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1. South Africa's upside-down world

   the delivery of electricity, water and housing. But we are told nothing about the affordability of ... ruled that access to the most basic need of life — water — should be determined by ability to pay, was ...

2. Corporate vultures circle occupied Haiti

   Belgium, but I never saw anyone distributing water, food or shelter." The January 26 Haiti Liberte ... reported that the US has established a huge Naval presence in Haitians waters aimed at preventing ...

3. Afghanistan's secret jails

   They then pushed him to the ground, held his mouth open and forced 12 bottles worth of water down his ... throat. He passed out, and after he was roused, vomited water uncontrollably. This continued for a number ...

4. Community struggle for Sandon Point continues

   together to form a giant floodplain wetland, which absorbs the water and its high-flow energy, to release ... protect water quality and wildlife, biological experts say that any development should be at least 40 ...

5. Good news stories from the desert country

   wailing that he was lost in the desert and needed "beer, water, food and rugs. Especially beer." ... only got water through the charity of people at Ippenarra station. We were paying up to $10,000 and we ...

6. John Pilger: Have a nice war, folks

   predicted in impressive detail how a blockade would systematically destroy Iraq's clean water system ... eliminating clean water for the Iraqi population: one of the causes, noted Unicef, of the deaths of half ...

7. West Papua: Land grab to displace locals

   land areas. "The decrease in forest and water catchment areas could result in a faster intrusion ... of sea water to the land." A huge workforce would be needed for the food estate project. The ...

8. Bolivia’s world climate summit a breakthrough

   extinctions, severe water shortages and rising sea levels. A 2°C target is the official goal of countries ... water, earth, the human genome, ancestral cultures, biodiversity, justice, ethics, the rights of peoples, ...

9. People’s climate summit challenges Copenhagen, Cancun

   climate change. It is facing water shortages as its glaciers disappear. Neighbouring Peru has suffered ... nations). Bolivia does not even have safe, drinkable tap water yet. If Australia ended coal and gas exports, ...

10. Puerto Rico: Student strike faces attack

    bringing food and water, was beaten and then arrested. Joss Perez, a disabled graduate student was badly ... expect water and electricity on campus to be cut off by 1pm. We exhort all students, professors, workers ...

11. Socialist Alliance: Break ties with Israel!

    world have condemned the criminal actions of Somali pirates in international waters off the horn of ... has engaged in an act of piracy in international waters against unarmed peace activists bringing ...

12. Loewenstein: Boycott, divest from and sanction Israel

    international waters, would somehow not provoke some kind of response. “The argument has been made that the ... The truth is that Israel was invading a sovereign entity on international waters and people had ...

13. Natural gas and the climate movement

    emissions by 12% annually, as well as freeing up 27 billion litres of water for other uses.” Two possible ... “back-up/booster for solar hot water, solar thermal power and wind power”. He said: “The highest priority must be ...

14. Tar sands — a toxic nightmare

    barrels of bitumen (extra heavy oil) a day. The tar sands are mixtures of soil, water and bitumen, and ... quantities of water and require so much electricity that one tar sand mine has considered building a nuclear ...

15. John Pilger: The black art of news management

    murderous game since 1948. The massacre of peace activists in international waters on May 31 was “spun” to ... said, “No North Korean warships have been detected [in] the waters where the accident took place.” The ...

16. �鶹��ý Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: There's good news and bad news

    polluting for profit. We see the same story with water conservation. Over the last few years households have ... dramatically cut their water usage, but government and big business go on acting like it is not a scarce ...

17. Proud to be on Palestine's side

    Israeli blockade has led to severe water supply shortages. Forty percent of Gazans only have access to ... water three times a week. The near destruction of the electricity supply and sewerage system in Gaza are ...

18. Students take action for sustainability

    Australia. The mine already uses 35 million litres of water a day drawn from the Great Artesian Basin. ... dangers of uranium mining. It affects our water, our animals, our food chain and our precious medicines ...

19. Climate change: nuclear no answer

    power plants are also very water-intensive. Expansion of nuclear power would divert ever-scarcer water ...

20. Time to take a stand for refugees

    place in international waters as the boat headed towards Australia. The message said the Indonesian ... Viking, moored in Indonesian waters still dominated the headlines. Twenty-two of the refugees went ashore ...

21. DIMA forced fatal return of refugees

    of the Tampa into Australian waters [in August 2001]. His father and uncle had been members of the ... denied clean drinking water. Amin believes that DIMA and the detention centre management colluded to ...

22. SRI LANKA: Army massacres Tamil orphans

    including providing access to water. Fifteen of the bodies were found, mostly face down, in their office in ... while people are living under the trees, without enough water, shelter and medicine." According to ...

23. UNITED STATES: Venezuela and energy stability

    assisting 300 people, 120 specialists in search and rescue operations, 10 water purifying plants, 18 ... electricity generators, 20 tonnes of bottled water, and 50 tonnes of canned food to Louisiana Governor ...

24. VENEZUELA: Paper factory under workers' control

    production of electricity and water. Water used in the plant's hydraulic systems is recycled and ...

25. VENEZUELA: Chavez to help poor in South and North America

    hospital units, each capable of assisting 150 people, 120 specialists in rescue operations, 10 water ... purifying plants, 18 electricity generators of 850 kilowatt each, 20 tonnes of bottled water, and 50 tonnes ...

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