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Eternal Life [According to Millenary Vedas]
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
The eternal truth is one and the same for all. God is not different with different names. All human beings have different fate and mentality in life due to their actions of past life. We have ancestry in single DNA with eternal Vital fundamental Energy as source of all. The life is eternal, under the cycle of birth and death.
→ read full articleAnother Iatrogenic Illness Unveiled: Kris Kristofferson’s Dramatic Cure of His “Incurable” Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Those labeled as the “mentally ill” are not much different from those of us who call ourselves “normal”. But we “normals” have just been lucky enough to have not yet decompensated because of some yet-to-happen, desperation-inducing life situation. And thus we may not have yet been given a billable diagnosis with a billable code number, and so we have not yet been prescribed some unaffordable prescription drug that could put us on the road to permanent dependence, disability and institutionalization. “The term “iatrogenic” means doctor, drug or surgery-caused disease. It is a taboo subject today.”
→ read full articleAll Eyes on You
Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Thirty-two years after 1984, Big Brother is here. In many cases, we’ve invited him in. How does this constant surveillance affect us and what, if anything, can we do about it? There’s no question our privacy has been eroded with the help of technology. As Scott McNealy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, famously said: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
→ read full articleOlympic Games – More Media Show than Sports Event
Mario Osava – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Aug 2016
Brazil’s first gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics gave it a new multipurpose heroine, Rafaela Silva, whose defeat of the favourites in judo has made her a strong voice against racism and homophobia. Not only is she black and poor, but she just came out as gay. Colourful figures like Silva or Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, or unbeatable U.S. swimming legend Michael Phelps, are crucial in the Olympics, which have become a huge global media event, more than the leading international sports competition.
→ read full articlePolls
Bob Gorrell – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Another way to look at the plot…
→ read full articleFrom Negative Leadership to Healing Leadership: A Therapy Strategy to Remedy African Instability
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
For Africa to address the many problems that cause conflicts – such as widespread corruption, economic inequality and exclusion of certain ethnic and social groups – it is essential to have democratic, well-governed states. To achieve peace and stability, Africa must recycle its current leadership by putting emphasis on the demilitarization of the minds and political institutions.
→ read full articleHolding Monsanto to Account: The People’s Tribunal in The Hague
Heidi Chow | Global Justice Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Civil society groups from around the world are holding an international ‘people’s tribunal’ to hold Monsanto to account for its impacts on communities and the environment. The Tribunal will be held at The Hague and conducted by legal professionals and practicing judges. It will consider whether Monsanto is guilty of the following:
→ read full articleWhose Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?
→ read full article(Português) De tempos em tempos a plutocracia brasileira tenta um golpe
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
No atual processo de impeachment à Presidenta Dilma contam com um aliado poderoso: o complexo jurídico-policial do Estado que substitui as baionetas. O vice Presidente usurpou o título de Presidente e montou um ministério de pantomima com vários ministros corruptos.
→ read full article(Português) Eu o/a desafio a não virar vegetariano/a…
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Muitas pessoas não assistem esses documentários porque isso significa sair da zona de conforto e confrontar a realidade que envolve a produção de alimentos de origem animal. Sim, não existe alimento de origem animal que não envolva dor ou privação. E quando alguém fala em bem-estarismo animalista penso apenas no quão insensível o ser humano é capaz de ser.
→ read full articleAs Our Cultural Heritage in Syria Hemorrhages, Villagers Work to Restore It
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
At times, this observer becomes enervated, discouraged, depressed, and perhaps cynical, at all the carnage being inflicted on innocents in Syria. Yet I remain convinced from my experience in Syria itself that it will be the Syrian people themselves who will preserve, protect and restore this cradle of civilization’s endangered cultured heritage.
→ read full articleUnholy Secrets: The Legal Loophole That Allows Clergy to Hide Child Sexual Abuse
Jack Jenkins | Think Progress – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“Rather than help Mayeux, her lawyers say the priest told her simply to move past the abuse, suggesting she ‘sweep it under the floor and get rid of it’” because “too many people would be hurt” if she brought it out into the open.
