June 2013

Portuguese wage major strike against austerity measures

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Presstv.ir, 06/27/2013

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Public service workers in Portugal have engaged in a general strike to protest government austerity measures that have led to the nation’s worst economic slump since the 1970’s. The Thursday protest effort, which was called by Portuguese trade unions, began peacefully although it brought the nation’s public transport system to a halt, prompting anger and despair among those who decided to go to work but still blamed government policies for record unemployment levels.

 

Previous protest efforts and strikes against the harsh terms of Portugal's 78 billion euro ($100 billion) bailout by the European Union and IMF in 2011 have mostly been non-violent, unlike the protest events in Greece and more recently in Brazil and Turkey.

 

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'World order unjust and immoral!' Ecuador’s Correa rips into Snowden coverage

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By: Rt.com , 06/27/2013

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.(Reuters / Ricardo Rojas)

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa came up with scalding online remarks over criticism his country faced from the US press for potentially granting asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “They’ve managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the ‘wicked’ countries that ‘support’ him, making us forget the terrible things against the US people and the whole world that he denounced,” Correa said Wednesday in response to a Tuesday Washington Post editorial. “The world order isn’t only unjust, it’s immoral,” Correa added.

 

The US newspaper accused Correa of adhering to double standards in the NSA leaker case, as Ecuador is considering harboring Snowden from prosecution over US espionage charges. It descried the Ecuadoran president as “the autocratic leader of a tiny, impoverished” country with an ambition to replace the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as “the hemisphere’s preeminent anti-US demagogue”.

 

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Nelson Mandela much better today - Jacob Zuma

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bbc.co.uk, By: Meenal Vamburker, 06/25/2013

South African President Jacob Zuma says that Nelson Mandela's condition has improved, but still remains critical. "He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night," Mr Zuma said after speaking to the 94-year-old's medical team.

 

South Africa's first black president - an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle - has been in hospital in Pretoria since 8 June with a lung infection. Mr Zuma cancelled a visit to Mozambique to visit Mr Mandela in hospital. Meanwhile Mr Mandela's daughter Makaziwe said he was "still there" and responding to touch.

 

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Glenn Greenwald Teases More NSA Info: ‘Majority’ Of ‘Significant’ Revelations ‘Have Yet To Be Made’

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Mediaite.com, By: Meenal Vamburker, 06/25/2013

Glenn Greenwald has been the subject of both praise and criticism since the NSA surveillance story took center stage in the news cycle. And he’s not done yet. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Greenwald teased future revelations, saying the most significant ones are still to come. “The majority of revelations that are significant have yet to be made,” Greenwald told the paper.

 

Asked to elaborate, Greenwald told POLITICO he could not provide any details before the reporting was ready. As for leaker Edward Snowden, who has been the one behind the information, Greenwald said he last spoke to him when Snowden was in Hong Kong — but he is working on stories based on documents leaked by Snowden.

 

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Thanks, But No: Social Media Refuses To Share With Turkey

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NPR.org, By: Peter Kenyon, 06/26/2013

 

An anti-government protester wearing a gas mask uses a cellphone to read the news on social media as demonstrators gather at midnight in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park on June 13.

Turkey's battle with the Internet took a new twist on Wednesday. A Turkish government minister said Twitter has refused to cooperate with the government, but that Facebook had responded "positively" and was "in cooperation with the state."

 

Turkish Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Binali Yilderim, quoted in Turkish media, did not elaborate on what this cooperation entails. But Turkish officials have complained that social media outlets aren't sharing user access information with prosecutors and law enforcement agencies. The story took an additional turn later in the day, when Facebook issued a statement denying that it was cooperating with the government.

 

Heal the gut with these five super foods

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Naturalnews, By: Derek Henry, 06/26/2013

In a world where digestive problems run amok, it's little wonder that people are desperately looking for remedies that will help fix their gut issues. Although it is not simple, these five superfoods can help clean up the 'internal trash', balance your bacteria, and heal any damage that has been done, so you can get your gut back to normal.

 

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Lab Testing Reveals EnviroTextile's Hemp Fabric Stops the Spread of Staph Bacteria

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By: Prweb.com, 06/20/2013

Rampant staph infections continue to cost lives unnecessarily. One powerful weapon to fight this scourge is being successfully deployed by China's military: industrial hemp. Staph is spread by direct contact and by touching items that are contaminated such as towels, sheets, privacy curtains, and clothing. As noted by the San Francisco Chronicle, “It is estimated that each year 2 million Americans become infected during hospital stays, and at least 90,000 of them die. MRSA (an antibiotic resistant strain of staph) is a leading cause of hospital-borne infections.” One of the most important recent discoveries is hemp’s ability to kill surface bacteria, while cotton, polyester, and polyethelene allow it to remain on their surfaces for up to months at a time.

 

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80% of Processed Foods in US Are Banned In Other Nations

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Naturalsociety, By: Anthony Gucciardi, 06/26/2013

80percent packaged foods banned 263x164 80% of Processed Foods in US Are Banned In Other Nations

I write a lot about the dangers of processed foods when it comes to wreaking havoc on our health, but even I was surprised to find that 80% of pre-packaged foods sold in the United States are actually banned in other nations. And for good reason.

 

Whether it’s toxic soda brands like Mountain Dew, or sugary artificial cereals and carcinogenic ‘potato’ chips, around 80% of the processed food variety within the US actually contains ingredients that are banned around the world in countries like Canada and the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, sometimes they’re banned throughout the entire European Union. The FDA, however, seems quite alright with these disease-linked substances lurking within the food supply.

 

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Earthquake Report for 06/25/2013

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By: USGS

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23 earthquakes

 

    2.8 14km WNW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2013-06-25 17:41:02 UTC-04:00 35.1 km

    2.5 7km NW of Bangor Trident Base, Washington 2013-06-25 17:00:08 UTC-04:00 50.7 km

    2.5 5km WNW of Cobb, California 2013-06-25 16:54:41 UTC-04:00 2.6 km

    4.1 56km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-06-25 16:39:19 UTC-04:00 114.0 km

    2.6 157km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2013-06-25 15:23:20 UTC-04:00 27.5 km

    4.6 39km ENE of Karakenja, Tajikistan 2013-06-25 12:59:11 UTC-04:00 9.9 km

    4.5 218km ENE of Enarotali, Indonesia 2013-06-25 12:40:07 UTC-04:00 10.0 km

    4.9 52km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia 2013-06-25 12:10:04 UTC-04:00 43.1 km

    4.7 250km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2013-06-25 11:02:37 UTC-04:00 22.3 km

    4.7 62km SE of Saparua, Indonesia 2013-06-25 10:44:18 UTC-04:00 39.5 km

    4.0 21km W of Qarah Zia' od Din, Iran 2013-06-25 09:22:31 UTC-04:00 38.7 km

    4.6 196km WNW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-06-25 05:52:54 UTC-04:00 475.8 km

U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists

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Bloomberg.com, By: Leonid Bershidsky, 06/23/2013

The debate over the U.S. government’s monitoring of digital communications suggests that Americans are willing to allow it as long as it is genuinely targeted at terrorists. What they fail to realize is that the surveillance systems are best suited for gathering information on law-abiding citizens.

 

People concerned with online privacy tend to calm down when told that the government can record their calls or read their e-mail only under special circumstances and with proper court orders. The assumption is that they have nothing to worry about unless they are terrorists or correspond with the wrong people.

 

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