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Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin Is First Openly Gay Person Elected to Senate
Emanuella Grinberg - CNN,
12 Nov 2012
Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday [6 Nov 2012] night — twice. She became the first openly gay politician, and first Wisconsin woman, elected to the U.S. Senate.
→ read full articleWhy We Should All Be Talking About Global Sharing
Adam Parsons, Share The World’s Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Understanding how the principle of sharing relates to economic policy might be simpler than we imagine. In STWR’s recent report, we expanded the existing notion of the sharing economy to include modern systems of social welfare and public service provision, which we argue is perhaps the most advanced form of sharing on a nationwide level that exists in the modern world.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
Stephen Lendman – Information Clearing House,
12 Nov 2012
Far and away, America’s human rights record is the world’s worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional.
→ read full articleProject Aims to Transfer Brazilian Know-How in Support of Cotton Farmers
UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
South-South cooperation for rural development, stronger agricultural livelihoods. Brazil and FAO signed a new South-South cooperation agreement today [17 Oct 2012] worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries.
→ read full articleChemtrails. The Realities of Geoengineering and Weather Modification
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
12 Nov 2012
For over a decade military and private jet aircraft have been spraying our skies with what an admixture of aluminum, barium, strontium, and other dangerous heavy metals. Such substances distributed into the atmosphere as microscopic subparticulates eventually descend to earth where they are breathed by living things and absorbed by the soil and plant life. By drawing attention away from actually existing efforts of atmospheric experimentation and manipulation, such coordinated efforts are complicit in the impending environmental catastrophe they profess to be rallying against.
→ read full article(Italian) Studi per la Pace Con Mezzi Pacifici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Gli studi per la pace sono importanti, tanto quanto quelli sulla salute. Nasciamo inclini a rifiutare la sofferenza, sia essa dovuta a violenza o a malattia, e a cercare il benessere, lo si chiami pace, o salute. Ma non nasciamo con la conoscenza e la competenza, la teoria e la pratica.
→ read full articleCalifornia: Prop 37 Fails – Why We Can’t Rely on Policy to Change Our Food System
Kristin Wartman and Erika Lade – Huffington Post,
12 Nov 2012
On Tuesday [6 Nov 2012], Californians voted on Proposition 37, which if passed, would have required the mandatory labeling of genetically-modified foods (GMOs). According to public health lawyer Michele Simon, Big Food companies like Monsanto, Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Nestle, and Kraft, which donated funds to “No on 37” engaged in lying, scare tactics, misrepresentation, and various dirty tricks to protect their profits and keep California voters uninformed about their food choices.
→ read full articleColorado and Washington Vote To Become First US States To Legalize Marijuana
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use, and possibly in Oregon as well. Proponents of the initiative argued that pot is safer than alcohol, and that the legal sale of marijuana could rake in $45 to 100 billion in tax revenue, according to Bloomberg. The government will also save an estimated $14 billion in cannabis-related costs in fighting the war on drugs.
→ read full articleKurdish Hunger-Strikers Fight for Rights
Berza Simsek – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
Nearly 700 prisoners demanding greater recognition for Kurds in Turkey have refused food, some for nearly two months. Death by starvation or long-term health damage are what Mazlum Dikmen and hundreds of other Kurdish prisoners in Turkey are now facing.
→ read full article(Portuguese) EUA: Primeira Senadora Abertamente Gay É Eleita Sem Levantar Bandeira do Movimento
BBC Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A democrata Tammy Baldwin tornou-se na terça-feira [6 nov 2012] a primeira senadora americana abertamente gay, embora as bandeiras do movimento GLBT (Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais e Transgêneros) não tenham sido temas centrais nem em sua campanha, nem no discurso de agradecimento feito após o anúncio da vitória.
→ read full articleThe 2012 Peace Prize Is Unlawful and Cannot Be Paid to the EU
International Peace Bureau, 1910 Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The European Union, announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the winner of the peace prize for 2012, clearly is not one of “the champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind and described in his will as “the person who (Swedish original: “Den som…”) shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
→ read full articleThe Buzz about Pesticides
Charlotte Stoddart, Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Common pesticides affect bumblebee foraging.
→ read full articleSuspension of Anti-Homosexuality Laws in Malawi a Historic Step Forward
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Laws criminalising same sex sexual conduct in Malawi are suspended pending a decision on whether or not to repeal them is a historic step in the fight against discrimination in the country.
→ read full article2012 – International Year of Cooperatives
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cooperatives are not just an economic phenomenon but also a philosophy. It is an entrepreneurial model which is based on values such as equality, solidarity and reciprocity – and democracy, “a model which brings market logic together with social inclusion, making solidarity the focus of concern.”
