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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
Telegraph: "A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today."
We don't want this war.
Think only of the danger of depleted uranium to the whole environment of our world.
12:15:47 PM 
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Guardian: "The WTO court's latest ruling will greatly increase the number of people who believe the organisation needs radical reform, if not burial. This week three judges emerged after years of secret deliberation to rule that Europe had imposed a de facto ban on GM food imports between 1999 and 2003, violating WTO rules. The court also ruled that Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Luxembourg had no legal grounds to impose their own unilateral import bans. 'Europe guilty!' shouted the US press.
In fact the US has mostly won a lot of new enemies. Rather than going away, as the biotech companies and Washington fervently hoped, the opposition to GM foods seems to have been growing since 2004 when the case was brought to the WTO. Europe, its member states and its consumers all rejected the ruling last week, making the WTO look even more out of touch and incompetent to rule on issues about the environment, health and consumer choice.
Within hours of the WTO decision, José Bové, the French farmer who has led European protests, arrived in New York to give an invited talk to Cornell students about GM food - and was immediately sent back to France by the US government."
It is high time Europeans start to understand that the present US government is not our friend, and the European commission should well remember that.
12:01:15 PM
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NYTimes: "New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government."
As these natural reserves belong to the taxpayer, this is pure theft. The US government is again proving it is a racketeering mafia.
The oil industry is making huge profits, so the American citizens are paying double for something that is their property, once for this robbery and once at the gas pump.
And this at a time when there is a crisis in America, Bush told us himself in his State of the Union, but not in the oil industry.
CounterPunch: "Over the past five years the US economy experienced a net job loss in goods producing activities. The entire job growth was in service-providing activities - primarily credit intermediation, health care and social assistance, waiters, waitresses and bartenders, and state and local government.
US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job."
11:37:42 AM
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Reuters: "Syria has switched all of the state's foreign currency transactions to euros from dollars amid a political confrontation with the United States, the head of state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said on Monday."
So now we know why the US is sabotaging Syria and considering the country an enemy. And the US is also frustrating the rise of the euro.
11:29:41 AM
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office seem determined to stop Craig Murray, former Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, publishing his book.
He was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov.
MotherJones: There is a list of 'top officials as well as beleaguered administrators, managers, and career civil servants who quit their government posts in protest or were ridiculed, defamed, threatened, fired, forced out, demoted, or driven to retire by Bush administration strong-arm tactics, cronyism, and disastrous policies'.
11:13:54 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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