No Justice for Climate in Copenhagen

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Indymedia Danmark: Today’s Reclaim Power action held a people’s assembly outside the COP15 Bella Centre calling for Climate Justice. Police tried to disrupt marches from outside reaching the COP15, with baton charges, pepper spray and preventive arrests (call for action, press release, video). Despite the COP15 pretence of democracy and inclusion of the global south, the police threatened delegates with arrest, and assaulted with batons when they tried to march out to the joint assembly.

[See this feature transtaled into Castellano]

Shahram Amiri kidnapped by Saudis and Americans during hajj

Tehran, Dec 9, IRNA – Some evidences, assured documents, indicate that security services of Saudi Arabia played an active role in the US latest case of kidnapping of an Iranian national.
The US and Saudi Arabian security services have, in a joint move, kidnapped Shahram Amiri who had entered Saudi Arabia last May for carrying out his Minor Hajj rituals.
Amiri was kidnapped while he was in Saudi Arabia.

Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after whitey strikes with the ‘Danish proposal’

a member of the Haitian delegation holds her head as whitey reveals his plans (note missing Guyana)

whitey wasted no time as he goes straight for the jugular on day two. we’ll have a copy of the danish swindle soon [now available here]

Guardian: The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.

Liberia ordered to pay 1978 debt to vultures Hamsah Investments and Wall Capital

A British court ruled yesterday that Liberia has to pay over 20 million US dollars to two Caribbean-registered investment funds for debts that are more than 30 years old. The figure corresponds to around five per cent of Liberia’s total budget for 2009, according to the BBC. Details of the case have not been released, but according to the BBC the sum refers to a 6.5 million US dollar loan that Liberia took from the US-based Chemical Bank in 1978. Critics have described the two investment funds, Hamsah Investments and Wall Capital, as “vultures” for buying up government debts and pursuing them through international courts. Liberia has said it cannot afford to pay the money and accused the funds of profiting from poverty.

Barack Obama’s thanksgiving message to Afghanistan & the world

Barack Obama's thanksgiving message to Afghanistan and the world

Diego Garcia’s sordid tale (Chagos Islands) – Latha Jishnu

Island of Shame is not just a gut-wrenching account of how a tropical paradise of powder-white beaches and palm fronds was turned into a massive launch pad for America’s military expansionist programme. A large chunk of the book is devoted to how the Chagossians came to build their complex but happy society in the islands and the resulting tragedy of their displacement. Above all, Vine is a top flight researcher. He manages to trace the story to Stuart Barber, a US Navy planner behind America’s plan to set up bases in remote islands as part of, what he calls, its Strategic Island Concept.

Officer Troy Meade with first-degree manslaughter in Snohomish County of Niles L. Meservey

October 22nd Coalition supporters:
In an unprecedented act, last Monday (October 26) Snohomish County prosecutors charged Everett Police Officer Troy Meade with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 51-year-old Niles L. Meservey of Stanwood, WA. This is reportedly the first officer in Shohomish County to be criminally charged for killing someone while “on duty”. Meservey was killed around 11:30pm on June 10 near Patty’s Eggnest-Chuckwagon Inn in the 6700 block of Evergreen Way in Everett; many witnesses, including another officer on the scene, have stated that neither Meade nor other bystanders were in any immediate danger at the time Meade shot Meservey.

How the Afghan Election Was Rigged – By Peter W. Galbraith

No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country’s presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.

Many white people don’t believe an African American should be president – Jimmy Carter

one thing about Jimmy Carter in his last days, he speaks his mind about most issues without obsfucation

NYT: “I live in the South and I’ve seen the South come a long way,” he said. But, “I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people not just in the south but around the country … that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”

Officer Omar Edwards – Black cop murdered by white ‘brother’ Andrew Dunton

Officer Omar Edwards with wife Danielle and their 1 1/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua

Laura Pendergest-Holt – a lady you might want to know

we’ve been getting a lot of hits on the flagship [temporarily down]  finally found a picture of Laura Pendergest-Holt on this site Bizz Buzz

BALDWYN – Laura Pendergest-Holt is the youngest and perhaps most unlikely member of the Stanford Financial Group trio accused of an $8 billion fraud.

Imperial Diplomacy – John Pilger

populistamerica: From British involvement with the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, to the supply of warplanes to the Indonesian dictator Suharto, knowing he was bombing civilians in East Timor, to the denial of vaccines and other humanitarian aid to the children of Iraq, my experience with the Foreign Office is that Higson was right and remains right.

USS Kearsarge imperialistic ambitions in Guyana championed by three negroes

funny after big whitey toss you a bone, he comes right back with a negroe ambassador and a negroe commander of a military ship and you all whoop and holler because he give out two vaccinations and give out three spectacles. all services that should’ve been provided by the cocaine chittagongs of PPP Crime Inc. in the first place

From left are Commander Fernandez “Frank” Ponds of the US Naval Ship, Kearsarge; US Ambassador to Guyana, John Jones; Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy

Exxon Valdez $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the nation’s worst tanker spill.
By a 5-3 vote, the high court ruled that the punitive damages award should be slashed — limited by the circumstances of the case to an amount equal to the total relevant compensatory damages of $507.5 million.

Texas Republican Party endorses racist Obama pin

it’s just gettig warm. this is only the beginning..the point has already been made, so you can go through the motions of apologising and giving money to charity et cetera

that’s how the game is played

AUSTIN – The Republican Party of Texas will donate to charity the $1,500 it received for leasing a booth at its state convention to a vendor who sold a racist button.

Anita Gay vigil (Black woman murdered by Berkeley Police Rashawn Cummings)

Indybay:On June 16th, around a dozen protesters gathered at Ashby and MLK in Berkeley to protest the shooting of Anita Gay, grandmother, mother, and resident of Berkeley. She was killed on February 16, 2008 by a Berkeley Police officer who is now back on the street. Following the killing of Anita Gay by Berkeley police Justice for Anita! Justice for All! was formed.
The group is composed of family, friends, and concerned community members.

US murder 12 Pakistani troops in Pakistan

If the 11 deaths are confirmed, it would be the worst incident of its kind since US and Nato-led forces began fighting militants in Afghanistan in 2001.

Prime Minister Gilani condemned the deaths, telling parliament: “We will take a stand for the sake of this country’s sovereignty, for the sake of its dignity and self-respect”.

US Uses Ships as Floating Torture Prisons

London, Jun 2 (Prensa Latina) The United States has been using about 20 ships as floating prisons since 2001 for the interrogation of prisoners, The Guardian daily revealed Monday.