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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Activists now face difficulty in commemorating Palestinian dispossession during Israel’s founding due to Israeli law.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Haifa – Each year on May 15, Palestinians across the world commemorate the Nakba (catastrophe), or the 1948 establishment of Israel that led to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians being displaced from their homeland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The estimated 1.7 million Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and live in villages, towns and cities across the country are no exception. Each year, protests, marches, lectures and other events to mourn their ancestors’ dispossession are held in Palestinian communities across Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet, since 2011, Israeli legislation has made mourning the Nakba publicly difficult for Palestinians and others in Israel. The “Nakba Law” authorises Israel’s finance minister to revoke funding from institutions that reject Israel’s character as a “Jewish state” or mark the country’s Independence Day as a day of mourning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although the Nakba Law has yet to be technically implemented, human rights groups and activists say it has a dangerous deterrent effect and is meant to intimidate Palestinians and others who view Israel’s establishment as a day of mourning for Palestinians.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Among those who could be potentially affected by the Nakba Law is Zochrot, an Israeli non-governmental organisation that aims to keep the memory of the 1948 events alive and promotes the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The Nakba Law is part of an atmosphere to suppress the Nakba narrative and a discussion of the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees,” Liat Rosenberg, director of Zochrot, told Al Jazeera. “These are right-wing, anti-democratic efforts [that] continue to create an atmosphere of fear and suppress this issue from the public discourse.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back in February, Yona Yahav, mayor of the central Israeli city of Haifa, withdrew municipal funding for a Zochrot film festival about the Nakba. The event was scheduled to be held at the local cinema the week before Israel’s Independence Day, marked this year on April 23, but it was cancelled in the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cancellation in Haifa followed a political uproar that surrounded a similar Zochrot film festival in Tel Aviv’s public cinema in November 2014. The Tel Aviv Cinematheque came under fire from Israeli politicians after it was announced that it would be hosting the three-day film festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an Israeli Knesset session, parliamentarian Alex Miller, a member of the right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party, called the festival “a pathetic attempt by the Cinematheque to take advantage of its stage to support Israel’s enemies that are looking for every way to undermine our sovereignty”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Limor Livnat, then the culture and sports minister, asked the Ministry of Finance to withdraw the state’s 250,000-shekel (around $64,000) financial contribution to the Cinematheque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“It is an unreasonable situation, in my view, when an entity that is supported by the State of Israel enables the holding on its premises of a festival devoted entirely to preaching that the day on which Israel was founded is a day of mourning,” Livnat wrote in a statement, adding that the government should not fund an institution that “encourages debate over what the Palestinians call ‘the Right of Return'”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Zochrot’s Rosenberg says the law has so far failed and “has achieved exactly the opposite” of its desired effect by sparking a public conversation about the 1948 events. “We can most definitely see that there is a greater space to talk about the Nakba in Israel, but we still have a long way to go. The more legislative attempts to limit the space for discussion [about the Nakba], the greater the public interest becomes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Adalah, a Haifa-based legal centre for Palestinians in Israel, challenged the law, but the court rejected its petition in April 2012. The justices ruled that it could not be stricken down before it is actually implemented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The declarative level of the law does indeed raise difficult and complex questions,” Israeli Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch and Justices Eliezer Rivlin and Miriam Naor wrote in their ruling at the time. “However, from the outset, the constitutionality of the law depends largely upon the interpretation given to the law’s directives.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pointing to the cancellation of Zochrot’s film festival in Haifa, Sawsan Zaher, a lawyer at Adalah, explains that the law’s true danger lies in its “deterrent impact” on freedom of speech and the possibility of self-censorship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Without actually implementing the Nakba Law, [the law] has been used as an excuse to limit freedom of expression,” Zaher told Al Jazeera. “It has a chilling effect.