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US, Saudis and Russia Vie for Influence in Post-Assad Syria
by TRNN
In
Syria, the situation intensifies. The foreign minister of Russia is
there for talks. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have not only
withdrawn their own ambassadors, but have kicked out Syrian ambassadors
from their countries. Other, European countries have withdrawn their
representation. Now joining us from New York City to talk about all of
this is Hamid Dabashi. Hamid teaches at Columbia University. Thanks for
joining us, Hamid.
Hamid Dabashi: Russian position more reasoned but share US interest in maintaining Syrian military dictatorship without Assad
[Includes rush transcript]
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Anti-Tar Sands Pipeline Demonstration at Chinese Consulate
by Wilderness Committee
As Prime Minister Harper visits China with a
delegation of oil executives, environmentalist, First Nations and other
concerned Canadians will be at the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver with a
message for the people of China that Prime Minister Harper doesn't
speak for all of us and that tar sands pipelines and oil tankers are a
bad investment.
Statements by Ben West, Healthy Communities Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee, as well as other oil pipeline opponents to the media will take place out front of the Chinese
Consulate in order to bring attention to the opposition in Canada to tar
sands pipelines and oil exports through the west coast.
Wednesday, February 8th at 12 Noon
Outside the Consulate General of the
People's Republic of China in Vancouver
"We want to speak to the people of China
directly so that we can work together to ensure that our governments do
the right thing for both our countries and for everyone else worldwide.
The proposed gateway pipeline and other tar sands infrastructure
expansion projects are a gateway to global warming," said West.
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Alan Dershowitz on Tuba
“Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights” Noam Chomsky
The following is an analytical yet amusing glimpse into the deceitful
and psychological nature of Zionist propaganda as manifested by arch
Zionist Alan Dershowitz.
Dershowitz wrote last week, “in a recent post, Atzmon said that he would be willing to play alongside David Duke. What a duet!” This little insignificant anecdote brought a smile to my face because in my text
I was actually positively considering joining a new healing musical
adventure along together with Alan Dershowitz on tuba and David Duke on
trumpet.
Here are my words;
“I really do not understand why Alan Dershowitz
believes himself to be morally superior to Duke. Dershowitz is a
Zionist Jewish supremacist, he is a world leading advocate of a racist
and expansionist ideology, namely Zionism. And yet, I wouldn’t say NO to
an invitation for a musical gathering along together with Dershowitz on
tuba and Duke playing the trumpet, just because I believe that music
brings people together.”
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African Babies As Guinea Pigs? Malaria, Bill Gate$, Big Drug$ and Big Buck$
by Thomas C. Mountain
When
it comes to the new malaria vaccine developed by Glaxo, Smith and Kline
(GSK) now being tested on infants in the east African country of
Tanzania I will let the words of an industry insider tell it best..
"There
is not much profit to be made by big pharma from a highly effective
malaria vaccine of practical use for African sufferers...they [Big
Drug$) are fiendishly clever at exploiting any and all opportunities to
reap big benefits."
"The
poorly performing malaria vaccine RTS,S, created by GSK with a healthy
infusion of funds from the Gates Foundation, is being tested in Phase
III trials in Africa now. Including many thousands of African
infants."
"will not profit from RTS,S. However, RTS,S is injected along with a new GSK adjuvant called AS01."
"will make vast sums from the new adjuvant, the testing of which is
being piggybacked on their altruistic malaria vaccine (which,
incidentally, is virtually entirely ineffective without AS01)."
"Interestingly,
RTS,S (or should I say, AS01) testing in African infants began before
AS01 trials in children were permitted in the United States."
"physician-scientists also held positions of significance in the Gates
Foundation...conflict-of-interest issues not withstanding."
So
the Gate$ Foundation is giving Big Buck$ ($400 million and counting) to
Big Drug$/G$K to develop a vaccine against Africa’s number one killer,
malaria.
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Two killed during Panama mining protests
by Mining Watch Canada
(News Alert) - Two indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé men were killed
and dozens more injured in connection with a police crackdown on dissent
over mining and hydroelectric developments in Panama, where Canadian
mining companies have a significant presence.
Since January 30, thousands of Ngöbe-Buglé blocked the Inter-American
Highway at San Felix in western Panama, demanding that the government
approve legislation that would annul existing mining and hydroelectric concessions granted in their territory.
Despite calls for peaceful dialogue,
the Martinelli government responded with police force on Sunday in an
attempt to suppress protests and clear the highway for transit. Jerónimo Rodríguez Tugri was killed on Sunday when police opened fire against indigenous demonstrators. Mauricio Méndez died Monday.
The violence in San Felix has triggered widespread dissent from civil society groups and other indigenous nations throughout Panama. Road blockades, marches, and vigils are taking place across the country, including in the capital city, where universities have also been closed. The banana workers union in Bocas de Toro has declared an indefinite strike until the government complies with the Ngöbe-Buglé’s demands.
In response to police violence, indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé protestors have burned down police stations in the towns of San Felix and Volcán.
