Iran Will Not Attacked in 2012

January 8, 2012 | Iran, Israel, Russia, USA

The article of Patrick Henningsen titled ‘Why Attacking Iran Will Not Work in 2012. Failure could Result in a US-Israel Military and Economic Tailspin’ is very interesting view on the problem.

All signs coming out of Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv are pointing towards a pre-emptive military strike against Iran in 2012. But a number of key indicators are also pointing towards an unsuccessful, unlikely operation, whose failure could result in a military and economic tailspin from which the United States and Israel are unlikely to recover.

Currently, the US is following a trajectory of past unsuccessful empires that were unable to sustain themselves resulting in an eventual collapse from within. The US is currently running up a budget deficit which is not only threatening to bankrupt its entire economy, but also threatening the hegemony of its sole instrument for advantage and influence on the world stage – the US dollar. Any threat to the supremacy of the dollar is also a threat to the empire.

read complete aricle here – http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28511

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Moscow mass protests

December 27, 2011 | Mass Protest, Russia

Moscow last week’s mass protests and rallies on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow called to new parliamentary elections and wholesale liberalizing reform in Russia.

There were Tens of thousands there and according to the poll, the average participant in the rally was a male (64 percent), university graduate (70 percent), below 45-years of age (62 percent) with an average income (56 percent).

A stage at the end of the 0.43 mile avenue featured placards reading “Russia will be free” and “This election Is a farce.” Heavy police cordons encircled the participants, who stood within metal barriers, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

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Tropical Storm Lee Dumps More Rain on the Northeast, More Than 100k Told to Leave

September 10, 2011 | Climate

The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain on the already saturated areas in the Northeast, shutting off several inland cities and cutting off many interstates. Orders to evacuate were issued to more than 100,000 people in three states to escape the flooding caused by rising Susquehanna River.
According to the National Weather Service, the Susquehanna River crested just over the 38 feet mark on Thursday night, which is below the top mark of the levees protecting the cities in the northeastern Pennsylvania.

The impact of Tropical Storm Lee was felt extensively in already swamped Pennsylvania, as authorities shot down innumerable roads and thoroughfares. Several emergency shelters were opened for the displaced residents. Similar situations were observed in Maryland and New York. The wrath of diminishing storm was also felt in other areas spreading from Connecticut to Virginia. State officials were calling in resources from the National Guard, neighboring fire departments and specialized flood cleanup contractors to assist with the storm devastation.

States of emergency were declared in Pennsylvania and New York early Friday by President Obama.
Officials told the evacuees that they should expect to stay at the shelters until Sunday or Monday. It is going to take sometime before authorities begin to manage the damage, which included a fractional bridge collapse in the north Pennsylvania, automobiles, homes and other buildings as well as inundated sewage processing plants.
Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said, “We’re going to have some damage, but you won’t know until it’s over.”

In certain parts of Pennsylvania up to inches of total rainfall has been recorded in just over a week. People in many rural areas and small towns of central Pennsylvania scurried to move their families and their possessions out of danger as water levels sometimes rose at alarming speed.
About 6,000 to 10,000 people were evacuated from the low-lying regions of Harrisburg. In Luzerne County, Pa., including Wilkes-Barre, all communities along the surging river that witnessed flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972 were ordered to evacuate.
In Wilkes-Barre, crews used sandbags to close the holes in the intricate flood control system of the city. Lee is blamed for at least four deaths in Pennsylvania.

In Binghamton, New York, waters from Susquehanna River swamped the streets. The water levels at a downtown plaza were reported to have climbed to the middle of the lampposts. Buses and after that boats were pressed into action to evacuate the stranded residents. Helicopters of National Guard were put on standby.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, “It is going to get worst.” He warned residents to leave when the evacuation order is issued.

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Corporate Social What?

July 18, 2011 | Social Responsibility

If you have heard the phrase ‘corporate social responsibility’ or the term CSR bandied about you have perhaps wondered what it means and may only have a vague inkling. If this is the case then it is high time to get to grips with it – think of it as a duty.

