DR 2011 Fernando León./"The Narco News Bulletin"
PLANS FOR MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN MEXICO ARE GIVEN ROUGH RIDE BY THOSE PROTESTING THAT THESE PROJECTS WILL DESTROY THEIR LAND AND THEIR CULTURES.
(Narco News)
Mexico City is the epicenter of such protests against the building of the Western Superhighway across places that will decimate local neighborhoods. Similar protests are launched against plans to build a huge soccer stadium in one neighborhood.
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ISRAEL’S LEADERS HAVE LITTLE TO FEAR AND MUCH TO GAIN FROM THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION.
(Counterpunch)
A diminished fear comes from awareness that the Israeli and Egyptian armies are largely financed by the U.S. government and, with the Egyptian military still in control, there is little likelihood of a confrontation between two U.S. client states. Israel will, however, “cash in on” the revolution by fear-mongering of its own population and of U.S policymakers that the country is under heightened existential threat from a newly-constituted “Arab” state.
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HAVING SHELVED A BILL LEGALIZING THE KILLING OF ABORTION DOCTORS, SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATORS ARE THINKING OF NEW BARRIERS TO A WOMAN’S ABILITY TO EXERCISE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTION.
(Mother Jones)
Among new measures being considered is one which requires that a woman must receive “counseling” at an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center before deciding on the abortion. Another measure would require doctors to assess the “health risk” of each impending abortion, with the likely effect that doctors would give high risk assessments to protect themselves from lawsuits if anything should go wrong.
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ARE PAYDAY LOAN PROVIDERS AND PAWN BROKERS REPLACING NEIGHBORHOOD BANKS IN PROVIDING CREDIT NEEDS OF POOR AMERICANS?
(New York Times)
That seems to be the trend, as data on recent bank closings indicates that these move at a brisk pace even as new banks are being opened in more affluent areas. Decades of bank regulation aimed at requiring banks to respond to the needs of the poor are being frustrated by this trend.
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HAITIAN MAN GETS 9 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR A DUI—AND DEATH BY DEPORTATION TO HAITI.
(Miami New Times)
Columnist for Miami New Times details case of Wilsrick Guerrier, one of 26 Florida Haitians with “criminal” records who were deported after a 10-months suspension of deportations after the earthquake in that country. Guerrier died of cholera in Haiti, a fate that may await many of the approximately 350 Haitian men and women being held in a Louisiana detention camp
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Quote of the day…
It costs over one million dollars per U.S. soldier (per year) to keep a soldier there. The huge amounts of money that the USA and other governments are giving, they say for Afghanistan, are not for the people of Afghanistan … It’s just to support the military presence of these countries in Afghanistan.
Ann Wright, former U.S. diplomat, commenting as Congress debates a bill designed to support a better future for women in Afghanistan.
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