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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23Marines arriving in Iraq this month as part of a massive troop rotation will bring with them a high-tech weapon never before used in combat — or in peacekeeping. The device is a powerful megaphone the size of a satellite dish that can deliver recorded warnings in Arabic and, on command, emit a piercing tone so excruciating to humans, its boosters say, that it causes crowds to disperse, clears buildings and repels intruders.
"[For] most people, even if they plug their ears, [the device] will produce the equivalent of an instant migraine," says Woody Norris, chairman of American Technology Corp., the San Diego firm that produces the weapon. "It will knock [some people] on their knees."
Now Online, the march issue of Socialist Voice.
Lead story:
Corruption: It Hasn't Gone Away! - Ahern Facing Tribunal
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After five years of anticipation, builder and property developer Tom Gilmartin marched in to the Mahon Tribunal this week with potentially enough ammunition to rock this Government to its foundations and severely damage some of the most senior Fianna Fail politicians including the Teflon Taoiseach himself Bertie Ahern.
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Plus: Housing Crisis - A&E Lies Idle in Blanch - Cork City Protests - Schools to be Sold Off in Northern Ireland! - Civil Service Dispute News - Privatisation Feature - Airport Workers Inquiry Update - Carnage in Iraq and a look back at the Miners' strike 20 years ago.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College's most notable collection of writing may never attract antiquarian book collectors or Ivy League literary scholars. Sotheby's, Yale -- that's the establishment. Burn it down!
Rather, the publications in this collection speak to punk-rock kids, young lesbians, anarchists, geeks, and weirdos. The titles alone assault the senses: Pure Tuna Fish, Today's Prostrate American Temp Worker, Planet Nicotine, and See You in Hell. They are part of the college's collection of some 3,500 zines -- a gathering of the sort of ephemera usually ignored by academic libraries.
"Zines are the true underground," says Thomas Eland, the librarian at the community college who helped start the collection. "Part of the reason that we have the collection of zines is to educate people that they exist."
First of all, I didn't leave Haiti because I wanted to leave
Haiti. They forced me to leave Haiti. It was a kidnapping, which
they call coup d'etat or [inaudible] ...forced resignation for
me. It wasn't a resignation. It was a kidnapping and under the
cover of coup d'etat.
AMY GOODMAN: It was a kidnapping under the cover of coup d'etat?
PRESIDENT ARISTIDE: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: Who forced you out of the country?
PRESIDENT ARISTIDE:I saw U.S. officials with Ambassador Foley.
Mr. Moreno, [inaudible...] at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti I saw
American soldiers. I saw former soldiers who are linked to drug
dealers like Guy Philippe and to killers already convicted,
Chamblain. They all did the kidnapping using Haitian puppets like
Guy Philippe, [inaudible], and Chamblain, already convicted, and
basically, this night, I didn't see Haitians, I saw Americans.
Q: What did you think about President Bush’s Thanksgiving visit to
Iraq?
A: I was there when President Bush came to the [Baghdad] airport.
The day before, you had to fill out a questionnaire and answer
questions, that would determine whether they would allow you in
the room with the President.
Q: What was on the questionnaire?
A: “Do you support the president?”
Q: Really!
A: Yes.
Q: Members of the military were asked whether they support the
president politically?
A: Yes. And if the answer was not a gung-ho, A-1, 100 percent yes,
then you were not allowed into the cafeteria. You were not
allowed to eat the Thanksgiving meal that day. You had an MRE.
Q: What’s an MRE?
A: Meals ready to eat. We also call them “meals refused by
Ethiopians.”
Q: About this questionnaire, it raises a serious question about
whether military personnel, or civil servants for that matter,
should ever be asked questions by their supervisors about their
political beliefs. It also raises the whole question of freedom
of speech. In particular, the circumstances under which members
of the military have freedom of speech.
A: There is none.
(C) No one may be unlawfully arrested or detained, and no
one may be detained by reason of political or religious beliefs.
(D) All persons shall be guaranteed the right to a fair and
public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal,
regardless of whether the proceeding is civil or criminal.
Notice of the proceeding and its legal basis must be provided to
the accused without delay.
(E) The accused is innocent until proven guilty pursuant to
law, and he likewise has the right to engage independent and
competent counsel, to remain silent in response to questions
addressed to him with no compulsion to testify for any reason, to
participate in preparing his defense, and to summon and examine
witnesses or to ask the judge to do so. At the time a person is
arrested, he must be notified of these rights.
(F) The right to a fair, speedy, and open trial shall be
guaranteed.
(G) Every person deprived of his liberty by arrest or
detention shall have the right of recourse to a court to
determine the legality of his arrest or detention without delay
and to order his release if this occurred in an illegal manner.
