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Bangladesh safety accord covers 1/3 of garment factories

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CBC News - 10/04/13

Henna Begum holds a picture of her missing daughter, Akhi Akhter, who was a garment worker, following the April collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh.

Henna Begum holds a picture of her missing daughter, Akhi Akhter, who was a garment worker, following the April collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

 

The international clothing retailers that vowed to improve working conditions after a deadly building collapse at one of the Bangladeshi garment factories that supply their clothes have released a list of nearly 1,600 factories that will be covered by the Accord on Fire and Building Safety they signed.

In the past month, Bangladeshi workers have protested in the streets against the low wages paid to garment makers, currently paid about $38 US a month.

Truckers Plan To Jam DC’s Major Commuter Highway, Arrest Members Of Congress

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Source: ThinkProgress.org - 10/07/13, Annie-Rose Strasser

 

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Between furloughs, car chases, and a self-immolation, the residents of Washington, DC, aren’t having a great October. But by Friday of this week, things could get even worse — and not because of the looming debt crisis.

On October 11th, a group of right-wing truckers is planning to drive to DC to shut down the major commuter highway that circles the city. They’ll continue to block traffic, they say, until they see the arrest of elected officials who have “violated their oath of office.”

A million vets are coming to DC to demand their monuments be opened

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The Washington Times - 10/07/13, Susan L. Ruth

 

The Million Vet March is happening this weekend in order to demand that veterans have open access to the memorials created to honor them.
 
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A march is coming to Washington this weekend that might make the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle take notice and rethink all of the political grandstanding in order to gain campaign contributions for themselves and their party, yet are hurting real Americans.

The organizers believe that the veterans are being used as pawns that have unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a political battle, and according to the organizers statement, that should never happen.

Romanian Deputy PM Charged With Election Fraud

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ABC News - 10/07/13, Alison Mutler/AP

 

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Romanian prosecutors on Monday charged the deputy prime minister and 74 local officials with election fraud during a referendum that failed to unseat President Traian Basescu.

A majority of those who took part in the July 2012 national referendum voted to impeach Basescu on the grounds that he had overstepped his authority, but the vote was declared invalid because not enough people voted.

More: ABCNews.go.com

 

The Pseudo-War on Terror: How the US Has Protected Some of Its Enemies

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The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - 10/07/13, Peter Dale Scott

 

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Since 9/11, above all, constitutional American government has been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size and budget, while traditional government has been shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called

two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully vetted cadre – and its entirety…visible only to God.1

World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve

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The New American - Alex Newman, 5/22/13

 

A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success. 

Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”

Pope Francis: ‘I Believe In God, Not In A Catholic God’

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International Business Times - Maria Vultaggio, 10/06/13

 

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Pope Francis has been making headlines ever since the pontiff was announced as the Roman Catholic Church’s leader, and now he’s getting even more attention because he recently said, “I believe in God, not in a Catholic God.” He essentially took a dig at the Catholic Church hierarchy by condemning its “Vatican-centric view.”

“I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation,” the pope said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, as quoted by the Inquisitr. “Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Do you think we are very far apart?”

Belgium demands explanation from British spy agency

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PressTV.ir - 10/05/13, GHK/HJL

 

The headquarters of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham

The headquarters of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham
 
Belgium has demanded explanations from the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) over allegations that it infiltrated major Belgian national telecom provider Belgacom.
 
According to reports in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the Cheltenham-based intelligence agency has been accused of hacking the IT system of Belgacom by placing a virus in its network.

More: PressTV.ir

 

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