On Sep 30, 9:51 pm, "David Goldberg" yahoo.com> wrote:

Correa surges to strong majority in Ecuador vote

By Patrick Markey

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa claimed a strong
majority after Sunday's election for an assembly he says must rewrite
the constitution and dissolve the Congress that has battled to resist
his leftist proposals.

A powerful mandate in the 130-member national assembly would allow
Correa to shore up legislative control and push his proposals for
"21st Century" socialism and a tighter state grip on the economy,
which have spooked Wall Street investors.

Attacking the old guard as a mafia, Correa wants the assembly to
introduce sweeping reforms but foes fear he seeks to amass power and
follow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by steering his poor Andean
country on anti-free market tack.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071001/ts_nm/ecuador_assembly_poll_dc_3;_ylt=AunPUI...

The world is rising up angry against US colonial oppression.
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On Sep 29, 4:21 pm, "El Kabong" mypacks.net> wrote:

Well now, this is unique. A Catholic church in San Mateo, California
has banned an anti-abortion activist. Apparently, this activist
drives a truck displaying images of aborted fetuses and anti-abortion
slogans that offended other parishioners, specifically those who
attend a children's mass held every Friday. When this activist
refused to cover up his truck while he attended mass, the local
clerics banned him. Full story at:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_7024828

from http://www.pleasecutthecrap.com

I think the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates is the
best group I've ever seen. Not only would any one of them constitute a
marked improvement over the dreck that currently occupies the White
House, but I think the field offers us a better choice than we've had
in many years. But the top 3 candidates -- those who are most likely
to win the nomination -- are driving me crazy, and I want to stick my
foot up each of their behinds. I don't know who's advising them
politically, but whoever it is should be fired. Every damned one of
them needs to trust their instincts, and stop listening to the people
who are attempting to "strategize" a way to get votes from everyone
who will vote next year.

How would you like to save yourselves many hundreds of thousands of
dollars, guarantee a win against the Republican nominee next year?

Okay, forget that. Whoever the GOP nominates will lose in a landslide
next year, anyway.

Marching to World War
Putsch junta intent on using global chaos for maintaining power

©Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.mytown.ca/zepp
09/30/07

Iran.

The Putsch junta wants to attack Iran. Oh, every so often one of them
makes a pro forma noise about a “peaceful resolution” and a negotiated
solution to what they insist is an “impasse,” but the fact is, they
want to attack Iran.

Well, they wanted peace and negotiation with Iraq, too, remember? They
were lying then. They are lying now. They want to attack Iran.

There are several reasons behind this madness. First, they want to
extend control over the middle east. Iraq was meant to give America a
strategically secure mounting right at the crossroads of the middle
east, but things havenÂ’t worked out. Iraq, it turned out, didnÂ’t
appreciate being occupied. There has been some mention of that in the
newspapers.

Blackwater guards fired unprovoked: Iraq police evidence

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraqi investigators have evidence that US private
guards fired unprovoked on Iraqis in a deadly Baghdad shoot-out, a
magazine said Sunday, citing a police report countering claims that
they shot in self-defense.

A convoy of the Blackwater private security firm's vehicles "opened
fire crazily and randomly, without any reason," Newsweek reported,
quoting from the report which it said Iraq's national police have
presented to US officials.

Evidence obtained from the police, including witness statements and
video footage, contradicts Blackwater's account of the shooting in
which 10 Iraqis were killed on September 16, it said in its Monday
edition.

The firm insists its guards were shot at first and were threatened by
a suspicious vehicle that refused to stop.

But Newsweek quoted officers including the lead Iraqi police
investigator Faris Saadi Abdul, and the commander of the Iraqi
National Police, Hussein Al-Awadi, as saying that the contractors
fired without provocation.

Huge crowds in Costa Rica protest U.S. pact

By John McPhaul Sun Sep 30, 5:54 PM ET

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - More than 100,000 Costa Ricans, some
dressed as skeletons, protested a U.S. trade pact on Sunday they say
will flood their country with cheap farm goods and cause job losses.

Chanting "No to the free-trade pact!" and "Costa Rica is not for
sale!" demonstrators filled one of San Jose's main boulevards to show
their opposition against the Central American Free Trade Agreement
with the United States.

In the searing heat, some protesters wore masks of U.S. President
George W. Bush and handed out fake dollar bills, lampooning U.S. trade
policies.

A small contingent of pro-trade demonstrators turned out at the rally.
A plane pulled a banner across the skyline reading: "Yes to the
free-trade accord, for the benefit of the nation!" The drone of the
plane's engine drowned out some of the protest speeches.

A government official told Reuters that more than 100,000 people
turned out for the demonstration, a huge protest in a country of 4
million.

Yup.........Unions Are USELESS..........Donchaknow............

"GM May Close 2 More Plants Under Deal
Sep 30, 8:49 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) -- The tentative contract between General Motors Corp.
and the United Auto Workers would allow GM to close a plant each in
Michigan and Indiana and possibly shut down several other facilities,
according to a detailed copy of the agreement.

The moves are the downside of job security pledges that the UAW won in
the negotiations, including commitments for new products at 16 plants.
About 74,000 hourly GM workers will vote on the pact starting this
week, with a final tally to be done by Oct. 10.

Gregg Shotwell, a GM worker and frequent critic of the UAW, posted
most of the contract details on the Internet. He said he received the
agreement from a local union official who attended a Friday meeting in
Detroit. He would not identify the official, but the accuracy of its
contents was confirmed for The Associated Press by a union leader who
requested anonymity because members have not yet voted on the pact.

"WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for
president in 2008"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_el_pr/gingrich2008

I KNOW HOW DISAPPOINTED YOU MUST BE, COMRADES