CHINA BULLIES DAVOS THE IRRELEVANCE OF DAVOS G8, G20 AND COPENHAGEN
February 2, 2010
CHINA BULLIES DAVOS THE IRRELEVANCE OF DAVOS G8, G20 AND COPENHAGEN
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
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China Bosses Davos as Nobody Discusses What Happened to Google
By Rob Delaney and Ari Levy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atF6ms3zqviw
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.’s opposition to censorship in China was the one topic left off the table in Davos — at China’s request.
“China didn’t want to discuss Google,” Josef Ackermann, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank AG and a co-chairman of this year’s World Economic Forum, said in an interview. China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang made that clear, he said…
At Davos, financier George Soros, economist Joseph Stiglitz and French President Nicolas Sarkozy debated technology topics including social networking and 3-D features used in the motion picture “Avatar.” The discussion didn’t address the conflict between China and Google, even during panels on “The Rise of Asia” and “Redesigning the Global Dimensions of China’s Growth.” ..
In remarks circulated on the front page of China’s newspapers, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview this week on ABC News’s “Good Morning America” that “Chinese efforts to censor the Internet have been very limited.”
Gates declined to comment on Google in an interview in Davos.
(Can someone please get Bill Gates some truth serum-a free dose perhaps? Note: PSEA’s documents are generally available at google.cn
our documents are banned at baidu.com China’s State sanctioned search engine.)
Google wasn’t mentioned in either of two China-oriented Davos panel discussions: One called “U.S.-China: Reshaping the Global Agenda” and another on “Redesigning the Global Dimensions of China’s Growth,” which featured Alcoa Inc. CEO Klaus Kleinfeld and Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman. The participants debated topics including what China Central Television host Rui Chenggang called a “self-righteous” Western media’s misapprehension of China. Rui and Schwarzman both declined to comment about Google after the panel..
“People have their commercial interests,” Deutsche Bank’s Ackermann said.
Apple: Still kowtowing to Chinese censorship
January 15, 2010
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15412/apple_still_kowtowing_to_chinese_censorship
Apple has worked for years to build a company image as freedom-loving and iconoclastic. But the truth is far darker: Apple is cooperating with the Chinese government to ban iPhone applications in China related to the Dalai Lama and Uighur activist Rebiya Kandeer, even though it once highlighted the Dalai Lama in its “Think Different” campaign. One word describes Apple’s behavior: hypocritical. ..
That theme continued through the years, notably with a “Think Different” campaign in 1997. Here’s the text from the first ads, which link using Apple products to world-changing free-thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, and, ironically, the Dalai Lama.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. “ Apple
Mussolini iPhone app becomes the second-most downloaded item in Italy – 1,000 a day for 59p
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246708/Mussolini-iPhone-app-second-downloaded-item-Italy–1-000-day-59p.html#ixzz0eFmUmn8P
By NICK PISA 28th January 2010
An iPhone application containing 100 of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s speeches has become the second most downloaded item in Italy, it emerged today.
The application, called iMussolini, is available on Apple’s on line store for 79 euro cents (59p).
According to Italy’ Apple iTunes store, it has been downloaded more than a hugely popular video game based on blockbuster film Avatar.
Record iMussolini downloads for iPhone app on Holocaust Memorial Day
Italian Fascism? – There’s an app for that
Nick Spence
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=28498&pagtype=allchandate
An iPhone application devoted to Benito Mussolini, one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism, has been criticised after record downloads on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
By STEVE LOHR New York Times
Published: January 29, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html
ANALYSIS China’s strident tone raises concerns among Western governments, analysts
By John Pomfret
Washington Post
Sunday, January 31, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/30/AR2010013002443.html
From the Copenhagen climate change conference to Internet freedom to China’s border with India, China observers have noticed a tough tone emanating from its government, its representatives and influential analysts from its state-funded think tanks…
Analysts say a combination of hubris and insecurity appears to be driving China’s mood. On one hand, Beijing thinks that the relative ease with which it skated over the global financial crisis underscores the superiority of its system and that China is not only rising but has arrived on the global stage — much faster than anyone could have predicted. On the other, recent uprisings in the western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang have fed Chinese leaders’ insecurity about their one-party state. As such, any perceived threat to their power is met with a backlash. ..
The unease over China’s new tone is shared by Europeans as well. “How Should Europe Respond to China’s Strident Rise?” is the title of a new paper from the Center for European Reform. Just two years earlier, its author, institute director Charles Grant, had predicted that China and the European Union would shape the new world order.
“There is a real rethink going on about China in Europe,” Grant said in an interview from Davos. “I don’t think governments know what to do, but they know that their policies aren’t working.”
U.S. officials first began noticing the new Chinese attitude last year. Anecdotes range from the political to the personal…
David Finkelstein, a former U.S. Army officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who now runs the China program at the Center for Naval Analyses, said the new tone underscores a shift in China. “On the external front,” he said, “we will likely see a China that is more willing than in the past to proactively shape the external environment and international order rather than passively react to it.”
An example would be events that unfolded in December when 22 Chinese Muslims showed up in Cambodia and requested political asylum. China wanted to hold seven of them on suspicion of participating in anti-Chinese riots in the Xinjiang region in July.
Under intense pressure from Beijing, Cambodia sent the group home, despite protests from the United States. Two days after the group was repatriated, China signed 14 deals with Cambodia worth about $1 billion.
(China)Sanctions target US firms
By Wu Jiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-02-01 07:50
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-02/01/content_9405516.htm
For the first time Beijing vowed to censure private companies involved in the arms sales to Taiwan by the United States, a measure seen as concrete by experts and demanded by Chinese netizens for a long time.
China said it would impose unspecified sanctions on the companies involved and reduce international cooperation with the US unless it canceled the new arms package. The foreign ministry didn’t list the companies involved in its draft statement over the weekend.
But Sikorsky, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon and Boeing, are four companies involved in the latest $6.4 billion sale. All four have so far declined to comment to the press.
Boeing has big commercial interests in China, the world’s most populous market, including commercial aircraft sales. United Technologies, which owns Sikorsky, also has significant business in the country, where it sells Carrier brand heating and air-conditioning, Otis elevators and escalators and other products.
Experts, while hailing the sanction as the most concrete countermeasure so far, said the government should weigh the sanctions in a cautious way as those companies have close trade cooperation with China.
Yuan Peng, head of US studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said that imposing sanctions for the first time signals China is more serious than ever in its reaction to the arms sale.
Ye Hailin, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the sanctions mean that those companies who try to profit from the deal need to pay the price.
“You cannot just make money from both Taiwan and the mainland,” said Ye.
Many Chinese also applaud the sanctions.
“We should make the US feel more pain over the arms sale. They deserve this concrete punishment,” said Gao Jie, a resident in Beijing.
According to Li Qinggong, deputy secretary-general of the China Council for National Security Policy Studies, arms makers, including Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, have actually been long kept out of the Chinese market despite the fact that China has a huge demand for radars and related equipment because of its airport expansion.
On the website of Lockheed Martin, the global section listed the ROK, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and India under its category of “Asia Pacific market”, but not the Chinese mainland. The company’s last business with the mainland can be traced to 2002, when it provided seven air traffic control automation systems.
Li said it was relatively easy for China to ban pure arms sellers, but it would be very complicated to sever the relations with Boeing and the United Technologies.
“It is still unclear whether the sanctions mean to be effective against the whole group or just the unit involved,” said Li. “Yet our government should weigh the sanctions in a cautious way to avoid hurting overall trade relations.”
Like previous US governments the Obama administration has been closely linked with arms manufacturers.
Robert J. Stevens, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin made a large donation to the Democrats since the Obama administration came to power. William J. Lynn, the current Deputy Secretary of Defense, used to be chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Company.
Other US politicians are also closely linked with the arms sellers. FedSpending.org, a website of the watchdog group OMB Watch, reported in 2008 that 151 members of Congress invested close to a quarter billion dollars in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. These companies got more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, said the report.
The Forbidden Kingdom, Monkey King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYZmv8upiGY
Special Message to President Hu Jintao: Sun Wukong the Monkey King has Awaken
Iran Warns Against Protests During Islamic Republic Anniversary
January 31, 2010 By Ladane Nasseri
Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which helped quell demonstrations against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warned that protesters during the Islamic Republic’s anniversary will be considered foreign agents.
“If there is any voice or color other than those of the Islamic Revolution it will be pushed aside and if a minority makes this attempt, it will be firmly confronted,” Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, head of the guards in Tehran, said on SepahNews, the organization’s Web site. Anyone who protests “is not Iranian and will be considered an agent of foreigners.”
The guards led a crackdown against protests following Ahmadinejad’s disputed June re-election, which led to the deaths of 44 people, according to official figures. The government has banned protests and the opposition recently has taken to the streets during national or religious events. The anniversary of the Islamic Republic is Feb. 11.
Iran yesterday started the trial of 14 male and 2 female protesters accused of involvement in last month’s demonstrations, which coincided with the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura.
‘Enmity Toward God’
Five of the defendants are facing charges of “enmity toward God” and the others are being tried for taking part in “illegal protests, threatening national security, and spreading propaganda against the establishment,” state-run Press TV news channel said…
Those convicted of being enemies of God face the death penalty.
Ahmadinejad: Whoever controls the Mideast controls the world
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1146217.html
| 21:12 30/01/2010 |
ranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a Tehran conference Saturday that whoever controls the Middle East controls the world, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
In a speech during a conference marking 30 years to the Islamic Revolution, Ahamdinejad reportedly implied that Iran is the top power in the Middle East. “Now the question is who has the last say in the Middle East? Well, of course, the answer is clear to every one,” Ahamdinejad said.
Ahmadinejad’s fortune worth over €100M
Kuwaiti newspaper publishes list of 66 senior Iranian officials holding total of $16 billion abroad
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3836041,00.html
Doron Peskin
01.21.10 |
A Kuwaiti newspaper published over the weekend a list of 66 senior Iranian government officials holding a fortune totaling some $16 billion abroad, according to American estimates.
The fortune is comprised of US dollars (about $9 billion), euros (about €4.3 billion) and pound sterling (about £1.15 billion).
The Iranian officials appear to be aware of the monitoring of their personal wealth, and have decided to scatter the risk and deposit their funds in Arab banks, in Asia and in Europe. Some of the sums are frozen as part of the international sanctions.
According to Arab sources, the details on the wealthy people are mostly based on news spread by the exiled opposition, and thus some of the data may be exaggerated.
Mahdi Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president’s eldest son, is said to have €18 million in Belgium, €45 million in Switzerland and €44 million in an Islamic bank in a United Arab Emirates country.
Ghulam Hussain Elham, the former Iranian government speaker, has $25 million in Dubai, $13 million in Turkey, $17 million in Switzerland and $700,000 in Beirut.
Nazia Khamenei, a relative of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is also on the list. She has €7 million in Turkey, €65 million in Germany and £122 million in bank accounts in Britain.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader’s son, who is considered one of the people in charge of corruption in the Iranian economic system, is said to hold some £1 billion in England, although these funds have recently been frozen as part of the sanctions. However, Khamenei still has €2.2 billion invested in Germany, $766 million in Qatar and unknown sums in Swiss banks.
The Iranian chief of staff’s name is also on the list. According to the report, General Hassan Firouzabadi has $320 million in bank accounts in Malaysia, $65 million in the UAE, $103 million in Kuwait, $17 million in Turkey and unknown sums in Switzerland
Moscow police break up unsanctioned rally, detains about 100
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100131/157731752.html
20:5231/01/2010
Moscow police detained some 100 people, including several prominent opposition leaders, after an unsanctioned rally in downtown of the Russian capital, a police official said.
Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said about 300 people, including leader of the opposition movement The Other Russia, Eduard Limonov, former Russian deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov and head of the Memorial human rights group Oleg Orlov, gathered on Triumphalnaya Square on Sunday in anti-Kremlin protest.
“After repeated requests to stop the rally, police detained about 100 people, including Boris Nemtsov, Eduard Limonov and Oleg Orlov,” he said.
The protesters said they gathered to show that the authorities are violating the Russian Constitution, which grants the right to assemble peacefully.
PSEA (Paradigm Shift Environment Alliance) is aligned with those who are against Carbon Trading (Offset) Markets- such as NASA Climatologist James Hansen.
PSEA holds that Copenhagen, Davos, the G8 and G20 are completely
irrelevant, anachronistic and are Dinosaurs from another era. They are literally dinosaurs stuck in Tar Sands-fossilized and aggrandized in their own minds. They are in fact an impediment and danger to the Security and well-being of our Beloved Earth and her inhabitants.
It has always been We the Peoples, who must stop Global Warming, We the Peoples that must protect the well-being of each other, We the Peoples that remove the impediments to our common security and our well-being, We the Peoples that bring Love, Compassion and Justice to the Center for our Economies, Governance, Cultures and Each Other.
James Hansen compares “global warming” to slavery, Nazism
Posted by: Sister Toldjah on December 3, 2009
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/12/03/james-hansen-compares-global-warming-to-slavery-nazism/
And furthermore, he’s tired of even his AGW allies “compromising” on the issue, and believes that Copenhagen will solve nothing:
In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
“I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it’s a disaster track,” said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
[...]
Hansen is also fiercely critical of Barack Obama – and even Al Gore, who won a Nobel peace prize for his efforts to get the world to act on climate change – saying politicians have failed to meet what he regards as the moral challenge of our age.
In Hansen’s view, dealing with climate change allows no room for the compromises that rule the world of elected politics. “This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill,” he said. “On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can’t say let’s reduce slavery, let’s find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%.”
He added: “We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp it and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual.”
U.S.: Climate Justice Activists confront Carbon Trade Summit in NYC
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1/13/2009 – New York, NY – In the wake of a controversial outcome at the Copenhagen climate talks, a diverse crowd of scientists, Faith congregation, activists, students, and concerned citizens converged in confrontation and protest at the 2nd Annual IGlobalForum Carbon Trading Summit today. The summit is the largest annual meeting place of corporations, banks, and lobby groups to further the agenda of a carbon trading scheme to address climate change. Activists rallied to oppose market-based trading of greenhouse gas emissions credits and call for real solutions to the climate crisis. Dr. Maggie Zhou of Secure Green Future Massachusetts was among the demonstrators who engaged in in nonviolent direct action and risked arrest in attempt to blockade a portion of the venue’s revolving doors to display a banner decrying carbon trading as a false solution.
“The same Wall Street bankers who gave us the global climate crisis are trying to own the sky,” stated Brian Tokar, director of the Institute for Social Ecology and an organizer of this week’s protest events. “Carbon trading is unjust, it will not work, and it is a false solution. It is a dangerous distraction from the urgent measures needed to prevent an ever-worsening destabilization of the climate.”
Speakers at the rally included Reverend Billy of the Church of Life After Shopping, who delivered a critique with the fire and brimstone of a televangelist; Bhaia Heller, Professor of Womens Studies at Mount Holyoke University and Father Paul Mayer, co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition and religious community leader.
Participants inside the Carbon Trading Summit will include executives from JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy and more.
“I don’t trust these people to make decisions about the future of humanity,” said one young participant, who wished not to give her name because she will be risking arrest today. “If we follow through with market-based solutions like carbon trading, everyone will regret it. We need to stop believing the corporations’ false solutions and put all our collective energy into getting this conversation onto a track that’s useful.”
Dr. James Hansen, renowned climate scientist, was present outside the Carbon Trading Summit yesterday to voice his opposition to carbon trading schemes.
“Cap-and-trade is not a smart approach,” wrote Hansen his book Storms of My Grandchildren. Hansen has stated that current US climate legislation is “worse than nothing” because it relies on risky and ineffective cap-and-trade. He also declared that the failure to reach an agreement in Copenhagen was a better outcome than adopting the carbon-trade-based approach that was being negotiated.
“Carbon trade, which includes cap and trade and offsets are a dangerous distraction, economically risky, and prone to gaming and speculation,” stated Dr. Maggie Zhou, from Secure Green Future and Climate SOS stated. “Offsets allow polluters to simply pay someone else somewhere else to reduce their emissions on your behalf, which in the end does nothing to actually reduce emissions. The climate crisis simply can’t wait!
“Carbon trade is an insidious threat to human rights,” stated Dr. Rachel Smolker from Biofuelwatch and Climate SOS. “It turns rights to pollute the atmosphere, as well as forests, soils and agriculture practices that store carbon into commodities to be bought and sold as excuses for polluters. This is the greatest corporate grab on the “global commons” ever! It is disastrous for most of humanity.
No claws for alarm: Astonishingly, these cheetahs, whose instinct is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala
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Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Please also see:
9/11 Reset Haiti Humanity Global Warming One Minute to Midnight
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/911-and-haiti-2010/
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stand-up-for-aunited-ontario/
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
ESSAY 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl
Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-phut
9/11 RESET HAITI 2010
January 18, 2010
9/11 Reset Haiti Humanity Global Warming One Minute to Midnight
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
A nation (US) that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
An individual has not started living until they can rise above the narrow confines of their individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Medical Care for Haitians Falls Short, Group Warns
JANUARY 20, 2010, 9:11 P.M. ET
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN And COREY DADE Wall Street journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704320104575015141368581502.html
Partners in Health warned on its Web site Tuesday that as many as 20,000 people in Haiti might be dying every day from infections such as gangrene and sepsis, raising the possibility that as many people could die in the days and weeks after the quake as died in the actual 7.0 temblor.
Haiti earthquake: city’s plight leads to worst humanitarian crisis in decades
John Vidal, environment editor Sunday 17 January 2010 23.02 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/haiti-earthquake-humanitarian-disaster
Haiti earthquake: UN says worst disaster ever dealt with
Predictions of the death toll from the Haitian earthquake have risen to 200,000 as mounting desperation at lack of aid threatens to tilt the country into anarchy.
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Colin Freeman 16 Jan 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7005853/Haiti-earthquake-UN-says-worst-disaster-ever-dealt-with.html
Haiti earthquake: death toll may hit 200,000
Anger has turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as survivors lose patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid after the earthquake that authorities say may have killed 200,000 people.
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Published: 16 Jan 2010
Desperate Haitians driven to riot for scarce water, food
BY STEVEN EDWARDS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEJANUARY 16, 2010 7:38 PM
http://www.canada.com/news/Desperate+Haitians+driven+riot+scarce+water+food/2450845/story.html
US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti
Priority landing for Americans forces flights carrying emergency supplies to divert to Dominican Republic
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, and Daniel Nasaw in Washington Sunday 17 January 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/us-accused-aid-effort-haiti
The US military’s takeover of emergency operations in Haiti has triggered a diplomatic row with countries and aid agencies furious at having flights redirected.
Brazil and France lodged an official protest with Washington after US military aircraft were given priority at Port-au-Prince’s congested airport, forcing many non-US flights to divert to the Dominican Republic.
Brasilia warned it would not relinquish command of United Nations forces in Haiti and Paris complained the airport had become a US “annexe”, exposing a brewing power struggle amid the global relief effort. The Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières also complained about diverted flights.
The row prompted Haiti’s president, René Préval, to call for calm. “This is an extremely difficult situation,” he told AP. “We must keep our cool to co-ordinate and not throw accusations at each other.”…
The Haitian government, paralysed by the destruction of the presidential palace and ministries, signed a memorandum of understanding formally transferring control of Toussaint L’Ouverture airport to the US. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, flew in on Saturday and met Préval near the airport. “We will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead,” she said. ..
France, which as the former colonial power expects a prominent role, protested when an emergency field hospital was turned back. The foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said the airport was not for the international community but “an annexe of Washington”, according to France’s ambassador to Haiti, Didier Le Bret.
Brazil, which saw its leadership of the UN peacekeeping mission as a calling card of its burgeoning influence, was also indignant..
Former US presidents (& Barack Obama) vow not to abandon Haiti
Sunday, January 17, 2010 22:38
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_former-us-presidents-vow-not-to-abandon-haiti_1335967
Obama to Abandon Dying Haitians to Focus on Dying Democrat Campaign
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http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=2560352
Elderly Haitians abandoned, awaiting death
By Associated Press
January 17, 2010, 11:57AM
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/elderly_haitians_abandoned_awa.html
U. N. Doctors Abandon Patients in Haiti
January 16, 2010 by Saul Relative
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2596747/u_n_doctors_abandon_patients_in_haiti.html?cat=5
Lt. General Honore: “We Can’t Be Leaning so Much Toward Security that We Allow People to Die.”
A group of United Nations doctors were ordered away from their stations Friday, leaving CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta alone with a tent full of ailing patients, some that had just received surgery. To his credit Gupta remained on watch through the night, taking care of his sudden charges. Although in Haiti to cover the aftermath of the devastating Haiti earthquake, Gupta was taken aback when he became the sole remaining doctor in the area. But what had happened to all the United Nations doctors? …
9/11 and Haiti 2010
The horror that was 9/11 became twisted and warped by the military-industrial-complex to create unjust war and the spread of Terror and surveillance by both the State and non-state actors. It is a Negative Quantum Entanglement, that when coupled with Global Warming and Economic Entropy will lead to the Extinction of the Human Species.
The vortex that is Haiti resets the clock-and yes Haiti is located in the Bermuda Triangle.
The horror that is Haiti now, represents the possibility of a Positive Quantum Entanglement-all the major issues of humankind are entangled here-Indigenous peoples, Global Warming, Economic Depression, Colonial powers, Slavery, Corruption, the meaning of Humanity and Life etc.
The divide between North and South, “developed” and “developing” world, rich and poor
mainstream religions and indigenous spirituality and the syncretism of both, the morality and ethics of power and control and the morality and ethics of Love, Compassion and Justice.
How does Haiti, like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki change everything?
Haiti the poorest nation in the western hemisphere– how can it solve the biggest issues humanity has ever faced? Humankind must find itself in Haiti. The meaning of Life awaits us there. We must find our humanity before it is too late.
The Slaves of Haiti were the only ones who successfully overthrew all the major colonial powers of their time — an example that was beyond dangerous to those powers. They have been impoverished, marginalized and been made an example by these powers ever since.
The following is a good summary:
Toussaint L’Ouverture
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm
Black History Month
The Slave Army of Toussaint L’Ouverture
Making of a revolution: Haiti, 1791
http://rwor.org/a/v20/990-99/996/haiti.htm
Haiti was the richest colony in the world in the 1700s. Then called San Domingo, it was the pride of the French empire–coveted by rivals like Britain and Spain. Over two thousand plantations on the western part of the lush island produced sugar, indigo, cotton, cocoa and tobacco. The source of this wealth was the brutal exploitation of half a million captive African people.
