24 mar. 2011
19 feb. 2011
The future of the Arab world
America's Most Embarrassing Allies
SAUDI ARABIA - Leader: King Abdullah
The king has ruled Saudi Arabia since 2005. As ruler of a country with no elections, parliament, or political parties, Abdullah and his family exercise unchecked power within the kingdom, and -- thanks to their control of one-fifth of the world's oil reserves and Islam's two holiest sites -- quite a bit of influence beyond their borders as well. Abdullah surprised many by undertaking some minor reforms of the country's clerical establishment in 2009, though this may have had more to do with a desire to consolidate his power than any enlightened pluralistic impulses.
YEMEN - Leader: Ali Abdullah Saleh
Saleh first took power in Northern Yemen in a military coup in 1978 and has ruled the entire country since unification in 1991. Opposition parties are marginalized, parliamentary elections have been indefinitely postponed, and civilians are frequently caught up in military strikes in the country's lawless south.
JORDAN - Leader: King Abdullah II
When the Western-educated Abdullah took the throne in 1999, hopes were high that political reforms would follow. The government lifted 20 years of martial law in 1989, restoring the country's parliament. But open democracy did not follow: The country's election system remains deeply flawed, gerrymandered to support tribal candidates and government loyalists.
ETHIOPIA - Leader: Meles Zenawi
The 2010 election, in which Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's party won a remarkable 99.6 percent of the vote, was the culmination of what Human Rights Watch called "the government's five-year strategy of systematically closing down space for political dissent and independent criticism." This included attacks and arrests of prominent opposition figures, the shutting down of newspapers and assaults on journalists critical of the government, and doling out international food aid as an incentive to get poor Ethiopians to join the ruling party.
UGANDA - Leader: Yoweri Museveni
Record: Museveni talks a big game on democracy, economic development, and anti-corruption efforts, and to be fair he did institute a number of promising reforms early in his presidency, encouraging the development of free press and elections following decades of strongman rule. But the president has lately started to resemble his predecessors, abolishing term limits after nearly three decades in office, launching legal attacks on independent journalists, harassing opposition parties and flying a $50 million private jet while more than a third of his people live on less than $1 a day, having previously criticized other African leaders for indulging in similar perks. NGOs have also documented numerous cases of unlawful detention and torture by the country's Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force.
UZBEKISTAN - Leader: Islam Karimov
Karimov, Uzbekistan's first and only post-independence president, has routinely stifled political dissent in Uzbekistan, banning opposition groups -- particularly Islamic ones -- stifling the press and jailing thousands. His country is routinely cited as one of the world's worst torturers, with punishments including beatings, rape, and even boiling meted out in its overcrowded jails. Uzbekistan faced international condemnation in 2005 after hundreds of unarmed protesters demonstrating in support of a group of arrested local businessmen were shot by security forces in the city of Andijan. Karimov has repeatedly extended his own tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two-term limit and international observers have dismissed the country's elections as shams.
KAZAKHSTAN - Leader: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nazarbayev, former leader of the Kazakh Communist Party, has ruled the country without any serious political challenge since independence in 1991. Restrictive election laws make it nearly impossible to opposition parties to run, anti-government newspapers are routinely harassed and shut down, and corruption -- particularly related to the country's energy sector -- is reportedly pervasive throughout the state.
VIETNAM - Leader: Nguyen Tan Dung
The Communist Party of Vietnam is the only party allowed by law and appoints the country's leaders from within its own ranks -- Nguyen Tan Dung was reappointed for a second term in Jan. 26. According to Human Rights Watch, Vietnam has intensified its repression of human rights over the past year, imprisoning human rights defenders, bloggers, and anti-corruption campaigners. Religious groups, both Christian and Buddhist, have faced repeated harassment. Police brutality and deaths under police custody are commonplace.
Read full article on www.foreignpolicy.com
10 iun. 2010
Iliescule, ai ramas o mizerie! Pentru cine nu uita si nu iarta!
Dumincă rememorăm 13-15 iunie 1990. MARŞ MĂI “ANIMALULE”!
Duminică, la 12.00 fix vă aşteptăm la marş. Vom porni din faţa Intercontinentalului, pentru a merge pe traseul Piaţa Romană-Calea Dorobanţi până la Ion Iliescu. Pentru a-i duce în cadou panseluţe şi pentru a nu uita:13-15 IUNIE 1990.

