WikiLeaks has been accused of endangering troop’s live with it’s revelations. But the stark truth is – it is governments illegally invading foreign lands, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, who kill the young men in the armed forces. WikiLeaks has shown up these governments and war crimes by their armed forces, something the world’s media won’t do for fear of upsetting their political buddies. That is “why the world needs WikiLeaks”.
The spill, around 8000 barrels total, it is tiny in comparison to the BP oil leak in the US Gulf of Mexico. That estimated as only 25% of the daily US oil spill – if you believe the lowest estimates.
On June 29 The Duck Shoot broke the story that the Obama administration was preventing access to areas where thousands of sea creatures were dead and injured. The question asked was why the US government cover-up? Watch the CNN video where Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access to the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill.
The shorelines are littered with thousands of dead fish and birds. A thick carpet of foul-smelling sludge covers acres of beaches and marshland. The ruptured deep sea oil well continues to gush thousands of barrels of this deadly pollutant every hour – largely unabated. So where are the pictures to support the above statements? Apart from the same footage of the deep-sea gush that gets re-run by TV news channels every day there are few because the United States is covering up this disaster.
The SWP sanctioned that stupid action and are crowing about it on their website. It is a pity because they do have some great ideas but seem disinclined to work with others for the benefit of the working-class. Mind you they are not the only ones. BA and Unite are talking today with the help of Acas. This dispute could be settled today but will the biggest stumbling block, Willie Walsh, be willing to compromise?
Not only has the bullyboy Willie Walsh, the CEO of the British Airways, flown our flagship airline into a mountain of debt he has by attempting to bully his hard-working staff now lost the company many more millions. With the aid of a biased worker-hating judge he managed to halt a legally instituted strike on the flimsiest of evidence. Yesterday it was overturned on appeal.
Thatcherism failed! Blairism failed! So to vote either Labour or the Tories as a party is just plain stupid. There are many Labour candidates to vote for who would restore justice to both foreign and internal policy but not enough to form a majority government. As for the Tories there no such thing as a good one. They are committed to exploiting the working class and enriching there powerful fat-cat buddies.
Known as Lula in his native Brazil he like so many working class leaders when swept to power the task of effecting promised reforms has proven more difficult than imagined. As always trying to eliminate poverty, improve education and provide medical care is opposed by the rich and powerful.
BA is by normal business standards a bankrupt enterprise. What used to be known as “the world’s favourite airline” has fallen short in recent years on service and competitiveness. So what’s the answer according to the overpaid CEO Willie Wanker Walsh? Well WWW is a reincarnation of a cotton slaver. He believes punishment will induce the ‘slaves’ loyalty and make them work harder for less money.
The creeping domination of “don’t be evil” Internet company Google of the Internet has now become so worrying that people and governments are questioning their motives. Nobody who is serious about using the internet for business, pleasure or campaigning can avoid using many of Google’s services.
So in essence the Icelandic people, on ordinary salaries and pensions, are expected to pay back billions to two very rich countries because the greedy and stupid Icelandic bankers screwed up and couldn’t meet their obligations.
Despite an official report that pointed the finger of responsibility at the management the recommendations are yet to be fully implemented. And now management want to increase the dangers more by making cuts in the name of “cost-cutting”. Obviously the rail bosses don’t give toss for their employees or the public. Time and time again the RMT is forced to take action to protect it’s members and rail customers.
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La Oroya boasts a dirty American-owned smelter that has operated there since 1922. The metal smelter is run by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation and has reneged on it’s contractual promises to clean up it’s processes. Profit always comes before peoples health and well-being. Doe Run doesn’t give damn about the environment or the people who live in this area. They wouldn’t get away with it in the United States or Europe but in a ‘third-world’ country anything goes. Capitalism has no morality!
Despite the billions of dollars Shell has made from it’s numerous oil wells the locals have been driven into poverty. The land is saturated by oil leaks and dumping, the air is polluted by illegal gas-flaring and the rivers are so contaminated that fish cannot live in them.
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