From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 1 00:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] [Vancouver] VANOC at UBC Chan Centre Message-ID: <20080201081708.13363.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2008-02-01 11:30 End: 2008-02-01 13:00 Timezone: US/Pacific [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vanoc_ubc_chan_centre URL: http://mostlywater.org/vanoc_ubc_chan_centre From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 1 09:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa Kept Abuse Charges Against Ally Secret Message-ID: <20080201171704.26526.qmail@resist.ca> Kandahar governor accused of beating and using electric shocks on detainees in secret Afghan prisons PAUL KORING | Globe and Mail [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ottawa_kept_abuse_charges_against_ally_secret URL: http://mostlywater.org/ottawa_kept_abuse_charges_against_ally_secret From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 1 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Native Youth Protest 2010 Olympics Message-ID: <20080201181703.5469.qmail@resist.ca> [![No Olympics on Stolen Land][1]][2]Activists embark on speaking tour to denounce impact of Vancouver Games By Sam Bick. News Writer McGill Daily. With the 2010 Vancouver Olympics rapidly approaching, indigenous groups in Canada are protesting that the events ? to be held on unceded Salish, St?at?imc, and Squamish territory ? will wreak environmental and social destruction. Activists Kanahus Pelkey and Dustin Johnson have embarked on a three-week speaking tour across the East Coast and Great Lakes entitled ?No Olympics on Stolen Land? to illuminate the threat. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/no+olympics+on+stolen+land.thumbnail.jpg (No Olympics on Stolen Land) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/native_youth_protest_2010_olympics URL: http://mostlywater.org/native_youth_protest_2010_olympics From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 1 14:17:36 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:17:36 -0000 Subject: [news] Concerned Jewish Canadians Demand that the Siege on Gaza be Broken Message-ID: <20080201221741.6026.qmail@resist.ca> ACJC press release demanding an end to Israeli aggression The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians (ACJC) is a pan-Canadian umbrella of Jewish anti-Occupation groups. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/concerned_jewish_canadians_demand_siege_gaza_be_broken URL: http://mostlywater.org/concerned_jewish_canadians_demand_siege_gaza_be_broken From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 3 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Vancouver] Want This to Stop: A Public Conversation with Cindy and Craig Corrie Message-ID: <20080203181703.13942.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2008-02-03 15:00 End: 2008-02-03 17:30 Timezone: Canada/Pacific [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/want_stop_public_conversation_cindy_and_craig_corrie URL: http://mostlywater.org/want_stop_public_conversation_cindy_and_craig_corrie From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 3 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Socialism? Message-ID: <20080204071703.11319.qmail@resist.ca> by Albert Einstein This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_socialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_socialism From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 3 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] List of Political prisoners from Spirit of Freedom Message-ID: <20080204071704.11320.qmail@resist.ca> I'm publishing the list as it was sent out. There are obvious statements being made here about who they think are prisoners worth supporting and who are prisoners that are not worthy of your support. Feel free to add your own thoughts. -ron [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/list_political_prisoners_spirit_freedom URL: http://mostlywater.org/list_political_prisoners_spirit_freedom From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 4 00:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Profit and Power at the Expense of the Lubicon: Pipeline Pushes On Message-ID: <20080204081703.20154.qmail@resist.ca> According to a recent communique from Friends of the Lubicon, TransCanada officials have decided to proceed with their application to build a new jumbo gas pipeline across unceded Lubicon Territory. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/profit_and_power_expense_lubicon URL: http://mostlywater.org/profit_and_power_expense_lubicon From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 5 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Mass Psychology and Education Message-ID: <20080205191705.26906.qmail@resist.ca> "I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology...Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of **modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education'.** Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the Press, the cinema and the radio play an increasing part." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mass_psychology_and_education URL: http://mostlywater.org/mass_psychology_and_education From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 5 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Liberals and Tories Support New Security Certificate Legislation Message-ID: <20080205191705.26908.qmail@resist.ca> Final vote imminent on bill to replace law struck down by Supreme Court DANIEL LEBLANC, Globe and Mail, February 5, 2008 OTTAWA ? The Conservatives and the Liberals joined forces last night in favour of new legislation on security certificates for terrorism suspects just before a Supreme Court deadline invalidates the old system later this month. