Oct 26, 2010
Canadian militant pleads guilty at Guantanamo tribunal
BBC News - New polio vaccine more effective in reducing disease
A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%.
Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly better at protecting children against polio than the current popular vaccine.
BBC News - Iran loads fuel into the Bushehr nuclear reactor
Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state television has reported.It marks a key stage in the firing up of the Bushehr plant, which is set to produce electricity from 2011.
BBC News - Haiti: Cholera slows but fears of spread remain
The BBC's Laura Trevelyan: Haitians now fear the river that sustained them
Tens of thousands of people in Haiti are still threatened by an outbreak of cholera despite some signs that the epidemic is stabilising, the UN says. UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Haiti Nigel Fisher said the UN was preparing for a wider outbreak although there were no new signs of it spreading.
Tens of thousands of people in Haiti are still threatened by an outbreak of cholera despite some signs that the epidemic is stabilising, the UN says. UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Haiti Nigel Fisher said the UN was preparing for a wider outbreak although there were no new signs of it spreading.
BBC News - Students aim to bolster French protests
French students will stage protests on Tuesday to try to bolster opposition to the government's pension reforms amid some signs of cracks in the movement.The numbers could be a litmus test, correspondents say, after three of 12 national oil refineries voted to end their action and a rubbish collectors' strike in
Nigeria fraud blacklist issued by police
The alleged frauds involve billions of naira
Senior politicians and businessmen are among more than 100 people listed by Nigerian anti-fraud police as being unsuitable to run for political office.
The EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) said those on the list were all being prosecuted for corruption.Ex-staff tell of war within WikiLeaks
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP Shrink
The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP
WikiLeaks renews question of secrets worth keeping
WASHINGTON - When WikiLeaks readied the largest-ever release of secret war files, US officials warned the whistleblower site it was irresponsible. After the 400,000 documents came out, the Pentagon said they revealed little new.
Thirteen retirees killed in Mexico
THIRTEEN retirees were shot and killed late Sunday in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation centre near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP. The exact reason for the killing was not immediately known but it was apparently linked to a brutal drug war that has claimed thousands of Mexican lives this year. "There were 13 people killed. They were all recuperating drug addicts," said the police official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Thousands ordered to evacuate as Indonesia on volcano alert
INDONESIA ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi yesterday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to red, warning of a possible imminent eruption.
Haitians see hope despite cholera outbreak
HAITIAN health officials worked Monday to contain a cholera epidemic after statistics showed new infections had begun to taper off while the overall toll of cholera-related deaths rose above 250.
Serbia moves closer to join EU as failure to arrest Mladic looms
THE European Union brought Serbia a crucial step closer to joining its 27-member bloc on Monday, despite Belgrade's failure to arrest the continent's top war crimes suspect, Ratko Mladic. Serbia's pro-European government has long pledged to make the arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb general a priority,
The Peoples Voice News
Hungary is a Failed State. Over. Extinct
Hungary’s been abused for centuries and survived. Never before have the abusers gone after the most defenseless – the unborn and babies with hammer and tongs. Hungary is a failed state, pushed to extinction; the men’s sperm killed off and the women’s germ cells fried as the next generation, as yet unborn, is killed in the womb. They never even had a chance.
GADAHN CALL TO ATTACK AMERICANS COMES FROM ISRAEL
“Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and, if we investigated closely, have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is Wikileaks”
ISRAELI SMART MISSILES IN GAZA
"One night Emad was walking in the neighborhood of Shejayia in Gaza City. While he was speaking on his cell phone a missile was fired at him. His brothers explained me that inside such kind of missile there are some sort of turning knives which cut everything."
US mortgage crisis: The case for public ownership
In the face of mounting evidence of systematic fraud by leading US banks in the foreclosure and eviction of millions of families from their homes, the Obama administration continues to oppose a moratorium on foreclosures. It is instead running political interference for the Wall Street firms implicated in the scandal.
French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition
The French Senate voted 177-153 yesterday to approve President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension cuts in the face of overwhelming popular opposition and continuing strikes. The government at the same time stepped up the use of the police to smash strikes in the oil sector, which have caused severe fuel shortages, carrying out a massive police raid on an occupied refinery at Grandpuits, near Paris.
Torture, killing, children shot – and how the US tried to keep it all quiet
So now we begin to know the full extent of what Tony Blair called the blood price. A detainee tortured with live electrical wires here, children shot by US troops at a checkpoint there...As many as 30 children died at the hands of US forces at military checkpoints, the Iraq war logs have revealed. Violent "escalation of force" (EOF) incidents as vehicles were slowed down and searched "often" resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians, according to the classified documents. One entry described how a six-year-old Iraqi was hit as troops fired several rounds with light machine guns. It read: "While crossing the street, patrol had an EOF where patrol fired 3 rounds of M249. One round ricocheted off the concrete hitting a 6yr old LN [local national] 250m down the road. Medical Facility reported that the 6yr old LN died of wounds upon arrival."...
