Corporate Crime
BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 14:08.BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK
More tax money for Murder Inc.
Thomas Riggins
This news, as reported on the front page of the NYT for 5-10-08, should not be a big surprise. This one article encapsulates the whole insanity of Bush's adventure in Iraq. It also exposes the sharade of a "sovereign" Iraqi government. We all know about the infamous Blackwater mercenaries, hired killers used by the US government to protect the State Department workers and others in Iraqi and to also spread death and terror to Iraqis who get in their way. If any group should be on the government's list of terrorist organizations it is Blackwater, Inc. read more »
Food prices soaring worldwide
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 05:14.
By KATHERINE CORCORAN, Associated Press Mar 24, 2008
MEXICO CITY - If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone. read more »
No G8 Japan 2008 - Lake Toya promo
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 09:28.Each year, Leaders of the Group of Eight countries - Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States and Canada - meet to decide policy for the rest of the world. They meet behind closed doors, behind walls of concrete and steel, with armies to protect them from their own people.In July of 2008 they will meet again at the Windsor Hotel resort on Lake Toya, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.
We will be there to stop them. read more »
Getting a Grip - Plastic Poison
Submitted by rick on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 05:00.by Michael I. Niman
Remember when plastic used to break? You know, really break, as in shatter. Now it kind of bounces. The difference is that much of our modern plastic is vitamin-fortified with additives called phthalates. Phthalates protect plastic by making it more malleable, but a growing number of scientific studies suggest that while protecting plastic, certain phthalates are poisoning people. More specifically, they are carcinogens, they’re potentially toxic to our livers and kidneys, and juvenile exposure in males may lower lifelong testosterone levels, physiologically feminizing men while lowering their sperm counts. But hey, that’s some fine plastic we’ve got there. read more »
Greenpeace protest against carbon dioxide emissions – halfway up a power plant’s smokestack
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 20:58.
[07-12-2007] By Rosie Johnston
On Thursday, 11 members of the environmental organisation Greenpeace set up camp halfway up one of the chimneys at the Prunerov power plant in northern Bohemia. read more »
shawl society's deb abrahamson speaks out about uranium mining on tribal lands in washington state
Submitted by rick on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 04:22."Many of the women who contracted cancer were the mothers, the aunties, and the sisters. They cleaned the clothes for their sons, brothers, and husbands who went to work in the mines. A lot of the time people were doing double shifts at the mine sites, so people would come home after 16 hours of work and literally take their coats off and fall asleep, not change their clothing or anything."
– Deb Abrahamson
Deb Abrahamson, SHAWL Society
(Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water and Land) read more »
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Submitted by rick on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 06:13.I found this on Project Censored's website. It's over two years old but seems timely and still underreported:
Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005
Title: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team”
Author: Jason Leopold
Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson
Student Researchers: Kristine Medeiros and Pla Herr read more »
NAOMI KLEIN ON "DISASTER CAPITALISM"
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 15:49.By Thomas Riggins
This article is a review of Naomi Klein’s important article in the October 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine (“Disaster Capitalism: The new economy of catastrophe”) based on her new book, The Shock Doctrine.
A major theme in this article is the analogy between the effects of war and of “natural” disasters on people and the environment. The contrast between the Green Zone in Iraq (a safe haven) and the Red Zone (the rest of Iraq) is analogized with the aftermath of Katrina and the difference between the areas of New Orleans inhabited by the rich (reconstructed and prospering) and the poor (neglected and festering). read more »
Hundreds of students protest Halliburton recruiters at UW-Madison
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 19:08.
MADISON, Wis. — Students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to disrupt Halliburton Co.'s attempt to recruit at a campus job fair.
Protesters angrily accused the company of profiting from the war in Iraq and sat in front of the company's booth to discourage students from meeting with its representatives.
They summoned the memory of a 1967 protest against recruiters for Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm used in Vietnam. A peaceful sit-in that ended in a bloody confrontation between students and club-wielding police officers galvanized the anti-war movement. read more »
Green groups and social justice orgs fight "Digital Rights Management" Crippleware
Submitted by rafael on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 07:14.yes, boingboing.
Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, sez, "An international coalition of environmental and social justice groups have signed a statement condemning DRM and specifically the DRM in Microsoft's Windows Vista, looking to promote awareness of computer user freedom. Groups and individuals who support the statement are being asked to add their own signatures at http://freesoftwarefreesociety.org. The coalition hope that this statement will help raise awareness to these important issues amongst social activists and NGOs outside of the technology field."
In January and February of this year, the Green Party and Greenpeace issued warnings about the tremendous threat posed to the environment by the disposable computer mentality promoted in Microsoft's $500-million Windows Vista marketing campaign. Vista's steep hardware requirements mean that to use it, most people will have to throw their current computer into a landfill and buy a new one. read more »