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/liberals_and_tories_support_new_security_certificate_legislation URL: http://mostlywater.org/liberals_and_tories_support_new_security_certificate_legislation From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 5 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations" Message-ID: <20080205191705.26907.qmail@resist.ca> Jonathan Cook's important new book on Israel and the Middle East. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jonathan_cooks_israel_and_clash_civilisations URL: http://mostlywater.org/jonathan_cooks_israel_and_clash_civilisations From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 5 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Pivot Calls for Inquest into Death of Homeless Man Message-ID: <20080205191705.26909.qmail@resist.ca> Press Release Pivot Legal Society is calling for a coroner?s inquest into the death of Darrell Mickasko, a homeless man who burned to death on January 31 trying to keep warm on the streets of Vancouver. Mr. Mickasko was burned three blocks away from the Lookout North emergency shelter, which was full that evening. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/pivot_calls_inquest_death_homeless_man URL: http://mostlywater.org/pivot_calls_inquest_death_homeless_man From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 6 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Floating Rubbish Dump in Pacific Ocean is Bigger than the US Message-ID: <20080206211704.30766.qmail@resist.ca> Xavier La Canna | The Courier-Mail It has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of floating plastic debris. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/floating_rubbish_dump_pacific_ocean_bigger_us URL: http://mostlywater.org/floating_rubbish_dump_pacific_ocean_bigger_us From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 7 10:17:15 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire Message-ID: <20080207181715.6898.qmail@resist.ca> How the Murdock empire gets away with lies and deceit. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lies_damn_lies_and_murdock_empire URL: http://mostlywater.org/lies_damn_lies_and_murdock_empire From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 7 13:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Foreign worker plan under fire Message-ID: <20080207211705.31084.qmail@resist.ca> [read more][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/foreign-worker-plan-under-fire [2]: http://mostlywater.org/foreign_worker_plan_under_fire URL: http://mostlywater.org/foreign_worker_plan_under_fire From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 7 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Report 2007: Canada's Policy on Israel/Palestine (Part II) Message-ID: <20080208071703.9202.qmail@resist.ca> Canada says nothing...that tells Israel to withdraw from its illegal occupation, to allow the return of the four million displaced Palestinians, to stop imprisoning the one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza, to remove the settlements...and eliminate the bantustan nature of Palestine, to remove the roadblocks and checkpoints that are used to terrorize the Palestinian people, to stop the military destruction of houses and farms and the military annexation of Palestinian territory. Canada, through its overwhelming silence and lack of action, remains a pawn of the United States in its relations with Israel... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_report_2007_canadas_policy_israelpalestine_part_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_report_2007_canadas_policy_israelpalestine_part_ii From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 8 09:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. Army Lowers Recruitment Standards =?utf-8?b?4oCm?= Again. Message-ID: <20080208171711.19328.qmail@resist.ca> By Fred Kaplan The Army is lowering recruitment standards to levels not seen in at least two decades, and the implications are severe?not only for the future of the Army, but also for the direction of U.S. foreign policy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_army_lowers_recruitment_standards_%E2%80%A6_again URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_army_lowers_recruitment_standards_%E2%80%A6_again From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 8 13:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat Message-ID: <20080208211704.25660.qmail@resist.ca> By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | New York Times Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these ?green? fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_deemed_greenhouse_threat URL: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_deemed_greenhouse_threat From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 9 11:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] February 2008 OCAP Publication - Special Edition: The Shelter Crisis Message-ID: <20080209191706.4074.qmail@resist.ca> A new issue of OCAP's occasional publication, "They Call It Struggle for a Reason" is now available for download. Taking a look at the current shelter crisis in Toronto, this issue includes writing on the $4 million cuts to the shelter system, the new police cameras at Dundas and Sherbourne, the illusion of the City's "Streets to Homes" policy and crumbling public housing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/february_2008_ocap_publication_special_edition_shelter_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/february_2008_ocap_publication_special_edition_shelter_crisis From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 9 11:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US Attorney General Rejects Investigation into use of Waterboarding Message-ID: <20080209191706.4072.qmail@resist.ca> By Joe Kay | 9 February 2008 | WSWS Two days after the Bush administration officially acknowledged for the first time its use of waterboarding on detainees held by the CIA, Attorney General Michael Mukasey rejected any criminal investigation into the use of the torture method. The statements come amidst fresh evidence that the government obstructed justice by destroying videotapes of waterboarding despite ongoing relevant court cases. