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Mass Protests In Tokyo As Tens of Thousands Reject Controversial Security Bills

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<h2>Mass Protests In Tokyo As Tens of Thousands Reject Controversial Security Bills</h2>
<span>Mass Protests In Tokyo As Tens of Thousands Reject Controversial Security Bills</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.dw.de/" rel="nofollow">Deutsche Welle</a></span></div>
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<p>The demonstrators were chanting "No to war legislation" and calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to quit, at the large rally in downtown Tokyo on Sunday.</p>
<p>"Sitting in front of TV and just complaining wouldn't do," said Naoko Hiramatsu, a 44-year-old professor of French.</p>
<p>"If I don't take action and try to put a stop on this, I will not be able to explain myself to my child in the future," she added, holding a four-year-old son in her arms. While the organizers estimated that some 120,000 people took part in the Sunday protests, the police provided a far lower figure of 30,000.</p>
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<p><strong>Against the Grain</strong></p>
<p>The rally was held in response to a legal initiative pushed by Abe's government. The military bills would allow Japanese soldiers to engage in overseas combat to protect Japanese interests. However, many scholars say the initiative clashes with the Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which prohibits the use of force to settle international disputes.</p>
<p>Officially, Japan does not have an army, and its troops are known only as the Japan Self-Defense Forces. "For 70 years, thanks to Article 9 of our constitution, Japan has not engaged in war or been touched by any aggression. Article 9 is our foundation," said demonstrator Masako Suzuki.</p>
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<p><strong>Tension in the Region</strong></p>
<p>Although the anti-war constitution was imposed by the US after World War II, many Japanese have grown attached to the country's pacifist position. The majority of people oppose the new military bills, surveys show. Obama's administration has welcomed Abe's initiative, which the Japanese government explains by safety concerns from North Korea and China. The bills cleared the lower house of parliament last month and are now being debated in the upper house. The lawmakers are expected to make their final decision in September.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dw.com/en/mass-protests-in-tokyo-against-controversial-military-bills/a-18682142?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-html-newsletter" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Deutsche Welle</a></p>
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<p>Tens of thousands of people have gathered in front of Japanese parliament to protest against security bills they believe to be unconstitutional, allowing Japanese soldiers to fight overseas in defense of national interests.</p>
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<p>Demonstrators have gathered for weeks in downtown Beirut calling for the resignation of officials responsible for the current waste crisis and demanding new elections.</p>
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<p>People participating in the 34-hour protest slept in the streets overnight in an unusually calm demonstration of public outrage by the group Bersih, which means “clean” in Malay.</p>
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Riot Police Break Up Peaceful "You Stink!" Protest In Beirut As Lebanese Movement Grows

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<h2>Riot Police Break Up Peaceful "You Stink!" Protest In Beirut As Lebanese Movement Grows</h2>
<span>Riot Police Break Up Peaceful "You Stink!" Protest In Beirut As Lebanese Movement Grows</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera</span></div>
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<p>Riot police have broken up an anti-government protest in Beirut where at least 10,000 people had gathered to demonstrate against a services crisis.</p>
<p>The police chased men and women from the city's Riad al-Solh square shortly after 10pm on Saturday, beating both men and women as they cleared the area. Several protesters were arrested. The demonstrators had gathered in downtown Beirut to call for the resignation of officials responsible for the current waste crisis and for new elections.</p>
<p>The police earlier had called for peaceful protesters to move from the square after protesters set fire to rubbish and began climbing through a barbed-wire barricade. The organizers of the YouStink! protest said they would give the Lebanese government until Tuesday to meet their demands, including the resignation of the country's environment minister, otherwise the group would escalate its efforts.</p>
<p>Earlier, on Saturday, the atmosphere at the rally was festive with families carrying signs, singing songs and shouting chants. Sandwich stands and ice cream trucks were rolled out, providing food and drinks to those attending.</p>
<p>The protest follows several weeks of tension over the country’s ongoing rubbish disposal issue and the government's failure to provide other services such as water and electricity.</p>
<p>Banners held up by the crowds called for the downfall of the government while others listed demands including accountability, fixing the country's rubbish crisis, and removing the 128 parliamentarians from office.</p>
