Norway has recently said that proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable for communication between citizens and government. Norway follows the lead of other European governments in supporting open source software and rejecting the expensive and buggy software from Microsoft and other companies which poses continual security risks and inhibits economic development.

In April, Portland, Oregon became the first city in the country to pull out of its local Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) agreement with the FBI. JTTFs federalize law enforcement, subvert the democratic process and are unconstitutional.

54,000 tons of radioactive waste that will be radioactive for more than 2 million years still has no safe to be stored. The answer? “Build more nuclear power plants to create more deadly waste,” says Bush and gang.

When the moron liars sat down together and devised their act of mass murder in Iraq, it is unlikely they gave any thought to the most vulnerable targets of their war crime: the children.

A 30-year-old Malian has walked from his village of Kita to Dakar, simply to meet Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour.

Japan suffered yet another setback in its bid for more whaling when an international commission rejected a plea to allow Japanese coastal communities to hunt whales.

Nuclear power is usually the most expensive. Construction and safety compliance is costly and there is no place to store the deadly waste. Many plants are merely programs to steal taxpayer money and never even open or too costly to actually operate. Bush wants to continue the scam and get you to pay for it.

The Posada case highlights the reality of US policy on terrorism – it is all for it.

Ex-IRS agent says Congress has no power to collect levy on income and was recently acquitted on charges that he defrauded the govt.

An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt to be tortured.

The US govt. stole billions of dollars in royalties belonging to native americans. Natives sued but the case has dragged on for 9 years. Now they have proposed a settlement of $27.5 Billion and reforms to stop the continued theft.

Americans, Do you still think that you live in a free country? Did you know that your home can be taken away if someone wants to build a shopping mall or office in the same spot?

All we have to do to see the madness of our species is to open our eyes and look at what we are doing to each other, to the environment which we depend on for our survival, and to ourselves. What more evidence of a collective psychosis do we possibly need?

The US has ignored repeated requests from the UN to visit the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. Prisoners are visited by the Red Cross but their findings are not published and anything it might publish would be suspect considering its criminal history and collusion with the CIA.

Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It’s the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs. If we are causing the extinction of so many species our own extinction can’t be far behind.

The Bush military has started to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students. The students will be profiled and tracked to better target them for recruitement and later conscription. The system will also help identify potential threats to the evil empire so they can be neutralized before posing a threat.

Nine out the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Index are convicted corporate criminals. Others have committed their crimes through subsidiaries or simply not been prosecuted.

There is nothing left to debate about climate change. It is happening and each of us must act on our own since our puppet show politicians are too corrupt or stupid to do anything about it.

The webmaster for this and related sites was targeted today with a sophisticated electronic weapon. While this in itself is not unusual the severity of the attack was. Yesterday one of our camera operators was almost arrested for taping protests in Philadelphia.

The renowned actor, Danny Glover, describes how Wal-Mart puts children around the world at risk -and tells how we can help hold the megastore accountable.

Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that Bush not only lied to them about the reasons for attacking Iraq but also about when the attacks began. The same secret pre-war attacks are now being used against Iran.

Today marked the largest protests in Philadelphia against the criminal corporations meeting in the city for their annual biotech conference. Many protestors have been arrested, some beaten and most blocked from peaceful demonstrations. So far the only casualties was a policeman who reportedly died from a heart attack while chasing a protestor.

A police officer collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday as police skirmished with protesters outside a biotechnology convention, officials said.

The Federal Bureau of Idiots has decided that animal rights activists are the biggest threat to America and is going after them with both barrels. Bush is considering bombing PETA headquarters with new nuclear bunker busters just in case they might have secret underground facilities.

Japan’s insistence on killing whales is indicative of its cultural rigidity and govt. corruption. However, it should encourage everyone to consider their own relationship to Earth’s other creatures and the consequences of needlessly killing and eating them.

While the world clamors for the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by Dickhead Cheney, has been handed a $30 million contract to help build a new permanent prison there.

A House bill to reinstate the draft has made its way to the Armed Services Committee where a vote is expected only after Bush is told by handlers if he is for or against conscription.

The OrganicAthlete conference will feature some of the many world class athletes whose strength comes from their vegan diet.

