2009-02-06 Steve Irwin collides with Yushin Maru No. 3 (Photo credit: guano) |
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The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, which is the seat of the International Court of Justice. Français : Le Palais de la Paix, siège de la Cour internationale de Justice à La Haye (Pays-Bas). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
English: At the UN, Colin Powell holds a model vial of anthrax, while arguing that Iraq is likely to possess WMDs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
English: Front view of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in the Hague, the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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Coat of arms of Syria -- the "Hawk of Qureish" with shield of vertical tricolor of the national flag, holding a scroll with the words الجمهورية العربية السورية (Al-Jumhuriyah al-`Arabiyah as-Suriyah "The Syrian Arab Republic"). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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More than 90 crime bosses held as Moscow police raid criminal gatherings (VIDEO)
‘ICC is the enemy of liberty’
“The ICC is the enemy of liberty as understood and practiced by the Western institutions since the Enlightenment onwards. The moral absolutism at the core of the ICC is immoral.”
Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor at the Chronicles magazine
Trifkovic argues that the accusations are a fig leaf which is supposed to hide the essence of this project – which is to treat Assad and his government as members of ‘joint criminal enterprise.’ “‘Joint criminal enterprise’ is an all-embracing quasi-legal term used by the Yugoslav war tribunal to indict everybody within the hierarchy and lower down the scale,” he added.
The view is supported by journalist Neil Clark who fears that what's happening here is a political move to put more pressure on Damascus.“If there are war crimes being committed on both sides, let's prosecute both sides. All we're getting again is talk about indicting President Assad and leading Syrian officials. It's all wrong. If there's evidence of war crimes against rebel commanders, let them be indicted,”
- Poland to drop charges in CIA secret prison investigation – report
- Poland will clear its former intelligence head of charges he knew about and permitted the CIA to run a secret prison on Polish soil to detain and torture Al-Qaeda suspects, according to a local newspaper.
What are Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIAs)?
Monday the EU stopped short of meeting Britain's demand to lift an arms embargo on Syria but agreed to allow "non-lethal" aid and "technical assistance" to flow to the opposition.
Destroying enforcement of international law prohibiting torture,assassination,occupation,etc. such as was imposed at Nuremberg
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"Provocative" Blast Tests International Law's Limits
North Korea's latest nuclear test highlights the limits of what the United Nations and its member states can do when an outlaw nation is determined to run roughshod over existing international laws.
Policymakers and diplomats in Washington, DC and at the UN are scrambling for a way to respond to the young dictator Kim Jong Un's latest delinquency.President Obama called the detonation a "highly provocative act" following North Korea's December 12 ballistic missile launch which "violates North Korea's obligations under numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions... and increases the risk of proliferation."*
That North Korean 'tantrum'
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North Korean 'tantrum' is the act of a nation which has been victimized
for decades - first by splitting it up by force, then the killing of
30% of its population, then interference with domestic power production
on terms agreed to by 140 nations in the NPT * by unilateral economic
sanctions of ever increasing severity...and by abrogation of the
agreement which would have allowed North Korea to alleviate its energy
shortage by other means in 2003. The best response to accusations was
made when the UN Security Council was chastising their ambassador for
nuclear tests some years ago. "There have been 2054 nuclear tests. We
have made 2. You have done the rest. Yet WE are irresponsible? What
hypocrisy." So we have managed to cut off the Third Pillar of the NPT*,
run a blockade ( an act of war ) for decades, and chastise them for
being unreasonable while starving and without the means to better their
lot. Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998" ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk
As much as we might like to ignore or obscure it, we can’t outrun our past. Many of the institutions we rely on were built, or at least conceived of, in a time when bigoted ideas were openly expressed and widely believed (unlike now,
( Can't be done. Will be a clusterfuck to compete with Iraqi reconstruction - and workers will be poisoned )
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Chief Jackie Thomas spoke at yesterday's #ForwardOnClimate rally. She talked about the toll that tar sands are already taking on her neighbors in Alberta, and promised that First Nations communities and their allies in Canada will never allow a pipeline to be built west to the Pacific.
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Climate Craziness of the Week: Harvard’s McElroy: ‘Bridges may be in the wrong place’ for climate change
the author, Michael McElroy, goes on to connect the long debunked “climate change caused the Arab Spring uprising”, when it was actually local politics and food prices resulting from those politics caused it. The stupid, it burns like a supernova in this article which is chock full of coulds, maybes, and might be’s. And, get this line:
“We don’t have definitive answers, but our report raises these questions, because what we are saying is that these conditions are likely to be more normal than they were in the past,”Your comment is awaiting moderation.
As you say “Teh Stupid, It Burns”
Certainly Australians are no fan of an energy tax imposed on them
against their will ( reporting resistance is verboten ). And one
unbelievable consequence of carbon sequestration flogging is shutting
down of farms. http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/carbon-farming-helps-australian-agriculture-power-ahead/
Sidebar to that is interesting when one thinks of G Dubya Bush’s
vacation antics in Texas : it seems brushing is penalized in both
Australia and the U.S. on the basis of sequestration concerns : so there
are no firebreaks and homes are lost. But that’s caused by global
warming causing drought. Yikes.