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* FEMA Admits It Held Fake Press Conference about California Wildfires; FEMA Staffers Posed as Journalists *

On Tuesday, FEMA staged a fake press conference with agency staffers posing as news reporters. One FEMA staffer who pretended to be a journalist has since been promoted to become head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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* The Forgotten Victims of the California Wildfires: Undocumented Migrant Workers *

Andrea Guerrero of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium says law

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* On Visit to France, Donald Rumsfeld Hit with Lawsuit for Ordering,
Authorizing Torture *

The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor�s office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit. This is the fifth time Rumsfeld has been charged with direct involvement in torture since 9/11. We speak with two attorneys with the plaintiffs -- Center for Constitutional Rights president Michael Ratner and Jeanne Sulzer of the International Federation of Human Rights.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/26/1452236

* New York State Senate Votes Down Move to Allow Driver�s Licenses for Undocumented Workers *

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* Leading Australian Scientist Tim Flannery on Global Warming and the
Worsening Dangers of Climate Change Denial *

We spend the hour with one of the world's leading scientists studying
climate change, Tim Flannery. An Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and field zoologist, he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals. He has been described as being in the league of all-time great explorers such as David Livingstone. Flannery might be best known as the author of the bestselling book "The Weather Makers: The History and Future
Impact of Climate Change." Earlier this year he was named 2007 Australian of the Year.

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Hold Politicians’ Feet to the Fire

by Amy Goodman

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Fires rage through Southern California. Massive rainstorms drench New Orleans. The Southeast U.S., from Tennessee across the Carolinas and into Georgia, is in the midst of what could be the worst drought on record there. Atlanta could run out of water. While the press does an admirable job bringing us live images of extreme weather, it doesn’t explain why these events are happening. What links these crises? Global warming. Two words that have all too often been vacuumed off government Web sites and erased from government scientific studies.

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* Bush Admin Prosecution of Largest Muslim Charity in U.S. Ends in Mistrial*

The now-defunct Holy Land Foundation was once the largest Muslim charity in the United States. It collected donations for local committees providing humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The government had accused it of providing �material support� to a foreign terrorist organization. But jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict and the US district judge declared a mistrial on most of the charges. We speak to David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Khalil Meek, President of the
Muslim Legal Fund of America.

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* Middle East Analyst & Historian Juan Cole on U.S. War Plans Against Iran, Turkey and His New Book "Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East� *

As President Bush seeks $196 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we speak to Juan Cole about Iraq war and whether the war could spread to Iran and Turkey.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/23/1411254

* 60 Arrested at No War, No Warming Protests in Washington *

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* FCC Chair Kevin Martin Proposes Rules to Allow for Greater Media
Consolidation *

The FCC is proposing to do away with media ownership rules that bar
companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. In 2003, Kevin Martin voted with the then-FCC chairman to lift the same media ownership rules but the effort was overturned by the landmark Prometheus v. FCC decision.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/1415254

* Body Shop Founder & Environmental Campaigner Anita Roddick 1942-2007 *

Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Times

By Amy Goodman
Oct 16, 2007

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John Lennon would have turned 67 years old last week had he not been murdered in 1980, at the age of 40, by a mentally disturbed fan. On his birthday, Oct. 9, his widow, peace activist and artist Yoko Ono, realized a dream they shared. In Iceland, she inaugurated the Imagine Peace Tower, a pillar of light emerging from a wishing well, surrounded on the ground by the phrase “Imagine Peace” in 24 languages.

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* The Conscience of a Liberal: New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman on Healthcare, Tax Cuts, Social Security, the Mortgage Crisis and Alan Greenspan *

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is author of the new book, �The
Conscience of a Liberal.� Krugman teaches economics and international

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* EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon *

Today, we spend the hour with Yoko Ono: artist, musician, peace activist. She joins us in the firehouse studio just days after returning from Iceland, where she unveiled a project 40 years in the making -- the Imagine Peace Tower. Dedicated to her late husband John Lennon, the tower shoots light into the sky and bears the inscription �Imagine Peace.� It will light up every year between October 9th, the day of Lennon's birth, and December 8th, the day of his death.

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