鈥淭here鈥檚 no reason why technologically we can鈥檛 employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way,鈥 United States President Barack Obama told a group gathered at a town meeting in New Orleans in October 2009.
鈥淛apan does it and France does it, and it doesn't have greenhouse gas emissions, so it would be stupid for us not to do that in a much more effective way鈥
You might think after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that Obama would have a reason to back off his support of nuclear energy as a new 鈥渃lean鈥 energy alternative.
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Cote D鈥橧voire (Ivory Coast) has been caught up in an increasingly violent conflict after the West African nation鈥檚 November 28 elections ended with the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his main opponent Alassane Ouattara both claiming victory.
Ivory Coast is wracked by an armed conflict between the Ivory Coast army and rebel forces allied to Ouattara. Both sides have been accused of human rights abuses.
Michael Arnold was born in country Victoria. He became politically active in Perth when he was 15. This was when he joined the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party. When he was in his twenties, Arnold became active in the Harm Reduction Movement. He set up Rave Safe in Melbourne in the 1990s and produced a magazine called Flying Frequencies for the Harm Reduction Movement. Arnold was also active in community radio, producing a program for Harm Reduction on 3CR Community Radio, and being a DJ on PBS.
More than 1000 Philippine Airlines (PAL) ground staff from the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) staged a torch-lit rally on April 1 between terminals at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The protest was supported by several big labour federations. The union representing flight attendants has also pledged solidarity with PALEA.
When police blocked the march, workers blocked a major road for several hours. This disrupted access to the airport and lead to flights being cancelled or delayed.
The Moro people of the Philippines鈥 southern Mindanao Islands have never considered themselves Filipinos.
The Spanish colonisers never succeeded in subjugating the Moro sultanates. However, when Spain ceded the Philippines to the US in 1898, the Moro homeland, Bangsamoro, was included.
In the ensuing war, which lasted until 1913, 20,000 Moros 鈥 fighters and civilians 鈥 were killed.
Locals from Lake Tyers, a small Aboriginal community in East Gippsland, set up a roadblock leading into their township on March 8.
The action was to protest against a Victorian government-imposed administrator and call for a return to democracy in their community.
The only exceptions allowed through the blockade were health service employees and school buses.
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In the excellent film Milk Sean Penn, as gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk, said: 鈥淭wo to one, they support us, two to one when they know one of us.鈥
The ethicist Peter Singer has noted that while most people would have no qualms about ruining an expensive pair of shoes wading into a lake to save a drowning child, most people don鈥檛 donate the value of their shoes to save the life of a child in another country.
This was inspired by the 鈥淐ollateral Murder鈥 video released in April 2010 by WikiLeaks.
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1. Oh, come all you American teenagers
Put away your video games
And get some real shoot em-up-action
Wasting folks with weird-sounding names
Now how would you like to bear true faith
By joining an Apache crew
In trouble spots around the world
There鈥檚 killing work to do
Light them up
Keep shooting
Look at all
Those dead bastards
2. Well, there鈥檚 so many features to tell you about
Like the Boeing M230 chain gun
With that Arab-slaying motherfucker
Despite crisis levels of overcrowding, many urban Aboriginal communities have been denied federal funding for new housing. On March 18, ABC online said town camps around Darwin were not allocated any of the $1.5 billion in upgrades planned for Aboriginal communities.
Activists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre (HVEC) and Still Wild Still Threatened returned to the Picton Valley on April 7 to launch a 10-week campaign to protest the logging of Tasmania鈥檚 old growth forests.
Police broke up a similar protest in the Picton Valley on February 18, in which two HVEC protesters were arrested.
HVEC鈥檚 Jenny Weber said on April 7 that the groups鈥 campaign is 鈥渁imed at promoting the benefits to both the community and the environment that will be delivered when native forests are given full and formal legislated protection.
The disgusting and heartbreaking photos are finally bringing the grisly truth about the war in Afghanistan to a wider public.
All the PR about this war being about democracy and human rights melts into thin air with these pictures of US soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of innocent Afghan civilians.
I must report that Afghans do not believe this be a story of a few rogue soldiers. We that is part and parcel of the entire military occupation.
ITEC Employment and its related entity Community Enterprises Australia (CEA) are preparing a submission to the federal government that will argue 鈥渢he pendulum has swung too far in favour of the jobseeker鈥, in relation to changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) on Aboriginal communities, The Australian said on April 2.
CEA is the largest CDEP provider in Australia.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the pendulum swinging 鈥渢oo far in favour of the jobseeker鈥 meant, perhaps, that people were finding work.
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