lunes, 31 de agosto de 2015

US is Losing Footing in Central Asia | New Eastern Outlook

US is Losing Footing in Central Asia | New Eastern Outlook







US is Losing Footing in Central Asia

In the last decade Washington
has clearly demonstrated its intention to strengthen its presence in
Central Asia, creating a foothold in the region that quite easily can be
described as the “heart of Eurasia”. Should it have succeeded it would
have had a perfect opportunity to apply military pressure on Russia,
China, Iran and the entire Eurasian continent. In geopolitical terms,
the United States actively sought to connect Central Asia to South Asia –
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, to “tear it away” from Russia and
prevent China from gaining access to its raw materials.

Today
the region is a strategic corridor of utmost importance that stretches
between continental Europe and Asia, and it is somewhat critical for the
growth of Chinese markets. The United States was desperate to establish
control of this region in order to jeopardize the New Silk Road project
that tries to outflank the much discussed Pivot to Asia by building
land routes. In addition, the expansion of its military and political
presence in Central Asia, would have allowed it to counter Russia’s
strengthening influence.

In the past, the United States preferred
to “negotiate” their terms with respective leaders of the countries
that were in the zones of its geopolitical interests, but in recent
decades this practice has been abandoned long ago. Instead, the White
House has adopted a new strategy of toppling unwanted governments, and
replacing them with semi-criminal, but somehow “legitimate” political
groups and states, or by simply creating failed states that cannot
control their own territory. This allows Washington to fulfill its
agenda faster and cheaper. Recent events in a number of Middle Eastern
and North African countries serve as a perfect example of this strategy.

This choice of modus operandi of the
White House is understandable: should a specific country be controlled
by a strong government, the US oligarchy cannot gain easy access to its
resources. Should American intelligence agencies succeed in provoking a
coup d’etat in a country, Washington will not simply get is hands on
desired resources, but will be able to use the rapid spread of violence
as a pretext to further increase US military presence across the region
in question.

That is why the US expansion in Central
Asia manifested itself in the form of an active military expansion.
America was happy to get involved in the construction of local military
bases, outposts, centers for training, and reconstruction of educational
institutions. Thus in Tajikistan alone US Central Command is carrying
at least 60 military drills a year. The US massively recruited people in
military circles, intelligence communities and government circles to
use them to overthrow a legitimate government, as has already been done
many times around the world. Moreover, against the background of ongoing
cuts in the US military budget, additional funds have been allocated to
operations in Central Asia.

However, the United States was not
patient enough in its expansion in Central Asia, which led to a critical
political mistake: the White House rushed the process of
“democratization” across the countries of Central Asia, while trying to
provoke unrest that would pave the way for a coup d’etat in a number of
states. But the course of events has clearly shown that the “color
revolution” tactics have fallen short. Ironically enough, the growing
influence of the White House in Central Asia has been stopped by the
Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 and the events in the Uzbek
city of Andijan in May of the same year.

US meddling in local affairs has
provoked a sharp rise of discontent among the regional leaders, which in
turn affected their relationship with the United States. There’s a
reason why one state after another started declaring their adherence to
the principles of cooperation with Russia and China. The Shanghai
Cooperation Organization has clearly played a vital role in
counterbalancing the US strategic advance in the region.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/31/us-is-losing-footing-in-central-asia/

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6 Foods That Fight Pain

6 Foods That Fight Pain



 Top 6 Natural Alternatives To Ibuprofen





There are a number of reasons to avoid taking aspirin or ibuprofen often.
You may be seeking alternatives because you experience pain but like to
stay away from conventional medicines. Alternatively, you could be
someone who just learned about the potential dangers that come with
taking Aspirin and ibuprofen regularly and are ready for something
different. Ibuprofen and Aspirin have been linked to anemia,
DNA damage, heart disease, hearing loss, hypertension, miscarriage and
even influenza mortality (these are just 7 of the over 24 adverse health
effects its been connected with.)


“Long-term
high-dose use of painkillers such as ibuprofen or diclofenac is ‘equally
hazardous’ in terms of heart attack risk as use of the drug Vioxx,
which was withdrawn due to its potential dangers.” – Reuters[1]


Although
there are a number of adverse health effects that go along with
Ibuprofen, we continue to take it in vast amounts because we are often a
society built off of quick fixes and short-term results. According to
some previously recorded statistics, in 1998 alone over 500,000 pounds
of acetyl-salicylic acid
(the main component used in aspirin) was produced in the United States
alone. That number is likely even greater now. Usage of such medicines
can be linked back to cultural conditioning where we forget to value
eating well, taking care of our mental and emotional states as well as
our physical body. When this is out of balance so often, feeling pain in
areas of the body can be a very common thing.




Top 6 Natural Alternatives To Ibuprofen

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life



 Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life





This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended. 




The Great Forgetting refers to the wealth of knowledge that our
culture lost when we adopted our new civilized lifestyle. The knowledge
that allowed indigenous cultures to survive, the knowledge that we had
once also been tribal and the understanding that we were but one mere
culture of thousands. All of this disappeared in a few short
generations.




The Great Forgetting accounts for an enormous cultural collapse as
once tribal people found themselves in a new and strange mass
centralized society. New beliefs, new ways of life rushed into this
cultural vacuum to fill the void. But without being tested by natural
selection over thousands of years this new culture was evolutionarily
unstable.




It is only recently that the Great Forgetting has been exposed.
Understanding it holds the key to making sense of our destructive
culture. And remembering what it is that was forgotten holds the key to
our future.




 

CATALONIA --- Catalans in fresh surge for independence from Spain - FT.com

Catalans in fresh surge for independence from Spain - FT.com





Catalans in fresh surge for independence from Spain

As in previous years, the region’s powerful independence movement will mark Catalan national day on September 11 with a mass rally calling for the creation of an independent state. This time around organisers hope hundreds of thousands of supporters will fill one of the main avenues into Barcelona all the way to the doors of the regional parliament in Ciutadella Park.

