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Korean Reunification - would it weaken or superpower the south?

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Has Obama changed America's standing in the world?

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Gorbachev on causes and implications of the end of the Soviet Union

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Aung San Suu Kyi 'meets Burma president'

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Bilderberg 2011 Discussions Leaked Via Moles Inside

By Daniel Estulin of DanielEstulin.com

The background

In the world of international finance, there are those who steer the events and those who react to the events. While the latter are better known, greater in numbers, and seemingly more powerful, the true power rests with the former. At the centre of the global financial system are the financial oligarchy today represented by the Bilderberg group.

Bilderberg organization is dynamic, in that it changes with the times, absorbs and creates new parts while excreting the remains of the decaying parts. Members come and go, but the system itself has not changed. It is a self-perpetuating system, a virtual spider web of interlocked financial, political, economic and industry interests with the venetian ultramontane fondi model at the centre.

Now, Bilderberg isn´t a secret society. It is not an evil, all-seeing eye or a Jewish-Masonic conspiracy. There is no conspiracy even though a lot of people with their infantile fantasies see it as such. No group of people, and I don’t care how powerful they are, sit around the table in dark room, holding hands, staring at a crystal ball, planning the world´s future.

Bilderberg is not a Cartesian fantasy world, in which the isolated intentions of some individuals, instead of the dynamics of social processes, shape the course of history as the movement of evolving ideas and themes over successive generations. It is clinically significant, that today´s more popular varieties of wild-eyed conspiracy theories, reflect the peculiarly pathological style in infantile fantasy associated with the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter cults. The characteristic form of mental action these cults express, is the magical power of the will, acting outside real physical space-time dimension.

It´s a meeting of people who represent a certain ideology. Bilderberg is a medium of bringing together financial institutions which are the world´s most powerful and most predatory financial interests. And at this time, it is that combination which is the worst enemy of humanity.

Not OWG or NWO as too many people mistakenly believe. Rather, the ideology is of a ONE WORLD COMPANY LIMITED. Back in 1968, at a Bilderberg meeting in Canada, George Ball, the then Under-secretary for Economic Affairs with JFK and Johnson said: “Where does one find a legitimate base for the power of corporate management to make decisions that can profoundly affect the economic life of nations to whose governments they have only limited responsibility?”

The idea behind each and every Bilderberg meeting is to create what they themselves call THE ARISTOCRACY OF PURPOSE between European and North American elites on the best way to manage the planet. In other words, the creation of a global network of giant cartels, more powerful than any nation on Earth, destined to control the necessities of life of the rest of humanity.

(click on the link for an absolutely fascinating and highly informative read)By Daniel Estulin of DanielEstulin.com The background In the world of... more

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Cinema And Culture - The Islamists' Enablers: The Western Sellout to Sharia Law.

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Warning of Ivory Coast humanitarian crisis

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All Ambassadors Called Back to Washington!

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What We Can Learn From the Environmental Wreck of Easter Island

Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and a correspondent for Vanguard.
I’m huffing and puffing, hunched over on a rusty old mountain bike as I struggle to eke out one more crank of the pedal. My bike is equally exhausted as I inch toward the peak of the hilltop of Easter Island, a tiny speck of land suspended in the middle of the Earth.
For the uninitiated, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, was put on the map by the iconic, massive, head statues (moai) that dot the landscape.
If you look at an actual map, look close. Easter is a miniscule island that was swallowed up by the vast Pacific, nearly 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, to which it belongs.
How’d I end up here? Over the years, I’ve circumnavigated the globe reporting on just about everything—covering two wars, lots of drugs, robots, even the impact of human shit. The Vanguard team has investivated how we’re rapidly gnawing away at the planet, from ecstasy factories deep inside Asia’s rainforests, to Nigerian rebels taking control of the nation’s oil pipelines, to how global warming is rewriting the economy and political situation in Greenland. We've even taken a look at how people are putting human waste to good use.
But everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve seen the same thing: all of our actions take a toll on the environment—yes, including my flying. Easter Island seemed like it could provide a few lessons.
Theory is, a few hundred years ago, Easter Island was inhabited by a couple thousand people of Polynesian descent, whose idol worshipping culture compelled every able-bodied man, woman, and child to get involved in the creation, and movement, of these colossal moai. The people, consumed by the need to carve these 10-14 ton busts from the island’s quarry, exhausted Easter’s resources in order to keep producing, and then transporting these statues across the small island.
As I reach the top of the peak, the results of their effort become clear. A wasteland lies sprawls out beneath my feet, like a forest flattened by a nuke. It’s a beautifully haunting sight to see, and worth the 30 hours of travel it took to get me here.
This once tropical paradise, virtually covered in jungle, was devoured inside out. The population grew beyond the number that the land and its natural resources could sustain, and the people ended up cutting down every single tree to transport the statues. The people basically killed and destroyed every life-giving resource—until they turned on and killed each other.
From atop the hill, my traveling companions and I gasp in awe as we approach the towering moai. These mysterious, magical figures staring back at us look worn and tired. Look in their eyes and you can see why. They were witness to the collapse of civilization.
It’s hard not to look at these monoliths and ask, “What the fuck were they thinking?” In fact, throughout my trip, I blurt this out uncontrollably. I mean, the people must have known what they were doing, and that it was stupid, right?
Well, it’s easy to look back and point out the obvious. But at the time, perhaps it seemed like a worthy use of their time and energy.
Today, we’re faced with the same quandary, albeit on a different scale. With a population approaching seven billion, a fast-accelerating depletion of resources, record-setting species loss, and ultimately unsustainable lifestyles, we’d be stupid not to be asking the same question I think Easter Islanders were asking. Or are we?
See more of Adam's photos after the jump... Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and a correspondent for Vanguard. I’m... more

