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VENEZUELA LEADING THE RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT Stephen Lendman 2006-08-17 7:21 AM
VENEZUELA AHEAD IN RACE FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT (text/plain)

Guest Workers Charge Racial Exploitation, File Federal Suit Against Luxury Hotel Chain scott 2006-08-17 1:12 AM

Latin American workers brought a federal lawsuit today against one of New Orleans’ wealthiest hotel owners, who lured them through false promises and charged them thousands of dollars in fees to fill jobs held by New Orleanians prior to Hurricane Katrina. Eighty-two guest workers allege that Decatur Hotels, LLC and its president, F. Patrick Quinn III, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when the company failed to reimburse them for the exorbitant fees paid to aggressive labor recruiters working as agents of the hotel chain. (image/jpeg)

Auditor/Reporter needs Help Stopping Indentured Servitude, MODERN SLAVERY, in South Alabam Kurt Brown--Saint Ram Bone 2006-08-16 5:40 PM
Below is an email sent to various sources asking for help in stopping indentured servitude in South Alabama. Please assist. (text/plain)

Pablo Milanes Dedicates Concert to Fidel Castro in Mexico César Vallejo 2006-08-16 4:58 PM
MEXICO CITY (SE).— Singer-songwriter Pablo Milanes will dedicate a concert on August 17 in Mexico City to President Fidel Castro, as the Cuban leader continues to recover from a recent surgery. (text/plain)

Cuba presents draft final declaration of the NAM Summit César Vallejo 2006-08-16 4:36 PM
CUBA has presented the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) with a draft final declaration to be discussed at the 14th Summit of this body in September. (text/plain)

Workers File Lawsuit Against Hotel Chain in New Orleans nicki sabalu 2006-08-16 2:19 PM
Class-action suit filed with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Landfill Closure Upheld in New Orleans East nicki sabalu 2006-08-16 1:23 PM

New Orleans East landfill ordered shut; dilemma over contaminated debris continues. (image/jpeg)

Information Leaks Nothing New for Apple Mac News World 2006-08-16 1:08 PM
Chimpy W. Bushitler ruins Apple. (text/plain)

CTFF:Connecticut Film Festival Announces Partial Film Slate, Sponsors... CTFF PR Liz Morgan (liz@lizmorganpr.com) 2006-08-16 11:07 AM
Connecticut Film Festival Announces Partial Film Slate, Sponsors Coming On Board To Support First Year Statewide Effort (text/plain)

Regional IFLA/UNESCO Workshop about the Internet for Central America and the Caribbean César Vallejo 2006-08-16 10:58 AM
"We’re living in an interesting and exceptional world, of which we have talked on other occasions. A world in the throes of globalization which brings with it tremendous problems and enormous challenges. Our main interest is that our people have the knowledge, the culture and, above all, the political and scientific awareness to prepare itself for this world that is enveloping us at a very fast rate. (text/plain)

Orlando Bosch Ávila César Vallejo 2006-08-16 10:27 AM
Pseudonym: Ernesto Profession: Pediatrician He was discretely involved in the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. He steals a weapons shipment from the Leoncio Vidal barracks in Santa Clara and transports it to his ranch, La Guanaja, in the outskirts of the city, working with the late counterrevolutionary Florencio Vidal. (text/plain)

Luis Posada Carriles César Vallejo 2006-08-16 10:17 AM
He was born in the city of Cienfuegos on 15 February 1928, the son of Luis and Dolores. He became a chemist in the sugar industry. Stout build, approximately 6’3’’, green eyes, gray hair, Caucasian, scars on face. (text/plain)

Punish, don't Protect, Posada Carriles César Vallejo 2006-08-16 9:59 AM
We don’t want to see Luis Posada Carriles living comfortably in Miami again, while his crimes go unpunished. We don’t want to see him exhibit his fourth-grade quality paintings in a Miami gallery again. We don’t want to see him once more on Miami television as an honored guest, pontificating about his warped version of freedom and democracy. (text/plain)

Giant billboard on side of César Vallejo 2006-08-16 9:49 AM
A billboard with President Fidel Castro’s name has been placed since Sunday, August 13 on the side of Pichincha Volcano, 12 kilometers west of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, as a tribute to the leader for his 80th birthday. (text/plain)

Posada to Remain in Jail…for Now César Vallejo 2006-08-16 9:26 AM
A US judge in El Paso, Texas took under advisement Monday a request by terrorist Luis Posada Carriles who seeks to be freed from the detention center where he has been held since May, 2005. (text/plain)

BayouBuzz & Media: Dim vs Repug Bias? The Bell Tolls for LA Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-16 7:23 AM
Democrat (dim) Blanco 'slammed' and 'vents road rage' in 'schoolmarmish' 'instructing' 'on how to approach her desk'. Repug Vitter's 'quite effective' 'uncanny knack' 'demanded' 'withdraw'al 'of the proposal'. 'he's right'. (text/plain)