→ read full articleFurther Reflections on Istanbul as Global Capital
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
My proposal that we consider the possibility of treating Istanbul as the world capital attracted a broad range of responses. I tried to make clear in my revised text that Istanbul could not hope to have this kind of recognition until Turkey had addressed some serious issues, especially the Kurdish grievances that have induced a massive hunger strike in Turkish jails (with over 600 prisoners now taking part, and more threatening to do so).
→ read full articleIndia’s Nuclear Programme: Trust Abroad but Not At Home
Catherine Mei Ling Wong – Al Jazeera,
12 Nov 2012
The protests in Kudankulam will continue if the government doesn’t reassess the root cause of public unrest. Even as trust in India’s nuclear power programme in the international arena grows steadily, trust on its domestic front has been eroding over the last few decades.
→ read full articleWays to Eliminate Body Odor
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
If body odor is a product of poor hygiene, new behaviors simply must be learned and adequate tools must be used. One thing we need to be clear of though is that toxic antiperspirant and deodorant sprays are not the answer. When body odor is indicative of a problem from within, detoxifying your body is the answer. There are a variety of cleansing routines that may be appropriate and regularly incorporating detox foods may help.
→ read full articleKill or Be Killed (Or Both)
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The doctrines of nuclear deterrence and massive retaliation are still based on the Stone Age maxim: “Kill or be killed”, and the voice at the back of the hall is still right in adding “Or both!” We have to remember that the total explosive power of the nuclear weapons in the world today is 500,000 times as great as the power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is threatened by a nuclear war today is the complete breakdown of human civilization.
→ read full articleWalnuts Are Top Nut for Heart-Healthy Antioxidants
Science Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
A new scientific study positions walnuts in the number one slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature’s most nearly perfect packaged foods: Tree and ground nuts.
→ read full articleRestoring Democracy in the United States
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The United States is no longer a democracy, since neither the economic system nor the government serve the will and needs of the people. They serve instead the interests of the wealthy and powerful 1%, who control not only the mass media and the financial system, but also the politicians of both major parties. The situation in many other countries is very similar.
→ read full articleCameroon: Lawyer Gets Threats for Defending Gays
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Cameroon lawyer Alice Nkom, who is known for defending gays and lesbians in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, said on Tuesday [23 Oct 2012] that she has been receiving death threats from anonymous callers over her stance.
→ read full articleWill Someone Speak Out for the Heroic Libyan People?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey – Pravda,
12 Nov 2012
The heroic people of Libya fight on against the occupation of their beloved country by NATO and by their Islamist terrorists who have visited terror on peaceful communities living together side-by-side for decades. Let us take a look at the situation today and apportion the blame.
→ read full articleBanned
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Dedicated to the freedom and dignity of young men who choose to have boyfriends.
→ read full articleThe Failed War on Drugs
TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Infographic – “Let’s be blunt: It’s time to end the drug war.”
→ read full articleWhat Does the World Bank Have to Do with Burma’s Wars, Conflicts and Atrocities?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
The war in Kachin State has everything to do with the World Bank which funded and promoted the idea of “cross-border energy free market”.
→ read full articleThe Universe Unraveling
William Blum, Killing Hope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
On October 7 [2012] Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970.
→ read full articleAn Important Icelandic Referendum – the Media Remains Silent
Mauro Santayana - Pravda,
5 Nov 2012
The citizens of Iceland voted in a referendum, on Saturday (20 Oct 2012), with about 70% of the voters. The basic text of its new constitution, drafted by 25 delegates, almost all ordinary men, chosen by direct vote of the people, included the nationalization of its natural resources. During these few years, in which the Icelanders resisted against the harassment of large international banks, the international media have been conveniently silent about what is happening in Reykjavik. It is an eloquent sign that Icelanders may be paving the way to a peaceful world revolution of the people.
→ read full articlePerpetual War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Because the world spends roughly 1.7 trillion dollars each year on armaments, it follows that very many people make their living from war. This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as a social, political and economic institution, and also one of the main reasons why war persists, although everyone realizes that it is the cause of much of the suffering of humanity.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Portugal: A Universidade-Mercado – Sete Exemplos da Mercadorização do Ensino Superior
João Mineiro, Esquerda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
As universidades foram sempre um espaço de debate, crítica e movimento. Foram sempre uma pedra no sapato do sistema, porque nelas se exprimiram com imensa intensidade a liberdade, a subversão, a rebeldia e a crítica. Nos últimos anos fomos assistindo a estratégias de transformação da universidade pelo mercado, com o objetivo de amenizar o seu potencial crítico e emancipatório. Vejamos sete exemplos.