The flag-waving crowds will look similar to those that crammed the city’s streets last year, and that formed a 480km human chain across the region in 2013. However, the political backdrop this year is different. Just two weeks after the rally, Catalans go to the polls to elect a new regional government.

Crucially, and for the first time, the main pro-independence parties have agreed to run in the election on a single unified list. The idea is to turn the vote into a referendum on independence and to secure a popular mandate for a break with Spain.
 
Pro-independence people hold a Catalan i...Pro-independence people hold a Catalan independence flag during a meeting organised by the Catalonia National Assembly (ANC) and the Omnium Cultural civil society association after a symbolic vote on independence for Catalonia from Spain at a polling station in Barcelona on November 9, 2014. One of Spain's biggest and richest regions, Catalonia defied Madrid today and proceeded with a symbolic vote on whether it should break away as an independent state. AFP PHOTO/ JOSEP LAGOJOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images 
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For politicians in Spain, the month of September means the return of a peculiar seasonal phenomenon: a surge in tensions with Catalonia.

7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty

7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty





7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty

 

Think we have a free market?  Think again.  Think it was free market
capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again.



What America has, and what we’ve had for a long time, is Cartelism.
 It is becoming increasingly evident that every industry has been
infected by “Too-Big-to-Fail” consolidation that has resulted in a
near-picture-perfect oligarchy —  a form of power structure in
which power effectively rests with a small segment of society
distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, or military control (Wiki).



It’s only natural that a hierarchical system would result
in exponential attraction of power to the few at the top.  The pyramid
structure we find in all institutions rewards the thirst for more power
at every level. In our system, it was simply a matter of time before
several of these pyramids that share a common interest combined forces
to drive the direction of their industry to only benefit the newly
formed mega-pyramid cartel.  Thus, these cartels can then systematically
eliminate their free-market competition through government regulation
and other well-calculated economic maneuvers.






Each major industry in America, and globally, is predominantly run by
a handful of companies who are aided by the corporate-government
revolving door.  They work in unison to effectively control the
direction of their respective industries, the economy as a whole,
geopolitics, society, and humanity. Consequently, there is no longer a
free market for basic human necessities, or even human thought.




 

 

Dementia now striking people in their 40s as mercury from vaccines causes slow, degenerative brain damage - NaturalNews.com

Dementia now striking people in their 40s as mercury from vaccines causes slow, degenerative brain damage - NaturalNews.com





Dementia now striking people in their 40s as mercury from vaccines causes slow, degenerative brain damage

 (NaturalNews) Dementia and other neurological brain diseases are
striking people younger and younger, according to a new study conducted
by researchers from Bournemouth University in England and published in
the journal Surgical Neurology International. These diseases have
reached levels that are "almost epidemic," the researchers said, and
they reached them so quickly that environmental factors must be largely
to blame.

"The rate of increase in such a short time suggests a
silent or even a 'hidden' epidemic, in which environmental factors must
play a major part, not just ageing," lead researcher Colin Pritchard
said. "Modern living produces multi-interactional environmental
pollution but the changes in human morbidity, including neurological
disease is remarkable and points to environmental influences."

 vaccines

 

 

Stop TTIP

#TTIP wants to lower EU safety standards to US levels. This would remove EU restrictions on toxic pesticides, hormone-treated beef and on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If you love good food and good farming, please spread the word and convince a friend to sign.

Conservation's links to eugenics exposed on Park Service anniversary - Survival International

Conservation's links to eugenics exposed on Park Service anniversary - Survival International



 

Conservation’s links to eugenics exposed on Park Service anniversary 

 

On the 99th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service today,
August 25, Survival exposes the dark legacy of the U.S. conservation
movement that led to the eviction of thousands of Native Americans from
national parks – and which continues to be exported around the world
today.



In an article published in U.S. journal Truthout,
Survival’s Director Stephen Corry reveals how today’s conservation
model was based on theories of eugenics and mistaken claims that tribal
peoples’ lands are “wildernesses,” even though tribal peoples have been
dependent on, and managed them, for millennia.



Oglala Lakota chief Luther Standing Bear said, “Only to the white man
was nature a wilderness … to us it was tame. Earth was bountiful.”



Tribal peoples are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural world.
Many U.S. parks involved the eviction of Native Americans, and the
subsequent loss of their sophisticated land management techniques. The
environment has almost always suffered as a result.






The lives of tribes in India's tiger reserves are being destroyed by the conservation industry and tourism.
The lives of tribes in India's tiger reserves are being destroyed by the conservation industry and tourism.
© Survival International, 2013

FASCIST SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- Catalan News Agency - Former Spanish President’s Letter to the Catalans sparks controversy

Catalan News Agency - Former Spanish President’s Letter to the Catalans sparks controversy





Former Spanish President’s Letter to the Catalans sparks controversy

CNA

Barcelona (CNA).- The former Spanish President Felipe
González has sparked controversy with an open letter published on Sunday
in El País newspaper in which he compared the Catalan situation with
that of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. “What it most resembles is the
German and Italian ventures of the 1930s”, he wrote, while describing
the plans of the coalition ‘Junts pel Sí’ (Together for Yes) to declare
independence if they win the next election. González admitted that it is
“hard” for him “to express it in these terms out of respect for the
tradition of coexistence in Catalonia”, but added that Catalan President
Artur Mas will be placing “himself in a position above the law, no
longer representing all Catalans and losing democratic legitimacy”. 


According to González, the coalition ‘Junts pel Sí’ (Together for
Yes) “could be the start of a real dead end for Catalonia”. “How can
they want to take the Catalan people into isolation, into a kind of 21st-century version of what Albania once was?”, he said in the article, published on the front-page of the El País newspaper.