Welcome to the third Salthill Air Show 2004 email update. We are proud to announce that the Red Arrows have confirmed that they will be returning to Salthill again this year, and we also have two other confirmed displays to add to the display line up, the new confirmations are as follows....
The RAF Aerobatic Display Team, The Red Arrows
Dr. Tony Walsh's Beech C-45H Expeditor
The Irish Naval Service have confirmed their attendance but the exact vessel is yet to be announced
The total confirmed list for the 2004 Air Show is now as follows:
Flying Displays:
Royal Air Force Red Arrows Aerobatic Display Team
Garda Air Support Unit (Aircraft to be confirmed)
St. Ivel Utterly Butterly Wing Walkers
Irish Air Corps Pilatus PC-9M
Irish Air Corps CASA CN235-100MP Persuader
Royal Netherlands Air Force Agusta Bell AB-412 SP
Dr. Tony Walsh's Beech C-45H Expeditor
At Sea:
Irish Naval Service (Vessel to be confirmed)
That's it for now, any more confirmations will be announced on the website and via this email news letter.
More information on all confirmed displays can be found on our website: http://www.salthillairshow.com
Regards,
Frank & The Salthill Air Show Team
GM news from Ireland:
Conf on Apr 26, ‘is designed to inform policy makers in government, business, NGOs and the media about the political, economic, environmental, and health benefits of keeping the whole island of Ireland free of genetically modified (GM) seeds, food, animal feed, crops and livestock.’ Speakers include the Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher, MP (former UK Environment Minister), and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho.
See http://www.gmfreeireland.org/
news from us on gm:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
this week's mailout includes;
US counties vote to ban gm crops and animals, Bush workin hard for the money, tryin to save the most dangerous pesticide used in strawberry and tomato growth, one which also causes severe ozone depletion. Guess what, they are used mostly in California and Florida - swing states. Also, news on the poss that GM may wake up dormant viri in humans, as they are currently doing in animals, and loads more – u can sign up for the once a wk mailout – well worth it.
And from UK/Europe, try
http://www.foe.co.uk
but watch out – loads of mails each week – maybe just visit the site
Working Class Resistance#4 is now online. You can contact us for copies you wish to distribute.
In this issue...
Shannon/EU news
Racism in the north
NIPSA-CSA interview
Water Charges
Prisoner news
Dying for Debehams
You can read it online or download it from www.organiseireland.org
Airstrip One - Formally called England. This term seems to show some distain for American influence Europe. Orwell seems to be predicting England’s future in an English-speaking Super-State. It seems that Oceania (America, England, South America, Australia) looks upon Britain as little more than an ‘airstrip’ ... a launching ground into the European theater of war.
Thief steals Mossad boss's mobile
THE head of Israel's spy agency Mossad, widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated security services in the world, has had his cell phone stolen, the Yediot Aharonot daily said on its website.
General Meir Dagan had left the mobile phone in his car when it was grabbed by an unknown thief, the report said.
The embarrassing affair happened a month ago but it was not authorised for publication until Wednesday.
(Could it be Cat P?)
A BANGLADESHI pilot needed first aid after a stowaway cat got into the cockpit of his aircraft and attacked him, a report said today.
The cat pounced on the pilot after managing to get into the cockpit of the plane flying from the northeastern city of Sylhet to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, a report in the New Age daily said.
The pilot, who works for the national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was not seriously hurt.
On arrival at Dhaka's Zia International Airport, the cat evaded security staff and escaped.
It was finally caught in the airport two hours later, the report said.
Environmentalists filed suit Wednesday in hopes of blocking the construction of Ireland's first waste incinerator in its second-largest city, Cork.
The Irish High Court application by 11 Cork residents seeks to overturn a decision by Ireland's planning board to approve the proposed euro70 million (US$90 million) harborside incinerator at Ringaskiddy, a Cork suburb. The court scheduled a hearing for April 19.
http://www.elpais.es/
spanish interior not dismissing any line of investigation.
http://www.lavanguardia.es
british news paper (arabic) it was al q.
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/inicio/index.htm
al q. Jack Straw did say "hold on a moment"
The Spanish need our support help sympathy solidarity and all our assistance.
They are terrified.
Loyalist link to racist leaflets
Security forces blamed the UVF for the leaflets. Senior security sources say they believe loyalist paramilitaries were behind racist leaflets circulated in south Belfast earlier this week. The Ulster Volunteer Force has been blamed for the leaflets which urge people to expel members of the Chinese community.
Latest opposition to the council tax is being led by the Socialists. Calls for the abolition of the council tax have failed to win the backing of the Scottish Parliament. Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan said MSPs should reflect public opinion as he led a debate on the issue at Holyrood on Thursday.
He had lodged a motion which called on MSPs to support the scrapping of the charge and its replacement with an income-based alternative.
However, his move was defeated by 88 votes to 33.