American Corporate-Owned Monopoly Media: YOUR ENEMY!
But - it is obvious that the problem remains. Scoundrels and tools run the information apparatus that feeds the mushrooms (formerly citizens) known as "Americans." This has-been population of fools, true-believers, and self-absorbed suck-ups are busy paying bills, stabbing their "friends"/neighbors in the back (for the crumbs that fall off the corporate-owned table issuing their paycheck) or otherwise feathering their own nest - taking a moment or two to glance at a telescreen to get the pre-chewed information they need to push a computer button in the next phony election so as to lend some semblance of legitimacy to the charade we call our government. You know - the one "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Hogwash.
Wikileaks Release Puts Spotlight Back on Continuing War Crime in Iraq
Many, many years ago, I noted in the Moscow Times that shortly after the 2003 invasion, the United States had begun hiring some of Saddam's old torturers as the invaders sought to quell the then-nascent "insurgency" -- i.e., the opposition to foreign occupation that when carried out by white men, such as the French during World War II, goes by the more ringing name of "resistance." Here's part of that report, from August 29, 2003:
Echoes of El Salvador in Tales of US-Approved Death Squads
The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq , but do they produce anything that we did not know already? The Pentagon will huff and puff with rage as it did over the Wikileaks release of US military documents about Afghanistan, when it took the contradictory position that there was little new in what has been leaked, but important sources of intelligence had somehow still been compromised.
'Even if the Israelis confess, I don't expect any justice from them'
Survivor of the air strike has little faith in outcome of the inquiry. Maysa Samouni, whose husband Tawfiq, 21, was killed and baby daughter Jumana, now two, was injured in the building struck by missiles on 5 January, 2009, was unmoved yesterday by the progress of the investigation into the attack.
2010 Is Just Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken. The political consensus is following the 2010 election, the Tea Partiers and the GOP establishment will breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate their victory and our two-party monopoly system of government will continue as before. A GOP House majority will checkmate Obama and the Democrats in the Senate and political stalemate will result. Many conservatives and a few Washington pseudo-libertarians will claim stalemate is better than a Democrat landslide but they will be wrong.
Iraq files reveal checkpoint deaths - Video
Almost 700 civilians, including pregnant women and the mentally ill, killed for coming too close to checkpoints. In September 2007, an Iraqi in a car ventured too close to a US patrol in Baghdad. The soldiers honked their horns; when that didn't cause the car to turn away, one of the gunners fired a warning shot. The bullet - intended to harmlessly hit the pavement - instead hits one local national (9 year old girl).
Iraq War Logs: Military Privatization Run Amok
Shortly after 10am on 14 May 2004, a convoy of private security guards from Blackwater riding down "Route Irish" - the Baghdad airport road - shot up a civilian Iraqi vehicle. While they were at it, the Blackwater men fired shots over the heads of a group of soldiers from the 69th Regiment of the US Army before they sped away heading west in their white armored truck. When the dust cleared, the Iraqi driver was dead and his wife and daughter were injured.
As the Rescue of the Chilean Miners Shows, this South American Country is Superbly Managed and an Enticing Investment
The efficient, well-managed rescue of the 33 Chilean miners was an affecting spectacle for the world. It also should remind us that Chile is a well-run country, and that in an era when commodities are ever more important to the global economy, it is becoming an essential part of investors' portfolios.
Oct 25, 2010
Barack Obama's last throw of the political dice on the campaign trail in Las Vegas
Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appear at a campaign rally in Las Vegas Photo: AP
Campaigning like it was 2008 all over again, Barack Obama on Saturday rounded off his longest swing through battleground election states since his victorious charge for the White House.
Barack Obama's Indian delegation 'books 800 rooms in Mumbai'
Barack Obama's Indian delegation has booked the entire Taj Mahal hotel Photo: ALAMY
The president, who is scheduled to set off on a twice-postponed Asian tour with his wife Michelle after next week's midterms, has reportedly block-booked all 570 rooms in the Taj Mahal hotel as a security measure. On top of that, US navy ships will also be deployed, as the president is staying in a hotel by the ocean.
Why the US has turned against Obama
Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama's Democratic party? It's a question that must puzzle many in Britain who – Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem – welcomed Obama's election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands. But now it appears that Obama's party is about to take....