González argued that Mas “is tricking the supporters of independence”
because the “public space” that Spaniards share “as a nation state”
cannot be “arbitrarily and illegally broken up”. For González, the
project of ‘Junts pel Sí’ is a “strange and ridiculous front” that will
break the law and have a “number of consequences”, including division in
Catalonia and isolation in Europe. 



The general coordinator of Catalonia’s ruling party CDC, Josep Rull,
said González’s remarks were “very sad”. “Felipe González’s recipe for
Catalonia is the same as that of (former Spanish PP President) Aznar:
fear, apocalypse and harsh and disgraceful remarks”. In a Tweet, Rull
added that González “will never understand” that the Catalan movement is
led by “thousands of Catalans”.



The leader of the coalition ‘Junts pel Sí’, former MEP Raül Romeva,
said that González comments were not surprising. “Time and time again
they’ve told us that we don’t have the right to have an opinion, not to
mention the right to express that opinion at the ballot box!”, he
regretted. Romeva said he would be happy to talk to any Spanish
politician about the issue of independence, but wondered whether they
would be willing to listen.



Catalan MP David Fernández, from the radical pro-independence party
CUP, criticised González for his “trivialisation of Fascism and Nazism”.
According to him, the former Spanish President remarks were “miserable”
and “disgraceful”, and merely a sign of the “desperation” of the ‘no’
camp. The CUP is running in the next election separately from ‘Junts pel
Sí’, but supports the plans to declare independence.



Comments welcomed by ‘no’ camp


The leader of the Catalan Socialists, Miquel Iceta, welcomed Felipe
González’s comments, saying he is someone who “knows and loves
Catalonia”. “He is a friend that warns us of the risks of certain
political options”, he argued. Iceta added that he “totally agrees” with
González. “Independence is a dangerous project for Catalonia and a risk
that we cannot assume”, he said.



The Spanish Vice-president, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, from the
conservative People’s Party, also welcomed the article. “We need to
welcome the fact that he wrote (the article) and that he highlighted
that Catalan society is being torn apart and laws need to be upheld”,
she said. Referring to the pro-independence coalition, Sáenz de
Santamaría said that “it is very scary” to find politicians “willing to
break the law, because then they are not acting within the democratic
procedures”.














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The former Spanish President Felipe González (by ACN)

23 Films That Changed My Life

23 Films That Changed My Life





23 Films That Changed My Life









In 2011 a personal revolution started in my mind. Many people who’ve
under gone serious personal transformation speak of a moment of clarity
or a drastic event that woke them up, I have personally gone through a
serious transformation from Drunk Dude to Dude Making a Difference
however I had no moment of clarity and no specific event that woke me
up. Rather my shift came from an accrual of knowledge that is available
to us. Some of that came from moving to San Diego in January of 2011 and
surrounding myself with open-minded people. Some of it came naturally
by finding better things to do with my time then drink alcohol and smoke
weed. But I give the most credit to the information I gained through
films, books, and Internet articles.






The films and TV series listed in this article are some that affected
me the most and that I recommend to anyone who wishes to live a
conscious life void of lies and fallacies and abundant with truth. Many
of them shook me to the core and taught me that so much of what I
believed wasn’t true. During this period of information I had many late
nights thinking, “What the heck am I going to do. My foundation has been
crumbled underneath me. My life is not what I thought it was. America
is not what I thought it was. The world as I know it is not the world as
it truly is.”



I could have felt overwhelmed and un-empowered with all that I
learned but instead I was excited. I wasn’t about to be a hypocrite so I
had to change myself and put what I learned into action. To facilitate
my change I made a list
of all the things I wanted to change in my life and put it up on the
wall in my kitchen. Little by little I transformed my life completely to
align my beliefs with my actions. I really do have these films to thank
for who I am today and for any of the goodness that I have given to
humanity and the environment.




 

Syrian War-Islamic State (ISIS) Creation Timeline | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Syrian War-Islamic State (ISIS) Creation Timeline | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization





Syrian War-Islamic State (ISIS) Creation Timeline

This document is meant for all those interested in the lead up
and current events surrounding the war in Syria and the creation of the
Islamic State (ISIS).



Below is a timeline ranging from 1992-2015 with related articles
to the war in Syria, ISIS and geopolitical events that tie them all
together. Purposely the author of this document provides No commentary. 



You will notice that each citation is met with origin of the
article, date published and key quotations. Also, the author attempted
to find sources that many “Westerners” would consider “mainstream”, with
the exception of a few. Lastly, at the end of the timeline, one can
find longer articles and videos that the reader can dive into if
interested.   



-Kevin Borge



 SYRIA-CONFLICT

 

Every Day, 124 American Homes are Violently Raided by Officers — Let’s Save the 4th Amendment | Filming Cops

Every Day, 124 American Homes are Violently Raided by Officers — Let’s Save the 4th Amendment | Filming Cops





Every Day, 124 American Homes are Violently Raided by Officers — Let’s Save the 4th Amendment

 

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated…” That’s the 4th Amendment in our bill of rights.



During the Colonial era, the King of England looked at the American colonies as a financial investment.


And so, Britain passed numerous revenue collection bills aimed at generating as much money from the colonists as possible.



 raid

The Industry Of Lies: How They Artificially Fill The Chicken You Eat With Chemicals! | Healthy Life Tricks

The Industry Of Lies: How They Artificially Fill The Chicken You Eat With Chemicals! | Healthy Life Tricks



The Industry Of Lies: How They Artificially Fill The Chicken You Eat With Chemicals!

Most people that buy chicken at the store are not even aware that as
much as 30% of that chicken is inflated with salt water, taste enhancing
chemicals to enhance taste and texture of other animals.



Instead of selling healthy and nutritious chicken, the manufacturers
are filling it with every possible chemical,  trying to get the poor
quality meat to look like first class meat. Chickens are not bred to be
healthy with juicy and soft meat, the race for maximum profit makes the
companies do whatever they can so that they can reach the desired weight
of the chicken as soon as possible. Doing this, not only do they
deceive the consumers, but they also endanger their health, since such a
chicken contains as much as 500% more sodium.