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Chile’s Most Wanted
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Branded a ‘terrorist’ at an early age by the government of Chile, Pascual Pichun is a man on a mission. Pascual is a symbol of the indigenous Mapuche resistance movement, which is trying to protect and reclaim its ancestral lands from the government and foreign companies. The movement is accused of attacks on forestry company property, destroying bulldozers and burning down a helicopter.
→ read full articleHurricane Sandy: Problems at Five Nuke Plants
Mark Schone – ABC News,
5 Nov 2012
The nation’s oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy’s path experienced problems during the storm. Indian Point in Buchanan, New York, on the Hudson River north of New York City, automatically shut power to its unit 3 on Monday [29 Oct 2012] night “as a result of an electrical grid disturbance,” according to Entergy, the plant’s operator.
→ read full articleBritish Ex-Envoy Told the Truth (for a change)
Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Peter Jenkins, Britain’s former representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking in a debate at Warwick University on nuclear proliferation in Iran, said that “Israelis don’t practise an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they practise ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth.” He also added that “the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate seems to be a Christian notion and not a Jewish notion.”
→ read full articleConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948
→ read full article(Italian) Aerei da Trasporto Alenia per le Future Guerre Africane
Antonio Mazzeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
“Il governo del Ciad ha mantenuto in vigore la pena di morte”, denuncia Amnesty International nel suo ultimo rapporto annuale sui diritti umani. “Nel paese sono aumentati i casi di arresti e detenzioni illegali, così come di tortura, aggressioni ai danni di difensori dei diritti umani, giornalisti e sindacalisti. Stupri e altre violenze nei confronti di donne e ragazze sono stati frequenti. Le condizioni nelle carceri sono difficili ed equiparabili a trattamento o pena crudele, disumana o degradante.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Nuclear Safety under Scrutiny after Oyster Creek’s Sandy Alert
Richard Schiffman – The Guardian,
5 Nov 2012
If superstorm Sandy, and the increasing frequency of other extreme weather events in recent years is any evidence, America’s luck may be running out. Oyster Creek nuclear power station was offline on Monday [29 Oct 2012] for maintenance, but officials said Sandy’s storm surge came within 6in of damaging its cooling system.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to the Heads of States of the World
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
We, several millions of people from India, are seeking your support for the peaceful and nonviolent struggle that we have been waging for almost a quarter century against the Koodankulam nuclear power project. It is being built with Russian loan and technology against the will and wishes of the local people. As Indian authorities charge us with sedition and waging war on the state, imprisonment, curfew and prohibitory orders, intimidation campaigns, home searches, physical attacks on us and our properties, and other such police atrocities, we are forced to seek justice from the international community.
→ read full articleLet’s Not Forget! Hurricane Sandy Ravaged the Caribbean First (PHOTOS)
Global Grind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
We must not forget that before Hurricane Sandy touched down in New York City and New Jersey, Caribbean nations such as Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica took the brunt of the superstorm days before it hit the Tri-State area.
→ read full article9 Ways to Reduce Symptoms of Pet Allergies
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Pets bring a lot of joy and are usually considered a true member of the family. Petting a cat or dog has been shown to lower blood pressure and decrease feelings of loneliness and isolation. It’s not hard to understand why we have a real emotional connection to our pets. However, for people with allergies to animal dander, pets can pose a problem.
→ read full articleHunger Stalks My Father’s India Long after Starvation End
Mehul Srivastava – Bloomberg Businessweek,
5 Nov 2012
It was 1958, my father was still a child, and India was running out of food…
→ read full articleHSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
While HSBC’s Canary Wharf masters are back-peddling furiously over charges that they gave a leg up to terrorist financiers and drug traffickers as a recent U.S. Senate report charged, new evidence emerged that its business as usual for the multinational banking giant founded by Hong Kong-based British opium merchants.
→ read full articlePeace Studies by Peaceful Means
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Peace studies matter; same as health studies. We are born with the inclination to reject suffering, be it from violence or disease, and to seek wellbeing, call it peace, call it health. But we are not born with the knowledge and skills, theory and practice
→ read full articleHow a Group of Christians Smearing Muslims Benefits the Jewish State
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
In the course of his much-ridiculed albeit deadly serious ACME bomb speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that “the medieval forces of radical Islam” stand in the way of Israel’s desire for “a Middle East of progress and peace.” As evidence of these freedom-hating, anti-modern forces supposedly “bent on world conquest,” Netanyahu cited the Sept. 11 besieging of U.S. embassies throughout the region.