But then, in August 1791, the slaves of San Domingo rose up with bare hands and farm implements. They overthrew their oppressors. In 12 years of armed struggle, under the leadership of their great general Toussaint L’Ouverture, they defeated all the armed forces their local slaveowners could rally, then a Spanish invasion, a British expedition of 60,000 men, and finally a massive French expedition sent by Napoleon Bonaparte. And having defeated all the great colonial powers of their times, they created an independent state of self-emancipated slaves. With the daring of nothing to lose, they made themselves masters of society. This is the story of how Haiti’s slaves started their great revolutionary war.
A Hell on Earth
“The slaves received the whip with more certainty and regularity than they received their food.”
C.L.R. James, author of Black Jacobins,
a history of Haiti’s slave revolution
San Domingo was a chain of gruesome prison camps where half a million captive Africans slaved under tropical sun and the eyes of armed guards. The slaves were literally treated like animals–forced to live in long houses that were little more than stalls. They were so overworked that they commonly chewed their starvation rations raw, before falling into an exhausted sleep.
At the other extreme of this hateful society were the elite sons of France’s bankrupt aristocracy–exported by their fathers to rebuild family fortunes. They formed a population of only about 20,000 planters and hangers-on. Unwilling to shave or dress themselves without slaves, they usually left the administration of the plantations to others–and lived parasitic lives of extreme decadence and inactivity.
For slave women, rape was a constant part of their lives. Over decades the children of this brutality gave rise to a thin stratum of Mulattos–roughly equal in number to the whites. Some Mulattos themselves became slaveowners–but they were viciously suppressed by the ruling whites. Meanwhile, by 1751, at least 3,000 runaway slaves lived in fierce armed farming communities of “maroons” deep in Haiti’s backcountry.
This society was deeply marked by the constant violence of enforced slavery. The people were whipped for the smallest infractions. Those caught eating sugar cane were forced to wear tin masks in the heat of the fields. Women slaves suspected of aborting pregnancies were half strangled by tight metal collars until they finally gave birth. It was common to chop off limbs, ears or genitals. One observer described sitting at a dinner table and hearing the lady of the house casually order that the cook be thrown into the oven–death for an unsatisfactory meal.
Planters calculated that it was often cheaper to buy a new slave off the boat than raise a young slave from birth. They deliberately worked the slaves to death and then joked, “The Ivory Coast is a good mother.” In 1789, still more than two-thirds of the slaves had been born free in Africa–and, despite the efforts of their masters, they were far from broken.
Revolution in the Mother Country
“Materialist dialectics holds that external causes are the condition of change and internal causes are the basis of change and that external causes become operative through internal causes.”
Mao Tsetung
On July 14, 1789–far from Haiti’s plantations–the masses of Paris stormed the Bastille prison. The French revolution had started–and it would lead to the overthrow of feudalism. This revolution was embraced by the slaveowning class of Haiti. The old government of France had loaded Haiti with taxes and restrictions–infuriating the French planters on the island. Like their Anglo-American counterparts George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, many Haitian planters dreamed of independence. Haiti’s Mulatto slaveowners dreamed of equality with the whites. The talk of liberty and equality made them want a closer union with the French mother country and its revolution.
None of these forces–not the white or Mulatto slaveowners of Haiti, not the bourgeois revolutionaries of France–seriously thought that “the rights of man” meant an end to slavery. The slave trade was a backbone of the French merchant capitalist class. The French revolution upheld the right to property–and African slaves were considered property. In the colony of Haiti, intense and complex fighting broke out –between royalists and “patriots,” between whites and Mulattos. It raged for two years, while the slaves watched closely.
When the Night Skies Turn Bright With Flame
“Eh! Eh! Bomba! Heu! Heu!
Cango, bafio t�!
Canga, moun� de l�!
Canga, do ki la! Canga li!
[translation: We swear to destroy the whites and all they possess; let us die rather than fail to keep this vow.]
Song of Haiti’s slave quarters
“To put it bluntly, it is necessary to create terror for a while in every rural area, or otherwise it would be impossible to suppress the activities of the counter- revolutionaries in the countryside or overthrow the authority of the gentry. Proper limits have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong, or else the wrong cannot be righted.”
Mao Tsetung’s report on
a violent peasant uprising
in China, 1927
The heart of Haiti’s slave country was the northern plain–about 50 miles long and 15 miles from the sea to the mountains. The main harbor, Le Cap, was just a village of docks, warehouses and slave pens. But the plantations were large, and within easy sight of each other.
In 1791, a vast conspiracy bound the slaves together–spreading wherever the slaves gathered for their Voodoo ceremonies. The central organizer was the high priest Boukman. The plan was breathtakingly simple: On a central signal, slaves outside Le Cap would set their plantations on fire. Fire in the skies would signal slaves everywhere to kill their masters and join the revolt. The uprising would continue until all the whites were dead, and the island was in the hands of the slaves.
August 22, slave leaders met in the thick forests of Morne Rouge overlooking Le Cap and launched the uprising. On plantation after plantation, the slaves rose up, killed their masters and burned everything to the ground. Their weapons were whatever they could find or seize–farming tools, sharpened sticks, a few swords, pistols and fire. The rebels formed in large crowds and simply swarmed over any opponents–dying in large numbers as they swept their enemies away.
The slaves destroyed everything that fell into their hands–like prisoners burning their cell blocks. They hated the plantations and wanted to leave no trace of these hellholes or their masters. For three weeks it was difficult to tell day from night. The skies were a continual wall of flame and black smoke, white ashes fell like snow, burning embers forced ships far out to sea.
The slaves had gotten nothing but the most extreme brutality, rape, killing, and torture from the French–and they answered with a harsh justice. In the beginning they killed all whites–with very few exceptions, like respected doctors.
After a few weeks, the movement paused. There had never been a strong central organization–and Boukman himself died in battle. The slaves formed scattered groupings, and started to clash with each other. And there, this rebellion might have peaked–like so many other slave revolts in history.
The slaveowners were regrouping their forces. Boukman’s head was displayed in Le Cap, and dozens of captive rebels were publicly tortured to death in the town’s main square every day. Sections of the ruling class offered the Mulatto population eventual equality with whites, if they would help suppress the slaves. A formidable counterrevolutionary force took shape for the bloody work of retaking the plantation lands. The arrogant slavemasters saw their own victory as inevitable.
A Black Spartacus
In fact, this revolt was not crushed. There were many positive factors in play: The colonial mother country itself was gripped by revolution. This slave society was isolated on an island where the slaves formed an overwhelming majority. The local ruling class there was deeply divided and incapable of agreeing on Mulatto equality. And, perhaps most decisive of all, a disciplined leadership emerged among the slaves with a plan and a vision for actually carrying through the revolution.
Toussaint L’Ouverture was born in slavery, the son of a captured African. He caught a glimpse of the outside world working as a coachman. He got the job (rare for a slave) of overseeing the plantation’s livestock. A man of great self-discipline, Toussaint trained himself relentlessly–both physically and mentally. He spoke only Creole, but taught himself to read French and Latin–and studied Caesar’s military writings and illegal revolutionary writings from France. When the slave revolt broke out, Toussaint was already 45–old for a slave in Haiti. He simply took over the plantation–and waited to see what would happen. After several weeks, he decided that there was a chance of something really lasting. He sent his own family into safety across the border in the Spanish colony, and rode into the surrounding rebel camps. Step by step, he set out to build a disciplined fighting force.
Toussaint arrived at the most dangerous moment of all. The rebel camps faced starvation. Their leaders had no plan for facing (or defeating) the regular troops. By November, the counterrevolutionary soldiers had started driving the rebel slaves off the plain, into the mountains. Key slave commanders lost heart, and secretly offered to surrender their forces to the slavemasters–asking amnesty for themselves. The slaveowners rudely rejected this–they were determined to punish the slaves with cold steel. Toussaint watched these negotiations closely and, from that moment on, understood that only the armed defeat of the slave system and its ruling class would liberate the slave. Throughout a life filled with flexible alliances and complex choices, he maintained a bulldog grip on that key contradiction of his time.
Toussaint set about forming a disciplined core and deliberately started small. He recruited a few hundred men and launched offensive actions against the advancing counterrevolutionary troops.
Early in 1793, the French commander suddenly received orders to return his troops to France to defend the revolution there against invading monarchists. The slave forces advanced back onto the North Plain–and among them was the new-born unit led by Toussaint. A new governor arrived from France, triggering new infighting among the whites. In that confusion, 10,000 slaves swept down from the hills into Le Cap, driving the French soldiers and planters into the sea. It was the end of centralized French domination on the island. Haiti was now a chaotic checkerboard of warring factions–flying many different flags.
From Rebellion to Revolution
Toussaint developed a distinctive military and political policy.
First, his units did not rush at regular troops like a mob. They lay in wait in dense woods and ambushed small groups by rushing in from the sides and overwhelmingly them quickly in hand-to-hand combat. Their method required a disciplined system of command. It enabled the fighters to win victories, arm themselves–and then attract new fighters from the surrounding rebel bands.
Second, Toussaint announced the startling slogan “No reprisals.” He killed those who opposed the slaves with arms, but insisted on mercy for any who gave up the fight. Toussaint’s slave army could win victories without suffering casualties–as cornered opponents became willing to surrender.
Toussaint linked his command closely with the rank-and-file fighters–he lived among them and repeatedly led them in key charges. He was wounded 17 times during the years of constant warfare.
Toussaint fought passivity among his commanders–urging them onto the offensive, and sharply criticizing them when they settled in or allowed the enemy peace. There was no hint of liberalism about him–he was stern, calculated, self-contained, sharp-tongued, and deeply trusted by his fighters.
Toussaint initiated a series of alliances with forces capable of providing him arms–starting with the Spanish colonialists. He insisted that such allies acknowledge the freedom of Haiti’s slaves. But he understood that all outside forces–the Spanish, French or English ruling classes–were scheming to seize the wealth of Haiti. They all expected, sooner or later, to force Haiti’s slaves back under the whip. At every point, Toussaint insisted on the independent command of his troops.
With Spanish support–his troops moved from fort to fort on Haiti’s north shore. As the French and planter resistance crumbled, the British invaded–landing with an army of 7,000 in 1794 on the Central Coast of Haiti, and taking Port au Prince with the backing of the white Haitian planters.
By then the revolution in Paris was in its most radical days, and the new rulers hoped to keep Haiti by supporting the abolition of slavery (which had already been accomplished). They could provide no arms or aid, but Toussaint announced a new alliance with France–not the monarchist France of the old order, but the new Republic of the guillotine. With his small disciplined core in the lead, he drove the Spanish forces from the North and isolated those slave commanders who remained allied with them. He then turned south to face the British. Officially Toussaint was still a minor officer in the armies of others–but in reality, he headed an army of 4,000 slave fighters–the most disciplined force in the field. His army had a reputation for victory, flexibility and unwavering dedication to slave emancipation.
The Struggle for Production and A New Mode of Production
“Grasp revolution, promote production.”
Mao Tsetung, during the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The revolution started with the utter destruction of plantations. Yet, the revolution itself would collapse from famine unless some way was found for leading the free slaves back into the fields. Wherever his army held power, the slave soldiers enforced a new mode of production. Forced labor and whipping were strictly forbidden and punished. Nighttime work was abolished. The plantation lands were not broken up, but wages were paid for all labor–usually in the form of food, lodging and a quarter of the production.
While the revolution waged its armed struggle with the organized troops of counterrevolution–it also fought an internal struggle, in the liberated areas, against the restoration of slavery. Sometimes the new order started to look like the old order. Former slaveowners or new leaders sometimes treated the people as slaves. There were cases of whippings imposed by commanders within the slave army. And there were repeated work stoppages in the liberated areas–as former slaves protested the work discipline or demanded the promised wages.
The minority of former slavemasters who survived and stayed were protected–but strictly forbidden to act as the owners of human beings. They were needed–since the slaves had very little experience with the organization of production or trade.
Revolution had radically changed life for the freed slaves. Meanwhile all those willing to accept the abolition of slavery were offered a place in the new society.
Toussaint maintained a network of horses and shelters so he could ride rapidly back and forth across the countryside, throughout those war years–investigating incidents, campaigning for production, learning from the masses, enforcing the revolutionary changes, and uncovering cases where disturbances were instigated by British agents. His statements became folk sayings that guided the freed slaves. “Toussaint says that unless we slaves plant, slavery will return.” And he backed it all up with the armed force of the slave army. At large gatherings he would hold a rifle high and proclaim, “Here is your liberty!”
Unthinkable Victories
Shake the World
“We have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it.”
Toussaint L’Ouverture, to the
Directory ruling France, 1797
The British invaders expected to defeat a demoralized French force, but found themselves facing an army of freedom fighters. Toussaint’s force fought with a conquering spirit that soared among the clouds and rainbows. When they ran out of food, they fought hungry. When they ran out of ammunition they fought with stones. When the British troops spread splintered glass on the battlefield, Toussaint’s fighters advanced on bloody, lacerated feet. In January 1798, the slaves beat the British in seven battles over seven days and forced them from the island.
In 1800, his army defeated the Spanish army on the eastern half of the island. By then, Toussaint commanded an army of 55,000 veteran fighters. (George Washington never commanded more than 20,000.) In 1801, Haiti declared independence–a republic of self-emancipated slaves.
In France, Napoleon Bonaparte seized power, reversed many revolutionary verdicts and tried to build a French empire through war. He restored slavery in colonies under his command. Fresh from military victories in Italy, he sent huge armies to retake Haiti under his brother-in-law General Leclerc.
Toussaint boarded a French ship to negotiate and was treacherously taken captive. Toussaint L’Ouverture, one of history’s greatest revolutionary leaders, died far from Haiti in a cold cell high in the French Alps. The revolution continued under his lieutenants, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. They delivered the first military defeat to Napoleon in 1804 and forced the French to accept Haitian independence.
One by one, armies of oppressors had stepped forward, hoping to re-enslave Haiti’s people. The slave army, forged by former coachman Toussaint L’Ouverture, defeated them one by one.
This Haitian revolution was an earthquake that triggered aftershocks throughout the slave colonies of the Americas. The slaveowners of the U.S. tried to suppress news from Haiti–and of course it did not work. The Haitians inspired the conspiracy of Denmark Vesey in 1822, the slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1831 and the militant abolitionists like John Brown. In the victory of Haiti–in the brilliance of its revolution and the endurance of its independence–slaves everywhere took heart, and the oppressors saw a foreshadowing of their defeat.
Burn (Marlon Brando) A myth cannot be defeated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrC4mh8AWSE
How we relate to those peoples without relative power is crucial for the survival of the human species — the peoples of the third world, Indigenous Peoples, Tibetans, Ujgurs, etc
We speak of a Radical Love that places the Earth, Children, Women, Men, and All Species at it’s center.
We do not speak of the radical love of Philosophers, Theologians, Educators and Experts,
but the Radical Love of the Best Practices, Relations and Experiences of the Earth’s Indigenous Peoples. It is crucial to the survival of the human species.
How is it that the mighty powers of the human species care less for the children of the human species eg Climate Chaos-Global Warming than birds for their young? Can we learn and be assisted by birds?
Tiny Arctic shoreline birds do it for the kids
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Tiny+Arctic+shoreline+birds+kids/2444247/story.html
Researchers solve mystery of why many birds fly past suitable habitat around Hudson Bay in order to nest in the Arctic
BY TOM SPEARS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEJANUARY 15, 2010
Canadian scientists who slogged through wet tundra summer after summer think they’ve solved a puzzle: why millions of tiny shorebirds migrate from South America to the Arctic to nest.
The answer is as old as parenthood. They do it for the kids (and their Species). It seems the farther north a sandpiper or curlew flies in spring, the better the chance that its eggs — laid on the ground — will escape foxes and hunting birds.
The difference is enormous. High Arctic shorebirds suffer less than half as much loss to predators compared with birds around Hudson Bay, says the study in the journal Science.
“The Canadian Arctic supports huge numbers of the planet’s shorebirds,” says Grant Gilchrist, a biologist with Environment Canada and Carleton University in Ottawa, a member of the research team.
Al Sharpton calls televangelist Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti ‘repulsive, un-Christian’
January 18, 2010
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-sharpton-haiti-18-jan18,0,3135544.story
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who visited Chicago on Sunday to ask churches to contribute to Haitian relief funds, took umbrage at comments by an evangelical broadcaster that the people of Haiti might have brought upon themselves the earthquake that left tens of thousands dead.
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson said last week on his TV show that Haitians “swore a pact to the devil” to obtain their freedom from French colonial authorities more than 200 years ago. Robertson said the Haitians told Satan, “We will serve you,” and that “ever since (the pact), they have been cursed.”
Sharpton, at Christ Universal Temple on the South Side on Sunday, said the statements were “repulsive” and “un-Christian.”
God, the Devil and Abandonment
There are those who say, God abandoned Jews, Gypsies, Political dissidents and other oppressed peoples to the Fascist Nazis and their killing and torture camps.
God is Love.
It is People who Abandon People. The Robber Barons, corporate leaders, Banks, Fossil Fuel companies all worked with Adolph Hitler and the Fascist Nazis. The Rockefellers, George W Bush’s grandfather was a banker to the Nazis, Pharmaceutical companies, IBM, Henry Ford. President Franklin Roosevelt was an admirer of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Democratic governments and Religious Leaders turned a blind eye and turned away these peoples.
It is the evil that men do and continue to do.
God, it can be said, is Love in Action, an active principle and not a Religion, ideology, dogma or theory.
It is in the Universal Act of Love and Compassion, that we fully see God. To not be in the Universal Act of Love and Compassion is to not see God Wholly. That is when, for all intents and purposes, we abandon God. In this Universal Act of Love and Compassion, Atheists may choose to see God or Not.
And neither Love or Compassion can be purchased– you doubt it — can you purchase it from your child, your partner, your Parent, Grandparent, the Earth?
The U.N. Has called for $550 million in Aid for Haiti
To put this in perspective, Oprah Winfrey made over $250 million last year alone. The hollywood film, Avatar is about to make $2 Billion. Western Europeans spent $21.5 Billion on ice-cream in 2006. North Americans over $16 Billion on ice-cream.
The Rich spent Trillions$ on Luxury Goods and Services last year.
PSEA is calling for the immediate cancellation of All Debt in the Developing and Developed World.
We must move away from the ideas of Violence and Non-Violence.
Many in the developed world are advocates of physical non-violence, yet the Greatest Violence is inflicted by Economic means — of which they more likely than not participate in.
Even a Bank Account or paying taxes will contribute to this violence. Public monies go to devastation of the Environment in the form of hundreds of Billions of dollars in subsidies to Fossil Fuel (Coal, Gas, Oil) and Nuclear. Violence to the Earth and All life, that is intolerable.
These subsidies need to stop immediately. These Hundreds of Billions need to go to to the developing world now to begin mitigating the damages of Climate Chaos.
The Developed world along with China and India must stop Global warming now.
If we do not, soon Chaos will Reign. We will have lost our capabilities, and Faith in GeoEngineering is just that and those who continue to bet against the House. They will lose in the end.
There is something the Fossil Fuel and Nuclear owners seem to not know.
Their gods are dead. They are no longer in control and not only that but their ideas are not even a viable option.
What still exists however, is an equally dangerous situation– the followers of their Religion, now blindly following the Path of the dead, and of Human Extinction.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bob Marley – One Love (with spanish subtitles)
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Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Please also see:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/united-ontario/
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
ESSAY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl
Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-phut
6 November 2009
• Hadron collider halted again by power cut
• Scientists stop testing for relaunch after fowl play
President Obama Give Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize:China and Copenhagen
December 28, 2009
President Obama Give Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize:China and Copenhagen
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Leading article: A disturbing prelude to an era of growing Chinese power
Draconian sentences highlight Beijing’s indifference to democratic values
Monday, 28 December 2009
At the end of a decade in which China has become a global power, it is making headlines for the wrong reasons. First, it was accused of wrecking the climate change talks in Copenhagen. Then there was the savage sentence meted out to the courageous dissident Liu Xiaobo. His so-called crime has been to persistently call for constitutional change and reform of the one-party system, for which he has just been handed a staggering 11-year sentence…
Barely noticed has been a round of sentences that call attention to another disagreeable aspect of China’s justice system: its harshness towards minorities. Christmas Day saw another five death penalties handed down to Uighurs for their role in the ethnic riots that shook Xinjiang province in summer. That brings to 22 the number of death penalties ordered in connection with the riots since September, nine of which have already been carried out…
Worryingly, as we enter an era in which America’s power seems set to wane while that of China’s rises, this idiosyncratic model will increasingly be seen as worthy of emulation. This is already the case in the Far East in countries like Vietnam, where the regime is clearly bent on managing affairs according to a Chinese recipe. But as Chinese influence spreads through trade and loans, notably in Africa, China’s authoritarian model is likely to become an object of admiration and imitation there as well…
The Price of Freedom
Freedom fighters in Iran and China pay a high price this Christmas
DECEMBER 27, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704905704574622673653743990.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
In Iran and China, Christmas weekend brought two inspiring examples of the high price that men and women are still willing to pay in the eternal struggle for political freedom.
In Beijing, the Chinese Communists ignored the protests of more than a dozen countries and sentenced 53-year-old literary critic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for the crime of peacefully agitating for democracy. His verdict came after a two-hour, closed-door trial Wednesday from which diplomats, his wife and his chosen lawyer were barred.
“When he decides to do something, he doesn’t regret it,” said his wife, Liu Xia, who was allowed to speak to her husband for 10 minutes after he learned his fate. “He said he hopes to be the last person punished for practicing freedom of expression” in China. No wonder Chinese officials are so afraid of Mr. Liu, who wields the power of the unbreakable individual spirit.
Meanwhile, in Tehran, democratic protestors continued to risk their lives and freedom by going into the streets despite an increasingly brutal government crackdown. On Sunday, security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the College Square neighborhood, killing at least four and injuring dozens, according to witnesses and opposition Web sites. The nephew of opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was among the dead.
It’s impossible to know when these freedom fighters will realize their democratic goals, but they deserve our admiration and support.
In Sentence of Activist, China Gives West a Chill
Published: December 25, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/world/asia/26china.html?_r=1
BEIJING — The harsh sentence handed down on Friday to Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most prominent campaigners for democracy and human rights, prompted strong rebukes in the United States and Europe, but it also raised fresh questions over whether the West has much leverage over a government that is increasingly self-assured on the world stage.
