Saturday, September 07, 2013

Drums of War

Pro-abortion march (Photo credit: American Life League)

English: Salomons Atoll is one of the many above water features of the Chagos Archipelago (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The first American sea serpent, reported from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1639. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Soviet poster circa 1925. Title translation: "Abortions performed by either trained or self-taught midwives not only maim the woman, they also often lead to death." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Abortion is not Healthcare" (Photo credit: brunosan)

Massive marine protected area is an even bigger sham

Kiribati boasts one of the world's largest no-fishing reserves, but its marine life is anything but safe

With Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India’s Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey

by Paromita Pain, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service

As India's government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, enhancing the hold that biotech companies like Monsanto have over the nation's food production, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.

The monstrous sea serpent was real !

Bill Hicks : The Film

My abortion, their political ploy

A girlfriend who’d had an abortion before went with me to the clinic. A cluster of female “pro-lifers” accosted me in the parking lot when I arrived. “First Amendment rights,” said the receptionist. I call it harassment. Sanctioned abuse.

NSA Broke Privacy Rules 'Thousands' of Times and Other News You Need to Know

Report: NSA Can Break Internet Encryption

NSA Code Cracking Puts Google Under Fire

Reports, based on documents from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, emerged amid an expanding debate over whether NSA surveillance activities undermine civil liberties. The revelations raise fresh questions about the security of data held by companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft just as more commerce shifts online.

Companies offering cloud services — in which businesses pay a third party to provide databases, storage and computing power — may lose as much as $35 billion by 2016 as foreign companies avoid U.S. solutions because of the fear the NSA may have access to the data, according to a study released last month by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

U.S. Government Releases First of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service Files

U.S. and Australian Troops Used Chat Rooms to Conduct Joint Exercise

DEA Has Access to Billions of AT&T Phone Call Records

Microsoft and Google to Sue over US Surveillance Requests

by Rory Carroll – The Guardian

Microsoft and Google are to sue the US government to win the right to reveal more information about official requests for user data. The lawsuit was announced on Friday [30 Aug 2013], escalating a legal battle over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), the mechanism used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other US government agencies to gather data about foreign internet users.

Syria: Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War

by Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service

The UN investigations and the appropriate responses are yet to be made. More shelling of military installations in Syria is unlikely to bring about the negotiations in good faith needed in the Syrian conflict. Thus there is a short-term need to stop beating the drums of war while at the same time stressing the condemnation of the use of chemical weapons.

Any Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management

by The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service

Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered - but then only under command of the UN itself.

George Galloway’s Speech in British Parliament Debate on Military Action against Syria

by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service

Aug/29/2013 - Parliament Debates Military Action Against Syria. George Galloway speaks as The British House of Commons holds an urgent debate on possible military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament following reports of a chemical weapons attack against Syrian citizens.

An Attack on Syria Will Only Spread the War and Killing

by Seumas Milne – The Guardian

All the signs are they're going to do it again. The attack on Syria now being planned by the US and its allies will be the ninth direct western military intervention in an Arab or Muslim country in 15 years. Depending how you cut the cake, the looming bombardment follows onslaughts on Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali, as well as a string of murderous drone assaults on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.

Hot Off the Press: Britain Sold Nerve Gas Chemicals to Syria

by Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service

Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war. “Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”

London to Host One of the World’s Biggest Arms Fairs and Why It Shouldn’t Happen

by Kaye Stearman – Open Democracy

After being home to several Olympic competitions this summer, London’s ExCel Centre is to host one of the world’s most important arms fairs in 2013. But the event’s past affiliations with autocratic regimes and the nature of the exhibitors and buyers involved should be enough to forbid it from happening.

People of the World are Fighting Back

by Finian Cunningham – Information Clearing House

What the deluded Americans do not seem to realize is that they are on their own. The only entities willing to support their aggression on Syria are Saudi Arabia and Israel.