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Sunday, August 29, 2010

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Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
http://www.truth-out.org/is-us-pulling-plug-iraqi-workers62632
Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq's oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they'd come to carry out the orders of Electricity Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to shut the union down. As more police arrived, they took the membership records, the files documenting often-atrocious working conditions, the leaflets for demonstrations protesting Basra's agonizing power outages, the computers and the phones. Finally, Muhsin and her coworkers were pushed out and the doors locked.
Shahristani's order prohibits all trade union activity in the plants operated by the ministry, closes union offices, and seizes control of union assets from bank accounts to furniture. The order says the ministry will determine what rights have been given to union officers, and take them all away. Anyone who protests, it says, will be arrested under Iraq's Anti-Terrorism Act of 2005.
So ended seven years in which workers in the region's power plants have fought for the right to organize a legal union, to bargain with the electrical ministry, and to stop the contracting-out and privatization schemes that have threatened their jobs.
 ( Iraqi infrastructure - especially power generation which affects all water treatment, sewage treatment, irrigation, schools, hospitals...and even traffic lights - has been rendered useless from attacks that predated 2003. Nuclear Power Generation in Iraq - like Iran and North Korea - has constantly been 'framed' as a 'risk' by the biggest military powerhouse on the planet, abrogating the terms of guaranteeing responsible and peaceful civilian use of nuclear power generation included in the international Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty under its Third Pillar ; stimulating illicit nuclear technology exchange. The proponents of peace are therefore disguised as those of War and 'fined' and harassed as War Criminals...by the War Criminals themselves...including and especially by 'Peace Prize' recipient Barack Obama.
This is the same scenario seen in the 'conscripting' of nations into NATO to carry out 'Land War in Europe' in an organization originally formed to justify delivery of war materials to Britain during World War II in the North Atlantic...which was itself started by a political system whose birth and leader's education was funded in the U.S.A. Check the history of George Bush's family -  about Prescott Bush and George H.W., once Director of the C.I.A.
Meanwhile, back home, infrastructure degrades from neglect...and worse. )
Soldier, Ask Not
 Told You So, Economy in the Toliet »
( Is that to toilet as Julie-8 is to Juliette ? )
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog

The Right To Vote, The Right To An Education »
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog
a girls’ school had poisonous gas spread throughout the school, sickening a number of the girls and teachers. Who would do such a thing? The Taliban would:
    [snip] Wednesday’s incident follows a similar pattern seen in other recent attacks at girls’ schools involving an airborne substance which officials say could be some form of gas.
    Those have raised fears that the Taliban and other allied groups who oppose female education are using a new method to scare them away from classes. [snip]
Read the rest
( That 'poisonous gas' is an example of sick humour...in English, at least. So's this Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - equating 'underwear' to WMD...is indecent. )
Somali shell attack injures Koranic schoolchildren
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10683293
targeting government and African Union (AU) bases in the Bondhere and Shibi districts. A UN-backed ( imposed )  interim government has been struggling to contain the rebels, who control most of southern Somalia.
Al-Qaida-linked militants claim Uganda blasts
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38194835/ns/world_news-africa

THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch2.htm
In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front." A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the "individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it."1

( Bin Laden...you know...'friend' of the Bu$h family. )

Taiwan looks at US Islamophobia
http://polizeros.com/2010/08/26/taiwan-looks-at-us-islamophobia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoliticsInTheZeros+%28Politics+in+the+Zeros%29
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