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Bhutan king marries a commoner

October 13, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

The king of Himalayan nation of Bhutan married a commoner whose interests are fine arts, painting and basketball. The lavish marriage ceremony between 31 year old British-educated Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and 20-year-old student Jetsun Pema took place in front of a giant Buddha statue at a 17th Century monastery.

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Eight killed in hair salon in California

October 13, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

 

Eight people were killed and another critically wounded when a gunman opened fire in a busy hair salon in Southern California yesterday (12th). After opening fire the gunman got into a truck and drove away from ‘Salon Meritage.’ However, he was stopped by officers about a half-mile away and surrendered without incident while saying he had multiple weapons with him.

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2.57 million unemployed in UK

October 12, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

The impact of the international financial crisis has hit the UK critically. The number of unemployed in the UK rose to 2.57 million between June and August this year. This is an increase of 114,000 within 3 months which is a 17-year high. Among the unemployed 991,000 are youths between 16 to 24 which is 21.3% of the unemployed.

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A letter to Obama supporting ‘The Five’

October 12, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

Eminent Argentine attorney Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, University of Buenos Aires Professor Emeritus, has sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama demanding justice for the five Cuban anti-terrorists political prisoners held in that country.

 

The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González) are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, and other illegal activities in the United States. However, Cuba states that the five men were intelligence agents, but says they were spying on Miami’s Cuban exile community, not the U.S. government and contends that the men were sent to South Florida in the wake of several terrorist bombings in Havana. [Read more…]

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World’s largest virus found in Chile

October 12, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

 

The largest-ever virus has been found off the coast of Chile. The giant virus named Megavirus Chilensis is said to have more than 1,000 genes and its genome is 6.5% larger than the DNA code of the Mimivirus.

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We are allies of all people who feel wronged – Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

October 11, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

“We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known,” states   Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. They state “We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.”
Thousands of anti-corporate demonstrators backed for the first time in large numbers by trade unions poured into New York’s financial district, raising the stakes in a more than two-weeks long street revolt.
At least 5,000 people, with streams of reinforcements arriving all the time, crammed into Foley Square in lower Manhattan where the city’s courts and government buildings are located. They then marched toward Wall Street.
Union officials estimated the number at 8,000 to 12,000 and it was clearly the biggest protest yet for the fledgling movement.
As grassroots sit-ins and marches that originated as Occupy Wall Street spread to other cities, support for the spontaneous Wall Street uprising has strengthen and U.S. Marines have agreed, it is said, to protect the protesters. The movement decried the economic injustice in the USA and states that the people are fed up and it’s manifesting itself in the protests happening now with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. They say it is only the beginning and it will spread throughout the country.
“We are the 99%. So are you!” protesters chanted as they marched to Foley Square, just north of City Hall, where throngs of union workers were awaiting them.
“It’s an epic march,” said John Samuelson, President of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, who put a call out to his 35,000 bus and subway workers urging them to march Wednesday.
“It’s organized labor coming together to say that working families have had enough of \[dealing with\] the unfair burden of the economic problems.”
After a round of speeches, the marchers planned to head back down Park Row and Broadway to Zuccotti Park, in the shadow of the World Trade Center site. Members of the United Federation Teachers, United Auto Workers, United Healthcare Workers and Public Employees Union DC37 were among those joining the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.
Union nurses in uniform joined, to huge cheers from the crowd. At least 39 unions and community organizations were part of the march, including MoveOn.org and the Coalition for the Homeless. Citywide student walkouts too have been planned.
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City:
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbours; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!

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NASA Developing Instruments for New Solar Orbiter Mission

October 11, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

 

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Beware! ROSAT is plummeting towards Earth!

October 11, 2011 by world Leave a Comment

German space agency announced that a 2.5-ton space telescope called ROSAT would be tumbling home sometime in late October or early November. Earth has been told to brace for a possible satellite collision as the orbiting telescope weighing nearly three tons has spun out of control and is plummeting homewards.
ROSAT,the German X-ray telescope built with British and American technology, has been orbiting the Earth since 1990 and has provided invaluable data on stars. But they lost contact with it in 1999. It is now predicted to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at the end of this month. ROSAT was launched on June 1, 1990, from U.S. launch site Cape Canaveral for what was originally intended as an 18-month mission.
According to tallies from NASA, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), the Federal Communications Commission and other domestic and international agencies, there are currently 17,000 objects measuring 4 in. (10 cm) or greater circling the earth.

In late September, a 6-ton NASA research satellite, launched in 1991, came plummeting home, falling safely into the south Pacific, but not before causing a lot of scientists a lot of jitters as they watched the roulette wheel of the satellite’s orbit, trying to calculate just when and where the ship would lose enough energy to drop from the sky.

The landing spot of ROSAT is still unknown.

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