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Nov 26 2005
Junk Television
Society + Culture
By MWC News   

Excluding Voices That Save Lives

The debate between progressives and corporatists over the state of the mass media goes like this-the former say fewer and fewer giant media conglomerates control more of the print and electronic outlets while the latter respond by saying there has never been more choices for listeners (radio), viewers (television) and readers (magazines, newsletters and newspapers combined).

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Australian Anti-Terror Laws Threaten Anti-War Writers
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By Gideon Polya   

Australian Anti-Terror Laws Threaten Anti-War Writers

Right-wing political and media hysteria over a “terror threat” to Australia has led to installation of draconian Anti-Terrorism Laws with even stronger laws set to be passed before Christmas 2005. An Australian Senate Committee enquiring into the new Anti-Terrorism Laws has posted 276 submissions on the Web

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Time To Pay Up Again
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By MWC News   

Pharma To Republicans

The generation of children injured by vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is now reaching puberty. Many of these children will require life-long care and support. The cost to their parents by today's standards, will reportedly exceed $2 million dollars for each child.

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Putting Out the Enlightenment
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By MWC News   

Evolution, Ecology and "Malignant Design"
By NOAM CHOMSKY

President George W. Bush favors teaching both evolution and "intelligent design" in schools, "so people can know what the debate is about."

To proponents, intelligent design is the notion that the universe is too complex to have developed without a nudge from a higher power than evolution or natural selection.

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Semantic Attacks
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By MWC News   

The War of Words in France 

Although we have seen countless images of cars burning in the poor and segregated suburbs of France, we have not heard much about the war of words that has accompanied them. Yet when you pay attention to the words, you begin to realize that the second and third generation French-African and French-Arab youths burning cars are a lot more French than they may be willing to acknowledge.

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