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Occupy Melbourne Calls for Inquiry into Police Violence

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Green Left ‘Occupy Melbourne have called for a full inquiry into unlawful police behaviour amid scenes of police violence on the streets of Melbourne today. The call comes after riot police disrupted a peaceful demonstration in Melbourne’s CBD. “We call on Premier Ted Ballieu and Lord Mayor Robert Doyle to back a full and independent [...]

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The lynching of Muammar Gaddafi

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Voltairenet The death of Muammar al-Gaddafi was hailed with an explosion of joy in all the government palaces of Western countries, but not by the Libyan people. For Thierry Meyssan, this militarily useless murder was perpetrated by the Empire not only as an example, but also to deconstruct Libya’s tribal society. On Thursday, 20 October [...]

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Corporatism Is Not Capitalism

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The American Dream Corporatism Is Not Capitalism: 7 Things About The Monolithic Predator Corporations That Dominate Our Economy That Every American Should Know Right now, there is a lot of talk about the evils of “capitalism”.  But it is not really accurate to say that we live in a capitalist system.  Rather, what we have [...]

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Will Rick Perry kill another innocent man?

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Mary Shaw The Peoples Voice Texas governor and Republican presidential contender Rick Perry has faced criticism from the left (and applause from the right) for his heavy-handed use of the death penalty. And Perry has said that he loses no sleep over the possibility that he may have executed an innocent man. This is despite [...]

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TSA Now Searching For Silver And Gold!

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The Alex Jones Channel The TSA has been known to download the contents of flyers’ laptops and smartphones, and to take cash. Now they search and question travelers who have as few as 8 coins. This is totally outside of the law, and amounts to an internal customs check point- and is the real reason [...]

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Media pushes ‘success’ of experimental GSK malaria vaccine while ignoring deadly side effects

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An internally displaced Congolese child is treated at an IMC clinic inside a displacement camp outside the eastern town of Goma

Ethan A. Huff Natural News The mainstream media is abuzz with excitement over GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) latest offering, a malaria trial vaccine that the company claims can cut the risk of clinical and severe malaria in children by 56 percent and 47 percent, respectively. But what GSK and the media are failing to report are the [...]

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Pig-to-human tissue transplants ‘imminent’

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Jeremy Laurance TheIndependent The world is on the cusp of a medical revolution which will see transplants of tissue from genetically engineered pigs to treat a range of human diseases, US scientists say today. Human trials could begin within two to three years of tissue taken from specially bred pigs to help the millions of [...]

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Berlusconi under pressure at EU summit

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PressTV European Union leaders have piled pressure on Silvio Berlusconi to restrain Italy’s debt and resolve a row with France over a seat on the European Central Bank (ECB). The Italian Prime Minister met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy just ahead of the EU summit on Sunday, after holding talks [...]

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Clinton won’t be allowed to order Pakistani rulers to kill ‘our own people’

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan

SouthEastAsiaNews Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not be allowed to give orders to the country’s rulers, who have stashed away millions in foreign banks. “We will never receive US dictates of killing our own people in someone else’s war,” the Dawn quoted Imran, as telling [...]

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Crowded Earth: World Population set to hit seven billion

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RawStory Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus gloomily forecast that our ability to reproduce would quickly outstrip our ability to produce food, leading to [...]

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US technology used to censor the Internet in Syria claim experts

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Alice Ross TheBureau Technology from an American company is being used by the Syrian government to censor the Internet and monitor dissidents, according to activists. The equipment produced by a major SiliconValley company, Blue Coat, allows corporations and governments to manage data traffic. But it can also be used to monitor users and block access [...]

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U.S. warns of ‘imminent’ attack threat in Kenya

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Al Arabiya The U.S. embassy in Nairobi warned Americans on Saturday of an “imminent threat” of attacks possibly targeting foreigners, one week after Kenyan forces crossed into Somalia to hunt down al-Shabaab fighters. The embassy cited “credible information of an imminent threat of terrorist attacks directed at prominent Kenyan facilities and areas where foreigners are [...]

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