Humanitarian Texts

droits de l’homme ou droits des délinquants? – Publié dans Maverick, le 31 août 2010.

Depuis l’ouverture des frontières (accords de Schengen et autres absurdités), dealers et délinquants étrangers prospèrent dans nos murs. Ils ne paient pas d’amendes et ignorent les billets d’avion qu’on leur offre pour qu’ils rentrent chez eux. De plus, on les relâche dans la nature où ils s’empressent de récidiver.

Sachant que la loi ne permet pas de renvoyer les sans-papiers, ils brûlent tout simplement leurs passeports!

De l’irresponsabilité endémique de la gauche genevoise:

Pourquoi personne ne peut conseiller ou raisonner les édiles genevois de gauche à ce sujet. C’est parce que la plupart du temps ils sont en état « d’ébriété politique » et, réagissant comme les universitaires, ils savent, tout simplement! …  (texte entier).

une réalité interculturelle et intemporelle

Conférence et Débat public le 16 septembre 2010 de 13h30 à 19h00 à Uni-Dufour, Auditoire Rouiller, Rue du Général-Dufour 24, 1204 Genève, en présence de Madame Ruth Dreyfuss, entrée libre, inscription souhaitée jusqu’au 14 septembre 2010: par e-mail, ou par Tél. 022 348 07 17 /Répondeur.

Accueil et bienvenue à 13.30h.

Watch this video, 7.39 min, published on the Real News Network, by Paul Jay, Sept. 01, 2010.

Flourishing drug demand in the U.S. and Canada has combined with the destruction of Mexico’s traditional economy to increase the power of the Mexican drug cartels. At the same time, the cartels are at war over the drug market in Mexico, with drastic results including the recent massacre of 72 undocumented migrants in Northern Mexico.

Bio of Bruce Livesey: … (full text – and comments of registred members).

Published on Stop NATO, by Rick Rozoff, August 31, 2010.

In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year.

The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the only time in its existence activating its Article 5 mutual military assistance clause in September 2001 and thus entering the Afghan fray, European nations that had not been at war since the Second World War are now engaged in an endless combat mission.  Continue Reading…

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Watch this video published on Global Research.ca, by Global Research TV (grtv), 11.40 min.

Publié d’abord par Elisabeth Badinter dans le Nouvel Observateur et re-publié dans terredisrael.com par Matsada, 29 juillet 2010.

Lié avec picture of the year, avec Swissness and Islamic fundamentalism, avec Burqa versus Human Rights, avec THE BURQA: PRISON OR PROTECTION, avec a video: Inside Story – Burqa ban in France? – 25 June 09, 24.20 min.

Après que les plus hautes autorités religieuses musulmanes ont déclaré que les vêtements qui couvrent la totalité du corps et du visage ne relèvent pas du commandement religieux mais de la tradition, wahhabite (Arabie Saoudite) pour l’un, pachtoune (Afghanistan/Pakistan) pour l’autre, allez-vous continuer à cacher l’intégralité de votre visage?  Continue Reading…

• 2010-08-01: Afghanistan: Don’t go back;
• 2010-08-02: WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious Insurance File;
• 2010-08-02: More about WIKILEAKS;
• 2010-08-02: WORLD E-CONFERENCE – Culture of Peace and Sustainability;
• 2010-08-03: The Nation at Stake;
• 2010-08-04: Slavery in Our Time;
• 2010-08-04: Turning the Key;
• 2010-08-05: WikiLeaks: The German Armed Forces and the policy of targeted killings in Afghanistan;
• 2010-08-06: Australian government and media block discussion over Wikileaks revelations;
• 2010-08-07: Afghan Women and the Return of Taliban;
• 2010-08-08: Revealed: how asylum detention centres damage children;
• 2010-08-08: Opération Beatles;
• 2010-08-09: Radical Islamic States and Political Movements in the Mid-East/Arab World: The Islamic ‘Threat’ Part XII;
• 2010-08-10: Libya to compensate innocent prisoners;
• 2010-08-11: Political prisoners in hunger strike protest in Iran;
• 2010-08-12: Commentary: From the ashes of capitalism, militarism and elite rule;
• 2010-08-12: Europe: URGENCE OGM /Urgency GM organism;
• 2010-08-12: Greenpeace petition: 1 million voices for a GE-free future: no GE crops / GMOs;
• 2010-08-13: Dan Mitrione in Uruguay … news from the NSA;
• 2010-08-14: Moonlighting: How does it affect the poor?
• 2010-08-15: Weekly Diaspora: Will $600 million border security bill target innocents?
• 2010-08-15: Canada: the Public Work Protection Act;
• 2010-08-16: Pentagon rejects new investigation into killing of Spanish cameraman by US troops in Iraq;
• 2010-08-17: ASEAN Concludes Cyclone Nargis Operations in Myanmar;
• 2010-08-18: Universal access to HIV treatment threatened by failure of will;
• 2010-08-19: Blast From the Past: The History of the Presumption of Innocence;
• 2010-08-20: How can Gemany Overcome the Social and Identity Crisis?
• 2010-08-21: The threat and consequences of nuclear war;
• 2010-08-22: Verizon and Google Want to Kill the Open Internet – Media Mogul Confirms Their Bad Intentions;
• 2010-08-23: Why the Wars can’t be Won;
• 2010-08-24: What You Will Not Hear About Iraq;
• 2010-08-25: What BlackBerry shows is our technological backwardness;
• 2010-08-26: The Torture of Credo Mutwa and the Theft of the Necklace of Mysteries;
• 2010-08-26: Horizons et débats, no. 33, août 2010;
• 2010-08-26: 5em anniversaire de Graines de Paix;
• 2010-08-27: Newly-Discovered Species of Bacteria Claimed to be Breaking Down Oil in Deepwater Plumes in the Gulf;
• 2010-08-28: Einstein’s legacy;
• 2010-08-29: Psywar: The Real Battlefield is the Mind;
• 2010-08-30: Accusations against Rwanda;
• 2010-08-31: Gender pay gap signals need for Constitutional rights guarantee.

