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Let’s make everything free! From freeworldcharter.org: The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress. Neither political nor religious, these ten short principles could form the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, [...]
Final speeches at the beginning of April, verdict on 2nd May! No defence witnesses to be heard.
In court this week Judge Arleth dropped the bombshell that she will not be proceeding with the trial for much longer and intends to bring it to a close as soon as possible. It seems that prosecution witnesses who have not yet been questioned by the defence will not be asked to return to the witness box. Instead court time is being taken up by the reading out of final police reports until 9 o’clock in the evening every day from now on! This late hour is also planned for the final speeches in order for the verdict to be given on the 2nd of May.
Ivory Coast, called the ‘pearl of West Africa’, is on the brink of civil war — and chocolate companies could play a critical role in stopping the bloodshed.
Despite losing elections in November and united international pressure and sanctions to remove him, Laurent Gbagbo is clinging to power. Revenues and tariffs from cocoa, the country’s largest export, are bankrolling his brutal army that has murdered hundreds of winning party supporters. If chocolate companies immediately and publicly refuse to do business with Gbagbo, his cash supply could dry up – and without the support of the army, his power base would dwindle, and he could be forced to step down.
This situation could spiral into all-out war within days. Chocolate lovers of the world, let’s flood popular brands like Nestlé, M&M/Mars and Hershey’s with messages to end trade with Gbagbo now and commit to working only with the legitimate government.
Lots of talk these days about the bullying of young boys and girls in school by more aggressive students. This brings to my mind the biggest bully of all: the biotech company, Monsanto Corporation. Taken in context, Monsanto’s list of corporate crimes should have been enough to pull their corporate charter years ago. And yet we allow them to continue to destroy our food supply, our health and the planet. Monsanto or Monsatan? Take a look at the company’s track record and decide for yourself:
Agent Orange, Saccharin, Bovine Growth Hormone, RoundUp, Genetically Modified Crops, Terminator Seeds – all these names are spelling doom for our civilization. They are all kindly provided by Monsanto.
Before the holidays, millions of hard-working men and women gather the money they have saved throughout the year, go to a local Western Union office and wire it to their relatives throughout the developing world. Up to 20% of these savings can go straight into the pocket of money transfer organizations in fees, allowing companies to make billions of dollars in profit on the backs of the world’s neediest.
Western Union has never faced a public outcry to challenge its shameless profiteering. If we raise our voices loudly to challenge their predatory fees, we can threaten their corporate brand enough to compel them to act.
Let’s urgently build an unstoppable public outcry calling on Western Union to live up to its family-friendly rhetoric by lowering its fees for the poorest countries. Sign now — and we’ll deliver it to the company’s image-sensitive board of directors when the petition reaches 250,000 signers.
It is Wednesday, January 19th, 2011.
All the lights in Berlin’s Chancellory are shining in the grey-blue dusk. Extra police are on duty, checking the identity cards of the journalists, arriving in large numbers.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has called an emergency press conference for 5 pm.
The euro is diving on the currency markets. Capital is flowing out of Germany at an unprecedented pace.
The masters of the universe are furious that their business model has broken down. The investment bank’s main engine of profit has been trading on the debt market. In exchange for worthless, fractional reserve banking, paper debt, they have been getting a steady stream of revenue from national governments but at the cost of tax payers. Asset stripping has boosted their profits still more. They have planned for these revenues to continue for years.
We, the undersigned, protest against the suppression of democratic minority rights of free citizens! Either the opportunity to direct popular vote on the Lisbon Treaty was denied by national governments, or our NO as minority rights is not considered in the current policy.
We the undersigned declare explicitly that we do NOT agree with the following facts:
1. Establishment of a supranational European Federal State
2. Establishing a transfer union
3. Transfer of state sovereign powers to the European Union (and subsequently World Union)
Recent data presented to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Children’s Vaccines has revealed some shocking information about the effects of the H1N1 / swine flu vaccine on pregnant women. According to the report, the rate of miscarriage among pregnant women during the 2009 H1N1 / swine flu pandemic soared by over 700 percent compared to previous years, pointing directly to the vaccine as the culprit — but the CDC denies the truth and continues to insist nobody has been harmed.
According to the CDC, nearly 50 percent of all pregnant women were vaccinated with the H1N1 vaccine during the 2009 / 2010 influenza season. Those whose physicians instructed them to get a seasonal flu shot were three times more likely to get it, while those instructed specifically to get the H1N1 shot were ten times more likely to get it. And the numbers clearly show that along with the rise in vaccinations due to the H1N1 scare came the sharp increase in miscarriages, including a slew of actual reported adverse events.
Rescuers in South Africa have rushed to save a total of 415 endangered African penguin chicks from land and island-based penguin colonies near Cape Town, South Africa. The penguins were abandoned by their parents and were in danger of starving to death.
The rescued chicks were taken to the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) where they will be hand-reared for a period of approximately six weeks before returning back to their colony.
Two hundred and thirty six of the rescued chicks came from Stony Point penguin colony, 155 from offshore Dyer Island, and 24 others were rescued from various colonies. This is the largest number of chicks SANCCOB has cared for at one time since 2007 when 481 abandoned chicks were treated.
A contingent of UN peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained by The Associated Press.
Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti’s Artibonite river, next to a UN base outside the town of Mirebalais.
He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official said.
“No other hypothesis could be found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in this village … not affected by the earthquake earlier this year and located dozens of kilometres from the coast and (tent) camps,” he wrote in a report that has not been publicly released.
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