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La Paz, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) The governors from eight of the nine departments in Bolivia sent today a message to the people repudiating conspiracy plans to destabilize the government and promote a coup.
The document -save Gov. Rubén Costas (of Santa Cruz) eternal critic of President Evo Morales- warns against Plan Tipnis ad condemns the conspirators´ schemes and goals.
This plan is designed to generate instability of the government the Bolivian people elected democratically."
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“Bypass. The story of a road” by Michael McGirr (Picador Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2004) is a very readable true account of a 40 year-old ex-Jesuit priest and his girl friend bicycling from Sydney (New South Wales) to Melbourne (Victoria) following the route of the old Hume Highway through the heart of South East Australia.
“Bypass” gets its name from the reality that the Hume Highway, Australia’s busiest, now bypasses all the towns on its former route. “Bypass” is a civilized and humane (…)

Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park, with one of them dying from her injuries, media reports say. Police were searching for their assailants.
Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in a nature area in Portland by a couple Saturday, said Portland Police Chief Randy Wright, who confirmed to msnbc.com details first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller Times. Olgin, originally from (…)

There is a simple solution to guarantee access to health care for all, and it does not involve the Affordable Care Acts’ bailout of the insurance industry. There is no need to wait for the federal government to get it right.
The solution lies in the Vermont “pilot.” Vermont is establishing a universal health care system that provides health care as a public good for a ll, financed through equitable, tax-based contributions. This pioneering effort was the result of a large-scale people’s (…)

Salvation Army Australia Apologizes After Official Says LGBT People Should Die
Anti-Gay Religious Beliefs Remain, Says TWO
Burlington, Vt – Just hours after Truth Wins Out published the words of a senior Salvation Army official in Australia who said the belief that gays must die is part of the Salvation Army’s “Christian doctrine,” the organization apologized to the LGBT community.
Major Andrew Craibe, Territorial Media Relations Director for the Southern Territory in Victoria, made (…)

Media Hooligans Outdo Fans, Despite UEFA Admonishments on Racism
June 25, 2012
Talk about sore losers! Despite UEFA’s very visible anti-racism campaign in the Euro 2012 tournament, it seems that the pitting of nation vs nation, even just at competitive sport, may still degenerate into ethnic stereotyping. Not that hooligans have run amok making embarrassing racist displays in the stands. They have not. The problem has come rather from the besuited yobs of corporate media, not missing the (…)

This week, 18-24 June 2012, is World Refugee Week. As another refugee boat carrying several hundred desperate refugees to Australia has foundered in the Indian Ocean with an estimated 90 asylum seekers perishing, it is timely to examine the global refugee disaster and in particular the role of pro-Zionist, pro-war, US lackey Australia in generating over 20 million Muslim refugees and its subsequent egregious maltreatment of refugees.
The pro-American, pro-Zionist, pro-war, former Labor PM (…)

In the beginning, it seemed to make perfect sense. America would have three branches of government—legislative, executive and judicial. The first two would be accountable to the people, through the voting process, while the third would be comprised of judges responsible for hearing cases that arose under the United States Constitution, federal law, and/or disputes between two or more States.
The reality, however, was a little more complex. Many federalists, like Alexander Hamilton, were (…)

Australian and world hero Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London under threat of transfer to Sweden and thence rendition to torture and possible death in the US. Julian Assange had failed in his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face interrogation over sex-related complaints that have not resulted in any charges so far.
The Ecuadorian Embassy is permitting Julian Assange to stay at the Embassy under their protection while his request (…)

An investigation led by FIDH, Migreurop and JWBM in Libya (7-15 June 2012) paints an alarming picture of the treatment inflicted on the migrant population, in the confusion that currently reigns in the country.
With rich oil reserves and a small population, Gaddafi’s Libya relied heavily on migrant labour to serve the economy. During the conflict hundreds of thousands of migrants fled to Tunisia, Egypt and neighbouring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, fearing for their lives. More than six (…)