→ read full articleThe Future Belongs to the Optimists
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The two-state solution is not ideal, but real. It means that each of the two peoples can live in a state it calls its own, under its own flag, with its own elections, parliament and government, police and education system, its own Olympic team. The two states will, by choice or necessity, have joint institutions, that will evolve in the course of time and by free will from the necessary minimum to a much wider optimum. Perhaps it will come close to a federation, as mutual relations widen and mutual respect deepens.
→ read full articleBroadspectrum ‘Violating’ Human Rights at Australian Offshore Detention Centers
Pratap Chatterjee | CorpWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
New reports accuse employees of Broadspectrum Limited of providing appalling living conditions and neglecting the care of their charges. Broadspectrum was awarded a A$1.5 billion (US$1.2 billion) contract by the Australian government in October 2012 to manage Australia’s detention centers on Manus and Nauru islands. At the present moment, an estimated 847 people are being held on Manus and 466 people are being held in Nauru.
→ read full article‘Dreaming of Freedom:’ Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
8 Aug 2016 – This is a collection of reflections by child prisoners in their own words, edited by Norma Hisham. It is a successor to her earlier volume of Palestinian prison recollections. I post below some blurbs that convey the importance of Dreaming of Freedom and the text of my Foreword. As much as anything I have read, these texts convey the reality of the experience of all Palestinians living under occupation or as exiles or as a subjugated minority.
→ read full articleCon-quest Aesthetically Reframed via the Concordian Mandala
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Inspired by Implications of the Systemantics of the Discordian Mandala – As discussed, of particular interest in global discourse are the controversial implications of the prefix “con”, as used with both integrative connotations and those of condemnation or opposition — of contrariness and contradiction.
→ read full articleWill Russia Reject Neoliberalism?
Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson – CounterPunch,
15 Aug 2016
Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson explain why hooking Russia’s fate to Western neoliberalism would doom the country’s sovereignty.
→ read full articleMaking America Great Again
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The United States has more people dying of guns and violence every year than any other country on earth, including China with six times of the population in size. It is now fully obvious that those in power who want to see all people having guns and weapons without limit are those who view these deadly elements as a good means of making more and more money.
→ read full articleThe New Economy: A Living Earth System Model
David Korten | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Treat the visible problem—a defective product or an underperforming employee—as the symptom of a deeper system failure. Look upstream to find and correct the system conditions responsible for the system failure. Otherwise the problem will simply reoccur. David Korten contrasts what he calls the self-destructing “suicide economy” we have and a “living Earth economy” that self-organizes toward ecosystem health and balance, shared prosperity, and living democracy.
→ read full articleWar on Climate Terror (I): Deserts Bury Two Thirds of African Lands
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
15 Aug 2016
9 Aug 2016 – Two-thirds of the African continent is already desert or dry-lands. But while this vast extension of the second largest continent on Earth after Asia is “vital” for agriculture and food production, nearly three-fourths of it is estimated to be degraded to varying degrees.
→ read full articleThe Harp
Anna Banasiak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Jerusalem
I hear the yearning in Your voice
Rashi’s commentaries are hidden in the rustle of trees
CIA Breaks Its Silence on “New Silk Road”: Says Challenging the BRICS and AIIB Was a “Mistake”
Rusticus | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Morell has “left” the agency after 33 years of so-called “service” for the express intent of publicly endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, which he did by publishing a gushing ovation in The New York Times. Morell emphatically declares that a Clinton regime would be more willing to “kill Russians” and “kill Iranians,” would be more apt to escalate war in Syria, and would doubtlessly be more likely to (as Charlie Rose puts it) “arm the Mujahidden.”
→ read full articleThe Historic Reversal of Populations
Joseph Chamie – Inter Press Service-IPS,
15 Aug 2016
It first happened in Italy in 1995. Five years later, it happened in six additional countries, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Japan, Portugal and Spain. Today the total number of countries where it has occurred stands at 30, including most members of the European Union. In fifteen years that number is expected to nearly double and include Australia, Canada, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States.
