A Safe Haven For Investigative Journalists Everywhere Food Prices to Rise by Up to 40% Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns: Growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production will send prices soaring, according to the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Nightmare vision for Europe as EU chief warns 'democracy could disappear' in Greece, Spain and Portugal: Countries in debt may fall to dictators, EC chief warns. 'Apocalyptic' vision as some states run out of money Unemployment bill dealt Senate defeat: After coming out on the losing end of a 52-45 test vote, Obama's Democratic allies have been forced back to the drawing board in their efforts to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide $24 billion in aid to cash-strapped state governments. California unemployment benefits stall without Congressional extension: An unknown number of unemployed Californians will have unemployment insurance benefits interrupted or cut off, as Congress has yet to take action on whether to extend them, the state’s Employment Development Department is warning. Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation: Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned.
WikiLeaks Inspired "New Media Haven" Proposal Passes In Icelandic ParliamentReykjavik, Iceland; 4:00 UTC, June 16th 2010. The WikiLeaks advised proposal to build an international "new media haven" in Iceland, with the world's strongest press and whistleblower protection laws, and a "Nobel" prize for for Freedom of Expression, has unanimously passed the Icelandic Parliament. 50 votes were cast in favor, zero against, one abstained. Twelve members of parliament were not present. Vote results are available at http://www.althingi.is/dba-bin/atkvgr.pl?nnafnak=43014 One of the inspirations for the proposal was the dramatic August 2009 gagging of of Iceland's national broadcaster, RUV by Iceland's then largest bank, Kaupthing: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Financial_collapse:_Confidential_exposure_analysis_of_205_companies_each_owing_above_EUR45M_to_Icelandic_bank_Kaupthing,_26_Sep_2008 Two changes were made to the proposal from its original form as per the opinion of the parliament's general affairs committee [http://www.althingi.is/altext/138/s/1329.html ]. The first of these altered slightly the wording of the first paragraph so as to widen the arena for research. The second of these added two new items to the list of tasks for the government: - That the government should perform a detailed analysis, especially with respect to operational security, for the prospect of operating data centers in Iceland. - That the government should organize an international conference in Iceland regarding the changes to the legal environment being caused by expansion of cloud computing, data havens, and the judicial state of the Internet. Video footage from the proposal's vote will be available at: http://www.althingi.is/altext/hlusta.php?raeda=rad20100616T033127&horfa=1 http://www.althingi.is/altext/hlusta.php?raeda=rad20100616T033306&horfa=1 For details of the proposal and press contacts, please see http://www.immi.is
Thursday, 17 June 2010
By Coleen Rowley and Robert Parry
Though there are historic parallels between the actions of Manning today and those of Ellsberg in 1971, a major difference is the attitude of the mainstream U.S. news media, which then fought to publish Ellsberg’s secret history but now is behaving more like what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern calls the “fawning corporate media” or FCM. Continue
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