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since 2012, Tel Aviv University’s Palestinian student groups have had to hold Nakba Day commemoration events off campus and pay for their own security in order to prevent the university from violating the restrictions set out by the Nakba Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Students at Haifa University were also unable to attain a permit to hold a Nakba Day commemoration event in 2014, but they held a small protest. Several participants were suspended for the remainder of the semester and Palestinian student groups were temporarily banned from holding events on campus, a decision that was later overturned by Israel’s Supreme Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Yet our main fear is more about the smaller institutions that will not go to Adalah or the media because they will be afraid to lose their funding,” Sawsan Zaher explained. “Without being implemented, the law is more of a statement to Palestinians in Israel: ‘Don’t mention the Nakba; you have no collective narrative; this is not legal.'”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Zaher said the law “dehumanises and delegitimises Palestinian citizens of Israel” and treats them “as enemies”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In November, hardline incumbent prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dissolved the Knesset following uproar over the “Jewish nation-state bill”, proposed legislation that defined Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” and allots Arab citizens individual rights but not communal rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In March, Netanyahu’s Likud party garnered a landslide victory in parliamentary elections. Cobbled together with a 61-seat majority, Netanyahu’s new coalition is poised to include several smaller right-wing parties, such as the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party and former Likud member Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We expect more laws like this in the next Knesset,” Zaher said. “The Nakba Law is just one of dozens and [there are] more to come.”</span></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Demonstration on May 13, 2015 in Ramallah to commemorate the Nakba – the birth of the state of Israel 67 years ago in British-mandate Palestine. Photo by Mahmoud Illean, Demotix</em></div>
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-38595288894788796782014-10-09T20:49:00.000+01:002014-10-09T20:49:39.235+01:00Libya in Flames!<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: justify;">
While Libya lies in flames, with thousands of men, women and children, driven by desperation, trying every day to cross the Mediterranean — and many of them will lose their lives – Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano issues this warning: "Beware of the outbreaks all around us," starting with the "persistent instability and fragility of the situation in Libya.” (aletheiaonline.it, July 12)</div>
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He forgets, and with him almost all the government officials and politicians, that Italy itself played a key role in 2011 in the “outbreak” of the war against Libya, of which the massacre of migrants is one of the consequences.</div>
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On the southern shores of the Mediterranean, across from Italy, there was a state — documented by the World Bank itself in 2010 — which maintained "high levels of economic growth,” with an average increase in GDP of 7.5 percent per annum, which recorded "high indicators of human development," including universal access to primary and secondary education, and for 46 percent of the population, also at the university level. Despite income disparities among individuals, the standard of living of the Libyan population was significantly higher than that of other African countries. Bearing witness to this fact was that nearly two million immigrants, mostly Africans, were working in Libya.</div>
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This state, in addition to being a factor of stability and development in North Africa, had used its investments to facilitate the emergence of organizations that one day might have made the financial autonomy of Africa possible: the African Investment Bank, based in Tripoli; the African Central Bank, with headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria; the African Monetary Fund, based in Yaoundé, Cameroon.</div>
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After having funded and armed hostile tribal areas in Tripoli, which caused the "Arab Spring" in Libya to assume from the outset the form of armed insurrection, and thus provoking the government’s response, they waged a war that destroyed the Libyan state in 2011: in seven months the U.S./NATO Air Force carried out 10,000 attack missions, unleashing more than 40,000 bombs and missiles.</div>
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Italy participated in this war, using its bases and military forces, tearing up the Treaty of Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation between Italy and Libya. "In the memory of the liberation struggles and April 25” - President Napolitano declared on April 26, 2011, “we could not remain indifferent to the bloody reaction of Colonel Gadhafi in Libya: That’s why Italy adhered to the plan of action of the coalition under the aegis of NATO." (Wall Street Italia, April 26, 2011)</div>
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During the war in Libya, its enemies infiltrated special forces, including thousands of Qatari commandos, and at the same time funded and armed Islamist groups, which up until a few months before had been called terrorists. It is significant that the Islamic militias of Misrata, which lynched Gadhafi, now occupy the airport in Tripoli.</div>
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In this framework, the first nuclei of ISIS formed, and moved to Syria, where they built the bulk of their strength before launching the offensive in Iraq. They acted as a de facto instrument of the U.S./NATO strategy to demolish these states through covert war.</div>
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"It is now clear,” said President Napolitano, “that every failed state inevitably becomes a center of accumulation and global spread of extremism and lawlessness." (quirinale.it, June 18)</div>
