Hulu gave Invisible Children free advertising space. We are stoked for the exposure that will come from it.Hulu gave Invisible Children free advertising space. We are stoked for the exposure... more
What a novel ideal! Let's give more money to the IMF and the big banking cartels that run them, so they can save us from deadly CO2...you know the harmless gas that plants breathe to grow bigger.
CO2 is bad; banks are good. That's just some of the Animal Farm lingo we hear a lot of today, such as 'jobless recovery' and 'double-dip recession'. Civilized humanity is guilt-tripped daily for the environment, just like the raped woman, who gets chastised for running late, alone, in the dark.
We the people do not want to destroy the Earth. We don't want to poison the water, chemtrail the air, chop down the forests, kill species including humans, or build a military-industrial complex grid over major land masses. Its the few, the proud, the narcissistic, parasite, global corporate elite, who suck the life out of prosperous countries through their monopoly on money.
So now, to save us from "Climate Change", sounds like trying to save a tree in the spring from losing its leaves in the fall, the NWO bank or the IMF wants to create a fund, so they can trade CO2 as a new commodity on the stock exchange, literally taxing the air we and plants breathe. Its all a Ponzi-Madoff-Ken Lay scheme.What a novel ideal! Let's give more money to the IMF and the big banking cartels... more
The Obama administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turkey.
A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way for a possible vote by the House.
But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration would "work very hard" to prevent this.
Turkey voiced strong protests after the vote and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations.
Clinton said the administration would seek to block the bill
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it did not commit, adding the resolution would harm Turkish-US relations.
President Abdullah Gul said Turkey - a key Nato ally of the US - would "not be responsible for the negative results that this event may lead to".
Clinton - who had urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee not to hold the vote - said on Friday: "We are against this decision. Now we believe that the US Congress will not take any decision on this subject."
The resolution - approved by 23 votes to 22 by the committee - calls on President Barack Obama to ensure that US foreign policy reflects an understanding of the "genocide" and to label the killings of Armenians as such.
A similar resolution was approved by the same committee two years ago, but did not go forward to the House after pressure from the George W Bush administration.
Turkey is a major partner in US efforts to stabilise Afghanistan and Iraq, and lies on a key route taking oil and natural gas to Western markets.
MASS KILLINGS OF ARMENIANS
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915-6
Many historians and the Armenian people believe the killings amount to genocide
Turks and some historians deny they were orchestrated
More than 20 countries regard the massacres as genocide
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Barack Obama and Omar al-Bashir seem unlikely bedfellows. At least I thought so when I voted for Obama in November 2008. As we all know, Obama is the President of the United States of America and the leader of the free world. Bashir is the President of Sudan and an indicted war criminal responsible for 300,000 deaths and the displacement of three million more in Darfur, and for the earlier deaths of two million people in South Sudan.
Obama's words on the campaign trail led me to believe that he would take firm and decisive action once elected to pressure Bashir and the Sudanese government to end the killing in Sudan and make reparations to the millions of people they had victimized. I, along with many voters, believed that the United States, under the leadership of Barack Obama and supported by Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, would work assiduously to ensure that both peace and justice would come to Sudan. All three leaders, as candidates, emphasized that the U.S. has a moral obligation to do what it can to end genocide and other mass atrocities.
However, since taking office, Obama's Sudan strategy appears to be based on appeasing Bashir rather than pressuring him to stop ongoing human rights violations or, better yet, bringing him to The Hague to face justice. While in other arenas Obama seems to carefully study history and seek the counsel of a wide range of experts, on Sudan he seems blind to the lessons of the past or unwilling to accept their implications.
Sudan experts like John Prendergast, Eric Reeves and Roger Winter all agree that using clear pressures to ensure strict accountability to established benchmarks is the only approach that has induced desirable behavior by Bashir in the past. However, the U.S. heralds every new agreement signed by this dishonorable actor as a show of progress. It remains a mystery whether this reflects official U.S. Sudan policy since the Administration has not disclosed clear benchmarks to measure progress in Sudan nor the pressures and incentives it will use to help influence positive change.
I was puzzled when Obama hand-picked Retired General Scott Gration as his special envoy to manage the Sudan portfolio since Gration had neither diplomatic experience nor knowledge about Sudan. My puzzlement soon turned to dismay as the General's personal diplomacy philosophy became clear. Gration believes that "cookies and gold stars" are the best approach to influence a war criminal and has repeatedly put talk of sanctions relief on the table even in the midst of ongoing killings in Darfur.