→ read full articleANC International Solidarity Conference Supports Boycott of Israel
BDS South Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
BDS South Africa welcomes the position adopted by the African National Congress (ANC) International Solidarity Conference to support the international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign.
→ read full article(Portuguese) A Política e a Ética da Fome
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Existem técnicas de produção de extraordinária eficácia. A produção de alimentos é superior ao crescimento da população mundial. Mas eles estão pessimamente distribuídos. 20% da humanidade dispõe para seu desfrute 80% dos meios de vida. Aqui reside a injustiça. Continua válida a crítica de Gandhi: ”A fome é um insulto; ela avilta, desumaniza e destrói o corpo e o espírito…senão a própria alma; é a forma de violência mais assassina que existe”.
→ read full articleVictims of the Future
Paul Rios, Lokarri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
October 20 [2012] marked one year of the end of ETA violence and these words have taken on a new meaning: “Alec Reid, when talking about the worst years of the conflict in Northern Ireland, said that he started to carry out the role of mediator and tried to represent the victims of the future; he wanted to represent them precisely with the objective that they would never become victims”.
→ read full articleProp 37, GMOs, Food Sovereignty, and More
Vandana Shiva and Sonali Kolhatkar, Uprising Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
A new poll conducted by the University of Southern California and the LA Times has found that Proposition 37, the GMO labeling initiative, has slipped a whopping 17 points since the last poll in September [2012]. Now, one of the world’s most renowned scientists and environmental activists, Vandana Shiva, is speaking out. Long a thorn in the side of Monsanto, Dr. Shiva has taken on big bio-tech and agribusiness companies in her home country of India and works with farmers groups all over the world to protect their right to farm using their traditional methods and seeds.
→ read full articleIsraeli Ministry of Tourism Map Annexes Over 60% of the West Bank
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
The map fails to delineate any territory identifiable as the West Bank, referring to it instead as the Biblical kingdoms of Judea and Samaria. That is also the way Israeli textbooks have presented the West Bank to generations of Israeli schoolchildren: as a single territorial unit of Greater Israel, ruled over by Israel. The Green Line was erased on Hebrew maps from the moment the occupation began. But the tourism map has been drafted not for a domestic audience but for a foreign one.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Militarizing the Land and Terrorizing the Minds
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Nearly four decades of asymmetric war between the Sri Lankan state and the Tamil guerrillas ended in a bloodbath that was seen by some as “unacceptably high”. Such statements arouse a cynical curiosity as to what could be an “acceptable level of bloodbath” and confirmed that the State’s victory was achieved by massacring hundreds of thousands of Tamils.
→ read full article(French) II Symposium Mondial: Les Humanistes Proposent Une Campagne en Amérique Latine pour la Réduction des Dépenses Militaires
Nelsy Lizarazo, Monde Sans Guerres et Sans Violence – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
5 Nov 2012
Tomás Hirsch, humaniste chilien, a lancé la proposition humaniste de travailler sur une grande campagne de réduction des dépenses militaires en Amérique Latine et aux Caraïbes. Le but étant de réorienter ces ressources dans la santé, l’éducation et la qualité de vie de nos populations. Nous avancerons sur cette proposition et vous invitons toutes et tous à vous regrouper autour d’elle, conclut Hirsch.
→ read full articleAFRICOM Preparing For another ‘Humanitarian’ Military Intervention?
Abdi Ali Diriye – Pambazuka News,
5 Nov 2012
Washington’s corporate interests are hidden behind ‘humanitarian interventions’. That is the story of the US involvement in Libya, Uganda, Sudan and other parts of Africa.
→ read full articleMoney, Power and Class in America
Francis Fukuyama - The Globe and Mail,
5 Nov 2012
Is America a plutocracy? The rich throughout American history have manipulated government in such a way as to protect and expand their own wealth and influence at the expense of others. Many observers have noted that Americans are much less bothered than Europeans by unequal economic outcomes, being far more concerned about equality of opportunity.
→ read full articleSan Diego’s Drone Industry Doubles in Size
Gary Robbins – North County Times,
5 Nov 2012
The industry, which is centered in North County, generated at least $1.3 billion locally in 2011 and directly and indirectly supported 7,135 jobs. The report says the true impact could be far higher due to classified programs that are not included in public records. Most of the business can be tied to two defense giants — Northrop Grumman of Rancho Bernardo, which specializes in Global Hawk UAVs, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of Poway, which is best-known for Predators.
