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Why the US Is Falling–and Faster than You May Expect: A 40-Year-Old Prediction Coming True
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – In my view, the US no longer has the capacity to lead itself effectively and find solutions to its own multi-dimensional crisis be it the economy, democracy, climate change, warfare addiction, social polarization, racism and on top of it all the Covid-19 crisis. Not being able to lead itself, no one should wish that the US should lead the world. Neither does it have any right to.
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(Italiano) L’impatto Ecologico del Militarismo
John Scales Avery | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
La crisi di civiltà cui siamo oggi di fronte è stata prodotta dalla rapidità di sviluppo della scienza e della tecnologia. Le nostre istituzioni e idee si adattano troppo lentamente al cambiamento. La grande sfida che la storia ha posto per la nostra generazione è il compito di costruire nuove strutture politiche internazionali che siano in armonia con la tecnologia moderna.
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Stop the Machine and Defend Our Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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(Français) Leçons Tirés de la Journée Internationale de la Paix de Cette Année
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – En regardant les résultats de notre enquête sur la Journée internationale de la paix cette année, je suis frappé par deux aspects, l’un à long terme et l’autre à court terme, qui sont de bon augure pour l’avenir.
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Lessons from This Year’s International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – Looking at the results this year from our survey of the International Day of Peace, I am struck by two aspects, one long term and one short term, that bode well for the future.
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Amnesty International Shutters Offices in India, Citing Government Attacks
Sameer Yasir and Hari Kumar | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – The human rights organization said today that it had ceased its operations in India and laid off its entire staff in response to a series of government reprisals including the freezing of its bank accounts. The actions, it says, are retaliations for criticizing the country’s human rights record.
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New Silk Road and the Asian Century: India, China and the Empire
Devdan Chaudhuri | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
29 Sep 2020 – For the much of human history on planet earth – till the 18th century – India and China were the two largest economies in the world and periodically interchanged the top position amongst themselves. An Asian century means that from a unipolar hegemonic world order dominated by the empire, a multi-polar world order – more diverse and representative – will emerge.
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Crumbling Case against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges Related to Whistleblowing
Micah Lee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 – 18 Dec 2011)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur whose property was confiscated by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
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Education for All — for Peace, Development, Skills
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Gandhi in his book Hind Swaraj (Home Rule) written in 1909, talked about modern civilisation, why India was colonised by the British, and Nai Talim (New Form of Education). The book was quickly banned by the British colonial government for being seditious. In this book, Gandhi stressed on education for girls and also on skills.
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Poor Guy…
Bored Panda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Imagine That
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Why Anarchism Is Dangerous
Dana Ward and Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Anarchist Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – Anarchists frighten privileged elites and their authoritarian followers not simply because the primary goals of the movement have been to abolish the sources of elite power – the state, patriarchy, and capitalism – but because anarchism offers a viable alternative form of social and political organization grounded in workplace collectives, neighborhood assemblies, bottom-up federations, child-centered free schools, and a variety of cultural organizations operating on the basis of cooperation, solidarity, mutual aid, and direct, participatory democracy.
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As His Extradition Trial Drags On, Media and Rights Groups Are Still Ignoring Julian Assange
Alan MacLeod | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
28 Sep 2020 – The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues in London. Many mainstream rights groups and media organizations have a mixed history when it comes to opposing Washington’s agenda. This case has been no exception even though widely seen as setting an important precedent for freedom of speech and of the media worldwide.
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Johan Galtung on the Future of the USA: Fascism or Blossoming?
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Prediction/Prognosis: 7 Jun 2010 – Prof. Galtung on his book, “Fall of the US-Empire: And Then What?”
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(Português) Quem gostaria de ser ‘bem tratado” para ser morto em seguida?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
27 set 2020 – No mercado, alguém no alto-falante diz: “Carne orgânica, de animais criados ‘livres’, que se alimentam apenas de pasto. Tudo dentro de condições de bem-estar animal. Aqui você encontra ovos de galinhas criadas soltas, que têm espaço para ciscar.” Basicamente são afagos na consciência humana. É como se dissessem que “ao comprar esses produtos você permite que os animais tenham uma boa vida”.
