Help Map and Shut Down the Proliferation of Military Bases!

Become a part of the movement to shut down the over-build up of military bases around the world. Transnational Institute has a web page with information on how you can help in identifying military bases in your area:

> Download military bases google earth file (KMZ file, 115KB)

> Install google earth

> Feedback form. Help us map all the bases worldwide

> Get involved in the No-bases movement

The U.S. has the largest amount of bases around the world but France, Russia, Germany, and Britain aren't far behind.

Say NO to military build-up!

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Genocide in Iraq Continues; Now Aided by U.S.

As we are asked to spend trillions more on the 'war on terror' (which is to say the war on the people of this whole world and no one [except the elitist] is exempt) where does all the money go?? It must be going straight to the elitist bank accounts, to their stocks in all the companies that are bankrolling this horrendous trumped up affair.

IRAQ: Saddam Provided More Food Than the U.S.
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail

BAQUBA, Dec 27 (IPS) - The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive.

The government also wants to reduce the number of people depending on the rationing system by five million by June 2008.

Iraq's food rations system was introduced by the Saddam Hussein government in 1991 in response to the UN economic sanctions. Families were allotted basic foodstuffs monthly because the Iraqi Dinar and the economy collapsed.

The sanctions, imposed after Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait, were described as "genocidal" by Denis Halliday, then UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq. Halliday quit his post in protest against the U.S.-backed sanctions.

The sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults, according to the UN. They brought malnutrition, disease, and lack of medicines. Iraqis became nearly completely reliant on food rations for survival. The programme has continued into the U.S.-led occupation.

But now the U.S.-backed Iraqi government has announced it will halve the essential items in the ration because of "insufficient funds and spiralling inflation."

Read the rest of the story here.

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If Doctors Could Edit the Newspapers...

The crises in our world are great and the Doctors Without Frontiers/Borders work tirelessly to battle disease, famine and genocide against ever surmounting odds. This article focuses on some of those areas that they struggle to bring medical help - Columbia, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Burma, Chechnya, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo - and the malnutrition and tuberculosis that they see every day.

From The Independent
10 humanitarian crises forgotten (but not gone)

If doctors edited newspapers... The frontline physicians at Médecins Sans Frontières have chosen the 10 humanitarian crises that should have been given more coverage in 2007.
By Claire Soares and Daniel Howden

Published: 20 December 2007

Colombia

While the cocaine trade regularly features in the headlines, little attention is devoted to the scale of the internal refugee crisis. After four decades of civil conflict that has evolved from a war of political ideologies to a struggle for territory and control over the narcotics trade, large numbers of Colombians live in areas controlled by militia or guerrillas. With basic human rights under threat and unpredictable violence endemic in many rural areas, millions have fled to the shantytowns – or barrios – that ring every major town. Nearly four million people live in these insecure settlements cut off from basic state services such as mains electricity, water and health care. In the endless slums that now choke the capital, Bogota, areas are divided up and fought over by the same paramilitaries and left-wing rebels that blight and dominate the countryside.

Sri Lanka

After a quarter of a century of fighting, this year will be remembered among the bloodiest in Sri Lankan history. The civil war between the government forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers flared back into life last year and has kept worsening. International efforts to resolve the conflict have made no headway as key figures on both sides appear to have decided that a military solution is possible. Targeted bombings, mine attacks, suicide bombings, abductions, recruitment of child soldiers have all followed. The civilian toll in a country already flattened by the 2004 tsunami has been horrendous. Hundreds of thousands of people in need of humanitarian aid have been forced to flee to makeshift camps and the situation has been compounded by a climate of hostility and suspicion towards aid agencies. MSF is among the few agencies still operating in frontline areas, such as Point Pedro and Vavuniya, where doctors are desperately needed.

Read the rest of the story here.

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Two Members of Doctors Without Borders Kidnapped

December 26, 2007

MSF Asks Somali Authorities for Safe and Immediate Release of Two Staff Members

'Our priority now is that our two colleagues are released without harm'

Bossaso, Somalia/Barcelona, December 26, 2007 — After confirming that two of its staff members have been taken by force this morning in Bossaso, Somalia, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has urgently called for the immediate and safe release of its colleagues: Mercedes García, a Spanish doctor, and Pilar Bauza, an Argentinean nurse. They were taken while on their way to a MSF feeding center set up to treat malnourished children near camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in Bossaso, in the Puntland region of Somalia.