Essentially the method of thinking stems from the idea that your business is not an isolated unit which only functions in order to make money. Your business impacts on the people who work for it and their lives, the people who you come into contact with in terms of customers and suppliers, the local community you are situated within, and the environment at large. Corporate social responsibility is therefore about considering how you impact on all of these and how that can be positive and good for the business as well.

Taking these things into consideration can often impact positively on your bottom line. For example, if you recycle by using an office shredder then your paper consumption should go down, and if you pay attention to the use of electricity by turning off lights in infrequently used areas of your building then your energy bills should also reduce. Paying attention to what your suppliers are doing can also play a part – dealing with energy efficient companies may also reduce their costs to you. All of this ethical work is something to be proud of as well so let your customers know and the good will generated will be a positive and valuable outcome.

So what else can I do apart from turning off lights and buying a shredder?? Well, if you need help – perhaps with a larger organisation – then find a local CSR advisor who can make an assessment of your current position and put together a programme of improvements. Think of it as a business benefit and you won’t go far wrong.

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Mitchell urges Africa drought help

July 17, 2011 | Help

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has urged the international community to do all they can to help those suffering from the worst drought in over half a century in east Africa. Estimates from the World Food Programme and the charities involved with the relief effort, including Save The Children and Unicef, have revealed that around 10 million people are directly suffering as a result of the drought, which has been made worse by the political instability surrounding the region.

Mr Mitchell, currently in Kenya assessing the situation, revealed that the situation is only getting worse as time goes on, so it is vital that everyone who “can help” across the world does just that to prevent the crisis turning into a catastrophe.

The UK has already pledged £52.25m in emergency aid but with areas only now starting to open up to foreign aid that had previously been shut off by Islamist groups, that figure is bound to make just an imprint on the problem, rather than the sort of major impression badly needed by those affected.

A large proportion of that money is expected to be spent on reinforcing the infrastructure at the Dadaab camp, which is currently holding four times the number of people expected to arrive there after fleeing from the worst-hit areas. With over 1,500 new arrivals coming into the camp each day, the need to improve what is already there is massive. The collected funds will also help a total of 300,000 Kenyans who are struggling in the absence of specialised ration packs designed for young children and breastfeeding mothers.

The scale of the crisis has made the celebrity world sit up and take notice, and it won’t be too surprising if the coming months see a fund-raising event on the scale of Live Aid or Comic Relief, which always finds support among the likes of UK-based comics Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

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10 strategies of manipulation

May 26, 2011 | Media, Politics, Weapon

Here is a list of “10 strategies of manipulation” by American linguist Noam Chomsky
1 – A STRATEGY OF DISTRACTION.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The strategy of distraction is also essential to keep the public interested in the essential knowledge in science, economics, psychology, neurobiology, and cybernetics. “Keep the public’s attention distracted away from the real social problems, captivated by issues of no importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to the farm and other animals (citing text ‘silent weapons for quiet wars). ”

2 – CREATE PROBLEMS AFTER OFFERING SOLUTIONS.

This method is also called “problem-reaction-solution.” This creates a problem, a “situation” due to cause some reaction in public, so that it is the principal measures that want to accept. For example: let develops or intensifies the urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks, so that the public is the principal of safety laws and policies to the detriment of freedom. Or also: create an economic crisis to accept as a necessary evil recession of social rights and the dismantling of public services.

3 – STRATEGY gradation.

To make it accept an unacceptable extent, simply apply it gradually, a dropper, for consecutive years. This is how radically new socioeconomic conditions (neoliberalism) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s: the minimal state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, mass unemployment, which is insufficient to pay decent tickets, so many changes that caused a revolution would be had been implemented at once.

4 – THE STRATEGY OF DEFER.

Another way to make an unpopular decision to accept is to present it as “painful and necessary” in obtaining public acceptance for the moment for a future application. It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice of an immediate sacrifice. First, because the effort is not used immediately. Then, because the public, the mass, always has the tendency to expect naively that “everything will improve tomorrow,” and that the sacrifice required may be avoided. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of change and accept it with resignation when the time comes.

