What Can Afghanistan and Pakistan Teach Us About Nonviolence? – I may soon have an opportunity to meet with nonviolent activists in Afghanistan, an area of the world we falsely imagine has earned the name “graveyard of empires” purely through violent resistance. I was educated in the United States and learned in some detail about the lives of several morally repulsive halfwits who happened to have “served” in various U.S. wars, assaults, and genocides. But I was never even taught the name Badshah Khan. Were you?. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 1890-1988, was given the honorary title Badshah by the people of what was then the northwest frontier of India, much as his friend and ally further south, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was given the title Mahatma. Khan was a Pashtun, or Pathan, as are many members of the Taliban today. The imperial occupier 100 years ago was not the United States, but the British empire, and Khan raised a 100,000-strong unarmed, but uniformed and disciplined, nonviolent army to face down a vicious all-out violent assault in an isolated territory, with communication to the outside world cut off. The nonviolent Pashtun became more feared by the British than the violent. The local people became more independent, self-sustaining, and prosperous. And they understood nonviolence to be the weapon of the strong.
Libyan broadcasters say that an unknown number of civilians were injured and killed in coalition airstrikes in Tripoli late on Wednesday.
Cuba: War On Libya Gross Violation Of International Law – Cuba condemns foreign military intervention in Libya: The official statement added that [Western] powers “are specifically responsible for the deaths of over a million civilians in Iraq and more than 70,000 in Afghanistan, which are called collateral damage.” HAVANA: The Cuban government issued a statement here Sunday night expressing its “strong condemnation” of the foreign military intervention in Libya’s internal conflict.
The scandal of seizures by social workers of children from responsible parents is bigger than the Children’s Minister has stated, says Christopher Booker. – Of all the ways in which Britain’s supposed child protection system has, all too often, gone horribly off the rails, one of the most disturbing is the readiness of many social workers to lie and to fabricate evidence, in order to justify their seizure of children from loving and responsible parents. As is shown by many of the dozens of such cases I have followed in detail, once social workers have targeted a particular family they may well stop at nothing to make their case stick, ready to cover up some initial error simply by bringing up new accusations against the parents, however improbable.
What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima – Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the military-industrial complex. Probably his best known book is Nuclear Power Plants for Tokyo in which he took the logic of the nuke promoters to its logical conclusion: if you are so sure that they’re safe, why not build them in the center of the city, instead of hundreds of miles away where you lose half the electricity in the wires?.
America’s First Black President Invades Africa – Over the objection of the African Union, US attacks Libya NEW YORK – In a move reminiscent of Senator Mike Mansfield’s observation that “Only a Nixon could go to China,” President Barack Obama has begun a military invasion of Africa.
For those unaware, Libya is in Africa.
24 March 1999: Remembering the NATO led War on Yugoslavia: Kosovo “Freedom Fighters” Financed by Organized Crime – Twelve years ago, March 24th 1999, marks the commencement of NATO’s aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia. The bombings which lasted for almost three months, were followed by the military invasion (under a bogus UN mandate) and illegal occupation of the province of Kosovo. In the course of the last week, the so-called international community, backed by the UN Security Council has called for the bombing of Libya, a sovereign country, allegedly to protect the lives of civilians under the logo of “Responsibility to Protect”.
Naming Names: Your Real Government – This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European’s way of life. When the “left” is carrying the torch for two “Neo-Con” wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD’s, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong.
US Following Oil Drug Cartels – The silence of Russia and China to U.S. belligerence across the world spectrum with $trillion dollar wars confiscating and theft of natural resources signals a collusion of interested government apparatus in war against humanity for greed.
The 1st Great War of 21st Century Has Begun! – KINGSTON, NY — It is a bad science fiction movie written by mad political scientists. Exactly eight years to the day that President George W. Bush took America and his “Coalition of the Willing” to war with Iraq, President Barack Obama has taken America and his “Broad Coalition” to war with Libya.
