Convene an All - B.I.H. Constitutional Convention to Replace Holbrooke's Genocidal Dayton Constitution!
by Professor Francis A. Boyle
I served as Legal Advisor to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Delegation to the Vance-Owen Negotiations in New York in March of 1993. The Vance-Owen Plan would have cantonized, paralyzed and dysfunctionalized R.B.I.H. along the lines of Lebanon, but would have kept the existence of R.B.I.H as a State under international law.
When the genocidaire Radovan Karadžić rejected the V-O Plan, the Great Powers of the world decided to punish R.B.I.H. by terminating its existence as a State by means of the Owen-Stoltenberg Plan.
I was the Lawyer for the entire R.B.I.H Delegation to the Owen-Stoltenberg negotiations in Geneva during the summer of 1993. The Owen-Stoltenberg plan would have carved-up R.B.I.H into three little statelets that would have never survived, destroyed R.B.I.H as a state under international law, robbed R.B.I.H of its U.N. membership, and subjected 1.5 million to 2 million more Bosnians to ethnic cleansing.
U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan
by Democracy Now!
The CIA’s drone campaign targeting suspected
militants in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to
rescue victims or were attending funerals. So concludes a new report by
the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It found that since
President Obama took office three years ago, as many as 535 civilians
have been killed, including more than 60 children.
The investigation
also revealed that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up
strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have
also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. We
speak to Chris Woods, award-winning reporter with the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism.
"We noted that there were repeated reports at
the time, contemporaneous reports in publications like New York Times,
news agencies like Reuters, by CNN, that there
were these strikes on rescuers, that there were reports that there had
been an initial strike and then, some minutes later, as people had come
forward to help and pull out the dead and injured, that drones had
returned to the scene and had attacked rescuers," Woods says. "We’ve
been able to name just over 50 civilians that we understand have been
killed in those attacks. In total, we think that more than 75 civilians
have been killed, specifically in these attacks on rescuers and on
mourners, on funeral-goers."
Guest: Chris Woods, Award-winning reporter with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London. He leads the Bureau’s drones investigation team.
Water leaks have proliferated around the site for the last couple of weeks.
Water lines (which are lying on the ground all over the site) and exposed pumps
for the water decontamination and reactor cooling systems have been freezing.
See here
for pictures and here
for layout with 14 leaks in layout map on Jan 29. See here
for layouts with latest leaks noted and pictures of leak "mitigation" (like a
tarp over the pump truck and light bulbs to heat the equipment. Just like my
neighbours do for their chickens.) (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120201_03-e.pdf)
This freezing was inevitable, but TEPCO has been scrambling to insulate
pipes and pumps and to stop the leaks. As further mitigation, TEPCO replaced the
flex pipe lines which were supplying decontaminated, recirculated cooling water
to Units 1, 2, and 3 with solid plastic pipe over the last couple of weeks.
In
the process, they have been changing the flow amounts into the reactors as I
showed in a chart for Unit 2 in a previous post. Lower flow amounts were
stabilized last week, but now Unit 2 is heating up, so water volumes have been
increased.
The Black Bloc
anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other
cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement.
The presence of Black
Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their
faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police
and destroy property—is a gift from heaven to the security and
surveillance state.
The Occupy encampments in various cities were shut
down precisely because they were nonviolent. They were shut down because
the state realized the potential of their broad appeal even to those
within the systems of power. They were shut down because they
articulated a truth about our economic and political system that cut
across political and cultural lines. And they were shut down because
they were places mothers and fathers with strollers felt safe.
Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and
seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment. They
confuse acts of petty vandalism and a repellent cynicism with
revolution. The real enemies, they argue, are not the corporate
capitalists, but their collaborators among the unions, workers’
movements, radical intellectuals, environmental activists and populist
movements such as the Zapatistas.
Any group that seeks to rebuild social structures, especially through
nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, rather than physically destroy,
becomes, in the eyes of Black Bloc anarchists, the enemy.
["Black Bloc" attack Whole Foods in Oakland, (way to smash the system!)]
The Big Three are ripping us off and using the money to manipulate Canadians and the government.
As we’ve been saying, the Big Three cell phone companies have a plan to price-gouge Canadians by shutting out small competitors1. Now they’re unleashing a misinformation campaign to muzzle your voice.
For example,
Rogers recently bought and paid for a trumped-up study2 that wrongly implies Canadians (you) can afford to pay more for telecom services.
Rogers just took to the
courts to argue that Canada’s false advertising rules violate the
telecom giant’s freedom of expression! This after being caught red-handed and fined $10,000,000 dollars for misleading cell phone advertising.3
Almost every day brings some new barrage of fear-mongering lies and
vaporous accusations from leading members of the Obama Administration
and other nabobs at the top of the political-media elite, all of them
aimed relentlessly at one goal: justifying military action against Iran.
It is an almost exact replay of what we saw in 2002-2003 during
the build-up to the war of aggression against Iraq -- with one
significant exception. The "progressive" opposition to the baseless
warmongering is virtually non-existent this time around -- because the
warmonger-in-chief is their own champion, their partisan
standard-bearer.
Many voices that hurled thunderous denunciations at the
Bush Regime for its brazen manipulations toward a baseless and
unjustified war are now silent -- that is, if they are not actively
supporting the increasingly rabid saber-rattling by the Peace Laureate.
