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| UN calls for more aid to save drought victims | |
| Published on 17 Jul 2011 by Euronews Aid is arriving in Kenya as fast as possible but still it is not enough to help the millions struggling to survive the worst drought in decades in the Horn of Africa. While both Germany and the UK are among several countries to increase their donations, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesman, Ron Redmond is calling for more. " We have got to get more accommodation for refugees in these camps as you know between Ethiopia and Kenya we are receiving about 3,000 refugees a day." | |
| Date: 18 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Classic Koch Brothers?: Backing anti-EPA Michele Bachmann | |
| July 15, 2011 CURRENT TV Keith Olbermann | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson Author of The Men Who Stare At Goats | |
| Uploaded by RiverheadBooks on 9 Mar 2011 A Journey Through the Madness Industry In this madcap journey (on sale May 12, 2011), a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Author Michael Cross: Do Psychopaths Have a Professional Advantage (as CEOs & Politicians)? | |
| This is more scary than funny. Uploaded by Brawlexpert12 on 25 May 2011 This is Michael Cross (author of Freedom from Conscience - Melanie's Journey) discusses psychopaths and their relation to politicians. | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Contagion Spreading: If Murdoch Paid Police For Stories May Have Broken U.S. Corrupt Practices Act | |
| July 15, 2011 BBC World News | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Nuclear Watchdog Group Accuses U.S. Govt Of Failing To Keep Public Informed About Radiation Fallout | |
| July 11, 2011 KONG TV News. See extended version of story:http://therealnews.com/t2/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=10362 See article in NEWS & ANALYSIS: Northwest sees 35 percent infant mortality spike post-Fukushima | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 831 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Mainstream media won't report on CIA's secret sites | |
| As the CIA expands covert missions, it?s no surprise than many of their operations go unreported. Jeremy Scahill of The Nation says, though, that many outlets are aware of some injustice carried out by the CIA and are just failing to report them. ?Both CNN and ABC have allowed their media outlets to be used as conveyor belt for the spin of the CIA,? Scahill says to RT. He claims that he has stumbled upon secretive CIA sites in the African country of Somalia, and that US officials are operating a prison and paying the salaries of Somali national security agents yet no one else will admit to it. The prison, says Scahill, is entirely off the radar. He calls it a ?dungeon,? void of windows and sunlight. ?The air is thick, moist and disgusting,? he says, adding that prisoners report bed bug infestations and rampant mosquito outbreaks. Scahill adds that, in some instances, detainees are held for up to a year and a half without being charged, and without access to attorneys or the Red Cross. Scahill claims that the CIA says they don?t actually call the shots at the Somali site, but he has word from people on the site that that is indeed the case. He says that the US is writing the paychecks for the Somali agents that staff the site and that American officials even openly interrogate detainees. The reporter says that ABC News ran an expose highlighting material from Scahill?s investigation, yet ?mischaracterized? his story and ?allowed the CIA to shoot down straw man arguments? that he never even alleged to. It?s just another example of the mainstream media serving as a conveyor belt for CIA propaganda, says Scahill. ?We are creating a whole new generation of enemies,? says Scahill, who says that the US military is causing grave damage rarely reported. He says Americans regularly kill innocent people and their families, and note that the same Navy SEAL squad that took the credit for Osama bin Laden?s death killed an innocent pregnant woman just a year earlier. The media, however, is only showing what they know the people want to see. ?The Osama bin Laden hit is going to be the stuff of lore and Hollywood,? he adds, suggesting that it is only a matter of time before SEAL Team 6 becomes a trademark of Disney. | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Egypt: The unfinished revolution | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 15 Jul 2011 The world's attention may have shifted but Egypt is still on the march, with revolutionaries determined to maintain the momentum amid the ongoingpolitical tussle. What has become of the Egyptian revolution after the initial euphoria of Tahrir Square? | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Food & Water Crisis: Kristin Davis Breaks Down Over Kenyan Refugee Camp Visit | |
| Uploaded by oxfaminternational on 12 Jul 2011 Please donate to Oxfam's East Africa appeal: http://www.oxfam.org/eastafrica Oxfam ambassador and actress Kristin Davis has just returned from the Horn of Africa where she saw hundreds of thousands of families in desperate need of food and water. Kristin became tearful on BBC News while describing her experience of visiting the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya where she saw the devastating impact of drought. People are fleeing drought and conflict in Somalia and ending up in Dadaab, which is currently the world's largest refugee complex and is hugely overcrowded. Oxfam's response to the drought includes programs in Somaliland, Ethiopia and Kenya with a mixture of emergency aid, long-term development and prevention, and advocacy to address the root causes of chronic drought. Footage courtesy BBC News. | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Somalia Crisis One of 'Largest in Decades' | |
| US state department official promises increased humanitarian aid to Somali victims of massive regional drought. East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees are flooding camps in Ethiopia and Kenya - at a rate of more than 3,000 new arrivals per day - in search of food after several seasons without rain killed livestock and destroyed crops in Somalia. Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 16 Jul 2011 Around three thousand refugees are arriving in the Dadaab complex every day, to flee the worsening drought in neighbouring Somalia. There are already 440,000 people at the site. Al Jazeera's Peter Greste reports from Garissa in northeast Kenya. | |
| Date: 16 July 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
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