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June 16, 2011

Bilderberg 2011: The Rockefeller World Order and the "High Priests of Globalization"
Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin’s report of inside sources in this year’s meeting indicated a rather extensive discussion on the role of China, which is hardly surprising, considering this has been a central topic of discussion in meetings for a number of years. China emerged in discussions on Pakistan, as China has become increasingly Pakistan’s closest economic and strategic ally, a trend that is continuing as America continues to spread the Afghan war into neighbouring Pakistan. China is also a major player in Africa, threatening the West’s stranglehold over the continent, in particular through the World Bank and IMF. Most importantly, however, and not unrelated to its role in Pakistan and Africa, China has become the greatest economic competitor for the United States in the world, and as the IMF even admitted recently, its economy is expected to surpass that of the United States by 2016. Bilderberg paid attention to this issue not simply as a financial-economic consideration, but as a massive geopolitical transition in the world: “the biggest story of our time.”
Read article on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

June 11, 2011

Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture
Media has become a mirror of the disconnected state that humanity finds itself in. News, current affairs, even the dramas and reality TV shows that entertain us serve to exacerbate the religion of polarity being reflected back to us in all its forms – materialism, hatred, killing, idolization and separation. Almost all television, be it sagas and melodramas or daily news, is as addictive as any drug. This single dimensional ‘pulpit’ from which media preaches to us (often in the centre of our living rooms) actually seeds many of our negative behavior patterns in day-to-day life. Dramas and melodramas aside, we have been led to believe that the news and current affairs programs we watch are true, unbiased, fair. Often this is anything but the case.
Read article on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

May 29, 2011

Bangladeshi PM inaugurates National Vitamin A Plus Campaign
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday inaugurated the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign- 2011 with a call to play effective role by all concerned to make the program a success. The prime minister formally launched the campaign nationwide by administering vitamin A capsules and deworming tablets to a number of children at her official residence here in Dhaka. While inaugurating the campaign, the prime minister urged all concerned including teachers, students, political leaders and professionals to raise mass awareness to make the program a success. Under the program, about 19 million children aged one to five years will be reached with life-saving vitamin A capsules and about 17 million children aged two to five years will receive deworming tablets. The campaign would be conducted by the Institute of Public Health Nutrition under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reduce risk of child mortality and preventing night blindness of the children due to vitamin A deficiency.
Read article in the People’s Daily (China)

May 5, 2011

Clinical Trial Deaths And Compensation In India
An investigation by India’s health ministry has found that drugmakers running clinical trials in the country have not compensated survivors of most volunteers who died during their studies. Of 671 deaths that were reported last year, there is evidence that compensation was given in just three cases, The Business Standard writes. And so, the health ministry has asked 44 drugmakers to explain why they have not provided compensation, which is mandatory under the current law. Among those queried were Eli Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, Bayer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi-Aventis. For instance, data compiled by the ministry show there were 152 deaths reported during Sanofi trials and 138 took place in Bayer trials.
Read article at pharmalot.com

April 23, 2011

ElBaradei urges ICC trial of Bush
Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says former US President George W. Bush and his administration's officials should be put on trial in the "International Criminal Court" (ICC) for waging war on Iraq. ElBaradei in a new memoir, "The Age of Deception," says that the Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq.
Read article on the Press TV website (Iran)

April 19, 2011

Web creator's net neutrality fear
The inventor of the web has said that governments must act to preserve the principle of net neutrality. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may be needed if self-regulation failed.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)
Comment: To learn more about the concept of net neutrality and understand why it is important, visit the Save the Internet website.

March 30, 2011

High incidence of vitamin D deficiency
A study conducted by the Department of Health Sciences at Qatar University (QU) has shown that 53.5% of Qatari females of college age are severely vitamin D deficient and 43.6% have insufficient levels of the vitamin. Previous studies have shown that 68.8% of Qatari children aged 11-16 have insufficient levels of vitamin D, which can have an effect on skeletal and muscle development.
Read article in The Gulf Times (Qatar)
Comment: Vitamin D deficiency is now a worldwide problem. In the United States, Canada, the UK and throughout the EU, for example, deficiencies of the vitamin are now widespread. Significantly, therefore, Anthony Norman, a distinguished professor emeritus of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and an international expert on vitamin D, notes that half the people in North America and Western Europe get insufficient amounts of vitamin D and that merely eating vitamin D-rich foods is not adequate to solve the problem. Elsewhere in the world, the problem is no less serious. Pregnant Arab women, for example, have an "extraordinarily high prevalence" of vitamin D deficiency, whilst India is also now home to a growing epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. Even Australia, a land with plentiful sunshine and an outdoor lifestyle, now has a “mind-boggling” rate of deficiencies in this nutrient.

