Dhaka collapse: Walmart and C and A implicated: nearly 1000 killed. more demos today.

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh’s garment workers protest over factory deaths

Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms. The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for major brands including North American retailers The Children’s Place and Dress Barn, Britain’s Primark, Spain’s Mango and Italy’s Benetton. Ether Tex said Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, was one of its customers.

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Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of up to 1000 people in a building collapse, in the latest tragedy to hit the sector.

Grief turned to anger as the workers, some carrying sticks, blockaded key highways in at least three industrial areas just outside the capital Dhaka, forcing factory owners to declare a day’s holiday.

“There were hundreds of thousands of them,” said Abdul Baten, police chief of Gazipur district, where hundreds of large garment factories are based. “They occupied roads for a while and then dispersed.”

Police inspector Kamrul Islam said the workers had attacked several factories whose bosses had refused to give employees the day off.

“They were protesting the deaths of the workers in Savar,” he said, referring to the town outside Dhaka where Wednesday’s collapse of an eight-storey building housing five garment factories took place, injuring more than 1,000 people. Continue reading “Dhaka collapse: Walmart and C and A implicated: nearly 1000 killed. more demos today.”

Fukushima is only beginning: whole world maimed

1. The bottom line about Fukushima Daiichi is an ELE (extinction level event) involving three reactors in meltdown since March 11, 2011, other damaged reactor cores, no efforts by anyone anywhere to contain the global catastrophe, other than ‘media damage control’.

2. (A) The reactor cores were designed to be under water. That means that the reactor cores were designed to be under water. The reactor cores must be put under water immediately, using existing technology, enabling retrieval of the hot cores by an international team of nuclear submarines. Disposal of nuclear waste is a secondary issue. Note: There is no legitimate disposal of nuclear waste possible, ever. Continue reading “Fukushima is only beginning: whole world maimed”

Serial of The Free Ch 44. The Ultimatum

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Act Five

Chapter forty four

The Ultimatum

-‘Have you ever heard of Shari Paba?’-

-‘Hey, hey Tessa, leave my friend in peace.’- said Duna. -‘You found us finally now just forget it.’-

-‘Your friend! This useless pile of pus and pigshit!’- She was pointing at the disheveled Damo. -‘How could you choose this for your friend!?’-

-‘Shut your fat mouth you stupid… .’- Continue reading “Serial of The Free Ch 44. The Ultimatum”

Coca Cola colouring and sweetener are Cancerogenous

read 100’s of damning studies and victims accounts here: http://killercoke.org/

Chemical found in cola causes cancer

(CBS News) Can drinking soda cause cancer? A report from the U.S. consumer watchdog The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said popular sodas contain high levels of a chemical that’s used to give cola its caramel coloring – and that chemical could raise a soda-drinkers’ cancer risk.

The consumer watchdog found Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc’s Dr. Pepper and Whole Foods’ 365 Cola contained unsafe levels of the coloring Ingredient, 4-methylimidazole or 4-MI. The group estimates the amount of 4-MI in the Coke and Pepsi products tested is causing about 15,000 cancers among the U.S. population, and many times more worldwide. This in addition to heart disease, epilepsy and chronic bone loss caused by aspartame and other ingredients. Continue reading “Coca Cola colouring and sweetener are Cancerogenous”

La Doctrina de la Austeridad depende de un ‘Error de Calculo’: Otro Fraude del 1%

Ya sabemos que es mentira. La austeridad fiscal no soluciona la crisis, al contrario, al caer la economía sube el interés de la deuda que crece aún más, necesitando cada vez más cortes..

Pero ahora la política de austeridad ha perdido toda credibilidad. El trabajo de investigación clave, que siempre se cita para justificar la represión económica, ha sido totalmente desacreditado. Hablan de un simple ‘error de Excel’ descubierto por un estudiante. MENTIRA PODRIDA. Nos piden creer que un estudio masivamente influyentes por dos profesores de Harvard, usado para justificar cortes de miles de miliones, privatizaciones, paro, desahucios, etc., depende de un error de ‘omitir 5 lineas en una tabla de Excel!? Continue reading “La Doctrina de la Austeridad depende de un ‘Error de Calculo’: Otro Fraude del 1%”

“Lesbian” is not a dirty word

by Thé Tulloch In many ways, being a gay woman that is also a feminist feels like being the punchline to a bad joke. I am one of those hairy feminists. I am a lesbian: the sweater vest, sensible shoe, cat-loving kind; not the edgy-leather-and-studs-cool-haircut kind. You know, the one you trip over yourself to emphasise you’re not when the subject of your politics comes up, out of fear people think you’ve become a lavender menace. It’s sad that an ideology that concerns itself with the freedom of women from patriarchy is willing to engage in lesbophobia unashamedly.

reblogged with thanks from http://www.thefword.org.uk

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#ItalianRevolution: ‘false govt must be brought down’

In #globalrevolution

Dear people,

Imagine, in the UK, 2013, John Major returning to be prime minister. It sounds a bit ridiculous, doesn’t it? Especially if you hypothesise him leading a government of the Conservatives and Labour combined. But in Italy, something like this is likely to happen.

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After striking a deal with Berlusconi over the presidency of the republic the Italian ‘Labour’ party is about to jump in bed with the media tycoon’s private political party and nominate Giovanni Amato as prime minister. Amato has already been prime minister of Italy in the 1990s. Continue reading “#ItalianRevolution: ‘false govt must be brought down’”