18 countries voted against UN Resolution on Goldstone Report

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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Pro-US, pro-Zionist Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report at UN General Assembly

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.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez accuses State of Israel of Palestinian Genocide

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."

UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report on Israeli et al Gaza atrocities

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.

Order of Australia for General Petraeus who led US Alliance forces in Occupied Iraq (!)

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.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution: Victoria dirtiest state in one of dirtiest countries, Australia

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.

Oz Government CSIRO bid to GAG top economist's attack on Obama-style carbon ETS

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

Ahmadinejad:"Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"

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?"

Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rig

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) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling

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.

Roy: "The heart of India is under attack" in state violence-backed corporate land grab

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"

Mehdi Hasan, UK New Statesman: "There's nothing to debate about racism"

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. "

Cook on Gaza: Where Is Frederick Douglass? Or The Return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright

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." "

1st anniversary of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) vs ethnic cleansing

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).

Maldives President: save us from global warming - today to US means tomorrow to YOU

"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."

"We should be terrified": Top Scientists' 350 ppm CO2 by 2050 Too Ambitious, Say MPs

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.

Top climate economist Sir Nicholas Stern endorses 350 ppm CO2 long-term target

"[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."

Top UN climate scientist Dr Pachauri backs 350 ppm CO2 limit for atmosphere CO2

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 "

350 Day actions for 350 ppm CO2 target by youth activists in Guwahati, Assam, India

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."

Fidel Castro: ALBA countries to defend humanity at Copenhagen & survival of the species

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."

New York Times report on 350 ppm CO2 target & 350 Day events around the world

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."

UK New Statesman Leader: Why Britain must abort mission in Afghanistan

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 Oct 350 Day - scientists say return air CO2 to 300-350 ppm

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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Glikson - 350 ppm CO2 the Upper Limit Of Human Habitats; draw down BELOW 350 ppm

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.

Leading anti-racist Jewish writer: Goldstone Report's Clear Findings Of Israeli Terrorism

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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