114 countries voted for the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Richard Goldstone Report on Gaza, 18 voted against, 44 abstained, and 16 were absent.
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Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.
HC re Gaza: "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly ...What was it if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians."
The UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.
The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.
Home to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.
The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach
In this interview with Newsweek Ahmadinejad clearly does not dispute the Jewish Holocaust as part of the 60 million people killed in WW2 but says "Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"
Fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
Shocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"
Describes current utterly unacceptable "justifications" of racism in UK: "But, to borrow a phrase from John Major, on the issue of race and the rise of the far right, it is time to condemn a little more and understand a little less. "
Prof. Bill Cook & Frederick Douglass (1852) re US under war-maker Obama : "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour." "
On 1st anniversary of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, IJAN remembers the anniversary of Sabra and Shatila and over 61 years of Palestinian struggle against Zionist ethnic cleansing (Genocide).
"It is important to defend the Maldives which is on the frontline of climate change. If it can happen today to our nation, tomorrow it can happen with you as well...climate change is happening and the world is going to end."
Faced with Dr Fankhauser's 350 ppm CO2 proposal MP Barry Gardiner, asked the 120 legislators present whether they believed limiting CO2 concentration to 350 ppm by 2050 was practicable. Only two said yes.
"[Re 350 ppm CO2] I think it's a very sensible long-term target…People have to be aware that is a truly long-term target... get them down to levels which will move concentrations of CO2 back down towards 350ppm."
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Pachauri: "But as a human being I am fully supportive of that goal [below 350 ppm CO2]. What is happening, and what is likely to happen, convinces me ... [of] moving toward a 350 target "
Key quote: "scientists have insisted in recent years that 350 parts per million is the most carbon dioxide we can safely have in the atmosphere. The current CO2 concentration is 390 parts per million."
Quote: "no longer "Homeland or Death"; it is truly and without exaggeration a matter of "Life or Death" for the human race...In Copenhagen, the ALBA and the Third World countries will be struggling for the survival of the species."
NYT summary of 24 October 2009 350 Day: "[for] an international climate accord:a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."
Quote: "neoconservative vision of setting up a western-style, democratic state in Afghanistan - endorsed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, among others - lies in ruins, discredited by widespread and state-engineered fraud"
24 October is UN Day but also 350 Day for activists around the world demanding a return of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to no higher than 350 parts per million (ppm) - Scientists say 300-350 ppm CO2.
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Leading paleoclimate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson say that we have exceeded the CO2 concentration (300 ppm) for last 0.8 million years of man's final evolution and for human agriculture over the last 8,000 years.
Michael Brull: "Terrorism is a substantive concept. Any definition of this concept must include the intentional use of force against civilians to achieve political goals. This is exactly what the Goldstone report ... Israel is guilty of. "
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Helo Rhisiart,
Thank you very much for your kind and supportive comments here and on Media Lens. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to inform others about all abuses of humanity - we cannot walk by on the other side.
In particular we must speak out for the Indigenous Peoples of this World e.g. the Inuit (threatened by First World-derived global warming that will see all Arctic summer ice gone within 4years); the Occupied Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans (post-invasion excess deaths 0.3 million, 2.3 million and 3-7 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million; refugees 7 million, 6 million and 4 million - genocides as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention); the Indigenous Australians in Australia's Northern Territory - subject to race-based discriminatory laws and ongoing Aboriginal Genocide by Apartheid Australia (9,000 Australian Aboriginal excess deaths annually from an Aboriginal population of 0.5 million), and having an "annual death rate" of 2.4% as compared to 0.4% (what it should be), 3% (Bengalis starved to death by the British in the "forgotten" WW2 Bengali Holocaust in 1943-1945), 2.5% (for Australian sheep), 2.9% (inmates of the Nazi German Buchenwald death camp), 7.0% (under-5 year old Afghan infants in US alliance- and Australian-occupied Afghanistan), 10.1% (Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in WW2), and 17% (Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, 1941-1945).