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_attorney_general_rejects_investigation_use_waterboarding URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_attorney_general_rejects_investigation_use_waterboarding From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 9 11:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US-Russia Nuclear Deal, and the Implications for Iran Message-ID: <20080209191706.4073.qmail@resist.ca> By M K Bhadrakumar | Asia Times There was a time when Iran might have believed that a multipolar world order would be just and fair from the point of view of the "suppressed nations". If that notion wasn't shattered long ago, it was surely was last Friday when the director of Rosatom, Russia's federal agency for nuclear power, Sergei Kiriyenko, urgently flew to Washington on a one-day "working visit". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/usrussia_nuclear_deal_and_implications_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/usrussia_nuclear_deal_and_implications_iran From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 10 00:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan Cops Shoot Each Other Message-ID: <20080210081703.28546.qmail@resist.ca> by GRAEME SMITH - February 6, 2008 The biggest firefight in Kandahar city over the past few weeks was not a battle against insurgents but a squabble among Afghan police...Three police were killed and five wounded...It's at least the third time in the past eight months that deadly gunfights have erupted within the ranks of Kandahar's security forces, even after Canada has focused attention on training the police... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_cops_shoot_each_other URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_cops_shoot_each_other From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 10 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] This a Break Point for the African National Congress Message-ID: <20080210181704.3391.qmail@resist.ca> Le Monde Diplomatique | February 2008 The defeat of Thabo Mbeki, 13 years after the ANC came to power in South Africa's first democratic elections, began a new era. Can it now be the time of the left? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/break_point_african_national_congress URL: http://mostlywater.org/break_point_african_national_congress From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 10 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Moderated Anarchist Discussion Forum Launched Message-ID: <20080210181703.3390.qmail@resist.ca> Announcing AnarchistBlackCat. Ever wished for an anarchist discussion board dominated by an exchange of argued out political views rather than insults? So did we, so we decided to do something about it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/announcing_launch_anarchist_black_cat URL: http://mostlywater.org/announcing_launch_anarchist_black_cat From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 10 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Message-ID: <20080210191704.25081.qmail@resist.ca> A review by Phil Shannon of Jeremy Scahill's book on the rise of this growing $100 billion per year murderous industry. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/killers_hire URL: http://mostlywater.org/killers_hire From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 10 14:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Counterinsurgency in Chiapas Message-ID: <20080210221703.25416.qmail@resist.ca> ?This is a new onslaught of the Mexican state, with all levels of government participating?....?They are going for the land. They are going for territory and all the natural resources...But now there is an entire movement [of] indigenous peoples opposed to their project and, moreover...[are] developing another, alternative project [which is] autonomous and their own.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/counterinsurgency_chiapas_1 URL: http://mostlywater.org/counterinsurgency_chiapas_1 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 00:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Undermining Bolivia Message-ID: <20080211081703.25656.qmail@resist.ca> by Benjamin Dangl - The Progressive Declassified documents and interviews on the ground in Bolivia prove that the Bush Administration is using U.S. taxpayers? money to undermine the Morales government and coopt the country?s dynamic social movements?just as it has tried to do recently in Venezuela and traditionally throughout Latin America. