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No I dont belive that.
I think that any man who has gun in his hands, expecialy soldier, have mission to kill. And when he kill innocent Afgans without guns, that is murder not accident.
So, why would American killers be accepted?
But this is not the subject.
I think that any man who has gun in his hands, expecialy soldier, have mission to kill. And when he kill innocent Afgans without guns, that is murder not accident.
So, why would American killers be accepted?
But this is not the subject.
Gaddafi's influence in Mali's coup (full article)
It did not take long for the Libyan conflict to spill over borders in the Sahel region - and now Mali seems to have paid the highest price so far following a coup by disgruntled soldiers.
The trouble began when hundreds of Malian combatants who had fought to defend the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, fled back home with weapons at the end of last year and formed the most powerful Tuareg-led rebel group the region has known - the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA).
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It did not take long for the Libyan conflict to spill over borders in the Sahel region - and now Mali seems to have paid the highest price so far following a coup by disgruntled soldiers.
The trouble began when hundreds of Malian combatants who had fought to defend the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, fled back home with weapons at the end of last year and formed the most powerful Tuareg-led rebel group the region has known - the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA).
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UN body to probe Israeli settlements
UN rights group calls for a look into how Israeli settlements affect Palestinian rights.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution ordering a first probe into how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians.
The resolution was adopted on Thursday, with 36 votes in favour and 10 abstentions. Only the United States voted against it.
Presenting the resolution, a Pakistani envoy criticised Israel for insisting on building more settlements in the occupied territories, saying that they are "in violation of international humanitarian and human rights laws".
"This resolution seeks to respond to the humanitarian and human rights challenges this illegal Israeli practice has created in the occupied territories," he said.
Beyond ordering an investigation into the implications of settlements, the resolution also calls on Israel to "take and implement serious measures" such as confiscating arms to prevent acts of violence by Israeli settlers.
The United States, however, spoke up against the move, saying it was "deeply troubled by this Council's bias against Israel".
"Steps like this do nothing to promote a just and lasting peace," said a US envoy, adding that they only serve to "push parties apart".
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, swiftly slammed the resolution as "hypocritical".
"This council has an automatic majority hostile to Israel and is hypocritical," Netanyahu was quoted as saying in a statement released by his office.
He added that the UN Human Rights Council "should be ashamed of itself."
Earlier this week, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said the expansion of Israeli settlements is deeply linked to problems, including violence, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Article on www.aljazeera.com
FINALLY it kinda looks like something is about to happen, but the question is how much .... probably a lot of words and no deeds as usual :S But who knows, maybe this time the majority won't listen to and act according the zionistic US lies (as only the US voted against it, ofcourse)!
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UN rights group calls for a look into how Israeli settlements affect Palestinian rights.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution ordering a first probe into how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians.
The resolution was adopted on Thursday, with 36 votes in favour and 10 abstentions. Only the United States voted against it.
Presenting the resolution, a Pakistani envoy criticised Israel for insisting on building more settlements in the occupied territories, saying that they are "in violation of international humanitarian and human rights laws".
"This resolution seeks to respond to the humanitarian and human rights challenges this illegal Israeli practice has created in the occupied territories," he said.
Beyond ordering an investigation into the implications of settlements, the resolution also calls on Israel to "take and implement serious measures" such as confiscating arms to prevent acts of violence by Israeli settlers.
The United States, however, spoke up against the move, saying it was "deeply troubled by this Council's bias against Israel".
"Steps like this do nothing to promote a just and lasting peace," said a US envoy, adding that they only serve to "push parties apart".
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, swiftly slammed the resolution as "hypocritical".
"This council has an automatic majority hostile to Israel and is hypocritical," Netanyahu was quoted as saying in a statement released by his office.
He added that the UN Human Rights Council "should be ashamed of itself."
Earlier this week, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said the expansion of Israeli settlements is deeply linked to problems, including violence, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Article on www.aljazeera.com
FINALLY it kinda looks like something is about to happen, but the question is how much .... probably a lot of words and no deeds as usual :S But who knows, maybe this time the majority won't listen to and act according the zionistic US lies (as only the US voted against it, ofcourse)!
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Can water end the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Could solving the water crisis in Israel and Palestine also help resolve the entrenched occupation and conflict?
Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine water tanks. One week later, Israeli forces demolished water wells and water pumps in the villages of Al-Nasaryah, Al-Akrabanyah and Beit Hassan in the Jordan Valley. In Bethlehem, a severe water shortage have led to riots in refugee camps and forced hoteliers to pay over the odds for water just to stop tourists from leaving.
Palestinians insist that the Israeli occupation means that they are consistently denied their water rights which is why they have to live on 50 litres of water a day while Israeli settlers enjoy the luxury of 280 litres. Clearly, water is at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but commentators are now insisting that shared water problems could help motivate joint action and better co-operation between both sides, which could in turn help end the conflict.