Impovrished children in India quickly develop computer and internet skills when given a chance.

Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.

Archaeologists have discovered Europe’s oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

Microsoft is eager to suppress basic human rights and freedom in its efforts to suck up to the Chinese dictatorship. Support freedom – boycott Microsoft products – support open source software.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has blamed Washington’s brand of capitalism for the recent troubles in Bolivia.

Israeli researchers say they have succeeded in growing a date palm from a 2,000-year-old seed.

The US makes up only 4% of the worlds population yet produces 25% of the carbon dioxide, 5.99 tons per year for each person.

The world cringes as the Bush monkies tell their straight faced lies that only a few Duhmerikans believe.

World to Bush – Stop harboring terrorists!

Months before the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, members of Saddam’s regime cut deals with the US to surrender the capital and the rest of the country. Despite this no war surrender, the axis of evil continued to bomb Iraq into oblivion.

Dozens of eco-friendly cars cruised from Kyoto, the ancient Japanese city that gave birth to the landmark environmental treaty in a motor rally to promote sustainable development.

Sex discrimination and antiwomen attitudes are still prevalent today on work sites. With a shortage of qualified male workers, successful companies will overcome cultural bias and incorporate more women into their workforce.

Bush is campaigning for a permanent Patriot Act, claiming it has protected American liberties. The logical next step for the global police state.

You can do your part to save marine life by simply not eating fish or other sea creatures and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives.

French TV journalist Grégoire Deniau describes his ordeal in U.S. custody in Iraq.

Women are gaining equality in professions that used to be male preserves, but not complete equality.

A London man described as the “world’s biggest computer hacker” has been arrested and faces up to 70 years in prison. Friends claim that he did the hacks to prove that the US govt. was hiding info. on UFOs.

Former President Carter joined a chorus of voices and called for the US to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison to show some progress on human rights violations.

Earlier this week Ryan Johnson and his wife crossed into Canada to escape servitude in the US military.

According to a recently issued document, Homeland Security now considers US activists the same threat as foreign terrorists.

BBC Radio will be airing a 30 minute program about John Mack’s work entitled “Abduction, Alienation and Reason” on Wed. June 8.

A new book entitled “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is about an unsuccessful attempt to investigate the US governments psychic spying program. The fact that the book was even published and reviewed in a major newspaper speaks volumes.

The US government is running a string of illegal prisons around the world, many of them secret camps through which people disappear, a top Amnesty International official says.

The state of Michigan cannot impose property taxes on the land owned by members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, a federal judge ruled.

215 Latino soldiers serving in the U.S. army have already died in Iraq, but an ever smaller number of young people of Latin American descent are enlisting in the armed forces.

Kuwait finally took a step out of the dark-ages by appointing two women as members of its municipal council.

In April 2005 the international community began to take a closer look at the United States justice system as its government attempted to explain and or deny the presence of admitted terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles.

An unusual protest was held in Moroccan capital Rabat last month. Members of the independent National Authority for Protection of Public Funds gathered outside parliament to demand a national authority for truth.

As a member of the Bush cabal of liars, Rumsfeld has told some pretty tall tales. His latest absurd mutterings about Aljazeera show that either he is stupid, deluded or just lying as usual.

A UK study found that children living within 200 meters of powerlines had a 70% greater chance of getting leukemia.

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Faced with daily reports of car bombs and kidnappings, it’s difficult to feel optimistic about Iraq. There is another story that gives hope, it is about a movement that has formed to rebuild the country’s economy and national pride, to create an Iraq with neither the tyranny of Saddam nor the pillage of military occupation.

A Chinese diplomat has defected and sought aylum, which was rejected by Australia. While western corporations and their political puppets have been eager to make deals with the Chinese dictatorship, the fact remains that China is under the control of a brutal and criminal regime.

Brazil has finally taken some steps to curtail illegal logging by arresting 78 people in government and business.

Bolivians are scaling up their protests in an effort to create a government more responsive to the needs of citizens.

GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International are launching the first on-line register of genetically modified contamination incidents. The on-line, searchable web site gives details of all the known cases of GM contamination of food, feed, seed and wild plants that have taken place worldwide.