11/11/2012
By Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND* — Peter Jenkins, Britain’s former representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency, has told the debating union at Warwick University that a ‘just war’ is not a Jewish notion. Jenkins was obviously telling the truth but the Zionist Jewish Chronicle is not happy.
**Dar al-Fadila Association for Orphans, consisting of a school, computer center and mosque in Rafah serving 500 children, were destroyed by the Israelis during Israel’s assault on Gaza. Photo by International Solidarity Movement | Wikimedia Commons
The retired Foreign Office diplomat, speaking in a debate on nuclear proliferation in Iran, said: “Israelis don’t practise an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, they practise ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth.”
He also added that “the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate seems to be a Christian notion and not a Jewish notion.”
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11/11/2012
Marking the World Science Day for Peace and Development, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) called for a greater global focus on scientific development, noting that only through science would humanity find the answers to its seemingly “insurmountable” challenges.
World Science Day for Peace and Development 2012. Illustration: UNESCO
“Science is our best asset for supporting inclusive and equitable development, and for building global sustainability at a time of uncertainty, and faced with biophysical limits of the planet,” said UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, in a message on 10 November 2012 to mark the Day, the theme for which this year is ‘Science for Global Sustainability Interconnectedness, Collaboration, Transformation.’
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11/11/2012
Photo: Transparency International conference in Brasilia
The 15th biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) brought together in Brasilia more than 1900 representatives from the public, private and non-profit sectors from 140 countries.
With the theme Mobilising People: Connecting Agents of Change, the conference explored five key global challenges: ending impunity, clean climate governance, preventing illicit financial flows, political transitions leading to stable and transparent governments and clean sports.
Over 50 sessions looked for new ways to connect citizens to hold leaders of both the public and private sector to account, with special emphasis on using new technologies, social media, as well as supporting younger generations.
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11/11/2012
The practice of enforced disappearances perseveres in many countries, a group of independent United Nations experts warned today, following their review of more than 400 cases spanning 31 nations.
A mother tells her story about her son, one of the victims known as “desaparecidos” of the military government that ruled Argentina in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. UN Photo/E. Schneider
At the conclusion of its 98th session held in Geneva, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances expressed their “deepest concern” that 20 years since the adoption of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the practice of vanishing people was still continuing unabated around the world.
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11/11/2012
By Brian Fitzgerald*, Greenpeace — Greenpeace Finland is bearing witness and taking samples at a toxic spill that began on Sunday [4 Nov.] in the north of the country.
The Talvivaara metal mine, owned and operated by Talvivaara Mining Company plc, has been leaking water containing high concentrations of nickel and uranium at a rate of between 5000-6000 cubic metres an hour. It is believed that the leak took place when the mine’s waste-water pool was breached on Sunday.
Photo: Greenpeace
A friend in Finland writes:
At first, Talvivaara mine was like a dream. A new beginning. A source of employment and tax money for Northern Finland.
This was the level of excitement when the new mine opened in Kainuu, some 550 kilometers from Helsinki. Pekka Perä, an ex-employee of the Finnish mining company Outokumpu had bought the site from his former employer for the price of one Euro.
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09/11/2012
By OECD*, 9 November 2012 – The balance of economic power is expected to shift dramatically over the next half century, with fast-growing emerging-market economies accounting for an ever-increasing share of global output, according to a new OECD report.
Source: OECD calculations
Divergent long-term growth patterns lead to radical shifts in the relative size of economies, according to this report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which groups 34 most industrialised countries.
The United States is expected to cede its place as the world’s largest economy to China, as early as 2016. India’s GDP is also expected to pass that of the United States over the long term. Combined, the two Asian giants will soon surpass the collective economy of the G7 nations.
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08/11/2012
Syria has been wracked by violence, with at least 20,000 people, mostly civilians, killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began some 20 months ago. The violence has spawned more than 380,000 refugees – many of them seeking safety and aid in neighbouring countries – while more than 2.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN estimates.
*Collage made by Futuretrillionaire (talk · contribs); Photos from: FreedomHouse, Elizabeth Arrott , and Bo yaser
On 7 November 2012, the head of the United Nations food relief agency today expressed her thanks to the people and Government of Lebanon for their support of Syrians seeking refuge from the violence affecting their country.
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08/11/2012
Exclusive by RT*, 8 November, 2012 — In an exclusive interview with Russia Today (RT), Syrian President Bashar Assad said he will not leave Syria. Assad also spoke on the calls for armed foreign intervention in Syria, and the possible fallout on the country’s internal conflict and across the region.
**Bashar_al-Assad.jpg: Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom / ABr. Derivative work: César (talk)
“We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and coexistence, let’s say, it will have a domino effect that will affect the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific and you know the implication on the rest of the world,” Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad told RT in an exclusive interview that will air on Friday, November 9.
“I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country,” he said. “I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria,” Assad said during the interview.
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08/11/2012
A landmark study of Kenya’s high-elevation forests shows that the economic cost of deforestation in the East African country exceeds national gains from forestry and logging by more than four-to-one, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported.
*Photo: IRIN/Angela Dewan
“Deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 5.8 billion shillings ($68 million) in 2010 and 6.6 billion shillings in 2009, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings injected from forestry and logging each year,” according to a UNEP news release on 5 November on the joint UNEP-Kenya Forest Service (KFS) study.
The economic impact of Kenya’s five montane forests – called ‘water towers’ as these forests store water during the rainy season and release it slowly, thus ensuring water flow during dry periods – are assessed in the study, entitled The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy.
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08/11/2012
By Christoph Dreier, WSWS*, 8 November 2012 — Shortly after midnight on Thursday morning, the Greek Parliament voted in favor of the country’s fifth austerity program within the last three years. Voting in favor of the sweeping cutbacks were 153 deputies, with 128 voting against and 18 abstentions.
**Greek protests | By Philly boy92 | Wikimedia Commons
Earlier in the afternoon, more than a 100,000 angry workers marched through the rain to the parliament.
They made clear they are no longer prepared to accept the poverty and misery bound up with more cuts. The police forcibly dispersed the protests using tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators.
The powerful mass demonstration together with a two-day national strike were an expression of the strength of the Greek working class.
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