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Analysis: U.S. military says keeps up with China; Is it enough?

(Reuters) - U.S. military commanders are expressing confidence that they can hold their own in the face of faster-than-expected advances by China's military, but looming cost cuts are adding to doubts about the future of American power in the Pacific.

Fueled by its booming economy, China's military growth over the past decade has exceeded most U.S. forecasts. Its plans to develop aircraft carriers, anti-satellite missiles and other advanced systems have alarmed neighbors and Washington.

Critics, including within the U.S. Congress, note with apprehension that rising Chinese defense spending coincides with Washington's plans to scale back its budgets.

They accuse the Pentagon of appearing flat-footed in its response to China's military advances, like the development of a stealth fighter jet and a new missile that could challenge U.S. aircraft carriers.

"I think we're headed on the wrong track," Randy Forbes, a Republican lawmaker who is part of the Congressional China Caucus, told Reuters.

Experts agree that as China's military expands its reach, the risks of potentially dangerous misunderstandings between the U.S. and Chinese armed forces will increase.

But they are divided over whether China's rise necessarily means a decline in power for the U.S. military, or whether it can indefinitely preserve its edge through investments, technological advances and strengthened Asian alliances.

Moreover interdependence between the world's two largest economies creates little incentive for conflict, but regional frictions may ultimately prove the most likely spark for confrontation, experts say.

The debate over whether the United States can preserve its military advantage hits home for the U.S. Navy, which is tasked with preserving U.S. access to international waters around China that the People's Liberation Army appears intent on controlling.

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BBC News - Tunisia: President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali forced out

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China proposes emergency meeting on Korea tensions

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Australia's PM says Elizabeth II should be country's last British monarch

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Wyclef Jean files as Haiti presidential candidate

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Wyclef Jean steps toward Haitian presidential race

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Right to Food: “Agroecology outperforms large-scale industrial farming for global food security,” says UN expert

“Governments and international agencies urgently need to boost ecological farming techniques to increase food production and save the climate,” said UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, while presenting the findings at an international meeting on agroecology held in Brussels on 21 and 22 June.

Along with 25 of the world’s most renowned experts on agroecology, the UN expert urged the international community to re-think current agricultural policies and build on the potential of agroecology.

“One year ago, Heads of States at the G20 gathering in Italy committed to mobilizing $22 billion over a period of three years to improve global food security. This was welcome news, but the most pressing issue regarding reinvestment in agriculture is not how much, but how,” Olivier De Schutter said .

“Today, most efforts are made towards large-scale investments in land – including many instances of land grabbing – and towards a ‘Green Revolution’ model to boost food production: improved seeds, chemical fertilisers and machines,” the Special Rapporteur remarked. “But scant attention has been paid to agroecological methods that have been shown to improve food production and farmers’ incomes, while at the same time protecting the soil, water, and climate.”

The widest study ever conducted on agroecological approaches (Jules Pretty, Essex University, UK) covered 286 projects in 57 developing countries, representing a total surface of 37 million hectares: the average crop yield gain was 79%. Concrete examples of ‘agroecological success stories’ abound in Africa.

In Tanzania, the Western provinces of Shinyanga and Tabora used to be known as the ‘Desert of Tanzania’. However, the use of agroforestry techniques and participatory processes allowed some 350,000 hectares of land to be rehabilitated in two decades. Profits per household rose by as much as USD 500 a year. Similar techniques are used in Malawi, where some 100,000 smallholders in 2005 benefited to some degree from the use of fertilizer trees.
“With more than a billion hungry people on the planet, and the climate disruptions ahead of us, we must rapidly scale up these sustainable techniques,” De Schutter said. “Even if it makes the task more complex, we have to find a way of addressing global hunger, climate change, and the depletion of natural resources, all at the same time. Anything short of this would be an exercise in futility.”

