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The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. It could only be understood by a parent whose child was dying under giant slabs of concrete where nothing could be done. ...
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Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales
Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, the scientific study e-mailed by the World Bank shows today. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Nov. 19, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The globe risks “cataclysmic chang...
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The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" While the post-hurricane environment throughout the N.Y./N.J. area once again debunked the myth of “disaster = chaos,” it also created a window of opportunity for the 99%...
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Occupy Freedom and Vigilance (post-Sandy) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 6, 2012 “Free speech? Try it and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you.” - Howard Zinn I was standing with two of my fellow Occupiers at an anti-police brutality event this past September, when an elderly man approached us. “You know,” he said with a smirk, “if you did this in another country...
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When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President? | Jeffrey Goldberg
Illustration by Ted McGrath Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- And so we are finally here, and not a moment too soon. Every insult has been hurled, every fact misrepresented; positions have been shifted and ventilated and dissected and caricatured. We know, more or less (less, in the case of one candidate) where the next president will come down on critical issues such as health care, taxation, deficit...
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Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Chilling Rain | Brian K. Sullivan
A damaged boat sits outside a destroyed mobile home in the Paradise Park trailer park in Highlands, New Jersey, on Nov. 3, 2012. Photograph: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A nor’easter may bring gusty winds, heavy rain and even snow this week across much of the U.S. East Coast that was hit by Hurricane Sandylast week. Winds of 45 to 55 miles (72 to 89 kilometers) per hour a...
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The Tides of Event | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2012 Mitt Romney's sickening insincerity was on full view Sunday night as CNN served up both candidates complete finish-line pitches to the Ohio crowds thought to hold the fate of the election in their fickle sway. Romney has consistently proved one thing over the whole, long, nauseating course of his campaign: that he will say anything to ...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Fall to 2.5 Million With New Jersey Worst Off | Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
Nov. 4, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Utility crews working around the clock restored power to more than a million homes and businesses yesterday, with New Jersey making up more than half of the 2.5 million still without electricity. By the fifth day after Hurricane Sandy struck, power companies had brought back the lights to 70 percent of the 8.5 million customers who lost it in the storm’s destructive pa...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Nov. 3, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the pati...
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Occupy Wall Street Leading Massive, Volunteer-Powered Recovery Efforts in New York | The Troubadour
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Nov. 2, 2012 (Daily Kos) -- They are thousands-strong and growing: entering devastated neighborhoods yet to see outside help from established aid organizations. They are staffing donation drop off sites, running mobile food kitchens and delivering hot meals. They are distributing food and supplies to the stranded, locating trapped seniors, and aiding clean-up efforts. In...
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The Tribes of New York: Back to the future? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 31, 2012 “I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive -- nor will we deserve to.” - Leonard Peltier As the eff...
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