October 1, 2010
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Flow the trailer
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces… Continue reading
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Pakistan Blocks off Key NATO Supply Line
Newsy: Pakistan has closed off a key supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. This after Pakistani officials reported a coalition helicopter crossed its border and killed three Pakistani border. Continue reading
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Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup
1 October, 2010 — The Real News Network Wilpert: Right-wing forces use recession, President Correa’s faltering popularity to launch failed coup http://therealnews.com/scripts/player/player.swf 1st collector for Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Gregory Wilpert is a sociologist, freelance journalist, editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, and author of the recently published book, Changing Continue reading
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What really happened when the boat was boarded By Glyn Secker Captain, the ‘Irene’
The IDF brought two boats alongside us, one on port side one on starboard side. All the crew and passengers (apart from myself as I was steering) linked arms.They boarded us simultaneously from both sides. At that moment we cut the engines and sat over the access points to the cut offs to prevent them… Continue reading
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Venezolana de Televisión, "Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa Rescued by Armed Forces"
1 October, 2010 — MRZine From the Carondelet Palace, President Correa expressed his condemnation of the attitude of police. He congratulated the people for their courage. With such loyalty no one can defeat us, he said. He thanked the world leaders and organizations that expressed their support for the government. He declared that Ecuador will Continue reading
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The Neoliberal Experiment and Europe’s anti-Austerity Strikes: Governments must Lower Wages or Suffer Financial Blackmail By Michael Hudson
Most of the press has described Wednesday’s European-wide labor demonstrations and strikes across in terms of the familiar exercise by transport workers irritating travelers with work slowdowns, and large throngs letting off steam by setting fires. But the story goes much deeper than merely a reaction against unemployment and economic recession conditions. At issue are… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 October, 2010: Beware of Governments Trumpeting Terror Threats
1 October, 2010 — ICH ‘Horrifying’ Swat Valley Executions By Jane Perlez WARNING- Video Contains Graphic Images An Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened concerns about unlawful killings by Pakistani soldiers supported by the United States, American officials said. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26486.htm New U.S. Raids on Continue reading
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Haiti: The catastrophe continues By G. Dunkel
The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds injured and thousands of shelters tents, tarps and sheets destroyed. As of Sept. 26 the government had not reported the toll for towns outside of the capital. Continue reading
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UN: Israel Executed Flotilla Activists By Gareth Porter
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 September, 2010: Forget the old two-state solution: Tackling the hard stuff in Israeli-Palestinian negotiation
30 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Fires At Farmers, homes, In Rafah IMEMC – 30 Sep 2010 – Thursday September 30, 2010 – 22:49, Palestinian farmers stated Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers stationed near the border in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, fired rounds of Continue reading
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