<p>"People are not 'welcome' to join, people should join - it's their duty as Lebanese citizens to come down today," Marwan Azzi, a 34-year-old businessman from Mount Lebanon, told Al Jazeera. "We are all here today because we are sick of the politicians taking us for fools."</p>
<p>Protest organizers said the rally had drawn 30,000 to 40,000 people, while security sources put the figure at 10,000.</p>
<p>Wissam Saliba, a 26-year-old producer, said: "This is the first time ever we are waking up and breaking the old system that has chained us. We are fighting for our basic human rights."</p>
<p>The protesters are also demanding the release of all who were detained in previous demonstrations.</p>
<p>Earlier in the night the security forces unfurled a massive banner from one of the abandoned buildings, which read: "We are here for your protection," which was greeted with loud jeers from the crowd.</p>
<p>Last weekend, tens of thousands of people attended two rallies which descended into violence after security forces opened fire on the protesters.</p>
<p>Security forces used water cannon, tear gas, live ammunition and rubber bullets, while also beating many, leaving hundreds injured over the space of two days.</p>
<p>Human Rights Watch has since called on the government to investigate the excessive use of violence by security forces "and refrain from repeated violence against demonstrators."</p>
<p>Further scuffles erupted again earlier this week as protesters continued to hold sit-ins downtown. On Tuesday, security forces severely beat dozens of protesters and arrested several more, as activists called on the country's interior minister, Nouhad Machnouk, to be held accountable.</p>
<p><strong>Call for Restraint</strong></p>
<p>Machnouk has since announced an investigation into the incidents, and on Friday admitted excessive use of force was used during last Saturday's protest.</p>
<p>Civil society activists, under the movements of You Stink! and We Want Accountability, are demanding accountability against those involved in the use of excessive force against the protesters, new elections to replace the current government - which had previously cancelled elections and extended its own mandate twice - and the resignation of Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk, for failing to resolve the ongoing rubbish crisis.</p>
<p>"We started as dozens of protesters and now we're thousands," Asaad Thebian, an activist with the You Stink! campaign, said during Friday's press conference. "We are demanding parliamentary elections."</p>
<p>As the protests have gained momentum, many politicians and parties currently in government have been issuing statements of support for the protests, despite the fact that they are the same figures being named and shamed in the demonstrations.</p>
<p>The country has been without a president since May 2014, and the parliament has been unable to convene in full in order to vote for one, with cabinet ministers unable to decide how to make decisions, let alone address ongoing issues.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/lebanon-anti-government-protests-150829112717978.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published Al Jazeera</a></p>
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Yellow Rebellion: Hundreds of Thousands Defy Malaysian Anti-Protest Law Calling for Ruler's Resignation

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<h2>Yellow Rebellion: Hundreds of Thousands Defy Malaysian Anti-Protest Law Calling for Ruler's Resignation</h2>
<span>Yellow Rebellion: Hundreds of Thousands Defy Malaysian Anti-Protest Law Calling for Ruler's Resignation</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>Thousands of Malaysians have made their way back to the center of the capital, assembling again in an illegal demonstration to call for the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, who is battling the fallout from a financial scandal.</p>
<p>Some people in the 34-hour protest had slept in the streets overnight in an unusually calm demonstration of public outrage by the group Bersih, a coalition of non-governmental organizations, which means “clean” in Malay.</p>
<p>This is the fourth demonstration by the group and previous attempts have been met with arrests and teargas. But as of Sunday, the authorities said nobody was in detention and police at the front of the rally stood behind railings looking bored.</p>
<p>Najib is facing calls to resign after reports that he pocketed nearly $700 million (£456 million) from the debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).</p>
<p>1MDB was launched in 2009 by Najib, who still chairs its advisory board. Critics say he has been opaque in explaining its dealings. Cabinet ministers later tried to explain that the money was political donations from people in the Middle East but the muddied reasoning has only served to further enrage Malaysians.</p>
<p>The government has said the protests are illegal and has gone as far as banning anyone wearing yellow clothing – the signature colour of Bersih – or handing out printed material linked to it. The group’s website has been blocked.</p>
<p>Najib said the protesters were unpatriotic. “Don’t they understand, are they that shallow and poor in their patriotism and love for their motherland?” he was quoted as saying by national news agency Bernama. “Don’t they understand the country was built on the blood and sweat of our freedom fighters?”</p>
<p>The protest is due to end on Sunday at midnight. It is an expression of anger against what the group calls “one of the greatest multibillion-dollar corruption scandals in Malaysia’s history and the government’s most oppressive crackdowns on free speech.”</p>
