December 22, 2013
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Statewatch News Online, 23 December 2013: UK: Torture victims have “well-founded claim” that UK complicit in their abuse, says High Court
22 December 2013 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS1. EU: FRA: Racism, discrimination, intolerance and extremism: learning from experiences in Greece and Hungary2. UK: Torture victims have “well-founded claim” that UK complicit in their abuse, says High Court3. UK: RENDITION: Report of the Detainee Inquiry Continue reading
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US: The Monitoring of Our Phone Calls? Government Spooks May Be Listening
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American. Continue reading
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Video: Global Labour Migration
A meeting, designed as a dialogue, to build greater solidarity between the labour and migrant justice movements in their shared struggle against workers’ exploitation by global capital. Continue reading
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Wave of Radiation from Fukushima Will Be 10 Times Bigger than All of the Radiation from Nuclear Tests Combined
As nuclear engineer and former nuclear executive Arnie Gundersen notes, the wave of radioactive cesium from Fukushima which is going to hit the West Coast of North America will be 10 times greater than from the nuclear tests. Continue reading
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UK youth unemployment hits one million By Joe Mount
More than 650,000 young people are classified as NEETs (not in education, employment, or training), or 9 percent of the total. The number of under-25s in work has fallen rapidly since 2008, reaching 49.9 percent in recent months, the lowest figure since records began in 1992. Continue reading
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U.S. Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO over Cluster-Fukushima Snafu By William Boardman
The core of this story is the lawsuit filed December 21, 2012, by attorney Paul C, Garner of Brooks & Associates of Encinatas, California, on behalf of nine plaintiffs (including a one-year-old), all of whom “were among the members of the U.S. Navy crew and attached to the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), whose home port… Continue reading
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Bedouin Expulsion Law is Well and Drinking Tea By Roi Tov
Former Member of the Knesset Benny Begin, who was behind the law expelling the Bedouins had announced that he retired his support from it. MK Regev said that his words didn’t matter, she will continue to advance the law through the two last stages of legislation. The law had passed the first stage in June. Continue reading
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Putin Scores a New Victory in the Ukraine by Israel Shamir
A tug-of-war between the East and the West for the future of Ukraine lasted over a month, and has ended for all practical purposes in a resounding victory for Vladimir Putin, adding to his previous successes in Syria and Iran. The trouble began when the administration of President Yanukovich went looking for credits to reschedule… Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers on ‘Jazz 625’ – ‘Theme for Stacy’
Here’s the Jazz Messengers with Sun Ra’s John Gilmore on tenor saxophone. No date for this one but sometime between 64 and 66. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2013: Racist ringleaders 2013: Israel’s war on Africans intensifies
21 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Killed After Being Struck By Settler’s Vehicle In JerusalemIMEMC – [Saturday Evening December 21, 2013] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child died of severe injuries sustained after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s car near the Al-Eesawiyya town, north of occupied East Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 December 2013: What the Press Should Learn From the "Snowden Effect"
21 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Mission Accomplished?Afghanistan is a Calamity and our Leaders Must be Held to AccountBy Seumas Milne British troops haven’t accomplished a single one of their missions in Afghanistan. Like Iraq and Libya, it’s a disaster.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37185.htm Continue reading
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