Today in Palestine
Briefing on the 11th of marsa
Court orders 6-day freeze on fence construction near Jerusalem
The Israeli petitioners, represented by advocates Mohammed Dahleh and Suhad Hamoud, wrote in the petition that "there is no justification for the fatal blow to the incomes of the villagers who will be distanced from 7,000 of the 8,000 dunams of agricultural land they own."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=403738&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Massive demonstration against land confiscation in Beit Dako
Eyewitnesses said that hundreds of farmers and a number of foreign peace activists took part in the march that was organized by the national and Islamic forces in the villages to the northwest of occupied Jerusalem.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_5096.shtml
Israel seizes Palestinian land to build wall
Confiscation orders were sent to the municipal councils of Masha, Al Zawiya, Rafat and Deir Ballut, southeast of the town of Qalqilya. The documents, copies of which were obtained by AFP, were signed by General Moshe Kaplinsky, who heads Israel’s central command in charge of the occupied West Bank.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=52732
Israel's barrier to be cut by 100 miles
At the same time, it was confirmed by Col Dan Tizra, an Israeli official, that there would be no eastern section of the barrier through the Jordan Valley "because of the diplomatic damage" Israel would probably suffer as a result.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/11/wmid11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/11/ixworld.html
International NGO honors Rachel Corrie with Housing Rights Defender Award
In a moving ceremony on 16 February 2004, Craig and Cindy Corrie accepted the Housing Rights Defender Award from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) on behalf of their daughter Rachel Corrie.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2494.shtml
IOF Kills a Child, Arrests 5
The medics confirmed that Thaer Al Halaika, 15, was killed as being shot with more than twenty gunshots allover his body, mainly chest and head. In Nablus City, IOF arrested early Thursday five Palestinians in Balata refugee camp of Nablus, witnesses said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=225
Palestinians in the Australian Media
"What has enabled Israel to do what it has been doing to the Palestinians for the past 54 years is the result of a carefully and scientifically planned campaign to validate Israeli actions and simultaneously devalue and efface Palestinian actions. This is not just a matter of maintaining a powerful military, but of organising opinion".
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=5133
UN: Palestinians increasingly unable to get enough food
The report found that 40 percent of Palestinians - or 1.4 million people - are now classified as food insecure, meaning they don't have access on a continuing basis to the food they need to live normal and healthy lives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=403879&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israel marks International Women’s Day with the killing of two young Palestinian mothers
Witnesses said twenty three year old Dalal Sabaa was on the roof of her house in the eastern neighborhood of the city when an Israeli sniper killed her with one shot to the head. Among her other children, Dalal leaves behind a one month old baby.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/international_women_day.htm
The Price of an Orange
on the anniversary of the murders of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurdnall in Palestine, Starhawk remembers her visit with the long-term inhabitants of Rafah, and of their continuing struggle to maintain the old way of life in the face of constant attacks by the Israelis.
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/price_of_an_orange.html
IOF Abducts One Palestinian in the West Bank City of Al-Bira
Local residents reported heavily armed Israeli troops and undercover units disguised in civilian clothes and abruptly broke into the city of Al-Bira, handcuffed and arrested the Palestinian Citizen Nour Al-Zein, 23, after beating him by the butts of their rifles for no reason
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_03/055.html
Israeli troops arrest 13 Palestinians
Israeli troops arrested 13 Palestinians and demolished the home of a militant on Thursday in the West Bank, security sources on both sides said. Among the suspected militants rounded up by the army are nine members of Fatah party, including a woman...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1064096.htm
Sharon meets three U.S. envoys on disengagement plan
At the core of Sharon's talks with the officials was expected to be the relationship between the number of settlements Israel evacuates in the West Bank and the depth of the U.S. recognition of the settlement blocs of Ariel, Ma'aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion, which Israel wants to annex in any future peace agreement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/403702.html
Israeli FM finds Mubarak determined for peace, welcomes fresh start
"I found a determined president to advance the peace process here in the region, especially between us and the Palestinians, and to advance bilateral relations," Shalom said after his talks with Mubarak.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=10&u=/afp/20040311/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_egypt_israel_talks_040311113058
PM Qurei' Visits France, Dismisses Imminent Summit With Sharon
An official statement by the French Foreign Ministry stated that the visit would discuss the restart of the internationally-sponsored "Road Map" peace plan and the situation in the Middle East as well as bilateral relations between France and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_03/051.html
Palestinian PM says no need for Egyptian presence in Gaza
"I do not think that Egypt will need to enter Gaza" after an Israeli withdrawal, "and I do not think that we will need Egypt to enter Gaza," he told a press conference in Paris, following talks with President Jacques Chirac.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20040311/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinians_040311193043
Arafat says any Israeli pullout welcome, Palestinians ready to take over
"We welcome any Israeli withdrawal from any part of our land simultaneously in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) and in the West Bank," Arafat said in an address marking the opening of the new parliamentary session in Ramallah.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=16&u=/afp/20040311/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_arafat_040311161205
Hamas Unveils Plan To ‘Join’ Running Gaza
Hamas would join taking control of the strip in a "democratic" way "with or without elections", Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said. "The plan would be tabled before the Palestinian Authority and other factions for approval," Yassin said.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20040311130500554
Sharon says U.S. should also disarm Iran, Libya and Syria
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after Iraq. "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve," Sharon said
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=263941
Israel says won't raze Gaza settlements in pullout
Israel intends to leave intact any Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip it evacuates as part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to "disengage" from the Palestinians, senior government sources said on Thursday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11359580.htm
Leaker of nuke secrets curbed
Nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu, who will complete his 18-year prison sentence in April for having revealed some of Israel's nuclear secrets, will be denied a passport in order to prevent him from ever leaving the country, Israel Radio reported yesterday.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040310-101151-4291r.htm
An eye-opening tour of Israel's roadblocks in Palestinian territory
The internal roadblocks in the Territories are unnecessary and destructive. If Israel wants to protect itself, it would better to invest more in guarding its own borders, instead of restricting the Palestinians' movement between their own villages".
