[APR-news] November 14, 2006

Tue Nov 14 06:04:38 PST 2006

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www.altpr.org - November 14, 2006

http://www.filecabi.net/video/carlin4god.html
George Carlin on Religion: The Greatest Bullshit Story Ever Told

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Two more articles posted from the Fall 2006 issue:

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=382&page=1
Peak Opportunity! Earth Liberation and the Oil Endgame

By now, all radical environmentalists-if not all humans-should be aware of 
the fatal ecological effects of civilization's unsustainable energy binge. 
Yet many of us have been slow to grasp the true gravity of what our rapid 
depletion of non-renewable fossil fuels portends.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=381&page=1
Inside TeenScreen: The Making of Mental Patients

TeenScreen is designed only to increase psychiatric and drug company 
revenues by turning normal children into lifelong mental patients. Now is 
the time for anyone who cares about children and the future to step up and 
demand that mental health screening not be allowed in any schools at any 
time.

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Other articles of interest

http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=24
Down the Memory Hole: CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US
CNN Exposed

CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from the US and 
Israel in its story 'U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza 
strikes'. The new, more prominent article begins with the exact same wording 
as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone.

http://thetartan.org/2006/11/13/pillbox/altculture
Alternative culture: hands-on and proud
Justin Brown, The Tartan

Roboto's do-it-yourself (DIY) mentality can be attributed in part to the DIY 
imperative of the '70s and '80s punk movement. A proactive approach 
encouraged artists to create their own record labels and venues; it also 
provided an escape from the control of mainstream influences. "In our 
society we are taught to be passive consumers of just about everything," 
Roth said. "For us, Roboto is one way of ... taking back control of our 
music scene." The Mr. Roboto Project provides an alternative to 
commercialized music and commercialized venues.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/11/09/news1.html
Flames of Dissent (Part II: Eco-Anarchy Rising)
Kera, Abraham, Eugene Weekly

It was a time of intense community-building for the eco-anarchists, who 
roved between neighborhood hot spots like Tiny Tavern, Out of the Fog café, 
Scobert Park and a crop of housing co-ops. Warner Creek vet Stella-Lee 
Anderson launched the Jawbreaker gallery to showcase neighborhood creations, 
and artist Kari Johnson painted post-apocalyptic feminist visions on 
Whiteaker walls. Johnson led eco-activists to tear up a parking space and 
turn it into a community garden - Joni Mitchell's dystopic vision in 
reverse - while Critical Mass bikers, empowered by their numbers, reclaimed 
the streets from cars. Activists shared knowledge at "Free Schools" and 
guerrilla info shops, neighbors swapped clothes at a community free space 
and Food Not Bombs brought free vegetarian meals to local parks daily.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15566391/site/newsweek/
A Dissent: The Case Against Faith
Religion does untold damage to our politics. An atheist's lament.
Sam Harris, Newsweek

Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of 
life and the greater antiquity of the Earth, more than half the American 
population believes that the entire cosmos was created 6,000 years ago. This 
is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. 
Those with the power to elect presidents and congressmen-and many who 
themselves get elected-believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's 
Ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the Earth and 
that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine 
breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible God. 
This is embarrassing.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/37708
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: No Arab, Palestinian Cheers for 
U.S. Democrats
Nicola Nasser, Media Monitors

Rep. Tom Lantos, the Democratic lawmaker set to take over leadership of the 
International Relations Committee of the House, told AP Wednesday: "You 
won't see a sudden change. We basically share the same goals and 
 objectives," he said, referring to Democrats and Republicans.

http://counterpunch.org/christison11132006.html
The Democrats: Screw the Palestinians, Full Steam Ahead
Kathleen and Bill Christison, CounterPunch

This obscenity of oppression and murder does not faze the Democrats or any 
of Israel's Zionist supporters in the U.S. Whatever Israel wants is all 
right with the Democrats. The 110th Congress will screw the Palestinians 
just the way the Republican 109th did.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/iraq-n14.shtml
Washington debate sets stage for escalation of violence in Iraq
Patrick Martin and Barry Grey, WSWS