Palestinians continue anti-division rallies in Gaza – GAZA, March 20 (Xinhua) — The popular peaceful rallies lead by youth movement against the internal Palestinian division continued on Sunday in the Gaza Strip which is ruled by Islamic Hamas movement. Thousands of students at the Gaza-based al-Azhar University organized at noon time a sit-in on campus. They chanted slogans that called for ending the internal division and succeeding the efforts to achieve the reconciliation, and called for escalating the popular activities.
Libyan Hospitals Attacked in air raids by Nato – The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians causalities in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they will be killing them.
Saudi forces brutalize Bahrainis – Bahraini and Saudi security and armed forces have beaten, shot and detained demonstrators for holding peaceful rallies and demanding change.
Your 2011 Census will help Big Business make money – A very interesting email came our way today that included a press release from the Office of National Statistics talking about why babies will be included in the 2011 Census… whatever on that front… The interesting part was at the bottom where the ONS are promoting the reasons why people should fill out the Census. The following two points are gold dust, we just can’t make this stuff up: Supermarkets, such as Sainsbury’s, use census data to help plan what food to stock; Banks, such as Barclays, and other commercial businesses use census data to help locate their businesses in appropriate places.
Fukushima Coverup, 40 Years of Spent Nuclear Rods Blown Sky High – In addition to under reporting the fires at Fukushima, the Japanese government has not told the people about the ominous fact that the nuclear plant site is a hellish repository where a staggering number of spent fuel rods have accumulated for 40 years.
ULTRA-ORTHODOX, HAGEE, ABET VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE – As the world empathizes with Japan for its massive loss of life, it remains appropriate to remember the tragedy visited on Palestinians over the past 60 years. This has not been an act of nature but a catastrophe engineered by misguided Christian evangelicals and Zionist oppressors.
Private Firms Getting Thousands To Remove People’s Benefits – Private firms contracted by the Government to enforce the new welfare reforms, will be paid up to £14,000 to get people off benefits and in to employment. The highest bonus will go to companies that are able to reassess people as fit for work, who have previously been declared unfit and been claiming benefits on a long term basis. There are 2.2million people on incapacity benefit, of whom 1.6million will be assessed to see if they are now fit for work. As Cameron said last month, the government believes supporting the disabled is “unsustainable”.
Boycott The UK Census: What You Need To Know – On March 26, 2011, thousands of people will march on London against the financial and political elite. The very next day we are expected to have completed the UK Census form. If you are attending the mass protests or might be on the verge of doing so, it’s a perfect time to proclaim your opposition to this redundant, intrusive and completely immoral act by the government. You can shout about it, wave a placard or burn the damn form in the middle of London, but now is the time join the right side of humanity!
The utility of a central bank – The other night at a dinner I was expounding my take on the Western monetary system to some European diplomats when one of them in polite disbelief remarked that my position is demonstrably wrong because national central banks in Europe are non profit entities. Which gave me food for thought. My counter question then was: if CBs are non profit entities why do they charge interest on the money that is created on behalf of the treasury?
Neglecting public opinion is privilege of the West – London is bracing itself for a wave of public anger this weekend as protesters are planning to take to the streets to demonstrate against the West’s military intervention in Libya. What many of those who will march seem to particularly object to is Western governments’ habit of lashing out at other countries for not listening to their people, while blithely ignoring public opinion on their own doorsteps.
Digital Economy Act: ‘rushed’ anti-piracy laws delayed until 2012 – The already-delayed Digital Economy Act (DEA) will be challenged by BT and TalkTalk on Wednesday in a judicial review. The two companies aim to block a new copyright enforcement regime that could force them to slow down broadband access to customers accused of unlawful downloading. The Act,passed in the final days of the last Parliament, had been due to come into force in January. But as well as this week’s judicial review, it has been held up by a series of unanticipated administrative and regulatory hurdles.