Watch this monstrous video and share it with your friends:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z6Me5NsHTXc





 

It Ain’t Turkey’s Survival Only, Erdogan is Struggling Too | New Eastern Outlook

It Ain’t Turkey’s Survival Only, Erdogan is Struggling Too | New Eastern Outlook



It Ain’t Turkey’s Survival Only, Erdogan is Struggling Too

In a highly unsurprising manner, Turkey
and Kurds are once again at loggerheads with each other. While the
cease-fire agreement between Turkey and Kurds, specifically with the
PKK, now stands shattered to ground, there is hardly any doubt that
Erdogan regime makes virtually no difference between Kurdish freedom
fighters and ISIL terrorists. As a matter of fact, we do not have a
clear-cut definition of terrorism that might offer us a glimpse of what
Ankara considers to be “terrorism.”

Absence of definition of terrorism
notwithstanding, it is also quite strange to note Turkey attacking
Kurds—a force that has been most successful against the ISIS. If, as we
are made to believe, Turkey has been hit by the ISIS, the natural
consequence of it should have been Turkey-Kurd alliance against the
ISIS. However, what is actually happening is Turkey-Kurd war. From the
standpoint of military strategy even, it does not sound a good decision
on part of Turkey to open two fronts simultaneously; for, it might lead
to a Kurd-ISIS (temporary) alliance against Turkey, although chances of
it are minimum. Secondly, it again does not appear a sound military
strategy to fight such forces simultaneously as have sizeable assets
within Turkey to cause serious damage.

The important question to consider here
is why has Turkey, all of a sudden, decided to battle the already
battle-hardened Kurds? The answer, perhaps, lies not in any
geo-politics, but in Turkey’s internal politics. A look at recently held
election results offers a clear answer to this question. In this
election, Erdogan`s AK Party received its first setback in a decade when
it failed to get an outright majority. And for the first time, the
Kurdish party, the HDP, received over 10pc of the vote, allowing it to
be elected to Parliament.

The HDP’s success has left Erdogan’s
rule in a state of quandary. The success of the HDP has not only limited
Erdogan’s own political ambitions of empowering the presidency of the
country at the expense of the parliament, but the success of the HDP has
also led to a fracturing of the Turkish parliament, as currently no
party holds a majority and coalition talks between the AKP and other
have faltered.

For Erdogan now, the important question
is how to reverse and pre-empt this possible Kurdish ascendance in
Turkey? The easiest way available, especially to a party in rule, is
perhaps to outlaw the opposition. Erdogan’s decision to fight Kurds is
most probably the recipe to prepare the ground for delegitimising and
outlawing the HDP in Turkey and thus win back his own votes to secure
his position as Turkey’s “sole” leader.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/30/it-ain-t-turkey-s-survival-only-erdogan-is-struggling-too/

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Crest Toothpaste Contains Plastic

Crest Toothpaste Contains Plastic





Crest Toothpaste Contains Plastic

 

Back in August of 2013, I wrote an article about microbead pollution
(1) and shared some of the various products you can find microbeads in
such as nail art, soap, body wash, face scrubs and toothpaste. So I
wasn’t too surprised to read an article by Trish Walraven, a Dental
Hygienist in Texas regarding this very problem. Trish began noticing
many of her patients had blue green specs below their gum line. After
speaking with other hygienists and talking with patients a common
denominator was revealed…..Crest toothpaste. (2)



If you use Crest toothpaste, you may be surprised to learn that those
blue specks are actually pieces of plastic. That’s right polyethylene
is clearly listed as a label ingredient. Polyethylene is the most
commonly used plastic in the world. Used in everything from garbage
containers, grocery bags, plastic bottles and containers to bulletproof
vests and knee replacements. (3) Polyethylene isn’t biodegradable, it
simply breaks down into smaller pieces.




image

 

The Marijuana Conspiracy: The Reason Hemp is Illegal

The Marijuana Conspiracy: The Reason Hemp is Illegal





The Marijuana Conspiracy: The reason hemp is illegal

 They say marijuana is dangerous. Pot is not harmful to the human body or
mind. Marijuana does not pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana
is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries
and a large number of chemical corporations. Big businesses, with
plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the
people. The truth is, if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of
commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! The
super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about the plant that,
if used properly, would ruin their companies.

 

Are We Witnessing the Death of Our Planet?

Are We Witnessing the Death of Our Planet?





Are We Witnessing the Death of Our Planet?

 

It seems that we are witnessing the death of our planet right before
our very eyes. The extreme weather, Gulf oil disaster and use of deadly dispersants,
to decades of agrichemical and synthetic medicines leeching into water
ways, and general human pollution resulting in having to now map the North Atlantic Garbage Patch (not to be confused with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch) —  has resulted in major breaches to our interdependent life system.



Here are a few recently-reported disturbing indicators that our life support system may be nearing critical condition:


 

 

Greece – A new Beginning? – New Hope? New President. The Legality of the Austerity Bailout Package | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Greece – A new Beginning? – New Hope? New President. The Legality of the Austerity Bailout Package | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



Greece – A new Beginning? – New Hope? New President. The Legality of the Austerity Bailout Package

 

Appointed on 27 August by Greece’s President, Prokopis
Pavlópulos, Ms. Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, President of the Supreme
Court and mother of three, was sworn in on Thursday 28, August, 2015 as
interim Prime Minister. She also served as President of the Electoral
Court which oversees and examines the validity of parliamentary
elections and referenda – including the legitimacy and strength of the 5
July referendum against more imposed austerity.



Ms. Vassiliki Thanou will be in charge of forming a caretaker
Government which she announced on Friday, 28 August. She is also
responsible for preparing and overseeing the new elections, now
scheduled for 20 September 2015.