→ read full article(Castellano) Unión Europea Excluirá a Cataluña en Caso de Independizarse de España
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
El organismo explica que cuando el territorio de un Estado miembro deja de ser parte de ese Estado, los Tratados regionales no se aplican a dicho territorio, ya que “un nuevo Estado, creado como resultado de un proceso de independencia, se convertiría en un tercer país”.
→ read full articleUN Relief Agency Estimates 1.8 Million Haitians Have Been Affected By Hurricane Sandy
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
2 November 2012 – Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation.
→ read full articleWorld Bank Business Rankings Obscure Poverty and Corruption, Critics Argue
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Some of the best places in the world to start and run a business have proved hugely controversial, like former Soviet satellite state Georgia and central African nation Zambia. The new boss at the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has pledged to review the rankings. It seems not only invidious but also farcical to say that Rwanda boasts a better infrastructure for business than Italy.
→ read full articleIstanbul: A Modest Proposal
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
My most trusted Turkish friends felt that it grossly exaggerated Istanbul’s credentials as a possible future world capital, and in deference, I will tone down some of the language, and call attention to some problematic features of the Turkish political landscape that should not be ignored in proposing such a status for Istanbul.
→ read full articleJeffrey Gedmin: The Democracy-Promoting, Iraq War-Supporting, Pro-Israel Neocon Who Influenced Merkel’s EU Austerity Program
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
In his latest New Europe column entitled “Merkel’s real agenda: mugging the poor,” David Cronin asks why the German Chancellor has cast herself as Europe’s “empress of austerity.” The answer, he believes, is to be found by looking at those who have shaped the German leader’s worldview.
→ read full articleThe Fall Guy
Justin Raimondo – AntiWar,
5 Nov 2012
31 Oct 2012 – Fake Iranian terror plot wouldn’t convince a child. The setup and railroading of Mansoor Arbabsiar, a mentally ill Iranian emigrant, in the alleged “terror plot” to kill the Saudi ambassador was completed last week when he entered a guilty plea. The 57-year-old Iranian-American, a naturalized citizen, faced with a possible life sentence, made his last deal: a 25-year sentence in return for a propaganda victory for the Israel lobby.
→ read full articleJobless in the Crisis: Euro-Zone Unemployment Higher than Ever Before
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
The European debt crisis and related austerity measures continue to drive up unemployment across the euro zone. In September, according to statistics released on Wednesday [31 Oct 2012], fully 18.5 million people were without work in the common currency area, more than ever before.
→ read full articleCalifornia’s Food Fight: To Label or Not to Label GMOs
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan - Democracy NOW!,
5 Nov 2012
Of the 11 initiatives before the 2012 California electorate, one drawing perhaps the most attention is Proposition 37, on the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Whether or not this ballot passes could have a significant impact on how our food system is organized, favoring small, local organic-food producers (if it passes), or allowing for the increased expansion of large, corporate agribusiness (if it fails).
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Nombra a Sean Penn “Embajador de Causas Nobles de Bolivia”
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
“El Presidente le ha pedido (…) que lleve nuestras reivindicaciones, nuestra propuesta de retorno al mar a los distintos escenarios, en los que podamos avanzar de manera significativa en el contexto internacional”, señaló el ministro de la Presidencia.
→ read full articleWho Lost the World? The Curious Case of How Libya Became an Election Issue
Ira Chernus - TomDispatch,
5 Nov 2012
Who lost Libya? Indeed, who lost the entire Middle East? Those are the questions lurking behind the endless stream of headlines about “Benghazi-gate.” My short answer: the enduring power of a foreign policy myth that will not die, the decades-old idea that America has an inalienable right to “own” the world and control every place in it. I mean, you can’t lose what you never had.
→ read full articleAppeal to Our Leaders’ and Nation’s Collective Conscience!
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
As the very last and desperate attempt at securing our independence and freedom, thwarting another spell of colonialism and foreign domination, safeguarding India’s natural resources, changing our energy policy and ensuring the well-being of our fellow citizens, we would like to appeal to your and our nation’s collective conscience to listen to us, the ordinary people of India, and not to repress us.
→ read full articleHow the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria
Nicolas J. S. Davies – Information Clearing House,
5 Nov 2012
As President Obama confirmed in an interview with the Atlantic on March 2, 2012, one of the strategic goals of U.S. policy in Syria has been to weaken and isolate Iran by removing or helping to remove its strongest Arab ally. Asked what the U.S. could do to accelerate the removal of President Assad, Obama replied, laughing, “Well, nothing that I can tell you, because your classified clearance isn’t good enough.”
