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The 2010 Olympic Winter Games are scheduled to take place from February 12-17, in Vancouver-Whistler on land that was never given up by indigenous communities. For growing numbers of indigenous people, homeless and poor people, low-income tenants and sex workers the Olympic Games represent a continued history of colonization and “social cleansing” of poor communities. Construction for the Olympics infrastructure is adding to extensive destruction of indigenous peoples’ traditional homelands and contributing to the displacement and criminalization of people living in poor urban neighbourhoods.Visible poverty collides with the property and profit concerns of legitimized business, commercial development and property speculators. Neighbourhoods, like Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, undergo a conflict-ridden process of transformation from local residences and workplaces of the poor to sites for Olympic spectacles. As business owners, landlords and investors vie for position within developing neighbourhoods they often successfully pressure local politicians and police to act against sex trade workers and homeless people. Carolyn Brooks, author of Globalization and a New Underclass of ‘Disposable
People' writes, “Criminalizing the poor becomes a way of cleansing the city, making it a supposedly safe and attractive environment for affluent people.” As global capitalism develops, poor and marginalized people are criminalized and punished. Examples of this agenda have become regular features of social development in Vancouver as part of Olympic preparations. In the lead up to the Games, this has typically taken the form of new bylaws and policies that arm police, business owners and private security companies with a variety of means to harass street prostitutes and remove them from specific neighbourhoods. There has also been an ongoing deployment of repressive policing practices, including “sweeps” of street-involved people and the use of boundary conditions to prohibit prostitutes from even entering neighbourhoods near planned Olympic venues. These policies are not about public safety, but about investment, redevelopment and tourist dollars.One troubling policy initiative in Vancouver has been ‘Project Civil City’, a $300,000 program which targets a range of street activities and extends policing beyond public forces, providing business associations broad leeway to intervene. The program includes hundreds of thousands of dollars for increased private security, in addition to regular city police budgets and the estimated $1 billion for Olympic security. The Civil City initiative was explicitly designed to target street prostitutes, panhandlers and open drug users in specific areas such as the Downtown Eastside. Such policies do nothing to address underlying issues of poverty, precarious housing, drug abuse or unemployment. They are effective only at removing people from the streets and getting them 
into custody.Following the awarding of the Olympics to Vancouver, the city initiated a program in which public money was directed to business improvement associations to hire private security firms to patrol downtown streets and clear areas of street prostitutes and homeless people. The so-called “Downtown Ambassadors” have been given free reign to intimidate and harass people deemed to be “undesirables.” Their activities include compelling people who are sitting or sleeping on the street to move along, regardless of location or circumstances; telling people to stop searching for recyclables in garbage cans; identifying particular individuals as undesirable and telling them that they are not allowed within a particular geographic area, so-called “no go areas”; and following and taking notes and photographs of individuals identified as undesirable. 
These measures are part of an overall plan to remove downtown residents from the area. In addition to jail, some have been removed to mental institutions and others to “detox” centres on former military bases. Another measure has removed people from the province entirely through a “fly-back” program in which the B.C. Government pays the costs to return persons wanted on warrants in other provinces.Instead of addressing the roots of growing homelessness, poverty and marginalized people, the criminal justice system is deployed to “cleanse” the human face of the problems of global capitalism from the city. Ironically, the pressure to hide these faces is most intense during festivals of global capital such as the Olympics, international film festivals and the FIFA World Cup. These events serve to exacerbate conditions of suffering, exclusion and desperation for the poorest and most marginalized of local working class people in host cities.
Saudi Arabia is a major military operation began on Yemeni territory. This is what Arab diplomats said Thursday. Saudi fighter planes were engaged in since Wednesday afternoon air attack in Yemen against Shiite rebels. The diplomats made their judgments on condition of anonymity, either Saudi Arabia or Yemen should acknowledge the message. A spokesman for the rebels, however, acknowledged that the Saudi air force had carried out attacks in verschillende areas in Yemen. The diplomats say that Saudi Arabia specialized combat units to the north of Yemen has sent residents from the Saudi border villages have been evacuated.
Een rechtbank in Milaan heeft woensdag 23 agenten van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst CIA tot celstraffen veroordeeld voor hun betrokkenheid bij de ontvoering van een Egyptische moslimgeestelijke in 2003. Ook twee Italiaanse inlichtingenfunctionarissen kregen gevangenisstraffen opgelegd.
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Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA) and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense Eimert van Middelkoop (Christian Union) and Maxime Verhagen (CDA) have discussed. Kone managers have often complained that there is little attention to the trouble spots in Africa. So far, the presence in Afghanistan as an excuse for not sending troops to Africa.Development Cooperation Minister Bert Koenders (PvdA) is working in secret on a military mission in Africa. The AD requires according to sources in The Hague and an internal memo that he investigates whether Dutch troops could be sent to trouble spots. That could be awarded without cooperation with other European or NATO countries have done. The deployment of the military is not addressed until they have not withdrawn from Afghanistan. Koenders would already premium Koenders was already with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (CDA) and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense Eimert van Middelkoop (Christian Union) and Maxime Verhagen (CDA) have discussed. Kone managers have often complained that there is little attention to the fires in Africa. So far, the presence in Afghanistan as an excuse for not sending troops to Africa.
