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February 5, 2017
Russia Fires Back Against New Zealand
By John Helmer, Moscow The Russian government this week fired a new shot across the bows of New Zealand, one of the Obama Administration’s staunchest allies in the Pacific and on the Ukraine and Syrian warfronts. Starting on Monday next, February 6, imports of New Zealand beef will be banned by the Russian Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor, RSN).
The results of testing by RSN confirmed “numerous identifications of bacteria of the Listeria monocytogenes type.” In addition, traces of the prohibited hormone growth additive ractopamine had been detected in NZ beef offal. Accordingly, RSN said, it was commencing “temporary restrictions on deliveries to Russia of beef and beef offal from New Zealand”; the offal is a common ingredient in Russian sausage manufacture. The announcement from RSN added: “Rosselkhoznadzor also considers the possibility of entering of temporary restrictions on import from New Zealand to Russia of fish products, in connection with numerous identifications in consignments of New Zealand fish of bacteria of Listeria monocytogenes type, and higher than admissible levels of mercury.”
NZ lamb and mutton exports to Russia have not been mentioned by RSN, and are not affected for the time being.
The threatened ban on NZ fish is not new. The threat was first announced last October 5, days after the NZ prime minister at the time, John Key, issued a public insult to President Vladimir Putin, and attacked Russian policy in the Ukraine and Syria. Read the full story here.
Weeks later, on December 4 Key announced his surprise retirement. NZ press reports claimed that Key’s wife had forced the move, not Putin. (more…)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook security goons caught intimidating and threatening Hawaiians
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently launched eight lawsuits against families who had inherited portions of his estate’s land. Under the Kuleana Act, natives are given the right to own land if one of their family members was the original purchaser. Zuckerberg’s security goons are refusing to recognize natives’ legal rights.
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(Natural News) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really ticked many Hawaiian natives off recently, when he decided to launch eight lawsuits against families who had inherited portions of his estate’s land. Under the Kuleana Act, natives are given the right to own land if one of their family members was the original purchaser. The Act, which was established as Hawaiian law in 1850, makes 14 parcels, or eight acres of Zuckerberg’s 700-acre estate, available to natives. (RELATED: Find more Facebook news at Facebook.fetch.news)
The lawsuits were launched on December 30, but the law still gives direct family members of a parcel’s original owner the right to enter Zuckerberg’s private compound. Last year, Zuckerberg had a 6-foot high wall constructed along the Koolau Road frontage portion of the property, making it tough for the original owners’ family members to access the inherited portions of Kuleana land.
The wall, erected through…
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Bank Loses BILLIONS For Funding Dakota Pipeline – YouTube
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Seattle’s city council has decided to pull a whopping $3 billion from Wells Fargo because of their involvement the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Seattle’s city council has decided to pull a whopping $3 billion from Wells Fargo because of their involvement the Dakota Access Pipeline. Ana Kasparian, Grace Baldridge and Jayar Jackson, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you why Seattle pulled their money
February 4, 2017
Italy Increasingly Likely to Abandon the Euro
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An analysis of the political setup in Italy shows eurosceptics are on the verge of taking control of the country.
An analysis of the political setup in Italy shows eurosceptics are on the verge of taking control of the country.
The only missing ingredient is an early election. And early elections are now the odds-on favorite.
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Jury Refuses to Convict Activist for Shutting Down Pipeline*
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On Wednesday, a Washington state jury refused to convict climate activist Ken Ward on two felony counts related to the multi-state coordinated direct action against Canadian tar sands oil and in solidarity with the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
Jury Refuses to Convict Activist for Shutting Down Pipeline*
Activist Ken Ward breaking into the Trans Mountain Pipeline valve in Anacortes, WA Oct. 11, 2016 | Photo: Shut It Down
“This trial was about climate change … and the story of the climate crisis won,” said co-accused climate activist Emily Johnston.
On Wednesday, a Washington state jury refused to convict climate activist Ken Ward on two felony counts related to the multi-state coordinated direct action against Canadian tar sands oil and in solidarity with the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
Despite clear video evidence of Ward illegally breaking into and shutting down the Trans Mountain pipeline near Anacortes, Washington, last October, the 12-member jury refused to convict, declaring a mis-trial in what has been hailed as an important win for the climate justice movement, with potential consequences for the growing resistance to the Trump administration.
“In five…
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Is Trump Really Turning Into Obama?
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President Trump, after promising a radical break with the foreign policy of Barack Obama, is embracing key pillars of the former administration’s strategy, including suggesting that Israel curb construction of settlements, demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatening Iran with sanctions for ballistic-missile tests.
Trump shifts to echo key parts of Obama foreign policy
The Trump administration demands that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatens Iran with sanctions for its recent ballistic-missile tests.
By MARK LANDLER, PETER BAKER, and DAVID E. SANGER
The New York Times
President Trump, after promising a radical break with the foreign policy of Barack Obama, is embracing key pillars of the former administration’s strategy, including suggesting that Israel curb construction of settlements, demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatening Iran with sanctions for ballistic-missile tests.
In the most startling shift, the Trump White House issued an unexpected statement appealing to the Israeli government not to expand the construction of Jewish settlements beyond their current borders in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Such expansion, it said, “may not be helpful in achieving” the goal of peace.
At the United Nations, Ambassador Nikki Haley said the U.S. would not…
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Trump Team Gone Wild: Now UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, Threatens Russia!
