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Pacific Free Press
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Rovics, Tui Hill, J9 May 12, 2008

Counting Down to 350: Civilization's Last Chance on Earth

A Declaration of Independents

Green Scare: The FBI's Domestic Terrorism Program

The Continuing B.C. Rail Scandal
Newsdaily
Another American War – Look Out Earth

What Seeds Are You Planting on Earth Day?

The Cost of War: Steep and Irreversible

Are Tech-Savvy Millenials the New Voice of Philanthropy?

1,000 Strong for Ancient Forests Rally
Top PEJ Headlines

Ground Zero Logic - Proof that 9/11 Was An Inside Job
Terrorism Soft and Hard, Big and Small
The Pitiful Demise of the Eminent Grey Lady
Basra Bizarre: SAS Commandos Arrested and Sprung
Will the ‘Oprah Effect’ Send Puppy Mills Packing?
Past Articles
Thursday, April 24
·New Orleans North American Leaders’ Summit: Misrepresentation in SPP Joint Statement 
Wednesday, April 23
·The United States is torturing children and then falsifying evidence against them: Update on Omar Khadr and Afghanistan 
Tuesday, April 22
·New Orleans Security and Prosperity Partnership Earth Day Declaration 
Monday, April 21
·Michael Moore's Vote Is for Obama 
·New Orleans SPP Summit: Fraser Institute dupes the public by rebranding SPP as North American Standards and Regulatory Area 
Sunday, April 20
·New Orleans Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit: Negotiating with the Diabolos 
Saturday, April 19
·Victoria's 27th Annual Earth Walk Saturday 
·New Orleans SPP talks: Canadian Think tank, Fraser Institute, treats Mexico as second class state 
Friday, April 18
·Fernwood Community Association Eviction Backgrounder 
·Some Animals Can Use Tools? Who Cares? 
 Older Articles
Rich People Causing Global Warming
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 04:37 PM.
Justice News
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Rich People Causing Global Warming

PEJ News - Mega-yachts will dock in front of Songhees condos if Community Marine Concepts has its way. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has already given their blessing.

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Lest we forget, an attack on Syria is an attack on Iran and a threat to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Posted by chycho on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 09:01 AM.
Peace News
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Kick Starting WWIII Neocon Style

PEJ News - chycho - The latest accusations by the United States against Syria, seven months after an Israeli air raid in northeastern Syria, should be taken very seriously by the world community. Not because of the validity of the allegations, but because those who are making the accusation have proven that irrelevant of fact or fiction, war is the agenda.

News has surfaced that Vice President Dick Cheney, who recently warned his allies of impending war in the Middle East and who also opposes diplomatic dealings with North Korea was “‘behind (the) Syrian reactor claim.’” This is the same man who was allegedly in charge of the recent B-52 Incident in the United States where “a B-52 bomber mistakenly loaded with six nuclear warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, resulting in an Air Force-wide investigation.”


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Harper weeps for ducks in the oil sands; NAFTA provision ignored and international norms violated
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Friday, May 02, 2008 - 09:09 AM.
Earth News
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Harper weeps for ducks in the oil sands; NAFTA articles ignored and international norms violated

PEJ news - Joan Russow
- Global Compliance Research Project - After the duck die-in in the oil sands ponds, Harper proclaims that in producing oil in the oil sands, Canada must become a global environmental leader!!!. Production in the oil sands violates both articles in the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, and international norms. NAFTA and SPP must be declared null and void, for violating significant provisions in NAFTA and international peremptory norms, and all further exploration in the oil sands must cease. No "carbon credits" can absolve Canada from its obligations.

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Eco-Sense - Sustainable Home Tour Schedule
Posted by GordBaird on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 11:31 PM.
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Eco-Sense 2008 Tour Schedule - Sustainable Home Tour Schedule

Ever wanted to see what sustainability looks like within the building code? Ann and Gord Baird’s load bearing earthen home is the first code approved seismically engineered high occupancy residence in North America.

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Will the ‘Oprah Effect’ Send Puppy Mills Packing?
Posted by elizabethotter on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 11:27 PM.
Justice News
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Will the ‘Oprah Effect’ Send Puppy Mills Packing?

PETA - Heather Moore -
While watching Oprah’s exposé on puppy mills earlier this month—a show that she dedicated to her beloved dog Sophie—I thought about all the darling dogs who’ve shared and enhanced my own life. Muffin, a treasured terrier mix my family adopted from a Baltimore pound. Jake, a gentle Brittany spaniel found wandering the streets of New Jersey—with a BB lodged in his leg—and put up for adoption by a breed rescue group. And Carly, my little diva, saved from a laboratory in Ohio by a kind-hearted soul. These dogs didn’t come with “papers”; they came with unconditional love, loyalty and a genuine zest for life. With so many sweet, lovable dogs in animal shelters, on the streets and in abusive situations, it’s hard to comprehend why some people still buy animals from pet stores or breeders.

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The collapse of the United States is accelerating: Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
Posted by chycho on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:18 AM.
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The collapse of the United States is accelerating: Oil in Euros vs. US dollars

PEJ News - chycho - In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.

To accomplish PNAC’s goals, all threats needed to be eliminated. From the onset, the United Sates earmarked two countries as mortal enemies: Venezuela and Iran. With Venezuela, it is well documented that the CIA attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chavez. And with Iran, the United States continues to use it as a scapegoat for its failures in Iraq. These cold war tactics however are proving to be US’s undoing.