http://www.time.com/time/europe/me/article/0,13716,599763,00.html
The better things are the worse they get, as history is made in Iraq - By Robert Fisk
Were Israelis born in Baghdad to be given Iraqi passports and return? Why shouldn't they, I asked my Christian friend? Fair enough, he said. But would the Americans then support the return of Palestinians driven from their homes in what is now Israel in 1948?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5828.htm
"Stolen Youth" launched in London
"Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children"... Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2484.shtml
DeLay tactics could distance Jews from Bush
Both DeLay and Bush have been working extra hard to court Jewish support, and there have been predictions of a sea change in Jewish voting patterns as a result of their outspoken pro-Israel credentials.
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/localstory.php?/wjw2/280016003871373.bsp
Middle East studies seen as against American interests
The American Jewish Congress has also jumped on this bandwagon, asserting that “federal tax dollars are funding Middle East seminars exclusively promoting one-sided anti-American and anti-Israel view”, and aggressively petitioning the secretary of education to amend “this distortion”.
http://www.jordantimes.com/Thu/opinion/opinion3.htm
Israeli leaders in talks over disengagement plan from occupied territories
A day after Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinian militants in the West Bank, the army continued its operations in the occupied territories, rounding up suspects and demolishing houses. Sharon was due to meet with three US envoys...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20040311/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_040311160135
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a renowned U.S. expert on bubonic plague to two years in prison for fraudulent research contracts and improperly shipping samples of the deadly bacteria overseas.
In December, a jury convicted Thomas Butler, 62, a former Texas Tech University professor, on 47 counts out of a total of 69 federal charges brought against him.
Butler was cleared, however, on charges he lied to the FBI in a statement that 30 vials of the bacteria that cause the plague were missing.
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11-M: BOMBS HIT MADRID
11-M: BOMBS HIT MADRID
The GARA newspaper has received a phone call today, passed 18:00 o'clock, in which a person who has said to speak in name of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) has affirmed that this armed organization "does not have any responsibility " with regard to the blasts that caused yesterday 199 deaths in the Spanish capital.
http://www.elpais.es/
8,000,000 people.
madrid 2,000,000.
http://www.lavanguardia.es/
11,400,000 people marched source:-
National Police.
http:// word of mouth.
barcelona started concentration this morning.
the government of Spain called for 7pm. The Catalan Left for a bit earlier. The other Catalan Left a bit earlier than that. The anti War movement people (2003) did the 17h30 slot.
It perhaps ought be noted that the leader of the illegalised party attended the Basque Local Government concentration.
Within 36 hours of the US terrorist event which began the woes of our recent history popular and official reaction had been somewhat different. Spain has seen in the words of one TV presenter this afternoon unprecedented solidarity between political parties, trade unions and social collectives.
At long last it appears we can say nothing together and hopefully all mean it.
http://reuters.com
Spanish intelligence 99% sure it was not ETA and arabic terrorists instead. Ah could we have a source for "spanish intelligence" please?
http://unison.ie
8 million marched, and you listed the presence of burlosconi but please note he was in the second row and no-one talked to him, even if it hadn't been "Hey look we can all stand together and say nothing" sort of thing, I reckon very few would have spoken to him anyway. And the wrinkles show through in the rain Silvio.
But "independent news Ireland" didn't mention the black ribbons, now our mutual loathing is well established but you could at least quote the Police figures couldn't you? How much exactly are you paying the correspondent in Madrid?
Now look back your editorials and experts and tell your readers how to keep us all safe.
can you even do that? or do you just sell advertising? and slander pacifists / dingbats and your own youth?
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