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It only remains to be seen what the "failed states" really are. They are not nation-states such as Libya, Syria and Iraq, states located in areas rich in oil or with an important geo-strategic position, which are wholly or partly outside the control of the West, and which were then demolished by war. They are in fact the major states of the West, which, betraying their own constitutions, have failed as democracies and returned to nineteenth-century imperialism.</div>
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Source<br />Il Manifesto (Italy)</div>
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The Brazilian presidential race, one whose outcome hasn’t been so uncertain since 1989, is coming to a close, and incumbent Dilma Rousseff from the Worker’s Party will dispute a runoff with Aécio Neves from the Brazilian Social-Democractic Party. Both had, respectively, <a href="http://divulga.tse.jus.br/oficial/index.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">42 percent and 34 percent of the votes.</a></div>
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Marina Silva from the Brazilian Socialist Party, an unexpected name in the campaign who had ranked high in the polls for months, finished with 21 percent, which puts her officially out of the race. Brazilians will also be picking the governors of all 27 states, a third of 81 senators, as well as 513 seats of the lower house of Congress and state legislators.</div>
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A first-time presidential candidate and former governor of Brazil’s second most populous state, Minas Gerais, Aécio Neves earned votes from an expressive sector of Brazilian society unsatisfied with the Worker's Party government, who's been in power since 2003. Historically, the Social-Democractic Party has represented conservative sectors of Brazilian's middle and upper classes, as opposed to the Worker's Party, who had its genesis in the working class. However, recently, Rousseff's party has been heavily criticized by progressive sectors, who believe its ideals have been “compromised” by the several alliances it has made with conservative supporters in the last 11 years.</div>
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Marina Silva presented herself as an “alternative” to the long-lasting rivalry between the two main parties and maintained second place in opinion polls since she unexpectedly emerged as the candidate of the Brazilian Socialist Party (after the sudden <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/eduardo-campos-death-brazil-presidential-race_n_5677425.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">death of its former runner, Eduardo Campos</a>, in a plane crash on August 13),<a href="http://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2014/noticia/2014/09/dilma-tem-35-marina-34-e-aecio-14-diz-pesquisa-datafolha.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">even reaching 34 percent</a> (against Rousseff's 35 percent) in a Datafolha poll on late August. A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/brazil-marina-silva-first-green-president-election-dilma-rousseff" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">prominent environmentalist,</a> Silva got her start in politics by working alongside union leader and activist Chico Mendes, fighting against the exploitation of the Amazon, and served as environmental minister from 2003 to 2008 in Rousseff’s Party.</div>
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Her drop in the votes has been attributed, among other factors, by not being able to navigate all the contradictions in her campaign. For instance, Silva’s vice presidential candidate, legislator Beto Albuquerque, has had historical <a href="http://www.cartacapital.com.br/politica/beto-albuquerque-3550.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">connections with the agribusiness</a>, having been involved in 2004 in the approval of a bill that allowed genetically modified soy to be planted in Brazil. This fact has disappointed many environmentalists and former supporters of Silva. Among them, the Syndicate of Rural Workers of Xapuri in Acre state, founded by Chico Mendes, who released a note on August 28 criticizing Marina’s environmental's proposals. An <a href="http://www.cartamaior.com.br/?/Editoria/Politica/Chico-Mendes-Sindicato-de-Xapuri-divulga-nota-sobre-declaracao-de-Marina/4/31696" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">excerpt</a>:</div>
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The rural workers of Xapuri (Acre) do not agree with the current environmental policy in progress in Brazil, idealized by presidential candidate Marina Silva while she was minister of environment. This policy is hostage to a preservationist model and to international NGOs. It harms the maintenance of traditional culture of subsistence and forest management and favors big entrepreneurs who, due to the policies’ high degree of bureaucratization, are able to legally devastate the forest while its traditional inhabitants are left with no choice but to commit environmental crimes.</div>
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Also, after publishing on her official website a progressive agenda supporting marriage equality, which drew many LGBT rights advocates, Silva stepped back from this position following pressure from religious leaders. Silva is also an evangelist and a significant part of her electorate are connected to evangelical congregations. Silva’s new position on this issue made American actor Mark Ruffalo, a prominent activist on LGBT rights, withdraw his support for Silva, which has had <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/10/01/mark-ruffalo-endorses-brazilian-marina-silva-then-retracts-over-gay-marriage/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gone viral just a few weeks prior</a>. Marina has been also heavily attacked by leftist sectors, that saw her as a “conservative dressed up as a progressive”. As famous leftist blogger Cynara Menezes<a href="http://socialistamorena.cartacapital.com.br/marina-silva-a-carranca-e-o-estado-laico/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">pointed out, in early September</a>:</div>