Top EU official defends Bahrain crackdown – EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – A senior advisor to EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has defended Bahrain’s security forces after they opened fire on protesters with live ammunition last week. Speaking to MEPs in the foreign affairs committee in Brussels on Tuesday (22 March) after visiting Bahrain, Robert Cooper, Ashton’s top advisor on the western Balkans and the Middle East, said the island is normally “a rather pleasant, peaceful place.”
Run-Rated Fukushima Radiation Release On Par With, And In Some Cases Greater Than, Chernobyl – Even as the spin continues by both the media and nuclear energy advocates that the dangers from Fukushima are overblown, calculations done behind the scenes indicate that Fukushima and Chernobyl are actually very comparable in terms of radioactive particulate release, and in some cases, such as Cesium 137, Fukushima is already runrating as a worse catastrophe than Chernobyl. From Reuters: “The release of two types of radioactive particles in the first 3-4 days of Japan’s nuclear crisis is estimated to have reached 20-50 percent of the amounts from Chernobyl in 10 days, an Austrian expert said on Wednesday. Based on measurements made at monitoring stations in Japan and the United States, Wotawa said the iodine released from Fukushima in the first three-four days was about 20 percent of that released from Chernobyl during a ten-day period. For Caesium-137, the figure could amount to some 50 percent.” In other words, run rating the release of Cesium for a 10 day period, leaked radioactive Cesium is now about 120-150% of what it was during the full blow reactor explosion experiencing during Chernobyl. But yes, aside from the facts, watering the reactor that are certainly melting down (if haven’t done so already) should surely have great benefits.
NO Labeling Of Chemical ‘Inert’ Ingredients On Medicines – The unknown inert ingredients can be comprised of heavy metals, neurotoxins, mutated bacteria, viruses, fungi or caustic chemicals…literally, anything. It can be anything as there is no FDA/USDA regulation on what those inert ingredients can or cannot be.”
TSA to retest airport body scanners after reports expose extreme radiation safety violations – (NaturalNews) After repeatedly refusing to publicly release safety reports for its airport X-ray machines and naked body scanners — even after lawmakers ordered their release — the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now says that the same reports are flawed anyway (http://www.naturalnews.com/031321_n…). TSA insists data showing that some naked body scanners emit as much as ten times more radiation than normal is a “math error,” and that a retest will be required to obtain accurate results.
Apples could hold key for increasing lifespan – (NaturalNews) Sure, apples are delicious and healthy. And, as NaturalNews has previously reported, there is a growing body of evidence showing apples fight cancer. In fact, half a dozen studies published by Rui Hai Liu, Cornell associate professor of food science and a member of Cornell’s Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology, have found eating apples is an especially powerful way to prevent breast cancer(http://www.naturalnews.com/025685_c…).
‘Dying to Have Known’ documentary features Gerson Therapy natural cancer cure – (NaturalNews) The small California town of Oakhurst recently had several screenings of the 2006 film Dying to Have Known, a well-done and highly-informative documentary by esteemed filmmaker Steve Kroschel that explores the evidence and effectiveness of the infamous Gerson Therapy in treating and curing cancer naturally. Dr. Carl Bosco, a practicing naturopathic doctor for 35 years, organized the viewings of the film, which highlights numerous individual cases of cancers cured using Gerson Therapy, as well as interviews with various doctors and medical experts who share their honest assessment of its viability.
Behaviour drugs given to children as young as four – The article entitled Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds discussed the current trend of loading this generation’s youth with prescription drugs, namely Ritalin. Well the trend is definitely not fading and it has been observed that drugs are being prescribed to increasingly younger children. Can we really give a four year-old child an “Attention Deficit Disorder” diagnosis? Which four year old DOESN’T lack attention? Should we drug them all? Here’s an article from The Guardian on the subject.