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More COVID Early Treatment Successes
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – In recent weeks, several more covid early treatment successes based on zinc, vitamin D and HCQ have been reported.
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Covid: The Big Picture in 7 Charts
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – Covid globally, compared to the flu, in nursing homes, in the USA, in Sweden, compared to epidemiological models, and the economic impact of political reactions.
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The Definition of Occupation
Abdelnasser Rashid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Occupied, terrorized, genocide
while the whole world is hypnotized,
Sixty years, incessant tears
The Evolution of COVID-19 Propaganda
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1] The Repetitive Use of Deceptive Imagery
2] Management of the News
3] Lying About the Worth of PCR Test Kits
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.
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Cosmic Consciousness: Maurice Bucke’s Pioneering 19th-Century Theory of Transcendence and the Six Steps of Illumination
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
We are not “patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance” but “specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life.”
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‘Round Midnight
Sean Reynolds | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – Currently 87 nations have signed, and 45 (of a needed 50) ratified, the U.N. treaty definitively criminalizing the obscene nuclear stockpiles of these nine rogue states: USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. Let’s ourselves exemplify the tremendous courage and compassion demanded of so many in the nations our government targets overseas, of the Plowshares activists now awaiting sentence.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Shared” has a good touch to it, something we have in common. Actually often referred to as “common security”. Same thing. “Security” has a military touch to it, not necessarily bad, but since the military is often used for attack in the name of security, their own, not shared, there is certainly a “how?” to be answered.
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Nicaragua, the Country That Didn’t Swallow the Covid Blue Pill
Jorge Capelán | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
26 Sep 2020 – For Nicaragua, the “blue pill” of lockdown or “stay at home” would have been pure cyanide, and since its leadership long ago took the red pill, it was able to discern the true interests behind the phony rich-country pandemic discourse and its hidden “great re-set” agenda.
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Civil Rights 2020
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
What change?
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue
The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative of Same Reality
The President Tested Positive for COVID-19. I Have 9 Questions.
Charles P. Pierce | Esquire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Around midnight, as Thursday [1 Oct] became Friday [2 Oct],and we learned that the pandemic had reached into the administration*’s innermost inner circle, and then into The Residence Itself, these were the things about which I began to wonder.
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Hawaiʻi ’78 (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Official Video – Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole – Hawai’i ’78
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Attorney: Fake PCR Test Created Fake Covid-19 Pandemic Scandal
Reiner Fuellmich - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
3 Oct 2020 – International Law of Crimes against Humanity: Dr. Fuellmich announces an International network of lawyers will argue the biggest tort case in world history.
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Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
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Entire Top of the Republican Party Has Been Exposed to COVID
Lachlan Markay | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
3 Oct 2020 – The web of those exposed by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis reads like a who’s who of his peripatetic campaign.
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Are Con-federal Structures Possible?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – On 27 Sep, military forces from Azerbaijan moved into six villages held by Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh area. The Prime Minister of Armenia warned that the two countries were “on the edge of war with unforeseeable consequences”. The President of Azerbaijan declared martial law and called up reserve military.
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The Pandemic That Never Was
Michael J. Talmo | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – COVID-19 is a label, a classification, a designation, a figment of the imagination—a complete and utter fraud. There is no reason to wear a mask. There is no reason to do any kind of social distancing. There was never any reason to lock down the economy. There is no deadly virus—only inaccurate tests and corrupt politicians controlled by global elitists who want to rob and exploit us. Face it folks, you’ve been had, hoodwinked, bamboozled, lied to, conned, duped. The world is the same this year as it was last year and every year before. There is nothing to be afraid of.
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A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?
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JPMorgan Pays $920 Million Settlement over Illegal Trades
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – Following hard on the heels of revelations that major global banks have been involved in a network of criminal money laundering, JPMorgan Chase has been fined $920 million for manipulating markets on two of its trading desks. The charges involved the practice of spoofing.
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The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
In this detailed and expansive book, the authors demonstrate that widespread violence is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful.
