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Saturday, October 28, 2006 |
Indymedia: "Federal Police and Paramilitaries attacked the barricades near Oaxaca's office of justice, in the Calicanto municipality. There are several injured and one person dead.
Indymedia New York's reporter, Brad Will, was shot in the chest and died before he made it to the hospital; Oswaldo Ramírez, photographer for Milenio Diario, has also been shot and is injured in the foot."
See earlier post.
El Universal reports four deaths and says this is the most violent crisis since the beginning of the social conflict.
4:40:15 PM 
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DearKitty: "A series of paintings depicting U.S. military abuse of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was rejected by all the U.S. museums to which it was offered before it found a home at the Marlborough Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, where it opened last week and will remain on display until November 18."
UnclaimedTerritory: "The new documentary, Shut Up & Sing, chronicles the hostile and sometimes threatening conduct directed towards The Dixie Chicks after one of the group's members criticized the Commander-in-Chief, President George W. Bush, during a 2003 concert.
According to Matt Drudge (a phrase that does not roll out of one's mouth easily), both NBC and the CW Television Network (the joint venture of CBS and Warner Brothers that combines the WB and UPN Networks) are refusing to air ads promoting Shut Up & Sing on the ground that the ads are 'disparaging' to our President."
The media just won't acknowledge the 'President' is a war criminal. The Dixie Chicks are the true Americans.
Harpers: "Bush Administration renting embassy property from known torturer."
BBC: "President Bush has admitted that the CIA is running a secret detention programme for what he termed 'al Qaeda leaders'."
CommonDreams: "Washington's new anti-terrorism law could end up violating international treaties protecting detainees, with some provisions denying suspects the right to a fair trial, a key U.N. rights expert said Friday."
It not only violates international law, it violates the Constitution of the United States, the tenets of all religions and the moral codes of the world population.
12:19:30 PM
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Scotsman: "Defence scientists secretly tested E.coli as a possible biological weapon at two British towns, it was revealed today.
Between 1965 and 1967 a series of Government trials involving the release of microthreads covered in the bacteria were carried out near Swindon and Southampton.
During 1971 and 1975, the Ministry of Defence invited United States military scientists to conduct joint biological warfare experiments at South Dorset."
So who are the real terrorists?
11:59:35 AM
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BBC: "A judge has ordered the arrest of Chile's former military leader, Augusto Pinochet, over crimes committed at a detention centre, sources say."
Next on the list: George W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Tony Blair.
11:53:36 AM
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UN: "Pro-poor mortgage financing would soon be needed in urban areas, since poverty - no longer a rural problem - now threatened the living standards of many in the world's cities, Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today.
Reporting on the Programme's progress, as part of the Committee's wider discussion on implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the strengthening of UN-HABITAT, Ms. Tibaijuka said that, in several rapidly urbanizing countries, slums were growing at a rate almost equal to that of urban population growth. That implied that the vast majority of those born in cities, as well as those who migrated into them, would be living in life-threatening conditions, marked by malnutrition rates higher than those found in rural areas."
11:46:24 AM
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