Children as young as four have been prescribed Ritalin-style drugs in breach of NHS guidelines. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod
More Than 2,000 Vaccinated Babies Died: The Cost of Doing Business – ‘Earlier this month (March 2011), Japanese authorities ordered doctors to stop using pneumococcal and Hib vaccines because four children died after receiving the shots. However, the real news was never reported: more than 2,000 babies died in the United States after receiving vaccines for these very same diseases, yet authorities refuse to warn parents and halt production. A safety review is vital to determine whether a recall of the dangerous shots may be necessary to protect additional American babies from disability and death.’
Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill Clean-up Crew are Dying – ‘You won’t see this in national headlines. Jennifer Rexford, a BP-hired oil spill cleanup worker, has been documenting her condition that is getting worse by the day. BP is not taking responsibility.’
Corporations Contaminating Agriculture – ‘A problem arises as a result of family farmers and ranchers not having the bags of cash needed to dump into USDA and FDA to buy access as the bio-pirates do. ” While Homeland Security continues to claim that we must not centralize agricultural production because some terrorist might then poison vast quantities of our food supply, the USDA and FDA continue to rig the system in favor of corporate agricultural producers who are doing that very thing. Maybe they get away with this because what these global corporations are producing can’t really be classified as food, or at least not as food we would recognize as fit for human consumption.
India Says Monsanto Covertly, Illegally Conducted GM Corn Trials Without Approval – (NaturalNews) Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh explaining the situation. Just days earlier, Ramesh had denied Monsanto permission to plant the crops at all.
Chernobyl Survivor – ‘Run Away As Quickly As Possible’ – Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. It was just four days after the world’s biggest nuclear disaster spewed enormous amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and forced the evacuation of 100,000 people.
More vegetables found over radioactive safety standards – TOKYO, March 23 (Xinhua) — The Japanese government on Wednesday urged people not to eat 11 types of vegetable grown near the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeast Japan after levels of radioactivity in the produces were found to have far exceeded legal limits. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said consumers should avoid eating potentially contaminated vegetables grown near the faltering power plant, including broccoli, spinach, cabbage and cauliflower. The advisory from the ministry came following consultations with the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan.
Libya Has WATER Riches As Well As Huge Amounts Of Oil – We still wonder how on earth did Gaddafi manage to stay in power for forty years? Did no one notice his madness until now? Did no one notice that he built a HUGE FRESH WATER PIPELINE to the Benghazi region, that lunatic?
Were they waiting for him to finish?
Portugal braces for govt collapse over debt vote – LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government is on the verge of collapse after opposition parties withdrew their support for another round of austerity policies aimed at averting a financial bailout. The expected defeat of the minority government’s latest spending plans in a parliamentary vote Wednesday will likely force its resignation and could stall national and European efforts to deal with the continent’s protracted debt crisis.
Norwegian Lawmaker Denies Holocaust – Labor Party lawmaker Anders Mathisen reportedly told the Finnmarken newspaper that the Holocaust never happened and challenged readers to prove him wrong. “There is no evidence the gas chambers or mass graves existed,” he told the newspaper, according to reports. “Even reputable Holocaust historians have admitted it cannot be established.” –(I wonder how long it will be before he is locked up for expressing free speech.)–
US warplane crashes in Libya - LONDON, March 22 (Xinhua) — The U.S. military has confirmed that a U.S. fighter jet has crashed in Libya, British newspaper The Daily Telegrph reported Tuesday on its website. The aircraft was an F-15E Eagle, the report said citing a correspondent currently based in Libya.
Fayyad freezes cabinet reshuffle to make way for possible Palestinian unity gov’t – RAMALLAH, March 22 (Xinhua) — Palestinian Prime Minister- designate Salam Fayyad froze the reshuffle of his West Bank-based government to make way for President Mahmoud Abbas’ proposal to form a unity government with the Gaza Strip, an official said Tuesday.
Shell Wins Approval To Drill New Gulf Of Mexico Wells – US authorities have given the green light to the Anglo-Dutch company’s plan to drill three wells to a depth of about 2,950 feet in a field 130 miles off the coast of Louisana.
