January 2014
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Privatizing the Internet: US telecoms seek to make internet enhanced form of cable TV’
On Tuesday, January 14, the DC Court of Appeals struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “net neutrality” rules. This is one of the fundamental principles of the internet, meaning equal access to everything online. The initiative was pushed by Verizon, the largest mobile phone operator among telecom providers, which demanded that high-speed broadband providers… Continue reading
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Missile Experts: White House Made False Claims Over Syrian WMD Use
Threatened with a possible impeachment procedure should he go to war over unverified WMD claims Obama was forced to go to Congress to ask for support. But the people of the United States were against another war in the Middle East and Congress, despite heavy lobbying from the Zionists, declined to act. Offered a deal… Continue reading
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‘US corporations should pay for destruction of Afghanistan’
Reparations should come from Halliburton, General Electric and all the military contractors that have made so much money out of the destruction of Afghanistan and other countries, foreign policy analyst Caleb Maupin told RT. Continue reading
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Climate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest By Richard Smallteacher
Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 January 2014: Sentencing Israel of Genocide
15 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invde Towns Near Nablus, Clashes ReportedIMEMC – [Wednesday Evening, January 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded Beita town, and Bir Qoza area, in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and clashed with Palestinian youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at Continue reading
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UK worsens global hunger crisis by ‘blocking reforms on food speculation’
The UK is being accused of attempts to block EU reform to prevent food speculation. It took EU negotiators three years to agree on a regulation against speculation by banks and hedge funds which drives up food prices, aggravating the global hunger crisis. Continue reading
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Press release: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Chapter
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transnational legal regime would cover 12 countries initially and encompass 40 per cent of global GDP and one-third of world trade. The Environment Chapter has long been sought by journalists… Continue reading
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Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group By Clare Sambrook
A shocking report on Harmondsworth, the British immigration lock-up run by GEO, America’s second biggest prisons contractor. Who are the GEO Group and what do they stand for? Continue reading
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MIT study of Ghouta chemical attack challenges US intelligence
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas. Continue reading
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Nuclear Issues: Words and Deeds (II) By Andrei Akulov
On January 3 Defense Ministry spokesman said the Russian military plans to test around 70 types of rocket and missile weaponry at a major testing site this year. According to Colonel Igor Yegorov, the Ministry’s spokesman, the testing program at the Kapustin Yar range in southern Russia will include about 300 launches of rockets, missiles,… Continue reading
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Nuclear Issues: Words and Deeds (I) By Andrei Akulov
Has the US really «lost interest in nukes»? Does Russia boost its potential without any reason or provocation? Does this argument hold water? Or is it a retaliatory measure on the part of Moscow to keep up the existing balance? A cursory look at facts will help to make a judgment… Continue reading
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The Independent: Devastating dossier on ‘abuse’ by UK forces in Iraq goes to International Criminal Court
An article by the Independent explains that Public Interest Lawyers and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights have presented a complaint before the International Criminal Court. This action takes place after a 3 years investigation during which a huge number of testimonies have been collected. Continue reading
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London: Fire station closures endanger lives By Allison Smith and Paul Bond
This month has seen the closure of 10 fire stations across London, with the loss of 552 firefighters and 14 fire engines. The cuts have been forced through by Conservative Party mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in order to achieve budget savings of £45 million over the next two years. This will place extraordinary pressure… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 15, 2014: Moral Monday Branding / Obama-Paul Scam Zones / COINTELPRO Busted
15 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report Moral Monday A Branding Exercise Blaming Republicans for Stuff Democrats Helped Them Do by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is Moral Monday “sweeping the nation”? Is it the beginning of a new movement, or the revival of an old one? Or is it a sad, cynical and Continue reading
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Video: Corporate Deregulation To Blame for Toxic Spill in West Virginia
A toxic spill in West Virginia’s Elk River has left 300,000 local residents without water for the past week. The leak came from a storage facility for chemicals used to process coal, and it’s left many wondering if industry regulations are too lax, especially for the company responsible for the leak, Freedom Industries. Continue reading
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The West Virginia chemical disaster By Andre Damon
The release of a toxic coal-treatment chemical into the drinking water of nine counties in West Virginia, shutting off water supplies for over three hundred thousand people for five days, is the latest in a string of industrial disasters resulting from the systematic gutting of corporate regulations in the United States. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 January 2014: Her Heart has Already Burned
14 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterQatar To Grant Work Visas To 20,000 PalestiniansIMEMC – Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Ibn Hamad Al Thani has given orders to grant work visas to 20,000 Palestinians, the Palestinian ambassador to Qatar told Ma’an News Agency, on Monday. … Continue reading
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Hunt seeks the right to close hospitals without consulting patients By Charles West
15 January 2014 — Our NHS Jeremy Hunt is about to render Clinical Commissioning Groups impotent and unable to serve their patients needs. In the law of the jungle we see nature red in tooth and claw. Dog eats dog, might is right, competition is king and the playground bully rules the roost. Continue reading
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Managing democracy, managing dissent By Mike Schwartz
By the end of an unexpectedly swift and stimulating read, I had the answer. Next time I attend the G8 or Guardian editorial meeting, Bullingdon club or Bilderberg conference, company AGM or cabinet meeting, I’ll have this in my back pocket. Or, better still, I’ll beat other participants around the head (figuratively, of course) with… Continue reading
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