[APR-news] November 3, 2006

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http://www.gocomics.com/tedrall/2006/10/28/
US to Iraq: Quit Slacking!

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert 
Einstein

"They might have the strength to impose their will, but we will never give 
them our consent." - Radio APPO announcement

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=668&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
TACO HELL: MEXICAN WAVES OF RESISTANCE AND REPRESSION
By SchNEWS

Teachers and their supporters have been demonstrating since May against a 
corrupt authoritarian state regime, guilty also of seriously underfunding 
local education. Included on their list of demands were outrageous requests 
for more textbooks, breakfasts for schoolchildren, scholarships, uniforms, 
shoes, medical services and better pay. The clincher, perhaps, was their 
demand for the resignation of the Governor, Ulises Ruíz Ortíz, who has been 
busy using the usual array of tactics available to Mexican cops, with 
disappearances, beatings and torture being used against so called 
'subversive elements' for some time.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=667&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Hell Is Rising in Oaxaca: An Interview With a Oaxacan Rebel
By Ron Jacobs

This rebellion reminds me of Bolivia, because of it indigenous component. As 
in Bolivia, once the indigenous population determines that it needs to be 
overturned, we see that they gain a determination that has caused 
governments to fall. In the case of Oaxaca, the most likely scenario is that 
the governor is going to be overthrown.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=669&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Botched or not, the joke's on us
by Mickey Z.

Only a heavily conditioned society would be unable to recognize that Kerry 
is an incurable warmonger, a man who voted for--and wrote parts of--the USA 
PATRIOT Act, a man who declared that the Vietnam War was merely a "mistake," 
a man who cast a "yes" vote in October 2002 for George W. Bush's plan to 
invade Iraq the following year.

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Other articles of interest

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=636
Tangram: Son of Total Information Awareness
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

As usual, when it comes to surveillance and the panopticon state, the ACLU 
misses the point. In response to the discovery of the son of the Total 
Information Awareness, Tangram, described as "a program in which former TIA 
contractors build on existing TIA research to create a new, enhanced form of 
the program," according to Justin Rood, the ACLU tells us the state is 
"misdirecting resources towards this kind of fanciful, science-fiction 
project. while neglecting the basics" of what Shaun Waterman of the UPI 
calls "good counter-terrorist detective work." In fact, since the vast 
majority of terrorists out there are working directly or indirectly for the 
Pentagon, CIA, MI6, or Mossad, no "good counter-terrorist detective work" is 
required. John Negroponte, CFR member and former overseer of the El Aguacate 
torture and murder dungeon in Honduras, now Director of National 
Intelligence, is building upon Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter's Total 
Information Awareness, a "closed-loop" snoop system supposedly closed down 
on October 1, 2003.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=11304
The Forgiven: Clint Eastwood's Good War
Mickey Z, ZNet

In the midst of our current, perpetual war against evil, America is yet 
again reflecting upon the "good war." If Clint Eastwood is allowed to 
recycle those images in "Flags of Our Fathers", as the author of an 
alternative history of WWII, why shouldn't I state my case yet again? The 
U.S. fought that war against racism with a segregated army. It fought that 
war to end atrocities by participating in the shooting of surrendering 
soldiers, the starvation of POWs, the deliberate bombing of civilians, 
wiping out hospitals, strafing lifeboats, and in the Pacific boiling flesh 
off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts. FDR, the leader of 
this anti-racist, anti-atrocity force, signed Executive Order 9066, 
interning over 100,000 Japanese-Americans without due process. Thus, in the 
name of taking on the architects of German prison camps became the architect 
of American prison camps.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1101-32.htm
The Real Scoop on Biofuels
Brian Tokar, Common Dreams

Several well-respected analysts have raised serious concerns about this 
rapid diversion of food crops toward the production of fuel for automobiles. 
WorldWatch Institute founder Lester Brown, long concerned about the 
sustainability of world food supplies, says that fuel producers are already 
competing with food processors in the world's grain markets. "Cars, not 
people, will claim most of the increase in grain production this year," 
reports Brown, a serious concern in a world where the grain required to make 
enough ethanol to fill an SUV tank is enough to feed a person for a whole 
year. Others have dismissed the ethanol gold rush as nothing more than the 
subsidized burning of food to run automobiles. The biofuel rush is having a 
significant impact worldwide as well. Brazil, often touted as the the most 
impressive biofuel success story, is using half its annual sugarcane crop to 
provide 40 percent of its auto fuel, while increasing deforestation to grow 
more sugarcane and soybeans. Malaysian and Indonesian rainforests are being 
bulldozed for oil palm plantations-threatening endangered orangutans, 
rhinos, tigers and countless other species-in order to serve at the booming 
European market for biodiesel.

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=1
The 9/11 Truth Movement as something we should not talk about
John Siman, Culture Change

Any American who is willing to study the implications of Global Peak Oil can 
readily come to understand the cold logical necessity behind our continuing 
military presence in Iraq: If we want to keep our commuters consuming and 
our consumers commuting (and almost all of us do), if we want to keep our 
interstates humming and our suburbs sprawling, if we want to keep our big 
box shopping outlets stocked with hyper-cheap globalized goodies, then we 
have to keep the oil flowing.

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NewsWire

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/nyt-n03.shtml
Why is the New York Times covering up the torture of Jose Padilla?

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=50491&Nid=24712&p=390321
Al-Jazeera International comes to America

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/11/us_near_the_bot.html
U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world

http://sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3023
We're All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave 
USA

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1102-07.htm
Big Brother Britain 2006: 'We Are Waking up to a Surveillance Society All 
Around Us'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1937064,00.html
Vermont poised to elect America's first socialist senator

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0611030167nov03,1,6448751.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Bush administration posted nuke bomb-making instructions on the internet

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15473.htm
Bush: U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil And Protect Israel

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/salon032.html
A new protest movement inside the military -- including active-duty soldiers 
back from Iraq -- is calling on Congress to end the war immediately

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/01/D8L4KQD00.html
AWOL Soldier Who Returned, Flees Again

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110106A.shtml
Red Dawn Iraq: More than ever, resistance fighters targeting terrorist 
occupiers

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=5450
Seymour Hersh: "There has never been an American army as violent and 
murderous as the one in Iraq"

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/germ-n02.shtml
Germany complicit in US war crimes

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061103/photos_ts/2006_11_03t040719_450x263_us_mideast
Jewish terrorists open fire on Palestinian women

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10433-no-more-seafood-by-2050.html
No more seafood by 2050? The ongoing global collapse of marine ecosystems

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-10-31-oregon-deadzone_x.htm
Persistent dead zone off coast of Oregon linked to global warming

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11563
Large coral reefs disappearing

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1552237,00.html
The low carbon diet

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393160/?postversion=2006110110
Can the economy survive the housing bust?

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/news/publish/FUBAR_35/9887.shtml
Many Americans living precariously on debt

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