March 17, 2011

Secretive Plan For a Global Currency
Is the Group of Twenty Countries (G20) envisaging the creation of a Global Central bank? Who or what would serve as this global central bank, cloaked with the power to issue the global currency and police monetary policy for all humanity? When the world’s central bankers met in Washington in September 2008 at the height of the financial meltdown, they discussed what body might be in a position to serve in that awesome and fearful role.
Read excerpt from "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century" by Ellen Brown on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

March 8, 2011

Asia rice output threatened by pesticide overuse
The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned. Increased production of cheap pesticides in China and India, lax regulation and inadequate farmer education are destroying ecosystems around paddies, allowing pests to thrive and multiply, they said. The problem has emerged over the last decade and - if left unchecked - pests could lay waste to vast tracts of Asia's rice farms, according to scientists who took part in a workshop in Singapore last week. "There is increasing concern that the more we use pesticides in rice fields, it is actually making the pest problem worse," Australian scientist George Lukacs told AFP in an interview.
Read article in The Independent s(UK)

February 17, 2011

Where East and West aren't meeting
Thousands of kilometres away from their fractious border, India and China face a common threat. From May 1, a Brussels diktat known as the herbal directive, will effectively outlaw ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) from the 27-member countries of the European Union. The directive in question was adopted in 2004 but it granted a seven-year grace period to manufacturers of herbal medicines to register, a deadline that expires on April 30.
Read article in the Business Standard (India)

January 31, 2011

EU calls for 'free and fair' elections in Egypt
European Union foreign ministers on Monday called on Egypt to embark on an "orderly transition" leading the way to "free and fair elections."
Read AFP news report at yahoo.com
Comment: It is of course deeply hypocritical of the Brussels EU to call on Egypt to hold ‘free and fair’ elections. As a construct whose president (Herman van Rompuy) and 27-member executive body (the so-called “European Commission”) were appointed completely outside of the democratic process on behalf of corporate interests, the Brussels EU is clearly in no position to lecture anybody about building and supporting democracy. On the contrary, whilst it portrays itself to the world as a shining example of a 21^st century democracy and regularly calls on other governments to hold “free and fair elections,” the fact is that, by preventing its own citizens from having any control over its unelected executive level, the Brussels EU is itself a dictatorship.

January 26, 2011

Blair's sister-in-law urges his trial on war crimes
KUALA LUMPUR - Former British prime minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said Wednesday he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq. Booth, the half-sister of Blair's barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organised by Viva Palestina, a British-based organisation associated with controversial politician George Galloway. Asked whether Blair should be arrested and sent to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for war crimes, Booth replied: "Absolutely. He misled the British people and took Britain to war on a lie."
Read article at asiaone.com

January 25, 2011

Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisis
The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. People in different countries are being impoverished simultaneously as a result of a global market mechanism. A small number of financial institutions and global corporations have the ability to determine the prices of basic food staples quoted on the commodity exchanges, thereby directly affecting the standard of living of millions of people around the world. This process of global impoverishment has reached a major turning point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing world.
Read article by Michel Chossudovsky on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

January 24, 2011

Iran calls for intl. court to try Blair
Iran's top security official Saeed Jalili has called for an international tribunal to put former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on trial for war crimes. The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council told a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey that Blair should be tried as a war criminal at an international court for his complicity in the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq.
Read article on the Press TV website (Iran)

January 21, 2011

George Galloway calls for former PM Tony Blair to face war crimes charge
George Galloway last night demanded that ex-Labour spin doctor Alistair Campbell and former PM Tony Blair should stand trial for war crimes. The Record columnist clashed with Campbell on the BBC's Question Time over the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.
Read article in the Daily Record (Scotland/UK)
Comment: Galloway, a former British MP, should be commended for his continuing to speak out on this issue. As regular readers of this website will be well aware, our organization has long taken a leading role in calling for Blair to stand trial for war crimes. To read about the Complaint we submitted to the International Criminal Court in 2003, charging Blair and others with causing injury to and the death of millions of people through the ‘business with disease’, war crimes and other crimes against humanity, click here.

January 18, 2011

Tony Blair ‘Misled Parliament Over Legal Go-Ahead To Invade Iraq’
Tony Blair misled MPs when he suggested in 2003 that Britain could attack Iraq without further United Nations backing, said former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. He claimed that the then Prime Minster had been given clear legal advice to the contrary.
Read article in the Daily Express (UK)

January 14, 2011

Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accused of torture
A US rights group has filed a lawsuit charging former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with involvement in torturing former prisoners in American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read article on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

January 4, 2011

What's Happening On The Korean Peninsula?
What's happening on the Korean peninsula? If you read the press or listen to the talking heads, your best guess would be that an insane North Korean regime is willing to risk war to manage its own internal political tensions. This conclusion would be hard to avoid because the media rarely provide any historical context or alternative explanations for North Korean actions. For example, much has been said about the March 2010 (alleged) North Korean torpedo attack on the Cheonan (a South Korean naval vessel) near Baengnyeong Island, and the November 2010 North Korean artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island (which houses a South Korean military base). The conventional wisdom is that both attacks were motivated by North Korean elite efforts to smooth the leadership transition underway in their country. The take away: North Korea is an out-of-control country, definitely not to be trusted or engaged in negotiations. But is that an adequate explanation for these events? Before examining the facts surrounding them, let's introduce a bit of history.
Read article by Martin Hart-Landsberg on the Centre for Research on Globalization website

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