By sentencing Mr. Liu to 11 years in prison for subversion, the Chinese government sent a chilling message to advocates of political reform and free speech. Mr. Liu, 53, a former literature professor who helped draft a manifesto last December that demanded open elections and the rule of law, was convicted after a closed two-hour trial on Wednesday in which his lawyers were allowed less than 20 minutes to state his case…
But many experts on Chinese politics said that Mr. Liu’s conviction on vague charges of “incitement to subvert state power” through his writing was also an unmistakable signal to the West that China would not yield to international pressure when it came to human rights. During his visit to China last month, President Obamaraised Mr. Liu’s case with President Hu Jintao. Leaders of the European Union have been pressing for his release…
“If China’s Communist Party wanted to advertise to the world that they will do anything to protect their power and use the judiciary to accomplish that, then the persecution of Liu Xiaobo was a perfect vehicle,” Jerome A. Cohen, an expert on China’s legal system and a senior fellow at theCouncil on Foreign Relations, said Friday.
The State Department issued a statement on Friday calling on China to release Mr. Liu, saying that the “persecution of individuals for the peaceful expression of political views is inconsistent with internationally recognized norms of human rights.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she was “dismayed” by the sentence. The United Nations said Mr. Liu’s conviction had thrown “an ominous shadow” over China’s commitments to human rights…
Such pointed criticisms are unlikely to have much impact, many China analysts said. Mr. Hu assumed full power in 2003 after a period of modest legal reforms. But under his leadership, the government has presided over a tightening of Internet restrictions, the repression of rights lawyers and the persecution of intellectuals who called for greater transparency and an end to single-party rule. Those who thought that the leadership might loosen its controls for the Beijing Olympics last year were disheartened by the crackdown that took place to prevent people from organizing demonstrations.
Fatal flaws in Chinese law
Published: 28/12/2009 Editorial
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/30116/fatal-flaws-in-chinese-law
China is a rapidly emerging nation, in the jargon of the day, but it has shown defects that will prevent it from being a true world power. Industrially and in many economic areas, China measures up to its reputation as a global player. Its defence forces are modernising. But two recent events, at home and abroad, show that Beijing has not earned and cannot command the respect of a 21st century superpower…
The ‘’state subversion” trial of the dissident Liu Xiaobo failed all possible tests of fairness. Outsiders were not permitted and the witnesses did not testify in public. Mr Liu, a 53-year-old former literature professor, was brought into the court, heard his accusation read, and then was taken away for 11 years in prison, plus two more years of enforced censorship.
The procedure was no trial to determine guilt or innocence. Instead, it was a harsh warning to others who might dare to write or to voice complaints against central authorities.
The second case took place in Cambodia, and the proceedings were even murkier and more opaque than the trial of Prof Liu. Chinese diplomats or other authorities gave Cambodia orders, threats or an ultimatum _ who knows which, or what combination? _ that caused the Hun Sen government to reverse its old policy of granting asylum to political refugees. Now, Cambodia has ”decided” to deport 20 Chinese Uighurs, including two infants back to China. Beijing has said the 20 were criminals, involved in last July’s riots which left at least 197 people dead in Urumqi city and the surrounding Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
China offered no public proof that the Uighur refugees were criminals or violent. The refugees themselves said they feared punishment, jail terms or the death penalty. Cambodian authorities who had previously drawn strong praise from the United Nations for helping refugees from regional minority groups clearly felt the Chinese breath on their back of the neck over the case. It was obviously no coincidence that just days after Cambodia deported the Uighur, China announced 14 separate aid deals, worth US$850 million (30 billion baht)
Chinese dissidents emulate anti-Soviet heroes with Charter 08
Chinese intellectuals have challenged the country’s Communist leaders to end one-party rule with the launch of Charter 08, a throw-back to the Charter 77 declaration of Soviet-era Czechoslovakian dissidents.
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Published: 3:56PM GMT 09 Dec 2008
The bold plea for political reform calls on the government to allow freedom of expression and association and to give up Communist Party control over the legal system.
Its launch coincides with Wednesday’s 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is one of the most dramatic steps taken by dissidents since a crack down during the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
The authorities have already moved against those responsible, an informal group headed by lawyers and journalists, according to some of the more than 300 signatories to the document.
Several have been detained for questioning, and one of China’s most prominent dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, who was imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was still being held on Tuesday night…
The original Charter 77 was a declaration by dissidents in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia which called upon the then Communist government to ratify United Nations human rights conventions, and honour the human rights obligations of the Helsinki Accords of two years earlier.
Among the signatories to that document were the future Czech president Vaclav Havel, and other leading writers.
Charter 08
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08
Demands
The document was originally signed by 303 people, in spite of a risk of arrest and jail. The signatories were prominent citizens inside and outside the government, including lawyers; aTibetan blogger, Woeser; and Bao Tong, a former senior Communist Party official.[6] The Charter calls for 19 changes to improve human rights in China, including an independent legal system, freedom of association and the elimination of one-party rule. “All kinds of social conflicts have constantly accumulated and feelings of discontent have risen consistently,” it reads. “The current system has become backward to the point that change cannot be avoided.” China remains the only large world power to still retain an authoritarian system that so infringes on human rights, it states. “This situation must change! Political democratic reforms cannot be delayed any longer!”[6]
Specific demands are:
Amending the Constitution.
- Separation of powers.
- Legislative democracy.
- An independent judiciary.
- Public control of public servants.
- Guarantee of human rights.
- Election of public officials.
- Rural–urban equality.
- Freedom of association.
- Freedom of assembly.
- Freedom of expression.
- Freedom of religion.
- Civic education.
- Protection of private property.
- Financial and tax reform.
- Social security.
- Protection of the environment.
- A federated republic.
- Truth in reconciliation.[7]
China: Liu Xiaobo’s Release Hinges on International Action
DECEMBER 3, 2009
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/03/china-liu-xiaobo-s-release-hinges-international-action
(New York) – The international community should immediately and collectively increase pressure on the Chinese government to release Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most prominent political prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today…
“Liu Xiaobo is a test case for the international community,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. “To all governments who regularly profess that they bring up human rights with the Chinese government: this is the case you should fight for now.”
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Released on June 24, 2009
http://www.amnesty.org.hk/html/node/10330
Amnesty International condemns the formal arrest of prominent scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June. The People’s Daily reported that police accused Liu Xiaobo of activities such as “spreading of rumours and defaming of the government, aimed at subversion of the state and overthrowing the socialism system in recent years”.
“These charges against Liu Xiaobo seem to stem from his support for Charter 08, which actually calls for many of the same human rights protections that were reiterated in China’s first ever National Human Rights Action Plan,” said Roseann Rife, Asia-Pacific Deputy Program Director at Amnesty International. “His arrest follows a series of crackdowns on activists around the 20th Tiananmen anniversary and intensified control of internet use which only demonstrates the authorities’ lack of commitment to and total disregard for the goals of the Action Plan.”
“This use of state security charges to punish activists for merely expressing their views must stop,” said Rife. “This is another act of desperation by a regime that is terrified of public opinion.”
China dissident’s wife pleads for detained husband
Wed Feb 11, 2009
By Lucy Hornby http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-37957020090211
BEIJING (Reuters) – The wife of a prominent Chinese dissident who backed a campaign for democratic change said his detention made a mockery of China’s laws, even as Beijing defended its record before a United Nations panel.
Liu Xia, the wife of dissident Liu Xiaobo, has so far avoided extensive public comment on his detention by state security police since late last year, when he helped to launch the “Charter 08″ petition urging an end to one-party rule in China.
Wife of Chinese dissident asks Obama for help
http://shanghaiist.com/2009/04/22/the_case_of_jailed_chinese.php
The case of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo flared up in the American media this weekend, after Liu’s wife Liu Xia published a Washington Post editorial asking President Barack Obama to help get him released from jail.
Liu Xiaobo was one of the original drafters of Charter 08, a political reform and human rights document, and was arrested last December along with two other intellectuals. His wife’s recent treatise urged the US President to get directly involved in Liu’s case, because she fears that the Chinese “government is preparing to stage a show trial” to put away her husband for good.
China: Wife of jailed Tiananmen activist Liu Xiabao losing hope for his release
DECEMBER 7, 2009
The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is losing hope that her husband will be released. Friends tried to comfort her by suggesting China would set him free after June’s 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown; then after the 60th anniversary of Communist party rule in October; and finally after Barack Obama’s visit last month. “Nothing has changed after all these events so I think the best thing is not to have hope,” she says. She hasn’t been allowed to see him for 9 months. (via Rebecca MacKinnon)
Chinese dissidents let down by Obama Nobel
by Shaun Tandon – Fri Oct 9, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091010/wl_asia_afp/nobelpeaceuschinarights
WASHINGTON (AFP) – China’s dissidents are voicing unease about President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the award could have been effective in promoting human rights in their country.
Some in China’s democracy movement are outraged at what they see as a weak stance on rights by Obama, who the same week as Friday’s announcement avoided a meeting with Tibet’s exiled Dalai Lama that would have upset Beijing.
Chinese activists had been tipped as Nobel contenders on this year of anniversaries, when China marked 60 years of communist rule, 50 years since the Dalai Lama’s flight and 20 years since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy uprising.
President Barack Obama you need to do the right thing and Give the Nobel
Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo. Here is a person who is more of an embodiment
of Peace, Justice and Harmony and not War who deserves the prize now. If you
are the Rhetoric President then keep the prize. If you dare to do more-then
pass the prize on to Lui and what he represents.
Take the cue from the Special Olympics- oftentimes when a competitor falls in a
race, the others stop to help give a hand to the athlete to get up and the race
continues: that is a model of Human Dignity from which we can all learn.
Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order?
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
Grant, the director of London’s Center for European Reform, argues for a “strategic partnership” between the EU and China to confront global problems that affect them both.
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
The Nazis are rightly better remembered for their capacity to wage war than for their ability to consolidate peace. In this impressive work, Mazower demonstrates just how incompetent they were at the latter task…
There were not enough ethnic Germans to rule the vast conquered regions by an iron fist alone, yet the Nazis’ tactics made any alternative to such rule impossible. “Germany,” Mazower points out, “could have racial purity or imperial domination, but it could not have both.”
Irwin Cotler: “Andrei Sakharov, please forgive us”
Posted: December 21, 2009, 10:00 AM by NP Editor
The year that will soon end marked an important period of remembrance: the 20th anniversary of 1989 — the fall of the Berlin wall, the “Velvet Revolution,” and the Dec. 14, 1989 passing of one of the great heroes of the 20th century, a man who helped make the events of that year possible.
The “conscience of his people,” as he was then known, the conscience of humankind as he veritably came to be, Andrei Sakharov was a person of moral authority and courage unparalleled in his time. A distinguished nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, and founder of the Moscow Human Rights Centre, Sakharov was the father of the human rights and dissident movement in the U.S.S.R. In March 1989, he was elected to the new Soviet Parliament, the All-Union Congress of Peoples Deputies, where he led the democratic opposition, continuing to stand up and confront the whole of the Soviet Union, as he had done for the previous 40 years.
On the wide-ranging 1975 international agreement known as the Helsinki Final Act: “[It] is our Human Manifesto. The Soviet Union has turned it into a prosecutor’s club.” Sakharov was referring to the imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoly Sharansky, the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Human Rights Group, who were prosecuted for “anti-Soviet slander and agitation” for supporting the 1975 agreement that the Soviet Union had itself signed.
On the trial of Natan Sharansky: “[It] is the trial of the Jewish people.” He added, “Sharansky’s only crime was to tell the truth and to tell it in English.” Sakharov understood that Sharansky had become the symbol for the struggle for Soviet Jewry and the spokesperson for his own democracy movement. In imprisoning Sharansky therefore, the Soviet Union was imprisoning a voice of millions…
And so the conscience of the Soviet Union, who had condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan of 1979 — while lending his moral authority in support of Soviet Jewry, political prisoners, and the just causes of his time — was vindicated by history.
At this point in time Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and the Dalai Lama have remained silent
More on China’s Authorities and Copenhagen in PSEA’s upcoming document.
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Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
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Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen
Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen
November 29, 2009
Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/nick-griffin-bnp-copenhagen-summit
Climate change denier Nick Griffin to represent EU at Copenhagen
BNP leader who believes climate change activists are ‘cranks’ will be member of European parliament’s delegation
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, is to represent the European parliament at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, which opens next week.
Last night politicians and scientists reacted furiously to news that the far-right politician and climate change denier should be attending the summit on behalf of the EU.
BNP and Holocaust Denial
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/features/Holocaust-Memorial-Day.php
During the late 1990s Griffin edited his own anti-Semitic publication entitled The Rune in which he denied the Holocaust proclaiming that:
I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the Earth was flat … I have reached the conclusion that the ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria
It was during this period that Griffin revealed he had done his own update of the famous Holocaust denial pamphlet Did Six Million Really Die? “You’ve come across Did Six Million Really Die? It was a shattering book, it was a superb booklet or magazine,” told an undercover reporter. “I’ve done an update of that, which is not only all the material which has come out since, it is also a much more modern style.”
Griffin is also the author of Who Are the Mindbenders? an anti-Semitic tract which accuses the Jews of controlling the media “providing us with an endless diet of pro-multicultural, pro-homosexual, anti-British trash.” The pamphlet drew upon a long lineage of anti-Semitic propaganda dating back to the old Tsarist forgery,The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Griffin has never repudiated these views. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday in April 2006 Griffin stated: “It’s well known that the chimney’s from the gas chambers at Auschwitz are fake, built after the war ended.” Griffin also told the interviewer that prussic acid could “never have been used at Treblinka concentration camp – but it makes good Shoah business, doesn’t it?” Shoah is the Hebrew for Holocaust.
At one time Griffin also kept two pigs on his farm, one called “Anne” the other called “Frank” consciously mocking Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl whose diaries, written whilst in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, have since become a world famous account of the horrors of the Holocaust. This constitutes humour for Griffin.
Asked if he still denies the Holocaust Griffin said recently that he does not and that he believes in it because European Union law tells him he must. This is hardly a convincing denial of his anti-Semitic past. Indeed it says more about Griffin’s fear of prosecution under Holocaust denial laws, then under discussion in the European Parliament, than it does about his belief in historical fact.
The BNP itself used to produce a newspaper called Holocaust News, which constantly denied the existence of the Holocaust and referred to it as the “holohoax”. Richard Edmonds, the former BNP national organiser, helped distribute and has recently been promoted to the BNP Advisory Council by Griffin himself.
Many of Griffin’s senior officials are also Holocaust Deniers and as anti-Semitic as Griffin.
Mark Collett (pictured) the BNP publicity officer told a television documentary maker: “There’s not a European country the Jews haven’t been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it’s not just persecution. There’s no smoke without fire.” For good measure he added: “Hitler will live forever; and maybe I will.”
- -David Hannam, the BNP deputy treasurer has served a prison sentence for distributing anti-Semitic propaganda, which claimed Jews were in Britain “unlawfully.”
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-Lee Barnes, the BNP legal officer, regularly hurls anti-Semitic abuse from his website including his belief that the Jews rule Hollywood. His articles on the subject were plagarised from the viciously anti-Semitic Jew Watch website.
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-Ken Booth, the BNP North East organiser wrote to the Northern Echo in 2007 to complain about the Holocaust Education Trust’s acclaimed programme of taking school children on educational visits to Auschwitz claiming that it was “racist” because it omitted other forms of politically motivated genocide. Booth said the BNP did not deny the Holocaust but then turned his statement on its head by claiming that the party refused to believe either the “official figures” or recognise the “authenticity” of the buildings at Auschwitz claiming the death camp was a moneymaking venture comparable to “Disneyland”.
Griffin is also linked to Holocaust Deniers across the globe.
Griffin remains close to former Ku Klux Klan boss David Duke, who wrote of the Holocaust in his autobiography My Awakening:
- The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.
- Jean Marie Le Pen. Griffin has close ties with the leader of the French Front National who has been found guilt in a French court of deliberately minimising the significance of the Holocaust by referring to it as a “detail of history.” Griffin invited Le Pen to help kick start the BNP’s 2004 European election campaign.
- Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Griffin’s BNP has strong links to the German NPD, whose leading members have a long history of involvement with Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic activism. One of them is Horst Mahler, who has been involved in perpetuating Holocaust denial in the Middle East.
- Petra Edelmannová. Griffin’s latest international friend is the chairwoman of the National Party (Národní strana, NS) who in 2006 led protests against a memorial to Romani victims of wartime internment camps in Lety, South Bohemia where 326 people perished and from where over 500 of its inmates were deported to Auschwitz. Edelmannová claims it was “a collection camp, not a concentration camp” and that those who died did so because, “people do not observe good hygiene and then spread infectious diseases, it is in fact their fault.”
The BNP called My Awakening “brilliant”.
Nick Griffin and David Irving
Nick Griffin has had a mixed relationship with David Irving, the British historian who was referred to by Mr Justice Gray as “an active Holocaust denier” an “anti-Semitic”, and a “racist” who “associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism.” In 1991 Griffin organised security for an Irving meeting where the surprise speaker was Holocaust denier Fred Leutcher, an American engineer who claimed to have “scientifically” proven that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
However, more recently, the pair clashed. In the 1990s Iriving changed his stance slightly and admitted that some Jews may have died under the Nazi regime. This enraged Griffin, who wrote:
“True Revisionists will not be fooled by this new twist to the sorry tale of the Hoax of the Twentieth Century… Back in the 1960s the Jews quietly shifted the alleged sites of the mass gassings from the no longer believable German camps such as Dachau and Belsen to the sites in Communist Poland such as Auschwitz and Treblinka. Now that the very idea of Zyklon-B extermination has been exposed as unscientific nonsense, they are once and again re-writing bogus history, playing down gas chambers and talking instead of “hundreds of hitherto unknown sites in the East where more than a million Jews were exterminated by shooting.”‘
When Irving was imprisoned in Austria, however, the BNP forgave and forgot, rallying to his support outside the Austrian Embassy where an array of BNP supporters stood shoulder to shoulder with other known Holocaust Denier including Lady Michelle Renouf.
HOPE not hate is Searchlight’s campaign to counter racism and fascism in elections and beyond. Over the past few years the British National Party has seriously contested council elections all over the country and now has 55 councillors at district/borough level. The BNP is now concentrating all its resources on the European election, in the hope of getting Nick Griffin elected to the European Parliament in the North West and possibly achieve MEPs in the West and East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber as well. Once there, they would link up with other European fascist parties, to gain international influence and, above all, funding beyond the BNP’s dreams. At Searchlight we want to make sure that people know the full story about who the BNP are and what they really stand for.
The HOPE not hate website aims to do just that, serving the anti-fascist movement and providing up to date news, good practice and analysis.
fin and David Irving
Poll: More would vote for BNP(22%) after show
LONDON, Oct. 24 2009 (UPI) — More people would consider voting for the ultra-right British National Party after its leader appeared on the BBC, a poll indicates.
A YouGov poll(Note: Peter Kellner the Founder of YouGoV is the husband of Baroness Ashton) conducted for The Daily Telegraph showed 22 percent of voters would “seriously consider” voting for the BNP in a future local or European election — up to 2 to 3 percent over last month — after BNP Member of Parliament Nick Griffin appeared this week on the British broadcaster’s flagship current affairs program, the newspaper reported Saturday
The Telegraph said the findings would fuel accusations the BBC decision to allow Griffin a national platform backfired. On the show, Griffin discussed his views on immigration, the Holocaust, Islam and homosexuality as anti-facist protesters picketed outside the BBC studios
EU draws up plans to establish itself as ‘world power’
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Oct 2009
The European Union has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states…
Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order?
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
Grant, the director of London’s Center for European Reform, argues for a “strategic partnership” between the EU and China to confront global problems that affect them both.
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
The Nazis are rightly better remembered for their capacity to wage war than for their ability to consolidate peace. In this impressive work, Mazower demonstrates just how incompetent they were at the latter task…
There were not enough ethnic Germans to rule the vast conquered regions by an iron fist alone, yet the Nazis’ tactics made any alternative to such rule impossible. “Germany,” Mazower points out, “could have racial purity or imperial domination, but it could not have both.”
FACTBOX – Who is EU’s Catherine Ashton?
Fri Nov 20, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE5AI4LB20091120
(Reuters) – European Union leaders appointed Catherine Ashton as its foreign affairs chief at a summit on Thursday, EU officials said.
The high representative for foreign affairs and security policy will have enhanced powers under the bloc’s Lisbon reform treaty and head an external action service designed to give the EU more influence on the world stage.
Below are some details about Catherine Ashton, 53.
Ashton has had little foreign affairs experience, but she has proved adept at picking up the busy EU trade portfolio, which she took on in 2008 after former commissioner Peter Mandelson returned to British politics.
She is virtually unknown in Britain where she has never held one of the main cabinet posts. She sat in the upper house of Lords rather than being elected as a member of parliament with a strong local support base.
From 1983-89 she was Director of Business in the Community, a group set up to encourage companies to have a positive impact on areas like the community and the environment. She worked in particular to improved the lot of disabled workers.
She chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire, north of London, from 1998-2001, and became a Vice President of the National Council for One Parent Families.
In 2001, Ashton was made parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Department for Education and Skills, where she dealt with issues ranging from school policies to a ban on smacking by childminders
She became a life member of the upper house in 1999 when Tony Blair was prime minister and took the title Baroness Ashton of Upholland
She was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council in Gordon Brown’s first cabinet in June 2007.
Ashton helped steer the Lisbon Treaty through the Britain’s upper house and has dealt with EU justice and home affairs issues in her previous positions.
Baroness Ashton of Upholland
voted strongly against the policy
Climate Change Bill – Strengthen
by scoring 0.0% compared to the votes below
Summary
- Full description
- Policy comparisons
| House | Date | Subject | Agreement with policy above |
| Lords | 25 Feb 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Purpose is 2 degrees | disagree |
| Lords | 25 Feb 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Target for 2050 is 80% — rejected | disagree |
| Lords | 25 Feb 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Five yearl account | disagree |
| Lords | 4 Mar 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Statement of emissions — responsibility of Prime Minister | disagree |
| Lords | 11 Mar 2008 | Climate Change Bill — UK domestic effort | disagree |
| Lords | 11 Mar 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Adaptation Sub-Committee | disagree |
| Lords | 18 Mar 2008 | Climate Change Bill — No report on international impace | disagree |
| Lords | 31 Mar 2008 | Climate Change Bill — Minister to prepare policy — rejected |
How the number is calculated
The MP’s votes count towards a weighted average where the most important votes get 50 points, less important votes get 10 points, and less important votes for which the MP was absent get 2 points. In important votes the MP gets awarded the full 50 points for voting the same as the policy, no points for voting against the policy, and 25 points for not voting. In less important votes, the MP gets 10 points for voting with the policy, no points for voting against, and 1 (out of 2) if absent.