As a fierce opponent of the troika imposed austerity, Ms. Thanou may
be the new spark of hope for Greece’s future. She has openly opposed
dictated wage cuts and an illegal property tax, introduced with the
first bail-out package in 2012. The tax has already put many small
entrepreneurs out of business and threatens more to follow, especially
in Greece’s current economic downturn.



According to Reuters, Ms. Thanou wrote to the European Commission in July 2015,


“The wrong economic policy which was implemented in the
past five years, in line with the bailouts that were imposed by the
(lenders) and failed, have led to a deeper recession, unemployment and
the impoverishment of most of the Greek people,”


greece-troika

 

 

Should GMO companies be held liable when your gut starts producing pesticides? - NaturalNews.com

Should GMO companies be held liable when your gut starts producing pesticides? - NaturalNews.com



Should GMO companies be held liable when your gut starts producing pesticides?

 (NaturalNews) On Monsanto's website,
this multinational seed conglomerate makes the claim that Bt toxin
engineered into its genetically-modified (GM) corn and cotton crops is
"naturally occurring" and poses no threat to "humans, other mammals,
birds, fish or beneficial insects." But a closer look at the science
reveals that Bt toxin can survive and replicate in the human gut
following ingestion, which begs the question: Should Monsanto and other
purveyors of GM crops bearing this transgenic trait be held responsible
for potential health damage caused by this patented pesticide?

Contrary
to industry claims, horizontal gene transfer and DNA absorption of GM
crops bearing the artificially engineered Bt trait can and does occur. A 2013 paper published in the online journal PLOS One
looked at this more in-depth, revealing that DNA molecules from various
substances can survive processing and end up being absorbed into the
bloodstream. This includes the controversial Bt trait, which was
designed to be self-replicating for the purpose of bursting the
intestines of pests, thus killing them.

"Blood is not free of
DNA," the paper explains. "[T]here are animal studies, mainly focusing
on the GMO issue, supporting the idea that small fragments of nucleic
acids may pass to the bloodstream and even get into various tissues. For
example, foreign DNA fragments were detected by PCR based techniques in
the digestive tract and leukocytes of rainbow trouts fed by genetically
modified soybean, and other studies report similar results in goats,
pigs, and mice."

An earlier paper from 2005 published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
lays the groundwork for how horizontal gene transfer affects humans,
describing in detail how GM crops directly alter intestinal flora
through microbial "transgenes." It points out how pre-approval safety
assessments should (but to this day, don't) include an evaluation of the
potential for horizontal gene transfer, among other effects.

GMO


UAE Secret Detention | Amnesty International

UAE Secret Detention | Amnesty International



Pro-democracy activist Dr. Nasser Bin Ghaith is being held in secret
detention in Dubai, and at serious risk of torture by the authorities: http://amn.st/6180BHI4G 




 

UAE: Torture fears for prominent academic held in secret detention

 

Fears are mounting that prominent academic Dr Nasser bin Ghaith could
be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment in secret detention since
his arrest by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities on 18 August,
Amnesty International said.



“Dr Nasser bin Ghaith’s whereabouts must be immediately disclosed and
he must be released if he is being held for peacefully exercising his
rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly. It is a
gross abuse of the legal process to hold him incommunicado in a secret
place of detention,” said Said Boumedouha, Acting Programme Director of
the Middle East and North Africa Programme.


 

Immigrants For Sale (2015)

Immigrants For Sale (2015)



 Immigrants For Sale (2015)





The detention of migrants has become a multi-billion
dollar industry in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and
traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The
Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200
facilities all over the nation. These facilities offer over 150,000 bed
spaces and rake in a total profit of close to five billion dollars per
year. The fact that these detention centers get paid for the number of
people that are in the center per night offers, therefore, no incentive
to speed up the legal processes and let the detainees leave the
facility. 




Dying in Prison 

Take Action Now - Amnesty International USA

Take Action Now - Amnesty International USA





Two Dalit Sisters Ordered to be Raped in India

 In May, 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari, her 15-year-old sister and their
family fled their village in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, fearing
violence after their brother eloped with a married, upper caste woman.
Their house was ransacked.

In July, a khap panchayat– an
unelected all-male village council - ordered that both sisters be raped
& paraded naked as punishment for their brother’s elopement.
Meenakshi
filed a Supreme Court petition seeking protection for her family. The
family is also concerned for the safety of the woman who eloped.
Meenakshi’s father has lodged complaints, alleging harassment by the
police & the woman’s family.

Please act now to ensure the
safety of Meenakshi and her family as well as a swift, full and
impartial investigation into the horrific rape order made by the Village
Council. Read more 

 

 

 

10 Pieces of Evidence Showing GMO May Harm You

10 Pieces of Evidence Showing GMO May Harm You



10 Pieces of Evidence Showing GMO May Harm You

 GMO corporations have repeatedly claimed that their GM foods are safe.
They have produced volumes of research to show GM food safety and
fitness for human consumption. It wouldn’t be too difficult to Google
this and find the evidence for yourself.

However, it has been said that anyone who tells you GMO is safe is
either stupid or lying. There are a number of reasons not to trust the
claim that GM foods are safe: Evidence to the contrary from many
scientific studies show that GMO is not safe. I’ll put it to you like
this to make a point: If you were offered some foods and somebody told
you that there is a controversy going on, that they could cause harm,
would you eat them?



A number of countries such as France, Russia and China have put a ban
on GMO and not without good reason from their advisory scientists.
Because of the nature of genetic modification it can never be known for
certain what the outcome, which makes this nothing more than a dangerous
experiment. FDA scientists had made it abundantly clear to biotech GM
corporations that more long-term experiments were needed to establish
safety but the advice was basically ignored. As time goes by more
credible scientific evidence emerges showing us why we should say no to GMO.



Her are just some of those scientific studies showing that GMO may cause harm to you.