→ read full articleSandy Caribbean Death Toll Rises
Independent, Ireland – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
31 Oct 2012 – The death toll in the Caribbean from Hurricane Sandy has risen and estimates of damage and destruction it caused grew larger as more complete assessments emerged from throughout the region. Two new deaths were recorded in Haiti, bringing the total for the country to 54 and for the whole of the Caribbean to 71. In Cuba, the government raised the number of homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy from 130,000 to 200,000.
→ read full articleWho and What Gains from Myanmar’s Genocide of the Rohingya and Other Muslims?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
The site of massive violence and arson of Rohingya and other Muslim neighborhood in Kyauk Hpyu happened to be the site where China is planning a Special Econ and Technological Zone. Why bother with mass eviction and typical Myanmar land grab when you have locally produced Genocide against the Rohingya and other Muslim inhabitants as a tool of ‘developmental policy’?
→ read full articleGreek Editor Acquitted Over Swiss Bank List
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts has been acquitted of breaking data privacy laws. Costas Vaxevanis’s acquittal on Thursday [1 Nov 2012] came hours after he went on trial in a case analysts said was a test for press freedom in Greece.
→ read full articleLand Deals in Africa Have Led To a Wild West – Bring On the Sheriff, Says FAO
Mark Tran – The Guardian,
5 Nov 2012
Amid warnings that land deals are undermining food security, the head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has compared “land grabs” in Africa to the “wild west”, saying a “sheriff” is needed to restore the rule of law. José Graziano da Silva, the FAO’s director general, conceded it was not possible to stop large investors buying land, but said deals in poor countries needed to be brought under control.
→ read full articleBeing a Poem in the Making
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Produced in the light of the joint meeting of the Scientific and Medical Network and the
Society for Scientific Exploration on Mapping Time, Mind and Space (Brú na Bóinne, Ireland, 2012). Engendering a Multiverse through Musing – This is a reflection on engagement with the quantity of information, the challenge of quality and selectivity, and the consequences of ignorance and confusion as time goes by.
(Portuguese) Teste Simples Ajuda a Identificar AVC
Radioagência NP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
29 out 2012 – No Dia Mundial do AVC, organizações de saúde intensificam o alerta para prevenir e identificar os primeiros sintomas da doença. Entre os principais fatores de risco estão a hipertensão, diabetes e o colesterol elevado. Uma pessoa morre a cada seis segundos no mundo devido ao Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC), popularmente conhecido como derrame.
→ read full articleGod is Watching
TMS editor,
5 Nov 2012
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch.
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World War III: The Unthinkable Cost of Preserving the Petrodollar (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
CrisisHQ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
If you want to understand what’s happening in the Mideast, particularly in Libya, Syria and Iran, you must first understand the main driving force behind U.S. foreign policy. The real agenda is to protect the Petrodollar system, because it is the only thing that is currently preventing the total collapse of our fiat currency.
→ read full articleEurope’s Top Health Official Quits, and the Bloc Has a Mystery on Its Hands
James Kanter – The New York Times,
29 Oct 2012
The top health official for the European Union suddenly resigns. His plans to place marketing curbs on tobacco companies are put aside. The offices of antitobacco groups are burglarized. There is talk of cash payments of tens of millions of dollars by Big Tobacco. In his latest public comments, Mr. Dalli said on Wednesday [24 Oct 2012] that the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, had given him 30 minutes to resign.
→ read full articleMyanmar Travel Reassurances to Westerners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
President Thein Sein himself – incidentally, a very sincere, soft-spoken and harmless personality – has assured our Ministries that you will not hear gunshot fires, nor will you see boat loads of fleeing “Kulars or niggers” – much less their social media-circulated doctored images of mutilated corpses, charred belongings, and burnt houses. (Off the record: These damn human rights activists tend to sensationalize stories and exaggerate atrocities – it’s just another case of ethnic cleansing. We have other really important business in Myanmar: BUSINESS).
→ read full articleHow to Launder Money – Swiss Style
Bruce Krasting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
An interesting crime story has come out in France and Switzerland. It may prove to be the nail in the coffin for bank secrecy in Switzerland. The Swiss and French police arrested seventeen individuals a week ago (including an assistant Mayor in Paris). A woman (known only as “M”) is the center of attention of a drug smuggling ring. Apparently she ran a very big operation smuggling marijuana from Morocco into France.
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‘Bailouts’ Are a Means for Total Subjugation of Nation States – Nigel Farage
Europarl – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
European Parliament, Strasbourg, 23 October 2012 – Conclusions of the European Council. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage speaks truth to the powers that be.
→ read full article(Castellano) Estudio Científico Responsabiliza a la ONU Por Epidemia de Colera en Haití
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
La investigación determinó que la cepa de cólera en Haití es una copia exacta de la cepa de cólera en Nepal. En base a ello, la fuente más probable de introducción del cólera es una persona infectada proveniente de África, asociada a la Misión de la ONU.