5 – ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC AS younger children.

Most of the advertising directed at the general public uses discourse, arguments, characters, and particularly children’s intonation, often close to the weakness, as if the viewer were a very young child or a mentally impaired. The more you get bringing mislead the viewer, the more it tends to adopt an infantile tone. Why? “If you address a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, due to suggestibility, it will tend, with some probability, a response or reaction also lacks a critical sense as of a person 12 years or younger (see “Silent Weapons for quiet Wars”). ”

6 – USING THE EMOTIONAL ASPECT MUCH MORE THAN A REFLECTION.

Make use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique to cause a short circuit on rational analysis, and finally to the critical sense of individuals. Moreover, the use of emotional register allows you to open the door to the unconscious to deploy graft or ideas, desires, fears and fears, compulsions, or induce behaviors …

7 – Keep the public in ignorance and mediocrity.

Making the public is incapable of understanding the technologies and methods for their control and their bondage. “The quality of education given the lower social classes should be as poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance that lies between the lower classes to upper social classes is and remains impossible to reach the lower classes (see ‘Arms silent for quiet wars). ”

8 – stimulates the public to be complacent mediocrity.

Promoting the public to think that fashion is the fact of being stupid, vulgar and uneducated …

9 – STRENGTHENING THE REVOLT BY self-blame.

Make the individual believe that he alone is to blame for their own misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts. Thus, instead of rebelling against the economic system, the individual themselves helpless and blame themselves, which leads to a depressive state which one of its effects is to inhibit its action. And without action, there’s revolution!

10 – THE BEST GUYS KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW IF SAME.

In the course of the last 50 years, advances in science have led to accelerated growing knowledge gap between the public and those owned and used by the ruling elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and psychology applied, the “system” has enjoyed an advanced knowledge of the human being, either physically or psychologically. The system has been able to better understand the average person than he knows himself. This means that in most cases, the system has more control and great power over individuals than the individuals themselves.

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To minimize population growth

February 22, 2011 | Climate, Politics, Terrorism, Weapon

“We will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000,” said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable” if current trends continue, Clay said.

“More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet,” Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.

Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.

“For 20 years, there’s been very little investment in family planning, but there’s a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices,” said Bongaarts.

“We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning,” said Casterline.

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Egyptian cultural heritage

February 2, 2011 | Uncategorized

A week of bad nes from Egipt had not elapsed now at last we heard from The United Nations that the cultural organisation urged Egyptian authorities and protesters on Tuesday to protect the country’s heritage and respect freedom of expression during the ongoing political crisis.

There have been reports of a looting attempt at Cairo’s renowned Egyptian Museum and other historical sites, as well as of citizens taking it upon themselves to set up a cordon to protect their nation’s heritage.

“My compassion goes first to the victims of the civil unrest and their families,” said Unesco director Irina Bokova, as reports collated by AFP pointed to around 125 deaths during the recent protests.

“Egyptian cultural heritage, both its monuments and its artefacts, are part of the ancestral heritage of humanity, handed down to us through the ages,” she said, in a statement from Unesco’s Paris headquarters.

“The value of the 120 000 pieces in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is inestimable, not only in scientific or financial terms, but because they represent the Egyptian people’s cultural identity.

“The proof, hundreds of citizens spontaneously formed a chain around the museum to protect it,” she said.

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Moscow airport Domodedovo on high alert after

January 26, 2011 | Terrorism, Video

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Carpet of Hungary

January 18, 2011 | History

According to BBC a giant carpet installed in the headquarters of the European Council has triggered accusations of nationalist nostalgia in Budapest. The “historical timeline” features – among other symbols – an 1848 map of Greater Hungary, when Budapest ruled over large swathes of its neighbours.

The “historical timeline” features – among other symbols – an 1848 map of Greater Hungary, when Budapest ruled over large swathes of its neighbours.

I think it’s just a history. Why not?

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