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March 30 is Palestinian Land Day (Yawm al Ard) on which Palestinians and all decent folk around the world mark the ethnic cleansing of 90% of Palestine by racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel. Apartheid Israel responded by shooting Palestinian protestors in the West Bank and Gaza, killing 1. 300 were injured.
The Australian ABC (the equivalent of the UK BBC) reported “Medics in the Gaza Strip said the soldiers used live fire to prevent protesters from approaching the border of the coastal (…)

As the world economy teeters on the brink and rising oil prices threaten to de-rail the delicate roots of recovery we asked legendary investor Dr. Marc Faber to join us and give his views on high gasoline prices, the shale boom, alternative energy, developments in the Middle East and much more.
In the interview Mark talks about the following:
• Why investors shouldn’t buy oil right now • Why alternative energy investments are a bad idea for investors • Why Iran should be allowed Nuclear (…)

The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda has nothing on its website about using nonviolence, supporting nonviolence, or opposing violence.
The G8 and NATO Protest also has nothing like that, but does have this:
"As we plan our actions and tactics, we will take care to maintain appropriate separations of time and space between divergent tactics."
A month ago I blogged that I would not endorse Occupy the RNC or DNC because both groups were refusing to state that they (…)

Australia:
Muckaty nuclear waste dump: Aboriginal landowners legal case against it will continue. The Federal Court in Melbourne ruled that that it can, and that previously secret documents can be made public. Medical experts reiterate that this dump is not needed for nuclear medicine. Meanwhile South Australians are becoming concerned at plans to transport the radioactive wastes through their State. Renmark may make their area a nuclear free zone.
Julia Gillard at Nuclear Security (…)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the United States in the beginning of March 2012. He came to say, once again, that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel, and that Israel reserved the right to take timely action to counter this. President Obama asserted just as vigorously that, yes, a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel, and that the United States could not countenance this, but that the timing of Netanyahu was off. Non-military (…)

Axis of Logic
"After the cold-blooded murder of the 17 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province, the US military and the ever compliant Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up, exposing the Administration up, to charges of conspiracy to suppress the essential facts, falsify data and obstruct justice: All are grounds for criminal prosecution and impeachment."
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publi...

Victoria, Australia, is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst counties in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is trying to increase GHG pollution in all kinds of ways and has just announced its intention to scrap an existing plan for "20% off GHG pollution by 2020".
On 27 March 2012 The Age On-line reported that the Baillieu Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (…)

Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has acknowledged, just like their American counterparts, there is no proof Tehran is carrying out a nuclear weapons program, a source in US intelligence told the New York Times.
­An unnamed former senior US intelligence official told the paper “Mossad does not disagree with the US on the [Iranian] weapons program.” The consensus among US spy agencies remains that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons research several years ago.
“There is not a lot of (…)

Despite CCTV footage, no one arrested after the incident at Malha shopping center on Monday; Jerusalem police say arrests not made because no complaints filed.
Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem supporters assaulted Arab cleaning personnel at the capital’s Malha shopping center on Monday, in what was said to be one of Jerusalem’s biggest-ever ethnic clashes. "It was a mass lynching attempt," said Mohammed Yusuf, a team leader for Or-Orly cleaning services.
Despite CCTV footage of the events, (…)

This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They (…)