‘Libya War Could Last 30 Years’: Armed Forces Minister’s Extraordinary Admission – Ministers admitted yesterday that they have no idea how long the military operation against LIBYA could take. Asked for an estimate, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said: ‘How long is a piece of string? We don’t know how long this is going to go on. ‘We don’t know if this is going to result in a stalemate. We don’t know if his capabilities are going to be degraded quickly. Ask me again in a week.’
‘Next Yemen President to be US Picked’ - The United States, Western powers, and Persian Gulf states are manipulating the scene in Yemen for a new president who is in favor of their imperialist policies. In an interview with Press TV, author and political analyst Kevin Ovenden talks about Yemeni incumbent President Ali Abdullah Saleh losing the support he needs to suppress anti-government protests, and Saudi Arabia — backed by Western powers — trying to keep him afloat until a favorable replacement is found.
Fresh Oil Continues to Wash Ashore in the Bayou, Huffington Post, March 21, 2011: Update here: NBC reports on oil in the Gulf — Large areas of water covered, up to 100 miles long says fisherman (VIDEO) A Coast Guard press release yesterday stated the giant dark plumes in the water appeared to be a massive dredging operation… Mike Roberts of the Louisiana Bayoukeepers was with a group that went up in the air on Saturday and then out on a boat on Barataria Bay Sunday. “It looked like a huge amount of oil in the Gulf,” Roberts said. “They could smell it from the airplane and I could smell it from the boat. This wasn’t just Mississippi River mud.” This is how his wife Tracy Kuhns, who went on the flyover on Saturday describes it in her Bayoukeeper blog post today:
Mossad Kidnaps Gaza Engineer – Disappeared on a Ukraine train: Mossad snatches Gaza’s power plant boss. Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Gazan engineer who went missing more than a month ago while travelling on a train in the Ukraine. Israeli officials confirmed that Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, was being held in Israel’s Shikma prison, near Ashkelon, after a judge partially lifted reporting restrictions late on Sunday. However, the reasons for Abu Sisi’s abduction are still covered by the gag order.
South Korea, U.S. continue joint military exercise “Foal Eagle” – Soldiers participate in the Combined Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore Operations (CJLOTS) during the joint military exercise Foal Eagle 2011 between South Korea and the United States at Anmyeondo beach in Chungcheong province of South Korea on March 23, 2011. South Korea and the United States started the month-long joint military exercise, “Foal Eagle”, on Feb. 28. (Xinhua/Park Jin Hee)
Obama rules out ‘land invasion’ in Libya – WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Wednesday categorically ruled out a land invasion to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as coalition forces launched a fifth day of air strikes against government military targets in the North African nation. And Obama said the U.S. this week will be pulling back from its dominant role in the international campaign aimed at preventing Gadhafi from attacking civilians.
UK: Younger Staff Will Work to 80 Under Pension Link to Rising Lifespans – Millions of employees could see their retirement pushed back at least 12 months every two years after George Osborne announced plans to link the pension age to rising longevity. –(It is happening at a ever increasing rate now the removing of wealth from the people and forcing us to work till we die, with no pension or benefits.)–
If You Don’t Think Libya Is About Oil, Read This – The Treasury just put out a statement concerning various companies owned by Libya’s National Oil Corporation that are subject to sanctions. Most intriguing is this part of the statement: Treasury will continue monitoring the National Oil Corporation’s operations in Libya. Should National Oil Corporation subsidiaries or facilities come under different ownership and control, Treasury may consider authorizing dealings with such entities.
Fukushima Smoking Gun Emerges: Founding Engineer Says Reactor 4 Has Always Been A ‘Time Bomb’, Exposes Criminal Cover Up – It was only a matter of time before someone grew a conscience, and disclosed to the world that in addition to the massive cover up currently going on with respect to the true extent of the Fukushima catastrophe, the actual plant itself, in borrowing from the BP playbook, was built in a hurried way, using cost and labor-cutting shortcuts, and the end result was a true “time bomb.” Bloomberg has just released a report that if and when confirmed should lead to the prompt engagement of harakiri by the Hitachi executives responsible for this unprecedented act of treason against Japan’s citizens. Quote Bloomberg: “One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago. Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor while working for a unit of Hitachi Ltd. in 1974.