Gration's performance as envoy has understandably raised the ire of many who care about the future of Sudan and the fate of millions of displaced Darfuris. The New Republic has labeled him "an embarrassment." Roger Winter calls him "the Agent of this tragedy." A group of 38 US and Darfuri human rights groups have strenuously asked Obama to relieve Gration of his duties, following a highly questionable "off the record" meeting he had with Darfuri expatiates in which he reportedly told them that the government of Sudan had not intended to kill Darfuri civilians during the genocide.Barack Obama and Omar al-Bashir seem unlikely bedfellows. At least I thought so when I... more
Microsoft founder Bill Gates told a recent TED conference, an organization which is sponsored by one of the largest toxic waste polluters on the planet, that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions.
Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.”Bill Gates: Use Vaccines To Lower Population
Paul Joseph Watson
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Dr. Martin Kramer, a fellow at Harvard's National Security Studies Program, has posted a speech he delivered two weeks ago in Israel in which he urged solving the Palestinian problem by population control i.e "stopping pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians with refugee status." That will help reduce the terrorist threat by preventing Palestinian babies from growing up and becoming "superfluous young men." It it these "superfluous" kids who become the bomb throwers.
He notes in passing that the Israeli blockade of Gaza also serves that purpose. Here is Kramer himself touting his idea on his personal blog.
This is right out of Jonathan Swift. Instead of arguing for jobs and economic opportunity to ensure that these babies can have productive lives, Kramer argues for preventing them from growing up.
Watch the clip yourself. This guy, Harvard, Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and President of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem seems to be advocating genocide.
Unbelievable.
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This has to be seen to be believed.
Dr. Martin Kramer, a fellow at... more
``What we're seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.... If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part,'' stated Francis A. Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign. ``And that's exactly what has been done to Gaza, since the imposition of the blockade by Israel; then the massacre of 1,400 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were civilians, in Operation Cast Lead. And that also raises the element in the Genocide Convention, of murder, torture, and things of that nature.''
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``What we're seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide... more
The International Criminal Court will again consider charging Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, after an appeals panel ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused to indict him on that charge last year.
"He should get a lawyer," court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said after ruling Wednesday.
He accused al-Bashir of keeping 2.5 million refugees from specific ethnic groups in Darfur in camps "under genocide conditions, like a gigantic Auschwitz."
The appeals decision — which said the burden of proof should be lower when prosecutors seek an indictment than when they try to secure a conviction at trial — fueled hopes among human rights activists that prosecutors will indict other leaders around the world for atrocities.
The court is currently considering allegations of atrocities in countries from Colombia to Kenya, Gaza to Afghanistan, but has so far launched formal prosecutions in just four countries, all of them in Africa.
"This gives a new wind to the sails of international justice," said Kenyan human rights activist Njonjo Mue.
Moreno Ocampo welcomed the decision to reopen the Darfur genocide case and vowed to give judges even more evidence when they again consider charging al-Bashir with genocide.
A five-judge appeals chamber said the International Criminal Court wrongly concluded in March that there was insufficient evidence to charge al-Bashir with three counts of genocide for allegedly attempting to wipe out entire ethnic groups in the war-ravaged province of Darfur.
Instead, the court charged him with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced expulsions in Darfur.
The Sudanese president refuses to recognize the court's jurisdiction and has vowed never to surrender to it. Since the charges were issued, he has traveled to friendly countries but called off trips to nations where he fears he could be arrested and sent to The Hague.
Al-Bashir's hardline regime also threw out 13 international aid agencies working in Darfur last March when the court first indicted him. The move further compounded the humanitarian crisis in a region where 300,000 people have died since fighting broke out in 2003 between the government and rebels. The United Nations says 2.7 million people have been driven from their homes by the conflict.
"For me, the fact that President Bashir expelled the humanitarian organizations is confirming that his intention is the physical destruction of these people," Moreno Ocampo told The Associated Press in his office at the court.