Hamid Karzai admits office receives 'bags of money' from Iran
Mr Karzai said that the "bags of money" were "done by various friendly countries to help the presidential office and to help the expenses".
How Bernanke Will Keep a Fire Lit Under Stocks Until Year End - And Which Sectors Will Soar
While many investors have solid reasons to remain concerned about the broader economic picture, there are some market sectors roaring forward that no one can afford to miss - and they will continue to provide profit opportunities thanks to the work of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Lindsay Says She Can't Afford Rehab
Rihanna a No Show to Katy Perry's Wedding
On Saturday Katy Perry and Russell Brand celebrated their nuptials in front of 80 of their closest friends and family members, but Katy's BFF Rihanna
Oprah Winfrey books Bush, other big guests for TV, joins Streep, Bullock for movie comedy; ...
Pakistan border region becomes terror epicenter
It's a land of daunting mountains, crisscrossed with rugged paths. Tucked in the valleys, families live a subsistence existence in mud houses secluded behind 10-foot-high walls, cooking over open fires and sleeping under the sky. Dirt poor, uneducated, their only knowledge of the outside world comes from a crackling radio.
Mount Merapi status raised to alert
The Sleman administration announced the new status at 6 a.m. on Monday.
South Korea sends aid to North as mood improves
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea sent its first shipment of rice aid to rival North Korea in more than two years on Monday and said it would consider holding monthly talks with Pyongyang if it was committed to denuclearisation.
Indonesia to evacuate thousands as volcano simmers
SLEMAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Authorities will evacuate more than 11,000 villagers living on the slopes of the Mount Merapi volcano near Yogyakarta on Java after the alert status for an eruption was raised to the highest level, officials said.
Kris Aquino reacts to sis love advice
MANILA, Philippines- It seems like actress-host Kris Aquino is not heeding the love advice of her eldest sister, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz.Ballsy recently gave Kris an advice to focus her attention on her 2 sons, Joshua and baby James, instead of her love life.
“You can’t have everything in this world. Kung suwerte ka sa career, or suwerte ka sa mga anak mo, tanggapin mo na lang. Huwag mo
Wikileaks Iraq War Diaries
At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
Slovenia elects first black mayor
Peter Bossman receives a kiss from his wife Karmena after the second round of local elections in Lucija. Bossman, a doctor from Ghana, was voted in as mayor of a Slovenian city, becoming the first black mayor in an eastern European country. He became mayor of the picturesque seaside city of Piran in the second round of local elections after beating the centre-right incumbent, according to preliminary results.
Photograph by: SRDJAN ZIVULOVIC
Credit: REUTERS
Photograph by: SRDJAN ZIVULOVIC
Credit: REUTERS
Slovenia elects its first black mayor
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the "Obama of Piran," the town where he lives.
Hamas, Fatah may hold 2nd meeting for reconciliation in Damascus
RAMALLAH/GAZA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- A senior Fatah official said Sunday that the second round of meeting for reaching an inter- Palestinian reconciliation deal with Islamic Hamas movement might be held in Syria's capital of Damascus next week.
Israeli PM warns Palestinians over "unilateral action" threats
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told government ministers that Israel expects the "Palestinians to fulfill their commitment to hold the direct talks," restarted on Sept. 2 after an 18-month break
G20 has to show compromise FX pact packs meaning
By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics CorrespondentBBC News - Singapore stock exchange bids $8.2bn for Australian ASX
The Singapore stock exchange (SGX) has unveiled a multi-billion dollar bid for the company that owns the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in Sydney.
Lots to do in tiny Rarotonga
There are two bus routes on Rarotonga: "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise".
That should tell you all you need know about the island: that it's roughly round, fairly small and the public transport isn't too crash hot.
Four Nations match at Parramatta Stadium, Sydney
US has 'great concern' over Kashmir
WASHINGTON, AFP - The United States said Friday that it has "great concern" about the situation in Kashmir but indicated it would not try to mediate over the Himalayan territory divided between India and Pakistan.
Oct 24, 2010
Wikileaks Iraq War Diaries
At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
Bombers hit UN base in Afghanistan, no casualties
4 Taliban suicide bombers attacked the UN compound in western Afghanistan on Saturday but there were no casualties among the staff.
BBC News - Kenya football stampede kills seven
The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi: "A lot of people were trying to get into the stadium at the same time"
Seven people have been killed in a stampede at a football stadium in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say.
Wikileaks: how Iran devised new suicide vest for al-Qaeda to use in Iraq
Seven people have been killed in a stampede at a football stadium in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say.
BBC News - Haiti cholera cases 'detected in Port-au-Prince'
Aisha Bain, International Rescue
Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN says, amid an outbreak that has killed more than 200 people.
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