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LOCAL News :: Environment |
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New England confronts Bush with climate change plans |
by The Sierra Club
information (nospam) sierraclub.org (unverified) |
18 Dec 2003
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The Bush administration says it needs 10 years to decide whether to take action on global warming -- but Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont have begun their own plans to address climate-change. |
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GLOBALIZATION, TIME AND ANGUISH- “Diez horas con la globalización”(google) |
by Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega (google)
ofdelavega (nospam) edu.xunta.e (unverified) |
18 Dec 2003
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According to the book-“DIEZ HORAS CON LA GLOBALIZACIÓN”(google,amazon,yahoo,Foro-los retos de la globalización, netbiblo, indymedia.org, elcorteingles.es....
“ Nowadays time escapes from our lives, without us being able to catch it, as a result of an apparent acceleration of the vital-global process. We are offered numbers and percentages but they are all uncertain, they are obsolete, and have lost present value while they are facilitated to us”. |
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The UN and Trial of Saddam H. |
by Ross Peterson
stream (nospam) contact.net (unverified) |
17 Dec 2003
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Summary: Saddam in captivity, even Charles Taylor in exile as well as the U.S. victorious all pose the questions: Who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity? Do the moral spoils of war belong to the victor alone? What is sovereignty without liberation? This is one of half a dozen critical tests of the role of the United Nations and International Court – overshadowed by the recent history of US unilateralism . . .
An international criminal court held in Iraq can be organized by Iraqi prosecutors for the Iraqi people. Prosecution of the victors is, however, a matter to take up at The Hague, with or without the US signature on the ICC accords. |
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News :: International |
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Bin Laden suggested attack against U.S. military base in Turkey, but activists changed plans |
by Albawaba.com
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17 Dec 2003
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Fevzi Yitiz told interrogators that Osama bin Laden approved attacks in Turkey only if Turks were not killed, but instead operatives bombed two synagogues, a London-based bank and the British Consulate-- killing over 60 people, mostly Muslims. |
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