Wednesday's ruling set an important precedent because it marked the first time the world's first permanent war crimes court has dealt with a genocide case, said David Crane, a law professor at Syracuse University and former chief prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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Today, January 28,2010 is UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but why do we only remember this one event, when so many other holocausts have taken place? Think Armenia, Rwanda, the Congo, Cambodia, Sudan, Iraq, etc. Why such a high-profile focus on this one holocaust, while the many other holocausts never get a mention?
But it seems that whenever there is any incident or conflict concerning Israel, we are almost forcibly reminded of the sad events that took place those many years ago. It is used as a sort of diversionary tactic, as if to say "hey, listen we are only protecting our existence after what happened to our people during the Holocaust." It's as if this is an excuse for the Israelis to do whatever they want today, because they were the victims of such a terrible crime during WW2. This mindset is terribly wrong and it is time to bring some logic back into the world.Today, January 28,2010 is UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but why do we... more
I received this email today from a missionary friend (whose identity will remain anonymous):
"In the central Nigerian city of Jos and the surrounding area, a systematic orchestrated attack on Christians is underway. Young Muslim men dressed in army fatigues are moving from house to house pulling out residents and shooting them dead. Rows of shops run by Christian traders have been burned to the ground. Churches have been destroyed by fire throughout the city as well.
The mob action began with Muslim youth invading a Christian worship service on Sunday, January 24th, 2010. Many of the churches have yet to be able to count their dead as bodies are still lying in the streets – unable to be retrieved due to the violence.
The city of Jos is situated on the fault line, if you will, between the Muslim north and the Christian south of Nigeria. Muslims have been bullying, torturing and killing Christians for some time now and the situation is worsening. Many Muslim youth are carrying sophisticated arms and wearing military uniforms while others simply use sticks, stones and gasoline. There is unarguable evidence of pre-planned and coordinated assaults on believers.
To make matters worse, both the General commanding the Nigerian Armored Division in Jos and the officer commanding the troops tasked with ending the riots are Muslims. False reports about the origin and nature of the conflict have been given to the international media in order to bring disrepute to the Church."
There are also reports of retaliation.
I have also attached a few links related to this report:
How can anyone claim this current election in Sri Lanka is democratic when this is going on? When journalists are gagged, beaten or disappeared for speaking truth? When people are in fear of the government should they speak out?
Warning: Some explicit footage in the video.How can anyone claim this current election in Sri Lanka is democratic when this is... more
UNITED NATIONS - Millions of people around the world who belong to indigenous communities continue to face discrimination and abuse at the hands of authorities and private business concerns, says a new U.N. report released here Thursday.
Environmental activists perform on the eve of Earth Day in Makassar, Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, in this April 21, 2008 file photo. (REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad/Files) It is happening not only in the developing parts of the world but also in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which champion the causes of human rights and democracy, the report says.
Despite all the "positive developments" in international human rights setting in recent years, the study's findings suggest that indigenous peoples remain vulnerable to state-sponsored violence and brutality, which is often aimed at confiscating their lands.
"Governments and the United Nations need to be serious about this," said Victoria Tauli-Corpus, chairperson of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, an advisory body that works with the 54-member Economic and Social Council, after launching the report.
The 222 page-report, entitled "State of the World's Indigenous Peoples", points out that an overwhelming majority of the indigenous population is condemned to live in extreme poverty. Its authors noted that while indigenous peoples are around five percent of the world's population, they comprise 15 percent of people living in extreme poverty.
The first-ever comprehensive report on indigenous peoples' rights comes as the U.N. is reviewing progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), globally agreed targets to reduce, poverty, disease and indienvironmental destruction, among other issues, by the year 2015.
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Recent negotiations on climate change have suggested that deforestation in indigenous lands could be tackled by means of carbon trading. Many indigenous peoples see that as a tool of corruption and a threat to their cultural survival.
"Carbon trading and carbon offsets are a crime against humanity and Creation," said Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "The sky is sacred."
"This carbon market insanity privatizes the air and sells it to climate criminals like Shell so they can continue to pollute and destroy the climate and our future, rather than reducing their emissions at source," he added in a statement.
Considering the fact that much of the world's forests are located in indigenous peoples' lands, Goldtooth fears that carbon trading would pave the way for more "land grabs, killings, evictions and forced displacement" of native communities.
