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Photos: Is This the Future of Special Operations?
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16.5.2013 |
Wired Top Stories |
| Photos: Is This the Future of Special Operations? |
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Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs
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13.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Report claims that families in Laos and Cambodia have been forced off land or are expected to work on rubber plantations
Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report.
The study, concluding a year-long investigation by the watchdog Global Witness, names two of Vietnam's biggest companies, the privately owned Huang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), as the businesses behind the land grabs. It claims they are working with the explicit support of the Cambodian and Laotian governments, who have authorised the land developments.
"We've known for some time that corrupt politicians in Cambodia and Laos are orchestrating the land-grabbing crisis that is doing so much damage in the region," said Megan MacInnes, head of Global Witness's land ... |
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Arias' shocking post-verdict interview
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Just minutes after the verdict, Jodi Arias gave a shocking interview. Ed Payne reports. |
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Should she be executed?
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| CNN's Piers Morgan and guests talk about the factors that may decide if Jodi Arias gets the death penalty or not. |
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Wild peacocks vandalize cars
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| A city in Washington state has a peculiar problem, peacocks prowling and damaging cars. |
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[demo :: Solar]
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Prison has disco & cockfighting
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Alleged "discotheque" inside Venezuela jail calls prison system into question, as CNN's Rafael Romo reports. |
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[demo :: Solar]
[irge304 :: Cars]
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Chilling details
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| A Cleveland councilman says a police report states Michelle Knight was threatened if Amanda Berry's baby didn't survive. |
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Funny ad features Spock vs. Spock
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Actors Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto, who both play Spock in different versions of "Star Trek," appear in an Audi ad. |
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Wild lightning storm captured on camera
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Video of a lightning storm without thunder was captured near St. Augustine, Florida. |
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Keith Urban signs fan's WHAT??!
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Keith Urban tells Conan that he thought he had heard it all, until a fan asked him to sign her prosthetic leg. |
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Homeless squat in luxury hotel
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| CNN's Shasta Darlington talks to families squatting in faded luxury. |
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Watch an alligator attack rescuer
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9.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| A professional alligator trapper is bitten during a rescue from a neighborhood pond. |
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[demo :: Solar]
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Vegetation mission launches on Vega
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7.5.2013 |
BBC News - Science & Environment |
| The European Space Agency's new small satellite launcher, Vega, puts the Proba-V vegetation satellite in orbit. |
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Defense Department becomes a wildlife protector
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28.4.2013 |
LA Times: Science |
The military is working with environmental groups and local governments to create buffer zones around bases where development threatened to encroach on combat training. It's been a conservation boon.
Many of the nation's 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions. |
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Our Dangerous Mix of Climate Change and Resource Scarcity
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23.4.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the US intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you're on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced.
Two nightmare scenarios—a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change—are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition, and conflict. Just what this tsunami of disaster will look like may, as yet, be hard to discern, but experts warn of "water wars" over contested river systems, global food riots sparked by soaring prices for life's basics, mass migrations of climate refugees (with resulting anti-migrant violence), and the breakdown of social order or the collapse of states. At first, such mayhem is likely to arise largely in Africa, Central ... |
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Tanzania's Maasai battle game hunters for grazing land
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18.4.2013 |
BBC: World |
| Maasai anger as they lose their land to make way for Arab hunters |
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Cataloging Wired's First 20 Years, From Apps and Hacks to Turing and Trolls
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16.4.2013 |
Wired Top Stories |
| Cataloging Wired's First 20 Years, From Apps and Hacks to Turing and Trolls |
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[newstrust :: Innovation]
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Chidambaram meets bankers, corporate honchos
(Cached)
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8.4.2013 |
CNN-IBN: Business |
 Amidst the ongoing gloom on the economic front, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday allayed fears of the industry over stalled projects and assured all steps to remove the bottlenecks. |
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AG questions U of M-Fairview hospital merger
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8.4.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is raising concerns over the University of Minnesota's plan to acquire Fairview Health Services, which is also in merger talks with rural health care giant Sanford Health. |
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PM hints at further liberalisation of FDI regime
(Cached)
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3.4.2013 |
CNN-IBN: Business |
 Expressing commitment to continue with reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday indicated the government will further liberalise FDI regime in the coming months and push the land reforms measures. |
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