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Johan Galtung’s Conflict Transformation Theory for a Peaceful World
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
The paper highlights how the contributions of Johan Galtung has been able to change the institutional and individual attitudes, conviction systems, psychological understandings, and lifestyle of behaviors through applying transcend technique of conflict transformation.
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The Trouble with PCR Tests
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – Already in mid-March, SPR explained that the highly sensitive PCR tests are prone to producing false-positive results and their individual predictive value may easily drop below 50%. The issues with PCR tests are numerous:
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Another Wake-Up Call: Sea Ice Loss Is Speeding Up
UN Environment Programme - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
13 September 2020 marked a new, troubling milestone – with Arctic sea ice shrinking to the second-lowest extent ever recorded. We asked United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) climate change expert Pascal Peduzzi to explain the significance of sea ice loss.
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MI6’s “Man of Mystery” Is “Smoking Gun:” Britain’s Complicity in 1953 Iranian Coup Revealed
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – After 60 years of foot-dragging and dissembling, the U.S. government finally confessed and admitted its role in the bloody 1953 coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government led by Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh. Must-See New Documentary Exposes Britain’s Complicity in the 1953 Bloody Coup in Iran
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The Guardian’s Deceit-Riddled New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism
Jonathan Cook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
26 Sep 2020 – A decade ago, remember, the newspaper worked closely in collaboration with Assange and WikiLeaks to publish the Iraq and Afghan war diaries, which are now the grounds on which the US is basing its case. The paper barely bothered to cover the hearing, even though it is the most concerted attack on press freedom in living memory.
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Who is Rwanda’s Real Hero? Paul Kagame or Paul Rusesabagina?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long. “Rusesabagina is a longtime critic of Kagame’s regime and its catastrophic war on the Congolese people and the Rwandan refugee population.”
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(Italiano) L’ottagono: rango, squilibrio, discordanza e teoria bellica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Gli USA risultano il paese più inguaiato, e quindi molto attivo in tentativi di riequilibrio. Poi viene l’UE, in breve l’Occidente, seguito da India e Russia. Al minimo, il meno preoccupati in tal senso, sono Cina e LatinAmerica, alquanto equilibrate, seppur una a livello superiore, l’altra inferiore. Supporremmo che entrambe continueranno a salire in tutte le dimensioni, facendosi sentire, ma meno rumorosamente che l’Occidente, Russia e India.
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From Zoom Organization to Zome Configuration and Dynamics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
The concern in what follows is the quest for indications as to how the communication potential of virtual conferences might be more fruitfully organized — beyond past patterns of enabling the many to listen to the few. Those patterns can be seen as strangely echoing concern about the global resources controlled by “the 1%”, in contrast with those to which the remainder have access.
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2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 33.3 Million+ Positive; 1 Million+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
* Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
* Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
(Português) “Não podemos compactuar com violação de direitos humanos e crimes financeiros da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus”
Tatiana Merlino | Pública – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 set 2020 – Racismo, lavagem de dinheiro, imposição da prática de vasectomia e intromissão na vida conjugal dos pastores e bispos estão entre as denúncias. “Eu prefiro morrer do que perder essa causa para um negro.” “Não se deve dar pérolas aos porcos.” “Os africanos cheiram mal.” “Os negros têm lábios grossos e nariz avantajados porque seus antepassados olhavam para gorilas e macacos nas selva.” Essas são algumas das frases racistas que líderes religiosos brasileiros da IURD, entre eles seu líder máximo, Edir Macedo, teriam dito a bispos e pastores em Angola.
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Trump Undermines Democracy!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – It’s been a horrific week. The US surpassed 200,000 deaths from the Corona virus, the highest national total in the world by far. The country mourns the passing of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while Trump and the Republican Senate rush to replace her with a conservative before the election. Trump is all about Propaganda! He’s been a liar and Conman his entire life!
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A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut
Linda Greenhouse | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has just slammed the Guantánamo gate shut. Has anyone noticed? Guantánamo once stirred public passions. Now that the inmate population is down to 40, from the nearly 800 who passed through the prison in its 18-year existence so far, do people still care?
