3arabawy BookMarx 01/26/2010 (a.m.)
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BBC News – Apple sees profits increase 50%
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Net income rose to $3.38bn (£2.08bn) in the first-quarter, compared with the $2.26bn it made a year ago.
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Sales rose to $15.7bn. Apple said it sold 8.7 million iPhones and 3.36 million Macs in the quarter.
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اليوم السابع | شحاته: نحتاج دعاء المصريين للفوز على الجزائر
كس أم العبط
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اليوم السابع | “اليوم السابع” يشارك رجال الشرطة احتفالهم بعيدهم
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ei: New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief’s conflict of interest
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Celebrating Police (State) Day in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt | Egypt
An article by Max.
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The humanitarian myth | SocialistWorker.org
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Since the arrival of the troops, however, several aid missions have been prevented from arriving at the airport in Port-au-Prince, that the U.S. has commandeered. France and Caribbean Community have both made their complaints public, as has Médecins Sans Frontières on five separate occasions. UN World Food Program flights were also turned away on two consecutive days. Benoit Leduc, MSF’s operations manager in Port-au-Prince, complained that U.S. military flights were being prioritized over aid flights. Now, U.S. ships have encircled Haiti in order to prevent refugees escaping and fleeing to the United States.
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Not only has aid been obstructed and escape blocked, but what aid does arrive was at first not being delivered, and then only in small amounts. Some five days after the earthquake struck, BBC News reporter Nick Davis described how aid had just started “trickling through.” While aid was arriving in Haiti “in large amounts,” some “bottlenecks” prevented the bulk of it from being distributed.
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In effect, the U.S. has staged an invasion of Haiti, under the pretext of providing security for humanitarian aid, and in doing so has prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid. With Haitians in a desperate condition, and the UN-supervised government in dire straits, Washington has sent the International Monetary Fund to offer a $100 million loan, on the proviso that public wages be frozen.
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For all the headlines, moreover, there is strikingly little actual violence taking place. Most of the stories of violence center on episodes of “looting,” and most such instances involve desperate people procuring the means of survival. Aid workers also contradict the image of mobs on the attack purveyed by the media and U.S. officials. Abi Weaver, spokesperson for the American Red Cross, confirmed that “we haven’t had any security issues at all.”
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The paternalistic assumptions behind the calls for ‘humanitarian intervention’ have sometimes been starkly expressed. Thus, the conservative columnist Eric Margolis lauds the history of American colonial rule in Haiti: “[T]he U.S. occupation is looked back on by many Haitians as their “golden age.” The Marine Corps proved a fair, efficient, honest administrator and builder. This era was the only time when things worked in Haiti.”
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New Statesman – Why does the western media ignore Egyptian dissent?
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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