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Indonesia has banned the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the head of the foreign correspondents club said.
The club cancelled a screening of the film on legal advice that they could face charges.
The journalists died as Indonesian troops invaded East Timor in 1975.
Jakarta maintains they were killed accidentally in cross-fire. But an Australian coroner found in 2007 that the journalists had been executed.
The journalists - two Australians, two Britons and a New Zealander - were killed in the border town of Balibo as Indonesian forces entered East Timor.
A sixth Australian journalist was killed in Dili shortly after when Indonesian troops entered the city.
Can you blame them for wanting to hide this? no country likes exposure like this, especially when it concerns the brutal killing of innocent people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8390075.stmIndonesia has banned the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign... more
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Italy is near to became a nation just like Russia, Iran or Sri Lanka, states where information is controlled by the government and the journalists who dare to tell the truth subject to threats and killed. We have already regime's information, and since many years. Besides this there are regions of the South, where organized crime does not want journalists to investigate and write about what it does. And so the threats to journalists are increasing, and rarely reach national news.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/terranostrapuglia281109.htmlItaly is near to became a nation just like Russia, Iran or Sri Lanka, states where... more
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I saw the movie Blind Side like 20 mins ago. Please don't even bother because i know everyone has heard this story at least 100 times.
Poor kid living on the street, getting beat, moms a crack head, and dad is dead. Fortunately rich white folks take him into their homes and make all of his dreams come true plus making him a big superstar.
Happily ever after, everyone is happy and rich.
Not reality, and defiantly not a message to be sending to young people.
It's like being average or being an over achiever is not good enough anymore. no no no no, to follow your dreams or to make your self noticed you have to have a terrible life and child hood.
Its like, me personally, i am an average student i get alright grades, not the best. I struggle, and i have dreams too! My mom is a good mom, i love her. I dont really talk to my dad, but we're okay. And i have dreams to be a well known writer/journalist. But whos gonna make a movie out of that lame life? So i guess, i should start doing crack, and maybe i should be a prostitute. And maybe my dad should beat/rape me. Then i will live on a street and tell you that a nice/snotty rich woman will take me in her home, clean me up and make all my dreams come true. Because thats what people love to hear. Thats what's interesting in today's society. So imma go get right on my dream, but before i do that i have to go find a guy that will abuse me first. OHHHH and maybe he will be in a gang too! oh yeah thats good, Right?I saw the movie Blind Side like 20 mins ago. Please don't even bother because i... more
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According to a tally by El Universal, the country’s top-selling newspaper, 12 reporters, photographers, editors and radio hosts have been slain this year — two more than in the previous worst year of 2006. The deaths — all of Mexicans working for local media — make the country the most dangerous for the trade in the Western hemisphere.
There have also been dozens of cases of journalists being threatened, beaten and having offices attacked with gunfire and grenades.
Particularly concerning is how the murders have become so frequent they now fail to grab much attention — either in Mexico or in the United States. Antuna’s slaying gained only scant coverage, lost in a sea of more than 5,000 apparent drug-related killings here this year.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/091110/journalist-murders-mexico-hit-new-recordAccording to a tally by El Universal, the country’s top-selling newspaper, 12... more
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While newspapers are talking about news not important, the Observatory on threatened reporters has appealed to media not to forget the reporters threatened from the north Mafia. Giulio Cavalli is one of these, but the Italian Government has other problems to face.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/news/mafiagiuliocavalli061109.htmlWhile newspapers are talking about news not important, the Observatory on threatened... more
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As an American journalist in Japan, Jake Adelstein uncovered a world unknown to many of the Japanese public, let alone to foreigners: the world of organized crime. For 12 years, he investigated for Japan's largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shinbun.
In his final story, Adelstein went toe-to-toe with one of the country's most notorious crime bosses, a discovery that led to death threats for him and his family — death threats that have yet to be lifted. His new memoir about his experiences is called Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.
After leaving the paper in 2005, Adelstein was chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Today he is considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, and works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States.
Adelstein is also the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. He joins Terry Gross to talk about that work, his book and the organized-crime landscape in Japan.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120237244As an American journalist in Japan, Jake Adelstein uncovered a world unknown to many... more
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Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil Tigers, one of the world's most lethal and influential terrorist organizations, were finally defeated.Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil... more
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There are many men and women in the world who every day risk their lives, their freedom or both, simply because they try to tell the truth. Most people probably cannot understand why they do it. The problem is that the word journalist is not a good definition of the profession, because it includes three different behaviors that have nothing to do with each other.There are many men and women in the world who every day risk their lives, their... more
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Journalist Rozanna al-Yami was ready to get 60 lashes inflicted by the Saudi court. But the King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz has revoked the sentence.