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Le TTIP bientôt au service des usuriers vautours américains | bilaterals.org

Le TTIP bientôt au service des usuriers vautours américains | bilaterals.org



Aux Etats-Unis, les prêts toxiques à fort taux d'intérêt sont encore de
mise alors qu'en Europe, la législation est plus stricte. Le TTIP
pourrait changer tout ça et mettre les citoyens européens à la merci des
usuriers vautours




 
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Wayne Madsen - Has Gladio Returned to Europe? – Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Has Gladio Returned to Europe? > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Wayne Madsen - Has Gladio Returned to Europe? – Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Has Gladio Returned to Europe? > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation





Has Gladio Returned to Europe?



The
recent shooting of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul by two woman who were
claimed by Turkish authorities to be members of a far-left terrorist
group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), as
well as a suspicious incident on a Thalys high-speed train bound for
Paris from Amsterdam, indicate that the false flag operations conducted
by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s Cold War-era «stay behind
network» known as Gladio may be back in full operation.

The
DHKP-C is claimed to have carried out a suicide bombing of the U.S.
embassy in Ankara in 2013, an attack that killed a Turkish security
guard. In that attack, a website called «The People's Cry», supposedly
operated by DHKP-C, claimed that one of its members, Ecevit Sanli,
carried out the suicide bombing at the embassy, which killed both Sanli
and the Turkish guard. The problem with the overall claim of DHKP-C
involvement was a video posted by «The People’s Cry» that was discovered
by the Israeli Mossad-linked «Search for International Terrorist
Entities» or «SITE», a Washington, DC-based group that has been known to
distribute to the media dubious videos and communiqués purporting to be
from «Al Qaeda», «the Islamic State», and other alleged Islamist
terrorist groups.

The
alleged resurgence of DHKP-C has provided the Turkish government with
cover to pound Kurdish guerrillas in eastern Turkey and instill a siege
mentality among Turkish voters as the country heads into another
national election that pits the Islamist-oriented government of
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the secular opposition.

 

Processed grains, white bread, pasta cause huge blood sugar spikes linked to depression - NaturalNews.com

Processed grains, white bread, pasta cause huge blood sugar spikes linked to depression - NaturalNews.com







Processed grains, white bread, pasta cause huge blood sugar spikes linked to depression

 (NaturalNews) A diet high in processed grains such as white bread, white
flour and sugar could increase the risk of depression in older women,
according to a study conducted by researchers from Columbia University
that was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In contrast, a diet high in whole grains and vegetables decreases the risk.

Approximately
three percent of people in the United Kingdom suffer from depression.
In the United States, the proportion of people over the age of 12
suffering from depression is eight percent.

The National
Institute of Mental Health characterizes the main symptoms of depression
as persistent feelings of anxiety, emptiness, guilt, helplessness,
sadness, worthlessness, irritability, fatigue or restlessness;
difficulty concentrating; changes in sleep patterns; and suicidal
thoughts.

depression


 

Monsanto Kicked Out of Greece and Latvia: GM Bans Sweep Through Europe | Natural Society

Monsanto Kicked Out of Greece and Latvia: GM Bans Sweep Through Europe | Natural Society





Monsanto Kicked Out of Greece and Latvia: GM Bans Sweep Through Europe 

 

First Scotland and Germany booted GMOs from their countries,
citing fear of GMO crops contaminating their food supplies and concern
over putting their food and beverage industries in jeopardy. Now, Greece
and Latvia are telling Monsanto exactly what they can do with their
genetically modified crops. The tide is turning. A tipping point just
became evident through the actions of two additional European countries
who have had enough of the Biotech strong arm.



Latvia and Greece have opted out of GMOs, as are Germany and
Scotland, as part of the new allowances indicated in legislation that
recently passed for EU countries.










The geographical opt-outs specifically target Monsanto’s MON810 GM
Maize, which countries may choose to grow or refuse in the next several
months. This is currently the only genetically modified crop allowed to
be grown within the EU at present – but only when countries give
specific permission.



As Sustainable Pulse explains, “while
the European Commission is responsible for approvals, requests to be
excluded also have to be submitted to the company making the application
i.e. Monsanto for MON810.”



If additional member states deny Monsanto, we can be assured that the
biotech company will try to find other ways to force their GM crops on
the world (e.g. the Trans Pacific Trade partnership) but as we
collectively say NO, upholding bans, and demanding labeling, we will rid
this planet of the plague that is genetically modified food.


 



As other EU nations take action
 gmo-mon810-735-350

The Impossible Truth About MH17 | New Eastern Outlook

The Impossible Truth About MH17 | New Eastern Outlook





The Impossible Truth About MH17

The only closure normal citizens will
ever get on the MH17 tragedy has already been revealed. We will never
know for certain who is responsible for the deaths of 298 innocent
passengers. As sad a reality as this is, the world must come to accept
it.

A year of propaganda and misdirection
has confounded the public over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.  At this
point it seems obvious; this was a sort of “strategy” all along. The
question that has haunted me since the beginning is, “Why do both sides
seem content to let the drama play out?” No matter what the Dutch Safety
Board, or the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) report, it will
be unbelievable. One haunting fact of this case remains though,
many knew what happened from the beginning. Here’s my theory as to “why”
we cannot know all the facts of this case.

All of you reading this will have
already familiarized yourself with the “evidence” on flight MH17. The
case of the doomed airline passengers aboard the plane has been aired
out in the court of public opinion. The situation we’re in now reminds
me of another famous trial. The prosecution of dishonored NFL Football
star O.J. Simpson over the death of his wife Nicole. The media has made a
circus of this tragedy, and the blood of 298 human beings will never be
avenged, justice will never be done. That said, we do have evidence as
to “why” we know so little. It is circumstantial evidence I’ll grant
you, but the logic follows if you will bear with me.