Open Letter to The Attorney General of the César Vallejo 2006-08-15 5:18 PM
According to the information supplied by the International Press, on August 9, 2005, the Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Atlanta declared null and void the decision passed in Miami which had condemned Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, René González Sehwerert, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort (text/plain)

Gerardo's message to friends around the world César Vallejo 2006-08-15 5:01 PM
Since Lompoc prison will no longer be designated "maximum security," all those prisoners who, according to the Bureau of Prisons, have to be in a "maximum" regime, will be transferred over time to the new prison of Victorville, also in California. (text/plain)

Humanity Should Not Allow the Triumph of Injustice César Vallejo 2006-08-15 11:48 AM
A perfect example of the political manipulation of the judicial process in the US against the five Cuban political prisoners is the decision adopted on August 9 by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. (text/plain)

The world embraces Fidel César Vallejo 2006-08-15 11:31 AM
• Wide international repercussions for president’s 80th birthday THE world embraces Fidel. That could sum up the wise international repercussions of the 80th birthday of the undisputed leader of the Cuban Revolution. (text/plain)

The New Hitler Is Bush César Vallejo 2006-08-15 11:17 AM
When an astronaut was asked how he saw the Earth from the moon, he responded: "Fragile." He also noted that no divisions could be seen between nations. Life, the greatest flowering of evolution, is threatened today and there is great urgency to take care of it, says Leonardo Boff. (text/plain)

Interview with Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer César Vallejo 2006-08-15 11:04 AM
He is not a man of many words. Maybe he never was and preferred to erect dreams the size of cathedrals and draw lines that would become buildings of fascinating beauty. But each word that he says weights, as when he says: "The hunger of the stomach is only satisfied with the bread of justice," or when he adds "The time of the cowards doesn't count. It's the time of those with courage that does." NIEMEYER AT HIS STUDIO IN RIO DE JANEIRO. On one of the walls of the studio, on a white background, he wrote: "When misery multiplies and hope is absent from the human heart, only Revolution is left." (text/plain)

This is not the end, says Cuban Five Defense Attorney César Vallejo 2006-08-15 10:49 AM
"This is not the end of the case," stressed US attorney Leonard Weinglass Thursday, during a teleconference to comment on the decision of the Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta that overturned the ruling issued exactly a year before by a three judge panel of that same court. (text/plain)

Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity Converge in Havana César Vallejo 2006-08-15 10:27 AM
The need to move from collective awareness to transformative actions was raised as an imperative of the Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity in a meeting sponsored by that group’s Cuban chapter. The gathering, held at the Casa de las Americas in Havana, was attended by the Cuban parliament President Ricardo Alarcon. On hand at the occasion were also Italian journalist Gianni Mina, Brazilians Marilia and Eduaro Guimaraes and Frei Betto; Puerto Rican Nelson del Castillo and Belgium’s Francois Houtart. (text/plain)

US Implicated in Israeli Plan Against Hezbollah César Vallejo 2006-08-15 9:56 AM
NEW YORK, August 13.—The US government has been "very involved in Israel’s plan against Hezbollah," even before the capture of two soldiers on July 12, the pretext used to attack Lebanon, affirms Seymour Hersh in "Watching Lebanon, Washington’s Interests in Israel’s War," published by The New Yorker on Sunday, reported AFP. (text/plain)

Was Posada Carriles a CIA Agent or Not? César Vallejo 2006-08-15 9:55 AM
The events that immediately followed the scandal caused by the mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados in October 1976: (text/plain)

Was Posada Carriles an Agent? César Vallejo 2006-08-15 9:54 AM
When the terrorist attack against the Cubana Airlines DC-8 took place on October 6, 1976, was Luis Posada Carriles [one of the two accused masterminds] a CIA agent or not? (text/plain)

Interview with Jurgen Moltmann (80) Jurgen Moltmann 2006-08-15 9:20 AM
Hope is a power in this life to begin life again, to be reborn in an affirmation of life from deep depression.. We developed political theology to break through this prison `religion is a private matter'. (text/plain)

MEXICAN ELECTORAL FRAUD WINS ROUND ONE - ROUND TWO NOW BEGINS Stephen Lendman 2006-08-15 7:18 AM
MEXICAN PEOPLE WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR ELECTION THEY WON (text/plain)

THE MORNING OF 9/11 Lou Cacchioli/Greg Szymanski 2006-08-15 1:47 AM
“Tommy Hedsal was with me and everybody else also gets out of the elevator when it stops on the 24th floor,” said Cacchioli, “There was a huge amount of smoke. Tommy and I had to go back down the elevator for tools and no sooner did the elevators close behind us, we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb. It was such a loud noise, it knocked off the lights and stalled the elevator. (text/plain)

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