Minister van Ontwikkelingssamenwerking Bert Koenders (PvdA) werkt in het geheim aan een militaire missie in Afrika. Het AD schrijft op basis van bronnen in Den Haag en een interne memo dat hij onderzoekt of er Nederlandse troepen naar brandhaarden kunnen worden gestuurd.
De Koninklijke familie is niet langer miljardair. Dat blijkt uit de Quote 500 die woensdag wordt
De verschillen tussen de premies voor de basisverzekeringen worden steeds groter. De goedkoopste zorgverzekeraar is tot nu toe CZdirect met 1032 euro per jaar. De duurste is met 1239 euro de restitutiepolis van VGZ. Dat concludeert vergelijkingssite zorgkiezer.nl na een vergelijking van de premies van de vier grootste zorgverzekeraars, die negentig procent van de markt in handen hebben.VGZ tekent daarbij aan dat de restitutiepolis slechts één procent van zijn verzekerden betreft en dat de basispolis met 1167 euro aanmerkelijk goedkoper uitvalt.Het verschil tussen de twee is volgens directeur Peter Ruys van zorgkiezer.nl dat de klant bij de goedkoopste verzekeraar is beperkt tot de zorginstellingen die een contract met de verzekeraar hebben getekend. Voor een gezin is het verschil tussen de duurste en goedkoopste vierhonderd euro.
Een schip dat de marine in 2015 in gebruikneemt, gaat een kleine honderd miljoen euro meer kosten dan in
Minister Guusje ter Horst van Binnenlandse Zaken wil de radicalisering van het verzet tegen opsluiten en uitzetten van vreemdelingen 'stevig aanpakken'.
Martkleider Albert Heijn acht zichzelf niet in staat werkelijk stappen te zetten op het gebied van duurzaamheid. Afgelopen zaterdag laat de supermarkt in Trouw weten dat haar 'pogingen om duurzaamheid op een hoger niveau te brengen zijn gestrand'. Jeroen Walstra, Milieudefensie: “Supermarkten kunnen wel degelijk de problemen aanpakken. Milieudefensie blijft consumenten oproepen hun supermarkt te vragen te stoppen met het verkopen van producten met foute soja. ”
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Het kraken van encryptiesleutels voor wifi-netwerken is nog verder vereenvoudigd en uitgebreid. De beveiliging van WPA1 ligt op z'n gat.Het gaat om de TKIP-toevoeging (temporal key integrity protocol) voor wifi-encryptie. Dat zogeheten WPA1 heeft afgelopen zomer al een flinke deuk opgelopen. Twee Japanse onderzoekers hebben toen de kraaktijd omlaag gebracht naar 1 minuut.
De verkiezingen waren een mislukking. Maar Karzai mag burgemeester van Kabul blijven. Maar de storm van kritiek op de oorlog lijkt voorlopig niet te gaan liggen.
Noam Chomsky, the world's leading dissident intellectual, has warned the grievances exploited by far-right extremists need to be taken seriously by their left-wing opponents.
De politiechef van Jeruzalem, Aharon Franco, zei zondag op een persconferentie dat Teitel werd opgespoord door een team van de politie en de binnenlandse veiligheidsdienst Shin Bet. Hij werd begin oktober opgepakt en heeft inmiddels een bekentenis afgelegd. In zijn woning werd een grote voorraad wapens aangetroffen. Aanvankelijk werd achter de aanslagen een ondergrondse groep extremisten vermoed, maar Teitel bleek bij alles alleen te hebben gehandeld.
That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.
A photographic journey to 24 countries reveals what 30 different families eat each week and how much it costs – from the $376.45 of an Australian family to the $1.23 of a family in Chad's Breidjing refugee camp.
Disney hopes to establish Mickey as one of the world's best-known action heroes such as Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog and then build on his new wave of fame with a games franchise and merchandise. And he is a modern mouse for modern times.
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat de term bio-industrie bij de meeste burgers tot verwarring leidt. Velen denken ten onrechte dat bio-industrie staat voor de biologisch veehouderij. Ook de betekenis van de afkorting bio is vaak onduidelijk. Voor het zonder respect en op grote schaal houden van dieren is de term vee-industrie veel geschikter, zo menen 14 dierenbeschermings- en milieuorganisaties. Vandaar dat deze organisaties hebben besloten de term bio-industrie niet meer te gebruiken en in de toekomst alleen nog te spreken over vee-industrie.
Homeless carted out of Cape Town and Johannesburg for World CupDan McDougall in Johannesburg