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“As a leftist, it obviously worries me that we might experience a possible neoliberal spring in the government with her election, since she's assisted by a team of economists who follow that philosophy. I have, however, a stronger reason not to vote for her. Marina's project for Brazil is not the same as mine, but I won't vote for her mainly because I don't trust that she'll govern, being an evangelical from the Assemblies of God church, with the conception of a secular state”</div>
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Luciana Genro and Eduardo Jorge, from the Socialist and Freedom Party and the Green Party, respectively, were the only ones who have openly supported marriage equality and other progressive agendas (decriminalization of marijuana among them). Genro earned 1.47 percent of the votes and Jorge 0.62 percent. </div>
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Still, legislator Jean Willys, the first openly gay member of the Congress and advocate of LGBT rights in Brazil, was elected for a second mandate in the lower house of Congress. An active user of social media, with almost 1 million followers on Facebook and Twitter combined, he thanked the 145,000 people who voted for him:</div>
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It worked, guys! Re-elected! A new era starts now. Thanks, friends, both real and virtual</div>
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But social media reacted angrily to the presidential results as well as the most voted legislators. In Rio, <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/08/brazil-homophobia-religion-and-politics/comment-page-2/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">notorious homophobe</a> Jair Bolsonaro was reelected as the most voted federal deputy. In Sao Paulo, Coronel Telhada, a hard-line former police chief with a violent history, was the second most voted state legislator. Famed independent journalist Bruno Torturra tweeted sarcastically:</div>
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Try to see the bright side of those results. And, if you do, please tell me which is it?</div>
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Also in Sao Paulo, the Social-Democractic Party candidate Geraldo Alckimin was reelected in the first round with almost 60 percent of the votes, despite the major water crisis the region has experienced (SABESP, the company responsible for the water supply in most of Sao Paulo, is managed by the state government). Journalist Mariele Góes posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marielegoes/posts/10204733419556263" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">her Facebook page</a>, in a clear reference to a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/mayara-petruso-brazilian-_n_779162.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">famed hate-speech case following the results of the elections in 2010</a>:</div>
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I sincerely hope that every ‘paulista’ [someone from São Paulo] who's saying northeasterners don't know how to vote take a shower with their own tears when Cantareira reservoir runs out of water on the 27th <3</div>
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It's unclear wether Silva will support Rousseff or Neves in the runoff. In 2010, after also losing the race in the first round, she chose to remain neutral.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Past victories have been greeted with carnival-like celebrations from favela slums to exclusive beach resorts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But as the June 12 inaugural game of Brazil vs. Croatia nears, thousands of protesters here are saying they are not only unhappy with the tournament but actually want Brazil’s team to lose miserably.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“I’d love to see the Brazil team lose every game and be thrown out in the first round,” says Marcelo Amorim, a university researcher who has been protesting against the tournament since last year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“We already have five cups so what is one more? Right now there are more important things to worry about.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Protester Wellington Magalhaes, a resident of a favela climbing up Rio’s hills, says he will be actively cheering for Brazil’s rivals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“A victory for the Brazil team would be a victory for the government. It would be a slap in the face of the people,” Magalhaes said. “I’d like to see Brazil lose 10 to nothing. Just think of the repercussions of that.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Such antagonistic sentiments turned into confrontational demonstrations on Thursday, as thousands blocked the roads of Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, burning tires and shouting slogans against the World Cup.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The angers against the tournament and team stem from a mix of grievances both over the World Cup and within Brazilian society generally.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Many are enraged by the government spending some $11 billion on the tournament, while its schools and hospitals are in desperate need of repair.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Others are angered by the corporate nature of the games.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Brazil’s biggest stadium, the Maracana in Rio, has been effectively privatized, rented for 35 years to a consortium including one of Brazil’s richest men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Meanwhile, police forcibly evicted a group of indigenous squatters near the ground to make room for development.