→ read full articleHuman Nature: An Evolutionary Paradox
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
From the standpoint of evolutionary theory, this is a paradox. As a species, we are well on the road to committing collective suicide, driven by the flaws in human nature. But isn’t natural selection supposed to produce traits that lead to survival? Today, our emotions are not leading us towards survival, but instead driving us towards extinction. What is the reason for this paradox?
→ read full article(Türk) İdeoloji ve din psikolojisi
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. | Alternatif Siyaset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Yaşantımızı sürdürmek üzere günlük kararlarımızın alınmasında etkili ve dünyevi konularda da önem arz eden iki faktör; din ve ideolojidir.
→ read full articleUkraine, Instability, and the US Election – No Way Out?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
15 Aug 2016
Headline: Ukraine claims Russian invasion possible ‘at any minute’ – The headline shown above is from the Irish Times, over a story quoting unnamed sources in the Kiev government, who in turn quote unnamed sources in Crimea. Nothing in the story, taken as a whole, supports the fearmongering headline. Even Kiev acknowledges that Russian troop movements are exercises, of unstated scale at an unstated distance from the border.
→ read full articleMusicians
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Ben Zanders, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, led an audience of 1000 at a conference…
→ read full articleProust on Love and How Our Intellect Blinds Us to the Wisdom of the Heart
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“Our intelligence, however lucid, cannot perceive the elements that compose it and remain unsuspected.”
→ read full articleThe UN Steps Up Efforts to End Child Marriage
Babatunde Osotimehin – Inter Press Service-IPS,
15 Aug 2016
This year, more than 60 million 10 year-old girls worldwide will have started their journey through adolescence. Sadly, millions of them will be forced into adult responsibilities. Puberty brings a whole host of risks to girls’ lives and their bodies, including child marriage and all its consequences.
→ read full articleDivide and Rule: How Factionalism in Palestine Is Killing Prospects for Freedom
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
In Palestine, factions perceive democracy to be a form of control, power and hegemony, not a social contract aimed at fostering dialogue and defusing conflict. Thus, it is no wonder that supporters of two Fatah factions, one loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and another to Mohammed Dahlan, recently clashed in Gaza. Several were hospitalized after sustaining injuries.
→ read full articleUncle “Sham” Says “Dance!”… And the Band Plays On…
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Most Americans are still getting their news from the Howdy-Doody-TV-Network “newsmen” and the Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring dolls of Fox. Six corporations—and a very special group it is!– control our news “media,” and we best recall what Voltaire wrote: “If you want to know who controls you, look at those you are forbidden to criticize!”
→ read full articleStock Answer
George Monbiot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Why I Took the Plunge At Last and Converted (Almost) to Veganism – The world can cope with 7 or even 10 billion people. But only if we stop eating meat. Livestock farming is the most potent means by which we amplify our presence on the planet. It’s the amount of land an animal-based diet needs that makes it so destructive.
→ read full articleOlympic Executioners: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
Mark Chapman – Oriental Review,
15 Aug 2016
The ‘Independent Commission’ did not question or interview any Russian athletes or officials except for the Stepanovs and Grigory Rodchenkov. “The IP did not seek to interview persons living in the Russian Federation …. I did not seek to meet with Russian government officials and did not think it necessary…” And, you see, that’s a problem. Because athletes on the Track and Field team who have never failed a drug test were banned, by association, from competing, on no grounds but their nationality.
→ read full articleWar on Climate Terror (II): Fleeing Disasters, Escaping Drought, Migrating
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS,
15 Aug 2016
11 Aug 2016 – “No one can deny the terrible similarities between those running from the threat of guns and those fleeing creeping desertification, water shortages, floods and hurricanes.”
→ read full articleSaudi Employer Owes Guest Workers Nearly $1 Billion in Back Pay
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The exploitation of migrant workers is turning into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleTwitter Censors What Israeli State Attorney Asks It To
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
At Israel’s request, Twitter is blocking Israelis from viewing certain tweets published overseas. Similar take-down notices have been sent to other international online platforms, the Justice Ministry confirms.
