution, four government ministers told Reuters. Attacking the old guard as a mafia, Correa wants the assembly to introduce sweeping reforms but foes fear he seeks to amass power and follow ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by turning his Andean country into a socialist state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/correa_wins_majority_in_ecuador_vote_move_to_left_continues_in_south_america URL: http://mostlywater.org/correa_wins_majority_in_ecuador_vote_move_to_left_continues_in_south_america