Wednesday, February 20, 2013

20 February - The View

2009-02-06 Steve Irwin collides with Yushin Ma...
2009-02-06 Steve Irwin collides with Yushin Maru No. 3 (Photo credit: guano)
Lebanon history UNIFIL-Zone
Lebanon history UNIFIL-Zone (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, wh...
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...
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 Crimi...
English: Front view of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in the Hague, the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Official work by the Central Intellig...
English: Official work by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The image was released into the public domain after I e-mailed Public Relations and asked if the image could be freely distributed & edited. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Coat of arms of Syria -- the "Hawk of Qur...
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)
Map of former Yugoslavia during war.
Map of former Yugoslavia during war. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Occupy Monsanto shared Heirloom Girl's photo.
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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,”

Extra-Judicial Killing By Op-MESSA Soldier: Court Awards N300 Million To Victim's Widow | Sahara Rep...

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Extra-Judicial Killing By Op-MESSA Soldier: Court Awards N300 Million To Victim's Widow | Sahara Rep
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has awarded N300 million to

 

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

Join the Movement to End Impunity

"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' 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

‎"The ongoing and open-ended “war on terror” is not confined by geography or, apparently, by calendar. The search for enemies to smite (and create) is availing itself of a bottomless pit, while bottom-feeding military contractors keep making a killing."

Last chance to order a box with copies of Presente, to spread the word about U.S. foreign policy and the School of the Americas in your community: http://SOAW.org/order
Shameful Military Spending....Do we really need to waste 25 billion a year?
Shameful Military Spending....Do we really need to waste 25 billion a year?
 
While the corporations that profit from coal, oil, and gas are trying to persuade the public that regulation of greenhouse gasses will destroy American jobs, the truth, writes Jeremy Brecher, is that "climate change is destroying American jobs right now — but climate protection will produce millions of new jobs."
Read more to find out why:
How EPA Climate Protection Can Be America’s Greatest Jobs Producer
www.commondreams.org
As our country is devastated by more and more severe droughts, floods, fires, and superstorms, the public is demanding regulation of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change. The corporations that profit from coal, oil, and gas fear such
 

freethoughtblogs.comAs 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,



Jeremy Hammond Entrapment? | Think Tank
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Abby Martin talks to Michael Ratner, President Emeritus at the Center for Constitutional Rights,
‎'A freewheeling and almost entirely one-sided argument at the Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that the justices would not allow Monsanto’s patents for genetically altered soybeans to be threatened by an Indiana farmer who used them without paying the company a fee.'

Grassroots are Roundup resistant: Some community food markets in the US are educating their consumers about GMOs and even working on getting products with GMOs out of their stores!



gmoinside.org
We at GMO Inside are thrilled to see grocery stores joining in on the non-GMO action. We recently learned about a few community food markets in the country educating their consumers about GMOs, using GMO Inside’s labels, and even working on getting products 


‎"Fat Free" & "Low Fat"

‎3 Ingredients To Stop Feeding You and Your Kids
3 Ingredients To Stop Feeding You and Your Kids

@[189886954390218:274:Wake Up World]

A front label might say ‘all natural,’ or ‘packed with vitamins and minerals,’ but that doesn’t mean it isn’t filled with toxic and potentially harmful ingredients. It’s up to us to educate ourselves and vote with our dollars – if enough people do, manufacturers will be forced to listen.

These three ingredients are a great place to start:

1.) High Fructose Corn Syrup
It’s hard to find a processed food without High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), although it’s easier than it used to be.

The Corn Growers Association and other special interest groups that have a direct monetary stake in the continuance of turning genetically modified corn into a sweetener that populates seemingly every product on every grocery store aisle are constantly insisting that HFCS is the same as sugar or any other sweetener – except that it’s not.

Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar, and, because most fructose is consumed in liquid form, its negative metabolic effects are significantly magnified.

HFCS has been linked to diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Additionally, HFCS is made from genetically modified corn, which brings on a host of other issues.

2.) Aspartame
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Spoonful, Equal-Measure, and Equal) is 180 times sweeter than sugar. It’s composed of three primary ingredients – phenylalanine (50 percent), aspartic acid (40 percent), and methanol (wood alcohol – 10 percent). Discovered accidentally when a G.D. Searle chemist testing an anti-ulcer drug licked his finger after spilling one of the chemicals he was using.

The problem is not so much the amino acids in aspartame, but the ratios and chemical manipulation involved, which causes the body to break them down into free amino acids. Unable to recognize them in that form, it tries to metabolize them anyway, causing the central nervous system to flood and (potentially) causing brain neurons to fire excessively. This condition, called ‘excitotoxicity,’ can cause a whole host of physical and neurological problems. Additionally, the menthol in aspartame, having no natural binder (in nature, menthol is bound to pectin), turns into cancer-causing formaldehyde in the body.

