Swiss vote to ban construction of mosque minaretshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112900482.html?hpid=topnewsso much for liberty equalite and pluralism....

History of Swiss Guards at Vatican City The origins of the Swiss guards at the Vatican dates back nearly six hundred years. Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484) formed a pact with the Swiss Confederation and constructed military barracks in Via Pellegrino after predicting that it would be useful to recruit Swiss mercenaries. The pact was renewed by Innocent VIII (1484-1492) in order to use the Swiss guards against the Duke of Milan. It should be remembered that in those days Italy was not a unified country but rather a series of independent city states that often fought with each other. Alexander VI (1492-1503) used the Swiss mercenaries during their alliance with the King of France. During the time of the Borgias, however, the Italian Wars began in which the Swiss mercenaries were a fixture in the front lines among the warring factions, sometimes for France and sometimes for the Holy See or the Holy Roman Empire.http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/Switzerland/Swiss-Guards-Vatican-City/933

Nazi Gold: Switzerlandhttp://www.aracnet.com/~gdy52150/goldp8.html

Switzerland 'helped Nazi Germany'http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1887789.stm

The referendum was held at the instigation of the far-right Swiss People's Party, who had collected the signatures of 100,000 citizens within 18 months calling for such a vote. Under the Swiss constitution, the government has no say in whether a referendum is held so long as this requirement is metAmnesty International has condemned the result. During the campaign, a number of attacks on mosques were reported, with the Geneva mosque vandalised on Thursday. SVP posters pushing for a Yes vote with a woman in a veil in front of a field of black, missile-shaped minarets sprouting out of a Swiss flag were banned in a number of cities for being inflammatory.http://euobserver.com/9/29071

Moammar Kadafi petitioned the United Nations to abolish Switzerland. The Libyan leader called the country "a world mafia and not a state."

Scientists ‘grow’ meat in laboratoryhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/6684854/Scientists-grow-meat-in-laboratory.html

The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time. Researchers in the Netherlands have created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it. Vegetarian groups welcomed the news, saying there was “no ethical objection” if meat was not a piece of a dead animal.

Zionism - more than traditional colonialism and apartheidhttp://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/115326-zionism-more-than-traditional-colonialism-and-apartheid

Israel - not even a democracy for Jews-Israel is an apartheid state-More than a hundred years of colonialism-Marxist Zionism and Zionist Revisionism-Zionism, National Socialism and Fascism-Zionism and Nazism...

The US "war on the internet"http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m60618&hd=&size=1&l=e

The Real Story behind the Thanksgiving Dayhttp://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/68842

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. Susan Bates writes, "George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota."

concerning barroso's  new commision appointments...Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Editor, comments: "So there is to be a single Justice and Home Affairs Council, two Commissioners and a single Commission Directorate-General. National experience suggests that there should be a complete separation between Home Affairs and Justice/Fundamental rights. By keeping a single Directorate-General (under a singe Director-General) there is a great danger that the already pervading culture of internal security and control will continue to contaminate justice and rights."http://www.statewatch.org/

The Unconstitutional War On Civil Libertieshttp://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=2937Documentary explaining the indirect consequences of unconstitutional measures such as the Patriot Act.

This Is Where Each of Your 1.421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010http://gizmodo.com/5320681/this-is-where-each-of-your-1421-trillion-dollars-is-going-in-2010

Want to know where your tax money is going next year? Here's more than you can handle in the new 2010 edition of the Death and Taxes poster. Zoom in to see how much those F-35 fighters and lasers cost.

Venezuela and Amazon Countries Prepare for Copenhagen Climate Summithttp://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4963

In the Summit of Amazon Countries on Climate that took place on Thursday, Venezuela’s representative, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, said capitalism was to blame for the world’s environmental damage, and the countries at the summit demanded that financial and emission cutting burdens be taken on primarily by those countries causing the damage.

Venezuelan Government Announces intervention and liquidation of banks surveyedhttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/62738-NN/gobierno-venezolano-anuncia-intervencion-y-liquidacion-de-bancos-investigados/

The Venezuelan minister of Economy and Finance Ali Rodriguez Araque, announced on Monday closed the intervention and subsequent liquidation of banking institutions Banpro Islands and, following investigation since last week in which they discovered a number of irregularities that put at risk the money of depositors.

Brazil has nothing to rethink after elections in Hondurashttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/62737-NN/brasil-no-tiene-nada-que-repensar-tras-elecciones-en-honduras/

Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said at the XIX Ibero American Summit in Estoril, Portugal, that "there is nothing to rethink" in relation to Honduras and therefore his government will not recognize the illegitimate elections as "an attempt to whitening "of a coup.

The International Tribunal on Freedom of Association condemned the Mexican presidencyhttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/opinion/1524/el-tribunal-internacional-de-la-libertad-sindical-condena-a-la-presidencia-mexicana/

Mexico City is being shaken by an angry popular response to President Calderon sending armed troops and federal police on 10 October to take the state-owned company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC), responsible for the complex mains of central Mexico. Calderon and big media companies have attempted to justify military action, followed by a presidential decree the next day, saying that "economic inefficiency" of the LFC and the benefits derived from high-wage workers earned in the EMS During decades of struggleconcluded the first of two public meetings with a preliminary report that harshly condemned President Felipe Calderón for his violent measures against the unions since he took office after his controversial election in 2006. The Court was organized in previous months for more than 30 social and civil organizations in Mexico and other countries. Heard public testimony from representatives of 16 unions under attack from the race fund privatization in Mexico.The Tribunal is composed of twenty prominent labor lawyers and human rights experts, including winning journalists, writers and peace advocates, more than half from other parts of the Americas and Europe, including this reporter. Two members were unable to attend the Argentine winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1980, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and the prominent journalist and Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, who hope to attend the second public meeting scheduled for late April 2010.''We are also deeply concerned about the violation of human and civil rights that accompany the violation of freedom of association.''He came to the conclusion that in Mexico there is "a breach of rule of law" and institutionalization of violence''against the autonomous movements of workers ... including the criminalization of social protests and their leaders.''''The Court also condemned restrictions on freedom of expression''and''abuse by some media to distort the facts, the truth , in the brutal media campaign against the EMS and its agreement. "He concluded with a request to:  - The repeal of Presidential Decree and the reopening of LFC.  - Immediate armed troops and federal police power plants.  - Reinstatement immediate EMS workers under the existing collective agreement.  - Creation of a social dialogue committee to consider alternatives in accordance with the Constitution and international standards.http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=94810&titular=el-tribunal-internacional%27%27

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