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has also come under fire for its aggressive marketing demands. Brazil agreed to create zones around stadiums where only FIFA and its partners can sell goods.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Football is a passion and a love for people in the favelas. But how does this cup help the poor?” Magalhaes asked. “The Brazilian government uses football as an opium to keep people happy. Well, we are tired of that.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Perhaps his social commentary is not surprising. Even though millions have climbed out of poverty in recent years during successive left-leaning governments, Brazil still ranks among the world's most unequal countries. Many here doubt that souped-up stadiums for global soccer tourneys and the 2016 Olympics are a huge priority.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">However, those wishing doom on Brazil’s team may be disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As home nation and with a talented generation of players, Brazil is the betting favorite to take the cup, with average odds of 3 to 1 — ahead of <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/argentina" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Argentina</a>, <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/germany" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Germany</a> and reigning champ <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/internal/section-config/spain" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Spain</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has already complained that protests could put players off, “big time.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“If [protests] are normal, without smashing things up, then that is democracy. But I don't know if it's the right time,” Scholari said last month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It is difficult to predict how big — or how aggressive — the demonstrations will be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">During the confederations soccer tournament last year, hundreds of thousands marched against spending for the country’s mega sporting events. At times, peaceful rallies have devolved into chaotic riots and brutal crackdowns.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But while demonstrators are organizing against the World Cup games in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, there is little sign of marches in the other 10 host cities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The protesters also received some bad press coverage when a cameraman filming a rally in February was killed by a firecracker.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Still, protesters understand that with the eyes of the world on Brazil, even small disturbances could make a lot of noise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A Sao Paulo member of a radical movement known as the Black Bloc said they aim to push through police barriers in the zones around the stadiums.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“They are going to try to get into the exclusion zones by any way, and there are going to be clashes,” said the Black Bloc affiliate, who would only identify himself by the alias A.M. because of the risk of arrest. “There is a clear objective. If they get into the zone, they have won.”</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More from GlobalPost: <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/brazil/140513/rio-world-cup-sewage-sanitation" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Come for the World Cup, swim with the feces</a></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Outside of the protest movement, feelings toward the cup are more mixed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In a favela in Sao Paulo, laborer Higo Carvalho said he was critical of the World Cup spending but would cheer on the Brazil team.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Despite the bad things in Brazil, I am still a patriot,” Carvalho said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">General enthusiasm for Brazil’s squad appears to be more muted than in recent years — with fewer people wearing T-shirts or painting the roads with the team colors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">However, some believe that once the party gets started, soccer mania will return.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“People here love to party and they love to be hosts,” said Matias de Padua, owner of a sportswear shop in downtown Rio.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Once the games start, and people arrive from all over the world, and there is great football being played, people are going to put aside their problems. It is going to be a carnival. And Brazil is going to win the World Cup.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Onscreen and off, minorities and women are drastically underrepresented — even at a cost to ratings and box office — according to a new report, which targets talent agencies, Oscars and Emmys, among others.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A UCLA study released Wednesday slammed the entertainment industry for its persistent and dramatic underrepresentation of minorities and women onscreen and behind the scenes, with the study’s chief author telling <em><a href="http://www.thr.com/" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;">The Hollywood Reporter</a></em> in an interview that “there are a lot of industries that do a better job than Hollywood” in forging workforces that reflect the nation’s diversity.</span></div>
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-37010493249870798262014-02-17T17:22:00.000+00:002014-02-17T17:22:20.557+00:00The deep state : Egypt's army, its real economic power!<div style="border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Egyptian army controls almost 45 per cent of the country’s economy, German newspaper <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Die Welt</i> claimed.</span></div>