Questions about this formula can be discussed on the forum.
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| MP voted with policy | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MP voted against policy | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| MP absent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| MP voted with policy | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MP voted against policy | 7 | 0 | 70 |
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| MP absent* | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 120 | |
| *Pressure of other work means MPs or Lords are not always available to vote – it does not always indicate they have abstained. Therefore, being absent on a less important vote makes a disproportionatly small difference. | |||
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http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=100024&dmp=1030
The European Union Super State (EU SS) has secretly appointed Von Rompuy President and Lord Baroness Catherine Ashton head of Foreign Affairs and Security (Imagine Hilary Clinton
as both Secretary of State and the Pentagon-Defence- would that worry the President at all)
Lord Baroness Ashton is the most powerful person in the EU SS a non elected position.
In fact the Truth is more frightening – This Lord President has never been Elected to any Public
Office ever. Her experience and resume are as thin as they come. One has to ask what are the forces behind such a person.
Von Rompuy is the rump to which Ashton, French President Sarkozy, and Chancellor Angela Merkel will play football with to put it kindly.
So we see Baroness Ashton has a de facto history as a climate denier. Fascism is no longer on the fringes of European politics but increasingly at it’s center.
Heinrich Himmler
In his diaries he claimed to be a devout Catholic, and wrote that he would never turn away from the Church. However, he was a member of a fraternity (and later the Thule Society) and felt both associations to be at odds with the tenets of the Church. Biographers have defined Himmler’s theology as Ariosophy, his own religious dogma of racial superiority of the Aryan race and Germanic Meso-Paganism, developed partly from his interpretations of folklore and mythology of the ancient Teutonic tribes of Northern Europe. During this time he was again obsessed with the idea of becoming a soldier. He wrote that if Germany did not soon go to war, he would go to another country to seek battle.
In 1923, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, serving under Ernst Röhm. In 1926 he met his future wife in a hotel lobby while escaping a storm. Margarete Siegroth (née Boden) was seven years his senior, divorced, and Protestant. On 3 July 1928, the two were married. During this time Himmler worked unsuccessfully as a chicken farmer.[10] They had their only child, Gudrun, on 8 August 1929. Himmler adored his daughter, and called her Püppi (English: “dolly”). Margarete later adopted a son, in whom Himmler showed no interest. Heinrich and Margarete Himmler separated in 1940 without seeking divorce. At that time Himmler became friendly with a secretary, Hedwig Potthast, who left her job in 1941 and became his mistress. He fathered two children with her — a son, Helge (born 1942), and a daughter, Nanette Dorothea (born 1944).
Himmler was also very interested in agriculture and the “back to the land” movement. He and his wife had romantic ideals of making a farming life. He joined the Artamanen society, a sort of idealistic back-to-the-land youth group, but mixed with racist ideology. He became one of the leaders of this movement. Through this movement he also apparently met Rudolf Höß,[11] who would later preside over Auschwitz, and Richard Walther Darré, who would later work in the RuSHA (race and resettlement office) of the SS.[12]
Early SS: 1927–1934
Himmler joined the SS in 1925 and became deputy–Reichsführer-SS in 1927. Upon the resignation of SS commander Erhard Heiden, Himmler was appointed Reichsführer-SS in January 1929. The SS then had 280 members and was merely an elite battalion of the much larger Sturmabteilung (SA).
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (
listen (help·info) 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was considered one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. Himmler served as Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior. As Reichsführer-SS, he oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo.
As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma,[1][2] many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply “in the way”, including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested byBritish forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.
Posen speech
On 4 October 1943, Himmler referred explicitly to the extermination of the Jewish people during a secret SS meeting in the city of Poznań(Posen). The following is an excerpt from a transcription of an audio recording[16] that exists of the speech:
I also want to refer here very frankly to a very difficult matter. We can now very openly talk about this among ourselves, and yet we will never discuss this publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on 30 June 1934, to perform our duty as ordered and put comrades who had failed up against the wall and execute them, we also never spoke about it, nor will we ever speak about it. Let us thank God that we had within us enough self-evident fortitude never to discuss it among us, and we never talked about it. Every one of us was horrified, and yet every one clearly understood that we would do it next time, when the order is given and when it becomes necessary.
I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, to the extermination of the Jewish people. This is something that is easily said: ‘The Jewish people will be exterminated’, says every Party member, ‘this is very obvious, it is in our program — elimination of the Jews, extermination, a small matter.’ And then they turn up, the upstanding 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say the others are all pigs, but this particular one is a splendid Jew. But none has observed it, endured it. Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of. Because we know how difficult it would be for us if we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and rabble rousers in every city, what with the bombings, with the burden and with the hardships of the war. If the Jews were still part of the German nation, we would most likely arrive now at the state we were at in 1916 and ‘17 . . . .
—Heinrich Himmler, 4 October 1943
The wartime cartoonist Victor Weisz depicted Himmler as a giant octopus, wielding oppressed nations in each of his eight arms.[23]
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The Great Struggle Continues….
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Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
November 2, 2009
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
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Swine flu ’second wave’ begins in Saudi Arabia: minister
(AFP) Oct. 30. 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOscomcwODGRxDhvnZMfNXbZa1mA
RIYADH — A second wave of swine flu has begun in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Friday, as the death toll from A(H1N1) neared 60 just weeks before the annual hajj brings two million pilgrims to the country.
“The ministry of health said a second wave of the swine flu virus began in early October with the beginning of the fall and cooler weather,” the official SPA news agency reported…
Several schools were closed around the country during the past week and the authorities are girding for the possibility that swine flu cases could rocket with the arrival of more than two million pilgrims in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for the hajj over the next three weeks. (Officially Nov. 25-29 2009)
FACTBOX-Countries impose restrictions on Mecca pilgrimage
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSLT239445
Oct 29 (Reuters) – Waves of H1N1 flu spread by some three million pilgrims travelling to and from Mecca for November’s haj threaten to pile pressure on healthcare systems around the world, disease experts said on Thursday.
Several Muslim countries have imposed restrictions on the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia because of worries about a major outbreak of H1N1 flu.
Swine flu fears grow, Obama declares H1N1 a national emergency
OCTOBER 24, 2009 REUTERS
Officials have also declared that Canada is in its “second wave” of the H1N1 pandemic.
British Columbia, Quebec and the Northwest Territories were hit weeks ago, but now there is significant sickness in the rest of the country.
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance is calling for the immediate Shut-down of the Vancouver-Whistler (B.C.) Winter Olympics (Feb. 12-28 2010) And the Annual Al Hajj
Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina And Urges a Severe Travel Advisory to these regions.
We do so for the following reasons, based on the best interests of the World’s Security:
* The Province of British Columbia, was Ground Zero in the Second Wave of H1N1(Swine Flu) in Canada.
The Vancouver organizers estimate that the Games will be attended by Global Corporate and Political Leaders, some 5,000 athletes and Olympic officials, 10,000 media representatives, over 6,000 out of province law enforcement officers,14,000 volunteers and up to 2.3 million spectators.
* The Port of Vancouver is the Gateway to China, Asia, Russia, U.S., Europe, the Southern Hemisphere and indeed the world for the Winter Olympics 2010.
It is the perfect timing and breeding ground- Vector for Mutating Disease, the H1N1 Swine flu virus and Triggering the Third Wave of Swine Flu of which the lethality(mortality) has the probability to increase as in the case with the original swine flu, the Spanish Flu.
We demand the World Health Organization(WHO), the Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and other pertinent governments and health bodies to Act now, or be held accountable on a personal and professional basis. It is better to err on the side of the world’s safety is it not?
* The arguments are similar for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, with the added danger that
the Swine flu has the potential to devastate economies of Islamic majorities, as well as mortality and sickness. The House of Saud, King Fahd must act now , or it will be held personally accountable.
Prophet Muhammad’s Patterns of Peaceful Communication
By:Ali Zohery
The Prophet Muhammad was assigned the Mission of peace in the world by Allah. The fundamental purpose was to attain peace with the lord, peace with the universe and peace with the people. The Quran, in very plain words, announces the arrival of the prophet of peace in these words: “ O People of the book! Our Messenger has come to you, Light has come to you from Allah and a book which guides to the truth, whereby Allah leads to ways of peace those who seek His pleasure.” ( 5:17-18) These verse stress that the Prophet was sent to guide the people to the way of peace. The west misunderstood Islam and stereotyping it with violence and terrorism.
What does it mean to be a Muslim? Islam literally means submission, and, in Arabic, the root word for Islam (SLM) is peace. To be Muslim, then, is the struggle to peacefully submit to reality, and this implies a perfectly balanced sense of self. Self that is founded on the knowledge of its place in Creation, and that exists in perfect empathy with the rest of Creation.)from an article in Islam online: The Conquering Force of Islam,By Ramzi Kysia, 11/12/2001)
Peace is the most common word on a Muslim’s tongue. Whenever two people meet, they exchange greetings, wishing each other peace: “Peace be upon you.” But peace cannot prevail except through justice. Since the concept of justice may differ from one man to another, or from one society to another, Muslims believe that real justice is that which is specified by Allah (God).
H1N1 detected 13 days after fever onset
New research suggests that those who have come down with swine flu are still infectious many days later
Carly Weeks Last updated on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 2:51AM EDT
Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that elementary school children who contracted the H1N1 virus during an outbreak earlier this year tested positive for the virus up to 13 days after the onset of fever.
The findings, led by researchers at the CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health, are being presented at the Infectious Disease Society of America’s annual meeting in Philadelphia.
They raise questions about H1N1’s contagiousness and whether those infected should take steps to avoid infecting others even after they’ve recovered…
It’s a significant finding that may change conventional thinking about the contagious period associated with H1N1.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says that people with H1N1 may be contagious for up to seven days after the onset of symptoms. But as more research emerges suggesting that period could last even longer, it may require public health officials to modify their communication.
WHO Reporting 31 Strains of the H1N1 Virus Resistant to Tamiflu
Sunday October 11, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting 31 strains of the H1N1 virus which have mutated and are now resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Since the outbreak of the current H1N1 pandemic Tamiflu has been at the front line of defense. Tamiflu is an antiviral drug which is capable of preventing someone from catching H1N1, (if taken within the first 48 hours after an individual has been exposed), reducing the duration and severity of the illness, and decreasing the risk of passing H1N1 on to others. Many health care workers have been taking Tamiflu to prevent catching H1N1 themselves.
HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY BEWARE TAMIFLU
By Scott Sarvay Story Published: Oct 29, 2009 at 11:39 AM
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/67227197.html
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – The Federal Government has been recommending Tamiflu to combat the symptoms of H1N1.
But is it hurting the overall effort of fighting the virus?
Fort Wayne – Allen County Health officials say it is.
They say there are only two forms of medicine that can fight the H1N1 virus, the vaccine they’ve been distributing in the injectable and nasal mist forms and Tamiflu.
And since viruses can mutate and build up resistance to medications, that leaves few options when those two stop working.
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Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Passed Person-to-Person in U.S. |
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/flu-/632578.html
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers say they’ve spotted the first case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu virus passing between two people — raising the specter that more widespread resistance will render the antiviral drug less useful in combating the pandemic.
Flu fear
Commentary: Look who’s profiting from this year’s flu season(Donald Rumsfeld)
By Brett Arends, WSJ.com Oct. 19, 2009, 11:19
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/look-whos-profiting-from-the-flu-pandemic-2009-10-19
I put a call into his office, but the former Secretary of Defense doesn’t want to comment. (His staff says Rummy is hard at work on his memoirs. Ominous news for the GOP: The book is penciled in to hit the bookstores next fall — just around the time of the mid-term elections).
Rumsfeld is the highest profile figure associated with Gilead Sciences Inc.(GILD 42.55, -0.40, -0.93%), the California biopharma behind the Tamiflu vaccine. He is the company’s former chairman, and at the last disclosure a few years back still held a stake in the company worth somewhere up to $25 million.
One thing we know for certain: Flu times are good times at Gilead. No stockholders anywhere stand to make as much from flu panic.
“The biggest beneficiary to the world’s dilemma with the H1N1 virus is Gilead Sciences,” says a report from research firm BWS Financial, Inc. Gilead will be in a sweet spot if swine flu turns into mass panic, it says. “We believe (Gilead) remains the true investment on the H1N1 theme.”
Gilead licensed its Tamiflu vaccine to pharmaceutical giant Roche back in 1996, but gets lucrative royalties on sales. Gilead’s revenue from Tamiflu came to about $400 million during the bird flu panic in 2006-2007, BWS estimates.
An analysis by Deutsche Bank predicts Gilead will get about $195 million revenue from Tamiflu just in the fourth quarter of this year, and another $137 million in the first quarter of next year. Deutsche argues that Wall Street has so far underestimated the likely gains. (Deutsche’s analysis is based on results from Roche, which has just reported its third quarter figures. Gilead gets its cut from Roche’s sales one quarter later.)
Tamiflu is only one part of the business. Gilead is a broad biotech company. But Wall Street loves a story, and if the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, causes a stampede this winter Gilead could get a lot of attention.
The irony about flu vaccines is that they may not even work. A very plausible takedown on the flu vaccine business was published recently in The Atlantic. Read here. But don’t expect that to hurt demand. Everyone and their aunt will probably be crowding into emergency rooms at the first sign of a runny nose this winter, demanding treatments, regardless of any effectiveness.
In the so-called home of the brave, the easiest thing to sell is fear.
Gilead stock was only about $16 four years ago. But in 2005 it took off, after the Bush administration responded to the bird flu panic by ordering large quantities of Tamiflu. It has since tripled to about $46.
On the advice of government counsel at the time, Mr. Rumsfeld recused himself from all decisions about Tamiflu and pandemic preparedness. But the rules should really forbid him, or any Secretary of Defense, from owning shares directly at all.
Gilead’s booming stock price has generated a lot of windfalls at the company. According to the most recent public filings, executives and staff are sitting on share and option awards that may be worth about $1.6 billion at current levels. That would be, remarkably, an average of $400,000 per person for the 4,000-employee firm, although of course the benefits are hardly distributed equally. Chairman and Chief Executive John Martin made $11 million a year in each of the last two years, and booked a personal profit of $28.5 million by exercising stock options just in 2008.
The Tamiflu connection is proving good news for left-wing conspiracy theorists. In his last financial disclosure as defense secretary, more than two years ago, Donald Rumsfeld revealed he still owned a stake in Gilead worth somewhere between $5 million and $25 million. Since then Gilead shares have risen by nearly a half. Of course, we don’t know what — if anything — he holds now.
Is it too late to get in on the action? Maybe. Gilead shares, at around $46, look pretty reasonably priced at 17 times next year’s forecast earnings. But call options offer a leveraged bet on further swine flu hysteria: For $3 a share you can buy a $50 call good at any point between now and next May.
From here on this document reads as a factual narrative ultimate Halloween story:
Second-Class Medicine
Germans Unhappy with Alternative Swine Flu Vaccine for Politicians 10/19/2009
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,656028,00.html
SPIEGEL over the weekend reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel, a number of her ministers and other government officials would receive a vaccine manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Baxter — the same vaccine that the German military opted for, as was reported last week.
The mass-circulation tabloid Bild on Monday plastered the story on its front page on Monday, assuring its readers that “experts are accusing the government” of serving up “second class medicine” to ordinary Germans.
Fevers and Headaches
The controversy centers on an additive included in the vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The additive includes an inactive strain of the entire flu virus as opposed to virus fragments. Critics say the additive can increase the risk of side effects from the flu vaccine such as fevers and headaches.
Supporters counter that the additive is safe, and its use allows the drug manufacturer to quickly produce more doses of the vaccine. The SPIEGEL story mentioned that the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, with the additive, has undergone more testing than the Baxter version.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told SPIEGEL that the Baxter vaccine had been ordered for all ministries and other agencies as well as for the employees of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the authority responsible for approving vaccines.
Merkel’s spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm on Monday denied that Merkel was taking a different vaccine than the one available to ordinary Germans. He said that the Baxter vaccine had been ordered four months ago as part of a deal hammered out one year ago and has nothing to do with recent concerns surrounding the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine.
‘Second-Class Medicine’
Still, voices have become raised. The Green Party’s health expert Biggi Bender said that the separate vaccines amount to “big risk for the people, little risk for the government. This type of second-class medicine cannot be allowed to exist in a democracy.”
Leading physicians also complained about the planned vaccination. The head of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Bonn, Martin Exner, said: “The fact that politicians and top civil servants in ministries will be vaccinated with a vaccine other than the people is a terrible sign. Today politicians must take what they recommend.”
Virologist Alexander Kekulé Hall of the University Hospital said the fact “that the members of the Federal Government and the authorities have any other vaccine is a scandal.”
The Interior Ministry has also rejected the sharp criticism. A spokeswoman for Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble pointed out that at that time the Baxter vaccine was ordered the differences between the two vaccines was not yet an issue. The Paul Ehrlich Institute has repeatedly defended its decision to provide the population with the GlaxoSmithKline version, known as Pandemrix.
The weekend scandal has drowned out a second debate which has been raging in recent weeks in the US and which has also found resonance here in Germany: whether such a massive vaccination program is necessary in the first place.
Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, chairman of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association, has called the planned vaccination campaign a “scandal.” “The health authorities have fallen for a campaign from the pharmaceutical companies, who simply want to earn money with an alleged threat,” he told SPIEGEL.
Environmentalist and Geneticist David Suzuki on taking the Swine flu Vaccine: “Yes. I’m just astounded at people. Do they think doctors, scientists, and government are out to poison them or something?”
Questions about why Vaccine makers are given blanket legal immunity from government are legitimate. Questions about why hundreds of thousands
of Gulf War Veterans were basically called hysterical and crazy for years by the Pentagon and Sec of Defence Donald Rumsfeld-when in fact a major contributing factor was a vaccine that made them ill, made by Battelle Memorial Institute, in charge of the Joint vaccine Program for the Pentagon. Issues of squalene and aluminum were also involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome
In the United States in 2008, the federally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses released a 452-page report,[5] indicating that roughly 1 in 4 of the 697,000 veterans who served in the first Persian Gulf War are afflicted with the disorder.
The report implicated exposure to toxic chemicals as the cause of the illness. The report states that “scientific evidence leaves no question that Persian Gulf War illness is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans.”[5]
About 30 percent of the 700,000 U.S. servicemen and women in the first Persian Gulf War have registered in the Persian Gulf War Illness database set up by the American Legion. Some still suffer a wide range of serious health impairing symptoms.[6]
The tables below apply only to coalition forces involved in combat. Since each nation’s soldiers generally served in different geographic regions, epidemiologists are using these statistics to correlate effects with exposure to the different suspected causes.
U.S. and UK, with the highest rates of excess illness, are distinguished from the other nations by higher rates of pesticide use, use of anthrax vaccine, and somewhat higher rates of exposures to oil fire smoke and reported chemical alerts.
France, with possibly the lowest illness rates, had lower rates of pesticide use, and no use of anthrax vaccine.[7] French troops also served to the North and West of all other combat troops,[8]away and upwind of major combat engagements.
China’s Wen warns of “grim” flu prevention task
Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:06pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43579720091031
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday warned the country faced an “extremely grim” job to prevent the spread of the H1N1 flu strain, calling on more people to be vaccinated and for vaccine production to be raised.
“At present, the flu prevention situation is extremely grim and there may well be outbreaks or it may spread in certain areas,” Wen told officials during a visit to a Beijing children’s hospital, in comments carried on state television.(At present China has inoculated 3.8 million people.)
Vaccine Researcher: Gardasil ‘is a Great Big Public Health Experiment’
Oct.28.2009
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines to reduce cervical cancer and warned of safety issues administering the vaccine to children under the age of 15. She denounced vaccinating girls, as young as 11, as “a great big public health experiment,” which could cause dangerous side effects.
When Harper was asked why she was condemning a vaccine she helped create she responded: “I want to be able to sleep with myself when I go to bed at night.”
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
Harper: Controversal Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates
BY SUSAN BRINKMANN, FOR THE BULLETIN
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/25/top_stories/doc4ae4b76d07e16766677720.txt
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4. Although her talk was intended to promote the vaccine, participants said they came away convinced the vaccine should not be received.
“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all,” said Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the Population Research Institute.
Dr. Harper began her remarks by explaining that 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year. Within two years, the number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer, which leaves little need for the vaccine.
MDs set to endorse HPV vaccinations(Gardasil)
BY CANWEST NEWS SERVICEAPRIL 16, 2007
The group representing Canada’s 2,500 pediatricians and other specialists who care for children is set to endorse having little girls vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
One in four U.S. teen girls got Gardasil vaccine
Lobbyists boosted vaccine program
Ex-government advisers worked on drug firm’s campaign to push immunization program
By Tanya Talaga Health Reporter
Published On Thu Aug 16 2007
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/246824
The speed with which the HPV vaccine Gardasil got onto both the federal and provincial(Ontario) political agendas was no accident.
Only eight months after Gardasil was approved for sale in Canada, Ottawa agreed in March to fund $300 million over three years for a human papillomavirus vaccination program. And on Aug. 2, Ontario announced that all Grade 8 girls will have free access to Gardasil.
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., the maker of Gardasil, hired public relations giant Hill & Knowlton to push the immunization strategies using some well-connected lobbyists: Ken Boessenkool, a former senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Bob Lopinski, formerly with Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office; and Jason Grier, former chief of staff to Health Minister George Smitherman.
According to Ontario consultant registration documents, Lopinski and Grier’s lobbying activities include: “Proposed policy decision to support a childhood immunization program for HPV and funding related thereto.”
Combine that with a catchy TV ad campaign urging young women to “Tell Someone,” as well as backing from medical groups like the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and a national vaccine program was born.
The medical community has largely lauded Gardasil…
Why Girls Shouldn’t Be Guinea Pigs
Quebec’s dispensation of the HPV vaccine is making a new generation of lab rats out of its young girls.
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/118-why-girls-shouldnt-be-guinea-pigs
Francoise Baylis
Canada Research Chair, bioethics and philosophy, Dalhousie University.
First published May 05, 2009
Grandmother Blames Gardasil In Granddaughter’s Death
Posted by Eddie Farah
September 20, 2009 11:30 PM
Jessie Ericzon was 17-years-old and about to graduate from high school.
Like many girls her age, she was given the first of the three-shot series of Gardasil, the Merck drug that is supposed to protect young girls from the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes two types of cervical cancer and two types of warts.
That was 19 months ago.