When I first learned of MH17 being shot
down over separatist territory in East Ukraine, I instantly thought
“provocation”. I cannot explain why exactly, but rebels holed up, backs
to the wall, they just never seemed capable of the crime. As for the BUK
missile launcher and the Twitter frenzy, the spliced and diced YouTube
“proof”? Well, I can make a mashup to show anything, given the time and
money. From the US State Department, The White House, and even from the
Kremlin it was crystal clear the “day of” the incident, something was
being hidden. To add to this, MH17 became a political football in the
United States and abroad. The end fighting and posturing of officials
like Senator John McCain and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
it muddied the waters even more. This report from the Mail Online paints President Barack Obama as incompetent, according to McCain at least. Meanwhile the Die Welt
story the day of the incident assures Germans the US “secret” agencies
knew it was a “surface-to-air” missile which downed the plane. The got
their “intel” from the American Federated Press (AFP) the same day! If
one observes simply the “timing” of statements and reports in this case,
then the whole carnival becomes surreal.

How could the AFP be on top of a story so fast? What does it take communications wise, for Yahoo! News
to carry joking passenger blurbs before the sun set on dead bodies in
the Donbass? You were all here, live on the Internet, Tweeting and
blogging, “liking” this Facebook mention or that, and watching the news
unfold on CNN, FOX, BBC, and RT. When did your “BS alarm” go off first?
Mine went off as soon as I heard Ukraine’s security services had already
produced what they said were two intercepted telephone conversations
that showed rebels were responsible. Then within a few hours the faked
videos began arriving on the social media scene, followed closely by
State Department rhetoric to match. Then Secretary of State, John
Kerry’s “drunken separatists” at the scene of the crash, it was clear
the was a lot of “story building”, as we call it in our PR practice,
going on. But the one story not rising from the ashes of MH17 was the
military intelligence version. Those humongous intelligence gathering
capabilities we’ve come to know, the NSA, GCHQ, space weapons galore,
and the capability to see anything on or world via Google Earth even,
there was utter silence from there. The most costly and controversial
technologies every devised by humanity, arrayed to start, or to prevent
any chance of World War III being a surprise – these proved useless,
when the capability was most needed. Useless!
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/31/the-impossible-truth-about-mh17/

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Ernesto Laclau, inspirateur de Podemos, par Razmig Keucheyan et Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique, septembre 2015)

Ernesto Laclau, inspirateur de Podemos, par Razmig Keucheyan et Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique, septembre 2015)







Ernesto Laclau, inspirateur de Podemos

Contre la corruption,
les diktats européens, les grands projets inutiles : la multiplicité
des mobilisations contraste avec le sentiment d’impuissance politique.
Comment faire vibrer ces batailles particulières sur une corde
collective ? En cultivant une forme
renouvelée de populisme, expliquait l’intellectuel argentin Ernesto
Laclau. Influentes auprès de la gauche radicale espagnole, ses
réflexions appellent une lecture critique.




 

TISA: Amenazante secreto ofensivo | bilaterals.org

TISA: Amenazante secreto ofensivo | bilaterals.org



 TISA: Threatening offensive secret



A series of agreements ahead in these times, among them: Transatlantic Trade and Investment (known as TTIP), secretly negotiated between the United States and the European Union; Trans-Pacific (English, TPP) Economic Partnership, dealing Australia, Brunei, Chile, United States, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada and Mexico, and trade in services (TISA) , who drafted 51 countries and generalities such as promoting international liberalization of banking and transport, and the opening of health services and telecommunications are known.

Discussion of the rules of this agreement, at present focus on trade in services now provided by governments, the International Network Utilities (PSI), based in Paris. This organization seeks to track the points of coincidence of rules adopted secretly adopted delegations.

The government representatives discussing those regulations present the agreement as a driver of economies and announced that in the third quarter of 2015 will have a draft for signature, according to the claims and purposes they have set -of between states redactores- shelter companies who hold two-thirds of global trade in the sector.

To achieve its goals, the editors made a policy renewal that preserves rights of capital and transnational companies, generating a legal gap that left defenseless majorities to minimize the role of states, which is evident to run any form Acting participatory, representative and its instruments such as the referendum or, in other cases, revocation of mandates democracy. This new profile is intended to give the philosophy and practice of the State aims to benefit economic groups can sum powers in the world arena until they become semi-immune.

All agreements and treaties on the discussion -and it known writing standards allow for this contemplated TISA and key issues of everyday life and our existence: employment, transportation, communication, medical records, legal services, grants, education , health, waste, water, energy distribution, digital trade and also involve the almost total deregulation of financial markets.

The rules of the agreement also consider reforms that limit and restrict workers' rights while reducing the obligations of those who offer security and privacy in handling the data transmitted through computer circuits.

With regard to financial services, Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, it indicates that governments who sign the agreements of TISA, "is expected to establish and expand their current levels of financial deregulation , lose the right to demand information for local finance, experience pressures facing the authorization of potentially toxic products and insurance risk being denounced if they adopt measures to prevent or respond to other crises. "

TISA rules contain certain clauses that the signatories are obliged to keep secret for five years after the agreement signed, giving way to something that falls into the category in principle of supranational government.

It does not seem too difficult to discover the purpose of a treaty of this kind: what is at issue is to control and curtail the legislative freedom of states, and public institutions in general, any type of regulation that impedes the transnational enterprises of services. By way of example, the rules that are written oblige governments to inform their peers about the projects they want to implement -equivalent to inform investors, present or future-. From another angle: the states to other member states exhibit plans and regulations inside expect to be collated to determine whether they are consistent with those approved by the TISA. The comments came immediately: "A tailor made for corporations and large economies." "A new mechanism to shape markets and consumers."

Other proposed regulations relate to the extension of conventions contained in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), 1994, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to extend the multilateral system to the service sector. One more, and no less important, is that the Coalition of Service Industries US (CSI) will preserve their privileges in trade negotiations through the group www.teamtisa.org/index.php/about-team- Tisa / coalition-members, where the Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, CHUBB, Deloitte, UPS, Google, Verizon, Walmart, Walt Disney and IBM corporations, among others.