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<a href="http://stratrisks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Die-Welt-Egypts-army-is-its-real-economic-power-300x200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Die Welt: Egypt's army is its real economic power" border="0" class="attachment-medium wp-post-image" height="200" src="http://stratrisks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Die-Welt-Egypts-army-is-its-real-economic-power-300x200.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 3px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 5px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="300" /></a><span style="background-color: white;">In a report entitled “The Egyptian army is Egypt’s real economic power” the newspaper said following January 25 revolution which ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the military junta led by 75 years old Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi took over power and worked with all of its strength to protect its lucrative economic interests that made the military establishment a business empire and one of the most important factors influencing the country’s economy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The newspaper claimed the Egyptian army owns hundreds of hotels, hospitals, canneries, clubs and bakeries and employs thousands of workers in at least 26 consumer goods factories which include refrigerators, televisions and computers, train carriages and fire truck factories as well as waste incineration plants and sewage plants equipments.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The newspaper quoted the Middle East affairs expert; Robert Springborg who said “the Egyptian army has become more like an empire which employs hundreds of thousands of civilians and reaps billions of dollars in profit. The military establishment has become a company that does not wage foreign war but works to meet the public’s consumption demands. The defence minister works as the company’s director and instead of thinking about military matters; he is busy all the time managing his business. Investors wishing to invest in the private sector whether in the real estate or tourism projects along the Red Sea for example had to rent the land from the Minister of Defence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Springborg who is a professor at the US Naval College in California believes the army’s business interests motivated it not to suppress the January 25 revolution from the first moment. “After all, the revolution and scenes of bloodshed in the country are very bad for any entrepreneur.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Springborg added that the military junta led by Tantawi worked to suppress any real civilian president from reaching power to secure their secret.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The newspaper said that since the Egyptian army ousted the monarchy in 1952 and all the Egyptian presidents come from the army starting from Muhammad Naguib, Jamal Abdul Nasser, Anwar Sadat and ending with Mohammad Hosni Mubarak.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“The Egyptian army’s economic empire flourished in 1979 following the Camp David Peace Accords when the army began investing in everything in the country from the agriculture to construction of roads and bridges, real estate and electronic industries, milk plants and chicken breeding farms, calf and cow farms, vegetable and fruit farms and fish farms,” said the newspaper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In addition to all of these profitable projects, the army invested in the Egyptian tourism industry where the forces’ top leaders own and manage major hotels and tourist villages in Sharm El Sheikh; a project which the newspaper said, had started during the era of Field Marshal Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala, Egypt’ defence minister during the late era of President Anwar Sadat and the beginnings of the Mubarak era. Mubarak isolated Abu Ghazaleh in 1989 to exclude all of his rivals; fearing Abu Ghazaleh’s growing popularity and to suppress corruption in Abu Ghazaleh’s economic empire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Mubarak appointed Yusuf Sabri Abu Taleb as Egypt’s Defence Minister but soon dismissed him in 1991 because Abu Taleb vowed to separate the army from any economic projects that are not related to defence and competes with the private sector. Abu Talib said at the time that he will fight corruption in the military but he was unable to achieve his aspirations because he was soon discharged, perhaps because those intentions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Abu Taleb was replaced by Mohamed Hussein Tantawi; a man who had refused all attempts to end the army’s economic empire. On the contrary; during Tantawi’s rule in the last ten years, the army controlled many of the state-owned companies that have been privatised or work in partnership with the new owners.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Without a doubt, the military’s economic empire contributed to the social and economic prosperity for many poor Egyptians. Indeed, that empire has achieved prosperity for many leaders including Jamal Abdul Nasser, Anwar Al Sadat, Mubarak and Omar Suleiman who all came from families of moderate means and then became rich.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Empire provided jobs to thousands of unemployed Egyptians from the 420 thousand soldiers to the hundreds of thousands of civilian workers. It serves as Egypt’s largest employer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The newspaper quoted German economist Springs Borg as saying: “The real change comes when the power is headed by a civilian president who demands the army to disclose its records.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The newspaper also quoted a similar statement by Samer Shehata; a professor at Georgetown University who said: “It is essential for any future Egyptian president to break the army’s empire and isolate the generals by all means possible before entering into any confrontation .”</span></div>