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New US ambassador to UN breaks with Trump over Russia, Ukraine and Crimea. He’s going to fire her, right?
Trump Team Gone Wild: Now UN Ambassador Threatens Russia!
Gov. Nikki Haley, R- S.C., delivers a speech on “Lessons from the New South” during a luncheon at at the National Press Club, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Washington. Haley’s speech comes amid speculation that she will be in contention next year as a running mate for the Republican presidential nominee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
What a week in US foreign policy! First President Trump approves a commando raid in Yemen that was a total fiasco, leaving one US soldier and scores of innocent women and children dead. Then Trump’s Iran-obsessed National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, hijacks a White House Press conference to put Iran “on notice” over its legal testing of a missile and the false claim that it is involved in the Yemen war.
But today marks an own-goal hat trick! Today, President Trump’s Ambassador to the United…
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The Lost Civilizations of Africa
Africa
Directed by Basil Davidson (1984)
Film Review
Africa is a 1984 documentary exploring the great civilizations of Africa. In it, late historian Basil Davidson demolishes the myths Europeans concocted about Africa to justify the 400 year slave trade – these myths concerning a continent of subhuman savages persist to the present day. Davidson reviews archeological evidence, ancient African and Europeans artwork and historical records and contemporary tribal traditions that survive from past civilizations.
The documentary is divided into 8 episodes of approximately 25 minutes each.
Episode 1 Different But Equal – studies the depiction of blacks in medieval and renaissance European paintings to show how the concept of race was created in the 16th century to justify the immensely profitable enslavement of human paintings. He starts with an examination of cave paintings that point to a highly advanced Saharan civilization prior to the Sahara’s desertification (around 7,000–8,000 years ago and the prominence of black-skinned the 3,000-year civilization Egypt enjoyed under the pharaohs.
Episode 2 Mastering a Continent – focuses on Kushites and the great Nubian civilization to the south of Egypt. The latter converted to Christianity and persisted until the 11th century when it was destroyed (by Saracens) during the Crusades.
Episode 3 Caravans of Gold – discusses the vast commercial trade network (extending as far as India) centered in Timbuktu (Mali) and the Ashanti civilization (in modern day Ghana). In the 14th century, Mali converted to Islam. Under the guidance of Muslim scholars, Timbuktu became a global center of Islamic scholarship in law, literature and science.
Episode 4 The King and the City Within – describes the civilizations of Huaser, Benin and Ethe in modern day Nigeria.
Episode 5 The Bible and the Gun – covers the arrival of the Europeans and the devastating of slavery on long established African civilizations. Over 400 years, the African continent lost approximately 15 million skilled craftsmen and farmers. As the slave trade declined in the 18th and 19th century, Europeans opened up Africa’s interior in order to exploit its rich natural resources. As in Latin American and Asia, Christian missionaries played a fundamental role in this process.
Episode 6 The Magnificent African Cake – gives an overview of the extensive European military campaigns that flattened African resistance to colonization. By 1914, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only two countries not under European military control.
Episode 7 The Rise of Nationalism – relates how forced conscription in World War I and World War II radically changed Africans’ view of Europeans and fueled demands for independence. The Gold Coast (later renamed Ghana by President Dr Kwame Nkrumah) would launch the first independence struggle in 1945. Davidson contrasts this with the more bloody independence struggles in Kenya, Algeria and other countries with substantial(European) settler populations.
Episode 8 Legacy – explores how the adoption of European-style Parliamentary systems proved disastrous for many African countries. Davidson blames this on the fact that Parliamentary government is based on a well established class divisions. It worked poorly in Africa owing to the continent’s historic tendency towards egalitarianism.
February 3, 2017
Excessive air pollution may be cause for a fifth of dementia cases – study
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New study indicates that particulate matter emitted by automobiles and power plants may account for 21 percent of dementia cases and may nearly double the likelihood that women older than 64 years will develop cognitive impairment.
Source: Excessive air pollution may be cause for a fifth of dementia cases – study — RT America
RT America
2 Feb, 2017
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Airborne particulate matter emitted by automobiles and power plants in urban areas may account for 21 percent of dementia cases and may nearly double the likelihood that women older than 64 years will develop cognitive impairment, a new study says.
The chances of developing dementia increase by around 92 percent for women ages 65 to 79 who are exposed to air pollution consisting of particulate matter up to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) in diameter, a level that exceeded US Environmental Protection Agency standards from 2012, according to the study, released this week in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
Applying the study’s findings to the population beyond older women, PM2.5 could be the cause of about 21 percent of all dementia cases, according to the…
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Doctors List 50 Reasons Why You Must Stop Drinking Fluoridated Water Now*
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In Europe, only Ireland (73%), Poland (1%), Serbia (3%), Spain (11%), and the U.K. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water.
Doctors List 50 Reasons Why You Must Stop Drinking Fluoridated Water Now*
By Alex Pietrowski
Public water fluoridation continues to be one of the most controversial health topics in the United States and in other parts of the world. The American Dental Association (ADA) has been, and continues to be, one of the biggest proponents of water fluoridation, although even the government has recently admitted that fluoride may not actually be helping teeth. More scientific studies point-out that fluoride is actually very dangerous, yet this practice continues in many countries.
In Europe, only Ireland (73%), Poland (1%), Serbia (3%), Spain (11%), and the U.K. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water.
In the U.S., about 70% of public water supplies are fluoridated. This equates to approximately 185 million people, which is over half…
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