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domingo, 31 de agosto de 2014

How Israeli media obscures Palestinian humanity | +972 Magazine

Why does the Israeli media insist on portraying the West Bank as the
Wild West, and its Palestinian inhabitants as savage stone-throwers?

A
Jewish settler from the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Yair chases a
flock of sheep and threatens their Palestinian shepherds from Gwawis. He
is holding an M16 rifle, issued to him by the Israeli army, as part of
his paid job as a security coordinator. The law states that he is not
allowed to take any action outside the settlement’s borders, September
18, 2012. (photo: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

Would Scottish independence be good for radical politics? -- New Internationalist

The referendum on Scotland's independence is less than a month away, and the pros and cons are still hanging in the balance.

Read the argument, then tell us what you think!

The Covert Origins of ISIS
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Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done.

Sources and full transcript. StormCloudsGathering on Facebook.

Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche

Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche:

Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses some rather amazing discoveries related to the social and personal consequences of hierarchy.

Ira Trivedi | How India's Sexual Revolution Is Redefining Masculinity | Foreign Affairs

India

Meanwhile, women’s safety remains a pressing issue. Far from
decreasing, reported rapes are on the rise. According to statistics from
India’s National Crime Records Bureau, over the past four decades, the
number of reported rape cases in India has increased around 1,250
percent from 2,487 in 1971 to 33,707 in 2013. Today, a new incident of
rape is reported every 22 minutes.

Amal, a film by Yasmine Ghorayeb | Yasmine Ghorayeb | Lebanon

Lebanon

Domestic Violence

A deep-dive peek into a couple whose grudges and animosity have reached their paroxysm.

The Story of Amal

'Amal'
tells the story of an attractive young woman who wants to escape from the violent grips of her abusing and
insanely possessive husband, but it turns out that her freedom carries a very
high price.

Le bras oublié, par Yan Lianke (Le Monde diplomatique, août 2014)

Parfois interdit, parfois diffusé sans problème, Yan Lianke compte parmi
les écrivains les plus imaginatifs de la Chine contemporaine. Il a
écrit cette nouvelle pour «Le Monde diplomatique» (dans la série «Un
écrivain, un pays»).

Russian NGO branded as “foreign agent” after reporting on Russian military action in Ukraine | Amnesty International

“The timing of this decision indicates that the Kremlin is determined to
muzzle its critics and keep a strong lid on any information which
suggests that Russia plays a direct part in the conflict in Ukraine,
although evidence to the contrary is mounting every day. The message is
clear: if you dare to speak out, there will be serious reprisals,” said
Sergei Nikitin, Amnesty International's Moscow Office Director.

Russia’s so-called “foreign agent’s law” was passed in June 2012 and came into force in November 2012.

© AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov

With Gaza War, Movement to Boycott Israel Gains Momentum in Europe - NYTimes.com

“You’re beginning to see the translation of public sympathy into something politically meaningful”

Demonstrators in London this month protesting Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip. Emotions are running high.

Credit
Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The power of I AM in healing, forgiving and moving through difficult situations - NaturalNews.com

Do you agree that our subconscious affirmations guide our world view and what we attract: http://www.naturalnews.com/046664_positive_thinking_mindful_meditation_healing.html

How To Break the Cycle of Delusions and Crimes | Mark Taliano

People are disinclined to believe monstrous crimes, especially since
monstrous crimes are usually camouflaged by Big Lies. Hitler knew about
the value of the Big Lie, and he wrote about it in Mein Kampf.

Stalin
too was aware of the power of monstrous crimes. He is said to have
observed that "when one man dies it is tragedy, when thousands die it's
statistics."

People are even less inclined to believe that their
own country perpetuates these crimes. On a subterranean level, people
associate the search for truth as being somehow unpatriotic, even as it
means a struggle for freedom from the totalitarian shackles of
undemocratic governance that advances secret agendas through its
manipulation of the masses.

Silence in the face of the lies of totalitarianism is a form of complicity.

Humanity's
inclination to accept monstrous crimes and the lies that camouflage
them means that the crimes are perpetuated, time and again, throughout
history. Those responsible for engineering the crimes are aware of
this.

We now know, for example, that the Bush and his aides lied
935 times in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, and that they provided
false evidence as a pretext for the invasion. Despite the fact that
about one million people have already died as a result of this massive
criminal enterprise, the public somehow remains delusional and ready to
accept the next big crime and the next batch of lies.

