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Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You?
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:55
How long before the "Holy Grail of crowd control" is used to quell
domestic dissent?
Yes, Raytheon -- manufacturer of the 100 bunker buster bombs kindly
flown by America to Israel at the height of their bombardment of
Lebanon, and supplier of electronic equipment for the apartheid wall
built on Palestinian land; -- Raytheon -- with its 73,000 employees
worldwide and annual revenues of 20 billion dollars has gone and done it
again!
For, Raytheon -- the world's largest producer of guided missiles, and
fifth largest defense contractor in the world, provider of aircraft
radar systems, weapons sights and targeting systems, communication and
battle-management systems, and satellite components -- has come up with
a system which could scatter a crowd in a trice without a drop of blood
being spilled.
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Is water becoming ‘the new oil’?
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:36
Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies –
and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a
human right?
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Apocalypse in the Oceans
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:33
With 150 dead zones in our oceans, some the size of Ireland, author
Taras Grescoe argues that there's been a massive die out of sea life.
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96 Billion Lbs Of Food Wasted In US In 1 Year
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:30
Link to large photo chart...
World Complicit in Gaza Shame: Tutu
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:25
Shocked by "scary" scenes in Gaza after months of Israeli and Western
sanctions, Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu denounced on Thursday, May
29, the international community's complicity in the suffering of the
Gaza people.
"My message to the international community is that our silence and
complicity, especially on the situation in Gaza, shames us all," Tutu
told a new conference at the end of a three-day UN fact-finding mission.
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Judge critical of Guantanamo war crimes case is dismissed
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:21
MIAMI -- A judge hearing a war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay who
publicly expressed frustration with military prosecutors' refusal to
give evidence to the defense has been dismissed, tribunal officials
confirmed Friday.
Army Col. Peter Brownback III was presiding over the case of Canadian
detainee Omar Khadr. Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, in his role as chief
judge at Guantanamo, ordered the dismissal without explanation and
announced Brownback's replacement in an e-mail this week to lawyers in
Khadr's case.
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TVNL Comment: How much further can the US sink into the stinking mud of
Fascism? Where is the outrage?
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More Whistleblowers Step Up To Complain About FAA
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:09
Kim Farrington says she was only doing her job as a Federal Aviation
Administration inspector when she raised concerns about problems
involving an airline's training program. But her bosses, who she thought
were too cozy with the carrier, punished her for her warnings, she said.
Her workplace became unbearable, and Farrington said she was essentially
fired in 2004.
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North Korea 'tests sea missiles'
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:04
North Korea has fired three short-range ****p-to-****p missiles off its
west coast as part of a military training exercise, re****ts from South
Korea say.
A government source was quoted as saying missiles with a range of nearly
50km (30 miles) were fired into the sea west of the North's capital,
Pyongyang.
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Air Force wing in nuclear goof has more trouble
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:02
The Air Force wing blamed for a foul-up in which a bomber mistakenly
flew to Louisiana armed with nuclear missiles will have to be retested
after coming up short in an inspection.
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