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The United States is hemorrhaging from every orifice, and oil prices can be used to measure the rapidity of its demise.



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A Short Jeremiad to the US Election Process
Posted by rycroft on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 12:12 AM.
Justice News
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A Short Jeremiad to the US Election Process

Fastened To A Dying Animal
A Short Jeremiad Regarding That Affront to the Nation's Dignity Known as the US Election Process

PEJ News - Phil Rockstroh -
Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed
down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism -- the essential question confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's humanity amid the catastrophic machinery and inane accouterment of our age?

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On the Road Again...
Posted by JossJosephMageau on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:45 PM.
Blogs
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On the Road Again...

PEJ News - Joss Joseph Mageau -
This is more of a blog than anything else. Due to the nature of my work when i return to Canada, and the fact that i am not a native victorian...whatever the hell that is...many of you have no idea who i am. Actually being more of a socialist-libertarian-anarchist-buddhist-liberation theology Metis i prefer it that way.

Another adventure lies before me..as fas south as i feel like..maybe Santiago or the Lake district in Chile, certainly Ecuador and Northern Peru..Quito, Chiclayo, Huaraz, and Lima..obviously Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico DF.

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Blood Diamonds, Blood Oil and Blood Food
Posted by rycroft on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:36 PM.
Justice News
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Blood Diamonds, Blood Oil and Blood Food

PEJ News - Pablo Ouziel, Justice Editor - For a while now, I have been thinking about what George W. Bush signifies from a socio-political perspective. Looking at the world from the time of the ‘Big Bang’ of September 11th, 2001, until today almost seven years later, one can clearly observe how monstrous our human interaction has become. After much reading and analysis, I now understand that September 11th was not the starting point of a new world order, but to the contrary, it was purely the end of a specific human state of affairs.

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SPECIAL ALERT FROM Bolivia: US and oil industry destabilizing Boliva
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 08:03 AM.
Justice News
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SPECIAL ALERT FROM Bolivia: US and oil industry destabilizing Boliva

PEJ News - Joan Russow -
[English Summary, by Joan Russow original  article  by MICHEL COLLON in French.]. The multinational oil companies do not accept that they have "lost" Bolivia. The United States is attempting to undermine the legally elected president Evo Morales. …. Washington is promoting separatism. The US ambassador is speaking of the “Republic of Santa Cruz” – the area where the rich land owners refuse to implement the necessary social reforms related to the indigenous peoples. Through this scheme the multinationals thus can recover part of the Country’s riches.

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Typical News Day in Palestine
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 01:27 AM.
Justice News
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Typical News Day  in Palestine

IMEMC News - Excerpt - What follows is an excellent depiction of the kind of brutal and inhumane violations of international law that occur daily in Palestine.

www.imemc.org/article/54514 


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Where Women Are Raped and Enslaved
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 04:03 PM.
Justice News
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Where Women Are Raped and Enslaved

GROZNY, Chechnya — "She screamed, kicked and scratched at the man, but he brought three male friends, a driver and two backup abductors to ensure she couldn't escape. More young men in a second vehicle trailed, on the lookout for witnesses who might try to halt the brazen afternoon capture."

"If an unmarried Chechen woman spends a night in a man's house, she is considered to be his wife. If he touches her before marriage, she is thought to be tainted." 

"He had already touched me. I was afraid that if my boyfriend found out, he would never see me again."


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Media’s Continued Exposure of Conservative Misdeeds Benefits all Canadians
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 09:31 AM.
Justice News
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Media’s Continued Exposure of Conservative Misdeeds Benefits all Canadians

PEJ News
- Joan Russow - Global Compliance Research Project - On the April 24, edition of CBC National News, there was a discussion on the “At issue” Panel about the “media agenda”: “Is the media obsessed with political scandal, and ignoring what really matters?” The pundits ruminated on whether the media preoccupation with Conservative misdeeds was relevant to Canadian citizens. The majority of the Pundits on the “At Issue” panel indicated that citizens were immune to Conservative misdeeds and more interested in economic issues that affected them personally.

The pundits neglected to mention the correlation between the “new” Conservative minority government’s misplaced spending priorities and the economic issues that affect citizens.

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Are Cell Phone Companies Stealing Your Money?
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 12:15 AM.
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Are Cell Phone Companies Stealing Your Money?

PEJ News - Dragonslayer -
It's about that extra minute you get charged that you don't get to use.  

When you go past a minute, even if it is one second past, you get charged for a full extra minute.   It's not that the cell companies can't keep track of the partial minutes, it's more like they don't feel like it because they rather feel like stealing your money instead.

Lets look at a simple pay as you go senario........  

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Oil prices, gasoline costs to double
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 06:04 PM.
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Oil prices, gasoline costs to double

PEJ News - "Crude oil will soar to more than $200 (U.S.) a barrel over the next five years, Canadian gasoline prices could hit $2.25 a litre, says CIBC economist Jeff Rubin."  $200 equals apocalypse.   

The sub prime mortgage problems were originally caused because people couldn't pay their mortgage.  They couldn't pay their mortgage because their real wages were going down as the price of energy went up.   Everything that is done requires energy and taken to the ultimate analysis, one finds that everything is a product or the energy to take it from the earth and deliver it to the customer.  Rising energy = inflation.  

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