Japan: Secret execution as authorities ignore calls for reform | Amnesty International

“It is chilling that the Japanese authorities
continue to send people to the gallows despite serious questions over
the use of the death penalty in the country,” said Hiroka Shoji, East
Asia Researcher at Amnesty International

Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, 56, and Tsutomu Takamizawa, 59 were hanged in Japan early on Friday morning

© Orla 2011/Shutterstock.com.

Is your deodorant drugging you through the armpits daily with this neurotoxin? - NaturalNews.com

Deodorant and antiperspirants contain aluminum, a neurotoxin that can lead to a multitude of health problems: http://www.naturalnews.com/046654_deodorant_aluminum_neurotoxins.html

These Mind Blowing Infographics Will Change The Way You See Your Favorite Companies

These Mind Blowing Infographics Will Change The Way You See Your Favorite Companies:

These Mind Blowing Infographics Will Change The Way You See Your Favorite Companies

Almost every product you use is owned by the same ten corporations.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/these-mind-blowing-infographics-will-change-the-way-you-see

Infographic: Media Consolidation – The Illusion of Choice » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented

Infographic: Media Consolidation – The Illusion of Choice

How
much choice does the mainstream US media really offer? Family financial
blogger Frugal Dad has created this infographic that lays out the extent
of media consolidation in the US, where just six media giants control
90% of all TV, news, radio and film.

http://owni.eu/2011/11/25/infographic-media-consolidation-the-illusion-of-choice/

5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth

5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth:

August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained the right to vote, 95 years ago. In honor of women’s equality, we present 5 fearless women leaders who are creating a more just, sustainable world. Enjoy!

Women-only beach becomes flash point in Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

A women-only beach - opened 16 August 2014 in the
internationally renowned Mediterranean resort town of Antalya - is also
making headlines and fueling a controversy among Turks who are
increasingly divided politically and socially.

The controversy
is not independent from the rise of Erdogan, who paraded his Islamist
credentials once again while he was readying to be sworn in as Turkey’s
12th president earlier this week.

Turkish women swim at a beach near Istanbul, Aug. 18, 2006. (photo by MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images)

sábado, 30 de agosto de 2014

Doctors and Nurses Risk Everything to Fight Ebola in West Africa

"You have very intense moments and you want to
hug someone and you can't." See the story in National Geographic about
local and foreign aid workers trying to stop the Ebola outbreak: http://on.natgeo.com/1rCOAmq

Craig Kenzie, Junko Otaki, and Luca Zaliani are among
the 57 international health care workers assisting with Ebola treatment
at a Médecins Sans Frontières facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.

Secret video from CDC bunker captures the moment propaganda ministers learned of MMR vaccine fraud confession - NaturalNews.com

Hilarious video for your Saturday amusement: Secret video from CDC
bunker captures the moment propaganda ministers learned about the
research fraud confession that went public last week: http://www.naturalnews.com/046670_CDC_whistleblower_secret_video_government_propaganda.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=30q7BxVw7dw

Everything You Know About Hamas is Wrong

A bit long, but worth a read.

And in case anyone refers to us as Hamas supporters, NO, we are not!

By Tim Holmes

August 21, 2014 "ICH"
--
Alright, not everything. And no, not
you, smart-arse. Still, it’s been alarming to
be reminded over the past month just how delusory
much western public conversation on Hamas is. A
common perception is that Hamas are in essence
recalcitrant fundamentalist extremists, hell-bent on
destroying Israel by any means possible. Virulently
anti-semitic, misogynist and genocidal, they use
whatever weapons they acquire to murder Israeli
civilians and perhaps even attack Western targets
internationally, without compunction or restraint.
There is little awareness in this discourse that
Hamas differ in any significant way from the
Jihadists of ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

Probably the

most valuable basic text in dispelling these
delusions is Khaled Hroub’s Hamas: A Beginner’s
Guide, which takes on most of the major
confusions and misconceptions surrounding the
group’s seldom-explained ideology and modus
operandi. Hroub is a senior research fellow at
the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic
Studies as well as Director of its Arab Media
Project, and his work on Hamas is held in very high
regard: Foreign Affairs deems it
“masterful”; Columbia’s Joseph Massad calls it “the
best-researched and most objective” work on the
topic, while Harvard’s Sara Roy, a leading expert on
the Israel-Palestine conflict, calls it “excellent”
and “required reading”.

Firstly,
are Hamas anti-Semitic? Hroub’s careful answer is
that, though there have been manifold confusions in
Hamas’s writings and rhetoric between Jews, Zionists
and Israelis, Jewishness is neither a necessary nor
a sufficient condition for Hamas’s opposition. The
group draw a sharp distinction, for instance,
between “Zionist and non-Zionist” Jews:

“The
non-Zionist Jew is one who belongs to the Jewish
culture, whether as a believer in the Jewish faith
or simply by accident of birth, but … [who] takes no
part in aggressive actions against our land and our
nation … Hamas will not adopt a hostile
position in practice against anyone because of his
ideas or his creed but will adopt such a
position if those ideas and creed are translated
into hostile or damaging actions against our
people.”