As we approach the January 2011 date for the referendum on the south, and as we see Darfur seemingly in an eerily, but uncertain, peaceful period, we need to look at the water situation in Sudan. Water will be a make or break issue for the peace process in Sudan and in deciding whether the Sudan will move forward in peace and prosperity or more poverty and war. It is a country that went through one of the most brutal civil wars in history. Millions were killed and displaced. Sudan is the country of Darfur, “The lost boys,” and lost generations. One of the driving forces behind the start of the last civil war between the south and the north was the Jonglei Canal. This is an idea that has been around for a very long time. It was to be a canal to bring the water through one of the largest wetlands in the world, The Sudd, more quickly to the north and to Egypt. But those earlier plans did not include much improvement in the lives of the people of the South and along the proposed canal. Dr. John Garang, one of the leaders of the southern rebels wrote his Ph.D. on the Jonglei Canal. The horrors of Darfur can be partly traced back to climate change, rain pattern changes, and water stress. Water is a very big issue in Sudan.
About 80 percent of the people in Sudan find their livelihoods in agriculture. Agriculture is about 40 percent of the country’s GDP and accounts for about 97 percent of the water use. Meanwhile 70 percent of agriculture in Sudan is rain fed. The rest of agriculture can find its water through small traditional spate irrigation and via khors, small mostly hand dug canals, or via huge irrigation projects, such as the Gezira project — which uses about 35 percent of Sudan’s water, and the many giant sugar irrigation schemes. Sudan has the largest area of irrigation in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, but even if this is poorly managed and maintained.
Water is not just income and jobs in Sudan. It is life, most particularly in the dry areas of the country: in Darfur and in the north while most of the wetlands are found in the south. This huge country has many climate and water zones. It has massive underground water reserves that are part of the largest source of freshwater in the world, the Great Nubian Sandstone aquifer. It also has the large Umm Rawaba and other aquifers. Sudan has the Nile, the Atbara and many other rivers coursing through it. The country is also blessed with the Nile River Basin, which is a watered, mostly underground area that can stretch to 80 percent of the country. As much as 80 to 85 percent of Sudan’s population used the Nile Basin waters. Most of the rains happen in the south. Much of the Nile water comes from other places, like Ethiopia, Uganda and more. The waters from the White Nile and The Atbara in the south and west rise and flood at different times from the Blue Nile and other sources in the east and central parts of the country — no real efforts have been developed to coordinate and better manage these flows and stocks.
Sudan not only faces down the threats from a potential new civil war, it also faces external tensions that could build over the sharing, use and abuse of the Nile across countries in the region. There is only one agreement between the many nations who share the Nile and that was established in 1959 between Sudan and Egypt. As the other countries along the Nile, including the most likely new Sudan in the south, want to develop, demand on the water of the Nile for electricity production, irrigation, industry and more will grow greater. Sudan also shares groundwater resources and sources with other countries. Though the ground water flows, the data on this is as scarce as good management of it.
Astonishingly little of its recharged groundwater and its surface water are used in this often water stressed country. What is used is often wasted with inefficient irrigation methods and even quite destructive rain fed farming methods, and livestock overgrazing. Meanwhile the extraordinarily destructive mechanized agricultural system that is causing huge deforestation, land and river bank erosion, salinization, and more negative effects. Water treatment is almost unheard of in the country, especially in the south. Water-borne diseases are rampant and pesticide poisoning via the water-food chains are likely quite common in some areas. The growth of the mesquite tree and water hyacinth has also wreaked havoc on the country’s water systems.
The precious water of Sudan is being degraded in many areas and wasted in others. Basin and catchment degradation are the norm in many parts of the country. The country is, on average, water rich, but it is management and maintenance poor.
Siltation near small and large dams is common. Suspended solids and stagnant water are common near the dams. Sudan needs the hydroelectricity — it is constantly in a severe energy crisis, but the dams could be more costly to the water and the environment than many may think.
Then there are the very difficult problems of what to do with the huge numbers of returning IDPs and the possible movement of southerners from the north to the south. Also, how are the north and the south to coordinate their water management and water uses? These are very big issues that need to be resolved, or at least managed better.
Sudan can solve its water and related problems with better data collection, better regulations and rule of law, improving incentives for using the water better, and simply managing the water better in an integrated water management system. All of this is easier said than done, but just about everyone who studies the water problems of Sudan, including many world class Sudanese, see the solutions, but also the excruciating practical problems in applying them. Poor governance and lack of governance capacity are huge issues, most particularly in the South.