Jessie had no health problems, but after the second shot in September 2007 she started to get bad headaches, as well as muscle aches, and joint pain, says her grandmother, Denise Melton. Last February she got the third shot in the series, two days later she was dead.
Her grandmother said after the final shot Jessie said she had a headache and went to bed. That next morning her mother found her on the bathroom floor. “Without a shadow of a doubt, I know that Gardasil is what killed her,” says Melton.
Erin Brockovich preparing to help – Gardasil adverse events
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222×39645
Gardasil
August 6, 2008
We have been spending our days getting all our ducks armed for bear and in a row–all of our anti-Gardasil ducks, that is. From checking my various areas on the internet, to finding moderators to listening to the tragic and painful stories of victims of the Gardasil vaccine, it has been a very busy time for me and my team.
Gardasil, as you should know by now, is an HPV vaccine sold by MERCK, a vaccine with a flawed marketing campaign targeting young girls…
Gardasil: extreme side effects and death(CBS Investigative report sept 13 2009) youtube Katie Kouric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXXuFKC0k4g
H1N1 Vaccine Questioned – Autism
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
http://www.autisable.com/710097071/h1n1-vaccine-questioned—autism/
NutriMedical Report – Dr. Deagle with Dr. Chris Shaw of UBC – Aluminum in Vaccines Causing Nerve Damage Oct-22-2009
DR CHRIS SHAW PhD – NEUROPLASTICITY EXPERT ON VACCINE ADJUVANT TOXINS ALUMINUM, SQUALENE, ETC. IN SEASONAL, GULF WAR AND H1N1 FLU VACCINES (this is an open source audio interview)
http://www.archive.org/details/NutrimedicalReport-Dr.DeagleWithDr.ChrisShawOfUbc-AluminumIn
DAVOKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29, 2009
H1N1 Families Face Financial Challenges
Update: Parents of Children Who Were Seriously Sick Tackle Massive Hospital Bills and Possible Insurance Caps By Mark Strassmann
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/29/eveningnews/main5453206.shtml
ID SUZUKI, environment alist: “I will when my turn comes up. I’m just astounded at people. Do they think doctors, scientists and government are out to poison them or something? I just don’t get what the objections are to this. What does that imply they think about the health experts?” oes that imply they think about the health experts?”
We Warn Scientific Models on Global Warming are Grossly Inadequate.
The Role of Bacteria, Viruses and Fungi are not known and represent “Black Swans” of immense proportions. Their rate of frequency will, without a doubt increase dramatically due to Global Warming and the continued Depleting(Use) of Fossil Fuels.
It is they that can be said that are the true masters of this Earth not the human species. They(bacteria) are of course ubiquitous in the human body and in all life. They are the first life and beyond the wisdom of the human species. You can be assured, they will also be the last life on Earth.
The human species in the Biotech-Nano sector are attempting to enslave bacteria for example in the work of nano factories and the Cleantech sector, it is a grave error. Life must not be Patented or Enslaved.
The Ultimate Judas to our beloved Earth, Al Gore is the Keynote Speaker
for the 2010 Annual International BIO summit. Major BIO sponsors and participants always include Big Pharma, Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont etc They have promised to Save the Earth, their newest motto is Heal, Fuel, Feed the World-they are big pushers of Biofuels and Patents on All Life
http://biotech.indymedia.org/or/
Advanced biofuels will stoke global warming -study Thu Oct 22, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN2225048
Nanotech’s “Second Nature” Patents
http://www.voyle.net/Nano%20Debate%202005/Nano%20Debate%202005-0011.htm
Twenty-five years after the biotech industry got the green light to patent life, nanotech goes after the building blocks of life.
On the 25th anniversary of Diamond vs. Chakrabarty,* the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision (June 16, 1980) that opened the floodgates to the patenting of living organisms, ETC Group releases a new report, “Nanotech’s ‘Second Nature’ Patents.”
Since Chakrabarty, the biotech industry has worked hand-in-hand with governments to allow for the patenting of all biological products – the first monopoly grab over life. Chakrabarty set the stage for today’s nanotechnology patents, where the reach of exclusive monopoly is not just on life – but the building blocks of life – nanotech’s ’second nature’ patents,” explains Hope Shand, Research Director of ETC Group…
Lessons learned from Diamond v. Chakrabarty: Despite all the hype about Mr. Chakrabarty’s patented oil-eating microbe and how it would gobble up oil spills, the patented microorganism never worked. Instead of curing environmental ills, the biotech industry has introduced its own contamination problems – unwanted gene flow from genetically modified crops, a particularly serious problem for centres of genetic diversity in the developing world.
Unlike 25 years ago, today’s nanotech-related patents have not required major rule changes. As a result, many governments are unaware of the nanotech patent rush
Microbe thrives in ocean ‘dead zone’
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Microbe+thrives+ocean+dead+zone/2134819/story.html
BY MARGARET MUNRO, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEOCTOBER 23, 2009
There is life in the planet’s expanding dead zones, say researchers, who have uncovered a remarkable microbe thriving in toxic waters off the B.C. coast.
The bacteria take up carbon dioxide like a plant, consume sulphide that is deadly to most other life forms, and exhale nitrous oxide which is a potent greenhouse gas.
The microbe may be small but it appears to be an important global player affecting the chemistry of both the atmosphere and the oceans, says lead researcher Steven Hallam, of the University of British Columbia, who likes to point out that it is microbes that “really rule the world.”
“We don’t see them so we don’t notice the effects,” Hallam says. “Except we can breathe, nutrient cycles work, the oceans stay productive. They’re key to our survival.”
Hallam describes it as a “paradoxical” organism, which appears to have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem, at least from a human point of view.
(To look upon microbes is like looking upon the face of God-it is beyond the Wisdom of the human species-we must stop depleting their food source -fossil fuels-or they will
deplete ours-it deepens the meaning of Love thy Neighbour as you love yourself-microbes are of course immune to rhetoric, power , economics, philosophy, religion, and politics-but if humans cause harm, they will and are reacting-we are if you will on a collision course with our Maker. Charles Darwin would be flabbergast, for Evolution begins and ends with microbes.
We must avert this collision, and rise above ourselves, before it is too late. As the human species, we must put away our childish ways, and mature as a species. This does not mean that we can not be childlike-the benign qualities. Greed, Power and Selfishness must pass away. Witness the Global Climate Treaty talks-the treaty is in fact the “easy” part. Greed, Power and Selfishness are it’s true enemy,for it’s success. Nature, Our Beloved Earth will not wait anymore for the human species to resolve it’s issues.
Climate Chaos which was once thought to be happening in the decades to come, is happening now. In fact Time has stopped for the human species. We must live every day now as if it were our last.
What is it that really matters to the human species in Life? Is it Gold? Weapons? Hate?
If one does not care about their life in this world: Perhaps one should care about it in the next
Fatalism, Time, Commerce, Power, Religion and Philosophy are but abstractions. If this were your last day would you kill anything? How would you see the Miracle of Life?
The human species is not living on borrowed finances, it is living on borrowed time.)
http://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8080/topx/archive?link=Wikipedia-Lip6-2/156331.xml&style
Thomas Gold ( May 22 , 1920 â June 22 , 2004 ) was an Austrian astrophysicist , a professor of astronomy at Cornell University , and a member of the USNational Academy of Sciences . Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who advanced the scientific understanding of cosmology in the 1950s by proposing the controversial ’steady state’ hypothesis of the universe . Gold had the unusual ability to cross academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics ,astrophysics , space engineering , or geophysics , to challenge longstanding dogma with his profound insights.
Origins of petroleum
Gold achieved fame for his 1992 paper “The Deep Hot Biosphere” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , which presented a controversial view of the origin of coal , oil , and gas deposits, a theory of an abiogenic petroleum origin . The theory suggests coal and crude oil deposits have their origins innatural gas flows which feed bacteria living at extreme depths under the surface of the Earth; in other words, oil and coal are produced through tectonic forces, rather than from the decomposition of fossils. Gold also published a book of the same title in 1999 , which expanded on the arguments in his 1992 paper and included speculations on the origin of life . He has been accused of stealing the abiogenic theory outright from Soviet geologists who first published it in the 1950s . Although he later credited Soviet research, it is claimed that he first published a paper on the abiogenic theory in 1979 without citing any of the Soviet literature on the subject . Gold’s defenders maintain that these charges are unfounded: they say that, after first formulating his views on petroleum in 1979, he began finding the papers by Soviet geologists and had them translated. He was both disappointed (that his ideas were not original) and delighted (because such independent formulation of these ideas added weight to the hypothesis). They insist that he always credited the Soviet work once he knew about it.
According to Gold and the Soviet geologists who originated the abiogenic theory, bacteria feeding on the oil accounts for the presence of biological debris inhydrocarbon fuels , obviating the need to resort to a biogenic theory for the origin of the latter. The flows of underground hydrocarbons may also explain oddities in the concentration of other mineral deposits.
Most western geologists and petrologists consider petroleum abiogenic theories implausible and believe the biogenic theory of ’fossil fuel’ formation adequately explains all observed fossil fuel deposits. Most geologists do recognize the geologic carbon cycle includes subducted carbon which returns to the surface, with studies showing the carbon does rise in various ways. Gold and geology experts point out the biogenic theories do not explain phenomena such as helium in oil fields and oil fields associated with deep geologic features.
However, recent discoveries have shown that bacteria live at depths far greater than previously believed. Whilst this does not prove Gold’s theory, it certainly lends support to its arguments.
Oil-eating microbes give clue to ancient energy source September 9, 2008
http://www.physorg.com/news140204719.html
“Hydrocarbons like oil and natural gas are made up of carbon and hydrogen, they are among the most abundant substances on Earth,” said Dr Friedrich Widdel from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. “Even though we use them as fuel sources, they are actually very unreactive at room temperature. This makes them difficult to use as a biological energy source, particularly if there is no oxygen around.”
For over 100 years scientists have known that microbes such as bacteria can use hydrocarbons like oil and gas as nutrients. But this process usually requires supplies of oxygen to work at room temperature. “Scientists were always fascinated by the microbes that do this because hydrocarbons are so unreactive,” said Dr Widdel. “But it is even more surprising to find an increasing number of microbes that can digest hydrocarbons without needing oxygen.”
“The striking diversity of micro-organisms that can break down hydrocarbons may reflect the early appearance of these compounds as nutrients for microbes in Earth’s history; Bacteria and archaea living with hydrocarbons therefore may have appeared early in the evolution of life,” said Dr. Widdel
Orson Welles War of the Worlds (part 7)Ending
War Of The Worlds (2005) Tribute(In final scene microbes save the Earth)
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art at Tate St Ives
Brian Dillon on the occult influence on modern British art
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/dark-monarch-exhibition-tate-review
In 1966, the British Museum acquired a curious object of convoluted provenance and sinister reputation. It is a black disc of highly polished stone, 1.3cm thick and 18.9cm in diameter, with a small handle-like protrusion to one side, pierced with a tiny hole. The thing is plainly a mirror of sorts, small enough to be held in the hand, and carved – so the museum established, after centuries of confusion – from obsidian: the glassy stone from which the Aztecs fashioned their ritual implements. It is usually exhibited alongside a desiccated and much-repaired flat leather case to which are attached two labels. The first, dating from 1842, when the “wondrous speculum” was sold at auction, simply says “Lot 48″. The second inscription is from the late 18th century, and likely quickens the hearts of serious scholars and New Age occultists alike: “The Black Stone into which Dr Dee used to call his spirits.”
The handwriting belongs to its former owner, Horace Walpole. The politician and collector seems to have chanced upon the enigmatic slab (which he thought was made of marble) in the collection of Lord Frederic Campbell, who was at a loss to say just what it was for. But Walpole was well apprised of the life of John Dee, the Elizabethan astronomer and conjurer who fell in and out of favour with the Queen, and was said to have communed regularly with the angels Gabriel and Raphael. Indeed, an excitable legend concerning his ink-black mirror or “scrying stone” states that it was given to him by one of these angelic interlocutors. The more plausible story has it that Dee bought the stone from a member of the Spanish court, and that it is an Aztec artefact of the late middle ages.
Dee’s black mirror does not appear in The Dark Monarch, the current show at Tate St Ives that posits hitherto unheeded links between “magic and modernity” in British art of the past century or so. It has in fact been restored to its historical and cultural context as part of the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition. But avatars of the mysterious and depthless stone are everywhere in the St Ives show, which seems, like the magician himself, to be in thrall to the spirited seductions of gleaming black objects and darkly reflective planes…read more
President Obama delivers remarks at signing of National Defense Authorization Act (Pentagon) , October 28, 2009; 3:23 PM Transcript
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803319.html
Now, this bill isn’t perfect. This bill is an important step forward, but it’s just a first step. There’s still more waste we need to cut. There is still more fights that we need to win. Changing the culture in Washington will take time and sustained effort. And that’s why Secretary Gates and I will continue waging these battles in the months and years ahead.
But I will say that when Secretary Gates and I first proposed going after some of these wasteful projects, there were a lot of people in this town who didn’t think it was possible, who were certain we were going to lose, who were certain that we would get steamrolled, who argued that the special interests were too entrenched and that Washington was simply too set in its ways.
And so I think it’s important to note today we have proven them wrong. Today, we’re putting an end to some wasteful projects that lawmakers have tried to kill for years. We’re doing this because Secretary Gates and I both know that we can’t build the 21st century military we need unless we fundamentally reform the way our defense establishment does business.
The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion, an amount of money that would have paid our troops’ salaries and provided benefits for their families for more than a year.
And we all know where this kind of waste comes from: indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions and make contractors rich, special interests and their exotic projects that are years behind schedule and billions over budget, entrenched lobbyists pushing weapons that even our military says it doesn’t want and doesn’t need, now, the impulse in Washington to win political points back home by building things that we don’t need at costs we can’t afford.
This waste would be unacceptable at any time. But at a time when we’re fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, it’s inexcusable. It’s unconscionable. It’s an affront to the American people and to our troops, and it has to stop.
Here is an oddly true halloween story
House of War (Hardcover)
~ James Carroll (Author)
Book Reviews
From The New Yorker
Carroll was born the same week in January, 1943, that the Pentagon was dedicated, the Manhattan Project got under way, and Roosevelt declared that the goal of the war was the enemy’s “unconditional surrender.” In this “biography” of the Pentagon, he extends these moments into a fuguelike history of American military power from Hiroshima to Iraq. The dominant theme is personal: growing up, Carroll, whose father, a high ranking general, worked in the Pentagon, saw the building both as his “twin” and as “a kind of dark woods.” On the practical side, he argues that “in the nuclear age, civilian oversight of American military policy had become largely mythical,” that the Pentagon had “Congress in its thrall and presidents at its mercy.” And yet his most fascinating stories involve moments—as in the Berlin crisis and the Vietnam War—when civilians successfully opposed the Pentagon’s monolithic power.
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From The Washington Post
Has America become the new Sparta? Although the Soviet Union collapsed more than a decade and a half ago, the United States will spend roughly $561 billion this year on national defense — in real terms, more than in any year of the Cold War except 1952, the height of the Korean War buildup. In the wake of 9/11, have we become a bomb-first, ask-questions-later superpower — a threat to world peace, as a majority of Europeans polled in 2003 saw us? For James Carroll, the answer is an anguished yes. His weighty House of War aims to explain the mechanics of this spiritual decline and show how what he sees as a consuming paranoia and vengefulness became lodged in the national soul.
For Carroll, who won the National Book Award in 1996 for his memoir An American Requiem, the central dynamic is a familiar one: The wildfire growth of the military-industrial complex, the perpetual refocusing of foreign policy through a military lens and a mindless reliance on nuclear weapons have led to America’s moral fall.
Carroll begins his story with the groundbreaking to construct the Pentagon building at a site called “Hell’s Bottom,” on the Virginia side of the Potomac, on Sept. 11, 1941
The Pentagon Building is an inverted Pentagram on land known as Hell’s Bottom
http://www.ecauldron.net/pentagram.php
The use of the "inverted" pentagram to denote evil is a quite recent usage, and first appears in the works of Eliphas Levi. He is also the source of the "goat's head" glyph. Before this, neither orientation had evil connotations per se.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS – TRAILER 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nzXt4QaYk&feature=channel
GOATS DECLASSIFIED: The True Story Behind The Men Who Stare At Goats (meet the real pentagon people behind Men who Stare at Goats)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbbtiCbPPts&feature=channel
Note: To the Pentagon, it’s time to transfer your budget to peaceful and civilian purposes-what would a few hundred billion mean to the American people? The Days of War making are numbered.
Network(movie 1976) – “There is no democracy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSj1yNZdY8
George Carlin -”Who Really Controls America”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI
Matrix – Wake Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Wpz4NAHtY
Eyes Wide Shut- The Black & Red Ritual(Stanley Kubrick)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsKX5RO_OMA&feature=related
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Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Please also see:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Flu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn
By Pam Baker
TechNewsWorld
10/29/09 2:22 PM PT
Internet Failure, Homeland Insecurity
The U.S. government seems to think the scenario is not only possible, but probable.
Mythical stories
In one of the Aztec accounts of creation, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca joined forces to create the world. Before their act there was only the sea and the crocodilian earthmonster called Cipactli. To attract her, Tezcatlipoca used his foot as bait, and Cipactli ate it. The two gods then captured her, and distorted her to make the land from her body. After that, they created the people, and people had to offer sacrifices to comfort Cipactli for her sufferings. Because of this, Tezcatlipoca is depicted with a missing foot.
Another story of creation goes that Tezcatlipoca turned himself into the sun, but Quetzalcoatl couldn’t bear his enemy ruling the universe, so he knocked Tezcatlipoca out of the sky. Angered, Tezcatlipoca turned into a jaguar and destroyed the world. Quetzalcoatl replaced him and started the second age of the world and it became populated again. Tezcatlipoca overthrew Quetzalcoatl when he sent a great wind that devastated the world, and what people who survived were turned into monkeys. Tlaloc, the god of rain, became the sun, but Quetzalcoatl sent down fire which destroyed the world again, except for a few humans who survived who were turned into birds. Chalchihuitlicue the Water Goddess became the sun, but the world was destroyed by floods, with what people survived being turned into fish.
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
October 15, 2009
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Oct.15.2009 
(This document is given to global politicians, bank and energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)
China’s Hu meets Russia’s Putin, painting rosy future
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12233939.htm
BEIJING, Oct. 14 2009 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday met with visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hailing fresh development of bilateral relationship and vowing closer collaboration.
“Russia is one of the top agenda on China’s diplomacy as we pay much attention to relations with Russia,” Hu told Putin in their half an hour meeting in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
Hu said this year was significant for China-Russia relations as both countries celebrated their 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties.
Russia was the first country to establish diplomatic relations with China, days after the People’s Republic of China was founded on Oct. 1, 1949.
As an important milestone in deepening relations, both countries established strategic partnership of coordination in 1996.
Hu said this partnership had reaped substantive benefits to both peoples and worked for the world peace, stability and prosperity.
China’s Hu calls for more ‘big’ projects with Russia
(AFP) – 3 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hi_G92kTGK0jJh1ey8i1pj7UAS0w
BEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday hailed Sino-Russian ties, telling Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Beijing hopes to engage Moscow in more “big” economic and trade projects.
The two leaders met ahead of Putin’s departure following a three-day visit that cemented the burgeoning trade relationship between the two sides with billions of dollars in new deals signed Tuesday.
“Sino-Russian strategic partnership is currently at a new historic starting point and wider prospects are opening up before us,” China National Radio quoted Hu as telling Putin in a meeting.
“China is willing to make efforts with the Russian side to further strengthen strategic consultations in international politics, economics, security and other areas and push forward cooperation on big projects in trade, energy and high technology.”
The neighbours signed several cooperation agreements, including one committing each country to notifying the other of the launch of ballistic missiles from its territory..
Putin warns against Iran sanction threats
Russian PM makes statement while meeting with China, other Asian nation
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 1:43 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/14/russia-iran-sanctions-nuclear-putin.html
China Lauds Ties With Iran
OCTOBER 15, 2009 By SHAI OSTER
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125560022256987089.html
BEIJING – China praised its growing energy and trade ties with Iran in remarks that further diminished hopes that China will support efforts by the U.S. and its allies to line up sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.
“The Sino-Iran relationship has witnessed rapid development, as the two countries’ leaders have had frequent exchanges, and cooperation in trade and energy has widened and deepened,” China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday in a meeting with visiting Iranian Vice President Reza Rahimi, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency. Mr. Rahimi is in Beijing along with the heads of Russia and Central Asian countries who are members of the regional Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Warmer ties for Russia, China with big gas deals
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Associated Press
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/warmer-ties-for-russia-162730.html
BEIJING — Russia and China are closing in on a mammoth energy deal which could insure that Beijing has the fuel to run its factories and cities and Moscow has a vast new market for its natural gas empire.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday wrapped up a three-day visit to the Chinese capital, during which Russia signed dozens of commercial pacts worth $3.5 billion and set the framework for a separate, multibillion-dollar agreement to build two natural gas pipelines to China from gas fields in Russia’s Far East.
Together, those pipelines would be capable of supplying China with 68 billion cubic meters (2.4 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas annually, representing a whopping 85 percent of the gas China currently consumes.
Once the energy partners agree on a final price and the pipelines are built, China could become Russia’s single biggest customer for natural gas.
The agreement highlights the determination of both nations to diversify their economies and seek new customers and vendors. It also reflects a political desire by both to steer a course independent of Western powers and especially the United States.
Analyst: Gas shale may be next bubble to burst(AP-Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6664313.html
By JUDITH KOHLER Associated Press
Oct. 12, 2009, 6:33PM
DENVER — The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the country’s next speculative bubble to burst, a speaker warned Monday at a conference exploring the notion that the world’s oil and gas are diminishing rapidly.
Arthur Berman, a Texas-based geological consultant, likened the optimistic projections for production from gas shale fields across the country to banks buying into mortgage securitizations, which spurred the housing market crisis and economic meltdown.
“In the midst of a boom or a bubble, it’s hard to sit on the sidelines,” Berman said during the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas conference. “If you’re not in one of these plays, then Wall Street says, ‘Well, what’s the matter with you guys?’”
That was the psychology leading into the current financial crunch, Berman said. Analyses show that gas shale fields in Texas and elsewhere aren’t as profitable and likely don’t contain as much retrievable gas as the industry and others portray, he added.
Based on the experience in the Barnett Shale in Texas, Berman said he doesn’t expect the yields from the wells to be high enough or last long enough to make the gas shales that profitable, even when current low gas prices rise.
