57 jailed in Gabon after violent protests: opposition

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Supporters of the opposition's National Union party leader Andre Mba Obame take part in a demonstration in Libreville (AFP/File, Xavier Bourgois)

LIBREVILLE — Fifty-seven people arrested in Gabon last week during a violent opposition protest are being held in a barracks and denied food from their families, an opposition leader said Saturday.

Tensions in Gabon's capital Libreville have been simmering since police stopped an unauthorised protest Wednesday in support of opposition leader Andre Mba Obame, who claims he won a 2009 election against current President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

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Nuclear Power Protests Find Wide Support in Japan

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August 19, 2012

A broad coalition of protesters opposes the re-opening of nuclear power plants in Japan, a country unaccustomed to social protest, writes Jake Adelstein and Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky.

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It’s hard to ignore more than 20,000 anti-nuclear protesters at your front door. It’s even harder in a country like Japan, where more often than not repressive tradition and political apathy combine to stifle social protest. So after Yoshihiko Noda, Japan’s unpopular prime minister, found his home surrounded by thousands of protesters for weeks on end, he finally got the message.

Last week the prime minister agreed, albeit reluctantly, to meet with representatives of Japan’s increasingly vocal and influential citizens network “Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes” (MCAN).

Anti-Japan Protests Flare in China

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By BRIAN SPEGELE in Beijing
August 19, 2012

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Protesters holding banners, placards and Chinese national flags, march down a street during an anti-Japan protest in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.

BEIJING—Anti-Japanese protests flared across China, including in front of Japan's diplomatic consulates, as Japanese activists successfully landed on the disputed Senkaku islands in the East China Sea.

More than 1,000 demonstrators in Chinas' southern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, paraded through the city's streets on Sunday, waving Chinese flags and calling for the government to defend the country's territorial claims. Japan controls the islands, also claimed by China and Taiwan, which call them Diaoyu.

Democracy in Bahrain will threaten Saudi Arabia: Analyst

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August 18, 2012

Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have beaten to death a 16-year-old boy as anti-regime demonstrations continue across the Persian Gulf country.
 


The teenager, identified as Husam al-Haddad, was killed when regime forces launched an attack on a peaceful demonstration on Friday night.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed Haddad’s death.


Anti-regime demonstrations in Bahrain continue despite the heavy-handed crackdown by the security forces.

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Mine violence hits at South Africa political power nexus

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4:12 p.m. CDT, August 18, 2012Striking miners hold weapons as they wait to be addressed by former African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema outside a South African mine in Rustenburg

Striking miners hold weapons as they wait to be addressed by former African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema outside a South African mine in Rustenburg (SIPHIWE SIBEKO, REUTERS / August 18, 2012)

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - The bloody protest by South African miners that ended in a hail of police gunfire and 34 deaths this week could also wound the ruling ANC and its main labor ally, laying bare workers' anger over enduring inequalities in Africa's biggest economy.


Thursday's shooting, bringing back memories of apartheid-era violence, underlined that after 18 years in power the African National Congress and its union partner have not been able to heal the fissures of income disparity, poverty and joblessness scarring the country.

British bank actions in Libor scandal called 'disgraceful'

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By the CNN Wire Staff
August 19, 2012 -- Updated 0252 GMT (1052 HKT)

London (CNN) -- A British parliamentary report slammed Barclays bank on Saturday for its "disgraceful" actions that led to a rate-rigging scandal.

The Treasury Select Committee issued a report after recent hearings over the scandal. Barclays was fined $450 million by British and American regulators after some of its traders purposely manipulated its interest rates as part of Libor, or London Interbank Offered Rate. The scandal also led to the resignation of Bob Diamond, its chief executive.

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Diamond Censured Over Evidence in Barclays Libor Probe

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By Howard Mustoe on August 18, 2012

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Robert Diamond, former chief executive officer of Barclays Plc, center, leaves Portcullis House in London, on July 4, 2012. Photographer: Paul Thomas/Bloomberg

Barclays Plc (BARC) ex-Chief Executive Officer Robert Diamond was criticized for giving “unforthcoming and highly selective” evidence by a U.K. parliamentary report that faulted the bank for letting traders rig interest rates.

The “candor and frankness” of Diamond’s testimony to lawmakers on July 4 “fell well short of the standard that Parliament expects,” the House of Commons Treasury Committee said in a 122-page report today following its inquiry into the bank’s attempts to manipulate the London interbank offered rate.

The Drought Is Killing The Mississippi River

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Dashiell Bennett, Aug 16, 2012

The banks of the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss., continue to erode as the 2012 drought deepens, Monday, Aug. 6. Barges are moving down the largest waterway with decreased loads and at slower speeds because of the risk of hitting debris or sand.

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Ship traffic on the Mississippi River was briefly shut down yesterday and salt from the Gulf of Mexico is threatening the drinking water upriver as the severe drought has pushed water levels far below their usual depths.

Larry Larson – Twelve – Twelve Insight Journal – 19 August 2012

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Larry Larson – Twelve – Twelve Insight Journal – 19 August 2012

Twelve Insight Journal

August 19, 2012

Guest: Here’s my question. I seem to be manifesting some good things.

Twelve:  You mean, some good things are being manifested for you.

Guest: Well yeah. I guess. It’s the universe doing the work.

Twelve: Go on.

Guest: So I’ve been asking and expecting more money, and also enjoying making money at work, so this week I ended up getting to work every day. And now it seems out of balance. Like, I can’t complain when I get something I was asking for, but suddenly it seems like too much. I mean I need the money and all but then when do I get to enjoy it…

Twelve: So what you are experiencing is an appearance of some things that you have asked for and the lack of others.

Guest: Yeah.

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