→ read full articleA Nonviolent Strategy to End War
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
There is a long history of anti-war and peace activism. Much of this activism has focused on ending a particular war, other at ending a particular aspect of war, such as the use of a type of weapon. Some of it has aimed to prevent a type of war, such as ‘aggressive war’ or nuclear war. For those activists who regard war as the scourge of human existence, however, ‘the holy grail’ has always been much deeper: to end war.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Aug 15-21~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “[W]e tend to underestimate the power of one person. One committed, determined person filled with lights can move mountains.” – China Brooks
→ read full article(Castellano) Intento de Golpe de Estado en Turquía, Nueva Constitución en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
¿Qué es lo que es la democracia? Según el realismo critico la palabra “democracia” –y cualquier otra palabra—es una herramienta de acción social. Hablar es actuar. Esgrimir la palabra “democracia” es una acción. Debe ser una acción responsable. Sucesos actuales en Turquía y en Chile subrayan la importancia práctica de esta perspectiva teórica.
→ read full articleWhy Are Elites Out of Touch? They Think Anyone Who Disagrees with Them Is Crazy
Nitzan David Foucks – The National Interest Magazine,
15 Aug 2016
Not a single expert has questioned his own beliefs. Not a single word on the dysfunction of the EU, or why exactly cosmopolitanism should be embraced. And the Brexit is just one example where the experts put the blame on the general public. Another is Trump. And again, instead of questioning why their voice has become irrelevant, the elites blame the masses. This trend cannot go on.
→ read full articleHome Demolitions Are Organized State Violence
Jews for Justice for Palestinians – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Over the last decade, Israel has demolished over 1,100 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, leaving homeless more than 5,199 people, including at least 2,602 minors. The extensive demolitions are part of a broader Israeli policy of forced transfer. The following speech was delivered at a conference on home demolitions held at the Knesset on July 27, 2016.
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People Have the Power (Music Video of the Week)
pattismithVEVO– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
“People Have the Power” is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred “Sonic” Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1988 album Dream of Life. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le fascisme ?
Annie Lacroix-Riz | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Remarques contemporaines sur la face non idéologique du fascisme : crise de surproduction et guerre aux salaires.
→ read full articleAftermath of Political Ruptures: Iran, Egypt, Turkey
Richard Falk | Social Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
12 Aug 2016 – This post offers a commentary of recent dramatic developments within Turkey and the largely critical international media and diplomatic responses. It compares international reactions to political ruptures in Iran (1979) and Egypt (2011, 2013), and encourages greater public attention to the importance attached by the Turkish citizenry to the defeat of the coup attempt and more sympathy with the kind of political leadership provided by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since the coup attempt of July 15th.
→ read full articleMilitary Dissent Is Not an Oxymoron – Freeing Democracy from Perpetual War
William J. Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
11 Aug 2016 – The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight. Having spent trillions of dollars on war with such sorry results, it’s a wonder that key figures in the U.S. military or officials in any other part of America’s colossal national security state and the military-industrial complex (“the Complex” for short) haven’t spoken out forcefully and critically about the disasters on their watch.
→ read full articleThe Recarbonisation Revolution
Dr. Petri Vasara – The Economist,
15 Aug 2016
The World Needs a ‘Recarbonisation Revolution’ of Global Material Flows – Recarbonisation requires moving from fossil carbon to biocarbon. The recarbonisation revolution offers a simple way to define the bio-economy: recarbonise materials, de-carbonise energy.
→ read full articleGreenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste
Andrea Thompson | Climate Central, Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
The military abandoned the ice-tunnel complex with tons of chemicals and radioactive materials.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | 9 August, the 71st Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
Unwelcome Truths for Church and State – 71 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly vaporizing, incinerating, irradiating and otherwise annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, men, women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were affected and a disproportionately large number of the Nagasaki victims were Christian.
