` ` OREO 04 15 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 3 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` ** How Hunger Could Topple Regimes ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080414/wl_time/howhungercouldtoppleregimes ` "The usually impoverished majority of citizens may acquiesce to the rule of detested corrupt and repressive regimes when they are preoccupied with the daily struggle to feed their children and themselves, ` but when circumstances render it impossible to feed their hungry children, normally passive citizens can very quickly become militants with nothing to lose." ` "the invisible barricade of private-property laws can be easily ignored."` ` "For a mass outpouring of rage spurred by hunger to trans- late into a credible challenge to an established order requires an organized political leadership ready to harness that anger against the state." ` ` ` ==== ` Does the software at this site automatically convert URLs ` to links? If not, go to the Oreo Archive: ` Oreo ` ==== ` ` ` Cosatu [Congress of South African Trade Unions] warns of riots over food price hikes ` http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336967&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ ` "one of the reasons why we feel this [protest] campaign is so important, so that we can try to channel the anger that people undoubtedly feel in a positive direction, in an orderly peaceful campaign." ` CHANNELING ` ` ` France’s answer to global food crisis is EU protectionism ` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3746899.ece ` "At a high-level EU agriculture meeting in Luxembourg, Michel Barnier, the French Agriculture Minister, called on Europe to establish a food security plan and to resist further cuts in Europe’s agriculture budget." ` HYSTERIA ` ` ` Price rises add £600 a year to grocery bills ` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/15/nprices215.xml ` See graphic: "How the cost of staple foods has risen in the past year." ` WE'RE BRITS ` ` ` Food price protests disrupt India's parliament ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080415/tap-uk-india-economy-finmin-e55d1fb.html ` "Indian inflation jumped to its highest in more than three years in late March, reaching 7.41 percent" ` "Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters a cabinet panel that tracks prices of essential commodities would take more measures to calm inflation. I do not know when the cabinet committee on prices will meet" ` MEDITATION ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` ** The Killing of Civilians is the Systematic Policy of the Occupation ` http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/2767/1/ ` "This method of killing civilians under the pretext of targeting armed groups is systematic policy of the occu- pation over the past five years not only in this attack [in Sadr City] but also in others carried out in all parts of Iraq.” ` "AMSI reminds our people from north to south that this is the policy of the occupier. Therefore there is no solu- tion except to be [in] solidarity to work as one hand to defeat the occupation and [thus accomplish] the libera- tion of Iraq from its evils and sins." ` AMSI = Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq ` Association of Muslim Scholars: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Muslim_Scholars ` A principal clause of The Superpower's Declaration of World $lavery: ` THERE SHALL BE NO CIVILIANS EVER AGAIN, ANYWHERE! ` Time, place, circumstance determine how. If man-made disease doesn't wipe out the coloreds, starvation may. If not that, *final* merciless killing. ` ` ` Chaos in Tokyo train stations after fire ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080410/tap-japan-incident-rail-transport-d1078a1.html ` "sparks from an electrical feeder station set fire to cable wires." ` ` Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 14 April 2008 ` http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0408/iraqiresistancereport_140408.htm ` Item 5: US bombards Madinat as-Sadr Monday ` "The sound of explosions resounded in various parts of Baghdad on Monday from 1am until 6am as US forces con- tinued their offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi." ` ` ` __NAZI DOCTORS__ ` AUSTRALIA ` ** Australian Aborigines used for medical tests, inquiry told ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080415/tap-australia-native-aborigines-abuse-5a1703c.html ` "Up to 50,000 mainly mixed-race children were taken from their families until 1970 in a bid to assimilate them into white society, while full-blooded Aborigines were expected to die out." ` __AND__ ` "children were used as 'guinea pigs' for leprosy treat- ments." Not just for leprosy experiments: "It was a common experience and a common practice." ` History of Australia since 1945 | Indigenous rights ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia_since_1945#Indigenous_rights ` ` Australia offers residence to Iraqis who helped troops ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080409/tap-australia-iraq-war-immigration-5a1703c.html ` IT IS TO LAUGH ` ` ` MALAYSIA ` Malaysia tackling rising prices amid deficit challenge: official ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080415/tap-malaysia-economy-inflation-food-0193655.html ` "Food prices have spiralled higher globally in recent months and analysts have warned Asian governments face strikes, protests and hoarding in response. ` In Malaysia, the government earlier this year was forced to flood the market with flour and cooking oil to end severe shortages which stripped supermarket shelves." ` and Gov "established a cabinet-level committee"... ` ` ` REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ` Philippine Rebel Clash Leaves 3 Dead ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080415/tap-philippines-communist-rebels-fe2a5de.html ` "two rebels and a soldier." ` "The 6,000-strong NPA has been fighting for a Marxist-led state for nearly 40 years. The rebels withdrew from peace talks in 2004, accusing the government of instigating their inclusion on U.S. and European Union terrorist lists." ` New People's Army: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army ` To be read with circumspection. ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` RUSSIAN FEDERATION ` Excerpts from Transcript of Meeting with the Government Cabinet ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2008/04/14/2132_type82913type82917_163770.shtml ` PUTIN ` "Interior Ministry and municipal officials think up all manner of nonsense in an effort to squeeze money out of small businesses. They change all sorts of little de- tails every month, and it is all these little details that add up to form what we call unfavourable conditions for doing business. ` Laws cannot be retroactive. This is a common principle that needs to apply to the work of municipal institu- tions too. The regulations they set are not laws; they are bylaws, but they are just as important for small businesses as the laws passed by the state Duma are for big business." ` IVANOV ` "traffic in our sea ports, an area in which we have many problems, even a real mess, to put it bluntly. We need to ensure that container and transit goods are processed rapidly through our ports. Currently there are big delays and this comes at a big cost for the economy." ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` Reflections of Fidel | Bush, millionaires, consumption and under-consumption ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/abril/lun14/16reflex1-i.html ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Schaffer, lobbyist strategies meshed | The Coloradan's acts align with an Abramoff plot; he denies any link ` http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_8906163 ` Bob Schaffer: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Schaffer ` Jack Abramoff: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff ` Jack Abramoff CNMI [Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands] scandal: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_CNMI_scandal ` Northern Mariana Islands: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Marianas ` Image:Map Northern Mariana Islands closer.gif ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_Northern_Mariana_Islands_closer.gif ` ` Ultimately, the Abramoff affair has to do with TREASON IN THE BLACK HOUSE ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Foreclosures jump 57 percent in last 12 months ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/us_nm/usa_mortgages_foreclosures_dc ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` `