Insurance Dispute Heats Up Before Vote
Industry Group, White House Spar Over Premiums
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203108.html?hpid=topnews
Tensions between the White House and insurers exploded into open warfare Monday, with the two sides arguing over what the financial impact of comprehensive health-care legislation moving through Congress would be for average Americans…
The Obama administration said the industry analysis was deeply flawed, and its allies lambasted the industry for hypocrisy and an “11th-hour attack” intended to rob President Obama of a victory on his top domestic priority.
“Health insurance companies have been laughing all the way to the bank for generations while people suffer,” said Sen. John D. RockefellerIV (D-W.Va.) “The industry stands today as the greatest impediment to real health-care reform.”
“CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmyd6KPIqE
HSBC(Europe’s largest Bank) sees tipping point of Western decline
Commentary: But is rise of East more than a bubble?
Craig Stephen’s This Week in China Oct. 5, 2009
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hsbc-sees-tipping-point-of-western-decline-2009-10-04
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Last month’s decision by HSBC Holdings to relocate its group chief executive officer from London to Hong Kong sent a strong signal about where the bank sees its future.
Now it looks as if new research from its economics team explains this move in report titled, “The Tipping Point — The rise of the East and Demise of the West.”
HSBC to Sell New York Building for $330 Million
By Calev Ben-David and David M. Levitt Oct. 5 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aX9snPdHfLeI
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) –HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, agreed to sell its New York City headquarters for $330 million in cash to a company controlled by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner,,,
HSBC said last month that Chief Executive Officer Michael Geoghegan will move to Hong Kong from London as the global bank increases its focus on emerging markets such as China..
Geoghegan told the Financial Times in an interview published today he expects the economic recovery to be ‘W’ shaped. “I’m not as convinced we’re through the worst as others are,” the FT cited him as saying. HSBC shares gained 3.4 pence to 689.9 pence in London Stock Exchange trading today.
HSBC chairman: Banking industry “owes an apology”
http://www.financemarkets.co.uk/2009/10/07/hsbc-chairman-banking-industry-“owes-an-apology”/
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Green who is also a Church of England priest, said: “I think the change in the public perception of the industry is entirely understandable. The banking industry has not covered itself in glory to say the least, and indeed the industry collectively owes the real world an apology for what has happened.
“It also owes the real world a commitment to learn the lessons. Some of them are about governance and ethics and culture within the industry,” added Mr Green.
While the world cannot do without banks, said Mr Green, bankers need to learn the lessons of the financial crisis that has had a devastating affect on the global economy.
(Trust Bankers? As much as a Bishop from Nova Scotia)
Vatican arranged ‘get away’ for bishop facing child porn charges: abbot
BY GARY DIMMOCK, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN; WITH FILES FROM CANWEST NEWS SERVICEOCTOBER 5, 2009
The Vatican’s diplomatic office in Rockcliffe Park arranged plans for disgraced Bishop Raymond Lahey, 69, to “get away” to a remote monastery in rural New Brunswick on the eve of his abrupt resignation from his diocese and the laying of child pornography charges by the Ottawa police last week, the Citizen has learned.
HSBC to curb palm oil lending, review oil sands
Tue Dec 2, 2008 8:22am By Gerard Wynn
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4B143620081202
HSBC will cut ties with a third of forestry clients in Malaysia and Indonesia, including palm oil, soy and timber, said Francis Sullivan, the bank’s adviser on the environment.
The bank was criticized recently by a development group, the Forest Peoples Program, for not disclosing the names of its palm oil banking clients.
Monday October 5, 2009 Malaysian Star
Asian banks set sights on Malaysia
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/5/business/4836636&sec=business
“There is room for a big Chinese and Indian bank each,” HSBC Bank (M) Bhd treasurer Piyush Kaul told StarBiz.
ANZ (Australian Bank) seals tie with Chinese banking giant
Michael Sainsbury, China correspondent | September 30, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26143928-643,00.html
ANZ has sealed a world-first partnership to help the powerful China Development Bank achieve its goal of amassing a $25 billion portfolio of Australian assets by the end of the year and dramatically boosting its presence across the Asia-Pacific region.
China’s giant banks storm top 10
Clifford Coonan
- http://www.silobreaker.com/chinas-giant-banks-storm-top-10-5_2262644263584006155
Foreign Corresponden Last Updated: October 03. 2009 7:03PM UAE / October 3. 2009 3:03PM -
The current economic crisis has seen widespread change at the top table of global banking and now four Chinese banks have been ranked among the top 10 biggest banks in the world in terms of market values.
“Many of China’s major banks made big profits last year, hundreds of billions of yuan each. But most of them are state-owned big banks, said Dr Miao Rong from the research department of the China Enterprise Confederation.
Hong Kong May End Hands-Off Government as Shanghai Threat Looms
By Sophie Leung Oct, 13, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a.9roq1TTkn4
China’s government has said it wants to develop Shanghai as the country’s international financial and shipping center, and that Hong Kong should find new sources of revenue. Tsang may set out policies to develop six pillar industries that will help Hong Kong diversify away from financial services and trade.
Bank Of Montreal To Incorporate In China
September 23, 2009
Beijing, China (AHN) – The China Securities Regulatory Commission gave the Bank of Montreal preliminary approval to incorporate in the People’s Republic of China.
If the BMO would get the CSRC’s final okay by mid-2010, it would be able to offer a wider range of banking services from accepting deposits in yuan to selling investment products. BMO would then be the first Canadian bank to incorporate in China…
BMO chief executive Bill Downe said in a statement during the bank’s branch opening in Shanghai, “BMO’s ties with China go back to 1818 – the year after our founding – when we undertook our first foreign exchange transaction in support of trade with China.”
CIBC banking machines to take China bank card
September 28, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/09/28/cibc-china-bank-card.html
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said Monday its automated banking machines will begin accepting China’s largest bank card.
Customers holding one of the 1.9 billion China Unionpay cards will be able to engage in financial transactions in any of CIBC’s 3,800 ABMs across Canada, CIBC said.
“It’s a first,” said Doug Maybee, CIBC’s media relations director.
CHINA: ROTHSCHILD BANK SETTING UP AN OFFICE IN SHANGHAI.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-140959168.html
PR Strategic Business Information Database |January 17, 2006
According to fdi.gov.cn: The French private banking corporation Edmond de Rothschild Bank recently set up its Shanghai representative office. It marked the first family-owned private bank to have gained approval from the China Banking Regulatory …
War breaks out between Fox News and the Obama administration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/fox-news-obama-white-house
Fox News gave great prominence to opposition to Obama’s plans for healthcare reforms, heavily promoting meetings at which the president was characterised as a Nazi and a communist…
“I want to show you right where the enemy is located,” Beck added as he circled Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News headquarters in green ink on a map of New York. “This is the enemy, America!”
The Berlusconi-Murdoch war continues
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Posted by George Eaton
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09 October 2009 15:41
- http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/fourth-estate/2009/10/murdoch-war-berlusconi-italian
Who will win this billionaire smackdown?
Among those who will relish Silvio Berlusconi’s present woes is Rupert Murdoch. The media mogul has reserved a special enmity for the Italian premier ever since he doubled the rate of VAT on satellite television to 20 per cent.
The subtle response of Murdoch’s Sky Italia was to screen the film Killing Silvio, which depicts a man’s quest to assassinate Berlusconi.
EU draws up plans to establish itself as ‘world power’
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6266147/EU-draws-up-plans-to-establish-itself-as-world-power.html
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Oct 2009
The European Union has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states…
Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order?
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
Grant, the director of London’s Center for European Reform, argues for a “strategic partnership” between the EU and China to confront global problems that affect them both.
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
The Nazis are rightly better remembered for their capacity to wage war than for their ability to consolidate peace. In this impressive work, Mazower demonstrates just how incompetent they were at the latter task…
There were not enough ethnic Germans to rule the vast conquered regions by an iron fist alone, yet the Nazis’ tactics made any alternative to such rule impossible. “Germany,” Mazower points out, “could have racial purity or imperial domination, but it could not have both.”
Central banks leaving greenback in the lurch
YE XIE AND ANCHALEE WORRACHATE
October 13, 2009
http://www.smh.com.au/business/central-banks-leaving-greenback-in-the-lurch-20091012-gu2i.html
Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing US dollars in favour of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two-quarter rout in almost two decades.
Policymakers boosted foreign currency holdings by the equivalent of $US413 billion ($A457 billion) last quarter, the most since at least 2003, to $US7.3 trillion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Nations that reported the currencies in which those reserves were held put 63 per cent of the new cash into euros and yen in April, May and June, the latest Barclays Capital data show.
That is the highest percentage in any quarter, with an increase of more than $US80 billion.
World leaders are acting on threats to dump the US dollar..
‘Secret plan’ to dethrone the U.S. dollar boosting gold
Jason Simpkins October, 13 ,2009
http://www.stockhouse.com/Columnists/2009/Oct/13/-Secret-plan–to-dethrone-the-U-S–dollar-boosting
May serve as a transitional currency in the shift
Gold prices surged to record high $1,045 an ounce a week ago after a report surfaced that global oil producers are planning to stop using the U.S. dollar for oil trade.
“There’s no telling the veracity of these reports, but the general trend has been going in this direction anyway: a weaker dollar and rising gold,” Brien Lundin, editor of the Gold Newsletter told MarketWatch.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and Middle Eastern oil producers met to discuss plans to stop using the U.S. dollar for oil trade,The Independent reported. The dollar would be replaced by a basket of currencies that includes gold, which could be a big reason behind the precious metal’s recent run-up in price..
Energy
U.S. advocates for oil sands tout security of supply
Group fires back at ‘dirty oil’ opponents, citing Canadian output as critical source
Shawn McCarthy
OTTAWA—From Monday’s Globe and MailPublished on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 12:00AM EDTLast updated on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 7:33AM EDT
The Houston-based Consumer Energy Alliance has a grim message for those who propose to restrict U.S. access to Canada’soilsands
production to cut greenhouse gas emissions: If the U.S. doesn’t buy the Alberta crude, China will. (Note: See above-China has powerful
axis fossil fuel friends in Russia-Iran–Central Asia-Really doesn’t need Alberta Tar sands oil or gas)
As a result, such measures would not advance the global fight againstclimatechange, it says. But the U.S. would be more dependent on Middle East oil, “Communist China” would be siphoning off secure North American crude supplies, and motorists would face higher prices, the alliance warns in a campaign aimed at supporting expansion of imports from the oil sands.
As the U.S. moves to adopt climate change legislation and prepares for negotiations in Copenhagen toward a new global treaty, environmentalists have stepped up their attacks on Canada’s oil sands as emblematic of the world’s reliance on “dirty” fuels.
With the U.S. Senate set to take up debate on climate change legislation this week, the American oil industry is fighting back, both directly and through proxy groups like the Consumer Energy Alliance.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Washington recently…
Houston we have a problem-it is you.
Behold! Canada’s most disgusting export
Nothing like Alberta’s’s revolting oilsands to destroy your optimism
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/07/notes100709.DTL#ixzz0U1P5Zhja
Have you heard? Have you taken even a cursory peek lately into the oversized eco nightmare that is Canada’s monstrous, pollutive, disgusting hellholes of rapacious greed and pollution and destruction and sheer capitalistic joy? I bet you have.
They are, you might say, the finest example we currently have of a massive, soulless industry and a major first-world government shoving a giant middle finger in the face of all notions of progress and environmental integrity. They’re not the only ones, to be sure — the coal industry’s middle finger is downright callused from flipping everyone off so aggressively — but for sheer gall, for shamelessly stomping a greasy black boot heel into the face of environmental progress right now, the oilsands simply can’t be beat.
They are true wonders, testaments to mankind’s remarkable power to continue — against every hunk of knowledge and common sense — to rape, maul and utterly devastate everything we supposedly hold dear, all in the name of filthy profit.
Despite whatever good vibes you might’ve been feeling from all those rumors of a healthy global push toward sustainability and alternative energy, the oilsands remind you: no one really gives a flying f–k. Not when hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake. You cannot help but be perversely impressed…
But that’s not the ugliest part. The ugliest part is, the oilsand project is expanding as fast as inhumanly possible. It is already, according to various reports, the largest energy project in the world. Bigger than Saudi Arabia. Bigger than Wal-Mart. Bigger than Jesus…
Meanwhile- that other Symbol of All that has gone wrong with Western Civilization-Global Civilization The Olympics Marches forth from Berlin 1936- to Beijing 2008 to Beijing-Vancouver 2010.
The Olympics- have become the Symbol of Greed-Excess-Multi-Billion Dollar Industry-Turning Athletes into Products-Environmental Destruction-Abuse of Human and Civil Rights-Sweeping Away of the Made Homeless-the Triumph of War over Peace(see Beijing Olympics-Russia-Georgia-see Canada Host of 2010 Vancouver Olympics-at War in Afghanistan during Games-exempted from the Corrupt IOC-for being in contravention of the IOC Rules-
The Olympics was Civilization’s Symbol of Peace-Harmony-Amateurism(free from financial exploitation)and the Best Civilization could be-We have Fallen Greatly-We are on the Abyss of Destruction-Environmental-War and the lowest point of Humanity-We are on the Path to Collective Suicide-We must Rise above Ourselves before it is too late
Lord Mandelson and Nat Rothschild share Brazilian ambitions By Richard Eden
Published: 10:56PM BST 10 Oct 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6292214/Lord-Mandelson-and-Nat-Rothschild-share-Brazilian-ambitions.html
When Lord Mandelson pays tribute to President Lula of Brazil at the Banqueting House in Whitehall on Bonfire Night, his Brazilian-born boyfriend, Reinaldo da Silva, will not be the only one hoping for friendships to sparkle. The Business Secretary’s holiday host Nat Rothschild has decided to expand massively his interests in Brazil.
Nat, from whose villa in Corfu Peter Mandelson reportedly ran Britain while Gordon Brown was on holiday in August, is expected to take a seat on the board of BR Properties. His father is the chairman of the RIT Capital investment group, which is also taking a minority stake in the company…
Nat’s previous property interests centred on Montenegro, where he is investing with another of Mandelson’s chums, (and Peter Munk of world’s largest Gold Miner Canada’s Barrick Gold) Oleg Deripaska, the controversial Russian oligarch.
Mandelson’s relationship with Nat became a major talking point when Mandrake disclosed last year that the former European trade commissioner had, while staying with Nat in Corfu, been entertained aboard the yacht of Deripaska, an aluminium tycoon, whose businesses benefited from tariffs the commission set.
Nat, who is the co-chairman of the hedge fund Atticus Capital, has been linked to the son of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi. In 2009, Saif threw his 37th birthday party at the Splendid Hotel in Becici, Montenegro…
Brazil Companies to Step Up Overseas Takeovers, Rothschild Says
By Telma Marotto and Francisco Marcelino
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aybCxyNnunkQ
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — Brazilian companies are prepared to step up international takeovers as the domestic economy recovers from a recession and the local currency gains, according to Rothschild, the country’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser.
“The mood is for more growth and consolidation,” Luiz O. Muniz, 47, the head of investment banking in Brazil, said in an interview in Sao Paulo. “Business leaders stopped worrying about economic problems to think of their own business.”
Rothschild surpassed Morgan Stanley this week as the biggest adviser on Brazilian takeovers after helping JBS SA acquire Pilgrim’s Pride in the U.S
Keeping eyes on those who want to burst the bubble zone
BY PETE MCMARTIN, VANCOUVER SUNOCTOBER 12, 2009
What, I wonder, would the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee have made of Rosa Parks?
Parks, after all, was a troublemaker. Back in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat to a white person (and Parks, incidentally, was not the first black person in Montgomery, Ala. to do so), she was committing an act of civil disobedience.
She committed that act — to borrow Vanoc’s blandly disturbing term — in “a bubble zone.” It happened to be on a seat at the front of a bus, but it was a bubble zone, nonetheless. The status quo of white racism inhabited that zone, and Parks became renowned by daring to trespass against it.
Brave stuff, to be sure. But her elevation to civil rights sainthood is hindsight talking. In 1955, Parks was not an icon. She was a pain in the ass…
Vanoc wants the Winter Olympics to run on time, too. It is asking that we act nice, speak softly and smile for the cameras.
Toward that end, it and its willing partners in the City of Vancouver and the provincial government have created bylaws and bubble zones where certain behaviours will not be tolerated. For example:
No distribution of advertising material, or the carrying of any sign “unless licensed to do so by the city.”
No display of signs other than those of a “celebratory” or directional nature.
No causing of “any disturbance . . . interfering with the enjoyment of entertainment on city land by other persons.”
No “voice amplification equipment” on city property for the duration of the Games.
As for anti-Olympic marches or protests, they will be relegated to “safe assembly areas”…
As for the provincial government, it jumped in last week with the introduction of Bill 13, which would allow authorities in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler to enter residences and private property with only 24 hours notice to remove or cover up signs during the Olympics period. Violators could be fined $10,000 per day and face imprisonment for up to six months.
Previously, the fine was $2,000 a day. Your home is your castle, unless you happen to displease the IOC.
The defenders of these laws — politicians, pro-Games enthusiasts, those who argue that a multi-billion-dollar worldwide advertisement for Vancouver trumps the temporary suspension of a few marginal freedoms –
B.C. government wants to jail the homeless(Bill 13 in time
For the Vancouver Olympics)
BY HARSHA WALIA, SPECIAL TO THE SUNSEPTEMBER 27, 2009
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/government+wants+jail+homeless/2042166/story.html
Mr. President, the Nobel Committee is in Collusion with the Bankers etc., in there support
for the China Global Model-the leading contenders as you well know were political Chinese dissidents imprisoned for struggling for Human Rights, Dignity and Democracy. They had nowhere to run for cover except you. They could have jointly given it to you and them. (Note the Chair of Nobel committee is the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe)
Mr. President soon you will make a critical decision- on a scale larger than former British PrimeMinister Neville Chamberlain. Soon you will visit China-if you endorse the China model-they will have succeeded. It is a line you must not cross. It will be the equivalent of a world-wide cope d’etat. Banks, Big Oil, King Coal, Gas, Nuclear Power will of won the battle. Mainstream Environmentalists have been
seduced by the Fatherland Germany as it once again leads Europe down a very dark path-EcoFascism-United with China a Hybrid Three Headed Dragon-Stalinism-Fascism-with a Capitalist Economy. Al Gore has cheered on China recently as a “Green” SuperPower.
In our best Henry Kissinger voice we say -this is a line you must not cross Mr. President.
And Henry Kissinger should know- he won a Nobel Peace Prize(Gandhi never did) and many call him like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld a War Criminal. Henry Kissinger was an Architect and christened the China Model. He is of course a Protege of that captain of Titanic Industries David Rockefeller. You are called on Mr. President to uphold the US Constitution and defend the people and freedom. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln compell you.
At this point all indications are the Climate Treaty slated for December 2009 will collapse completely. We are dangerously moving to something the world has never seen -A Global Civil War-it will lead to the Extinction of the Human Species- this is not theory or conjecture-it is a certainty. Love-Compassion-Freedom-Truth and Justice are at the center of the Spirit of Humanity- to snuff out these Flames is to snuff out our own Existence. The paths to Global Civil War are numerous-we must all step back from this Abyss-before it is too late. If the Captains of Titanic Industries mortally harm this President -that also is a path to Global civil war…
The World has entered into the mortally dangerous Realm of Smoke and Mirrors. This is a term used by Intelligence
Agencies when an Agent can no longer tell what is Real, what is truth and what is a lie -then they must leave.
There are Rogue elements in the Pentagon and Intelligent Agencies that are actively supporting the Banks etc China Global model coup d’etat. The Others are hamstrung-they are fenced in by a over-arching Systemic problem-created for this very purpose. Busy catching mice and rats, while the “wolves” are in the henhouse.
We are calling on all Law enforcement, Intelligence Personnel, Military Personnel and Syndicates of All stripes to do all you can for Freedom and Democracy. Expose them-hinder them-do all you can. We have a Golden opportunity like that time just before WW2 when the world if it had the where withall could have choked of Hitler’s Fascists eg stop the bankrolling of his Party. And avoid War. Once again the Captains of Titanic Industries who were great Admirers and supporters of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s Fascism are at it again…
The Office of the President must hold the line-while there is a soldier on the ground, a homeless person on the streets, dirty oil or a coal stack burning-you must not relent.
The Origins of All underground Syndicates and Intelligent Agencies- has always been the Protection of the People and the Land. Hermes was the Patron of Thieves, Shepherds, and Civilization.
Far from your origins you have travelled but Return to it you must.
If you do not, they will come for you still- like a Pirate ship of the coast-all the major militaries and navies including China for the first time in 400 years, came together-it is symbolic and heralds what is to come-if you do not act now…
Chinese dissidents let down by Obama Nobel
by Shaun Tandon – Fri Oct 9, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091010/wl_asia_afp/nobelpeaceuschinarights
WASHINGTON (AFP) – China’s dissidents are voicing unease about President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the award could have been effective in promoting human rights in their country.
Some in China’s democracy movement are outraged at what they see as a weak stance on rights by Obama, who the same week as Friday’s announcement avoided a meeting with Tibet’s exiled Dalai Lama that would have upset Beijing.
Chinese activists had been tipped as Nobel contenders on this year of anniversaries, when China marked 60 years of communist rule, 50 years since the Dalai Lama’s flight and 20 years since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy uprising.
Al Gore praises China’s climate leadership updated: 2009-09-24 11:39
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2009-09/24/content_8734716.htm
“I think that China has provided impressive leadership,” Gore told reporters.
Should Al Gore (or Anyone Else) be Praising Green China?September 25th, 2009
http://www.cleanergreenerchina.com/2009/09/25/should-al-gore-be-praising-green-china/
Master Developer for Redevelopment of Historic Bund in Shanghai
http://www.rockgroupdevelopment.com/shanghai/shanghai.html
The Rockefeller Group is the official Master Developer for a portion of a historic area in Shanghai, China, known as The Bund, once the home of the city’s financial and trade industries
The Bund in Shanghai was home to foreign trading settlements beginning in the mid 19th-century. Shanghai grew rapidly since then as an economic center for China and Asia. Shanghai’s financial market became the third largest in the world, behind London and New York.
The Rockefeller Group’s first redevelopment phase encompasses 1,011,808 square feet of mixed-use buildings on a block of approximately four acres. It includes luxury residences and retail shops, a hotel, office space, and facilities for cultural attractions.
