Notícia do mundo
O movimento Olympic do protesto gira suas vistas sobre para patrocinadores
Quarta-feira, abril 23o, 2008
Por Tania Branigan e por Paul Kelso |
Os anéis ligados em cada frasco chinês do Coke e nos atletas pulando em cada saco de papel de McDonald's testify ao poder que os corporaçõs os mais grandes do mundo acreditam que os Olympics deste verão wields.
Mas gastando somas enormes, as companhias que patrocinam os jogos de Beijing estão a ponto de encontrar-se os alvos do…
etiquetado Esportes e Notícia do mundo
Polícias: Base de dados do DNA pronta assim que o ano seguinte
Quarta-feira, abril 23o, 2008
Por Elizabeth Roberts |
Bermuda podia ter sua própria base de dados do DNA dentro de um par dos anos, para ajudar às polícias em rachar mais crimes. As reformas do radical com as polícias e o ato Criminal da evidência (RITMO) significam que mais amostras, as impressões digitais e as fotografias do DNA estarão coletadas quando os povos são feitos exame na custódia de agosto este ano.
Eventualmente,…
etiquetado Estado da base de dados e Notícia do mundo
MEPs para manter o exame do segredo do abuso do salário
Quarta-feira, abril 23o, 2008
Por Sadie Cinzento |
Os membros do Parliament europeu votaram para manter o segredo que um relatório de exame poderia revelar a evidência de abuso difundido de permissões do salário da equipe de funcionários.
O original expõe os bônus end-of-year enormes pagos àqueles que trabalham por MEPs, permissões gastadas pelos membros que reivindicaram não empregar qualquer um e as permissões pagaram às companhias ou aos indivíduos ligadas pròxima ao…
etiquetado Notícia do mundo
Proposta para criar a base de dados EU-larga dos “troublemakers”
Quarta-feira, abril 23o, 2008
Statewatch |
“Impeça os indivíduos ou os grupos que são considerados pose uma ameaça potencial à manutenção da lei pública e a requisitar e/ou à segurança de viajar à posição do evento”
- e para pôr no lugar: “Os arranjos necessários para uma execução rápida e eficiente do expulsion potencial…
etiquetado Estado da base de dados e Notícia do mundo
Dia da terra: É o impacto worth o acúmulo?
Terça-feira, abril 22o, 2008
Por Heather Clancy |
Na conferência high-tech da indústria onde eu gastei a maioria de meu dia furado acima nas reuniões em segunda-feira, havia nary um mention do dia da terra.
Surpreendido? I was, but that’s naive little ole me. Then again, I spent the day with VARs and integrators, companies that rarely exercise the marketing might of their vendor partners.
When I ...
tagged World News
China police “shoot two” in village land protest
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) |
Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China's number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday.
Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over the arbitrary use of land by powerful local interests.
Ming ...
tagged Police State and World News
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Stephen Lendman |
Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient ...
tagged Stephen Lendman and World News
Ending Slavery for Pennies
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Greg Kaufman |
The slave-like conditions in the agriculture industry would shock most Americans. On April 15, at a packed Senate hearing on working conditions for tomato workers, Senator Bernie Sanders asked Detective Charlie Frost, investigator for the human trafficking unit at the Collier County ...
tagged World News
The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By George Monbiot |
If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can't find any? I rest my case. Dover was Murdoch's vice-president in China, and took his orders directly from the boss. His book, which was published in ...
tagged World News
Irish Peace Activist Denied Entry into the United States
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Matthew Rothschild |
Damien Moran got stuck at O’Hare. And it wasn’t because of all the planes that are being inspected for defects. No, it was because of his politics. On Sunday, April 6, Moran flew into Chicago.
He was coming to the United States to meet his brother in Virginia, to give at talk a couple days later at a ...
tagged World News
Zimbabwe ballot box seals broken
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Peta Thornycroft |
Zimbabwe's regime has been accused of a "concerted effort" to rig the election for Robert Mugabe as it emerged that seals protecting ballot boxes have been broken. A partial recount of the election - which was held on March 29 - is now taking place in 23 constituencies.
A source at the recount at ...
tagged Voting and World News
British dealers supply arms to Iran
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Mark Townsend |
Customs probe reveals sanctions-busting sales of arms, missile technology and nuclear components. Investigators have identified a number of British arms dealers trading with Tehran, triggering alarm among government officials who fear Iran's nuclear programme may be receiving significant support from UK sources.
The probe by customs officers suggests that at least seven Britons have been defying sanctions by supplying the ...
tagged Iraq and World News
Should flawed war-crimes court be scrapped?
Monday, April 21st, 2008
McClatchy-Tribune News Service | The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, April 17: The boycotts of hearings by terror suspects is the latest challenge to the war-crimes court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So many issues have cropped up, you would think that this court was charting unknown territory. It is not. Look no further than the case of Zacarias Moussaoui.
...
tagged Guantanamo, Law and World News
The Hidden Battle to Control the World’s Food Supply
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Amy Goodman |
Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply.
The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in recent weeks, highlighting the worsening epidemic of global hunger. The World Bank estimates world food prices have risen 80 percent over the last three years and that at least ...
tagged World News
Questions No One Is Bothering to Ask about Iraq
Monday, April 21st, 2008By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here's the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper front pages and out of the TV news in the last year, despite so many reports on the "success" ...
tagged Iraq and World News
Past News
Free Newsletter
Loading ...Related News
- Report: U.S. military chief to urge Bush to cut troops in Iraq
- Pentagon alerts 35,000 soldiers for Iraq deployment
- Two-Thirds of Americans Question Iraq War
- US to delay Iraq troops reductions
- Miliband: We will decide when UK troops leave Iraq
Latest Headlines
- Question For RINF Readers: Do You Want a Forum?
- Students Skip Class For Obama Event, Get Suspended
- Olympic protest movement turns its sights on to sponsors
- Gitmo Torture Orders Came From The Top
- Feds to require visitors’ fingerprints when they leave US
- Police: DNA database ready as early as next year
- Murdoch to buy New York rival
- Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
- MEPs to keep audit of wage abuse secret
- DOD data: More forced to stay in Army
Archive