Saturday, October 28, 2006

CRISIS IN OAXACA Indymedia: "Federal Police and Paramilitaries attacked the barricades near Oaxaca's office of justice, in the Calicanto municipality. There are several injured and one person dead. Indymedia New York's reporter, Brad Will, was shot in the chest and died before he made it to the hospital; Oswaldo Ramírez, photographer for Milenio Diario, has also been shot and is injured in the foot." See earlier post. El Universal reports four deaths and says this is the most violent crisis since the beginning of the social conflict. 4:40:15 PM

E.COLI Scotsman: "Defence scientists secretly tested E.coli as a possible biological weapon at two British towns, it was revealed today. Between 1965 and 1967 a series of Government trials involving the release of microthreads covered in the bacteria were carried out near Swindon and Southampton. During 1971 and 1975, the Ministry of Defence invited United States military scientists to conduct joint biological warfare experiments at South Dorset." So who are the real terrorists? 11:59:35 AM

SLUMS GROWING UN: "Pro-poor mortgage financing would soon be needed in urban areas, since poverty - no longer a rural problem - now threatened the living standards of many in the world's cities, Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today. Reporting on the Programme's progress, as part of the Committee's wider discussion on implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the strengthening of UN-HABITAT, Ms. Tibaijuka said that, in several rapidly urbanizing countries, slums were growing at a rate almost equal to that of urban population growth. That implied that the vast majority of those born in cities, as well as those who migrated into them, would be living in life-threatening conditions, marked by malnutrition rates higher than those found in rural areas." 11:46:24 AM

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