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The Ecological Impact of Militarism
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Those who say that there is not enough money to finance the Green New Deal forget the unimaginable amounts of money wasted, or worse than wasted, on militarism. We must divert this vast river of money from its present evil use to the constructive task of saving our planet from the existential threat of catastrophic climate change.
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Fires Turn Brazil’s Tropical Wetlands into Wildlife Death Traps
The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – A group of veterinarians attempts to rescue animals injured by fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948)
History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury/killing of living beings (ahimsa), and vegetarianism.
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Report Documents Criminality and Corruption at Heart of Global Banking System
Barry Grey | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
An explosive report published on 20 Sep by BuzzFeed News documents the role that major US and international banks knowingly play in laundering and circulating trillions of dollars in dirty money from terrorist organizations, drug cartels and assorted international financial criminals. The report is an unanswerable indictment not only of the banks, but also of Western governments and regulatory agencies.
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UAE/Bahrain Normalization with Israel: Peace or Geopolitics?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – the willingness to endorse these normalization agreements in the White House setting was a dramatic expression of identification with Trump’s regional diplomacy in the Middle East and a formalized repudiation of Palestinian aspirations for a sustainable peace based on their inalienable right of self-determination.
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The Death of Andre Vltchek, a Passionate Warrior for Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – For decades, Andre Vltchek, an old-school journalist and artist (but a young man) who traveled the world in search of truth and who always stood up straight, tried to revolve the world and encourage people to revolt against injustice. In this age of arm-chair reporters, he stood out for his boldness and indefatigable courage. He told it straight.
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Is There any Scientific Proof of the Existence of Higher and Lower Planetary Systems?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
There are different models of reality. Science is basically a map of reality and that map is meant for a particular perspective. For example, you are in place A and you want to go to place B to meet a friend. Someone gives you a map to get to place B.
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JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Named in Money Laundering Report
Rob Lenihan | TheStreet - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found five global banks moved “staggering sums of illicit cash, including $514 billion from JPMorgan and $1.3 trillion from Deutsche Bank, for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos and undermined democracy around the world.”
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The 10 Steps of Strategic Peacebuilding: Create Your Strategy to Build a More Peaceful and Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
The process for developing a peacebuilding strategy that I’ve structured over years working freelance creating strategies for peace with lots of groups.
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The Dark Side of 5G: Military Use
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – The Sep 12 demonstration “Stop 5G” in Rome rightly focused on the electromagnetic consequences for health and environment, and the decree that prevents mayors from regulating 5G antennas. However, it continues to ignore a fundamental aspect: its military use.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Sep 2020 – According to the latest immunological studies, the overall lethality of Covid-19 in the general population ranges between 0.1% and 0.5% in most countries, which is comparable to the medium influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
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(Português) A Violência Contra Animais no Cinema
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
17 set 2020 – Pode parecer que não, mas atualmente se usa muito menos animais no cinema do que no passado. Se compararmos a atualidade com o cinema praticado até a década de 1970 a diferença é gritante.
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New York Times Releases Sequel of Putin-the-Poisoner: The Incredulous Case of Mr. N
Roger Harris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The editorial board declares, “Many questions remain unanswered and are likely to remain so. Chief among them is whether President Vladimir Putin ordered or approved the attempted assassination.” Later in the editorial, this chief question is answered: “Mr. Putin knows what happened, or he can find out,” but “… he continues to hide behind glaringly phony denials.”
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Thought Seed – Sep 2020 Issue
Naresh Jotwani and Bhargav Vyas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Every culture offers, to those who seek, a right way to deal with difficulties. Indian culture is no different. In an attempt to re-discover our own solutions to problems, we have started a monthly letter we call Thought Seed. We are happy to share it with readers of the TMS Weekly Digest.
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U.S. Expands Military Bases in the Eastern Mediterranean and Lures Debt-Weary Greece into Provocative Military Partnership for Geopolitical Control of Region
Andrew Lee | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – Thousands of Greeks have come out to protest the expansion of U.S. military bases in Greece, arguing this will further destabilize the region and perilously enmesh Greece in endless imperialist wars.