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/undermining_bolivia_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/undermining_bolivia_0 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 11:18:38 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0000 Subject: [news] Interdependence is Totalitarian Message-ID: <20080211191842.3603.qmail@resist.ca> According to The Club of Rome, the world _problematique_ is the set of interlocking world problems, such as, over population, food shortages, non-renewable resource depletion, environmental degradation, etc. With the use of absurd, exponentially based computer models, the complete unravelling of society and perhaps the biosphere was predicted. Not surprisingly the only solution capable of adverting global catastrophe is the development of an organic society. As I will show, a global organic society is only a euphemism for totalitarian world government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/interdependence_totalitarian URL: http://mostlywater.org/interdependence_totalitarian From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 11:18:37 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:37 -0000 Subject: [news] F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part I Message-ID: <20080211191842.3590.qmail@resist.ca> Reviewing an epic work on a vitally important topic. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/f_william_engdahls_century_war_part_i URL: http://mostlywater.org/f_william_engdahls_century_war_part_i From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 12:17:24 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Depleted Uranium in the Strait of Georgia Message-ID: <20080211201724.2364.qmail@resist.ca> If you lived in the northern Strait of Georgia ? in the area of Texada, Lasqueti, Hornby, Denman, Comox, Quadra, and Cortes Islands ? in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you or your family may have witnessed or been affected by this activity. The Merchant Legal Group, lawyers for the Agent Orange class action suit at Camp Gagetown, would like to hear from you. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/depleted_uranium_strait_georgia URL: http://mostlywater.org/depleted_uranium_strait_georgia From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 12:17:23 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Health Canada - Gateway Environmental Assessment Inappropriate and Misleading Message-ID: <20080211201724.2363.qmail@resist.ca> "When it comes to proving the bold promises that come with doubling the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1, the provincial government is running on empty," said David Fields, a campaigner with SPEC and LRC Coordinator. " We know it, federal agencies know it and it is about time the province comes clean before they commit the region to what amounts to an $11 billion illusion." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/health_canada_gateway_environmental_assessment_inappropriate_and_misleading_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/health_canada_gateway_environmental_assessment_inappropriate_and_misleading_0 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 11 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli Arabs Protest State "Giving its Backing to the Murder of Arab Citizens" Message-ID: <20080212071703.24765.qmail@resist.ca> February 1, 2008 - Al Jazeera Israeli Arabs have staged mass strikes in the north of the country in protest against a government decision to end an inquiry into a police shooting which killed 13 people...The strike comes after Menahem Mazuz, the Israeli attorney general, announced on Sunday that there would be no legal action against police over the death of 12 Arab Israelis and a Palestinian in October 2000. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_arabs_protest_state_giving_its_backing_murder_arab_citizens URL: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_arabs_protest_state_giving_its_backing_murder_arab_citizens From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 12 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela Threatens to Cut US Oil Message-ID: <20080212201705.5496.qmail@resist.ca> BBC Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US unless it halts what he calls its "economic war" against his country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_threatens_cut_us_oil_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_threatens_cut_us_oil_0 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 12 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] BC's Homeless Numbers War Message-ID: <20080212201705.5498.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1] Housing minister slams studies, but won't order his own. By Andrew MacLeod | February 12, 2008 If someone asked you to deal with the homelessness problem in British Columbia, said Pivot Legal Society's David Eby, the first thing you would probably do is try to find out how many people you need to help. [read more][2] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/02/12/thumb-eby.png [2]: http://mostlywater.org/bcs_homeless_numbers_war_news URL: http://mostlywater.org/bcs_homeless_numbers_war_news From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 12 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Widow: 'He did die in vain' - Isreal Attacks UN Patrol Base Message-ID: <20080212201705.5497.qmail@resist.ca> John Allemang | Globe and Mail On July 25, 2006, Major Paeta Hess-Von Kruedener, a 44-year-old Canadian monitoring the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in South Lebanon as a United Nations observer, died along with three colleagues after six hours of **Israeli attacks on his UN patrol base**, culminating in the aerial bombardment of the bunker where the men had taken shelter. His widow wants answers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/widow_he_did_die_vain_isreal_attacks_un_patrol_base URL: http://mostlywater.org/widow_he_did_die_vain_isreal_attacks_un_patrol_base From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 12 13:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] New Day for BC Native Claims Message-ID: <20080212211704.31945.