The World’s Super-Rich – Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as Economies “Recover”: The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires. According to the annual report of the business magazine Forbes there are 1,210 individuals – and in many cases family clans – with a net value of $1 billion dollars (or more). There total net worth is $4 trillion, 500 billion dollars, greater than the combined worth of 4 billion people in the world. The current concentration of wealth exceeds any previous period in history; from King Midas, the Maharajahs, and the Robber Barons to the recent Silicon Valley – Wall Street moguls of the present decade
The EU-India Free Trade Agreement – Since 2007, India and EU have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) — covering trade in goods and services, investments, intellectual property rights and government procurement — that is fraught with problems. Till now, ten negotiating rounds have been held. The agreement is expected to be finalized by mid-2011.
Israel admits kidnapping operations manager of Gaza’s only power plant - NAZARETH // Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of the operations manager of Gaza’s only power plant, who disappeared more than a month ago while travelling on a train in Ukraine. Israeli officials confirmed in a statement that Mr Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, was being held in Israel’s Shikma prison, near Ashkelon, after a judge partially lifted reporting restrictions late on Sunday. However, the explanation for Mr Abu Sisi’s abduction and detention are still covered by the gag order, which has been extended by a judge for 30 days.
Portuguese Prime Minister Steps Down – Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates has stepped down after the parliament voted against the latest package of austerity measures offered by his minority government.
British Police Threaten Strike Action – British police in Warwickshire have announced that their forces may go on strike in protest at the coalition government’s massive cuts program. The announcement comes at a time when the biggest protest gathering is on the offing in the UK with at least 100,000 people scheduled to participate in a demonstration organized by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in London on March 26.
War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity,Wars of Aggression, Imperialism, International Criminals, Genocide
Israeli Attack Kills 10 Palestinians – At least 10 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed and dozens injured after an Israeli tank fired shots at a home in the Gaza Strip, medics reported. Adham Abu Selmiya an emergency services spokesman said the deaths occurred when Israel “opened fire on young people who were playing football in Shejaiya on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City. Israel regularly carries out attacks on Gaza, killing and injuring Palestinians. Tel Aviv launched a deadly war on the strip at the turn of 2009. More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air offensive in the impoverished coastal enclave. The offensive also inflicted $1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
Corrupt UK Government Ensure Libya Offensive Is Legal – In a pathetic and transparent attempt to label themselves the good guys and dissociate themselves with blatantly illegal wars like Iraq, the coalition government have ensured us that any military offensive against Libya is “legal”. Does that make the deaths of innocent people caught up in that action ok then?
U.S. Rescue Chopper Shoots Six Libyan Villagers as They Welcome Pilots of Downed Air Force Jet – Both crewmen injured after ejecting but in safe hands; Villagers told them ‘Don’t be scared, we are your friends’; Father of boy whose leg may have to be amputated bears coalition troops no malice; Minister refuses to rule out use of ground troops; Friction between allies as Italy brands command structure ‘anarchic’ and threatens to withdraw use of air bases; Algeria calls western military intervention ‘disproportionate’; Gaddafi snipers on murderous spree in Misarata and guns turned on rebels in Adjabiyah; Qatari jets joining no-fly zone nearly run out of fuel and have to land in Cyprus
Europe Turns Against Israeli Policies Of Death – The study, entitled “Intolerance, Prejudice, Discrimination: A European Report” –questioned roughly 1,000 people in each of the selected EU countries. Asked to respond to the statement that “Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians,” 47.7 percent of the study’s participants in Germany expressed agreement.
At least 14 dead on bombed east Libya road – A Reuters correspondent saw a total of at least 14 dead on Sunday around the bombed out military vehicles of libyan government forces on an east Libya road after Western strikes.