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Egypt Soccer Violence: The Military’s Political Game
by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat l Pyramidion
Egyptians infuriated b y the deaths
of 74 people in soccer violence staged protests in central Cairo and
clashed with the police forces, as the army-led government came under
fire for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since the overthrow
of Hosni Mubarak.
For the third day in a row, Deadly clashes continue to rage
in Egypt over football riots leaving 12 killed and more than 2500
wounded in street clashes over authorities’ failure to stop Port Said
football violence.
Protesters
chant anti-government slogans during a protest condemning the death of
soccer fans at Port Said stadium, near the Interior Ministry in Cairo,
Feb. 2
State media reported renewed scuffles between members of the security
forces encircling the building of the ministry of interior and
demonstrators who included hardcore soccer fans, aka Ultras, known for confronting the police and who were on the frontlines of protests against the military throughout the last year.
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Joint No One Is Illegal Response to Jason Kenney's Staged Citizenship Ceremony
by NOII
Jason Kenney, Minister of Censorship and Deportation, is making
headlines again with yet another parliamentary scandal. A series of
access to information requests have revealed that Kenney’s office
organized a bogus citizenship ceremony broadcast on Sun Media (the
aspiring Fox News Network of Canada).
“Let’s do it. We can fake the
oath,” said one Sun staffer, and arranged for six federal bureaucrats to
stand in as “immigrants.” Kenney has refused to apologize for this disgusting photo-op.
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Haiti Wikileaks Writer Speaks in Canada
Kim Ives, an editor of Haiti's largest circulation weekly newspaper, Haiti Liberté,
recently completed a speaking tour to Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver,
Canada, and Seattle, Washington in which he described the current
political situation and outlook in post-earthquake Haiti.
The theme of his speaking engagements was Haiti: The Wikileaks Files. Ives is one of the lead writers, along with Dan Coughlin and Ansel Herz, of the series of articles published last year in Haiti Liberté and The Nation
magazine based on revelations contained in nearly 2,000 U.S. government
diplomatic cables that were provided to the two publications by the
Wikileaks organization.
In his talks, Ives examined the ordeal that the survivors of the
January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti have endured in the past two years.
Recovery and reconstruction in the country is proceeding at a snail's
pace. More than half a million people are still living in squalid
survivor camps, hundreds of thousands more have moved back into damaged
or condemned buildings or are living in plywood box temporary shelters.
More than 7,000 people have died from the largest outbreak of cholera in
the world in recent history that began nine months after the earthquake
due to the negligence of the United Nations.
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Fukushima Update: Unit 2 Temperature Rise
by Nelle Maxey
TEPCO increased the volume of water being injected into Unit 2 by
35% in the early hours of February 7.
This attempt to lower the temperature has stabilized it around 70 degrees
C.
But it has not lowered it significantly.
The best article on the net explaining what is going on at Unit 2 is the
one below from Asahi news. It has the fewest errors and omissions and also has
an excellent drawing and an excellent chart which you can see at the link to the
article.
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Petition Seeks
International Investigation of Canada’s Farmed Fish Operations,
Protections for Wild Salmon
by Center for
Biological Diversity
San
Francisco — Conservation,
fishing and native groups in Canada and the United States filed a
formal petition today requesting an international investigation into Canada’s
failure to protect wild salmon in British Columbia from disease and parasites in
industrial fish feedlots.
The petition was submitted to the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation under the North American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation — an environmental side agreement to the North American Free Trade
Agreement — and seeks enforcement of Canada’s Fisheries
Act.
"The
Canadian inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye, the largest
salmon-producing river in the world, suggests the primarily Norwegian-owned
British Columbia salmon-farming industry exerts trade pressures that exceed
Canada's political will to protect wild salmon,” said biologist Alexandra Morton
with the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society. “Releasing viruses into native
ecosystems is an irrevocable threat to biodiversity, yet Canada seems to have no
mechanism to prevent salmon-farm diseases from afflicting wild salmon throughout
the entire North Pacific."
Canada has
permitted more than 100 industrial salmon feedlots in British Columbia to
operate along wild salmon migration routes, exposing ecologically and
economically valuable salmon runs to epidemics of disease, parasites, toxic
chemicals and concentrated waste.
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Cermaq's Clusterfuck
The ‘ Salmon Far ming Kills’
lawsuit is now entering the final week with only the closing arguments
to come (today is Day 17 in the scheduled 20 day trial).
David Sutherland, legal counsel for the defendant Don Staniford,
closed his case yesterday (6 February) at Noon after Cermaq’s lawyer
David Wotherspoon ended his cross-examination of Mr. Staniford.
This
morning (7 February) at 10am, lawyers for Cermaq present their final
case to Justice Elaine Adair (courtroom #52 - Hornby/Nelson St.
entrance).
Tomorrow (8 February), the defendant’s case will be
presented (Day 18). Thursday (9 February) could see the trial close
early on Day 19 – with Justice Adair expected to make a final ruling
over the Summer.
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