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Occupy Wall Street banned from camping at Zuccotti Park
Some of the evicted protesters reconvened in Foley Square.
Anger and disappointment is erupting from New York City this afternoon, after a judge ruled that Occupy Wall Street protesters must discontinue camping at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
After hours of deliberating, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this afternoon that protesters would be prohibited from continuing their occupation of Zuccotti...
Blair and Bush facing mock 'trial'
Malaysian activists are preparing to hold a symbolic trial against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush for alleged war crimes related to the Iraq War. The initiative is led by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, established by Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, a vocal critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The tribunal,...
CBS To Ron Paul: Explain In 258 Words Why You Want To Be President
Santorum, polling at less than 1.8%, asked five times as many questions, speaks almost four times as many words during “debate”.
Congressman Ron Paul’s campaign chairman has hit back hard at CBS news following the blatant exclusion of Paul from Saturday’s GOP debate in South Carolina.
The televised portion of the debate, which was solely focused on foreign policy, was an hour long. During...
Mexican troops arrest Tijuana drug boss
Mexicans soldiers guard Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, a top operative of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, in Mexico City, on November 7, 2011.
Mexican army troops have arrested a top operative of the once-powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel in the northwestern state of Baja California.
Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, alias “El Sillas”, and three associates were arrested over the weekend in the...
Black runners banned from Estonian marathon
One of Saaremaa marathon's organizers, Tonu Vaher (#13)
Estonia’s human rights commissioner has launched a criminal case against the organizers of a three-day running marathon on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, accusing them of racial prejudice and discrimination.
According to DELFI.ee, commissioner, Mari-Liis Sepper, has demanded an explanation of the reasons behind rejecting the applications of...
Australia passes pollution tax
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
The Australian senate has endorsed a controversial pollution tax as part of policy adjustments aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions.
On Tuesday, the senate passed the Clean Energy Act, which requires Australia’s coal-fired power stations as well as other major emitters to “pay to pollute” from July 1 next year.
The move was...
War with Iran has already begun in secret
Iran's nuclear ambitions led then US president George W Bush to launch a covert war in 2007 to thwart the programme.
A secret campaign of surveillance, sabotage, cyberattacks and assassinations has slowed but not stopped Tehran’s programme.
The covert war on Iran’s nuclear programme was launched in earnest by George Bush in 2007. It is a fair assumption that the western powers had been...
Former Minnesota Governor angry on US wants to move to Mexico
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said he would now refer to the country of his birth as the “Fascist States of America” after a judge dismissed his case challenging airport pat downs, adding that his only recourse now would be to run for President.
“Ventura made his comments outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where in January he sued to challenge the Transportation Security...
Israeli forces board Gaza-bound Irish-Canadian flotilla
Greek coastguards stand in front of Canadian boat "Tahrir" after forcing the Gaza-bound ship to return to the port of Agios Nikolaos, July 4, 2011.
Two small boats approaching the Gaza coast have been boarded by the Israeli Defense Force. The IDF Chief of Staff ordered the navy to board the vessels should they refuse radio requests.
Nobody was injured during the takeover, according to the...
Human traffickers under trial in Ukraine
Six members of an Israeli human trafficking ring, which operated in the Republic of Azerbaijan, are on trial in a special court in Ukraine.
Three members of the ring, which specialized in selling body organs from trafficked victims, worked at a clinic in Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku, IRIB reported on Friday.
Run by an Israeli national with no medical training, the clinic was used as a front...
UK police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area.
Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted...
Obama Pushes For New Police State Laws Over Argentina Fears
A new report authored by Deputy Minister Gennadiy M. Gatilov of the Russian Foreign Ministry that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the Obama regime is pushing through the US Congress new and draconian “Police State” laws over the fears held by American oligarchs that an Argentina-type “movement” is about to sweep them all away.
The fears of a wider crackdown on dissent by the...
Teenage girl dies after she's burned alive by friends in 'satanic ritual'
Four suspects involved in a suspected satanic ritual, in which two girls were badly burnt, are led away by police officers after they appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.
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An 18-year-old South African woman was in a coma Monday after being doused in petrol and burned alive by friends in a Johannesburg park, in what police suspect was a satanic ritual. According to the...
Women's rights in Saudi Arabia
Recently, the dictator Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (who for the traditional media remains as a democratic and righteous king) granted in an absolutely benevolent form the right to vote being passed for the women of his country.
The treatment of Abdullah goes together with the sympathy shown by the media to the dictator – or “president” – of Yemen, Ali Saleh, who has not fallen...
Veteran in critical condition after police assault at Occupy Oakland
The Occupy Oakland protesters, a par of the Occupy Wall Street movement, carry away a man, who was hit by a tear gas canister shot by the Police, near the Oakland City Hall.
Scott Olsen returned relatively unscathed to America last year after serving two tours of Iraq fighting a war he was opposed to. Now he lays in an Oakland, CA hospital in critical condition thanks to a projectile fired last night...