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Today's lead stories:
Supreme Court on Detention and Deportation
Iraq Vets Release TV Ad on “Truth” of Iraq War
European Indymedia Under Attack From FBI
Nigeria Oil Worker Conflict
Gasification of Coal
Election Countdown: Muslim Voters In Ohio
FSRN Headlines
Quarter U.S. Families Are Working Poor
More U.S. families are among the working poor. Sarah Turner
with the Worker’s Independent News Service has the story.
NYC Turns Down Day Care Money
New York City officials have reduced funding for day care
inspections; and, since 1999 officials failed to claim more
than 2 million-dollars in state funds. Gail Walker at Pacifica
Station WBAI has more.
Italian Government Splits Over GMO
Italian government officials are sharply split over a proposal
to accept genetically modified crops. Diletta Varlesce and
Mariella Bussolati report from Italy.
World's Largest Mangrove Becoming Resort
An Indian billionaire is poised to turn the world’s
largest mangrove swamp into resort. Binu Alex reports from
Ahmedebad.
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Supreme Court on Detention and Deportation
In a new report, Human Rights Watch says that the US government
is violating US and international law with practices that
have seen at least 11 al-Qaeda suspects “disappeared”
in U.S. custody. HRW also criticized the US practice of holding
the detainees in undisclosed locations while documenting reports
of torture of these detainees. This as today the Supreme Court
begins hearing several cases pertaining to the government’s
authority to detain and deport foreign nationals. One case
concerns whether the government can deport someone to a country
with an un-functioning government and another pertains to
whether the US can detain a foreign national indefinitely.
Mitch Jeserich reports from the Supreme Court.
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Iraq Vets Release TV Ad on “Truth” of
Iraq War
A national group representing Veterans of this current Iraq
war is introducing a new television ad today called “Not
There.” Operation Truth says the ad is to inform U-S
viewers about “the truth” of the occupation in
Iraq. Katie Murray reports.
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European Indymedia Under Attack From FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation mounted a cross - jurisdiction
action against IndyMedia last week when they served a supoena
on IndyMedia's US web hosting provider, Rackspace obliging
them to turn over two servers used by IndyMedia in the UK.
The action temporarily shut down 20 independent media centres
world wide, provoking international condemnation from free
speech and media organisations. From London, Naomi Fowler
has been following the story.
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Nigeria Oil Worker Conflict
A fragile cease fire is holding between Nigerian troops
and an armed group that threatened to shut down oil production
in the country's Niger Delta region. The group took up arms
to demand a greater share of oil revenue for the people of
the region. Nigeria's military had been carrying out a bombing
campaign against the rebels before the cease fire. As local
communities affected by the bombings count their losses, there
are allegations that western oil companies gave the military
vital support in order to safe guard their business interest.
Sam Olukoya reports from the Niger Delta.
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Gasification of Coal
A small company in Northeastern Minnesota has plans to build
the largest coal gasification plant in the world. The Minnesota
legislature and federal government have granted the company
hundreds of millions of dollars in development money, as well
as exemptions from various laws that govern where and how
power plants and transmission lines are built. Both energy
proponents and environmentalists agree that the gasification
process has the potential to provide a greener form of energy.
Many worry, however, that without proper regulation and foresight,
the environmental friendliness of the process may end up being
used simply to dupe concerned citizens into acceptance of
more coal-based energy production. From Minneapolis, Carey
Biron has the story.
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Election Countdown: Muslim Voters In Ohio
While the two leading presidential candidates are campaigning
vigorously in key electoral states hoping to win the favor
of the relatively few as of yet undecided voters, neither
candidate has met with organized Muslim constituents despite
numerous invitations. Over the weekend conferences of Muslim
leaders were held in both Michigan and Ohio but none of the
candidates attended. Evan Davis files this report as we continue
our One Month Countdown coverage leading up to the November
2 election.
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