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NOVANEWS “Wikipedia Journalism” Can be Contagious and Deadly September 8, 2010  by Michael Leon    Acinetobacter baumannii - Superbug Via the Defense Base Act Compensation Blog Many Injured Contractors were repatriated via the Military Medical Evacuation System which was/is badly contaminated with Multi Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.  Soldiers and Contractors alike lost lives and limbs to this dangerous Superbug. Injured Contractors played an even larger role in the spread of MDRAb across the US and to every country of the “coalition” than did the soldiers themselves.  Injured Contractors were infected  in field hospitals, Landstuhl, Walter Reed, Bethesda Naval, and then transferred to Civilian Community hospitals.    Civilian hospitals were seldom warned their new transfers wer...

NOVANEWS Military Religous Freedom Group to Donate a New Qur’an to Afghan Army for Every One Destroyed by Terry Jones September 8, 2010  by Michael Leon The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) will not let the Qur’an-burning Islamophobia and plain bigotry go unchallenged. From the Military Religious Freedom Foundation: After being contacted by scores of our active duty military clients asking us to do something in response to Terry Jones’ planned “Burn A Koran Day,” MRFF has decided that the most appropriate response would not be to try to stop Jones, but to donate to the Afghan National Army, as a gesture of good will and a statement of opposition to this entirely un-American act of religious bigotry, a new Qur’an for each one destroyed by Jones and his followers.   Restore a ...

NOVANEWNS     Dear,   Tonight, the Jewish year of 5770 will come to an end, and a new year  will begin.One of the most beautiful elements of Jewish tradition is the opportunity during this time to look back and look forward - to acknowledge our wrongs of the year past, to honestly assess our actions, to think about what our hopes are for the next year, and how we will try to fulfill them.We invite all of you - Jews and non-Jews alike - to take a moment, reflect, and share with us your hopes, dreams, and promises for the future on our website,  This Is My Promise. Our promise to you this year is to be more powerful, more courageous, and more effective in building  a fierce and fearless movement for justice for all peoples in Israel and Palestine.That's why we...

NOVANEWS Thursday's oil explosion off the coast of Louisiana underscores the terrible risks associated with offshore drilling. Now, with a mile-long oil sheen spreading, and millions of gallons from the Deepwater Horizon tragedy still polluting the Gulf, the Obama administration is setting the stage for yet another offshore oil catastrophe: this time in fragile Arctic waters important to Alaska Native communities and threatened polar bears. At the end of July, a federal court in Alaska found that the Bush administration violated the law when it approved oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Chukchi Sea without sufficient information and analysis about risks to the Arctic environment. A different court found similar flaws with Arctic drilling plans in 2009. Yet, President Obama's administration h...

NOVANEWS September 8, 2010  by Gordon Duff   "MR. PRESIDENT, THE FIRST PLANE HAS HIT ON SCHEDULE" AMERICA’S WORST KEPT SECRET   By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I learned about 9/11 from the news.  Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd told me and the rest of America it was Osama bin Laden and Arab hijackers trained in Afghanistan with the help of Saddam Hussein.  A BBC reporter then told me Building 7 had just collapsed, though it was almost totally undamaged and standing 47 stories tall, right there on the TV screen behind her. An Israel film crew, found later to be Mossad agents, partied in the streets, having filmed the attacks.  They couldn’t control their joy in seeing thousands of Americans die. The equipment gathered up days in advance, cameras loaded t...

NOVANEWS  NYC Workers Stand with the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Communities. http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/09/07/workers-stand-with-the-muslim-arab-and-south-asian-communities/ [The statement below was initiated by signers in the New York City metro area. Endorsements are also welcome from trade unionists and workers elsewhere. To endorse, please go here: http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/09/07/workers-stand-with-the-muslim-arab-and-south-asian-communities/#form] New York City Workers Stand with the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Communities: Our Grief Is Not an Excuse for Racism, Islamophobia, Bigotry or War New York City Labor Against the War, September 2, 2010 As New York City workers and trade unionists, we deplore the attacks on Park51, desecration of mosques, viol...

NOVANEWS Murdered American Citizen Exposes Illegal and In-Humane Military Policy War Zones are Open Season to Kill Everyone and Anyone  Haifa, Israel – Several State witnesses testified in Haifa District Court on Monday, September 6, 2010, in the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza.   Murdered American Citizen Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, WA, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, by a Caterpillar D9R military bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against the demolitions of Palestinian homes. One of the witnesses, known to the court as Yossi, was a Colonel in the Engineering Corps. He was responsible for writing operating manuals for military bulldoz...

  NOVANEWS http://www.zcommunications.org/your-house-is-on-ground-zero-and-quite-without-permission-by-tim-wise   Tim Wise: Your House Is On Ground Zero (And Quite Without Permission) September 07, 2010 In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks -- which were committed by a separate and totally unrelated group of Muslims --there is one thing above all else that no one appears anxious to point out: namely, that for any white Christian to say "Ground Zero" is off limits to anyone is possibly the most deliciously and yet grotesquely ironic thing ever suggested.   After all, there is scarcely a square foot of land upon which we tread that is not, for someone, Ground Zero. ...

NOVANEWS 9/7/2010 Obama the Lame Duck by Jeff Davis More and more it’s looking like we may be able to at least turn Obama into a lame duck if not expel him from office after the November elections. The U. K. Financial Times reports: “Barack Obama’s Democratic party faces a series of dramatic defeats at every level of government in Washington and beyond in the November midterm elections, according to leading analysts and opinion polls. The University of Virginia’s widely monitored Crystal Ball will on Wednesday forecast sweeping setbacks on Capitol Hill and the loss of a clutch of state governorships on November 2. It follows a Gallup poll that showed the Republicans with a 10 percentage point lead over the Democrats – the widest margin in 68 years. Separately, a University of Buffalo pape...

NOVANEWS September 7, 2010  by Robert L. Hanafin Mainstream media has given an unknown religious cult of similar ilk as Westboro Baptist Church – the nut cases who protest homosexuality at our troops funerals more publicity than they rate or deserve. In fact, the Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) has endorsed Westboro Baptist Church’s protests against homosexuality at our troops funerals. Way back in March 2010, the so-called Christian Church in question, Dove World Outreach Center posted a video which decried the possibility of an openly-gay mayor (in this case, current mayor Craig Lowe, who is the first openly gay mayor of Gainesville, FL). So far, so good. However, it also posted a sign saying “No Homo Mayor”; after Americans United for Separation of Church and State requested the I...