<p>The prime minister says he is innocent of allegations that he has taken money. Yet he has sacked four ministers, his attorney general and deputy prime minister in an attempt to disarm his critics. A crackdown on dissent has also seen the blocking of two newspapers and a British-based whistleblowing website run by the sister-in-law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown.</p>
<p>The botched attempt to stifle expression has only further angered Malaysians, who have also suffered the implementation of a goods and services tax this year as well as a devaluation in the local ringgit currency to a 17-year low.</p>
<p>The streets at the protest were a sea of yellow. One man carried an effigy of Najib in a cage. Others carried signs saying “impeach the dirty PM”. Vendors sold yellow Guy Fawkes masks made popular by the Anonymous movement. And many people had helium balloons of Minions – characters from the feature film of the same name – as they are coloured yellow.</p>
<p>Bersih said there were 200,000 protesters at the rally’s peak although the police disputed the number. People were still arriving on Sunday.</p>
<p>Some protesters who spoke to the Guardian said they were dismayed by the absence of the country’s majority Malay Muslims at the protest, pointing out that most of the attendees were Chinese Malaysians and other minorities.</p>
<p>The prime minister’s party, the United Malays National Organisation, has been in power coalitions since 1957 in the elective monarchy. It has championed racial laws that favour Malay Muslims who have historically not been as successful in business as their ethnic-Chinese compatriots.</p>
<p>“There is a low number of Muslims. There is a Chinese majority from my viewpoint,” said Praba Gauesan, who runs an NGO that tries to increase political engagement by Malaysians.</p>
<p>He said Bersih had missed a “huge opportunity” to mobilise Malay Muslims by focusing on the resignation of a Malay Muslim prime minister and not anger shared by most Malaysians over the cost of living. “There was a large number of people ready to protest,” he said. “But they focused instead on moral righteousness.”</p>
<p>Najib has lost Malay Muslim allies, importantly his former mentor and Malaysia’s leader of 22 years, Mahathir Mohamad, who visited the protest camp on Saturday night to screaming and elated crowds.</p>
<p>Mahathir commands respect in the country of 30 million and has called for a vote of no confidence against Najib, accusing him of halting an investigation into corruption and buying politicians. Najib dismissesd the request as “political sabotage”.</p>
<p>Najib’s patience could run thin on Sunday as the protest is located right on the edge of Merdeka (Independence) Square, where National Day celebrations are due to be held. “We want to celebrate independence, there are some people who want to show their feelings at the historic place in Merdeka Square,” he said.</p>
<p>Bersih organisers have asked people not to try to breach police lines. They say they will have more than a thousand trained crowd managers present and organisers clearly marked, as well as professional medics, to avoid chaos.</p>
<p>The group said in a statement: “We have spoken with the police. We have reminded them of their obligations under law and their previous failings.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/malaysia-protests-calling-for-najib-razak-to-resign-enter-second-day" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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Romanian Police: Driver Of Truck Stacked with Bodies Wasn't Romanian, We Swear!

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<span>Romanian Police: Driver Of Truck Stacked with Bodies Wasn't Romanian, We Swear!</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/20150822015616956.jpg?itok=XTRH7WcU" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/20150822015616956.jpg?itok=XTRH7WcU" /></a>
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<p>Romania's vice premier and Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea has informed President Klaus Iohannis that new security measures are now enforced at the Romanian-Serbian border despite no immediate danger of a "migratory flux," and that local structures should be ready for receiving and processing approximately 1,500 would-be immigrants.</p>
<p>The old Austro-Hungarian conglomerate is acting up in strange ways. A furious wave of refugees last week spurred the Hungarian concoction of barbed wire <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/europe-open-border-policy-schengen-may-be-nearing-end/" rel="nofollow">erected to wall off immigrants</a>, entering the so-called "paradise" composed of France, the Netherlands and Germany.</p>
<p>It’s a strange feeling seeing all those people march away, like heading to some big concert party, treading on the rails, down the fields and up the slopes, camping under the starry sky. It reminded me of Woodstock.</p>
<p>One other way to get there is the highway; big trucks barreling down the lanes and into the Schengen Eden. But the other day one of these trucks was idling on the emergency lane between Parndorf and Neusiedle am See towards Vienna, and a highway maintenance employee informed the Austrian authorities of the foul smell reeking out of the truck.</p>
<p>"We’ve found 20, 30, 40, maybe even 50 people inside the truck, already dead," declared Hans Peter Doskozil, the Burgenland county police chief.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/more-than-70-dead-austria-migrant-truck-tragedy" rel="nofollow">It turned out there were 71</a>. The corpses were found in an advanced discomposed state, the truck abandoned, no trace of the driver. "It’s an abominable act, something that hasn’t happened in years in Burgenland," Hans, said, adding that he was convinced he was dealing with organized crime.</p>