To them, Obama's re-election is more important than anything on earth:
certainly more important than the thousands (or tens of thousands, or
hundreds of thousands) of innocent people who will die in the
long-running, far-reverberating hellstorm that an attack on Iran will
create.
So now there is even less resistance to the fever-stoking
against Iran. Yet what is playing out before our eyes is even more
brazen than the build-up to the war crime against Iraq.
Our Way to Fight has arrived. Got a message this morning from Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia, Canada:
“Feb 4 Program, Our Way to Fight, is being censored by Shaw. We have just received an email saying that Shaw TV cannot broadcast our scheduled program: Our Way to Fight: Peace-work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine, by Michael Riordon, as it is too ‘unbalanced’ and ‘controversial.’
Shaw TV is the community cable arm of Shaw Communications, one of
Canada’s largest telecommunications corporations. Based in Calgary,
Alberta, it controls telephone, internet and television networks,
including digital satellite, and broadcasting stations from Hamilton,
Ontario, to Victoria.
As a federally licensed community cable network,
Shaw TV is required to air locally created programming.
The program that Shaw banned is a 29-minute video of a talk/reading I
gave last November at the University of Victoria.
"Manhandled, arrested, cuffed, searched and locked away" is how
AlterNet describes the story of Barbara Schneider Reilly, who spent 30
hours in jail after being arrested at an Occupy Wall Street-related
protest.
"During the long, cold night in the Tombs, at some point we asked a
female officer if we could have some blankets. "We have no blankets."
Some mattresses since we were twelve or so people? "We have no more
mattresses." Some change in exchange for dollar bills so we could call
parents and loved ones? (The one public telephone in the cell would only
take coins.) "It's against regulations." Some soap? "Maybe we'll come
up with some soap." ... Distressing is hardly the word for a culture of
willful neglect and the exercise of what power those officers held over
us for those thirty hours."
The arrests at Occupy Wall Street protests have brought greater
attention to jail and prison conditions. However, protesters experience
only a fraction of the inhumane realities facing over 100,000 women
incarcerated across the country.
Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning.
Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages
to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good
old days when MiGs still roamed the skies, including an uncut nuclear arsenal.
Eternally over-budget items like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter,
cherished by their services and well-lobbied congressional
representatives, aren’t leaving the scene any time soon, though delays or cuts
in purchase orders are planned.
All this should reassure us that,
despite the talk of massive cuts, the U.S. military will continue to be
the profligate, inefficient, and remarkably ineffective institution we’ve come to know and squander our treasure on.
Still, the cuts that matter are already in the works, the ones that
will change the American way of war. They may mean little in monetary
terms -- the Pentagon budget is actually slated to increase through 2017
-- but in imperial terms they will make a difference.
A new way of
preserving the embattled idea of an American planet is coming into focus
and one thing is clear: in the name of Washington's needs, it will
offer a direct challenge to national sovereignty.
This week: David W. Johnston is a biological oceanographer and conservation
biologist at Duke University's Marine Lab. His focus is on framing
ecology and the habitat needs of marine animals in relation to
conservation. He is currently working on projects studying marine
vertebrates, and the design and utility of marine protected areas for
them, emphasizing the effects of climate change on marine animals and
the sustainability of incidental mortality and directed harvests of
marine animals.
Johnston is lead author on the newly published paper, 'The Effects of Climate Change on Harp Seals
(Pagophilus groenlandicus),' and if its conclusions are correct, continuing the east coast
commercial seal hunt, (or "cull", as it is often characterized by
governments) could stress targeted populations beyond recovery.
And; former Gorilla Radio guest, Richard Boyce will present his new film,
'Rainforest - The Limit of Splendour' at this year's Victoria Film Festival. Richard
is a long-time island social justice and environment activist, whose
kayak trip through Vancouver Island's pristine East Creek and Klaskish
Inlet with Ingmar Lee led to the seven year odyssey of exploration
culminating in the film. He has been touring festivals across the
country, with 'Raincoast,' screening in Montreal, Vancouver, and winning
the Mountain Culture Film Award at Whistler.
Richard Boyce and the limits of splendour in the second half.
And;
Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft
will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from our city's
streets and beyond. But first, David W. Johnston and the effects of
climate change, and political policy stagnation, on Canada's east coast
Harp Seals.
Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing “thought” as expressed recently in Alert, the voice of AIPAC to its membership:
“Some Americans believe if the Israelis strike Iran, the U.S. will pay the political costs anyway, so it would be better for the Americans to do the job and do it properly. Their clock is a bit different from the one the Israelis hear. Because of their vastly superior firepower, the Americans could strike Iran later, more devastatingly and more sustainably.”
How just is it for AIPAC’s mouthpiece to declare that America should “devastate” Iran because it has “vastly more firepower” than Israel and could “do a better job” and “do it properly,” as though this were a clean-up “job” of a waste dump and not an illegal invasion of a member country of the United Nations that has done nothing under international law to threaten the U.S. much less attack it, while the Israeli government and its IDF look on happily content that it is American boys and girls suffering the consequences of the unwarranted attacks and not Jewish boys and girls?
Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC’s policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people?
“Men use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
- Voltaire: Dialogue XIV, Le Chapon et la Poularde
Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. 
This week: 
