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NOVANEWS modernityblog  October 13, 2010 Most of us, we can barely imagine what it must be like to be a miner. To carve lumps of rock, extract the minerals were possible and work hundreds of metres underground in cramped conditions, surrounded by rock, sweating, breathing in the dust and all to benefit other people. That's what miners do. We shouldn't forget what price is often paid by miners themselves and their communities. Pneumoconiosis is just one illness that miners face. Even today miners in Russia and China often face numerous and unnecessary dangers. The CNN reports: "Coal helps fuel China's surging economy. The country tripled its annual output of coal from 1 billion tons in 1999 to 3 billion tons in 2009, according to the state-run China Daily. Accidents killed 2,63...

NOVANEWS   Uganda: For Women with Disabilities, Barriers and Abuse  "You are useless,” a woman in northern Uganda who couldn’t use her legs was told. “You are a waste of food. You should just die so that others can eat the food."  In northern Uganda, a region emerging from two decades of brutal fighting between the government and the Lords Resistance Army, many women with disabilities have been largely ignored in the post-reconstruction effort and are unable to get basic provisions like food, clothing, and shelter in camps, Human Rights Watch reveals in a report. Many have also been unable to access health care. The abuse and discrimination comes from strangers, neighbors, and even family members. More than a third of the women interviewed for the report had been physically or ...

NOVANEWS CLICK HER:         Protecting Civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo September 3, 2010 Introduction:  Where many see a hopeless situation, Human Rights Watch sees the need to bring justice to victims and greater security to all. From our expert researchers documenting abuses on the ground to our executive director meeting with Congo's president, we have been waging an ambitious, multi-pronged campaign to bring about real change.

NOVANEWS Stuxnet Computer Worm–Israel’s Attempt To Silence Iran on 9/11 or Veiled Threat to the Entire World? In Uncategorized October 11, 2010 by crescentandcross  In mid September, news stories from mainstream media sources featuring Israel as both creator and propagator of a new doomsday computer virus named Stuxnet swept the globe. Unlike the ordinary, run-of-the-mill colds afflicting today’s computers on a regular basis, this new super-bug was unlike anything seen before, literally a weapon of mass destruction given its capabilities of doing apocalyptic damage to the “critical infrastructure”–meaning electricity, water, sewage, oil refineries, telecommunications, national defense, food production, etc–of all industrialized nations. The reasons for Israel being fingered as the lone...

NOVANEWS October 9, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   Restrepo Description:  Nine years after George W Bush proudly initiated Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the news continues to be peppered with sobering images of young men and women killed in the line of action, serving their country. This documentary brings home the shocking cost of war through the eyes of a company of young, energetic US soldiers as they venture into the notorious Korengal Valley in Afghanistan.  YouTube - Veterans Today -The Film Trailer Afghan mission impossible in Restrepo “ When they weren’t bored they were frightened, and when they weren’t frightened they were simply making the best they could of an impossible mission”  By Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard   YouTube - Veterans Today -     Films abou...

NOVANEWS October 7, 2010by Hanan Habibzai By Hanan Habibzai STAFF WRITER It have been nine years since the U.S led invasion of Afghanistan but the situation in Afghanistan is worsening, gap of confidence between the people and US backed government is widely increasing.ISAF turned embedded force and International mission in Afghanistan remained unsuccessful. Keeping tabs on the events of the war in Afghanistan is not difficult. Press coverage includes daily reports of soldiers dying and killing, corruption within government and even stories from the far flung tribal areas. But there is little about what the ordinary Afghan thinks. What is his story? How does the war affect him? Does he want warlords to stay in power? Does he want more troops, be they from the US or France? Do they make him ...

NOVANEWS Harry Belafonte: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Are “Immoral, Unconscionable and Unwinnable” October 4, 2010by Debbie Menon   Download Video AMY GOODMAN: Legendary singer, actor, activist, Harry Belafonte, addressing the rally in Washington, DC. “The President’s decision to escalate the war in that region alone costs the nation $33 billion,” the legendary musician, actor and activist Harry Belafonte said at Saturday’s “One Nation Working Together” in Washington. “That sum of money could not only create 600,000 jobs here in America, but would even leave us a few billion to start rebuilding our schools, our roads, our hospitals and affordable housing. It could also help to rebuild the lives of the thousands of our returning wounded veterans.” AMY GOODMAN: More than 100,000 people gathe...

NOVANEWS September 28, 2010 by Gordon Duff Parents Of Soldier Say They Warned Army About Thrill Kill Sergeant ‘Crazy’ Sergeant Allegedly Continued Murdering Innocent Civilians By MATTHEW COLE, BRIAN ROSS and ANGELA M. HILL The allegations are reminiscent of the military’s darkest days in Vietnam.  Again, young GI’s caught up in a difficult war are accused of widespread drug use and the random killing of innocent civilians, apparently for sport or thrills. But the parents of one of the five soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of unarmed Afghans say that before one of the murders they tried to warn the Army and a U.S. Senator – and no one helped. Now their son, 20-year-old specialist Adam Winfield, is charged with taking part in a killing three months after the Winfield family...

NOVANEWS Egypt Air and Palestinians A keen foreign correspondent in the Middle East sent me this (he/she does not want to be identified):  "EgyptAir has been given instructions now to hassle Palestinians with Egyptian-issued travel document for Palestinians flying to Egypt. They didn't want to let one on a flight from Dubai last week, one whose mother is Egyptian. She got on in the end, but imagine EgyptAir trying to do that to Palestinians or Egyptian-Palestinians with documents issued from Egypt itself. How low.    I also called up M., who appeared on an al-Jazeera discussion a few months ago about governments refusing children nationality of the mother. On the show she claimed things were about to change. Inspired by what happened last week, I wanted to speak to her to see if some act...

NOVANEWS     The Draw Of Power. According to Zionist Henry Kissinger, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. '' I am not sure if that is true but I am trying to work out why anyone would want to meet President Ahmadinejad? Unless it is to be close to his power, to be able to say they have actually met a President, even if his election win was fiddled and anti-Ahmadinejad protesters killed as a result. Why would supposed radicals in North America wish to meet Ahmadinejad after he's just given a conspiratorial speech on 9/11? Why would anyone, with any sense, want to meet this certifiable racist? Apparently, over a hundred people, including some radical political leaders met him recently, Fightback News covers it: "New York, NY - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met here,...