Source: CoolEarth.org - 10/23/12

Around one hundred and fifty peaceful protestors, mainly indigenous tribal people and local fishermen effected by the proposed dam have occupied Pimental, one of the four work sites.  If implemented, the dam would flood over 500 square kilometers of forest and villages at an estimated cost of some US$13,000,000,000.

Taking control for the second time in six months, the protestors took truck and machinery keys from the workers who then had to leave the site on foot.  If the dam construction goes ahead the electricity it is expected to generate would be around 11,000 MW (MegaWatts), just over 10% of Brazil's installed capacity for electricity generation.  Local demonstratrs claim that the dam will devastate the great Xingu river and ruin their way of life.

RT.com - 10/23/12

Demonstrators raise their arms during an assembly outside Madrid's Parliament October 23, 2012, as the debate for the 2013 budget goes on inside.(Reuters/Susana Vera)

Thousands have taken to the streets of the Spanish capital, just outside the Parliament building, to protest their government’s latest bid to further cut spending in 2013.

­Cordoned off by police riot vans, the crowd outside the government headquarters in Madrid yelled slogans lambasting further austerity measures and political corruption, demanding the resignations of the deputies of both the ruling conservative Popular Party and the opposition Socialists.

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Press TV - 10/24/12

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Voice of America - Jeff Seldin, 10/18/12

N. Korean Defections Raise Questions about Security, Loyalty

North Korean soldiers watch the South Korean side from a lookout tower at their observation post in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, December 28, 2011.

Three defections across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea are raising questions about the global flashpoint.
 

South Korean officials said three North Korean defectors have sneaked across the DMZ in the past three months, one of them announcing his arrival by knocking on the door of a South Korean barracks.