Roseanne Barr: “MK Ultra Rules In Hollywood” | Collective-Evolution

Roseanne Barr recently stated on national
television that "MK Ultra Rules In Hollywood." MK Ultra was the CIA'S
program that dealt with behavior modification and perception
manipulation of human beings. Hollywood seems to fit right in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HLTsdC0lasc

BBC News - Evidence of human rights abuses in Ukraine

HRW's Tanya Lokshina talks to the BBC about rebel abuses in eastern Ukraine...

It's time for the EU to impose sanctions on Israel - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

#‎AJOpinion‬: The EU has already blocked animal products from illegal Israeli settlements - by @BrunoJantti http://aje.me/1tjjYGz

The EU has banned animal products coming out of illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine [Reuters]

The Year of Reading (Arab) Women | Arabic Literature (in English)

The Year of reading Arab Women

Which women’s voices will this readwomen 2014 prioritize? Does it touch
on any of the reasons why we gravitate toward male protagonists? Will
it be, in the main, a celebration of English-language women’s voices? Of
women at the center or the peripheries?

Here is a list of twelve suggestions of Arabic-writing women.(Bonus points where the translator is also a woman).

Joanna Walsh’s “year of reading women” bookmarks.

“The Autism Community has been Deceived”. CDC Scientist’s Admission of Vaccine Research Fraud: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Speaks Out | Global Research

“The Autism Community has been Deceived”. CDC Scientist’s Admission of Vaccine Research Fraud: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Speaks Out | Global Research:

More importantly, share this video everywhere in the name of saving children from vaccine violence. The corrupt, corporate-controlled mainstream media absolutely refuses to cover this story, hoping they can bury the truth about vaccines in exactly the same way the CDC buried the data.

Here’s another very important video to view, covering Dr. Thompson’s public confession of vaccine research fraud at the CDC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JSlOOHGXssE

“Russia Invades Ukraine”, Strategic NATO Public Relations Stunt. Where are the Russian Tanks? | Global Research

A Dangerous Crossroads in International Relations

South Sudan Has a Choice... Between Horror and Misery | Stephen Cornish

"The
living conditions are abysmal, with water and food in continuing short
supply, and most people confined to low-lying areas, which have become
swamps of infestation and disease."

MSF Executive Director
Stephen Cornish is in South Sudan, where he is witnessing first-hand the
humanitarian crisis currently affecting the world's youngest country.
He wrote this piece for The Huffington Post:

Israel tech site paying “interns” to covertly plant stories in social media | The Electronic Intifada

AIPAC-linked Israel PR site pays operatives to plant stories in social media

An investigation by The Electronic Intifada has revealed that the online publication Israel21c
is hiring students as “digital ambassadors” to plant its stories in
online discussion forums and social media without revealing that they
work for the publication.

Israel21c is part of propaganda efforts aimed to improve
Israel’s image and distract from Israel’s occupation, abuse and
massacres of Palestinians.

Nathan Miller explains his “digital engagement” strategy with Israel21c. (Screenshot)

The Children of Gaza: A Generation Scarred & Under Siege | IMEU

Nearly half a million Palestinian children in Gaza were unable to start the new school year as scheduled. During #Israel’s latest assault on #Gaza, 244 schools were damaged and at least 25 schools were left beyond repair.

In addition, many of Gaza’s schools continue to serve as shelters for
the more than 100,000 Palestinians made homeless by Israeli attacks
since July 7.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/1qGbab4

PHOTO: Palestinian children travel to an UNRWA school to seek
shelter after evacuating their homes near the border in Gaza City on
July 13, 2014. (UN/Shareef Sarhan)

City Council Tells Police they have 60 Days to Plan to Destroy or Remove MRAP | The Anti-Media

The nightmare and tragedy in ‪#‎Ferguson‬
has brought awareness to the dangers of police militarization to a
whole new level. A few months ago they were calling us conspiracy
theorists, now the whole country agrees: police do not need tanks!

“Weak Diplomacy”: Upcoming NATO Summit Directed Against Russia: Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research

“The fact that Russia is not invited to the NATO summit indicates that
the meeting is directed against Russia, and that’s the main objective of
that meeting,” Chossudovsky told RIA Novosti.