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1] 'Xeni decision' casts doubt on provincial authority over First Nations land dealings. By Dave Porter, Chief Judith Sayers and Grand Chief Edward John February 12, 2008 [read more][2] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/02/12/thumb-chief-william.png [2]: http://mostlywater.org/new_day_bc_native_claims_views URL: http://mostlywater.org/new_day_bc_native_claims_views From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 13 00:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There Message-ID: <20080213081706.26896.qmail@resist.ca> By Jim Hightower - Alternet America's immigration problem is not down on the border, it's in Washington and on Wall Street. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/immigrants_come_here_because_globalization_took_their_jobs_back_there URL: http://mostlywater.org/immigrants_come_here_because_globalization_took_their_jobs_back_there From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 13 00:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Real "Surge" of 2007: Non-Combatant Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan Message-ID: <20080213081706.26897.qmail@resist.ca> January, 27 2008 - Znet The Pentagon has recently released optimistic figures about violence in Iraq. What they neglect to say is that while overall violence has declined there in the last few months, civilian deaths at U.S. hands increased approximately 70 percent in 2007 over the prior year. Non-combatant death at U.S. hands grew in Afghanistan by a similar percentage. This surge in non-combatant death directly caused by the U.S. accompanies the surge in U.S. led operations in both countries. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/real_surge_2007_noncombatant_deaths_iraq_and_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/real_surge_2007_noncombatant_deaths_iraq_and_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 13 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Urgent: Attack on Trees and Tree Sitters at "Bear Mountain" Message-ID: <20080214071703.28906.qmail@resist.ca> A bust happened at Bear Mountain (Vancouver Island) at approximately 7am this morning. 50 to 70 RCMP officers with assault rifles stormed the camp and arrested ground crew immediately. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_attack_trees_and_tree_sitters_bear_mountain URL: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_attack_trees_and_tree_sitters_bear_mountain From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 13 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Seniors Walk Topless to Expose the Myths of 'Health Breasts' Walkathon Message-ID: <20080214071703.28907.qmail@resist.ca> As friends leave her state-subsidized seniors? building, ?Goodbye for now? becomes goodbye forever. Afraid to die alone, Zophia ?virgzdas hunts for the perfect gay grandson. Can a topless walkathon, a marriage proposal, or the misadventures of a seeing-eye monkey distract her from her pursuit of progeny? Will the Angel of Death convince her that life is for the living ? before it?s too late? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/seniors_walk_topless_expose_myths_health_breasts_walkathon URL: http://mostlywater.org/seniors_walk_topless_expose_myths_health_breasts_walkathon From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 13 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mexican Immigrant Rights Activist Denied Entry into Canada Message-ID: <20080214071704.28909.qmail@resist.ca> Please refer below to an important update on **Elvira Arellano** being denied entry into Canada. As a result she was unable to speak at the event organized on Sunday February 12th, however the event became a community discussion on immigration enforcement and border policies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mexican_immigrant_rights_activist_denied_entry_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/mexican_immigrant_rights_activist_denied_entry_canada From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 14 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" (Part II) Message-ID: <20080214181704.27598.qmail@resist.ca> Part II of Engdahl's epic work. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/f_william_engdahls_century_war_part_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/f_william_engdahls_century_war_part_ii From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 14 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Once a Black Robe, Always a Black Robe Message-ID: <20080214211704.28102.qmail@resist.ca> Former church minister solicits Survivors' stories, misuses names Some Residential School Survivors have shared stories of abuses they suffered in the church-run schools. When a personal disclosure is given in confidence, it should be kept private. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/once_black_robe_always_black_robe URL: http://mostlywater.org/once_black_robe_always_black_robe From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 14 15:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Former Chief Won't Give Up Uranium Mine Battle Message-ID: <20080214231704.31522.qmail@resist.ca> A former chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nations yesterday told Justice Douglas Cunningham that he will continue to resist uranium prospecting on lands claimed by Frontenac Ventures Corp. north of Sharbot Lake, even if it means disobeying an order of the court. