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Another Russian journalist dead PDF Print Email
By Jennifer Leblanc
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

From Yahoo news: "A journalist [Ivan Safronov] who fell to his death from a fifth-story window had received threats while gathering material for a report claiming Russia planned to provide sophisticated weapons to Syria and Iran, his newspaper said Tuesday."

Maybe the Russian government doesn't even consider journalists worth the bullets anymore.

When in France, hide your cameraphone: "The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists."

This next piece happened here in America, in my own backyard, and it's disgusting: "Children stranded after immigration raid." I'm sure the same Republicans who endorse this kind of action against immigrants are the same ones who believe in family values and children having two parents. Well, now 100 children, including some infants, in New Bedford, Mass., do not. If one of the arrested happened to be the sole guardian of a child, he or she was released. The others could either place their children in foster care or with a friend or relative. Well, how accomodating and thoughtful. Wait, there's more  the company charged with employing (and treating inhumanely) these immigrants is Michael Bianco Inc., which manufactured "high-end leather goods for retailers including Coach Inc. and Timberland Co. before landing a $9.4 million military contract in 2003 to make survival vests." Do I really need to say more?

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