The experts gathering in Brussels identified the policies that could develop agroecological approaches to the scale needed to feed the world in 2050. They based their work on the experiences of countries that have pro-agroecology policies – such as Cuba or Brazil – as well as on the successful experiences from international research centres such as the World Agroforestry Center in Nairobi, and on the programmes of La Via Campesina, the transnational peasant movement, which runs agroecology training programmes.

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Save the World/Unskrptd Trailer

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Democracy Dead On Burmese Soil

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Ahmadinejad Wants a Visa!

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Asians Need Not Apply: Mickey Rourke As Gengis Kahn

One of the most infamous cases of the practice of Yellowface the equivalent of Blackface for Asians in Hollywood is the portrayal of the warlord Gengis Khan by John Wayne in the film, The Conqueror. Five decades later one would think that attitudes would have changed and the practice of casting white actors for historically Asian or ethnic characters would have changed let alone altering them with makeup to fit caricatures of a people but sadly it hasn't. The same story is playing out now as Mickey Rourke has been cast in a retelling of this story. Unlike the John Wayne film Mickey Rourke will be filming in China, Mongolia, and India for the role undoubtedly with people who could claim to be descendants of the Khan's as background roles and arrow fodder while Rourke plays their cultures hero. This is far from Sin City or Iron Man rather this is an iron clad cinematic sin.

We at the Otaku group recently profiled a series of recent cases at first independently and then with our profile of the racebending group linking what is becoming a disturbingly clear pattern. With the adaptations of Dragonball, The Last Airbender, Prince of Persia, Akira, the Weapon, etc all fictional adaptations whose source material featured Asian heroes and it's Hollywood adaptation replaced them with Caucasian actors. We echo the sentiment of the folks at cinematical who brought this most recent case to our attention, who titled their article you gotta be kidding me!

Hollywood has a checkered past in portrayals of Asians in cinema. There has never been a single instance where a white historical figure has been portrayed by an Asian actor in American cinema while the reverse is playing out in the present as it has in the past. Hollywood has even rewarded this practice. Two Oscars have been awarded to white actresses portraying Asians once in 1937 for the Good Earth a novel based on cultural identity in which that identity was changed to "Eurasian" white rather than Asian, removing the social commentary about racism and the attitudes of the day on mecegination. The second Oscar even came not to a white woman playing an Asian woman and not in the 1930's but playing an Asian man in the 1980's! Awarded to linda Hunt, in the year of living dangerously. It is also worth pointing out that seven films featuring blackface were also nominated for Oscars. The point being it wasn't a fringe practice in Hollywood rather it was the accepted and rewarded status quo that benefited white actors and as the Academy being self selecting and still overwhelmingly white continued to reward white actors regardless of the context of their roles. It didn't end blackface out of it's conscience it rewarded it and found it preferable to hiring black actors for roles as evidenced by the Oscars it handed out to those performances. It ended it because the public refused to pay good money on a bad cinematical practice and we need to send the message that Yellowface to is a practice we won't pay to see.

Arguably the most famous detective novels of their day, Charlie Chan stared an Asian detective and was based on the real life exploits of detectives in Hawaii yet Hollywood cast a caucasian in the role through more than three decades of it's popular portrayal on the silver screen. When Bruce Lee pitched the idea for Kung Fu after the success of the Green Hornet the studio took the idea but cast Keith Karadine instead of lee telling the prominent oscar nominated actor Mako who was helping lee pitch the project that whites would simply turn the tv sets off if they saw an Asian man play a hero. To be clear the studio favored Keith Caradine over an Oscar nominee and the man who went on to have two of the top ten grossing films of the following decade. Indignities like this that Mako saw within Americas acting community on stage, screen, and tv pushed him to create the East West Players to advance Asian American actors and when he was nominated for a Tony he accepted the nomination by saying he would refuse the award until conditions for Asian actors improved. Among Mako's last work was the role of Iroh in the animated version of Avatar the Last Airbender. The film adaptation now features three white leads in the place of originally Asian roles and spits in the face of his legacy.

This casting then comes in a long context that removes any ambiguity from this most recent decision. It is a brazen and at this point blatantly racist move where we shall again see that only the identity of the lead character shall be changed from the Asian persuasion. The message couldn't be more clear. With historical (Mickey Rourke as Gengis Kahn) mythical (White lead the Forbidden Kingdom) fictional (The Weapon, White Lead.The Last Airbender, Three White Leads. Dragonball, Two White Leads. Akira, All White Leads.) or contemporary (21 and Extraordinary Measures both are true stories with the people they are based on still living and still Asian while cast white.) The message is, ASIANS NEED NOT APPLY IN HOLLYWOODOne of the most infamous cases of the practice of Yellowface the equivalent of... more

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