Published on political affairs pa, From NOW.org, August 26, 2010.

As students return to school this week, many will open their history books to learn that 90 years ago today women were given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. The history books will explain how this event began to radically transform the role of women in our society. Today, women have more opportunities than ever before. For the first time, more women attend and graduate college than men, and women now make up half the workforce.  Continue Reading…

Published on The Economist, by R.C. in London, August 27, 2010.

AT LAST, it’s out. Or rather, as is the way with these things, large chunks of it have been leaked to the press. The report by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights  into war crimes and human-rights abuses during Congo’s wars from 1996 to 2003 has been long in the making, and is also long in the reading—about 600 pages, apparently. The collapse of the country then known as Zaire in the mid-1990s precipitated Africa’s first continental war, involving eight countries, and caused the high number of deaths of any single conflict since the second world war—maybe as many as 4m in all.  Continue Reading…

Watch this Video, published on Global Research.ca, by Scott Noble, 4.31 min, August 26, 2010.

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the “elitist theory of democracy” and the relationship between war, propaganda and class … //

… WATCH THE FULL-LENGTH FILM ONLINE, 99.02 min.

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Linked on our blogs with Eric Walberg – Canada. – Published on Eric Walberg.com, by Eric Walberg, August 11, 2010.

October 2003 — The America I once knew seems like a distant memory, says one journalist after another these days. But how about this: “Times such as ours have always bred defeatism and despair.” Re-reading Einstein’s writings on peace, it is clear that America has been through an equally insane fit in the past – such as the madness following World War II.

Einstein was referring to the rush to build more A-bombs, to develop H-bombs, the plans to launch preventive war against a destroyed and helpless Russia (no UN “food for oil” program then), conscription, the Korean war, loyalty oaths, McCarthyism, and the electrocution of the Rosenbergs.  Continue Reading…

Good News for a Change, Or More Faulty Science? – Published on Global Research.ca, by Washington’s Blog, August 25, 2010.

A team of scientists published a paper today in the journal Science which provides some hopeful news.

Specifically, a team of scientists have discovered a new species of oil-eating microbes which thrive in the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico:

The biological effects and expected fate of the vast amount of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon blowout are unknown due to the depth and magnitude of this event. Here, we report that the dispersed hydrocarbon plume stimulated deep-sea indigenous {gamma}-proteobacteria that are closely related to known petroleum-degraders.  Continue Reading…

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Horizons et débats, no. 33, août 2010, (Edition française du journal Zeit-Fragen) – 4 articles remarquées:

• Nouvelle donne géopolitique au Proche-Orient, par Thierry Meyssan, 23 août 2010;
• Campagne contre l’indépendance de la Suisse –Cessons de trahir notre pays petit à petit, par Marianne Wüthrich, no 33, 23 août 2010;
• La Russie dessèche: l’arme climatique américaine est-elle en jeu? août 2010 – Source: RIA Novosti du 3/8/10;
• Le travail au service de la communauté, complément au travail rémunéré, par Hans Christoph Binswanger et Yolanda Kappeler*, août 2010. – Extrait du livre «Vorwärts zur Mässigung. Perspektive einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaft» par Hans ­Christoph Binswanger, Murmann-Verlag, Hamburg 2009.

Watch this video and listen to Credo Mutwa, 20.01 min, published on David Icke.com, August 23, 2010.

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/37830-the-torture-of-credo-mutwa-and-the-theft-of-the-necklace-of-mysteries-

and another video: CREDO MUTWA and DAVID ICKE: TEMPLES OF PEACE, 8.23 min.

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/37884-credo-mutwa-and-david-icke–temples-of-peace

Published on Daily News Analysis DNA, by Anil Dharke in Mumbai, Aug 23, 2010.

Recent statistics show that there are nearly one million BlackBerries in use in India compared to over 600 million other mobile phones. The obvious question one asks is this: why is the government so agitated by BlackBerry when its numbers are so small, while no fuss was made in the mass proliferation of Nokias, Samsungs and Motorolas?

