Thousands of Red Shirt supporters rallied at a concert in the Thailand seaside resort city of Pattaya on September 4, in what was one the biggest mobilisations since the military bloodily dispersed their mass protest camp in Bangkok on May 19, 2010, killing 91 and injuring thousands more.
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A huge transformation of agriculture is taking place in Venezuela, a transformation that has lessons for every other country in the world. I had the opportunity in July to visit the country and see the changes that are taking place first hand.
Venezuela鈥檚 Law of the Land and Agrarian Development, the Law of Food Sovereignty and Security, and the Law of Integrated Agricultural Health set out the agenda.
鈥淎 federal judge has blocked the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, ruling that the support violates a federal law barring the use of taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos 鈥
鈥淭he ruling stunned scientists and other advocates of the research, which has been hailed as one of the most important advances in medicine in decades because of its potential to cure many diseases 鈥
鈥淎n inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a corruption finding against a NSW Maritime lawyer and, to top it off, the resignation of a cabinet minister who admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer.
鈥淓ven by the standards of the eternally scandal-ridden Labor government, yesterday was a bad day for public administration in NSW.
The Obama administration seems to believe that the president has the authority to order the assassination of anyone, including US citizens, if they meet certain as-yet-undisclosed criteria.
One US citizen, accused terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, has been widely reported to be on a US government 鈥渒ill list鈥 鈥 making him just one of several US citizens the government is reportedly trying to kill without charge or trial.
NSW Christian Democrat Senator and right-wing Christian fundamentalist Fred Nile, who has built a career as a 鈥渕oral crusader鈥, was caught in a NSW parliamentary audit that revealed his parliamentary computer had been used to access pornographic sites.
The September 2 Daily Telegraph said: 鈥淎n audit of parliamentary computers conducted two months ago identified the Christian Democrat MP as one of the biggest viewers of adult content 鈥 up to 200,000 suspect hits have been recorded under Mr Nile's log-on, sources said.鈥
鈥淭he Iowa egg producer that federal officials say is at the center of a
salmonella outbreak and recalls of more than a half-billion eggs has
repeatedly paid fines and settled complaints over health and safety
violations and allegations ranging from maintaining a 鈥榮exually hostile鈥
work environment to abusing the hens that lay the eggs.
鈥淚n the past 20 years, according to the public record, the DeCoster
family operation, one of the 10 largest egg producers in the country,
has withstood a string of reprimands, penalties and complaints about its
performance in several states 鈥
Good and evil is back in vogue with the US far right.
Former president George W. Bush and the Republican Party attacked opponents of his invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan as aiding the 鈥渆vil doers鈥. And such evil should be tackled by whatever means necessary, no matter what the US constitution or international law says.
This tactic sent the many liberals and Democratic Party politicians running to the corners and lining up behind the war mongers.
The world of international cricket has been rocked by allegations of a betting scandal involving players in Pakistan鈥檚 national cricket team. British tabloid News of the World published allegations that Pakistan players had bowled 鈥渘o-balls鈥 at an exact moment in the game in return for money from bookmakers. The scandal has also raised speculation of Pakistan players being involved in match-fixing on behalf of bookmakers. Three Pakistani players have been suspended from international cricket and charged by the International Cricket Council over their alleged role in the scandal.
A series of problems and challenges are facing the Bolivian government of President Evo Morales, the country鈥檚 first indigenous head of state, and the process of change it leads has emerged. There has been a range of commentary on these challenges. 91自拍论坛 Weekly publishes these two pieces as part of our ongoing coverage of the Latin American revolution. The article below is by Eduardo Paz Rada, editor of Bolivian-based magazine Patria Grande. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes.
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I have been a fan of many sports for a very long time. I have especially followed the game of cricket for more than 50 years and I have to confess to having spent more time watching, listening and reading about it than almost any other topic.
Many analysts have rushed to give their opinions regarding the 鈥渃risis of the MAS鈥 and its consequences.
Yet, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS 鈥 the party of President Evo Morales) has always been in crisis 鈥 if by crisis we mean internal disputes for power and the existence of personal interests.
Despite this permanent 鈥渃risis鈥, the MAS was able to cohere the majority of plebeian sectors through a kind of corporative alliance.
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