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Assange Launches WikiLeaks Party, To Run For Australian Senate

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has formally launched the Australian WikiLeaks Party and announced its federal election candidates. Assange has now officially declared his candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate. Speaking via Skype from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the 41-year-old whistleblower has been holed up for more than a year due to [...]

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Spain’s King Juan Carlos Visits Train Accident Victims

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King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain visited the victims of the train crash which claimed 80 lives on Wednesday evening in the city of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. Thursday evening saw the King and Queen, in company of the President of Galicia, Alberto Nunez Feijoo and Public Works Minister, Ana Pastor, [...]

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Obama’s Master Class In Economic Demagogy 101 – OpEd

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Yesterday President Obama chose Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (originally founded by anti-slavery activists in the 1830s) to float the economic program he has been working out with Wall Street investment bankers. His aim is to wrap this program in a democratic rhetoric. The speech’s actual content boils down to: “I’m doing fine and housing [...]

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Ralph Nader: What!? A Charismatic, Public Drinking Water Manager – OpEd

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In contrast to years of serious underinvestment in America’s public drinking water works that has invited takeover drives by large corporations hustling city governments, George S. Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, or DC Water for short, is leading a comeback in the nation’s Capital. A career environmentalist, Mr. [...]

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Unfamiliar Territory – Analysis

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By Manoj Joshi Last week, Border Security Force personnel guarding a section of the railway being built to link Jammu to the Kashmir Valley fired on a crowd of protestors at Dharm Sharti village near Ramban, killing four and injuring a dozen. The circumstances around the case are murky. Some allege that the BSF desecrated [...]

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Back To Square None: Netanyahu, Abbas To Resume ‘Peace Process’ That Never Was – OpEd

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood First Casualty Of US Verdict: Saudi Arabia Not Qatar, To Lead Arab World – OpEd

C.V. Vigneswaran: The New Pop Star – OpEd

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Let us remove the mask and without them let us look at the people who live on this rough soil. Where are we? What we are? Who has left us with nothing of value? Despair and hopelessness has been a part of our daily lives through the heritage of anger and stress due to rude, [...]

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Communities Involved With Early Warning Systems To Minimize Flood Risk In India

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A team of experts from ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal) have installed flood early warning systems (FEWS) enabled by wireless technology along the Jiadhal and Singara rivers in Assam, India. The installation was carried out under the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) and is intended to minimize the flood risks [...]

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Patrick Buchanan: Weiner & Spitzer, Now More Than Ever! – OpEd

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“Progressivism leads inevitably to utter irrationality and eventually political, as well as moral, chaos.” So writes editor R.V. Young in the summer issue of Modern Age, the journal of which Russell Kirk was founding editor. The magazine arrived with the latest post from our cultural capital, where the front-runner in the mayoral race, Anthony Weiner, [...]

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Halliburton Agrees To Plead Guilty In Connection With Gulf Oil Spill

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U.S. company Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico three years ago. A U.S. Justice Department statement said that criminal information charging Halliburton with one count of destroying evidence was filed Thursday in a federal court in the state [...]

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Alternative Energy Sources Won’t Fully Cover Japan’s Energy Needs – Analysis

Rosneft President Igor Sechin Meets Rostov Region’s Governor Vasily Golubev

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Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin, accompanied by a team of the Company’s top managers, held a working meeting with Rostov region’s Governor Vasily Golubev. As part of the meeting the parties signed heads of agreement for Rosneft to acquire fueling assets in Rostov-on-Don. The parties also discussed prospects to expand [...]

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Hacker Dies Days Before He Was To Reveal How To Remotely Kill Pacemaker Patients

Paraguay Has Great Opportunities, Ideal Place To Establish Foreign Investment Projects – Interview

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Peter Tase interviews Mr. Sebastian Brizuela, Editor in Chief of Revista Logistica Paraguay, regarding the current economic environment in Paraguay and that country’s potential for foreign investment. Eurasia Review: What are the major products that Paraguay is exporting to the region and the rest of the world? Sebastian Brizuela: Paraguay, has primarily an agricultural country, [...]

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Spying Control And Freedom – OpEd

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As millions take to the streets demanding political participation, social justice and freedom, opponents to change – governments and reactionary forces worldwide – centralise power, tighten control of civil society and the media and trample on democratic ideals. The dangerous accumulation of powers, “legislative, executive, and judiciary” – the “father of the [American] constitution” James [...]

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6 Key Oil And Gas Discoveries Of 2013: Who’s Worth Owning – Analysis

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By OilPrice.com Premium Analysts The pace of oil and gas exploration is frightening, and discoveries are weekly, if not daily, with volumes investors would only have dreamt of a decade ago. With each new discovery, it becomes difficult to keep track of the playing field, and even more difficult to rank the potential. There are [...]

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Rights Group Seeks Full Court Review Of ‘Warrantless’ NSA Surveillance

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Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a request that the entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider the dismissal of its lawsuit against President Barack Obama, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and the heads of the other major national security agencies, challenging warrantless government surveillance of international telephone calls and [...]

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Bosnia Muslims Condemn Hardline Foes Of Shorts

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By Elvira M. Jukic Amir Karic said the Islamic Community condemned a reported verbal attack on girls wearing skimpy summer clothes, after a newspaper said that a hardline Wahhabi Muslim insulted two girls in Sarajevo for wearing shorts. An official of the Bosnian Islamic Community, Amir Karic, said his institution condemned verbal attacks on two [...]

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Lord Alton: “Syrian Conflict Should Not Become A Proxy War Between External Powers”

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