Oppression

Deposing despots doesn’t eliminate corruption

February 6, 2013

Source:AP/ToI An international monitoring group on Wednesday warned that excessive secrecy in Mideast security agencies leaves countries like Egypt, Libya and Tunisia open to corruption even after the overthrow of authoritarian regimes. Continued secrecy and lack of civilian oversight in defense ministries and armed forces in the Middle East and North Africa expose them to [...]

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Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe

June 29, 2012

BELGRADE, Serbia —Pavle Mircov and his partner, Daniella, nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation: a buyer willing to pay nearly $40,000 for one of their kidneys. The couple, the parents of two teenagers, put their organs up for sale on a local online classified site six months ago after [...]

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Thousands remain in secret Libya prisons: UN

May 11, 2012

Phantom Report Notes; United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973-demands the immediate establishment of a ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against, and abuses of, civilians. About 4 000 people are still being held in militia detention centers in Libya, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said [...]

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Bomb blast hits Greek government ministry responsible for axeing 150,000 jobs

April 9, 2012

A bomb exploded outside a Greek ministry responsible for axing 150,000 public sector jobs last night – apparently in protest at government spending cuts. Windows were smashed and desks were damaged in the blast outside the Public Sector Reform Ministry in Athens. The department are axeing 150,000 government posts by 2015 in an austerity drive. [...]

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Greece’s rise in the suicide rate

April 5, 2012

Dimitris Christoulas, the 77-year-old retired pharmacist who shot himself on Syntagma Square in Athens because, as he said in the note he left behind, he would rather die than scavenge in rubbish bins for his food, is not the first and will most certainly not be the last Greek to take his own life during [...]

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Faces beyond the numbers of long-term unemployed

February 11, 2012

Long term unemployment is rising. The government/corporate propaganda machine constantly promoting economy recovery is on the horizon. If you truly believe the propaganda machine [lies], you are not as informed as you should be and you need to looked behind the curtain. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will [...]

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Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials

February 10, 2012

Oppression eventually leads to a state of war Source: Reuters Greece’s largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country’s European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures. In a letter obtained by Reuters Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of [...]

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Greece cuts 15,000 public sector jobs

February 6, 2012

Greece government [controlled and influenced by the elite] has sold it’s sovereignty to corporations and bankers without the approval of the Greek populous. GREECE has agreed to lay off 15,000 public sector workers by the end of 2012, a government minister said overnight, as international pressure mounts on Athens to agree on austerity measures [...]

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Romanian government collapses amid public outrage over austerity

February 6, 2012

It is just a matter of time before the U.S. government cuts back on debt and spending by implementing austerity onto the backs of the American taxpayer. End result = protest in the streets Source: LA Times/AP The Romanian government collapsed Monday after weeks of protests over biting cuts meant to keep outside funding [...]

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Germany wants Greece to give up its sovereignty to European Banksters

January 28, 2012

UPDATE: Greeks reject German plan for EU budget commissioner Lucas Papademos, PM of Greece is a technocrat [technical term for banker] . Lucas Papademos will do as he is told. FYI: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————– The people of Greece have lost their independence as a sovereign nation. The people will [...]

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Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour

January 15, 2012

>> Source: Business Insider The Chinese city of Shenzhen is where most of our “crap” is made. 30 years ago, Shenzhen was a little village on a river. Now it’s a city of 13 million people–bigger than New York. Foxconn, one of the companies that builds iPhones and iPads (and products for many other electronics [...]

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Fears of oil shutdown as Nigerian strike continues

January 14, 2012

Nigeria’s government and labour unions have failed to end a paralysing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to US oil supplies. Nigeria Labour Congress president Abdulwaheed Omar told journalists outside the presidential palace: “We have not reached a compromise.” He avoided answering direct questions about [...]

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Police seize biggest Rio slum as World Cup clean-up begins

November 14, 2011

A heavily armed, 3,000-strong security force backed by helicopters took control of Rio’s largest slum in a major operation to expel drug traffickers and prove Brazil can be a peaceful venue for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Elite police and Navy commandos encountered little resistance as 18 armoured vehicles boasting grenade launchers and [...]

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400,000 children will fall into relative poverty by 2015

October 11, 2011

The government shakeup of the tax and benefits system will result in a further 400,000 children falling into relative poverty during this parliament, leaving Britain on course to miss legally binding targets to reduce child poverty by 2020, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In a bleak assessment of changes in the government’s new [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Police ‘open fire’ on protesters

October 5, 2011

Douglas: United Nations? NATO? U.S.? EU? Exiled Saudi dissidents said police had sealed off the village of Awwamiya after using live fire to disperse Shia protesters on Monday night. They claimed 20 people had been wounded in the worst violence in Saudi Arabia’s ast, home to much of the Sunni kingdom’s Shia minority, for years. [...]

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