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/former_chief_wont_give_uranium_mine_battle URL: http://mostlywater.org/former_chief_wont_give_uranium_mine_battle From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 14 18:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] An Appeal for Support: Protester Arrested at Montebello Facing Trial Message-ID: <20080215021704.11018.qmail@resist.ca> As you all probably remember, back on August 20, 2007, several hundred protesters gathered in Montebello (Quebec) to protest the Leader's Meeting of the **Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)**...[S]everal actual protesters who were attacked by the riot police were arrested. One of those protesters -- Leila -- chose to defend herself and take the charges against her to trial. Her trial will be this JUNE 12, 2008 at the "Palais de Justice" in Hull, Quebec...Please read [the] callout [below] for how you can support Leila as she faces trial. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/appeal_support_protester_arrested_montebello_facing_trial URL: http://mostlywater.org/appeal_support_protester_arrested_montebello_facing_trial From seinforma at resist.ca Fri Feb 15 10:47:07 2008 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:47:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] Seinforma Canada Headlines Message-ID: <48270.207.127.128.2.1203101227.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Headlines This Month -English Services Seinforma Canada introduces Special Series "War Correspondents Reporting Feelings from the Front Line" This month JON LEE ANDERSON : "All the possible human perversion is in the war". EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW www.seinforma.ca/seriesenganderson.html --- DIRECTOR OF SEINFORMA WILL BE TALKING ABOUT CENSORSHIP IN COLOMBIA Freedom to Read Week in Support of Persecuted Writers. London, Ontario Feb 23rd www.seinforma.ca/freedomtoreadeng.html --- ABOUT THE CANADIAN SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS PROGRAM A "Blanket of Immunity" to Abuse Mexicans:UFCW www.seinforma.ca/ufcweng.html --- THE CENSURE AGAINST A RADIO HOSTESS CAME FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE Nepotism and Censorship in Mexico www.seinforma.ca/aristeguieng.html --- AN ISLANDER UNVEILS THE "CHAOTIC" CUBAN REALITY WITHOUT FIDEL CASTRO UPFRONT Part of victory from Havana www.seinforma.ca/cubapalanteeng.html --- LEADING ARTICLE EL SALVADOR STILL DREAMS WITH A SOCIAL PEACE The Lies of Chapultepec 92 www.seinforma.ca/leadingchapultepeceng.html --- The peace agreements of El Salvador: 16 years of deception www.seinforma.ca/salvadoragreementseng.html --- THE NEW STATE SECRETARY OF MEXICO, BORN IN SPAIN, IS A CALDERON?S PENDING OLD BILL The Viceroy Mouri?o?s false ID www.seinforma.ca/mourinoeng.html --- Seinforma Canada kicks off Godfather Plan This year we will be supporting the caring of hundreds of Bolivian children who live in misery near La Paz. www.seinforma.ca/godfatherwaki.html --- A SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY?S RESEARCH STATES IT Environmental Justice would join Latin America in the future www.seinforma.ca/bookenveng.html --- CORRESPONDENT AND REGIME CRITICS TARGETED BY FORMER HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE AT COLOMBIA?S STOCKHOLM EMBASSY Swedish Journalist Primary Target Of Colombian Death Threats www.seinforma.ca/dickeng.html --- Watch out: Latino people would be cannon fodder in Afghanistan www.seinforma.ca/latinosafganistaneng.html --- Visit our radio station RadioEVOLUTION Over 1K social and protest Latin American songs www.seinforma.ca/radioevolution.html --- The Real News Videos now in Seinforma.ca This month: Pepe Escobar, from Brazil, discusses the Evo Morales constitutional reforms www.seinforma.ca/rnvpepe.html --- Visit www.seinforma.ca Thank you for your support www.seinforma.ca/donations.html Gracias por su apoyo www.seinforma.ca/donaciones.html From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 15 13:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz Message-ID: <20080215211703.10650.qmail@resist.ca> In June 2007, DePaul University denied tenure to **Norman Finkelstein**, an assistant professor of political science...The tenure denial was a great victory for Harvard Law School's Professor **Alan Dershowitz**, who had been campaigning vigorously against Finkelstein at least since the fall of 2006...What is not...well known is that there is compelling evidence that Dershowitz himself committed academic misconduct both before and in the course of his intervention in Finkelstein's tenure case. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/plagiarism_cover_and_misrepresentations_case_against_alan_dershowitz URL: http://mostlywater.org/plagiarism_cover_and_misrepresentations_case_against_alan_dershowitz From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 15 19:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement: NAFTA Plus Homeland Security Message-ID: <20080216031706.23131.qmail@resist.ca> By Harsha Walia and Cynthia Oka - February 15, 2008 While the [**Security & Prosperity Partnership** Agreement] poses a formidable challenge, it also provides an opportunity to build a wider movement of resistance that can transcend the systemic exclusions produced by nationalism, Western imperialism, white supremacy and global capitalism. Instead, an explicitly anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist resistance constitutes the possibility for re-imagining community beyond the bounds of citizenship; the political beyond the state; freedom beyond the market; and humanity beyond Whiteness. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/security_and_prosperity_partnership_agreement_nafta_plus_homeland_security URL: http://mostlywater.org/security_and_prosperity_partnership_agreement_nafta_plus_homeland_security From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 16 12:17:17 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Glaring Double Standards on Torture Message-ID: <20080216201718.1454.qmail@resist.ca> by Andy Worthington, Author of _The Guant?namo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison_ - January 19/20, 2008 ...