Lieberman is, in effect, saying: We know that the American people are 
against the war, and voted that way November 7. We, the political 
establishment, must adopt a more bipartisan war policy that prevents this 
antiwar majority from having any voice in the policy debate in Washington. 
We must use the two-party system to disenfranchise the antiwar majority. The 
congressional Democratic leadership is playing its part by staking out a 
purportedly antiwar position-to placate public opinion-while giving itself 
abundant room to maneuver and reach an agreement with the Bush 
administration that allows the war to continue.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-11130625853.htm
Who Are the War Criminals?
Felicity Arbuthnot, Palestine Chronicle

Fate certainly deals a strange hand. President Bush Jr., commented on the 
conviction of President Saddam Hussein, for crimes against humanity, in 
Waco, Texas, site of the massacre of the Branch Davidian religious group, in 
April 1993, by the U.S. Army, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1108-30.htm
The Current Struggle of Oaxaca
Nancy Romer, Common Dreams

Early on in the struggle, APPO activists erected barricades throughout the 
city as protection from attacks from armed thugs. Later they were 
appropriated by the people to create spaces of resistance-for kids to play 
soccer, for families to share meals and make music together; this in a 
culture with a tradition of "tequio" which requires every adult to perform 
some kind of ongoing community service as a contribution to the society. The 
zocalo was transformed into a performance space, featuring new videos of the 
recent events and struggles with the police and federal troops, music of the 
struggle, and people testifying about their lives and the troubles. These 
events were marked by a great outpouring of creativity and expression often 
by ordinary people, expressing joy, fear, and hope. The city of Oaxaca has 
been an intense dialectic of liberated zone and battleground. Each 
neighborhood, each union, each group of people engaged in the struggle runs 
their own process, controls their own barricades, creates their own ways of 
being. The central APPO represents and reflects the desires of these 
participating groups but the people themselves carry out the plan and create 
the details on the ground. The people are empowered by their own actions, 
communities and ideas.

http://www.nilemedia.com/Columnists/Ahmed/2006/November/Buying.html
Buying our way out of Iraq
By Ahmed Amr, NileMedia.com

Any day now, the fabulous Baker boys will go public with yet another plan to 
handle the Mess on Potamia. You can bet your last dollar that the Iraq Study 
Group will produce a Band-Aid solution tailored to save Bush's face or - as 
they like to say in the Beltway - protect the president's legacy. That's bad 
news - because there's nothing worth salvaging in the White House.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15587.htm
A Veteran Remembers
Howard Zinn, Information Clearing House

In the first battle of the Marne there were a million casualties, 500,000 on 
each side. The soldiers began to rebel, which is always the most heroic 
thing soldiers can do, for which they should be given medals. In the French 
Army, out of 112 divisions, 68 would have mutinies. Fifty men would be shot 
by firing squads. Three of those executions became the basis for the late 
filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's antiwar masterpiece, Paths of Glory. In that 
film a pompous general castigates his soldiers for retreating and talks of 
"patriotism." Kirk Douglas, the lieutenant colonel who defends his men, 
enrages the general by quoting the famous lines of Samuel Johnson: 
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

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NewsWire

http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-11.htm
"V" meets the Secret Service

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/13/europe/EU_GEN_Denmark_Iraq_Intelligence.php
Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked intelligence reports on 
Iraq

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=415877
Beware: Bush's Gestapo agents can arrest us in our own country

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Quigley13.htm
Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate and Government Looting of the Gulf Coast

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-shantytown1306nov13,0,7312775.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
Miami's shantytown: Sick of what they say are officials' broken promises, 
the poor take over a lot in Liberty City and call it home

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3883
New 'Terrorism' Laws to Protect Animal Abusers' Profits

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2339.html
Massacre in Chiapas: Six Women, Three Men, Two Children, Assassinated in 
Montes Azules

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111306R.shtml
Insurgent Activity Soaring in "Forgotten War" in Afghanistan

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/11/10/al-qaeda-wants-the-us-to-stay-in-iraq/
Al Qaeda wants the U.S. to stay in Iraq

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1963236.ece
Global growth in carbon emissions is out of control

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1945770,00.html
African nomads to be first people wiped out by climate change

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1113-04.htm
China's Environment Degraded to Dangerous Point

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php
Current food production system due for collapse

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35452
Skin Ailments Surge as Ozone Hole Widens

http://www.energybulletin.net/22348.html
Oilsands activity threatens water supply

http://www.move.com/New%20Homes/Real%20Estate%20News/Content00028267.aspx?gate=aolrealestate&source=a11462&poe=move
Home Buyers Back Out Of Deals in Record Numbers

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