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Demystifying Conspiracy Theories, Internet Trolls Disinformation Agents, and the CIA
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Here is a redo of a column I wrote a few years ago that deals with the ridiculous “Conspiracy Theory” issue. Perhaps parts of it could be utilized by those of us in the Vaccine Truth, 911 Truth, GeoEngineeringWatch.org, 5G Truth movements, each of which have been demonized for telling unwelcome truths that the establishment don’t want expressed.
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For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing
John O'Donohue – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
Being Useful…
BoredPanda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Right!
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The US Is Using The Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life–Why Is the Paper So Silent?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison.
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India: What Lies Ahead?
Arundhati Roy | The Paris Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020 – Only a year into his second term, through a series of horrifying moves, Modi has changed India beyond recognition. The infrastructure of fascism is staring us in the face, the pandemic is speeding up that process in unimaginable ways, and yet we hesitate to call it by its name. What lies ahead? Reimagining the world. Only that.
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Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion from U.S. Workers Each Year
Eric Levitz | Intelligencer--New York magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
14 Sep 2020 – Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic pie while the rest of us plebeians fight over table scraps. Journalists will then aggregate eye-popping statistics and edifying charts, progressives will share these over social media, adorned with red-faced (and/or guillotine) emoji — and the moral arc of history will carry on bending toward neofeudalism.
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Strategic Nonviolent Struggle Spreads
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Gene Sharp may be looking down from Heaven as four nonviolent struggles go on at the same time in different political-cultural settings: Hong Kong, Thailand, Belarus, and Libya. It is difficult to know from the outside how much these struggles are the result of strategic planning or a spontaneous reaction to events.
→ read full articleBeware the Transhumanists: How ‘Being Human’ Is Being Re-Engineered by the Elite’s Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
In the elegant words of South African liberation activist Steve Biko: “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” When he uttered these words before being tortured to death in an Apartheid prison, Biko presumably did not realize the profound meaning they would acquire in 2020. The transhuman mind will be owned and controlled by the oppressor. If we are to avert this fate, we must struggle with clarity and purpose.
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Iconic Deaths and What They Mean: George Floyd and Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – 2020 is a year that will be remembered for its many distinctive features—the global reach and lethality of the COVID pandemic, worldwide protests against racism, and likely, to come, the outcome and aftermath of an American presidential election with likely severe worldwide reverberations. Yet one of the least conceptualized aspects up until now is the occurrence of two very different iconic deaths. By according an iconic status to an individual’s death is to acknowledge its historic impact.
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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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Is Long COVID just a “Joke”?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Many lockdown skeptics assume that post-acute “long COVID” in young and healthy people doesn’t really exist or is insignificant; they assume it must be another media scare tactic to justify lockdowns. But they are wrong: long COVID is real, significant, and entirely expected.
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(Português) Setembro Amarelo: Morte de Gatinho Acende Discussão Sobre o Suicídio Animal
Renê Costa | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
27 set 2020 – A consultora empresarial Priscila Nogueira perdeu seu gatinho Samir, após ele se jogar do 6° andar do seu prédio.
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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What’s the Difference between ‘Villain’ Assange and ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?
Lee Camp | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange is a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller. The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
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Fascism for Dummies
Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
If you are not worried, you are not paying attention.
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Common Pets and Beyond
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – All over the world people like to have pets for themselves. Perhaps the most common pets are dogs of various sizes, various breeds and various colours from black to brown to white and other mixed colours.
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Evicting Lote Ocho: How a Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated the Guatemalan State
Max Binks-Collier | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.” The women claim to live with chronic pain and ongoing emotional suffering. “Something has entered inside me, and it is a fear. It’s a terror, and it is a physical pain that I live with all the time.”
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US Journalist Andre Vltchek Dies Suspiciously in İstanbul
BIA News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Andre Vltchek (57), a journalist and author from the US, was found dead in a car this morning in İstanbul. He and his wife had traveled from the Black Sea in a rented and chauffeured car. Vltchek’s body has been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for autopsy as a “suspicious death.”
