Saturday, January 2, 2010

west hails failed copenhagen talks

West hails 'failed' Copenhagen talks (plus 10 more items)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 01:08 AM PST

Demonstrators hold a picture of US President Barack Obama in the venue of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen after he hailed the failed talks

The West continues to defend the outcome of climate talks in Copenhagen even though the summit has been criticized by many other countries and environmentalists.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen called the outcome of climate talks in Copenhagen as "better than nothing."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meanwhile hit back at critics of the controversial accord, saying Copenhagen was a first step toward a new world climate deal.
US president Barack Obama also hailed the agreement as an 'unprecedented breakthrough', and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the agreement "a vital first step."
This is while the Copenhagen Accord, passed after two weeks of tense debate, is widely seen as a backdoor deal that excludes the poor and dooms the world to disastrous climate change.
The non-binding agreement assembled Saturday by the United States and China, the world's top two emitters of greenhouse gases, contains a stated aim to limit global warming to a maximum two degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
It also promises an annual 100-billion dollars in aid to poor nations to help fight climate change.
However the agreement,

'Iran poses no threat'

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:25 AM PST

Iran's military and political threat to GCC members has been blown out of proportion, the former British ambassador to Iran says.

"The emphasis on the increased role and influence of Iran since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been exaggerated," the UAE-based newspaper Gulf News quoted Richard Dalton as saying on Sunday.

As an advocate of greater regional security cooperation between the GCC member countries, Iraq, and Iran, Dalton maintains that Iran's power has not substantially increased.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:08 AM PST

Dr. Jehuda Hiss

The Israeli military has admitted harvesting organs from dead Palestinians after an interview conducted over the issue in 2000 was broadcast again.
Over the weekend, Israel's Channel 2 TV broadcast an interview conducted in 2000 with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss who revealed that forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinian corpses in the 1990s, the Associated Press reported.
"We started to harvest corneas Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family," said the doctor.
According to the report, the forensic specialists harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without seeking permission from relatives.
Hiss also described how his doctors would cover up the removal of corneas from bodies.
"We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said, adding that "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."
In response to the broadcast, the Israeli military confirmed the report in a statement but said, "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."
The report was released after an article by Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, accusing Israel of killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs,

Anti-US rallies held in Pakistan

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:06 AM PST

Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's largest religious party have held anti-US rallies in major cities across the country.

Addressing the crowd at the 'Go America Go' rally in Rawalpindi on Sunday, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Syed Munawar Hassan said the US and its allies were pursuing a military agenda in the region, a Press TV correspondent reported.

He went on to say that the US military operations are undermining Pakistan's sovereignty.

Hundreds of people, many of them civilians, have been killed since 2006 in CIA-operated drone strikes targeting militants in Pakistan.

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:44 PM PST

Former head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission says the Israeli nuclear whistleblower has served the regime because his revelations helped Tel Aviv intimidate others.

Yet Uzi Eilam, a retired army brigadier-general who ran the commission between 1976 and 1986, says the whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu did a service by alerting foes to the country's military might.

Vanunu was sentenced to 18 years as a traitor in a secret trial in 1986. He was abducted at that time from Italy after revealing information about an illegal nuclear program at Israel's Dimona reactor to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:44 PM PST

Iran has taken a swipe at the proliferation of nuclear weapons worldwide and urged the international community to help promote global disarmament.

"Iran has suggested nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation to the international community," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said in Tokyo on Sunday.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran and Japan have potential to expand cooperation on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation to establish a world free from nuclear arms," added Iran's top nuclear negotiator.

Meanwhile, in a meeting between Jalili and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, views were exchanged on bilateral relations and Iran's nuclear energy program as well as various international issues.

Auschwitz yet Again

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 10:46 PM PST

Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign that hung over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.

Commenting to the BBC on the theft of the Auschwitz sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Director of the International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist American Jewish Committee maintained that there should be no replicas to substitute the entrance monument. "There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors must see only what was real. In that way they will be bear witness to the very objects and structures which in turn remain the mute eyewitness to what happened there".

Rabbi Baker wants the "real thing". However, every person who happens to be brave enough to step into the muddy topic known as Holocaust history, is quick to discover the embarrassing fact that lies at the heart of the Auschwitz museum experience: the gas chamber on display is no less than a reconstruction built after the war by the soviets. The original gas chambers were destroyed by the Germans in October 1944 just before their evacuation.

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 10:26 PM PST

On November 30, the US Supreme Court denied Kevin Cooper justice by not reviewing his wrongful murder conviction despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence. Cooper is Black and was framed for a multiple homicide he never committed. He's imprisoned on death row at San Quentin State Prison, Marin County, CA, a victim of American injustice.

Savekevincooper.org documents his case and efforts to exonerate and release him, so far in vain and unlikely unless a new governor grants clemency or pardons him after taking office in January 2011.

Climategate goes SERIAL

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 10:19 PM PST

"Yes the world will become one big Katrina unless you turn over the right to burn anything carbon-based to rationing authorities serving the Rothschild interests." Do you still believe that?

Now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming

Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world's leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.

Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North)

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World views Copenhagen conference as a total failure

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 09:32 PM PST

The world has reacted strongly to the Copenhagen climate talks, expressing frustration and commenting that it stopped short of any end result.

Even the campaigners and environmentalists were left stunned at what they viewed as a total disappointment.

At the end of the 193-nation UN summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, there was no binding deal for combating global warming, a move led by the United States and China, the world's top two emitters of greenhouse gases.

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:03 PM PST

"Obama want to see a stop to settlements: Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions". Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, May 2009

"What the prime minister has offered in specifics of a restraint on the policy of settlements…..is unprecedented, there has never been a precondition, it's always been an issue within negotiations." Hillary Clinton, BBC, November 1, 2009 (my emphasis)

"The US administration understands what we have always said … that the real obstacle to negotiations is the Palestinians (calling for a freeze on settlements)". Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Daniel Hershkowitz, November 1, 2009 (my addition).

"America, stop sucking up to Israel!" Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist, Haaretz, November 1, 2009.

"US Zionists are sticking it to America, 24/7", Anonymous Staff Official, Washington D. C., October 31, 2009.

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