Saturday, 19. June 2010
Topic: BP - on June 19, 2010 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators
As I noted on May 19th, BP has been telling cleanup workers that they don't need to wear respirators or other protective gear.
As Jerrold Nadler, the New York congressman whose district includes the World Trade Center, said today:
We're repeating the same catastrophe in the Gulf. You see pictures of people wearing regular clothes who are wading in and scooping oil off the water. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, are going to get sick unnecessarily.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 19, 2010 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
WIKILEAKS NOT CONSIDERED FOR KNIGHT FOUNDATION AWARD
Here at WIKILEAKS the news that we had been passed over for $537,000 in funding came as a terrible blow to the dedicated unpaid volunteers and activists that form the core of the organization. We are all beginning to understand just how Assange's autocratic management style, questionable use of donor funding, and sometime behavior bordering on paranoia compromised our chances of obtaining funding from the Knight Foundation.
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Topic: TV - on June 19, 2010 at 9:41:00 AM CEST
Venezuela asks Interpol to arrest Chavez critic Zuloaga
Hugo Chavez has denied the allegations are politically motivated
The Venezuelan government has asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for a leading critic of the government, Guillermo Zuloaga.
Mr Zuloaga owns Globovision, the only television channel to remain openly critical of the government.
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