→ read full articleGood Thinking: Those Who’ve Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons
A Documentary by Anthony Donovan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2016
This documentary 3.5 yrs in the making was slanted for release in Film Festivals fall 2016, and it was much preferred to have people view this on the big screen with others, however with the recent dangerous, irresponsible banter by most Presidential candidates about nuclear weapons, it is being released now freely to the public, in the hopes it will shed needed light, and widen the truth.
→ read full articleDreaming Again for Equality in India
Devanuru Mahadeva – Al Jazeera,
15 Aug 2016
The Dalits need to be mindful of what to expect and wise to organise the community, and continue their struggle.
→ read full articleTrump Apologizes, Wins over Critics
Timothy Braatz - CounterPunch,
15 Aug 2016
A parody–half of it is fact, the other half fiction. It points out the hypocrisy of US political discourse that is “scandalized” by Trump but supports murder overseas.
→ read full article(Italiano) La Norvegia oggi — Compiacenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
USA odino ancor più la Russia, e si semplifichino la vita restringendo la realtà russa a una persona, Putin, demonizzato quindi secondo la modalità descritta da Orwell in 1984. Il libro riguarda gli sforzi di costruire società irreversibili; si cita spesso “tutti gli animali sono uguali” di Animal Farm, certo, ma meno significativo. Il titolo avrebbe dovuto essere 1985, l’anno in cui Thatcher e Reagan cercarono di costruire un mondo irreversibile, un ordine capitalista anglo-americano.
→ read full articleEarth Overshoot Day Is Aug 8, 2016
Earth Overshoot Day – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
On August 8, 2016, we will have used as much from nature as our planet can renew in the whole year. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester.
→ read full article(Castellano) Gandhi y la desobediencia civil en India
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Mahatma Gandhi rompió los esquemas de las tradicionales protestas violentas para obtener algún fin. Este líder indio supo combinar la política, la religiosidad y su carisma hasta establecer un hito en la historia contemporánea: la independencia a través de la desobediencia civil.
→ read full articleState Dept Excuses Syria Rebel Group over Terror Attacks
Jason Ditz | AntiWar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
State Department spokesman Mark Toner downplayed the incidents, or the possibility that the US would stop arming Nour al-Din al-Zinki just because they beheaded a child and used chemical weapons. Insists ‘One Incident Here and There’ Doesn’t Make Them Terrorists’
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | Bernie Sanders and Aussie Gough Whitlam, Identical Political Twins fromTwo Eras
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Lessons for the Sanders’ Revolution of 2016 from the Doomed Progressive Politics of the Post-Vietnam Era in Australia
→ read full articleThe Shot Heard All Over the Country
Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The crew of an Israeli ambulance was treating the wounded soldier, ignoring the seriously wounded Arab who was lying on the ground. Several Israeli soldiers were standing around, also ignoring the Palestinian. About 10 minutes later Sergeant Elor Azaria, a medic, appeared on the scene, approached the wounded Palestinian and shot him point-blank in the head, killing him.
→ read full article(Italiano) I terroristi dell’Antropocene
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
8 Aug 2016
5 agosto 2016 – In un recente articolo sul New York Times1 l’autore, Max Fisher, riporta alcune idee espresse da due importanti figure pubbliche sullo scottante argomento delle armi nucleari. In una intervista rilasciata a marzo Donald Trump pose la domanda: “se l’ ISIS ci colpisse, non rispondereste con un ordigno nucleare?” In una successiva occasione, Trump ha chiesto ripetutamente: “Se le abbiamo, perché non possiamo usarle?”
→ read full article(Português) Leite de origem animal: o que o marketing nunca irá mostrar nos bastidores
Camila Jade Baungartel - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
8 Aug 2016
A realidade do consumo de leite de origem animal que o marketing esconde, desmistificando as falácias da medicina vinculada ao agronegócio, os malefícios que causa à saúde humana, os impactos ambientais, o equívoco do “bem-estar animal” de “vaca feliz” e o sofrimento de animais explorados por uma industria voltada exclusivamente para atender os desejos humanos.
