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Anarchy in Canada: punk band catches eye of CSIS

All it takes to get noticed by Canada's top anti-terrorism team is a
shocking band name and a provocative logo.

At least, that's the contention of The Suicide Pilots, a self-described
"no-name punk band" based in Ottawa that promotes itself with a cartoon
image of an anthropomorphic plane swooping toward the Parliament Buildings.

Access to Information documents released by the band's lawyer Tuesday
show that the RCMP's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team took
a look at the group last year.

It started just after the band popped to brief national notoriety
courtesy of its outspoken and politically active drummer, Jeffrey Monaghan.

"If you want an example of bloated police powers, this is it," lawyer
Yavar Hameed said in a news release.

Monaghan was alleged last spring to have leaked the environmental plan
of the Conservative government, and was marched in handcuffs by the RCMP
out of his contract job at Environment Canada.

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[I don't find much of interest at many blogs, but Keven Carson's is an
exception.--DC]

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Monday, May 05, 2008
Review: The Mind of the Market, by Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer. The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive
Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics (New York: Henry
Holt and Company, 2008).

If you can get past the flaws in Shermer's book (things others might
prefer to think of as my fixations, hangups, and dead horses), it's
quite an enjoyable read.

But given my obsession with the ubiquity of vulgar libertarianism,
comparable to Captain Ahab's with Moby Dick, I can't refrain from
pointing out the flaws.

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Issue — May 14, 2008
In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the FBI is
soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups
Moles Wanted
By Matt Snyders

Paul Carroll was riding his bike when his cell phone vibrated.

Once he arrived home from the Hennepin County Courthouse, where he’d
been served a gross misdemeanor for spray-painting the interior of a
campus elevator, the lanky, wavy-haired University of Minnesota
sophomore flipped open his phone and checked his messages. He was
greeted by a voice he recognized immediately. It belonged to U of M
Police Sgt. Erik Swanson, the officer to whom Carroll had turned himself
in just three weeks earlier. When Carroll called back, Swanson asked him
to meet at a coffee shop later that day, going on to assure a wary
Carroll that he wasn’t in trouble.

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Argentina: A Different Kind of Land Occupation
Written by Shane Kavanagh
Tuesday, 20 May 2008

"This is going to be a different type of occupation," say the people of
Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom), a land occupation on the outskirts
of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The name of their group gives an idea of
what they intend. The occupation began on March 29th this year when 40
families entered a small parcel of land in La Matanza and began setting
up a community. Since then the occupation has grown to over 135 families
and has continued to organize and resist eviction in the face of
intimidation and violence.

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Tears and torture testimony in Italy 'rendition' trial
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

MILAN: Clutching her Italian identity card in a gloved hand, the cloaked
wife of a fiery Muslim cleric Wednesday tearfully recounted publicly for
the first time how her husband was kidnapped on a Milan street in 2003
and sent to Egypt to endure torture and repeated imprisonment.

Italian prosecutors say the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, was
kidnapped by CIA agents as part of a plan to transport suspected
terrorists to third countries for questioning.

Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was a political refugee in Italy and
preached at the Islamic Center on Milan's Jenner Street.

His wife, Ghali Nabila, spent more than six hours on the stand, marking
the first testimony in a complicated court case that opened nearly a
year ago, and has focused on the U.S. practice of "extraordinary
renditions" and complicity by foreign governments in such forced relocation.

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War's Shopping Cart
Pepsi, Apple, Krispy Kreme and other consumer firms profit from Iraq too.
By Nick Turse
19/05/08
"LA Times"

May 9, 2008 -- Last month, a review of 2006 congressional financial
disclosure statements by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics
found that lawmakers have as much as $196 million "invested in companies
doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the
start of the Iraq war." An Associated Press article on the report,
however, offered a caveat: "Not all the companies invested in by
lawmakers are typical defense contractors. Corporations such as PepsiCo,
IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson have at one point received
defense-related contracts."

From: "Keith McHenry" earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 6:46 pm
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOOD NOT BOMBS
Twenty eight years of cooking for peace.

The May 24, 1980 Occupation Attempt of Seabrook
Nuclear Power Station in New Hampshire marks the
birth of Food Not Bombs. Food Not Bombs cofounder
Brian Feigenbaum was arrested at the May 24th direct
action to stop the nuclear station. He and his
friends held bake sales to raise money for his
defense and thus Food Not Bombs began.