The Covert Origins of ISIS | SCG News

Don't let them get away with it.
Sources and transcript here: http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dkamZg68jpk

The Israeli Broadcast Authority Banned the “Reading Out of Names” of Children Killed in Gaza | Global Research

The Israeli Broadcast Authority and the Israeli Supreme Court
knew in advance what the reaction would be to a radio advertisement
reading out the names of children killed in Gaza, and that’s why they
banned it.

By doing so they’ve taken a bit of our freedom.

Muhammad Malakeh, two years old; Siraj ‘Abd al-’Al, eight
years old; Sarah al-’Eid, nine years old; Saher Abu Namus, four years
old; Ahmad Mahdi, 15 years old.

Some facts should not be permitted to be broadcast in public. Merely
hearing them is dangerous: It could cause people to have thoughts,
doubts or compassion. If this danger comes to pass, what would become of
us?

viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014

India takes on the World Trade Organization -- New Internationalist

'India has come under heavy criticism for undermining the future of
the WTO. Yet India’s blocking of the Bali agreement is based on a
perception that its needs and those of other Majority World countries
are again seen as secondary to the needs of the more powerful wealthier
nations.'

http://nin.tl/1vt3OLr

Poorer countries are already struggling to feed their citizens.
strategicstudyindia.blogspot.co.uk under a Creative Commons Licence

The U.S. Jewish Community, Amoral Familism and the Crisis of Palestine | Steve Koppman

"A Judaism that treasures Jewish lives and devalues Arab lives is no longer Judaism."

This week at the UN Human Rights Office (with images, tweets) · UNrightswire · Storify

NEW #ICYMI: Catch up on what's been happening at the UN Human Rights Office by reading our weekly review: http://sfy.co/gr8O

Three steps to achieve a lasting truce in Israel and Gaza | Amnesty's global human rights blog

"Justice for war crimes committed by both
sides during the conflict. This is not only important for Gaza and
Israel but also for the world. In this age of conflict, where the
principle that civilians must be spared is at best callously disregarded
and all too often deliberately flouted, we cannot allow the
perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to go
unpunished," Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa
Programme at Amnesty International.

In 50 days of conflict, more than 2,100 Palestinians and 70 Israelis have been killed ©EPA.

Persian paranoia: America’s fear of Iranian cyber power | Technology | theguardian.com

“When you start seeing this pattern of
thousands, tens of thousands of sites that all are controlled by Iranian
nationals, that are all located in the West, then you start to think:
this seems like more of a programme that has been thought out, that is
sophisticated and is directed at a higher level” (via Guardian
Technology)

Scientists Drastically Underestimated Amount of Fukushima Radiation Worldwide | Global Research

The cumulative effect of lie piled upon lie
for most people is to build the view that the Russians are up to no
good. Once this view is established, Western governments can take more
serious moves against Russia.

Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie. Accuses Russia of Having “Invaded Ukraine” | Global Research

The cumulative effect of lie piled upon lie
for most people is to build the view that the Russians are up to no
good. Once this view is established, Western governments can take more
serious moves against Russia.

The ACLU Response to Ferguson | American Civil Liberties Union

Happy Friday! We're continuing our work on #Ferguson to seek #JusticeforMikeBrown
and end the militarization of the police. But we want to hear from you.
Which civil rights issues are you most passionate about? Let's discuss
below!

More on our response to Ferguson: https://www.aclu.org/aclu-response-ferguson

Dr. Andrew Wakefield speaks out about CDC scientist's admission of vaccine research fraud - video - NaturalNews.com

A fantastic interview with Dr. Andrew
Wakefield has just been posted. It covers the recent admission by a CDC
scientist that the agency committed scientific fraud to cover up the
truth about MMR vaccine dangers. Watch the full interview here: http://www.naturalnews.com/046661_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_CDC_whistleblower_MMR_vaccines.html

Little Monsters: going back to school | Greenpeace International

It's back-to-school time!

Will your children be taking any Little Monsters to school with them? Find out: http://grnpc.org/LittleMonsters

The Covert Origins of ISIS | SCG News

Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and
how it was done. This is by far the most complete picture of what
happened that has been released so far. In this video we go back to the
very beginning and get into the specifics of how weapons and
money were smuggled to these psychopaths, and expose how this support
was covered up for two years. We have new footage and links here that we
have never put out before.

Sources and full transcript here: http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oMjXbuj7BPI

▶ Endocrination - Documentary - YouTube

English version now online, a must-watch: Endocrination, French
investigative journalist Stephane Horel's film about the chemical
industry lobby to fend off action against endocrine disrupting
chemicals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ks5OSVDl00&feature=youtu.be