<p>It turns out the truck had belonged to a Slovakian company owned by the Czech finance minister, sold recently to its present owner, a Romanian businessman, for a Hungarian company, as confirmed by the truck’s license plates.</p>
<p>Romanian Police have denied the driver’s Romanian identity, stating that the truck operator was Bulgarian – though without elaborating on how they have arrived at this conclusion.</p>
<p>"This is a dark day for us. This tragedy affects us all," said Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner.</p>
<p>"Obviously, we’re all shattered. What happened has reminded us we ought to rapidly solve the immigration problem according to the European spirit," added German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "That’s why I think that being a rich continent, Europe has to live up to the current situation."</p>
<p>It's not the only incident. Tens of trucks and vans crammed with hopeful African people are speeding down the same highway, greedy stupid drivers taking advantage of their dwindling finances, trying to avoid police road blocks, crashing and injuring the dreaming lot.</p>
<p>Thousands of refugees have occupied a Budapest train station waiting to be sorted out, stamped and sent to their imagined future. They sing their songs, write letters, pray to their deities. Then a woman gave birth right there, in no man’s land. Life goes on.</p>
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Act out! Podcast 26: Whistleblowers, awful theme parks, secret societies & diplomacy

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<p>Demonstrators have gathered for weeks in downtown Beirut calling for the resignation of officials responsible for the current waste crisis and demanding new elections.</p>
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<p>People participating in the 34-hour protest slept in the streets overnight in an unusually calm demonstration of public outrage by the group Bersih, which means “clean” in Malay.</p>
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Did Miley Cyrus Just Expose The Music Industry Live On TV At The VMA?

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<p>This week at the MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus blatantly said that elements within “the entertainment industry” <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/after-watching-this-you-will-never-trust-your-television-again/">intentionally manipulate</a> the constant soap opera that exists between celebrities. Typically we would not pay any attention to this celebrity-driven soap opera, but it is a massive <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/need-more-proof-that-the-music-industry-is-fake-here-you-go/">propaganda</a> tool that the ruling class uses to keep people distracted, and it is important to point out the behind the scenes manipulations that many would write off as a “conspiracy theory.”</p>
<p>The admission was made during a possibly staged portion of the award ceremony when celebrity Nicki Minaj became confrontational with Cyrus over something that she had reportedly said about her “in the press.” Cyrus responded by saying <em>“We’re all in this industry, we all do</em> interview<em>, and we all know how they manipulate sh**.”</em></p>
<p>Most media outlets promoted this petty beef between two celebrities while overlooking the blatant and obvious fact that it is common for elements within the entertainment industry to manipulate the information that is consumed by their customers. It is likely that the events that transpired <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/the-hunger-games-of-cbs-families-get-101000-with-a-sickening-twist/">were staged</a>, but not necessarily entirely scripted, meaning that they are given a basic outline of how their portion is supposed to play out, and they are allowed to improvise with their own dialogue. And it is truly interesting that Cyrus chose to call out the entertainment industry in this way, if in fact she was speaking on her own and not acting.</p>
<p>With figures in the entertainment industry, it is nearly impossible to tell who has honest intentions, who is a mindless pawn, and who is actively helping to spread propaganda. Many assume that every single celebrity is a paid propagandist, and this may be true to some extent, but each celebrity seems to have different lines that they draw in the sand about just how far they will go, and just how long they will “play the game.” Sometimes, celebrities will come to understand the game that is being played around them, and while they may be morally opposed to it, they continue to play because they are already trapped.  This is when they are faced with a choice, will they continue to push propaganda, or will they stand up and use their credibility as an insider, and whistleblower to speak out about what they have seen first-hand.</p>
<p>What else does <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/jiddu-krishnamurti-asks-why-dont-you-change-what-prevents-you/">Cyrus know</a> about the entertainment industry? And will she ever choose to tell the world how deep the corruption goes?</p>
<p>Some say that she is one of the main propaganda pawns of the ruling class, while others say that she has had enough and is ready to rebel.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jgvibes" target="_blank">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.</p>
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