Archive for June 10th, 2015

10/06/2015

Major TTIP Vote at European Parliament Postponed Due to ‘Political Divisions’

Human Wrongs Watch

9 June 2015 (RT)* – A key vote on the controversial TTIP resolution was postponed by European Parliament last minute on Tuesday [9 June]. While a large number of amendments have been cited as the reason for the delay, some believe the “mounting public pressure” is “bearing fruit.”

Source: Stop TTIP

Source: Stop TTIP

The plenary Wednesday vote on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) resolution was postponed by the European Parliament’s president on Tuesday evening.

The vote on the controversial report following the ongoing EU-US TTIP trade and investment negotiations will not take place “in view of the fact that more than 200 amendments and requests for split or separate votes have been tabled,” President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz announced.

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10/06/2015

Exposing Lies, Telling the Truth

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

10 June 2015 – I have just read Andre Vltchek’s new book ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire‘.  Let me tell you something about this book of 800 pages.

**Image: The territories that were at one time or another part of the w:British Empire. The w:British Overseas Territories are underlined in red. I Author: The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick | Wikimedia Commons

**Image: The territories that were at one time or another part of the w:British Empire. The w:British Overseas Territories are underlined in red. I Author: The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick | Wikimedia Commons

Vltchek writes with passion and poetry, describing the true horror experienced by the world at large, living at the gunpoint of the imperial powers, while also describing and drawing you into a world of progress, culture and refinement that exists in some places and, so we are tantalised, might exist elsewhere too and even, perhaps, one day for us all.

If you want to begin to understand Vltchek himself, you should start with the chapter headed ‘Solitude of an Internationalist: Our Leningrad’.

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10/06/2015

Bilderberg Goes IT: Shadowy Club to Talk Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-security

Human Wrongs Watch

9 June 2015 (RT)* In between pontificating on the US election, Greece’s turmoil and the position of Russia, participants in the shadowy Bilderberg conference are going to discuss the development of artificial intelligence and risks of cyberspace. 
Photo from wikipedia.org

Photo from wikipedia.org | Source: RT

The club that has been bringing together west’s most influential financiers, media moguls, industry captains, politicians and royalty for over six decades, is meeting this week in Austria.

Some 140 guests are to visit the Telfs-Buchen alpine resort, where this year’s conference is to be held, just 20 km from the site of the G7 summit. The group has published its agenda and guest list ahead of the four-day private event.

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