Water is vital for food production, which is in decline as the population grows in Sudan. Clean water is vital for health and sanitation, but it is rare in and near the cities and even near some of the smaller villages. Most Sudanese use whatever water they can find, and sometimes that water is unhealthy, at times even deadly.
Water, land, food, energy and development are tightly and importantly interlinked. Water is also very much linked to the potential for peace in the country. The tensions and potentials for peace in Darfur, between the north and the south — and amongst many other in other regions, including between local tribes and clans — can be, in part, determined, by the availability, quality, sharing, management and maintenance of water sources in the country.
By Dr. Paul J. Sullivan
Special to Circle of Blue
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The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic.
This led to the pharmaceutical firms ensuring 'enormous gains', while countries, including the UK, 'squandered' their meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease.
Welcome to a new year and a new age. This is the year that the people wake up or get wiped out.
Illegal wars,False Flag Attacks, laboratory made pandemics, poisoning your water, 90% population reduction planned, poisoning your food, pharmaceuticals you don't need, weather control, mercury in your vaccine, attacks on your immune system, squalene, gulf war syndrome, predictive programming, autoimmune disorders,violations of your privacy and taxes and more taxes to pay for the wars.
In the past, these were the talk of conspiracy theorists. Not anymore. Activists like We Are Change, Alex Jones, Daniel Estulin, David Barnhart, Jesse Ventura, Cory and Brandon Hignite and many others have taken the criticism and pushed on. Today, these conspiracies are being proven true. The internet and file sharing are allowing us to get the message out to more and more people.
The truth is, most of what you think you know is false. Your patriotism has been used to keep you blind to what the man behind the curtain has been doing. The truth is being brought from the shadows to the light.
You are smart. You are humanity. YOU, can get rid of the shadows that conceal the truth.
This year we must band together worldwide and vow to never let decisions be made for humanity in secret. This year We The People of the Earth share civil liberties, values, rights, needs, wants, desires and love.
Watch this video and the subsequent ones about the Bilderburg Group. Pass them on to your friends and make them viral. When enough people realize what is going on in our world we can then stop this madness. Don't let them buy us with their money and send our sons and daughters to kill their sons and daughters. The soldiers on both sides are casualties of the Bankers' Greed!
Soldiers, drop your weapons and go home! Announce to the enemy, 'We Love You!' Tell the Chinese people WE LOVE YOU. Tell the Iranian people WE LOVE YOU. Tell the Russian people WE LOVE YOU. Tell the Afghans WE LOVE YOU. Tell them in Iraq WE LOVE YOU. Then, go out and meet your neighbors and tell them what you've done and ask them to join with us. Fight the urge to fight. It's time to work as a team, each and every one on each and every Continent. We don't hate each other, they hate each other and make money off wars. No more war profiteering. Before we can fix the planet, first, we have to fix us.
All of this division is nothing but a plan laid out by the elite, Bilderburg Group, and their associates to keep the populations in check and to make them richer. If it's a game to them, well, let's just stop playing.
Love doesn't come in lead, your enemies are all in your head!
Christopher Hignite
Monkey Press 2010Welcome to a new year and a new age. This is the year that the people wake up or get... more
A leading rabbi accused Pope Benedict XVI of "insensitivity" towards Jews yesterday after the head of the Catholic Church moved his controversial World War II-era predecessor Pope Pius XII a step closer to sainthood.
Pius XII, who served from 1939 to 1958, is regarded by conservative Catholics as one of the greatest of modern popes. But his papacy was also controversial because of his failure to make any protest as millions of Jews were taken to Nazi gas chambers. His supporters claim that silence was necessary for the protection of Catholics around Europe. But the Vatican has infuriated critics by failing to open secret archives relating to his papacy before moving him closer to canonisation.
"This papacy has excelled in diplomatic insensitivity," said Rabbi David Rosen, a member of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and president of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations. "It has excelled at a lack of consultation and consideration for the ramifications of its actions."A leading rabbi accused Pope Benedict XVI of "insensitivity" towards Jews... more
A mass grave discovered in northeast Iraq contains dozens of bodies, mostly of women and children believed killed during a crackdown against Kurds by former dictator Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi official said Saturday.,2933,580632,00.html?test=latestnews
A mass grave discovered in northeast Iraq... more
