Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and soon to receive the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm.
Supported in a short time by NATO governments such as the US, the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany with around US$ 100 million.
They are said to be nearly 3000 “bakers, tailors, pharmacists, painters, carpenters, students and many more, the White Helmets are volunteers from all walks of life.”
They spend millions on super slick websites, on photos that touch the heart on media strategy and outreach for their good activities.
Does it sound just a bit too good to be true? Or, to be the whole truth?
Could it be that the White Helmets is a dual-purpose organisation?
4 Nov, 2016 (RT)– Virtually the whole planet holds its collective breath at the prospect of Hillary Clinton possibly becoming the next President of the United States (POTUS).
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**Photo: H. Clinton testifying before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on October 22, 2015 | By C-SPAN | Public Domain | Wikimedia Commons.
How’s that humanly possible, as the (daily) Bonfire of The Scandals – relentlessly fed by WikiLeaks revelations and now converging FBI investigations – can now be seen from interstellar space?
Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan, 3 November 2016 (UNHCR) – Amid the familiar bustle of daily life in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp, something out of the ordinary is taking place in a dusty yard outside one of the many thousands of shelters.
A dozen or so refugees are busy erecting sets, setting up lights and cameras, and donning makeup and costumes.
Ahmed Hareb and his friends are about to start filming on their soap opera, entitled Ziko & Shreko.
Threat of acute malnutrition, increased morbidity and mortality – In October 2016, at least 100,000 children under the age of five at risk as access to food worsens in the areas worst hit by Hurricane Matthew.
An estimated 500,000 children live in the Grande Anse and Sud departments in southern Haiti, the areas worst hit by the full strength of the class 4 Hurricane Matthew. (Left) A bowl of beans culled from a devastated crop in Jérémie. (Right) An aerial view of southern Haiti.
Beirut, Lebanon, 4 November 2016 (UNHCR) – Standing over a waste-filled garbage cart, Gharam, 36, sifts through plastic bottles and cardboard boxes at a recycling centre in Ouzai, on the outskirts of Beirut.
Gharam is one of six Syrian refugee women who was offered their first ever paid job at Recycle Beirut – a year-old Lebanese recycling project that aims to contribute to solving the protracted waste crisis that has plagued Lebanon since 2015, and offer much-needed work opportunities for vulnerable Syrian refugees in the country.
WASHINGTON DC, Nov 2 2016 (IPS) – For those of us who ever feel conflicted about the United Nations, the past month has been an exercise in managing absurd cognitive dissonance. First, on October 21 2016, the United Nations announced that the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder Woman would be its new mascot for promoting the empowerment of women and girls.
The news naturally sent serious women around the world into a collective swirl, and then a reach for their golden lassoes, to capture the attention of an institution that seems perpetually tone deaf on the issue of basic equality and respect for half the world’s population.
It also prompted female staff at the UN to protest in silence, through literally turning their backs on the occasion.
Then, on October 25th the UN Security Council held its annual open debate on the groundbreaking ‘Women, peace and security agenda’, now in its 16th year of existence – still full of promise, and yet barely realized. So what’s going on?
ROME, 1 November 2016 (IPS)– About 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic – six or more times higher than international pollution guidelines – that it can cause serious health damage, including harming their brain development.
On 24 October 2016 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, children pass in front of a flame fed by waste and rubber materials in order to make Kanda, a type of smoked meat, at an abattoir. Photo: UNICEF/Tanya Bindra.
1 November 2016 (RT) – The energy it takes to be a US official those days! When Washington is not busy muddying the political waters with its whitewashing of radicalism, it is playing liberation games in the Levant. Alas, the US wants Raqqa and Mosul free at once.
And so I ask: Who are they kidding?
**Humvee down after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attack in Mosul, Iraq 2014-06-14 | Author: Omar Siddeeq Yousif | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
1 November 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – “Future of the World between Globalization and Regionalization” – European Center for Peace and Development, Belgrade, 2-29 Oct 2016 –Summary:
Johan Galtung
Most states are too small given the speeds of transportation and communication–hence regionalization of neighbors with cultural similarities.
The biggest states, China-India-Russia-USA-Indonesia-Australia-Brazil, are in fact regions.
The next step, globalization, is very problematic. We have overcome geographical distance but not cultural distance.
And USA uses globalization for world hegemony financially. Better would be a North American region with Canada, for dialogue with other regions. The Rest will work on globalization, but how?
We are witnessing these years a historical transition from a world state system to a world region system. There are about 7:
31 October 2016 – Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service – For more than a century, a poison cartel has experimented with and developed chemicals to kill people, first in Hitler’s concentration camps and the war, later by selling these chemicals as inputs for industrial agriculture.
In a little over half a century, small farmers have been uprooted everywhere, by design, further expanding the toxic fields of the industrial agriculture.
In India, a country of small farmers, the assault of the poison cartel has driven millions off the land and pushed 300,000 farmers to suicide due to debt for costly seeds and chemicals. The GMO seeds have failed to control pests and weeds.
Instead they are creating super-pests and super-weeds, trapping farmers deeper in debt.
And it is not just farmers who are dying. Our soil organisms and pollinators are dying. Our soils are dying. Our societies are dying. Our children are dying—because of diseases caused by food loaded with toxics.
The introduction of GMOs, by the Poison Cartel, has accelerated the crisis of disease and death.
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