The formalization of TISA, moreover, has the support of the Association of Financial Markets and Securities Industry USA, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Insurance Association, Visa and Bloomberg Financial Information Services.

Despite the similar advertising measures in various geographies, which seek to introduce into the public consciousness the fallacy that public service equals failure and that private companies are only effective managers, does not escape the realization that putting the economy and finance private ownership society prevents indispensable utility and there are projects designed to balance between social classes. Transnational imposed treaties, agreements and conventions to states are ever thinking of something different to the rate of gain-in a way that bypasses any equitable redistribution of benefits-even if it should be deprived of rights to part of the people.

In terms of questions you can ask if there have been companies that sue states. The immediate claim is supported by the claim brought by the US against Uruguay Phillip Morris, 2000 million due to ads on packets of snuff; Vattenfall against Germany for 3.7 billion dollars, to shut down its nuclear power plants, or Lone Pina Canada for 250 million Canadian dollars to the moratorium on "fracking" the government of Quebec.

A question that may follow another: no judgments of conviction against states? Ecuador was sentenced to pay 2.3 billion dollars to Occidental Petroleum for the construction of a well in the Amazon and Libya paid $ 900 million in "lost profits" of a tourist project in which they had invested $ 5 million.

Serve the previous cases warning about what may occur with the implementation of the regulation in question.

Finally, reference to one of the circles of what is commonly called periphery (the capitalist world) evoke the letter from MEP and secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, the European Commission on the negotiation of TISA: "What do you think the EC on the documents published? believes the EC that this treaty directly undermines the fundamental rights of European citizens and, above all, undermines the national sovereignty of member states? "




 
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The Pentagon’s Dangerous Game with Terrorists: Training Syrian Opposition “Jihadists” to Fight the ISIS > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

The Pentagon’s Dangerous Game with Terrorists: Training Syrian Opposition “Jihadists” to Fight the ISIS > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 The Pentagon’s Dangerous Game with Terrorists: Training Syrian Opposition “Jihadists” to Fight the ISIS

 The U.S. policy in the Middle East has proved unsustainable once again. The Pentagon’s first attempt to train Syrian opposition to fight ISIS ended in “an abject failure”, CBS News reported in early August. The contingent of 54 fighters was trained by the U.S. military at a base in Turkey and sent across the border into Northern Syria. But instead of facing ISIS, they unexpectedly came under attack by Al-Nusra Front. As a result, the American-trained rebels scattered. Some were captured, some fled to Turkey, others were simply missing or likely turned the side and joined the Islamic State.

It was clear from the very beginning that the costly program to train “good” rebels to fight “bad” ones was doomed to failure. The Pentagon planned to spend half a billion dollars on the program. The U.S. has already faced misfortunes like that in its history. As we know, Washington took part in the creation of Al-Qaeda, the largest terrorist organization in the world until now. But as soon as the fighters got stronger they turned their weapons against the Americans.

The same situation is developing around the so called New Syrian Force. Returning to Syria the Pentagon-trained rebels joined the organization they were supposed to struggle against.

It is hard to escape a conclusion that the U.S. doesn’t learn from its own mistakes. But the situation may be much more complex. Given the Pentagon’s great experience in covert operations it may appear that the U.S. special services planned the rebels would turn the side beforehand. To cover this fact the U.S. defense and state departments usually very sophisticated in concealing or justifying their failures were easy to accept their mistake this time.




 

Farmers are drenching crops with glyphosate for faster harvesting - NaturalNews.com

Farmers are drenching crops with glyphosate for faster harvesting - NaturalNews.com



Farmers are drenching crops with glyphosate for faster harvesting

(NaturalNews) When you shop for produce and see that higher price placed on the organic varieties, chances are you think there probably isn't that much difference between the two. Surely conventional agriculture doesn't waste chemicals. They only use them when they need to – when insects or fungus attacks the corps, right? Wrong.

Conventional produce has been through a storm of chemical treatments. The use of chemicals is so insidious, it often begins with treating the dirt and the seeds before planting. Then chemical fertilizers are used in addition to insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides during cultivation. Some fruits have been tested to find 13-15 different pesticides remain after harvesting. Now a new practice is being employed – pre-harvest desiccation. Crops are drenched with an herbicide prior to harvest to hasten and even out ripening and to control weeds for the next crop.

Unfortunately this process results in huge pesticide residues in our food, even in certified non-GMO food. That's right, your food could be non-GMO Project verified and still have been drenched in glyphosate just prior to harvest. The foods that are approved for Roundup application and/or another pesticide just prior to harvest are as follows:http://www.naturalnews.com/050968_glyphosate_conventional_agriculture_toxic_food.html# 




 
glyphosate

The 21st Century Cures Act - Weaponizing Eugenics

The 21st Century Cures Act - Weaponizing Eugenics



 The 21st Century Cures Act – Weaponizing Eugenics

The Orwellian 21st Century Cures Act has been passed. It provides $9.3 billion in funding the National Institutes of Health and $550 million to the FDA over a five-year period. Kenny Valenzuela breaks down some of the hidden details and what is likely to come out of this bipartisan legislation.




 big pharma dollars

CATALONIA --- The Uruguayan parliament receives the Catalan government to talk about the independence of Catalonia - Col·lectiu Emma

The Uruguayan parliament receives the Catalan government to talk about the independence of Catalonia - Col·lectiu Emma







The Uruguayan parliament receives the Catalan government to talk about the independence of Catalonia

It is the first American parliament to ask for information about the process

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Why no one is talking about the two Israelis missing in Gaza | +972 Magazine

Why no one is talking about the two Israelis missing in Gaza | +972 Magazine







Why no one is talking about the two Israelis missing in Gaza

Eleven months after the disappearance of two Israeli
citizens into Gaza, it seems as if the public has simply forgotten all
about them.




Avraham 'Avera' Mengistu (Facebook)

Avraham ‘Avera’ Mengistu (Facebook)