→ read full article(Castellano) Google eliminó a Palestina del mapa y lo reemplazó por Israel
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
En un comunicado, periodistas palestinos han señalado que la acción de Google es “contraria a todas las normas y convenciones internacionales”.
→ read full articleThe Looming Financial Crisis Nobody Is Talking About, but Should Be
Shaun Bradley | Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Talking heads and hedge fund managers will be eternally optimistic on the outlook for the future, even as the collapse becomes undeniably obvious. Problems for the European Union will continue to build, and the risk of the disease spreading to other economies increases by the day. Unfortunately, this Ponzi scheme system we built our societies on has left us vulnerable to any well-timed black swan event.
→ read full article(Français) Banque mondiale, une zone de non-droit protégée par des juges
Renaud Vivien | Comite pour l'abolition des dettes illégitimes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Un tribunal de Washington a autorisé la Banque mondiale à ne pas répondre de ses actes devant la justice étasunienne |1|. Les plaignants indiens ont déjà fait appel de cette décision qui confère à la Banque mondiale une immunité qui la place de facto au dessus des lois.
→ read full articleRio 2016: The “Olympic Ideal” and the Reality of Capitalism
Bill Van Auken | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Olympics are being held under conditions of military occupation in Brazil, one of the world’s must unequal countries, wracked by economic, social and political crises.
→ read full articleIs Humility Compatible with a Healthy Self-esteem?
Mahatma Das | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aside from confusing humility with low self-esteem, people sometimes correlate the concept of high self-esteem with pride and self-absorption. But it is actually the contrary. People who exhibit high self-esteem also exemplify a more humble attitude toward others. They show a willingness to admit and correct mistakes, whereas persons with low self-esteem are often defensive and feel a need to prove they are right.
→ read full articleXi Jinping Is No Mao Zedong
Keyu Jin | Project Syndicate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Those who fear Cultural Revolution 2.0 need to understand that China is not the country it was 50 years ago. The soil for authoritarianism and a cult of personality has been plowed under by three decades of increasing openness and economic growth. No one understands this better than Xi.
→ read full articleMicrosoft Pitches Technology That Can Read Facial Expressions at Political Rallies
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
8 Aug 2016
Microsoft officials declined to comment on exactly what information is collected on each face and what data is retained or stored, instead referring me to their privacy policy, which does not address the question. Microsoft’s marketing did not seem to match the consent policy. “It’s difficult to envision how companies will obtain consent from people in large crowds or rallies.”
→ read full articleGlobal Surveillance Industry Database Helps Track Big Brother Worldwide
Deirdre Fulton – Common Dreams,
8 Aug 2016
“Without instruments capable of restricting transfers and shining a light on the companies and the trade, surveillance technologies developed in and traded from the West will further undermine privacy and facilitate other abuses,” says report.
→ read full articleA Guide to Online Security for Activists
Jillian C. York | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016 – The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world. Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.
→ read full articleHiroshima, Presidential Campaigns and Our Nuclear Future
Robert F. Dodge, M.D. | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Seventy-one years ago on August 6th and 9th the world entered the nuclear age with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and injuring in excess of 200,000 immediately and untold additional fatalities from lingering radiation effects.
→ read full articleDuty to Warn | August 1, 2016: The 50th Anniversary of the Start of America’s Mass School Shooting Epidemic
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
It is a fact that 90% of America’s school shooters were on prescription brain-altering psychiatric drugs – drugs that are well known to cause inebriation, intoxication, loss of impulse control, rage, aggression, homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, and temporary drug-induced mania and/or psychosis.
→ read full articleGoogle Slammed for Removing Palestine from Its Maps
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
4 Aug 2016 – The Palestinian Journalists’ Forum has denounced Google for deleting the name of Palestine from its maps and replacing it with Israel. In a statement released yesterday, the forum said Google’s decision to remove Palestine from its maps on 25 July “is part of the Israeli scheme to establish its name as a legitimate state for generations to come and abolish Palestine once and for all.”