(Note Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection was Originally a Philanthropy Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund -seen with our own eyes on there original website on front page -no longer exists)
WRITTEN BY WARREN MAS MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2009
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/821
In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world’s most populous country, where human-rights concerns were trumped by global economic concerns during Clinton’s February 20-22 visit. China is still an openly communist nation and has a dismal human-rights track record. But it also has the world’s fastest-growing major economy and is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities.
How Bill Clinton Turned U.S. Intelligence Into a Cash Cow
Charles R. Smith Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/17/213623.shtml
The Clinton emphasis on commercial espionage became public in 1994 when then CIA Director John Deutch announced that electronic intercepts of a Saudi prince gave Boeing a major contract…
“I understand that our National Security Agency is aware of this change in GCHQ’s position and would support our request for a change in US requirements for export licenses for China. The NSA has agreed that there should be a ‘level playing field’ in regard to China.” …
If any single person is responsible for the sad state of our NSA and CIA today, it is Bill Clinton.
Year of the Rat —
How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash
http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/yearrat.html
Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett, II
(275 pp., ISBN: 0-89526-333-5, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 1998.)
Something is rotten in Washington’s corridors of power. And we aren’t talking about lying about sultry sex (and alleged private matters that may or may not be high crimes and misdemeanors), but corruption in the highest circles of our government — the Departments of Navy, Justice, Defense, Commerce, culminating with bribery and potential treason involving the President and Vice President of the United States.
In their new book, Year of the Rat, national security experts, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett, II, outline in graphic detail the selling of U.S. innermost national security secrets to a hostile foreign power, Red China, for illegal and treasonous campaign contributions. Consider this is tainted blood money from the butchers of Tiananmen Square where upwards of 3,000 to 4,000 students were killed in cold blood. The implications of the Clinton-Gore administration welcoming those responsible to Washington, D.C. with 19-gun salutes does not pass unnoticed by the authors. Clinton-Gore would do anything for money to gain power in 1992 and retain power in 1996. Chinese spy John Huang working for Lippo moguls Mochtar and James Riady (also Chinese intelligence agents) played pivotal roles as did Arkansas triad member Charlie Trie and Macau criminal syndicate and prostitute ring leaders Ng Lapseng and Ted Sioeng.
We learn about intriguing (and determined) women, four Asian (all Chinese or of Chinese decent) who also had what could be characterized as “improper relations” with the President (and Vice President), only this time the relations were not sexual but treasonous. One of the women, princeling Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, a PLA intelligence agent, insisted on and met Bill Clinton, placed money in the Democratic coffers, and thereafter (helped by the President’s lobbying) obtained concessions for COSCO in the leasing of the naval base at Long Beach, California.
Most egregiously, while Clinton was preaching draconian gun control for law-abiding American citizens, he was entertaining Chinese gun runners, like Wang Jun of the Red Chinese firm Polytechnologies, with White House coffees and a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fund raising event. Mr. Wang himself (now indicted) manned COSCO’s ship the Empress Phoenix which was intercepted by U.S. Customs bringing to the port of Oakland, California 2,000 automatic weapons destined for Los Angeles gangs! Undaunted, in May 1998, Clinton approved the launching of a satellite by Lockheed Martin and a Red Chinese firm in a joint venture with Polytechnologies.
But not all of the characters in this nefarious story are communist Chinese, but American capitalists who placed corporate profits ahead of America’s national interest, and so the businesses they headed donated millions of dollars to the DNC to help the Democrats regain Congress in the 1996 and 1998 elections. In return, the Clinton-Gore team signed waivers allowing these companies to transfer our most sensitive satellite (i.e., missile launching) technology to Red China, obliterating the safety margin and technological edge we previously had on our sworn and potential enemies. (China then transferred sensitive U.S. technology to Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.) As a result, according to American intelligence and the Cox Report, China now has 20 reliable ICBMs targeted at U.S. cities and although not à la par with the U.S., China poses a serious threat to our national security. In fact, during the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis in which China attempted to intimidate Taiwan and the U.S. sent its 7th Fleet to discourage a communist invasion, a leading Chinese general threatened to nuke Los Angeles adding, with great assurance, that the U.S. would not endanger Los Angeles to defend Taiwan.
We now live in a more dangerous world and the people who have endangered the lives of Americans are still leading this nation! It’s beyond human understanding. Given what we now know, President Clinton was lying when in April 1996 he stated: “For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a single solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child tonight. Not one. Not a single one.”
The selling out of our national security secrets to the Red Chinese, as thoroughly documented in this book, is such a dastardly presidential deed as to defy comprehension by ordinary Americans. These acts are so inimical and evil that their disbelief provides the greatest cover to those involved. After all, who wants to believe that bribery and treason in the very pinnacle of our republic might just be true — particularly in this great era of national prosperity?
In an exclusive interview with newsletter editor David Bossie, Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, corroborates: “We had 79 people involved in fund-raising for the Democratic party take the Fifth to avoid incriminating themselves. And there are another 23 witnesses, like James Riady of the Lippo Group and Liu Chaoying of China Aerospace, who live in other countries and we have been unable to interview them. I have asked FBI director Freeh if he had ever been involved in any investigation in which so many witnesses took the Fifth or fled. He said the only time he remembered such a situation was during an investigation of organized crime in New York.”
The recent revelations coming out of the Cox Committee (one third of which was censored by the administration as deemed “too sensitive” for public consumption) reveals the frightening extent of Red Chinese espionage and the loss of our most sensitive nuclear secrets. Just recently, in fact, the Red Chinese announced they had built a neutron bomb (which, along with multiple nuclear warhead technology, we now know was part of their stolen espionage loot).
Can we believe the president when he holds his arm to his chest, looks us directly in the eye, and pleads as he did on March 19 of this year: “I can tell you that there is no espionage at the [nuclear weapons] lab since I have been presidentno one has reported to me that they suspect such a thing has occurred?”
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction — and more frightening too!
Reviewed by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD
Macon, GA
Editorial Review
Year of the Rat (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Rat-Edward-Timperlake/dp/0895262495
Amazon.com Review
While many political journalists largely considered the second term of Bill Clinton’s presidency in terms of his romantic interludes, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II follow up on one of the more controversial scandals of the 1996 reelection campaign. The Democratic National Committee was eventually forced to return $2.8 million in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign nationals, and much of it brought to the party by fundraising executive John Huang.
Huang originally represented U.S. interests for the Riady family, a powerful family of Indonesian businessmen with close ties to the Communist Chinese government. James Riady had been a “Friend of Bill” since 1977, and the two authors all but insinuate that the Riadys “scouted” Clinton–whether as an unwitting dupe, a sleeper agent, or merely an exploitable opportunist is never quite clear–and helped underwrite his bid for the White House. Why? So they could get John Huang a Commerce Department appointment… one that came with a top-secret security clearance.
Timperlake and Triplett gather together an astonishing–and largely convincing–mass of evidence that the Clinton-Gore administration “has made a series of Faustian bargains and policy blunders that have allowed a hostile power to further its aims in Washington.” In addition to the potential security breach represented by Huang, they document numerous policy decisions that risk strengthening the technological and military power of Communist China, power that might well be used against the United States in the future. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
Year of the Rat is a sharp polemic that does what Sen. Fred Thompson’s hearings failed to do: show Chinese penetration of the American political elite. — The Wall Street Journal, Michael Ledeen
America’s survival in the coming Century in the shadow of China’s rapid nuclear and space-based weapons modernization program, built largely with Western technology and know-how, has yet to be fully understood by American policy-makers and the general public. A clarion call to action is clearly documented in the YEAR OF THE RAT, a thoroughly documented and important new book by Congressional investigators and former Defense Department officials, Edward Timperlake and William Triplett. They describe in painstaking detail how members of the American business community and foreign agents of the Chinese military-industrial vanguard have used massive political donations to facilitate the build-up China’s first-strike capabilities through influencing White House policies on export controls and other national security safeguards.
While Capitol Hill and the American media was transfixed on the Presiden t’s dalliances with young women, Timperlake and Triplett, who have a combined fifty years of service in American national security agencies, collected information from recently declassified U.S. Government documents and traveled to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, combing through records and documents related to key Donor-Gate personalities. In colorful description, they describe how they used undercover techniques to interview numerous sources with first-hand knowledge of illegal links between the Chinese military- industrial establishment and the Clinton-Gore political campaigns. The tragic consequence is the rapid escalation of China’s military into a world-class nuclear, space and information-warfare power.
The influence of the President’s Chinese friends on American foreign policy is illustrated by an incident involving the down-and-out “Little Rock restauranteur” Charlie Trie during the March, 1996 crisis involving Chinese communist missiles fired toward Taiwan. Following the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers to the region, Trie showed up in Washington, delivering $460,000 to the President Clinton’s Legal Defense Fund — and a letter, delivered to the White House, regarding the Taiwan crisis. The provocative letter stated, in part [verbatim], “Any negative outcomes of the U.S. decision in the China issue will affect your administration position, especially in the campaign year… If the U.S. recognizes “one China” policy, don’t such conduct will cause a conflict for intervening in China’s internal affairs?…”
In response, the Clinton National Security Council drafted a letter to Trie, assuring the communist Chinese that the aircraft carriers were simply a “redeploymnet,” and “not intended as a threat to the PRC.”
Charlie Trie, as the authors found in Asia, is member of a Chinese Tria d crime gang that has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trie’s money contact in Macau, who wired more than $1 million to Trie’s U.S. account, most of which is believed to have ended up in Clinton Defense Fund and Democratic Party campaign coffers, is Ng Lapseng, a Triad mobster and Chinese communist official. In fact, Ng visited the White House and attended a number of Democratic Party fund-raisers in Washington, sitting next to President Clinton at some events.
In some respects, Clinton owes his presidency to his closest Asian frien ds, ethic-Chinese
Indonesian bankers Mokthar and James Riady have billions of dollars in investments in China. In 1992, with the Clinton campaign broke and reeling from the Jennifer Flowers scandal, the Riady’s persuaded the Arkansas-based Worthen Bank, of which their Lippo Bank was a part owner, to issue a $3.5 million letter of credit to the Clinton campaign. In addition, James Riady and his wife donated $450,000 that year, making them the largest private donors to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
Who are the Riady’s? The authors cite a CIA report to the U.S. Senate , that states, in part: “James and Mochtar Riady have a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency. The relationship is based on mutual benefit… the Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate and develop relationships with information collectors particularly those with close association to the U.S. government.” Within months of Clinton’s election, a Riady executive and Democratic party fund-raiser, John Huang, had a Top Secret security clearance, with access to the most sensitive CIA information on China. Huang was issued the security clearance five months before working for Ron Brown at the Commerce Department. Incredibly, Huang maintained the clearance after he left the Administration to do full time fund-raising at the Democratic National Committee.
Timperlake and Triplett further describe how other influential American and foreign corporate donors to the Democratic Party, some of whom are directly or indirectly linked to Chinese military and intelligence networks, have influenced Clinton-Gore policies that decimated national security export controls — despite protests by Pentagon arms-control experts. Citing testimony by highly respected American aeronautical experts, the improvement of Chinese missile performance is shown to be a direct product of negligent Administration oversight of joint U.S.-China high technology programs and satellite launches, that have dramatically improved Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability.
The critical premise of the authors has been validated by the recent rel ease of an explicit Pentagon report to the Congress illustrating how the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is developing a range of high technology weapons to destroy American satellites and establish “capability to establish control of space and to deny access and use of military and commercial space systems in times of crises or war.” Equally troubling, the Chinese are ready to test fire a new generation of mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles that can hit the entire Western area of the United States. According to the U.S. National Air Intelligence Center the new DF-31 missiles give China a major first-strike capability, “that will be difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation, through terminal flight phases.” The rocket-motor of the DF-31 was first tested in July 1998, while President Clinton was visiting Beijing. Although U.S. intelligence was fully aware of incident, citing it as a “political test,” the Clinton Administration failed to raise the issue. YEAR OF THE RAT is must-reading to understand why the betrayal of American national security is the most dangerous and tragic legacy of the Clinton-Gore era. – Al Santoli, Author of Everything We Had and Leading The Way. Editor of the weekly “China Reform Monitor,” for the American Foreign Policy Council –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
This President is Hemmed in by Clintonites and Bushites-do all that you can to help, in the name of Democracy, Freedom and Justice…
Guns N’ Roses – Civil War (Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9VhD4SccSE
Charlie Chaplin speaks on Greed and Fascism as an alternate reality Adolph Hitler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.) psea does not do media interviews since july 2007,we thank all media for their inquires. Please feel free to use anything on this site.
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
ESSAY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl
Please see:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weaponsupdate-friday-feb-13-2009/
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Alberta oilsands
http://news.mining.com/2009/10/01/dalai-lama-sounds-off-on-oilsands/
The Unofficial Spokesperson for the Republican Party is Rush Limbaugh here is a direct quote:
Here’s Our Top 10 Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
A Question if you might say everything is kosher: Why is there a statue
of the only Confederate Officer to be publicly honored in the Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C.- steps from the Capitol and the Supreme Court-a head of the Ku Klux Klan, a 33degree mason and personally pardoned by President Andrew Johnston after the Civil War-it’s right under our noses. Numerous city councils and congress elected officials have attempted to get the statue removed -claiming it is an offense against humanity-to absolutely no avail.
I have been made aware of attacks on me, in your purported rebuttal of the documentation showing that Gen. Albert Pike was the spiritual and actual founder or co-founder of the original Ku Klux Klan, in addition to his functions as an intelligence officer of the treasonous Confederacy, and in addition to his close liaison with Lord Palmerston’s Italian collaborator, Giuseppe Mazzini (Founder of the modern Mafia-where the M comes from)
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/932_lyn_pike.html
http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html (history of Mafia)
Giuseppe Mazzini the prophet of the idea of the United States of Europe.
Mazzini argued that through coordinated uprisings, the people could drive the Italian princes from their thrones and oust the Austrians from dominance of the Italian Peninsula.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569951/Mazzini.html
Giuseppe Mazzini (June 22, 1805 – March 10, 1872), the “Soul of Italy,”[1]was an Italianpatriot, philosopher, Freemason and politician. His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state[2] in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
September 22, 2009
Protesting Vancouver Peace Summit and Spiritual Dream Team
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
(This document is given to global politicians, bank and energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)
9.22.2009
On Sept 26-29, the so-called “spiritual dream team” of Nobel Peace Laureates, new age gurus and maybe even Oprah Winfrey will be in Vancouver according to organizers to “be a catalyst for change in the world.” It is headlined by the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Eckhart Tolle with special guest entertainers the Blue Man group.
http://dalailamacenter.org/conference/vancouver-peace-summit-2009
It is in our opinion an elitist non-inclusive, patrician affair of old failed ways of doing and acting. Tickets are between $200 – $1000 for the major events at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the Orpheum Theatre where the Vancouver Symphony orchestra normally plays.
An invitation-only dialogue with the Dalai Lama with people from corporate finance, philanthropy and spirituality will affect real change in the world, is the hope. Did we mention that the host hotel for the “spiritual dream team” is Vancouver’s most elite hotel the Pan Pacific with basic rooms starting at over $300 a night.
If the spiritual dream team wanted to affect real change, shouldn’t they have put the spotlight on Vancouver’s east side, south side or Little Mountain, First Nations not the Pan Pacific, Orpheum or the Chan Centre?
We ask where would Jesus or Buddha have gone, the DTES(downtown eastside), or UBC’s Chan Centre for Performing Arts?
We ask why were Nobel Peace Laureates Al Gore and the Dalai Lama completely silent on the Gaza and Sri Lankan slaughters?
Think about this – the Blue Man group is a known anti-union multi-media corporation, which ran afoul of Toronto unions in 2005 and also in Las Vegas. “The spiritual dream team” endorses this by not speaking out.
Blowing in the wind
Local politicians and labor leaders urge Blue Man Group to unionize its show
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2006/04/06/local_news/news02.txt
http://www.bluemanboycott.com/
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD SUPPORTS AFL-CIO BOYCOTT OF BLUE MAN GROUP
http://www.sag.org/content/screen-actors-guild-supports-afl-cio-boycott-blue-man-group
We have a message for Archbishop Tutu. Did you know that your church, the Anglican cathedral (seen with our own eyes) in Victoria, BC is part of the campaign against the homeless in Victoria with many businesses and churches hanging signs on their front lawns or windows stating “No Camping, No Loitering, No Trespassing and No Soliciting.” Why? Last Spring, a BC court ruled the homeless in Victoria have a right to camp on public property including parks. Will you speak out against your church and support the homeless in Victoria?
Judge throws out Victoria city rules for campers on public property
The Dalai Lama goes directly to Calgary afterwards for similar events. Will the Dalai Lama speak out against the Alberta oil sands – China has recently invested big time in the tar sands.
China’s Move into (Alberta)Oil sands Irks Washington
http://www.cippe.net/en_news/8242.htm Global Petroleum Net
PetroChina Co. Ltd.’s (PTR-N119.82-0.78-0.65%) $1.9-billion investment in the oil sands is raising alarms in Washington, with the head of a congressionally-appointed China watchdog saying the company is clearly a vehicle of Beijing’s Communist government.
Carolyn Bartholomew, chairwoman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Tuesday that Ottawa should subject the proposed investment to a thorough review that would include sensitive national security issues.
And she rejected the contention by PetroChina and its supporters that the state-owned enterprise acts like any other commercial oil company in its international operations, professing concern about a growing Chinese presence in America’s “backyard.”
“I think that an acquisition like this should raise national security questions both for the government of Canada and for the government of the United States,” Ms. Bartholomew said in an interview from Washington..
www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites13.html
Note Just below Newell’s name on the ubc website were the names of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu also getting theirs.-note student and faculty mobility and civil rights will be greatly restricted at UBC from Jan-March 2010 because of the Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics-UBC got 50million to build a sports facility for the Games
THE TITLE AND DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS, UBC(honoris causa) CONFERRED AT CONGREGATION, MAY 27, 2003ERIC PATRICK NEWELLMR. CHANCELLOR, when UBC alumni take their place in the world of business, they carry with them not only a degree but also a commitment to education and research.UBC alumnus Eric Newell is Chairman and CEO of Syncrude Canada Limited.… England.Under his leadership, Syncrude has become a key player in the Western Canadian economy. It is an increasingly significant source of energy supply for the country, and is a model of a reliably operated, environmentally efficient, socially responsible corporation….He has also become a leading spokesperson for the Canadian oil sands industry. He served as president of the Alberta Chamber of Resources, where he spearheaded the creation of the National Oil Sands Task Force, which developed a comprehensive new energy vision for Canada in 1995. That vision is being realized today..
Syncrude pleads not guilty over 2008 duck deaths
By Jeffrey Jones
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14509127
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Syncrude Canada Ltd pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges in the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks in a toxic waste pond in 2008, a case that heightened international concern about the environmental impact of developing Canada’s vast oil sands.
After a brief court appearance in St. Albert, Alberta, just outside Edmonton, Syncrude officials declined to divulge details of the company’s defense in the high-profile case, in which the waterfowl got coated in oil and sank.
Syncrude, the largest oil sands miner and processor, faces charges under Canada’s Migratory Birds Convention Act and Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. The trial is slated to begin March 1 in Alberta Provincial Court…
Syncrude’s partners include Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COS_u.TO), Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO), Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO), Nexen Inc (NXY.TO), ConocoPhillips (COP.N) Murphy Oil Ltd (MUR.N) and Nippon Oil Corp (5001.T) unit Mocal Energy. (Reporting by Jeffrey Jones; editing by Peter Galloway)
NOW: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Calgary
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama will address Calgarians for the first time in almost 30 years on September 30, 2009. His Holiness, spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the honoured guest of the University of Calgary and keynote speaker for NOW – a three day event and conference from September 30 – October 2, 2009.
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In the run-up to the crucial U.N. Climate Treaty Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, the Declaration that follows will present to the world’s media a unique spiritual view of climate change and our urgent responsibility to address the solutions. It emerged from the contributions of over 20 Buddhist teachers of all traditions to the book A Buddhist Respose to the Climate Emergency. The Time to Act is Now was composed as a pan-Buddhist statement by Zen teacher Dr David Tetsuun Loy and senior Theravadin teacher Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi with scientific input from Dr John Stanley. The Dalai Lama was the first to sign this Declaration. We invite all concerned members of the international Buddhist community to study the document and add their voice by co-signing it at the end of this page.
Today we live in a time of great crisis, confronted by the gravest challenge that humanity has ever faced: the ecological consequences of our own collective karma. The scientific consensus is overwhelming: human activity is triggering environmental breakdown on a planetary scale. Global warming, in particular, is happening much faster than previously predicted…
…Many scientists have concluded that the survival of human civilization is at stake. We have reached a critical juncture in our biological and social evolution. There has never been a more important time in history to bring the resources of Buddhism to bear on behalf of all living beings… … Both as individuals and as a species, we suffer from a sense of self that feels disconnected not only from other people but from the Earth itself. As Thich Nhat Hanh has said, “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” We need to wake up and realize that the Earth is our mother as well as our home—and in this case the umbilical cord binding us to her cannot be severed. When the Earth becomes sick, we become sick, because we are part of her…
…Individually, we must adopt behaviors that increase everyday ecological awareness and reduce our “carbon footprint”. …and reduce meat consumption in favor of a healthy, environmentally-friendly plant-based diet. These personal activities will not by themselves be sufficient to avert future calamity. We must also make institutional changes, both technological and economic. We must “de-carbonize” our energy systems as quickly as feasible by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources that are limitless, benign and harmonious with nature. We especially need to halt the construction of new coal plants, since coal is by far the most polluting and most dangerous source of atmospheric carbon. Wisely utilized, wind power, solar power, tidal power, and geothermal power can provide all the electricity that we require without damaging the biosphere. Since up to a quarter of world carbon emissions result from deforestation, we must reverse the destruction of forests, especially the vital rainforest belt where most species of plants and animals live. It has recently become quite obvious that significant changes are also needed in the way our economic system is structured. Global warming is intimately related to the gargantuan quantities of energy that our industries devour to provide the levels of consumption that many of us have learned to expect. From a Buddhist perspective, a sane and sustainable economy would be governed by the principle of sufficiency: the key to happiness is contentment rather than an ever-increasing abundance of goods. The compulsion to consume more and more is an expression of craving, the very thing the Buddha pinpointed as the root cause of suffering. Instead of an economy that emphasizes profit and requires perpetual growth to avoid collapse, we need to move together towards an economy that provides a satisfactory standard of living for everyone while allowing us to develop our full (including spiritual) potential in harmony with the biosphere that sustains and nurtures all beings, including future generations. If political leaders are unable to recognize the urgency of our global crisis, or unwilling to put the long-term good of humankind above the short-term benefit of fossil-fuel corporations, we may need to challenge them with sustained campaigns of citizen action. Dr James Hansen of NASA and other climatologists have recently defined the precise targets needed to prevent global warming from reaching catastrophic “tipping points.” For human civilization to be sustainable, the safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). This target has been endorsed by the Dalai Lama, along with other Nobel laureates and distinguished scientists. Our current situation is particularly worrisome in that the present level is already 387 ppm, and has been rising at 2 ppm per year. We are challenged not only to reduce carbon emissions, but also to remove large quantities of carbon gas already present in the atmosphere. As signatories to this statement of Buddhist principles, we acknowledge the urgent challenge of climate change. We join with the Dalai Lama in endorsing the 350 ppm target. In accordance with Buddhist teachings, we accept our individual and collective responsibility to do whatever we can to meet this target, including (but not limited to) the personal and social responses outlined above.