Of course all of this horror suffered by Indigenous Peoples pales into significance in comparison with worsening, First World-driven climate genocide (global warming currently contributes to 16 million excess deaths from deprivation annually and from top climate scientist estimates is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century - including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims, 2 billion Indians and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis).
Please inform everyone you can.
Cymru am byth! (Wales for ever!). Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn! (The Red Dragon will show the way!).
Cofion gorau, Gideon Polya
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Siwmae (Hiya) Gideon,
I wanted to send you a private email, but couldn't find an address. So --
Just wanted to say that I picked up your name and some of your commentaries from your reposting of them on the Medialens Message Board, and I've been impressed by your unusual level of uncompromising honesty at calling the very ugliest of the spades in our time by their proper names: spades, not earth-relocating non-powered equipment.
I agree particularly with your constant effort to publicise just what a genocidal species we can be, when we adopt the Western-imperialist mode of being.
As you can imagine, this reality, universally invisible amongst almost everyone in Western-type societies, isn't popular. But it needs to be shouted out, over and over again, with constant careful verification and evidence-presentation, until it becomes more familiar -- as it surely should.
Naturally, pioneers such as you will have to go through the usual knee-jerk responses of those who detest your truth-telling: 'First they ignore you; then they rubbish you; then they fight you; then you win.' But that's just their inadequacy at facing up to truths that they don't happen to like.
I hope you won't weaken or quit, Gid. This stuff needs saying resolutely, for as long as it takes to get it accepted as the truth that it is.
Cofion gorau (Best remembrances), Rhisiart Gwilym
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"Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein gives some rational to the insane events of the past 50 years.
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"Complacency is the mother of all evil".. Keep spreading the truth!
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Dear Dr. Polya,
I read with interest your great article "Were US & Israel Behind the 9/11?"
Having studied 9/11 for years, I believe you are on target! I think you might also enjoy looking at the theory of Dr. Judy Wood. You see, the US has a great "controlled opposition" going on with the "allowable" alternative theory of the towers being felled by explosions that the US President George W. Bush told us were planted there by "Operatives."
Here is the US leader [sic] telling us what happened on 9/11:
"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping. "
Since 60 percent of Americans (and 100 percent of non-Americans) know that this man lies each and every single time he opens his mouth? You and I can rest assured that no Muslim "operatives" planted any explosives high up in the towers!
Explosives in the backpacks of Muslim cave-dwellers inside the WTC in NYC? I don't THINK so, Mr. Bush!!!
Here's the theory, however, I actually buy - the one that points the finger on the US military as the real and primary perps:
I also wanted to mention to you that if you are doing a book on global mortality, you miiiiiiight just wish to include the death of the planet, courtesy of primarily US toxic, radioactive Uranium munitions and above-ground military training and uh, "testing" (and nuke tests, too).
I am a writer/activist around the subject of so-called "Depleted" Uranium and do believe that the US is de-populating the world quite nicely - and permanently, too!
I am considering a "holiday" in Australia. One that never ends, that is. I hear that the fascism hasn't taken as firm a grip there - yet...
Good luck to you on your book! And may you continue to expose the Evil Doers in my midst!
Best wishes,
Cathy Garger
savorsuccesslady3@yahoo.com
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I'd like to get in touch with Dr Gideon Polya. If you can help with a working email address I'd be very grateful.
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Dr. Polya...Your messages are valuable. We have an English language discussion list with 220, half Arab; we require UNQUALIFIED support for the Palestinian right of return for membership.
We have found that the principle avoids the domination of 'liberal' zionists as seen on most English language sites.
Let me know if you would like to add your name so tath we could automatically receive these messages. You could avoid receiving our daily traffic...
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Gideon brings a scientific analysis of the consequences of politics which I wish received more consideration in the making of policy. It's very important information he puts forward - essential reading.
— Djehuty
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Your persistent world view based on ethical calculus and excess mortality rates and your consistent push for rational humanism is simply impressive, Gideon.
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