→ read full articleGrowing an Alternative Economy One Community at a Time
Thomas Hedges - Center for Study of Responsive Law,
29 Oct 2012
“The best thing about farmers markets is that people talk,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben. “A study found that shoppers at farmers markets had 10 times as many conversations per visit than at supermarkets.” The farmers market is a microcosm of an alternative economy. It is marked by conversation, not by profit.
→ read full articleRed in the Face
TMS editor,
29 Oct 2012
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood.
→ read full article(Castellano) Indigenas Brasileños Advierten Suicidio Masivo Si los Despojan de Sus Tierras
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Esta semana [24 Oct 2012], un tribunal brasileño ordenó el desalojo de su granja. Sin embargo, unos 100 adultos y 70 niños amenazan con suicidarse en masa antes de salir de un territorio que ellos llaman “tekoha”, cuyo significado es “cementerio ancestral”.
→ read full articleUN Independent Expert Calls For Boycott of Businesses Profiting From Israeli Settlements
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
A United Nations independent expert today [25 Oct 2012] called on the world body’s General Assembly, as well as civil society, to take action against Israeli and international businesses that are profiting from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Referendum Islandês e os Silêncios da Mídia
Mauro Santayana – Carta Maior,
29 Oct 2012
Os cidadãos da Islândia referendaram, ontem [20 Out 2012], com cerca de 70% dos votos, o texto básico de sua nova Constituição, redigido por 25 delegados, quase todos homens comuns, escolhidos pelo voto direto da população, incluindo a estatização de seus recursos naturais. Durante estes poucos anos, nos quais os islandeses resistiram contra o acosso dos grandes bancos internacionais, os meios de comunicação internacional fizeram conveniente silêncio sobre o que vem ocorrendo em Reykjavik.
→ read full articleIsrael‘s Formula for a Starvation Diet
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
How 400 Trucks To Feed Gaza Became Just 67 – Six and a half years go, shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian national elections and took charge of Gaza, a senior Israeli official described Israel’s planned response. “The idea,” he said, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
→ read full article(Italian) Premio per la Pace: Nobel o Ignobel?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Entrambi, naturalmente. Ben meritato per il passato e per le relazioni interne, nella tradizione dell’Occidente che premia l’Occidente. Ma i critici hanno ragione per quanto riguarda le relazioni esterne e il presente come la stretta debitoria dei cosiddetti Stati GIPSI –Grecia, Italia, Portogallo, Spagna, Irlanda- Periferia UE- verso la Germania.
→ read full articleTeflon President? Noose Tightens Around Uribe as Former Death Squad Leaders Spill the Beans
Tom Burghardt, Anti-fascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Recent arrests by Colombian authorities and revelations by the president’s former allies are beginning to draw a circle around Uribe and the U.S. secret state in some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abuses of previous decades. As the net tightens, members of the president’s own family are sharply focused in the cross-hairs of investigators.
→ read full articleOf Course Monsanto Says It’s Safe
Tim Schwab, Food and Water Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Does anyone honestly think that Monsanto is going to fund research about its products that casts them in an unfavorable light, then publish these findings in a journal over which it has financial influence for all to see? The status quo of industry influence over agricultural science means that NK603 remains a pervasive ingredient in our food system – apparently unchallengeable by scientists, unexamined by journalists and unavoidable by consumers because GE foods are unlabeled.
→ read full articleTexas Attorney General Threatens to Arrest Monitors Observing US Election
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
29 Oct 2012
State attorney general calls international group’s plan to watch for fairness at the polls ‘legally irrelevant in the United States.’ The Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott, has threatened to arrest international election monitors invited by liberal groups to observe the conduct of next month’s presidential vote in states accused of attempting to disenfranchise minorities.
→ read full article(Portuguese) O Maior Escândalo Financeiro da História de Portugal!
Ironia d’Estado – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Foi a maior burla de sempre em Portugal, qualquer coisa como 9.710.539.940,09 €uros!!! Nunca antes houve um roubo desta dimensão, “tapado” por uma nacionalização que já custou 2.400 milhões de euros delapidados algures entre gestores de fortunas privadas em Gibraltar, empresas do Brasil, offshores de Porto Rico, um oportuno banco de Cabo Verde e a voracidade de uma parte da classe política portuguesa que se aproveitou desta vergonha criada por figuras importantes daquilo que foi o cavaquismo na sua fase executiva”.
