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Recovery from rubble in Haiti

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Quake knocked down penitentiary and inmates escaped, U.N. official says Catholic archbishop among those killed, Vatican says

3 people are rescued from the rubble of UN HQ in Port au Prince

3 people are rescued from the rubble of UN HQ in Port au Prince

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Haiti’s earthquake, the prime minister told CNN Wednesday.

Haitian authorities said the powerful quake destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

A top envoy called it a “major More.. catastrophe.”

Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported that “most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed” and that many government buildings had collapsed, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, told CNN Wednesday morning. Delatour said President René Préval was all right, Joseph reported.

Rescue crews were racing Wednesday morning to fully assess the damage in the teeming hillside city, where toppled buildings killed and injured an untold number of people and trapped others in the rubble.

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Official Iranian media sanitize the protests as foreign intervention

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Establishment control of the media in Iran is echoed on PEI Canada where media also disparage protest

Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 23, 2009 with story from CNN

CNN reports on alleged confessions of “I was a spy for the CIA”. The official Iranian media are sanitizing the election protests as foreign intervention. Unidentified first person accounts recall how the grenades were carried to protests, protesters provoked police and were encouraged by reporters. Continue reading →

Air France jet disappears over 228 on board – flight path

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Air France Flight 447 goes down with no warning on July 1, 2009

Maria Ramos of CNN explains the projected flight path using Google Earth. In the early hours of the flight’s disappearance this video from CNN tried to explain what happened to the flight. All 228 people were lost when the Air France jet disappeared from the radar screen.

Video is copyright by CNN and used under fair use as part of a news story.

Updated January 5, 2010 to correct broken links.

Phil Spector guilty of 2nd degree murder

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Phil Spector, the wall of sound didn't save him

Phil Spector, the wall of sound didn't save him

Proving once and again that aging, truly ugly rock icons can be convicted of shooting their girlfriends

Legendary music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of an actress at his home in Alahambra, California. The six men and six women began their deliberations on March 26. Spector now faces 15 years to life in prison. CNN Continue reading →

Afghan rape law outrages Canada, unreported in US

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Afghan law strips women of rights, echoes of Taliban

By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, April 2, 2009
with story and video from CBC

A new Afghan rape law, supported by President Karzai, would make it illegal for women to refuse sex, strips them of property rights, grants custody to fathers and grandfathers. While reported in Canada, it is virtual unknown in US media. Women cannot leave their homes without permission from the husband. Canadian politicians are raising red flags along with women’s groups. Does this signal Canada is looking for a back door out of the war or real concern for women’s rights. The latter is hard to believe when Harper and Ignatieff allowed Pay Equity laws in Canada to be rescinded last week. Ignatieff is especially wishy washy on the issue. Will he ever stand up for anything other than getting power? Continue reading →

Fargo, ND flooding forcing evacuation

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Boating by home south of Fargo ND

Boating by home south of Fargo ND

By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, March 27, 2009

Flooding is reaching the critical stage as dykes and sandbags give way in parts of the down town. When you think Fargo think flat. The land has very little elevation and if the dykes break, the water can flow inland for miles. There is nothing to stop the water from flooding. Fargo is at the edge of the Great Plains which in Canada we call the Prairies. During the 1980′s and 1990′s I visited there quite often in my work with Great Plains Software. They are super people and our hearts out to them as they struggle with nature.

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CNN does the tally – 50,000 jobs lost today

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By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PE January 26, 2009 2:45 PM, with story from CNN Money

In one day, today, CNN reports the 50,000 jobs have been lost, totally 170,000 in January already. The recession is deepening around the world with Caterpillar cutting 20,000 jobs, Dutch bank ING 7,000, Sprint 8,000, Home Depot 7,000, Pfizer 8,000 and John Deere 700. “It’s all about the consumer, and the consumer’s been hit hard,” said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics. “It’s a vicious circle as weakness begets layoffs, which beget more spending weakness.” 2008 saw 2.6 million jobs lost, the worst since 1945.