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-71035388280793090192014-02-12T03:42:00.001+00:002014-02-12T03:42:14.401+00:00The Syrian War What You're Not Being Told<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Published on <span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Oct 22, 2013 | </span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">Abby Martin speaks with BTS producer Manuel Rapalo about a few of the most shocking US government conspiracies that turned out to be true.</span></div>
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Today China destroyed six tons of ivory from its official stockpile in an effort to discourage the ongoing trade the illicit substance. China is one of the world’s biggest markets for ivory from elephant tusks due to the material’s perceived value as a status symbol and the country’s growing middle class. Even though the Chinese government still has an undisclosed amount of ivory stored away, wildlife groups say the unprecedented move shows <a href="http://inhabitat.com/un-reveals-billion-dollar-price-tag-associated-with-environmental-crime/" style="color: #96a411; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">growing concern about the black market trade by authorities</a>.</div>
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-43545362540081559552014-01-07T10:45:00.001+00:002014-01-07T10:45:24.251+00:00London's famous black cabs are going to the Japanese?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Published on 6 Jan 2014 : Nissan's newly-redesigned taxi has been developed for London, in London, by Nissan Design Europe (NDE) in Paddington, the same design centre responsible for the Qashqai and Juke. The new taxi will be launched in December 2014 with a modern, clean, 1.6-litre petrol engine equipped with an automatic gearbox. Furthermore, Nissan will launch a zero emission electric version of the NV200 taxi in 2015.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-65200656768295055662014-01-07T10:40:00.000+00:002014-01-07T10:40:13.970+00:00London's famous black cabs are going green<div style="text-align: justify;">
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810930890085933944.post-84395284862681443392013-12-17T11:03:00.002+00:002013-12-17T11:04:32.941+00:00Renewable Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel<div style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Droid Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
Renewable energy is becoming more and more competitive. Alternative and <span class="b21f7co7l691" id="b21f7co7l691_1" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-width: 1px; color: #009900; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">renewable energy sources</span> are increasingly becoming more affordable. According to a new study published in the <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-013-0149-5/fulltext.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences</a>, it is now less costly in America to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels, than it is to get it from coal-fired power plants. The study shows, when climate change costs and other health impacts were factored in, that it is even more cost effective to convert an existing coal-fired power plant with a wind turbine, than it is to keep the old fossil fuel-burning plant.</div>
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Unsubsidized renewable energy is <a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/renewables-now-cheaper-than-coal-and-gas-in-australia-62268" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now cheaper than electricity from coal and</a> gas power stations in Australia as well. Wind farms in Australia can produce energy at AU$80/MWh. Meanwhile, <span class="b21f7co7l691" id="b21f7co7l691_3" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-width: 1px; color: #009900; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">coal plants</span> are producing energy at AU$143/MWh and gas at AU$116/MWh. And the myth <a href="http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/the-renewables-the-coal-and-the-gas-in-graphs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">that alternative energy sources were</a> enormously more costly than the typical fossil fuels, is proving to be untrue. And after initial investment costs are waged, making them now ameliorated, and the raw <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/australia-wind-energy-cheaper-than-coal-natural-gas-bnef-says.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">materials for solar and wind power</a> are free, besides costs of upkeep, and the harvesting of those sources doesn’t cause mayhem to the environment. Making it an ever-more appealing <span class="b21f7co7l691" id="b21f7co7l691_2" style="border-left-color: transparent; border-right-color: transparent; border-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-width: 1px; color: #009900; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">alternative energy source</span>.</div>
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“The perception that fossil fuels are cheap and renewables are expensive is now out of date… The fact that wind power is now cheaper than coal and gas in a <a href="http://www.carbontracker.org/news/australian-wind-energy-is-now-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">country with some of the world’s</a> best fossil fuel resources shows that clean energy is a game changer which promises to turn the economics of power systems on its head,” – Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.</div>
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“Burning coal is a very costly way to make electricity. There are more efficient and sustainable ways to get power,… We can reduce health and climate change costs while reducing the dangerous carbon pollution driving global warming.” – Dr. Laurie Johnson, chief economist in the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.</div>
