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Human rights organization Survival International is asking President Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia next week, to suspend US military assistance to Jakarta until its forces stop killing and torturing the people of West Papua.

Obama’s visit comes shortly after the emergence of shocking video footage showing Indonesian soldiers torturing two villagers in the West Papuan highlands. The Indonesian government has admitted that the torturers were its soldiers.

A great new "Rap news" video produced by Melbourne based alternative media outlet "TheJuiceMedia" has been published online. Entitled Rap News vs News World Order (Wikileaks and the War on Journalism), the video that cameo's Julian Assange himself has already been viewed almost 100,000 times on Youtube.
Check it out yourself - you won't be disappointed
Rap News vs News World Order (Wikileaks and the War on Journalism)

GDF Suez, is taking over Hazelwood Power Station, via merger to form New International Power. Business description states world ranking of 1, 2 or 3 in businesses of LNG, hydro, wind and nuclear power. Curiously, at their website, only thing mentioned for Australia is Sita, waste recycling. Spin off from GDF Suez monster, Degremont Suez, is lead partner in Victorian very mistaken Desalination plant.

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (November 5) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

The recent reaction by the Australian politicians toward the proposed merger between the Singapore Stock exchange (SGX) and the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) is a typical example of a bigotry culture in this country.

The very minute the news of SGX intention to merge with ASX was leaked to the public arena, our politicians begin to jump up and down against the idea without even trying to find out in detail the rationale of the proposed merger, and the possible benefits to Australia. Their responses are so pathetically predictable in a habitually hysterical manner.

The stretch of High Street outside the office of ALP State MP for Northcote Fiona Richardson was more than usually noisy this morning as peak-hour motorists – and several cyclists - responded to the call from members of Darebin Climate Action Now who were picketing the office with placards opposing the projected HRL coal-fired power station in the Latrobe valley and calling for real action on climate change.

Rallies were held around Australia on Friday 29 October under the banner of ‘Jobs with Justice’ and an end to the Northern Territory Intervention as part of a National Day of Action. The rally in Melbourne attended by approximately 500 people ended with a sit-down at a major city intersection, bringing peak-hour traffic to a halt for over twenty minutes. Related: Youtube footage of sit-in -- Report on rally from Melbourne Ant-Intervention Collective -- More photos on Melbourne Protests Weblog

Andreas Weiland

PEACEFUL CIVIL RESISTANCE IN STUTTGART, DENUNCIATIONS AND A NEW ACT PROPOSED BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT

The Merkel administration has reached agreement among cabinet members that a new act will be submitted to parliament. It increases penalities for passive resistance to up to three years in prison while threatening throwers of bottles and stones with up to five years in jail.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr_hemphour_20101029.mp3

News and drugnews commentary, national and internatl. prop. 19 California and more...with Bob and crew

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