3.) Monosodium Glutamate
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), another excitotoxin added by the ‘big-food’ manufacturers as a ‘flavor-enhancer’ designed to mask the lack of ‘real’ ingredients in processed food, has been linked to brain damage, migraines, ADD, ADHD, obesity, and other health issues. MSG is well known for its prevalence in Chinese food, but it’s also found in certain processed soups, snack foods, and even infant formula and baby food! MSG can be tough to avoid because the ingredient labels aren’t always clear. 

Read more: http://wakeup-world.com/2013/01/28/3-ingredients-to-stop-feeding-you-and-your-kids/
‎3 Ingredients To Stop Feeding You and Your Kids

Wake Up World

A front label might say ‘all natural,’ or ‘packed with vitamins and minerals,’ but that doesn’t mean it isn’t filled with toxic and potentially harmful ingredients. It’s up to us to educate ourselves and vote with our dollars – if enough people do, manufacturers will be forced to listen.

These three ingredients are a great place to start:

1.) High Fructose Corn Syrup
It’s hard to find a processed food without High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), although it’s easier than it used to be.

The Corn Growers Association and other special interest groups that have a direct monetary stake in the continuance of turning genetically modified corn into a sweetener that populates seemingly every product on every grocery store aisle are constantly insisting that HFCS is the same as sugar or any other sweetener – except that it’s not.

Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar, and, because most fructose is consumed in liquid form, its negative metabolic effects are significantly magnified.

HFCS has been linked to diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Additionally, HFCS is made from genetically modified corn, which brings on a host of other issues.

2.) Aspartame
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Spoonful, Equal-Measure, and Equal) is 180 times sweeter than sugar. It’s composed of three primary ingredients – phenylalanine (50 percent), aspartic acid (40 percent), and methanol (wood alcohol – 10 percent). Discovered accidentally when a G.D. Searle chemist testing an anti-ulcer drug licked his finger after spilling one of the chemicals he was using.

The problem is not so much the amino acids in aspartame, but the ratios and chemical manipulation involved, which causes the body to break them down into free amino acids. Unable to recognize them in that form, it tries to metabolize them anyway, causing the central nervous system to flood and (potentially) causing brain neurons to fire excessively. This condition, called ‘excitotoxicity,’ can cause a whole host of physical and neurological problems. Additionally, the menthol in aspartame, having no natural binder (in nature, menthol is bound to pectin), turns into cancer-causing formaldehyde in the body.

3.) Monosodium Glutamate
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), another excitotoxin added by the ‘big-food’ manufacturers as a ‘flavor-enhancer’ designed to mask the lack of ‘real’ ingredients in processed food, has been linked to brain damage, migraines, ADD, ADHD, obesity, and other health issues. MSG is well known for its prevalence in Chinese food, but it’s also found in certain processed soups, snack foods, and even infant formula and baby food! MSG can be tough to avoid because the ingredient labels aren’t always clear.

Read more: http://wakeup-world.com/2013/01/28/3-ingredients-to-stop-feeding-you-and-your-kids/

Occupy Monsanto shared Rawforbeauty's photo.
A California pharmacy is now promoting FREE antibiotics, flooding the population with chemicals that promote deadly superbugs while also polluting the environment and threatening aquatic life: http://www.naturalnews.com/039178_free_antibiotics_pharmacy_superbugs.html
California pharmacy floods population with free antibiotics, promoting deadly superbugs and environm
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California pharmacy floods population with free antibiotics,


Dane Wigington talks about horizontal gene mutation in his latest interview with Vinny Eastwood.... This is not a sci-fi fantasy, it is real. Our personal DNA and the DNA of just about every living organism on the planet is being changed in ways that we cannot even imagine through the process of horizontal or lateral gene transfer, courtesy of the biotechnology industry and geo-engineering programs. ...
Neuroscientist speaks out on nanonanosized aluminum compounds in our atmosphere..concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, as a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) are strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum. ..http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=3298
‎"This film carries the nation's baggage; it investigates a culture of racial neglect, creates a zone of history-making for Katrina's disposable bodies, and provides a steady critique of white capital. The film's rags and wastelands—its killing fields—become powerful emblems of the Southland's (and our nation's) commitment to toxic inequality.

"But something else rages in this film; it refuses the realism of social critique and advances instead into hubris land, into a new realm of myth making for the twenty-first century. "We's who the earth is for," boasts Hushpuppy, echoing her father's view of the racially mixed population of the Bathtub."
Taking the microphone, Vietnamese fishermen told the council they want the deeper parts of the Gulf cleaned and reefs restored. A Diamondhead charter boat captain said he wants disappearing marsh built back. The Mississippi Renaissance Garden Foundation hopes some of the money could be spent on public gardens.

