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Today's lead stories:
Mass Deportation From NY
Israel Refuse to Dismantle Checkpoint
Chihuahua Mass Murder Update
Governors Meeting Drenched in Corporate Logos
Part 2: Cyber Surveillance and Microsoft
FSRN Headlines Produced by Andrew Stelzer
UN Envoy Killed in Bomb in Iraq - Susan Wood
Randi Zimmerman Speaks with Ahmed al rawi in Bagdad
Hugo Chavez Recall Campaign Begins - Greg Wilpert
Internet Campaign to Nix Same Sex Marriage - Mitch Jeserich
RFID/Surveillance technology RFID - Kellia Ramares
US DOJ Report Says 1 in 3 blacks Will Go to Prison —
Ian Forest
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Mass Deportation From NY (3:47)
According to reports by the Coalition for the Human Rights
of Immigrants, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs enforcement, or BICE, deported
as many as 100 detainees of Middle-Eastern descent from the
Batavia Federal Detention Center, near Buffalo, New York.
Reports indicate the flight is expected to make at least two
stops in Cairo, Egypt and Amman, Jordan – but BICE would
not confirm or deny the deportation due to a "operational
safety issue.” The flight is rumored to include at least
two Palestinians, with one of the two, 54-year old father
of nine, Munir Lami, a diagnosed diabetic whose family has
been told nothing of his whereabouts or of a potential deportation.
And with the recent deportation of some 10 Palestinians to
the Israeli Occupied Territories of the West bank and Gaza,
Munir Lami’s family and immigrants rights groups are
worried about the fate of those being deported to potential
conflict zones. From Pacifica station WBAI in New York, Jackson
Allers reports.
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Israel Refuse to Dismantle Checkpoint (2:53)
As we go to air there are reports emerging of a suicide
bomb blast in Jerusalem, the numbers of casualties are unknown.
Meanwhile, talks between Israeli and Palestinian security
officials to agree on the details of the Israeli military
withdrawal from the West Bank cities of Qalqilya and Jericho
broke down on Sunday after Israeli officials refused to dismantle
a critical checkpoint serving as the sole access road into
the city of Qalqilya. A Palestinian redeployment in Jericho
was set to take place as early as yesterday, but was postponed
due to the Israeli refusal to withdraw, and because Israel
says that the Palestinian Authority has not been supervising
Palestinians who are wanted by Israel nor confiscating their
weapons. Mohammed Ghalayini reports from Gaza.
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Chihuahua Mass Murder Update (3:30)
Amnesty International has issued a blistering condemnation
of the Mexican government's response to the sex-related mass
murders of young women in the border state of Chihuahua. At
the same time, as was exclusively reported earlier this year
on FSRN, new leads are linking privately- owned computer schools
to the unsolved crimes. Kent Paterson has this report.
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Governors Meeting Drenched in Corporate Logos
(3:50)
The future of individual state policy was the topic of this
weekend’s annual meeting of the National Governors Association
Meeting in Indianapolis. While corporations were invited to
the conference, and the public wasn't, demonstrators did gather
outside to protest what they see as excessive corporate influence.
Steve Zelaznik reports from Indianapolis.
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Part 2: Cyber Surveillance and Microsoft
(4:25)
Microsoft is developing a tamper-resistant, secure processor
for new computers that they say will combat intruders like
spam, worms and viruses. But consumer rights advocates are
concerned the so-called ‘palladium platform’ will
give Microsoft and other giant corporations the ability to
lock-in their customers more tightly and limit what programs
are run. Leigh Robartes brings us this second part of our
special three part series on Cyber – surveillance and
the freedom of public access to information on the internet.
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