We have a brief window of opportunity to take action, to preserve humanity from imminent disaster and to assist the survival of the many diverse and beautiful forms of life on Earth. Future generations, and the other species that share the biosphere with us, have no voice to ask for our compassion, wisdom, and leadership. We must listen to their silence. We must be their voice, too, and act on their behalf.
http://www.ecobuddhism.org/350_target/350_target/buddhist_declaration_on_climate_change___read_an/
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We say let the new foundational number be Zero (0) as in Zero Carbon Footprint, Zero Emissions,Zero Growth Economy, Zero Wars, Zero Homelessness and Poverty, Zero Violence and Zero Suffering… The Dalai Lama supported the Beijing Olympics
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Dalai+Lama+Tickets+sale+spiritual+dream+team+Vancouver/1698385/story.html Note the Dalai lama is Guest Editor Sept 26 The Dalai Lama is an honorary Canadian citizen, bestowed upon him by PM Stephen Harper and Canada’s Parliament. Dalai Lama can not claim Alberta Tar Sands is an internal matter-this would be classic Chinese Authority statement. China’s Authorities need to Stop Ecocide and Cultural Genocide of Tibetan People-if you do not bend, you will snap. This is a Wind that you can not endure. Tar Sands 101http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-101 AnimalsAnimal habitats and health are affected by tar sands production, whether from loss of habitat to any of the infrastructure developments across the continent, or through changes in the atmosphere such as melting polar ice caps in the Arctic brought on by out of control C02 emissions. Poisoning waterways, the food supply and the air in the immediate and not-so immediate surroundings has led to drops and even disappearances of species near pipelines, platforms and other infrastructure of the tarsands. Two mouthed fish discovered near Alberta Tar Sands (2 Articles) Climate Change/EmissionsClimate Change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon. 40% of Canada’s emissions already come from Alberta alone, not counting the entire tar sands infrastructure across North America nor counting the projected increase in tar sands production or the infrastructure built across the continent to accommodate such increases in production. Factor it all in and you get the picture. You haven’t even burned the petrol yet. “Big Greens Holding Back Anti-Warming Movement” 2010 OlympicsThe 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (& Whislter) are threatening human well-being and self-determination as well as ecological devastation in many of the same ways as the tar sands gigaproject. The corporate sponsors include many of the same, from Royal Bank of Canada through to TransCanada Pipelines, Petro-Canada and Bell Canada. “Will Oil Sands Tar The Olympic Games?” CorruptionConscious efforts to subvert or otherwise corrupt organizations and individuals who are concerned about social issues is a sadly long tradition. The environmental movement is no exception. Through many front groups, financial wranglings through contributions and outright blackmail, industries have tamed or corrupted many of the organizations who were once among their greatest critics and opponents. The corrupting influence on the politics of the environment has left us with, at times, a movement that has yet to address the needs of fighting climate change immediately– instead, calling for the slow changing of emissions from various parts of industrial life– and protecting the biggest contributions to their myriad organizations. When budgets and mainstream appearances with politicians become the order of the day, effective protest is muted and rendered toothless… EnergyEnergy and how it is captured and consumed is barely viable in tar sands production. While the amount of oil in places such as the tar sands in Alberta or the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela may have deposits of similar size to the reserves of countries such as Saudi Arabia or Iraq, the return of new energy after expending energy in production is not even close. In Iraq, the process of using one barrel of oil generates 100 new barrels. In the tar sands, estimates of 3 to 1 and even as low as 1.5 to 1 have been made. Canadian Energy Policy: Made in the USA ForestsForests lose more trees and habitat to pipeline “right of way” cuts and tar pit building than to clearcuts. With minor variation, pipelines go the direct route. Through the strip mining of the land that contains tarsand petroleum and through pipeline construction to accomodate, only the Amazon Basin in Brazil would see larger rates of deforestation than the Boreal forest cover surrendered to the tarsands. Roads often accompany pipelines, as do various other developments. Tar Sands Boom Swamps Canadian Wilderness GenderGender impacts are often completely ignored within the hollow social impact assessments often conducted in the modern era. Oil patches and natural gas operations are overwhelmingly operated by young men who naturally go into small towns nearby after weeks in the bush. Alcohol and/or drug fuelled violence and rape often increase in communities dealing with such an influx, as do drug use, alcoholism and sexual exploitation. Sex Workers Cashing in on Alberta’s Oil Boom HealthThe Health implications in terms of these projects are vast, and not just the deadly explosions and industrial accidents that happen in production-—from reported increases in rare forms of cancer downstream from tar sands production to the pollution of fresh water leading to poisoned diets (fish, moose and plant toxicity)—-direct links are hard to establish but impossible to either rule out or ignore, especially where tarsand operations constitute overwhelmingly the greatest change to the environment in most corners of the continent effected directly by tarsand infrastructure… IndigenousIndigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. Law Suit a Possible Tar Sands Stopper Labour & MigrationIt is falsely assumed that big projects equal lots of jobs and, by extension, labour peace if not outright satisfaction. The size and scope of the tarsands means for incredibly dangerous work conditions– some fatalities at the plants have already occurred. The products seldom get their “value added” in union-run locations, instead the heavy bitumen can be shipped to many different locations across North America for refining, denying benefits to the union. However, the Union does not represent the “guest worker”, now being imported in increasing numbers as legislation is changed to make access easier, the term of exploitation last longer, without any new efforts or pathways to deciding to stay after helping tear up the earth. Increase of Migrant Workers in Canada Opens Door to Abuses LandLand, regardless of whether covered by forests, tundra or grasslands, is threatened by mining operations such as Alberta’s vast open tar pit operations, or through incredible networks of “right of way” cuts for pipelines that extend in the hundreds of thousands of miles, all told, and across the continent in four directions and to three oceans—either through feeding the tarsand operations with fossil fuel energy or through feeding energy markets from tarsand operations after production. In the case of pipeline right of ways, they can blast directly through mountains or be buried in permafrost if needed, to get the energy to move. Dehcho Land Use Plan revisions increase development NuclearA category all its own, despite being a form of energy. The until-now primarily dormant energy form of nuclear power is getting a new lease on construction life in the wake of the astronomical energy needs of the tarsands. The tarsands need a vast and growing energy supply, almost requiring half of what it will produce at the point of consumption. As a means of both feeding that “need” and using the thin-wedge of “thirsting for energy” that is “not greenhouse gas emitting” for the tarsands, this highly dangerous and discredited form of energy is making a slow and speeding up comeback. Jail Time: A Clear Message to those who would oppose uranium mining Peak OilPeak Oil is starting to be understood across a broad spectrum, but the direct connection between peak oil, climate change and the American market-led attempt to squeeze all energy out of Alberta cannot be overstated. The smaller the global supply of oil gets, the more CO2 has been emitted and the more climate change will have advanced. This leads to more interest in the tar sands—because the profit margin goes ever higher the fewer alternatives there are for petroleum. Understanding Energy Return on Energy Investment-EROEI Social ImpactsSocial Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. Calgary: Rental crisis fund hits $43.5M War and SecurityThe tarsands are only economical at a certain price per barrel. The attacks on Iraq and Somalia, along with threats against Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere all combine to drive that price up. This significantly leaves the US economic structures able to tighten their control on oil distribution around the world as they de-diversify their oil imports to heavy reliance on tarsand (mock) oil, growing in percentage at a incredible pace. Canada is ever more integrating this (mock) oil into the North American grid, at the behest of both Canadian and American corporations. Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion/a> Oilsandstruth.org is not associated with any other web site or organization. Please contact us regarding the use of any materials on this site. |
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Message by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Beijing Olympicshttp://www.dalailama.com/news.286.htm I would like to offer my greetings to the People’s Republic of China, the organizers and the athletes participating in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. Right from the time of China’s application to hold the Olympic Games, I have supported China’s right to host the Games. This is a moment of great pride to the 1.3 billion Chinese people. These Games should contribute to promoting the Olympic spirit of friendship, openness and peace. I send my prayers and good wishes for the success of the event. THE DALAI LAMA 6 August 2008 |
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Beijing’s Bad Faith OlympicsNew York Times Editorial August, 22, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/opinion/23sat1.html The Beijing Olympics still have one more day to run. But the final gold medal — for authoritarian image management — can already be safely awarded to China’s Communist Party leadership. Beijing got what it wanted out of this globally televised spectacular. It reaped a huge prestige bonanza that it will surely use to promote its international influence and, we fear, further tighten its grip at home. It pocketed these gains without offering any concessions in return. When it increased repression — rather than loosening up — a supine International Olympic Committee barely offered a protest. Most world leaders, including President Bush, were nearly as complicit. In Beijing for the opening ceremony, Mr. Bush seemed eager to play the role of the apolitical sports fan, instead of publicly pressing China’s leaders on the ongoing Olympics crackdown. That nicely fit into the Chinese script of talking up sports while shutting down politics. To win the right to host these Games, China promised to honor the Olympic ideals of nonviolence, openness to the world and individual expression. Those promises were systematically broken, starting with this spring’s brutal repression in Tibet and continuing on to the ugly farce of inviting its citizens to apply for legal protest permits and then arresting them if they actually tried to do so. Along the way, government critics were pre-emptively rounded up and jailed, domestic news outlets tightly controlled, foreign journalists denied full access to the Internet and thousands of Beijing’s least telegenic residents were evicted from their homes and out of camera range. On Friday, the Chinese police confirmed that six Americans protesting China’s rule in Tibet had been sentenced to 10 days of detention. Surely one of the signature events of these Games was the sentencing of two women in their late 70s to “re-education through labor.” Their crime? Applying for permission to protest the inadequate compensation they felt they had received when the government seized their homes years ago for urban redevelopment. A year ago, the I.O.C. predicted that these Games would be “a force for good” and a spur to human-rights progress. Instead, as Human Rights Watch has reported, they became a catalyst for intensified human-rights abuse. Mr. Bush has taken some note of China’s appalling human-rights record this summer — privately meeting with Chinese dissidents in Washington just before his visit to the Games and gently nudging his hosts on religious freedom while in Beijing. With these repression-scarred Olympics now drawing to a close, Mr. Bush and other world leaders must tell Beijing that its failure to live up to its Olympic commitments will neither be ignored nor forgotten. The medal count and DVD sales cannot be the last word on the Beijing Game
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Millions of Poor, Oppressed Han Chinese were abused, lost their homes-shown no
Compassion- and all the while babies in Heartland China were given toxic milk by the
China’s Authorities.
June 9th, 2009 by orn Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
Olympic Police Harassing Activists: Joint Intelligence Group visit 14 activists
More than a dozen anti-Olympic activists and critics were contacted by intelligence officers from the Vancouver Integrated Security Unit (VISU) for the 2010 Olympic Games, from June 3 – 5, 2009. The Olympic Resistance Network and other groups are again asking VISU to stop harassing individual members and are preparing a legal letter to VISU to cease such intimidating visitations. The visits and phone calls were carried out by at least 8 members of the Joint Intelligence Group of VISU who asked activists about specifics around anti-Olympics activities. The plain clothes intelligence officers conducted surprise visits at people’s homes and workplaces, or in public places. “This is a clear effort to intimidate and monitor people who have concerns about the negative impacts of the Games on our communities,” explains Cara Fisher.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1424093-native-youth-movement-no-2010-winter-olympics-on-stolen-land
International Campaign
Carnegie Community Action Project
International Media Release
http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/international-media-campaign/
February 9, 2009
Poverty Olympics bulletin #1
2009 Poverty Olympics provides hilarious and serious preview for Vancouver Olympics 2010
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) – 2009 Poverty Olympics provides hilarious and serious preview of what international media will see when they come to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.
About 400 people from Vancouver, Canada’s poorest neighbourhood took advantage of the one year countdown to the 2010 Olympic Games with a message about poverty in Canada.People in Canada live in shocking poverty, Wendy Pedersen told the crowd gathered for the Poverty Olympics. Her neighbourhood, the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, has an HIV rate the same as Botswana’s.Street homelessness increased 373% between 2002 and 2008, and British Columbia has had the highest rate of child poverty in Canada for 5 years in a row (21%).
Pedersen said the government could have ended poverty and homelessness with the $6 billion they are wasting on the Olympics.
The rest of the Poverty Olympics was a humorous and blunt satire of the real Olympics, with a Torch relay, opening and closing ceremonies and “games.” One game was Sweeping Poverty Aside (curling) which featured Team Vanoc against Team Poverty. Team Vanoc (Vancouver Olympic Committee) swept away objects on the ice with “bailout” brooms, while blocking Team Poverty with sand on the ice and an actual rope labeled rent increases and evictions.
The Poverty Olympic Mascots, Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach, and Chewy the Rat, danced through the opening ceremonies singing Money makes the World Go Round and flinging fake money labeled “Olympics 2010, blank cheque” throughout the audience.
The Poverty Olympics was endorsed by Raise the Rates, Carnegie Community Action Project, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, BC Persons with Aids Society, Power to Women, and Streams of Justice.
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Who are we?
Poverty Olympics Bulletins are brought to you by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), a project of the 5000 member Carnegie Community Centre Association in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. To read previous bulletins please go to CCAP’s blog. For information about the Poverty Olympics, check out www.povertyolympics.ca.
These are some of the reasons for protesting at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on September 26 2009 at 8:30 AM. Come on out, it’s free and you may even catch a glimpse of the spiritual dream team. (This is not about numbers but it is about Speaking, Doing Truth to Power & Initiating and Sustaining Change)
Note: We fully expect the Authorities to respect Freedom of Protest, Assembly, and
Free Speech. Especially being that the site of Protest-Vigil-Info Picket is at the University of British Columbia-where these freedoms are to be held in highest regard
A shorter version of the above PSEA document can be viewed in the current Carnegie Newsletter of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side Sept 15 2009
http://carnegie.vcn.bc.ca/newsletter
The Conservative Party of Canada need to redirect away from Environmental Areas
such as British Columbia’s NE and NW -in general away from natural gas, coal, fossil fuels and nuclear. Our future prosperity depends on it.
The Alberta Tar Sands need to be shuttered in a responsible way-it is a war zone much like Afghanistan or Iraq-it must be done sooner rather than later. Canada has two major economic engines presently Ontario-essentially the Automotive sector -and we know how that is doing. The other is The Alberta Tar Sands…
Failing to understand this reality-quicker than you can say Wildwood Alliance and Brian Mulroney-the Conservative Party will be a shadow of what it was.
In BC Premier Campbell needs to stand down against the Homeless. Do not underestimate a snowball on a Mountain Peak, Mr Olympic Taxman-Rhetoric is not our game.
In the United States, Republicans and Democrats need to be United in their support for President Obama’s Universal HealthCare for All. President Obama is assisting Middle–Class and Corporate America- very little is offered-the same is with Climate Change-If the Republican Party will deny even these grave inadequacies-and be led by Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Joe Wilson-the Republican Party will go the way of the federalist party-exposing a one party system.
Listen to the Office of the President-the Recovery is Far from certain..
You do not want to face what is behind the Office of the President. Some call it Democracy.
A Life in Africa-Russia-India-China etc is worth the same if it were America-Canada-Germany-Japan etc
Big Oil needs to turn off the taps off King Coal, Natural gas and Nuclear.It’s dog eat dog time-if not we turn your Big Tap off
Let Earth have Peace and Life or it shall have War and Pestilence to End all Wars and Life
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.) psea does not do media interviews since july 2007,we thank all media for their enquires. Please feel free to use anything on this site.
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWGAGPy_kw
Pete Seeger – American War Songs Medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxjqM4y5f4
BATTLE HYMN OF THE US REPUBLIC 2009 AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY
CONFEDERATE SONG ~ TO ARMS IN DIXIE—lyrics Albert Pike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1oA47Ti0I&feature=related
GIANT (1956) Yellow Rose of Texas-Fight-Rock Hudson,Elizabeth Taylor,
James Dean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ
Giant Trailer (1956) Written by John Steinbeck(Grapes of Wrath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1PmYwdXq8&feature=related
John Brown’s Body
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuucLP3KrM4&feature=related
Lord Of The Rings – Opening scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_i2w0W-ZM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlghYpDx0f4
Please see:
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
What war teaches us is that there is no Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Secularist, Atheist, Sikh etc. What matters is how we relate to each other and our beloved Earth. This is prayer in action. This is love and compassion in action. We are all healers and physicians, we should never do harm.
PEACE ENERGY
May 24, 2009
VIGIL ANTI-CORRUPTION & $40 BILLION FOR NUKES IN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
Vigil Ante: CHALK IT!!!- (colorful chalk provided)
STOP OMNIDESTRUCTION currently underway in ONTARIO BY:
1. Types of fuels* – COAL^GAS^NUKES
2. Types of ownership: PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF OUR POWER*
3. Types of government: FALSIFICATION OF PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS* and WEAKENING OF PUBLIC POWER* Public subsidies for shareholders of private nuclear and gas power generators in Ontario* Exports of energy to the highest bidder*
*Energy cut-offs for the poor and fight for “affordability rates”, no universal energy-efficient infrastructure, no universal power from local sun, wind, water, soil and compost;
*Instead private nuclear and gas power generators, omnidestructive uranium (nuclear) and gas shale mining for fuel and its long-distance transport, smart meters, mercury toxic lightbulb, misleading “conservation” agendas, and terms such as “sequestration” used for transfers of subsidies for renewable fuel into, shale, oil and gas,
*Ontario government corruption and blind eye to tritiated water in our shower, cooking and drinking water, rise of cancer, heart attacks, asthma and developmental disabilities*
*Use of tritium and other deadly byproducts of nuclear power in nuclear weapons; blind eye to nuclear waste;
*Blind eye to drastic and fatal changes in climate begging for environment and people friendly types of fuels, energy ownership and governance
Thursday – JULY 2, 2009
11AM-12NOON
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION
S/W CORNER COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
PSEA4EARTH@GMAIL.COM
VIGIL INFO PICKET
May 1, 2009
Today’s punchline tomorrow
Earth Day Every Day
VIGIL INFO PICKET
MAY 21, 2009 – 11AM-12Noon
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION (COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY)
TORONTO, ONTARIO
MAKE THE SIDEWALK CHALKFULL WITH MESSAGES OF GREEN PUBLIC POWER – 100% – (materials provided)
Stop spread of nuclear power AND fossil fuel burning in Ontario AND privatization of Ontario power
Keep Ontario Energy Public
Rebuild it 100% local public complementary renewable and energy efficient!
Tags: democracy, planning, pro-public regulation, free and infinite sources of energy, inexpensive technologies fast to bring on-line in collaborative complementary ways, good for economy, vertical and horizontal spread of green jobs everywhere in Ontario, good for health, good for environment,
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public, universal, accessible to all, efficient – renewable energy systems with no need for the conservation propaganda of Ontario’s government’s brainwashing the poor and the kids in our public schools, no “change the light bulb” trick and treat, no begging for affordability rates, no cut-offs, no subsidies to nuclear and fossil fuel smokestacks in the name of the poor (affordability rates).
We can fight together against the same thing, but hope for different outcomes.
PSEA fights against nuclear and fossil types of fuels used for Ontario Energy and privatization of Ontario Power
PSEA fights for 100% local, public, complementary renewable energy systems and 100% infrastructure energy efficiencies. How about you?
| ENSURING OUR safety IN THE NUCLEAR WINTER IN ONTARIO IS:
THE NEWLY APPOINTED CEO OF ONTARIO POWER GENERATION THE KING OF NUKES Tom Mitchell Ontario utility’s new CEO implies nuclear focusOntario Power Generation’s chief of nuclear operations is taking over as the Crown corporation’s chief executive, who carries the distinction of being the …
Tom Mitchell appointed OPG President and CEO Canada NewsWire (press release)
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http://www.opg.com/about/governance/executive.aspParadigm Shift Environmental Alliance
psea4earth@gmail.com
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Vigil Info Picket
April 10, 2009
STOP SITHE GLOBAL-BLACKSTONE AND THE SouthWest Greater Toronto Area Gas Power Plant
Vigil/Info Picket
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – 11am-12noon
Ontario Power Generation Bldg
intersection University and College in Toronto
http://stoptheswgtapowerplant.com/
STOP Privatized Natural GAS Plants PLUNDERING Pristine Ontario Lands, Water and Air
Sacrificing water for energy – natural gas – the last straw.
The Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the new privatized gas power plants going up in GTA exceed Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the recently torn down Lakeview coal fired plant in Mississauga. Protect the health and wellbeing of your loved ones and planet earth; say NO MORE.
We can do better say YES to 100% energy efficiencies, local public complementary renewable energy systems. Write Premier Dalton McGuinty Tel: 416-325-1941 Fax: 416-325-3745
Email: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Write your MPP and send your support to Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion Phone: (905) 896-5555
Fax: (905) 896-5879 E-mail: mayor@mississauga.ca
CC Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance psea4earth@gmail.com
SAY NO TO NUCLEAR DISEM-POWER
STOP PRIVATIZATION of ONTARIO POWER
Vigil-Info picket
Thursday April 23, 2009 – 11-12 noon
Ontario Power Generation
intersection College and University in Toronto
Vigil/Info Picket Against Nuclear Power and Call for Resignations of Public Energy CEOs in Ontario
NUCLEAR WASTE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YUCCA-NEVADA:GOOD ENOUGH FOR WHO? ONTARIO…
Say No to
Ontario Power Authority Disempowerment
Nuclear Power, Gas and Coal plants
$40 Billion for Nukes
Privatization of Ontario Power
Say Yes to
Green Jobs, Social Safety Net,
Anti-Poverty Programs, Ending Child Poverty etc.
100% Public Power
100% Energy Efficient Infrastructure (old and new)
100% Renewable Energy
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance Email: psea4earth@gmail.com
The Great Struggle Continues….
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