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Just the Two of Us (Music Video of the Week)
Bill Withers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Bill Withers is an American pop/soul singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.
Kick back and enjoy. Romance.
(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Selected Articles Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
For your information, education and better judgment:
The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative/Reality
End of US Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Trump will win and the US is finished as an empire. Many of us had predicted this a while back but the speed of the decay is stunning. But let us not rejoice; let us re-imagine a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality–and work extra hard to achieve it.
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Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Labeled the media “trial of the century,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is currently taking place in London—although you might not have heard if you’re relying solely on corporate media for news. If extradited, Assange faces 175 years in a Colorado supermax prison, often described as a “black site” on US soil.
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Who Is Behind the Judge Who Is Trying Julian Assange?
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an investigative journalist. At the trial, assigned to Judge Vanessa Baraitser, every defense request was denied.
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Strange Celebrations of the UN 75th Anniversary: Leaders Hated and Feared Make False Claims of Global Peace, Security and Justice
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
We continued to experience political deceptions in the name of peace and security, phony wars for peace-making, destruction of human habitats, racial injustice and violations of basic human rights and dignity at every step of the UN ladder of convenience for fair and foul narratives.
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The Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response. Julian courageously exposed the lies, deceit, war crimes and corruption of the ruling imperial elites. Roger has helped organized the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history.
→ read full article2 Global Databases on Coronavirus: 31.2 Million+ Positive; 965 Thousand+ Dead
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
* Both Permanently Displayed Here for the Duration of the Pandemic
* Global, Localized and Specific Data in Real Time
Trump Induced Normalization Agreements with Gulf Monarchies: Is This What Peace Looks Like?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
18 Sep 2020 – Two interviews based on the normalization agreements between Israel and two Arab countries, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which are being perceived from a variety of angles depending on the agendas of the various political actors. In the present context it seems a win for Israel and Trump, and a loss for the Palestinians and Iran. However,…
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(Italiano) In quale mondo stiamo per entrare?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Abbiamo il privilegio di vivere in un periodo storico molto stimolante, con l’addio agli stati-nazione e l’accoglienza alle regioni-civiltà. E poi sempre con la possibilità di riscoprire, o ricreare, una realtà di “piccolo è bello”, indipendentemente da quanto “grosso è necessario” possa emergere. Emozionante!
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Trosforhold, religioner og fred
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Nedenfor følger en tabell med 15 trosretninger organisert fra mono- via poly- til pan-ateisme. Tabellens fokus er konkrete følger av ulike trosretninger for dagens verden.
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A Photo Gallery of Doomed Children Who Suffered Because of America’s Profitable Wars
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Below is a small handful of the multitude of censored-out and “unpatriotic” war photos that document examples of the “collateral damage” of children, which accompanies America’s wars. These are usually endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by the overwhelming majority.
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(Português) A Fábula da Águia e da Galinha
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Era uma vez um camponês que foi à floresta vizinha apanhar um pássaro, a fim de mantê-lo cativo em casa. Conseguiu pegar um filhote de águia. Colocou-o no galinheiro junto às galinhas. Cresceu como uma galinha.
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Old Enough
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – You can join the side of murdering dictators and war criminals (monarchs of the Gulf + Netanyahu + Trump) who are waging war on humanity, self-determination, and justice or you find your alternative by WORKING for humanity, self-determination and justice. We must stand with the oppressed people of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Palestine and elsewhere. Millions are standing with us against these tyrants. History will judge.
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A Beautiful Island
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
No man is belonged
A beautiful island
No sea is surrounded
Though an island
Tiny Piglet’s Whole World Changes When She Meets This Baby Cow
The Dodo Comeback Kids – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
Nobody thought this piglet would survive. But with the help of fruit punch, a baby calf, and an epic road trip, she was able to thrive. Sometimes all it takes is a little love to grow strong.
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UN Assembly Approves Pandemic Resolution; US, Israel Object
Edith M. Lederer | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic on 11 Sep 2020 over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment. The world body adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2.
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