Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
10th june 2009
ON Wednesday June 10, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), presented on February 5 and 9 of 2009. On that occasion, the Cuban delegation was headed by Justice Minister María Esther Reus and current Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
Don Sebastian / DNA Friday,
June 12, 2009
Thiruvananthapuram: The house sparrow might become an endangered species, thanks to microwave radiation from mobile phone towers. A study by a Kerala-based ecological group has shown that the eggs of sparrows nesting on mobile phone towers fail to hatch even after a month, though the normal incubation period lasts from 10 days to a fortnight. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on June 12, 2009
Dennis Kucinich Once Again Speaks Out Against Iraq War
Cleveland Leader
10th June 2009
Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:
“Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, had no intention or capability of attacking United States, had nothing to do with Al-Qaida’s role in 9/11, and each and every statement made by the previous administration in support of going to war turned out to be false. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2009
Peter Lee
10th June, 2009
China’s fraught relations with the International Monetary Fund are driven by two conflicting agendas – the country’s effort to gain unimpeded access to resources in the developing world on bilateral terms, and its interest in using the IMF’s facilities as a international organization to issue Special Drawing Rights (SDR) assets to help Beijing diversify away from the US dollar.
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Posted by smeddum on June 11, 2009
Mollycoddling Mubarak, Mugging Mugabe
By Stephen Gowans
June 10th 2009
Whatsleft
Led by the United States, Western countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on what is called democracy promotion. This usually involves promoting pro-private property, pro-free trade, and pro-foreign investment forces in foreign countries where these principles are not firmly implanted. Generous funding is showered upon media, human rights groups, and election monitors that oppose governments whose attachment is less than absolute to the three major freedoms of capitalist ideology (the 3Fs)– free-trade, free-enterprise, and free-markets. Pro-3F political parties, like the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, and in previous years, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, are provided with training, expert advice, strategic consulting and campaign funds to help them win elections (1). Experts on how to destabilize governments through civil disobedience are dispatched to train nonviolent pro-democracy activists to topple governments that have come to power in elections the West’s preferred 3F candidates but failed to win. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
10th June, 2009
The power of irrational fear in the US is extraordinary. It ranks up there with the Israel Lobby, the military/security complex, and the financial gangsters. Indeed, fear might be the most powerful force in America.
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Posted by smeddum on June 11, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2009
Click on link to hear song
Antes-Que-Seja-Tarde?trackId=891891&m=0
Com força e com vontade
A felicidade há de se espalhar
Com toda intensidade
[With force and will
happiness must be spread
with great intensity]
Há de molhar o seco
De enxugar os olhos
De iluminar os becos
Antes que seja tarde
Há de assaltar os bares
E retomar as ruas
E visitar os lares
Antes que seja tarde
[We must rain on drought,
we must dry our eyes
illuminate the dead -ends
before it is too late.
we must invade the bars
and retake the streets
and visit the people
before its too late]
Há de rasgar as trevas
E abençoar o dia
E de guardar as pedras
Antes que seja tarde
[We must tear up the darkness
and bless the light
and treasure the stones
before it’s too late]
Há de deixar sementes
No mais bendito fruto
Na terra e no ventre
Antes que seja tarde
[We must leave seeds
of the most blessed fruit
in the earth and the womb
before it’s too late]
Há de fazer alarde
E libertar os sonhos
Da nossa mocidade
Antes que seja tarde
[We must sing the praises
and liberate the dreams
of our youth
before it’s too late]
Há de mudar os homens
Antes que a chama apague
Antes que a fé se acabe
Antes que seja tarde.
[We must change ourselves
before the flame goes out
before our faith is exhausted
before it’s too late]
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