Otherwise she would have been the first woman to undergo a sentence so harsh.Journalist Rozanna al-Yami was ready to get 60 lashes inflicted by the Saudi court.... more
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Last fall, journalist, literary critic and proud atheist Christopher Hitchens went on a debating tour with Pastor Douglas Wilson. The topic: "Is Christianity good for the world?"
The argument started with the release of Hitchens' book, God Is Not Great. Instead of a regular publicity tour, Hitchens wanted to debate the thesis of his book with anyone willing to take on the challenge. Wilson answered the call.
They filmed their debates, and then edited them for a new documentary called Collision.Last fall, journalist, literary critic and proud atheist Christopher Hitchens went on... more
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An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.
He also offered a detailed insider's look at the concerns among high-level officials inside the Bureau as Edmonds' disturbing allegations began coming to light back in 2002, before they would be quashed for seven long years by the Bush Administration's unprecedented use of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege" to gag her.
Earlier last week, following the publication of a remarkable American Conservative magazine cover story interview with Edmonds --- detailing a broad bribery, blackmail, and espionage conspiracy said to have been carried out between current and former members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking State and Defense Department officials and covert operatives from Turkey and Israel, resulting in the theft and sale of nuclear weapons technology on the foreign black market --- Cole had been quoted by the magazine confirming one of Edmonds' key allegations.
"I am fully aware of the FBI's decade-long investigation of" Marc Grossman, he said in response to the AmCon article/interview. Grossman had served as the third-highest ranking official in the Bush State Department and was alleged by Edmonds in the interview, and in a sworn, video-taped deposition a month earlier, to have been the U.S. ringleader for a massive Turkish espionage scandal reaching through the halls of power and into top-secret nuclear facilities around the country to the benefit of allies and enemies alike. Cole said that the FBI's counterintelligence probe "ultimately was buried and covered up," and that he believes it is "long past time" for an investigation of the case to "bring about accountability."
In his subsequent interview with Collins last week (audio and text excerpts posted below) Cole elaborated on those comments in much greater detail, noting that Edmonds has been "one hundred percent right on the money, on the mark" and confirming the existence of an "ongoing and detailed effort by Turkey to develop influence in the United States" through various illegal activities.
"Yes, I can confirm that," Cole told Collins, "That's true."
The FBI veteran executive also offered an insider's account of the panic that ensued inside the highest echelons of the bureau following Edmonds' first disclosure of information in 2002, recounting how an executive assistant director admitted to him at the time, just after the story first broke, "Well, all I know is that everything that Sibel is stating is true. I read her file. Everything she stated is, in fact, accurate."
Cole further describes how the concerns about Edmonds ultimately led to the Bush Administration's two-time use of the Draconian "State Secrets Privilege" in hopes of keeping her extraordinary information from becoming public. "Everybody at headquarters level at the bureau knew that what she was saying was extremely accurate."
"I know they didn't want her to go out and speak about it at all," Cole revealed, "and I know they were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet, because they didn't want Sibel to come out."
He also offered information which directly counters one of the criticisms of Edmonds' allegations as frequently offered by skeptics. Namely, that as a short time FBI contract translator --- even though she was tasked to review some seven years of counterintelligence wiretaps made from 1996 to 2002 --- she couldn't have had enough understanding of the full scope of the investigations to understand what was really going on.
More...An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for... more
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In Italy we are still able to tell what's happening around, because is not a crime, yet. In Iran or in Cuba it is a crime. Two women, journalists, are challenging censorship because they are writing what they are living. But, unfortunately, they have lost freedom. And one, Fariba Pajoob, is already in jail.In Italy we are still able to tell what's happening around, because is not a... more
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L.A. is one tough town. This is about our blogger being stabbed in the back on the Red Carpet and having to face the consequences. It’s got all the drama: bitchy journalists, celeb craziness and a fierce blog post. A must-read if you want the inside into the real and ugly side of Hollywood.L.A. is one tough town. This is about our blogger being stabbed in the back on the... more
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Reporters Without Borders, the most famous association which monitors press freedom in the world, on October 3 opened its website with a picture of Berlusconi. The following article explains that the association asks the italian premier to quit his attacks against the press and that if he doesn't, the head of the Italian government will be added to the list of "predators of press freedom." Heads of government or organizations that are attacking press freedom around the world.Reporters Without Borders, the most famous association which monitors press freedom in... more
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Many ministers of the Berlusconi government do everything to be bad, up to the point of insulting the opposition. It's a typical sign of the states that are sliding towards dictatorship to see people with institutional responsibilities that seek to intimidate and threaten half the country, the half that didn't voted them. It's also a typical sign of guilty conscience. These ministers know that their policies are weak, and try to deflect attention with verbal violence.Many ministers of the Berlusconi government do everything to be bad, up to the point... more
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