Does this mean that the BlackBerry company, RIM (Research in Motion), is the only one bothered about our right to privacy, while all the other mobile phone brands and service providers like Airtel, Loop, and Vodafone don’t give a damn?

As it happens, the right to privacy isn’t an issue that particularly bothers us as a nation. It bothers Americans a lot and they are constantly fighting legal and political battles to preserve their privacy, sometimes going to absurd lengths, at least to our unconcerned eyes.  Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. Adil E. Shamoo, August 23, 2010.

… According to the U.S. Census of 2000, 80 percent of the 285 million people living in the United States are urban dwellers. Those living in slums are well below 5 percent. If we translate the Iraqi statistic into the U.S. context, 121 million people in the United States would be living in slums.

If the United States had an unemployment rate of 25-50 percent and 121 million people living in slums, riots would ensue, the military would take over, and democracy would evaporate. So why are people in the United States not concerned and saddened by the conditions in Iraq?  Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. John Kozy, August 20, 2010.

… All wars, even when carried on by the strongest of nations against weak opponents, are chancy, and their costs, in every respect, are always much more than anticipated, even putting aside the physical destruction and the lives lost.

Nations that have started wars with the psychological certainty of winning rarely have, and when they have, the results were rarely lasting or those sought. As Gandhi once observed, “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”

The Crusaders, fighting under the banner of Christ, could not make Palestine a part of Christendom. France, under Napoleon, conquered most of Europe but lost it all and Napoleon ended up a broken man. Prussian militarism prevailed in the Franco-Prussian War, but in less than a century Germany had lost all.  Continue Reading…

Google’s market capitalization is $150 billion. Verizon’s is $85 billion. They don’t care about our wellbeing. Even if one of them tells us it won’t “be evil.”

Published on AlterNet, by , August 20, 2010.

(Read first in The New York Times: Web Plan Is Dividing Companies, by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRIAN STELTER, August 12, 2010).

… The Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Proposal begins by stating that “Google and Verizon have been working together to find ways to preserve the open Internet.” Well, that’s nice. Imagine what they would have come up with if they had been trying to kill off the open Internet.

Actually, you don’t have to imagine it. Because that’s what this is. An effort to kill off the open Internet … //  Continue Reading…

Published on Pambazuka, by Fidel Castro, August 12, 2010.

‘Given the fact that Iran will not give an inch to the demands of the United States and Israel, which have already mobilised several of the means of warfare to their disposal, they will have to launch the attack as soon as the date agreed by the Security Council on June 9, 2010 – with the established rules and requirements – expires. There is a limit to all what man hopes to achieve, which he cannot surpass. In this critical case, President Barack Obama is the one who would give the order to start the so much announced and publicised attack, following the rules of the gigantic empire,’ proclaims Fidel Castro … //  Continue Reading…

Published on Current Cooncerns, by Professor Dr Eberhard Hamer, Mittelstandsinstitut (SME Institute), Hanover, Germany, No, 14 /July 2010.

The onset of the financial crisis surprised most people. And until today most people have not yet realized the importance of it.

About 50 experts in my institute published a book as early as 2002 studying the question “What to do if the crash happens”? (“Was tun, wenn der Crash kommt?”), a book, which the dominant circles among bankers, politicians, journalists and unfortunately also my scientific colleagues laughed about and dismissed as absurd. In the meantime, however, our hypothetical analysis has become reality … //   Continue Reading…

Published on Talk Left, the politics of crime, by Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy, August 18, 2010 – (see also: Coffin v. United States – Blast From the Past: The History of the Presumption of Innocence, and Presuption of Innocence).

It is better than 5, 10, 20, or 100 guilty men go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. This prinicple is embodied in the presumption of innocence. In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision in the case Coffin v. United States, 156 U.S.  432; 15 S. Ct. 394, traced the presumption of innocence, past England, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and, at least according to Greenleaf, to Deuteronomy … //

… Greenleaf traces this presumption to Deuteronomy, and quotes Mascardus De Probationibus to show that it was substantially embodied in the laws of Sparta and Athens. Greenl. Ev. part 5, section 29, note. Whether Greenleaf is correct or not in this view, there can be no question that the Roman law was pervaded with the results of this maxim of criminal administration, as the following extracts show:  Continue Reading…

Linked with AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa ARASA. -  Published on NAM aidsmap.com, by Rebecca Hodes, 20 July 2010.

… “If we cannot afford to treat people, are we going to be able to afford the carnage?” asked Peter Mugyenyi, Director of Uganda’s Joint Clinical Research Centre, in a double session on the future of universal access at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna today.

Mugyenyi, a clinician who pioneered ART provision in Africa, focused on the remarkable healthcare advances that have been made since the introduction of public treatment programmes in the developing world.  Continue Reading…

Published on ASEAN, by ASEAN Secretariat, 13 August 2010.

The ASEAN Post-Nargis humanitarian effort in Myanmar came to an end on 31 July 2010 with the closure of the Coordinating Office of the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force (AHTF) in Yangon.

Since it was set up in May 2008, the AHTF was instrumental in raising more than USD 600 million with the major contributions coming from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Norway, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Contributions also came from Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. Continue Reading…