Israel Warplanes Fly Over Gaza, Bomb Hamas Military Site – Israel launched five air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday after militants shot mortars and rockets at the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. At least five Palestinians were wounded, two of them children, medics said, in the raids which showed the rising tensions between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza.
Palestinian men try to clear up rubble at an area hit by Israeli air strikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip March 22, 2011.Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 18 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Palestinian men survey an area hit by Israeli air strikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip March 22, 2011. Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 18 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
A Palestinian man surveys an area hit by Israeli air strikes at a security compound in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip March 22, 2011. Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 18 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 18 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Nobel Committee Asked to Strip Obama of Peace Prize – ‘The Bolivian President and a Russian political leader have launched a campaign to revoke Obama’s honour after the US attacked Libya. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader and Vice-Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement today calling for the Nobel Prize Committee to take back the honour bestowed on US President Barack Obama in 2009.
Russia Urges Immediate Libya Ceasefire – Russian defense minister has called for immediate ceasefire in Libya as US-led military coalition forces escalates their aerial and sea attacks on the north African country. “Russia wants to see an immediate ceasefire in Libya and the start of political negotiations,” Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told visiting US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday.
Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart – Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated; French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations; Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction; Italians accuse French of backing NATO in exchange for oil contracts;No-fly zone called into question after first wave of strikes ‘neutralises’ Libyan military machine; U.K. ministers say war could last ’30 years’; Italy to ‘take back control’ of bases used by allies unless NATO leadership put in charge of the mission; Russians tell U.S. to stop bombing in order to protect civilians – calls bombing a ‘crusade’
China Calls For Immediate Cease-Fire In Libya – BEIJING – China called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Libya where the U.S. and European nations have launched punishing airstrikes to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone. All parties must “immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regularly scheduled news conference, citing unconfirmed reports that the airstrikes had caused civilian deaths. China was one of five countries that abstained from last week’s vote on the U.N. resolution to allow “all necessary measures” to stop Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s assault on rebel-held towns. It was approved with the backing of the United States, France and Britain.
Brazil Calls For Cease Fire In Libya – SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian government called late on Monday for a ceasefire in Libya, where air attacks by the United States and its allies sought to stop the advance of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces on rebel-held towns. The goal of a ceasefire should be to protect civilians and pave the way for dialogue between the Libyan government and its opponents, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement made just hours after a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to Brazil.
Israel warns of ‘aggressive’ response to Jerusalem blast – Tension high after first bomb explosion in six years in the holy city leaves one dead and dozens injured –(This stinks of a false flag operation, it has come at a convenient time when Israel is preparing for another genocidal offensive against the Palestinian people.)–
The Ongoing Plot To Create ‘Greater Israel’ – “Greater Israel”–from the Nile to the Euphrates–from the Bible, of course.. “Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli empire.” -Moshe Dayan, 1952, Israeli Defense (War) Minister, by Zen Gardner. Yes, this U.S.-hosted parasitic pagan creation of the Illuminati called Is-ra-el (read Is=Isis, Ra=sun god, El=Saturn deity) is working to metastasize in order to so-called “fulfill a promise given to Abraham”, their purported ancestor.
Reign of Terror, Torture in Bahrain – Despite the Bahraini government cracking down on protesters and kidnapping doctors, surgeons, political opposition and human rights activists, the revolutionaries continue to demand the end of the Al Khalifa rule. Press TV speaks with Ralph Shoenman, author and political commentator from Berkeley, about the fate of the over 100 missing Bahrainis.
US-led Strikes Target Libyan City – The US-led military alliance escalates its aerial attacks on several strategically-important cities across Libya, killing many civilians, reports say. Residents in Misratah say Western forces have hit the city’s air bases where Gaddafi’s brigades are based. Water and electricity has been cut off to the city. Medical personnel say at least 90 people have died in Misratah in the past five days.