→ read full articleGovernment to Argue Speedy Trial Doesn’t Apply to Bradley, Veterans to Rally in Support
Nathan Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
As Army Private First Class Bradley Manning nears 900 days in jail without trial, his lawyer moves to dismiss all charges for lack of a speedy trial. Beginning Tuesday, October 30, the government’s witnesses will try to explain away the prosecution’s extensive delays.
→ read full articleEightfold Configuration of Nested Cycles of Cognitive Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Meta-Pattern of Connectivity through a Hypersphere? – In a preceding exercise the focus was on identifying the nature and range of cognitive transformations, of which people are commonly aware, in quest of an approach to configuring them together in a meaningful pattern (In Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations: sensing the strange attractor of an emerging Rosetta Stone, 2012). The following exploration is an effort to weave together these different “threads” using the periodic table as a valuable template.
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(Portuguese) Brasil: 863 Índios Se Suicidam… E Quase Ninguém Viu
Jornaldagazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Bob Fernandes reporta – Em sua carta-testamento os Kaiowá/Guarani rogam: ”Pedimos ao Governo e à Justiça Federal para não decretar a ordem de despejo/expulsão, mas decretar nossa morte coletiva e enterrar nós todos aqui. Pedimos para decretar nossa extinção/dizimação total, além de enviar vários tratores para cavar um grande buraco para jogar e enterrar nossos corpos. Este é o nosso pedido aos juízes federais”.
→ read full articlePharma vs India: A Case of Life or Death for the World’s Poor
Nick Harvey - New Internationalist Magazine,
29 Oct 2012
Cases being heard in Indian courts could ‘open the floodgates’ for pharmaceutical companies to challenge generic drug production and keep prices ridiculously high.
→ read full articleAdverse Effects of Globalization
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Today, economic globalization aims at increased trade throughout the world. At first sight, this might seem to be a benefit. However, laws preventing the exploitation of labor are not universal. The same unspeakable conditions experienced by workers in factories and mines during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution in Europe can be found today among factory workers in Indonesia, or children weaving oriental carpets in Pakistan; and it is estimated that in India alone there are 80,000,000 child laborers.
→ read full articleBrazilian Indians Threaten Collective Suicide over Loss of Land (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
PressTV – DailyMotion,
29 Oct 2012
Approximately 100 adults and 70 children members of the indigenous tribe Guarani-Kaiow announced this week that they prefer collective death to leave the Cambar’s farm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where they are settled for generations, than to accept the Federal Court rule that everyone should leave immediately.
→ read full articleAmid Cutbacks, Greek Unemployed Denied Medical Care
Liz Alderman – The New York Times,
29 Oct 2012
Until recently, Greece had a typical European health system, with employers and individuals contributing to a fund that with government assistance financed universal care. Things changed in July 2011, when Greece signed a supplemental loan agreement with international lenders to ward off financial collapse. Now, as stipulated in the deal, Greeks must pay all costs out of pocket after their benefits expire.
→ read full articleNew York Police Department Informant Says He Was Paid to ‘Bait’ Muslims
Dashiell Bennett, The Atlantic Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
He earned as much as $1,000 a month by surveilling mosques and Islamic study groups, taking pictures and collecting names of innocent people. The 19-year-old was born in Queens to Bengali parents and said he was recruited from jail after a series of minor drug arrests.
→ read full articleEffective Sharing of World Responsibility
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
The real secret to the solution of all problems on a global scale lies in our ability to procure means that are beneficial to all people across every continent without exception. From the early days of human existence, people soon found out that they are fully interdependent for the better or the worse.
→ read full articleA Failed Formula for Worldwide War
Nick Turse – TomDispatch,
29 Oct 2012
Several times this year, Dempsey, the other joint chiefs, and regional war-fighting commanders have assembled at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico to conduct a futuristic war-game-meets-academic-seminar about the needs of the military in 2017. There, a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out so the Pentagon’s top brass could shuffle around the planet.
→ read full articlePentagon Prisons Revealed: WikiLeaks Publishes Terror Detainee Manuals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained.
→ read full articleBeyond Occupy: A Campaign to Decentralize Wealth and Its Associated Power
Elizabeth Barrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
September 17th [2012] was the one-year anniversary of the first Occupy Wall Street protest, which was held in Zuccotti Park in the financial district of New York City. The Occupy movement grew out of the natural rage people felt about the massive transfer of wealth from the public sector to certain people in the private sector during the bailout of the financial industry. The goal should be to decentralize wealth before it is accumulated, rather than after. Contrary to the current thought that also started with Adam Smith in 1776, human beings actually are not a commodity known as “labor” – they are living, breathing people.
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