[T]he Canadian government is guilty of double standards in its refusal to act on behalf of **Omar Khadr**, the Canadian Guant?namo detainee who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002..."Omar has been there for five and a half years"..."and at some point in the course of [his] detention the Canadian government developed the suspicion he was being tortured and abused. And yet it has not acted to obtain his release from Guant?namo Bay and protect his rights, unlike every other Western country that has had its nationals detained in Guant?namo Bay", [said **Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler**, Khadr's U.S. military-appointed lawyer.] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_glaring_double_standards_torture URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_glaring_double_standards_torture From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 16 13:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Disowned by the Ownership Society Message-ID: <20080216211712.4549.qmail@resist.ca> By Naomi Klein - February, 04 2008 Today, the basic promises of the **ownership society** have been broken. First the dot-com bubble burst; then employees watched their stock-heavy pensions melt away with Enron and WorldCom. Now we have the subprime mortgage crisis, with more than 2 million homeowners facing foreclosure on their homes...Wall Street, meanwhile, has fallen out of love with Main Street...In short order yesterday?s ownership society has morphed into today?s members-only society. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/disowned_ownership_society URL: http://mostlywater.org/disowned_ownership_society From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 16 15:17:23 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Parliament to Vote on Fetal Personhood Law Message-ID: <20080216231724.21738.qmail@resist.ca> A private member's bill called the "Unborn Victims of Crime Act" (Bill C-484) has been introduced by Conservative MP Ken Epp (Edmonton Sherwood Park), and is scheduled for a Parliamentary vote on March 5. The bill would amend the Criminal Code to allow separate homicide charges to be laid in the death of a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked. Several recent murder cases in Canada have involved a pregnant woman being murdered by a male partner or boyfriend. The victims and families of these horrific tragedies deserve our deepest sympathy, and they deserve justice. However, passing a law to allow murder charges for the death of the fetus is not the way to go. Such a law would be an unconstitutional infringement on women?s rights. It is a key step towards re-criminalizing abortion, but it could also criminalize pregnant women for behaviours perceived to harm their fetuses. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/parliament_vote_fetal_personhood_law URL: http://mostlywater.org/parliament_vote_fetal_personhood_law From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 17 10:17:27 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] How the EU Helps Israel to Strangle Gaza Message-ID: <20080217181727.1614.qmail@resist.ca> David Morrison, Spinwatch Since 23 January 2008, we have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a mass breakout by Palestinians from their Gaza prison, a breakout made possible by Hamas blowing up stretches of the Israeli-built border wall between Gaza and Egypt, near Rafah, and bulldozing other stretches of it. But how can Israel [imprison] Gaza when there is supposed to be an international crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a crossing which is not controlled by Israelis? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_eu_helps_israel_strangle_gaza URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_eu_helps_israel_strangle_gaza From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 17 10:17:27 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] Action Shuts Down Bear Mountain Construction Message-ID: <20080217181727.1613.qmail@resist.ca> Without a medium-sized army of RCMP and special officers to back them up, the contractors had no choice but to give up and go home. The police forces withdrew on Friday evening, and one officer said the operation had required 300 officers in rotating shifts on patrols, command and communications. We estimate the operation cost $5000 an hour for the 60 hours or so the officers were on the ground. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/action_shuts_down_bear_mountain_construction URL: http://mostlywater.org/action_shuts_down_bear_mountain_construction From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 17 10:17:27 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] Malcolm Guy: Why I Withdrew from Rendez-Vous du =?utf-8?q?Cin?= =?utf-8?b?w6ltYVF1w6liZWNvaXM=?= Message-ID: <20080217181727.1615.qmail@resist.ca> With this letter I would like to officially withdraw as a member of the jury for the 2008 Prize of the Alex and Ruth Dworkin Foundation for the Promotion of Tolerance through Cinema[... A]fter examining in more detail the political and financial basis of the prize I must refuse to have my name associated with it. Behind this noble sounding ?award for tolerance? hides a story of intolerance, division and discrimination. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_guy_why_i_withdrew_rendezvous_du_cin%C3%A9ma_qu%C3%A9becois URL: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_guy_why_i_withdrew_rendezvous_du_cin%C3%A9ma_qu%C3%A9becois