Carbon rationing
Tony Iltis ("Stopping climate change: tomorrow is too late!" GLW #706) draws extensively from the recent Carbon Equity Project report, Avoiding Catastrophe, but is wide of the mark in dismissing carbon rationing as simply "a right
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Forty-nine workers at Coghlan and Russell, a car components factory in Geelong, have been stood down after the company called in receivers.
On April 5, the workers discovered that their superannuation had not been paid for more than eight months. When the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) confronted management, it was told that the company had a plan and would talk to the union in a couple of days.
With support from the South Australian Labor government and the federal ALP, pilot work is starting on the desalination plant that is to supply fresh water for BHP Billiton聮s planned expansion of its copper-gold-uranium mine at Olympic Dam.
Sydney city council is preparing a vicious crackdown on the ability to distribute newspapers such as 91自拍论坛 Weekly and leaflets advertising political rallies and events.
The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. 鈥淭hey were sick and some were dying鈥, she says. 鈥淭hen my mother saw these German women looking at the prisoners, just looking. This image became very formative in my upbringing, this despicable 鈥榣ooking from the side鈥.鈥
The six cabinet members loyal to Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr quit the 37-member cabinet of US-backed Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki on April 16. The Sadrists had headed the ministries of agriculture, health, tourism and transportation.
聯A preliminary US military investigation indicates that more than 40 Afghans killed or wounded by Marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month were civilians聰, the April 14 Washington Post reported it had been told by the US commander who ordered the investigation.
As the regime of President Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt faces a growing crisis of legitimacy, expressed by protests, boycotts and industrial strikes, the government has pushed through a referendum to amend the constitution and enshrine the country聮s police-state laws. On March 25, Amnesty International said the amendments will cause 聯the greatest erosion of rights in 26 years聰 in Egypt.
The Chaser's War on Everything 鈥 Australian political satire. ABC, Wednesday, April 25, 9pm.
Child Soldiers 鈥 The plight of children recruited to fight in armed conflicts around the world, and the daunting post-conflict challenges they face.
On April 15, Ecuador voted overwhelmingly to ratify President Rafael Correa鈥檚 proposal to convoke a Constituent Assembly with the power to re-write the constitution with the intention of weakening the stranglehold on the country of the traditional wealthy elite.
Returning once again to Venezuela 鈥 having last spent four months here in 2005 鈥 I recalled a refrain that had been constantly repeated by Venezuelans: 鈥淎fter we re-elect Chavez in 2006, the real revolution will begin.鈥 It took very little time for me to realise exactly what they meant.
An authoritative opinion poll for the Scotsman newspaper indicates a strong increase in support for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in the run-up to the Scottish Parliament elections on May 3. The April 6 Scottish Socialist Voice reported that 鈥渋n both the constituency and regional list vote, 5 per cent of Scots voters plan to vote Scottish Socialist鈥, according to the ICM poll. This represents a 3% rise in the regional vote and a 4% increase in the constituency ballot 鈥 the biggest increase in support in the previous month for any political party in Scotland.
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