04/03/11

Permalink Israeli-made weapons seized in Libya


Libyan opposition forces prepare to fire a rocket launcher
at the front line outside Brega, Saturday, April 2, 2011.

Revolutionary forces say troops loyal to embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi use Israeli-made weapons to target Misratah.

An opposition spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP on Saturday that Gaddafi forces abandoned Israeli-made rocket-propelled grenades after they failed to recapture Misratah, which is located 150 kilometers (95 miles) east of the Libyan capital city of Tripoli. He also accused government troops of "crimes against humanity" after they targeted inhabited areas and houses in the coastal city of Misratah. Opposition troops have reportedly repelled Gaddafi forces' attempt to enter Misratah from three fronts.

Meanwhile, opposition forces are claiming to have captured the strategic oil port town of Brega on Saturday as the battle rages. US and allies warplanes bombed targets in and around Brega overnight, accidentally striking a pickup truck manned by revolutionaries. Libyan state TV claimed that civilians were hit by another US-led airstrike over the southwestern city of Sabha.

PressTV: Gaddafi forces pound inhabited areas


Permalink Fukushima Workers Muzzled - Video

Fukushima Workers Muzzled. Distortions, lies, “message control”, and misinformation from TEPCO. Outrage rising in Japan. Anderson Cooper on the distortions, lies, “message control”, and misinformation from TEPCO. Outrage rising in Japan.

Kyodo News: 2 found dead at nuke plant
Natural News: A 100-year battle awaits Fukushima while suicide workers are needed to keep up the rescue efforts


Permalink Brazil banks sued for Amazon deforestation

Brazil's biggest bank - the state-run Banco do Brasil - is being sued for allegedly funding deforestation in the Amazon. Public prosecutors say the bank lent money to companies that illegally cleared the rainforest and used labour practices bordering on slavery. The smaller state-owned Banco da Amazonia is also being sued.

Prosecutors in the state of Para said they had uncovered 55 loans worth nearly $5m (£3m) that the Banco do Brasil approved to farms that had broken environmental and employment laws. They also said they had uncovered 37 loans worth $11m given to farms with similar violations by the Banco da Amazonia. The loans violated Brazil's constitution, environmental laws, banking regulations and international agreements signed by Brazil, the independent prosecutors at the Public Ministry said. The discovery of this this irregular financing shows that this is a generalised problem”, they said in a statement.


Permalink FACEBOOK TO BECOME ISRAEL’S OFFICIAL ‘PR’ VEHICLE

After it’s success in raising worldwide controversy over its fabricated Third Intifada Page on FaceBook, Israel now intends to exploit the site to its full extent to promote itself. Israeli embassies around the world have already begun to manage Facebook pages, but now the Foreign Ministry intends to make more efficient use of the network to improve Israel’s image.


Permalink ISRAEL'S HIDDEN NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACTORY

[September 30th, 2009] Israel and United States nuclear hypocrisy is clearly evident when one realizes the full extent of Israel's hidden Dimona nuclear weapons factory as well as the fact that Iran, unlike Israel, is a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has been pushing for the removal of all weapons of mass destruction across the globe:

As the Obama administration lays the groundwork to isolate Iran economically from the rest of the world over that nation's nuclear program ~ don't forget that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently ordered Iran's foreign currency reserves, currently in US dollars, to be held in euros.

Press TV reports that the order was issued on September 12 following a decision by the trustees of the country's foreign reserves. An ominous reminder that shortly after Iraq announced the same move to oil payments in euros versus dollars ~ the United States attacked Iraq.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan recently rightfully condemned Western countries' focus on Iran's nuclear program, stressing that the world should be dealing with Israel's nuclear weapons instead. The Turkish president correctly noted that Israel has "nuclear weapons" and has illegally used "phosphorous bombs" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "If only Iran is put on the world agenda, then we may neglect other issues such as the Gaza [conflict] that should be addressed," Erdogen sarcastically commented.


Permalink Charity: More than 1,000 killed in Ivorian town

Unknown attackers wielding machetes and guns killed more than 1,000 civilians in the neighborhood of an Ivory Coast town controlled by forces fighting to install the internationally recognized president, the Catholic charity Caritas told The Associated Press Saturday. The U.N. mission in Ivory Coast said it has a team investigating the alleged mass killings in western Duekoue. It said most of the nearly 1,000 peacekeepers based there were protecting about 15,000 refugees at a Catholic mission in the town at the time. Spokesman Patrick Nicholson of the Roman Catholic charity Caritas said workers visited Duekoue on Wednesday and found hundreds of bodies of civilians killed by bullets from small-arms fire and hacked to death with machetes. They estimated more than 1,000 civilians were killed, he said.


Permalink Goldstone backtracks: Regrets Saying Israel Intentionally Killed Gazans

The leader of a United Nations panel that investigated Israel’s invasion of Gaza two years ago has retracted the central and most explosive assertion of its report — that Israel intentionally killed Palestinian civilians there.

During the invasion, graphic images of human suffering were broadcast around the world, and after the fighting ended, the United Nations Human Rights Council asked Mr. Goldstone, who is Jewish, to head an investigation into Israel’s actions. He said he would do so on the condition that he could broaden his mandate to include Hamas’s conduct as well. Israel considers the Human Rights Council to be deeply hostile to its interests and refused to cooperate with Mr. Goldstone or allow him into Israel to carry out his work.

PressTV: Israel: UN must cancel Goldstone Report
Desert Peace: ISRAELI RIGHT LAUDS GOLDSTONE’S RIDICULOUS OP-ED
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN: Israel has now massacred over 300 Palestinian children in Gaza - PHOTOS


Permalink Anonymous takes on NASDAQ OMX Group and Sweden's Elite Wallenberg Family Corporations

"[T]he organizations filing these Comments request that the SEC investigate and take appropriate enforcement action against certain board members of NASDAQ including Borje Ekholm, Lars Wedenborn, Birgitta Kantola, Urban Backstrom and Hans Munk Nielsen, as well as the companies that they represent among them, Investor AB, FAM, STORA ENSO, NORDEA INVEST and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. [Exhibits A-D]

NASDAQ OMX not only operates the NASDAQ stock market and seven European stock exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic areas, but the NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 60 exchanges, clearing organizations, and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: N DAQ), the world's largest exchange company, represents a value of approximately $14.4 trillion. [Exhibit B] The addition of INVESTOR AB, with approximate ownership of 120 companies, will further concentrate economic power in the hands of the [sic] Sweden's Wallenberg family which is already overrepresented on the NASDAQ OM X board. [Exhibits A-D] This expansion is not in the public interest, but in the interest of a single family. The Wallenberg ’s core companies, under INVESTOR AB, have been involved in violations of civil and criminal law [Exhibit A] as well as provided the SEC with incomplete information, about their holdings and board members, to understate their control of the NASDAQ. [Exhibit A-C] Further, the current board membership already violates NASDAQ rules in that the independent non-industry and public interest are under-represented."


Permalink Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk

Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high quantities of key nutrients that can help to boost the immune system of babies and reduce the risk of infections. The scientists behind the research believe milk from herds of genetically modified cows could provide an alternative to human breast milk and formula milk for babies, which is often criticised as being an inferior substitute. They hope genetically modified dairy products from herds of similar cows could be sold in supermarkets. The research has the backing of a major biotechnology company. The work is likely to inflame opposition to GM foods.


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