Rest of the story here.

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Good vs. Evil

Chances are that websites that are trying to get good messages out to the public will fail compared to websites that are promulgating propaganda. Why do I say this? Because it's true. I have no facts, no figures, no glaring charts to present just a solid gut feeling that this is the case.

In the Bible we are told to seek and we shall find. Those that seek will find the information that they are looking for and they will find it a strange path, at first, but they will be compelled, almost, to continue. They will know they are on the right path because they will just feel that it is right. People will find the websites that are speaking truth - but it may not be all the truth, just bits and pieces. You have to keep seeking.

In seeking you are going to find that it is going to take you into extraordinary places that you may not have considered before. The thing to remember is to keep an open mind.

All things that you have been taught are irrelevant and are probably harmful to you ultimately. The universe we live in has rules and laws but bad things can and will happen. It's part of the 'deal.' It's a give and take, a balancing, the light and the dark, the yin and the yang...

You need to remember that opening your eyes and your ears, seeking and knocking, all pointed out in the Bible, are important clues to finding out what environment you really live in. It is not as you think or suppose. Just keep following your spirit, your soul, your heart. When you feel that something isn't right turn away and go down another path. After a short time you'll know the feeling (if it is something that is foreign to you now).

Consider our life something on the grounds of the Matrix or the Borg, if you will. Consider things as basic as good vs. evil - God vs. Satan. Consider fantastical things, such as multi-dimensional and time travel. These things will bring you closer to what life really is - it is not what you think it is. We have been programmed and mind-controlled to think it is otherwise - let go!

Things are happening rapidly to shut down good; I can feel it. It is getting stronger every day. The important thing is to fight it. Fight it with positiveness, joy and true love and kindness for your fellow people. When traffic is heavy say prayers or think positive thoughts. When someone cuts you off shoot an arrow of kindness at them. Remember when someone slaps you turn the other cheek! Remember that adage in all that you do!

Many people get on the Internet and try to help other people and in the process we help ourselves. I have found what I have been seeking. I don't like it, I'll be honest, but I understand now. I will continue to post for as long as I can but I feel a tremendous amount of pressure building on my side and I don't like it. I am only one person and I feel as if I am up against an army.

I love and trust God and I put my faith in him. However, I am not hesitant to say that I am afraid for all people all over this world most especially my family. But I do not think I can save my family and that hurts the most. It tears me up. I am not worried about myself but I wish that I could do something, anything to protect them.

Remember, it's good and evil, it's that basic. It really is. People will say that people like me are crazy. We're not. I'm not. It's very, very hard to maintain a sense of being sane in an insane world but I am not insane.

The reality of the world that we live in is very different than what we suppose. One thing I don't like is all the talk about having an RFID chip installed in my body. Don't like and I am one of those 50% that opposes it. It goes against my whole physical and spiritual being.

It's an odd day today. Really crazy outside. Strange weather and I saw chemtrails. I feel something all around and it doesn't feel friendly. I don't like it. I feel challenged - strange, eh? Wish I had a darn orgone generator now... Gotta get one.

Well, back to searching and seeking. See you back here.

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U.S. Asserts it Has the Right to Kidnap

Our government grows bolder and stupider by the day... Now we say that we can kidnap foreigners if we believe that they are wanted for crimes in the U.S. Talk about opening Pandora's box!

The news broke in the Sunday edition of U.K.'s TimesOnLine.

Most people believe that kidnapping occurred only in the worst cases such as with terrorists. But American legal experts pointed out that kidnapping dates back to the 19th century and Washington believes it is still legal.

Alun Jones QC, representing the U.S. government stated that

"if you kidnap a person outside the United States and you bring him there, the court has no jurisdiction to refuse — it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s. That is United States law."

He went on to cite the case of Humberto Alvarez Machain who was kidnapped by DEA agents in 1990. Mexico attempted to intercede on his behalf but the Supreme Court ruled that it had no legal remedy.

Patrick Mercer, Tory MP, expressed concern stating,

“The very idea of kidnapping is repugnant to us and we must handle these cases with extreme caution and a thorough understanding of the implications in American law.”

The director of the human rights group Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said,

“This law may date back to bounty hunting days, but they should sort it out if they claim to be a civilised nation.”

And, of course, our U.S. Justice Department declined to comment because they don't know anything about it.

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