→ read full articleTen Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl was repeated, albeit with a different set of circumstances, at Fukushima. Have our societies yet learned any lessons that will prevent the people of the future from experiencing such devastation? As poet Maya Angelou points out, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.”
→ read full articleAugust: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
August 8, 1994 – – In one of the twenty known incidents of the attempted illicit sale of Russian bomb-grade fissile materials in the last 25 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, security officials at Munich International Airport in Germany arrested individuals who were caught in possession of 363.4 grams of plutonium – enough to make one or more radiological weapons or dirty bombs.
→ read full articleTeam Clinton Focuses on the Demise of Hezbollah
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, table scraps from the Bush administration and from Obama…. Whatever success the Clinton team will have with its goal of destroying Hezbollah and however one evaluates Obama’s policy, this region appears headed for yet more prolonged violence and many more deaths of innocent civilians.
→ read full articleThe Global Campaign for Peace Education
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Global Campaign for Peace Education provides coverage of peace education from around the world, including original articles, research and stories cultivated from journals and independent and mass media sources.
→ read full articleSubtle Message
TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
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→ read full articleFidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
→ read full articleFalse Promises and Failures of Genetic Engineering: Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In fact, golden rice, if successful, will be 400% less efficient in providing Vitamin A…
→ read full articleThis Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
David Gauvey Herbert | Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you. The bottom line: IDI’s marketing databases may help PIs predict people’s moves or digitally peek into their cars or medicine cabinets.
→ read full articleNATO: Increasing the Role of Nuclear Weapons
Susi Snyder | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The majority of countries are ready to end the danger posed by nuclear weapons and to start negotiations for a treaty banning them. However, both documents issued by the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland 8-9 July 2016–the Summit Communiqué and the Warsaw Declaration on Transatlantic Security–reaffirmed the NATO commitment to nuclear weapons, and the Communiqué included a return to cold war style language on nuclear sharing.
→ read full articleOur Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
6 Aug 2016 – While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens the planet, we hear less and less from political leaders. Their focus is on the here-and-now—terrorism, jobs, immigration—and not on commitments to the future. Last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change seems like a distant memory.
→ read full articleFive Things Scarier Than a Nuclear-Armed Trump
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
A lot of the scariest stuff about nuclear weapons is discussed in classified briefings, things too devastating for our tender ears to hear—even though the policies and plans being discussed could turn our tender ears and the rest of our tender bodies to ash in a millisecond. Here are five things worth worrying about more than Donald Trump’s crazy.
→ read full articleErdogan Wants to ‘Smash NATO Secret Army’ Allegedly Involved in Attempted Coup
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
According to Turkish media reports, there was a secret NATO structure involved in the attempted coup that took place in Turkey on July 15, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten wrote. “If one wants to again create relationship of trust with the Western institutions, Gladio [clandestine NATO structure] in Turkey must be eliminated as it already was in several Western countries.”
→ read full article(Italiano) “I ragazzi sono in pericolo”: Benvenuti nella Guantanamo dei bambini
Noor el-Terk – Middle East Eye,
8 Aug 2016
“Stiamo vivendo l’impossibile, l’impensabile,” mi dice il padre di Mohamed Imad, quindici anni. Lo hanno sottoposto a elettro-shock, colpito in faccia, frustato, gli sono saltati sulla schiena: la lista degli orrori è infinita, suo padre a stento trattiene le lacrime. “Sapete, mio figlio è nato in Giappone. Ho scritto all’ambasciatore giapponese, ho chiesto se mandarlo in Giappone può servire a tenerlo al sicuro. Sarei disposto a rinunciare a mio figlio, il Giappone può prenderselo come uno dei suoi. I bambini qui sono in pericolo.”
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Military Robots and the Future of War
P.W. Singer |TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Video from 2009 Even More Relevant Today – Must Watch
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Aug 8-14 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
→ read full articleContext Matters: Turkey after the Failed Coup
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Part of the prescribed contextualization, given Turkish realities, is to avoid premature international appraisals, admit underlying uncertainties, and allow enough imaginative space to enable a hopeful future for Turkey.
