Thirty-nine months after multiple explosions at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times the normal rate.
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Ecuador accused US scientists on June 16 of taking thousands of unauthorised blood samples from indigenous Huaorani and selling them.
The Huaorani are known for a unique genetic profile and disease immunity and the samples are believed to have been sold by the Coriell Institute for Medical Research to Harvard University Medical School.
Ecuador鈥檚 constitution bans the use of genetic material and scientific research in violation of human rights.
鈥淲e seek a New Republic with equality and social justice at its core,鈥 Sinn Fein President and member of the Dail (Irish parliament) in his June 15 address at the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown, County Kildare.
The address came less than a month after republican party Sinn Fein caused shockwaves in European and local elections by becoming the largest party across all Ireland.
Left forces from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus held a two-day anti-war conference near Minsk on June 7 and 8. The conference was organised by participants of internet project 鈥淧rasvet鈥 with the support of the Belarus web journal Left.
The aim of the conference was to help coordinate the internationalist, Marxist left forces of three countries under circumstances of military-nationalist hysteria and the outburst of violence and repression in Ukraine.
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba鈥檚 Place in the Global Health Landscape
By Robert Huish
Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
By David Kilcullen
Scribe, 2013
342 pp, $32.95
It is interesting that Robert Huish and David Kilcullen inhabit the same world, because their books indicate that they view the planet differently, like black and white or perhaps like life and death.
At the G77 plus China Summit held in Bolivia that ended on June 15, several Latin American presidents gave public backing to Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. They called for regional unity against an bid for 鈥渃onservative restoration鈥 under way in the South American country.
The summit, held in Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, brought together 133 countries, about two-thirds of the member states of the United Nations.
鈥淔IFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Argentinian Football Association,鈥 on June 14, after Argentinian players displayed a banner before a June 8 friendly against Slovenia insisting the Malvinas (known as the Falkland Islands in Britain) belonged to Argentina.
Dr Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), has been arrested and jailed several times for holding demonstrations and for making public speeches critical of Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) government.
When I was travelling from Manila to Australia, I bought a copy of a book to read on the plane. It was Dan Brown鈥檚 novel Inferno. Actually, when this book first hit the bookshops, the Philippines went crazy about a small part of the novel that referred to Manila as the 鈥済ate of hell鈥.
Activists from across Venezuela met this month to form the National Communard Council, which aims to coordinate the country鈥檚 commune movement and present its demands to the national government.
The council was formed in the western state of Lara during a three-day meeting of about 2000 communards (commune members) from around the country. Most represented a particular commune.
The meeting was the fifth national gathering of the independent National Communard Network since the organisation was founded in 2009.
Much of the public debate on the Senate 鈥渂locking supply鈥 suggests that it is an all or nothing tactic. However this is not the case. The Senate can carefully cherry-pick the elements in the budget that it demands be amended and force the Abbott government to either accept those amendments or see its budget fail.
This is a short explanation of the Senate鈥檚 powers and its ability to force a budget debate on its terms with the government-dominated House of Representatives.
THE BILLS
The Federal budget contains two main pieces of legislation:
Prime minister Tony Abbott chalked up his first budget win on June 17 when the 2% 鈥渓evy鈥 on high income earners passed both houses of parliament. The next day, the Greens trumpeted the emergence of a double dissolution 鈥渢rigger鈥 when the Senate rejected the bill to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
It is no coincidence that Abbott wanted the temporary tax on high-income earners to be the first budget measure passed. He wants people to believe his lie that 鈥渢he burden鈥 of this budget is 鈥渟hared鈥 by all 91自拍论坛 of the community.
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