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….public protests, art, blogs and the right to a fair trial Mike Adams All those who value free speech, art, public protests, internet blogs and due process should be waging an all-out information war right now to defend the Second Amendment. Why? Because if the Second Amendment is lost due to unconstitutional legislative and executive actions pursued by the government, then there are no limits to what civil liberties and [...] Huge anti-Japan protests in China continue to rage. The source of tension: A small chain of uninhabited islands claimed by both countries. According to Mark Mackinnon, reporter with Canada’s Globe & Mail, some protesters chanted: “Declare war on Japan!” Even away from the protests, evidence of anti-Japanese racism/nationalism was evident. A key observation made by Mackinnon and others is that these demos are almost certainly sanctioned by the government, since public protests are tightly controlled. [...] The Pentagon has renewed its shipment of weapons to the Yemeni military, having finally ended the nearly one year halt put on such shipments because of public protests and the military’s crackdown on popular dissent.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/18/pentagon-resumes-weapons-shipments-to-yemen/
Yemen is in trouble… ADEN, Yemen, Aug. [...] The eurozone faces a summer of unprecedented turbulence as the financial crises in Spain and Italy spread from the centres of government to the countries’ regions. In Spain, the disruption on the financial markets has triggered a series of public protests on the streets. These threaten to pose the biggest challenge to the country’s democratic system since the death of the dictator Franco in 1975, which ushered in a period of [...] Australia has introduced its highly controversial carbon tax, after years of bitter political wrangling. The law forces about 300 of the worst-polluting firms to pay a A$23 (£15; $24) levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce. The government says the tax is needed to meet climate-change obligations of Australia – the highest emitter per-head in the developed world. But the opposition calls it a “toxic tax” that will cost jobs. The [...] Paul Craig Roberts The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran [...] ByAlexander Bratersky
Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters An official in Stavropol showing what a webcam feed from a polling station will look like during the March 4 vote.
VELIKY NOVGOROD — In this historic city that was once the cradle of Russian democracy, an unprecedented new campaign kicked off over the weekend to install web cameras in every polling station around the country in an effort to prevent voting fraud. The ambitious program — costing billions of rubles — was ordered by Prime MinisterVladimir Putinfollowing the largest public protests [...] Eurozone leaders are preparing a rescue plan to prevent the escalation of the financial turmoil threatening to send the global economy back into recession. It comes as the IMF has warned it may not be able to help out bigger European economies struggling to tackle their debt. With a Greek default now widely considered a matter of time, the priority is to prevent bigger [...] Greek politicians will vote on a radical €28.4bn (£25.2bn) austerity package in the coming days that they must pass if the country is to receive the vital fifth tranche of a €110bn bail-out agreed last year. Photo: AP Greek politicians will vote on a radical €28.4bn (£25.2bn) austerity package in the coming days that they must pass if the country is to receive the [...] by ZH Today, courtesy of the Hong Kong land registry service, we find that the drubbing has shifted from mainland China to Hong Kong. “The number of sale and purchase agreements for all building units received for registration in April was 10,386 (-23.1% compared with March and -27.4% compared with April 2010). Among the sale and purchase agreements, 7,635 were for residential units (-27% compared with [...] JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Democracy activists in Saudi Arabia say the government is closely monitoring social media to nip in the bud any protests inspired by uprisings that swept Arab countries, toppling leaders in Egypt and Tunisia. Activists have set up Facebook pages calling for protests on March 11 and 20, with over 17,000 supporters combined, but police managed to stymie two attempts to stage [...] |
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