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Prattle on Seattle
peaceful civil disobedience. CNN anchor Lou Waters asked Huserik (30/11/99) why the chemical irritant was ... used: "Waters: How would you characterise the nature of the threat today? Were police assaulted? Is ... good luck to you out there", CNN anchor Lou Waters told a Seattle police spokesperson (1/12/99) as ...
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East Timor people's 'indefatigable spirit'
housing, at night the market becomes a tarpaulin-covered ghetto — without sewerage, water, or electricity ... water, and electricity has not been restored in many parts of the country. A UN Security Council report ... seed, I saw no evidence of housing reconstruction, the construction of proper water or sewerage systems. ...
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Nepali communists plan defeat for Congress
services and drinking water for future price rises. The Congress government has close links with organised ... water and that he would "try to reduce" the prices of the other items. The CPN-UML's ... health posts and clean drinking water facilities. Trade unions (the CPN-UML leads the largest trade union ...
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The cars that ate Sydney
and liberty of those vehicles in television advertisements. Pity the work water fountain — that fly on ... B faster — because current methods (as the water fountain would agree) just aren't working. Transport ... media. No longer is it enough to moan around the water fountain — our city's future depends on us ...
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A sin against humanity
fees for public health services by five times the existing rate. Municipal water had to be privatised, ... preventable diseases. They need more than promises. Promises do not provide food security, or clean water ... die from drinking unsafe water, children who work in the fields rather than go to school because their ...
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ITALY: Genoa briefly liberated, before cops start killing
in the fence, and police responded with tear gas and water cannon, dispersing the protest. Protesters ... collective", the woman, Eva, said. Other tasks were divided up: a medical team, a team to dish out water to ... screamed and whistled. Some of the Genovese gave out water to the protesters, many hung out of windows ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
swept out into deep water; but they could be swept into an area of unregulated power ski use. The ... Katherine river which provides the water supply for the town of Katherine and feeds into the Daly river, the ... only major river with a dry season base flow in the NT. Possible effects are: contamination of water ...
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Uranium: keep it in the ground!
the greatest long-term threat, while leaks, spills and ground water problems are short-term concerns. ... Regulated releases of about 2 million cubic metres of contaminated water from Ranger each wet season carry ... season, radioactive wastes become increasingly concentrated in plants, water and animals. The new mine at ...
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Another pesticide surprise
because frogs develop from eggs that thrive in water. The artificial stocking of streams with trout and ... Canada. S-methoprene was introduced in the 1970s to control mosquitoes, which breed in water. It is also ... [4.5 kilograms] pet one time contains enough S-methoprene to contaminate 110,000 litres of water to ...
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Wye Agreement sharpens contradictions
aquifers in the West Bank; thus Palestinians rely on the discretion of Israel for their water supply. The ... buy water from mobile Israeli water trucks when their supply ran out. Israel also controls all of the ...
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No blood for oil!
— including water treatment plants, sewage systems, hospitals, food processing and pharmaceutical plants, most ... prevented Iraq importing medicines, chlorine for water purification, fertilisers and pesticides for ... agriculture and spare parts for water and sewage plants. The result has been deadly epidemics, malnutrition ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
laws". A draconian law was enacted in NSW in 1989. A Council cannot cease Fluoridation of its own water ... breaking a questionable law. Sodium Fluoride is added to NSW Council's water supplies solely as ... a medication unlike Chlorine which is added to treat the water. Australia is a signatory to the International ...
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How chemical industry plans to defend chlorine
recognised two exceptions: the pharmaceutical industry and disinfection of public water supplies. But all ... feedstock be phased out. The IJC was created by treaty in 1909 with responsibility for water quality in the ... Great Lakes. The IJC began studying Great Lakes water pollution seriously in 1972. Twenty years later, ...
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Land rights and solidarity needed to defeat racist attacks
today? Why is the spending on infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water and council services ... water is full of minerals which cause kidney stones. Contrast this with the government's more than ... electricity, water, health care and accommodation are laid on. While workers are exploited, their worst working ...
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The next Chernobyl?
immune to water encroachment from high rainfall. Water intrusion leads to off-site contamination, and the ... water power and wind power, the decision to go nuclear makes little economic sense. Indonesia has ...
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How the Native Title Act fails
water conservation, Kim Yeadon. Yeadon's office, however, denies having received any instructions. ... February 1995. David Towney was surprised to find that his opponent was the minister for land and water ... hearing early next year. Chris Searle, legal officer at the Department of Land and Water Conservation, ...
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Antibiotics, big business and super germs
lack of good nutrition, clean water and sewage treatment. During the 1960s, Shigella dysenteriae became ... 35,000 residents in New York City had to switch to boiled water when E. coli 0157:H7 made its way into ... the water supply. Epidemiologist Mark Lappe warned in 1980: "We have organisms now proliferating ...
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'Kakadu belongs to all of us! Stop Jabiluka!
can reverse the damage to our water systems and our food sources. Our culture cannot be replaced by ... which already has water and long-term tailings disposal problems. The extra 20 million tonnes of ... tailings from Jabiluka may overwhelm the water and tailings management regime in Kakadu. It is claimed that ...
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core government services: (a) public education (b) electricity (c) public hospitals (d) water. The sale ... a profit when you boil a jug? Or when a child drinks water? Or when a pensioner keeps warm? If they ... and water will have little trouble passing the Lower House. It is not known where Reverend Nile MLC ...
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Election manifesto of the ANC
next ten years, building roads and providing water, electricity, schools, clinics, housing and meeting ... alongside land reform. We will focus on provision of water, clinics, schools, toilet facilities, ... years, the new government can: build one million homes; provide running water and flush toilets to over ...
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SACP: RDP must be defended
example, he pointed to the Water Affairs Department which has no funds for the development of the rural ... water supply. This area was previously handled by the Development Bank of South Africa. In his speech ... marking the government's first 100 days, President Mandela announced that rural water infrastructure ...
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Building a bridge in Bosnia
Defence Council (HVO) bombarded the Muslim old town. Even the water and sewerage systems were blown to ... smithereens. Mosques were targeted and minarets holed or razed. The bridges carrying water, electricity and ... their cellars during the day to collect food or water from the springs along the river bed. Fifty-seven ...
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Interview: the crisis in Aboriginal health
point having a team of doctors but no constant water supply. And vice-versa: you can have all the water ... a simplistic view around that if you repair the roads and the airstrip and have water and everything, ...
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Indonesia: discontent simmers beneath the fear
taking: oil, natural gas, coal, gold, timber, water resources and low-paid workers. If just 5% of the ... Jakarta. Around 100 people live in makeshift housing, drawing their water supply from the river, a sewer ... polluted blue by a textile plant. Their "well" is a hole dug down to the level of the waste water ...
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Condemning Iraqis to a slow death
is a great urgency from this point of view. Douceline Bonvalet: The primary problem is water. This ... a country where water is scarce and people find themselves obliged to drink polluted water, with a risk of ...