13 July 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – World is busy commemorating yet another anniversary of a genocide.
**Image: Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Stone at Potočari | The original uploader was The Dragon of Bosnia at English Wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons
Indifference, business-as-usual, denial, and complicity are hallmarks of international stance towards any genocide, past and present, over the last 100 years.World is busy commemorating yet another anniversary of a genocide.
Rohingyas don’t really have much prospect of survival as an ethnic group in the face of the determined genocidal groups, both Myanmar regime and the Rakhine Nazis.
13 July 2015 (RT)* – The recent test of the US В61-12 nuclear bomb confirms Washington’s plans to maintain nuclear weapons in Europe that are capable of reaching Russia, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Monday.
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**Over 2,000 nuclear explosions have been conducted, in over a dozen different sites around the world. | Red: Russia/Soviet Union; blue: France; light blue: United States; purple: Britain. Black Israel, orange China, yellow India, brown Pakistan, green North Korea and light green (territories exposed to nuclear bombs) | Author: Palli3000 | Wikimedia Commons
Antonov slammed the US nuclear bomb test as “irresponsible” and “openly provocative.”
“It turns out that under the disguise of a notorious and invented threat coming from the Russian side, the United States was not only increasing the military potential and activity of NATO member states, but was upgrading its nuclear potential as well,” he said.
13 July 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Unbelievable but true: Obama, other presidents and governments are seriously contemplating to hand their countries, people and all, over to business to create the largest “free trade areas” in history with NAFTA for North America, TPP for the Pacific, TTIP to the Atlantic and TiSA, services covering some 50 states all over.
**Map: The EU (green) and the USA (orange) shown on a world map. | Author: Ssolbergj | Wikimedia Commons
Pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, chicken; communications, e-trade, financial services, insurance, what not, negotiate across the oceans how to market each other’s products across oceans, overriding domestic laws, even constitutions that stand in the way of business.
The State-Capital-People, or Government-Investors-Civil Society restructured against not only Civil Society, but Parliament and Law.
CAIRO, 10 July 2015 (IRIN)*– Ever since Islamic State-affiliated militants tried to take the town of Sheikh Zuwayed in North Sinai last week, the Egyptian media has talked of little else. “What mistakes were made?” “Where did they get their weapons from?” and “What can be done to rid the country of the scourge of Islamist militants?” have been common refrains.
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**Contributor/IRIN | Destruction in the Sinai region (File photo)
But look closely and you will notice what is lacking – reporting of the human suffering on the ground. Reliable figures on the number of civilian dead and displaced don’t exist, while aid to those in need has been limited, if present at all.
Rome, 10 July 2015 – Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a new UN report says. This would average $160 annually for each person living in extreme poverty over the 15 year period.
Women farmers in Myanmar. In rural areas, pro-poor investments should support family farmers and other small-holders in a variety of ways. | Source: FAO
Prepared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), the report, which was presented in Rome today, comes ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 13 – 16 July 2015.
KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia, 10 July 2015 – Montas spent the first months of her pregnancy at sea, crowded onto a boat with hundreds of other migrants. The passengers had set out to find a better life – perhaps in Malaysia or Australia – but ended up more desperate than ever. The captain abandoned their boat, leaving them stranded on the open ocean.*
In May, local fishermen off the coast of Lhoksumawe, Indonesia, spotted Montas’s boat, along with a handful of others, also filled to capacity with men, women and children.
Unable to ignore the passengers’ pleas for help, the fishermen towed them to safety.
They were part of a group of nearly 2,000 ethnic Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who, according to data from the United Nations Refugee Agency, ended up in Indonesia after failing to reach Malaysia or Australia.
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