While the arguments for increased co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian communities when it comes to water are compelling, they do sideline the fact that it is the Palestinians that disproportionately suffer due to deliberate Israeli government policies. Cara Flowers, part of the Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (EWASH) Advocacy Task Force in the West Bank said: "Don't get me wrong, there are great projects doing some really important work - but what can small organisations achieve without government support? I think that we're very limited without a large shift in government policy and I think that's what we should be working towards and focusing less on communities who have limited ability to change the circumstances."
Under the Oslo agreement, Israel did recognise the water rights of Palestinians, but this failed to translate into fair policies. Today, Israel over-extracts water from underground aquifers located in the West Bank for its own citizens and also sells back some of the water to water-short Palestinians at a high price. Water development projects in Palestine face cumbersome Israeli bureaucratic restrictions and delays which mean that more than 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank remain unconnected to a water network and 95 per cent of water in Gaza is unfit for human consumption due to high levels of pollution.
This systematic denial of water rights by Israel also hinders the Palestinian economy. According to a 2009 report by the World Bank, the cost to the economy of foregone opportunities in irrigated agriculture due to water shortages was as high as ten per cent of GDP and 110,000 jobs. Indeed, water remains one of the five issues up for debate to reach a final peace agreement alongside the status of Jerusalem, refugees, borders and the Israeli settlements.
Full article on www.aljazeera.com
Could solving the water crisis in Israel and Palestine also help resolve the entrenched occupation and conflict?
Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine water tanks. One week later, Israeli forces demolished water wells and water pumps in the villages of Al-Nasaryah, Al-Akrabanyah and Beit Hassan in the Jordan Valley. In Bethlehem, a severe water shortage have led to riots in refugee camps and forced hoteliers to pay over the odds for water just to stop tourists from leaving.
Palestinians insist that the Israeli occupation means that they are consistently denied their water rights which is why they have to live on 50 litres of water a day while Israeli settlers enjoy the luxury of 280 litres. Clearly, water is at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but commentators are now insisting that shared water problems could help motivate joint action and better co-operation between both sides, which could in turn help end the conflict.
While the arguments for increased co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian communities when it comes to water are compelling, they do sideline the fact that it is the Palestinians that disproportionately suffer due to deliberate Israeli government policies. Cara Flowers, part of the Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (EWASH) Advocacy Task Force in the West Bank said: "Don't get me wrong, there are great projects doing some really important work - but what can small organisations achieve without government support? I think that we're very limited without a large shift in government policy and I think that's what we should be working towards and focusing less on communities who have limited ability to change the circumstances."
Under the Oslo agreement, Israel did recognise the water rights of Palestinians, but this failed to translate into fair policies. Today, Israel over-extracts water from underground aquifers located in the West Bank for its own citizens and also sells back some of the water to water-short Palestinians at a high price. Water development projects in Palestine face cumbersome Israeli bureaucratic restrictions and delays which mean that more than 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank remain unconnected to a water network and 95 per cent of water in Gaza is unfit for human consumption due to high levels of pollution.
This systematic denial of water rights by Israel also hinders the Palestinian economy. According to a 2009 report by the World Bank, the cost to the economy of foregone opportunities in irrigated agriculture due to water shortages was as high as ten per cent of GDP and 110,000 jobs. Indeed, water remains one of the five issues up for debate to reach a final peace agreement alongside the status of Jerusalem, refugees, borders and the Israeli settlements.
Full article on www.aljazeera.com
FINALLY it kinda looks like something is about to happen, but the question is how much .... probably a lot of words and no deeds as usual :S
Nothing will happen. One way or another USA will shoot all attempts down, like always.. :(
Nothing will happen. One way or another USA will shoot all attempts down, like always.. :(
I'm affraid you are right. On the other hand, there must come a time nations worldwide see and understand that the way how the rightwing racist israeli government is dealing with the conflict and other human beings (the Palestinians) is the main reason of the growing hate against their nation. Even some in israel now calls settlers terrorists as they also attack israeli military bases and not only Palestinian communities and their property anymore.
Revenge of the settlers
Israel's radical settlers: A fifth column?
etc etc
I even dare to say not only a moslim extremist killed the French kids, but the israeli government is just as responsible because of their way they treath the Palestinians.
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Revenge of the settlers
Israel's radical settlers: A fifth column?
etc etc
I even dare to say not only a moslim extremist killed the French kids, but the israeli government is just as responsible because of their way they treath the Palestinians.
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I even dare to say not only a moslim extremist killed the French kids, but the israeli government is just as responsible because of their way they treath the Palestinians.
Your right to do so, but you cannot blame the Israeli government for those murders.
And I don't want to defend those Israeli settlers, but this is not a good vs. evil story. It's not like the Palestinians are just peaceful people who want to live in their country, are they? Okay, most of them are like that, but a lot of Israeli's don't support those settlers too.
Your right to do so, but you cannot blame the Israeli government for those murders.
And I don't want to defend those Israeli settlers, but this is not a good vs. evil story. It's not like the Palestinians are just peaceful people who want to live in their country, are they? Okay, most of them are like that, but a lot of Israeli's don't support those settlers too.
