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Today's lead stories:
Israeli Troop Withdrawal Begins?
Kraft Cares About Obesity?
Where to Build WMD’s at Home…
Copyright Laws, MP3 & the Internet
Australian Troops to the Solomon’s
Free Speech Radio News
US showdown over International Criminal Copurt -- Sputnik
Kilambi
The Pentagon's latest surveillance program -- Renee Gorman
New Jersey disolves post of Nobel Laureate -- Simba Rousseau
Ex-Eli Lily exec named to head AIDS fund -- Pamela Barnett
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Israeli Troop Withdrawal Begins? (3:54)
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, today the Israeli
Military withdrew tanks and armored personnel carriers from
the streets of Bethlehem and handed over law enforcement duties
to the Palestinian Authority. This comes after a Tuesday evening
meeting in Jerusalem between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas during
which Abbas called for the release of Palestinian prisoners
in Israeli detention. The Palestinian Prime Minister also
asked for a lifting of the military imposed 24 hour curfews
on Occupied west bank towns and villages. FSRN host Deepa
Fernandes spoke with George Rishmawi, Coordinator of the Rapprochement
Center in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem where he says Palestinians
are wary of his Israeli troop withdrawal.
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Kraft Cares About Obesity? (4:01)
The nation's largest food manufacturer, Kraft foods has
promised to take steps to help reduce the obesity epidemic
in the United States, modifying it's marketing practices and
making its portions smaller. Meanwhile Kraft's parent company
Altria continues to market the worlds most popular cigarette
brands. Josh Chaffin reports.
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Where to Build WMD’s at Home…
(4:11)
Federal officials are finding manufacturing sites for Weapons
of Mass Destruction – in the American south and southwest.
Department of Energy managers are planning to build a new
plant for the mass production of plutonium pits, the triggers
at the core of nuclear bombs. They’ve been looking at
five sites in Texas, Nevada, South Carolina and two in New
Mexico, where Joe Gardner Wessely reports on the controversy.
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Copyright Laws, MP3 & the Internet (3:18)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 2000 is giving the
record industry and its advocates, namely the Recording Industry
Association of America, the ability to search the internet
addresses of all those downloading information suspected to
be copyrighted music. Last week the RIAA said it would begin
searching internet file-sharing networks for music fans with
“substantial” MP3 song files. But critics of the
RIAA’s down loader crackdown claim the Record Industry
and the RIAA are manipulating how copyright laws are interpreted,
with potentially damaging effects on consumer rights and artistic
creativity. From WBAI, Brendan Sweeney and Jackson Allers
report.
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Australian Troops to the Solomon’s
(4:19)
Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that countries
National Security Committee has decided to send 1200 troops
— 200 of them combat soldiers — and 300 Australian
Federal Police officers to the Solomon Islands for at least
three months. It will be the largest Australian armed intervention
in the South Pacific since World War II. Since 1998, there
has often been violent civil conflict in the Solomon Islands,
yet this conflict is, in large part, due to a big rise of
youth unemployment resulting from cuts in public spending
implemented by the government at the behest of the International
Monetary Fund in the wake of the 1997-98 Asian “financial”
crisis. As Guy Degen reports from Sydney, Australia, while
South Pacific neighbors have backed Australian intervention,
critics question whether sending troops will actually help
the people of the so-called Happy Isles.
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