→ read full article(Português) A história do veganismo
David Arioch | Jornalismo Cultural – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“Enquanto o ser humano for implacável com as criaturas vivas, ele nunca conhecerá a saúde e a paz. Enquanto os homens continuarem massacrando animais, eles também permanecerão matando uns aos outros. Na verdade, quem semeia assassinato e dor não pode colher alegria e amor”, disse o filósofo grego Pitágoras por volta de 500 anos antes de Cristo.
→ read full articleHealth Secrets of the Amish
Moises Velasquez-Manoff – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2016
Disease emerges from the dance between genes and environment. The asthma epidemic may stem, at least in part, from the decline of our “old friends” — the organisms our immune systems expect to be present in the environment. The newly sneezing upper classes in the 19th century may have been the first to find themselves without these old friends. Now most of the developed world has lost them.
→ read full articleSpeak Out Now! NO MORE WAR!
James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The U.S. Military is the world’s single largest consumer of oil and the largest emitter of of CO2 greenhouse gases. It has caused extensive radioactive and chemical contamination of the planet’s air, water, and soil. August 6th and 9th are days to remember the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
→ read full articleAustralia: Appalling Abuse, Neglect of Refugees on Nauru
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Investigation on Remote Pacific Island Finds Deliberate Abuse Hidden Behind Wall of Secrecy – “Few other countries go to such lengths to deliberately inflict suffering on people seeking safety and freedom. Driving adult and even child refugees to the breaking point with sustained abuse appears to be one of Australia’s aims on Nauru.”
→ read full articleJapan Seeks Talks with U.S. over ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Policy Change
The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Japanese government has expressed concern over reports that the Obama administration may be planning to implement a policy of “No First Use,” meaning that the U.S. would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. A senior Japanese government official said, “From the [standpoint of] Japan’s security, it is unacceptable.”
→ read full articleNonviolence: More Fundamental than Disarmament
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
At the 71st Anniversary of 129,000 People Who Died from Two Nuclear-Weapon Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, August 1945
→ read full articlePalestinian Detainees Continue Hunger Strike amid Deteriorating Health
International Middle East Media Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The radio reported on the status of various high-profile prisoners, principally Bilal Kayed, who continued his hunger strike Saturday [30 Jul] for the 46th day, which he began after he was transferred to administrative detention — Israel’s controversial policy of detaining primarily Palestinians without charge or trial — the day he was set to be released after completing a 14-year sentence. There are currently 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, 715 of whom are held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
There’s no shortage of water, it’s just that Israel doesn’t let Palestinians access it.
→ read full articleBreaking the Camouflage Wall of Silence: When AFRICOM Evaluates Itself, the News Is Grim
Nick Turse – Tom Dispatch,
8 Aug 2016
What comes next for AFRICOM will play out on the continent and in briefings before the Senate Armed Services Committee for years to come. If history is any guide, the number of terror groups on the continent will not decrease, the senators will fail to ask why this is so, and the media will follow their lead.
→ read full articleInternational Conference: Gandhian Perspectives on Contemporary Conflicts and Peace
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Ph.D. - Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace,
8 Aug 2016
November 3-4, 2016 ~ Orlando [Florida] Campus of the Hindu University of America ~ The Conference aims at exploring Gandhian principles, their problem solving potentials, and relevance of Gandhi for addressing global problems such as inter-state and intra-state conflicts, international peace, religious extremism, degeneration of human values, social and religious discord and violation of human rights.
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Beat It – Solo Guitar Arrangement (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | Miguel Rivera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
I decided to start working on this arrangement because it was a great challenge. When you listen to the chorus of the original song, you can hear the main riff sounding together with the Michael’s vocal melody and, of course, drums, bass and other instruments. My objective was to play all of these parts together.
→ read full articleThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Intelligence Agencies
Cortney Weinbaum | The National Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Some of society’s brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community—with its vast budgets and profound capabilities—have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations.
→ read full articleBruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
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