True, but the government also didn't do a lot, or nothing at all, to stop the radical settlers in their actions against the Palestinians as they fight for the same cause, a total Jewish state and not at all a two state sollution. But also, many often think as settlers those who live in makeshift houses in small communities, but these are also examples of settlements although we don't think of these living in these houses as settlers but they are, and this is everything but small:
EU report calls for action over Israeli settlement growth
Diplomats in Jerusalem say states should consider law to discourage 'financial transactions in support of settlement activity'
The European Union should consider legislation to prevent or discourage companies and organisations in member states doing business which supports Israeli settlements, according to a confidential report drawn up by EU diplomats in Jerusalem.
The recommendation is contained in the EU Heads of Mission Report on East Jerusalem, which assesses the impact of settlement growth and other factors on the prospects for Jerusalem as the future capital of two states, Israel and Palestine.It describes the situation as "deteriorating" and warns that "the systematic increase in settlement activity... increasingly undermines the two-state solution".
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EU report calls for action over Israeli settlement growth
Diplomats in Jerusalem say states should consider law to discourage 'financial transactions in support of settlement activity'
The European Union should consider legislation to prevent or discourage companies and organisations in member states doing business which supports Israeli settlements, according to a confidential report drawn up by EU diplomats in Jerusalem.
The recommendation is contained in the EU Heads of Mission Report on East Jerusalem, which assesses the impact of settlement growth and other factors on the prospects for Jerusalem as the future capital of two states, Israel and Palestine.It describes the situation as "deteriorating" and warns that "the systematic increase in settlement activity... increasingly undermines the two-state solution".
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nice houses, pretty landscape :p
reminds to the old jewish joke:
if the britains already give us a land that is not theirs, why not switzerland?
reminds to the old jewish joke:
if the britains already give us a land that is not theirs, why not switzerland?
www.telegraph.co.uk - 'Universal' cancer vaccine developed
A vaccine that can train cancer patients' own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists.
Great news! :D
A vaccine that can train cancer patients' own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists.
Great news! :D
I read part of that article.... but I am not sure, it is for every kind of cancer or just small tumors, which have to be recognized early and so ?
Who can read it carefully and give short brief :-D ?
Who can read it carefully and give short brief :-D ?
8.5 richter scale earthquake held in simeulue, aceh, indonesia today at 10:38 sokker time.
pray for no victim from this earthquake.
pray for no victim from this earthquake.
btw...I have earthquake monitor on my android mobile, nice tool...so I know about everything :-)
Fukushima Reactor 4: Life On Planet Earth in the Balance
Matsumura posted a startling entry on his blog following a statement made by Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, on the situation at Fukushima.
Diplomat Akio Matsumura is warning that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
Speaking at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, Murata warned that “if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4,” writes Matsumura.
In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421.
Matsumura then asked Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, about the the impact of such an additional catastrophe at Fukushima.
Containing radiation at the crippled facility will be no small feat, Alvarez explained. “Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks,” Alvarez told Matsumura.
He then said the 11,138 spent fuel assemblies stored at the Fukushima plant contain “134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection.”
“It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet,” he concluded.
Matsumura admits this is an astounding number and one difficult to comprehend. He wrote that 85 times more Cesium-137 than released at Chernobyl “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”
Akio Matsumura sent a letter United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Dr. Fumiaki Koide,” he wrote to Ki-Moon. “The world has been made so fragile and vulnerable. The role of the United Nations is increasingly vital. I wish you the best of luck in your noble mission.”
No word yet if this situation even registers on the United Nations’ radar screen.
Fukushima Reactor 4 has become a threat to life as we know it .... That's f***ed up!! :S
How cheap and save is nuclear energy when this happens??? :S
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Matsumura posted a startling entry on his blog following a statement made by Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, on the situation at Fukushima.
Diplomat Akio Matsumura is warning that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
Speaking at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, Murata warned that “if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4,” writes Matsumura.
In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421.
Matsumura then asked Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, about the the impact of such an additional catastrophe at Fukushima.
Containing radiation at the crippled facility will be no small feat, Alvarez explained. “Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks,” Alvarez told Matsumura.
He then said the 11,138 spent fuel assemblies stored at the Fukushima plant contain “134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection.”
“It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet,” he concluded.
Matsumura admits this is an astounding number and one difficult to comprehend. He wrote that 85 times more Cesium-137 than released at Chernobyl “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”
Akio Matsumura sent a letter United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Dr. Fumiaki Koide,” he wrote to Ki-Moon. “The world has been made so fragile and vulnerable. The role of the United Nations is increasingly vital. I wish you the best of luck in your noble mission.”
No word yet if this situation even registers on the United Nations’ radar screen.
Fukushima Reactor 4 has become a threat to life as we know it .... That's f***ed up!! :S
How cheap and save is nuclear energy when this happens??? :S
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I think that's the problem with these kind of serious warnings, people who don't believe it even when it's not about believing anymore but facts ...