• UK, California and New York Destroy Traffic Cameras Over the course of a month, nearly one-fifth of New York City's red light camera system were taken out of service by a man and a woman who allegedly used a cherry-picker to snatch the cameras out of...
• Copyright laws threaten our online freedom If you search for Elvis Presley in Wikipedia, you will find a lot of text and a few pictures that have been cleared for distribution. But you will find no music and no film clips, due to copyright...
• G8 convenes in Italy amid dire economic forecast: The worst of the crisis in political terms is still to come (Press TV) -- Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations have gathered in Italy to evaluate the global economic downturn, whose "worst" political and social effects are yet to come....
• Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder Related: Swine Flu Update -- Shutting down the economy (The link between Peak Oil, biowarfare and demand destruction)Burgermeister's dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an...
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• Racial Discrimination at the World Bank On the morning of May 27th this year, the staff of the Legal Affairs Office of the World Bank encountered an ugly racial slur scrawled on the wall outside their department. Very shortly, however, the...
• Number of people driven from homes by conflict at all-time high The number of people internally displaced within their own countries has reached a historical high of more than 28 million, the UN's refugee agency said today, as conflicts in Pakistan's Swat valley...
• WHO Set to Announce Pandemic over Australia Swine Flu Boom (Novinite) -- The World Health Organization has said that a sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce a flu pandemic.
It would be the first such pandemic...
• Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims More than half of those questioned in a global poll said corruption exists in the private sector, an increase from five years ago and a signal that the financial crisis has dimmed the public’s...
• World Bank warns of looming 'social crisis' Related link (Press TV) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns that the worsening global economic meltdown and rising unemployment could lead to a 'social crisis'. "If we don't take measures...
• Swine flu to hit world's poor harder: WHO Comment: How many poor people are there in the world? 5 billion! (those who live on less than $10 a day) Related: Swine Flu Update -- Shutting down the economy (The link between Peak...
• World economy in freefall (WSWS) -- Governments of the world's major economies announced staggering first-quarter contractions in the past few days, as real indicators of the economic crisis continue to worsen.
Mexico was...
• Decline in World Remittances Expected This Year (VOAnews.com) -- Immigrants and migrant workers around the world send money to their countries of origin to help support their families. For many countries, remittances are an important source of...
• UK Embassies on alert amid fear of rising social unrest David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has activated an early warning system to monitor economies at risk of suffering political and social unrest triggered by the global credit crisis, The Times has...
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