But Trudy Fisher, Mississippi's representative on the council, said Tuesday night's meeting at the Coast Convention Center wasn't to consider specific projects, it was more about getting started. Fisher also is head of the state Department of Environmental Quality.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/02/19/4478232/more-than-250-attend-meeting-on.html#storylink=cpy
Coastians share visions of Gulf at meeting on RESTORE Act oil spill-relief fund | Oil Spill | The Su
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BILOXI -- More than 250 people came to listen and learn Tuesday night about the process that will eventually
( Can't be done. Will be a clusterfuck to compete with Iraqi reconstruction - and workers will be poisoned ) 
Mobile data use continues to increase, including in Canada, yet our telecom market, which provides that data, is broken.

Canadians experience some of the highest mobile phone prices and continue to lack options. We don't deserve this. Demand choice at http://DemandChoice.ca/
Parents talk about chemicals: Worry is everywhere, but we ‘begged’ for convenience
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“As a child,” Richard Carriero says, “I was oblivious.” He did all the “dangerous” things as a kid: drank from the garden hose, ate junky processed treats and played with any
Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from glowing dogs to mice that grow human ears. He asks: Isn't it time to set some ground rules...
Dane Wigington talks about this in his latest interview with Vinny Eastwood... I recommend that every one have a listen... "Two known patents for the process of “artificial ice nucleation for weather modification” are posted at the bottom of this article. The Chinese government has openly admitted they are creating ”artificial snow storms” but later backtracked after causing a billion dollars of damage to Beijing"...http://www.activistpost.com/2012/12/geoengineered-snow-storms-wreaking.html


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Published on Feb 8, 2013 Scientists at GEOMAR have put together this time lapse showing just how we are being ...
 

Image courtesy of DHS.gov. Take a good look at this picture. The US government is training Latino youth as a k...
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StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) shared a link.
Since 1999, prescription drug use, misuse and overdose has increased steadily, causing the deaths of at least 20,000 US residents each year.


American Assassinations for Dummies: Obama’s extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens are not unprecedented, argues Mark Ames. Instead, our "progressive" president has absorbed the policies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and adopted them as his own. http://truth-out.org/news/item/14670-american-assassinations-for-dummies
American Assassinations for Dummies: Obama’s extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens are not unprecedented, argues Mark Ames. Instead, our "progressive" president has absorbed the policies of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and adopted them as his own. http://truth-out.org/news/item/14670-american-assassinations-for-dummies
Congratulations, you (YES, YOU!) are now one legally pressed button away from death by drones. - Rollie Williams
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DHS gave millions to company to produce these targets. Feel like the DHS is there to keep YOU safe from Al ciada still? http://www.infowars.com/company-behind-shooting-targets-of-children-received-2-million-from-dhs/ ~Morgan B
DHS gave millions to company to produce these targets. Feel like the DHS is there to keep YOU safe from Al ciada still? http://www.infowars.com/company-behind-shooting-targets-of-children-received-2-million-from-dhs/  ~Morgan B

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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,”
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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.

Science doesn't have all the answers, but maybe that's the point. Watch and share this breathtaking video about our amazing planet and universe.

China to tax carbon emissions

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0220-china-carbon-tax.html

China will introduce a carbon tax, reports official state media. The government will levy a tax on carbon dioxide emissions according to a statement on the Ministry of Finance's web site. The tax will be collected by local the local taxation authority.
China to tax carbon emissions

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0220-china-carbon-tax.html

China will introduce a carbon tax, reports official state media. The government will levy a tax on carbon dioxide emissions according to a statement on the Ministry of Finance's web site. The tax will be collected by local the local taxation authority.

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It's the Sun stupid - The minor significance of CO2
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Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1 The IPCC’s Core Problem The IPCC - Al Gore based Anthropogenic Global Warming scare has driven global Governments’ Climate and Energy
 
‎"...[O]n his first 'guys weekend' away since he was reelected, the president chose to spend his free time with Jim Crane and Milton Carroll, leading figures in the Texas oil and gas industry, along with other men who run companies that deal in the same kinds of carbon-based services that Keystone would enlarge. They hit the links at the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club, which is owned by Crane and located on the Treasure Coast in Palm City, Fla."
 
First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0220-hance-interpol-logging.html

One-hundred-and-ninety-seven illegal loggers across a dozen Central and South American countries have been arrested during INTERPOL's first strike against widespread forestry crime. INTERPOL, or The International Criminal Police Organization, worked with local police forces to take a first crack at illegal logging. In all the effort, known as Operation Lead, resulted in the seizure of 50,000 cubic meters of wood worth around $8 million.
First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0220-hance-interpol-logging.html

One-hundred-and-ninety-seven illegal loggers across a dozen Central and South American countries have been arrested during INTERPOL's first strike against widespread forestry crime. INTERPOL, or The International Criminal Police Organization, worked with local police forces to take a first crack at illegal logging. In all the effort, known as Operation Lead, resulted in the seizure of 50,000 cubic meters of wood worth around $8 million.

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