World-wide Protests
Fresh protests erupt in Arab world - BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) — People in several Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa are again on pins and needles after witnessing new demonstrations. On Sunday, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh issued a decree to dismiss his government and vowed to form a new government — two days after snipers shot dead 52 protesters in the capital Sanaa amid escalating protests across the country since mid-February.
Gaza protests stretch into a seventh day – RAMALLAH, West Bank — Inspired by the “Arab Spring” revolutions across the Arab World, Palestinians protested for a seventh straight day Monday in both the West Bank and Gaza in an effort to force their divided leaders into reconciling with one another. Despite a violent crackdown on protests in Gaza, students gathered at several universities and foreign news organizations filmed the protests. Over the weekend, Hamas supporters attacked the Gaza offices of several news organizations. The protests began March 15, when more than 10,000 people gathered in Gaza and several thousand, in the West Bank in a coordinated effort to demand reconciliation between the Fatah party, which governs the West Bank, and Hamas, which controls Gaza. The two sides broke in June 2007 after Hamas violently seized control of Gaza and routed Fatah forces.
26th March, Census Rebellion, 1pm North Side of Trafalgar Square. You Will See Us with Megaphones! Follow the Census Rebellion Flyers if You Can’t Find Us! - ‘The day before the Census is due, you are due in Central London. We hope for sun and we will congregate in what could be the biggest protest this country has ever seen. 2011 is the year of the people’s uprising, and this is entirely about total resistance. You refuse to deal any information or energy to a group of criminals who have sacrificed humanity at greed’s altar. The Census could very well be used in peace time, when benevolence ruled the waves, but not by this lot. If their leadership has fallen short, then so does our support. It goes even more deeply than this. Ultimately, in this age of awakening, it’s the people who demand information from the state.’
Getting of the Grid and Reasons to get of the Grid –(Getting of the grid is a term meaning to be totally self sufficient, not relying on the government or supermarkets to feed you, also includes becoming energy self sufficient and not relying again on anyone else, as a safety precaution against tyranny.)–
Sprouts: An Ideal Emergency Preparedness Food – (NaturalNews) Given the rapidity with which critical global events are unfolding, preparedness just makes good sense. The question isn’t whether or not to be prepared – it’s what to be prepared for? Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, tsunamis, power outages and gasoline shortages have been on this week’s menu. Each, of course, has its own specific type of preparedness protocols. But, no matter what kind of unexpected event looms large, there is always a need for food. Food shortages could result from any of the aforementioned potential scenarios, as well as from any number of scenarios that I haven’t mentioned. There are any number of ways to approach food shortage preparedness, but my preferred method is sprouts! Sprouts are, in my mind, the number one, perfect survival ration. I think that sprouting seeds belong in every household’s emergency kit. Let’s look at some of the reasons that I think this.
India Says Monsanto Covertly, Illegally Conducted GM Corn Trials Without Approval – (NaturalNews) Recent reports out of India say that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto has once against skirted the law by clandestinely planting its genetically-modified (GM) corn without receiving approval to do so. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of the Indian state of Bihar, recently wrote a letter to India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh explaining the situation. Just days earlier, Ramesh had denied Monsanto permission to plant the crops at all.
Mouse-Pig & Super-Fish Seek Approval for Human Consumption – Genetically mutated plants and animals always start out as some sort of trial – “Oh we would never allow this on the dinner plate,” is always the beginning line. Blink and you’ll miss the critters crawling onto the grocers’ shelves. Most of us are unaware of our consumption of GM vegetation. The push and final release of GM salmon will be the precedent that allows Enviropig on the market. The supposed intention behind Enviropig is the environment, but that’s a giant load of steaming hog manure, otherwise the pigs themselves would be given better treatment and diets to lower phosphorous waste.Some speculate that the Corn Refiners Association is the influence behind the pigs’ mostly corn-fed diet that attributes to the highly phosphorous poo. Instead of different food and free range, the answer is to create labs, hire scientists, and mix them with mice?
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