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Since 1990, wind-generated power has grown 26 percent per year, and solar has risen 48 percent. In the United States, renewable energy accounted for 13.2 percent of the domestically produced electricity in 2012. <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate/2013/08" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">U.S. wind power</a> installed capacity now exceeds 60,000 MW and supplies 3% of the nations electricity. Not very inspiring figures. But the interest in finding new, cheaper, preferably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">renewable sources are inspiring innovation</a>. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/super-cheap-ultra-thin-solar-cells-could-threaten-161821405.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology</a> (NJIT) developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. Which can then essentially be slapped onto a wall, roof, or billboard, in order to create a power station for the homeowner. In an effort to create something more affordable, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070719011151.htm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Twin Creeks Technologies</a>, a US-based solar energy company, created an ultra-thin solar cell that will cost half as much to produce as comparable cells.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Perovskites</a> (a calcium titanium oxide mineral species composed of calcium titanate) have been known for over a century, but no one thought to try them in solar cells until recently. “While conventional silicon solar panels use materials that are about 180 micrometers thick, the new solar cells (using perovskites) use less than one micrometer of material to capture the same amount of sunlight.” New research on the combination, aims to reduce the cost or solar panels to between 10 and 20 cents per watt, current panels typically <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517811/a-material-that-could-make-solar-power-dirt-cheap/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); -webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #db030d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cost around 75 cents per watt</a>.</div>
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Renewable energy sources (such as Hydro and wind) are expected to be plentiful enough to supply the needs of humanity for almost a billion years. We do not have to worry about renewable energy sources being depleted. And they are cleaner sources of energy which have a lower environmental impact than conventional sources.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 12 Nov 2013 | Romania's Parliament debates whether to explore a massive new gold mine, in the Carpathian Mountains, which could contribute billions of dollars to the economy over 16 years, but opponents say might destroy the natural environment. Protests against it have rattled the governing coalition. Al Jazeera's John Psaropoulos reports from the Romanian village at the heart of the controversy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An analyst, however, fears more than 100,000 overseas Filipino workers could be arrested if they are found to be working with employers other than their original visa sponsors.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lito Soriano, a migration and recruitment consultant, said the Saudi government is bent on weeding out undocumented OFWs and other expatriates because of the so-called “Saudization.”<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Citing a Commission on Overseas Filipinos data, Soriano said there are around 108,000 irregular or undocumented Filipinos in Saudi Arabia as of December 2012.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Saudi king has yet to respond to a letter of Vice President Jejomar Binay seeking another extension of the four-month grace period given in July. The amnesty period, which allows foreign nationals to correct their statuses or return to their home countries, lapses on November 3.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Soriano said the Ministry of Labor there has already ruled out an extension. Countrywide raids are expected on November 4, he said.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The inspection of commercial premises will begin on Monday as planned. Various arms of the ministry are ready for the inspections. The government agencies, however, will not arrest those holding relevant documents and waiting to legalize their status or be repatriated,” he said.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an interview on radio dzRB, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. assured the OFWs and their families that the government is already doing what it can to help in repatriation proceedings.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He said a total of 9,000 have been given travel documents, while some 1,500 are still waiting for their clearances from the immigration office.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to Coloma, around 4,371 OFWs have already returned home ever since the new immigration law has been implemented.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We will be giving them all the legal, financial and other necessary assistance,” Coloma said, adding that a P2-billion reintegration fund under the Department of Labor and Employment is readily available for the Filipinos.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Otherwise, the effect of the Saudization will be minimal since some of the Filipinos have already found other jobs, he said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/03/13/100000-ofws-saudi-face-jail-deportation" target="_blank">source</a> ...<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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