Sustin www.noiigolani.ro/
6 iun. 2010
24 mar. 2010
25 ian. 2010
15 nov. 2009
LECTIA DE ISTORIE - THE SOVIET STORY - WATCH ONLINE
(anatolie.juraveli)

CLICK PE ACEST LINK PENTRU VIZIONARE ONLINE - THE SOVIET STORY - SUBTITRAT IN ROMANA
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27 sept. 2009
Obama's Cult of personality - School kids taught to praise Worshipful Leader
What is approaching is something far worse than either communism or fascism, this new threat takes the very worst of each, as much as Obama is causing trouble, his one and only task is to prepare America for the coming North American Union and the loss of sovereignty.
There is a new game in town and now it has a name, Corporate Socialism - the privatization of profit and the socialization of risk and misconduct.
Sickening indoctrination.
If you need confirmation just look at the way Kim Jong Il is worshipped in N. Korea.
19 iul. 2009
Swine Flu Virus A(H1N1) Update - Race to Find a Flu Vaccine Is On - The Truth Behind the Pharmaceutical Companies
The biggest question -- whether to go ahead and try to vaccinate all 300 million U.S. residents -- won't be answered until the last minute. If the answer is "yes," it will mean a gargantuan effort.
The U.S. government already has sunk well over than $1 billion into production of a swine flu vaccine. What has that bought? A lot, says Robin Robinson, PhD, director of BARDA, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) branch responsible for ensuring production, procurement, and delivery of biomedical supplies crucial to national preparedness.
If all goes as planned, Robinson says, manufacturers will have 60 million vaccine doses on hand at the end of October, with 100 million more doses by the end of November and 80 million more doses each month thereafter through March 2010
The French Government is developing secret plans to impose mandatory vaccination of the entire French population, allegedly against possible Swine Flu disease according to reports leaked in a French newspaper. The plan is without precedent and even defies recommended public health advice.
According to a report in the May 30 edition of the French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, the Sarkozy government has authorized spending of an estimated €1 billion to buy vaccines allegedly to combat or protect against H1N1 Swine Flu virus. The only problem is that to date neither the WHO nor the US Government’s Center for Diseases Control (CDC) have succeeded to isolate, photograph with an electron microscope and chemically classify the H1N1 Influenza A virus. There is no scientifically published evidence that French virologists have done so either. To mandate drugs for a putative disease that has not even been characterized is dubious to say the least.
Germany plans to order 50 million swine flu vaccination units
Germany's 16 state health ministers on Tuesday agreed on a plan to order some 50 million units of flu vaccine units. That's enough to immunize 25 million people against the H1N1 swine flu - a person has to be injected twice in order for the vaccine to be effective. Together with current vaccine supplies against the H1N1 virus, the health ministers say they will have enough vaccines to provide protection for 30 percent of the German population.
727 cases of swine flu have been reported in Germany, none were fatal. Authorities fear a mutation of the swine flu virus, could prove deadly.

How quickly will pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccines be available for use?
The very first doses of influenza A (H1N1) vaccine usable to immunize people, from one or more manufacturers, are expected as early as September 2009.
What implications does the declaration of a pandemic (phase 6) have on influenza vaccine production?
When the WHO Director-General declared the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic on 11 June 2009, she noted that production of seasonal influenza vaccines would be completed soon and that full industrial production capacity would then be available to ensure the largest possible supply of pandemic vaccine in the months to come.
Which manufacturers will make pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccines?
There are currently around twenty vaccine manufacturers with licenses to produce seasonal influenza vaccines. There are other qualified vaccine manufacturers who are preparing to make influenza A (H1N1) vaccine, but do not yet have a licensed seasonal influenza vaccine.
What is the global manufacturing capacity for a potential influenza A (H1N1) pandemic vaccine?
Based on a global survey made by WHO on 15 May 2009, a maximum of 4.9 billion doses potentially could be produced in 12 months, but only if several assumptions are met. First, full global manufacturing capacity is devoted to this production. Second, production yields for influenza A (H1N1) vaccine are similar to those usually obtained for seasonal vaccines. Third, each manufacturer uses the vaccine formulation that is most "dose-sparing" (i.e. using a smaller quantity of active principle). A more conservative estimate of global capacity is at least 1 to 2 billion doses per year. The numbers of persons who might be vaccinated will not be known until it is determined whether one or two doses of the vaccine will be needed to achieve protection.
What technologies will be used to grow pandemic influenza A (H1N1) viruses to make vaccines?
Most of these vaccines will be produced using chicken eggs, while a few manufacturers are using cell culture technology for vaccine production.
How is the production capacity for influenza vaccines distributed geographically?
Around 70% of the global seasonal influenza vaccine production capacity today is located in Europe and North America, with further significant manufacturing capacity in Australia, Japan and China. During the past three years, six manufacturers in developing countries have begun to acquire the technology to produce influenza vaccines and have received technical and financial support from WHO. Since May 2009, five additional new producers have joined this initiative.
Will there be enough pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccine for everyone?
When pandemic vaccine first becomes available, it is anticipated that the demand will be greater than the supply. This gap will narrow as more vaccine becomes available over time.
Who will receive priority for vaccination?
WHO is working with the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization and partners on the options for deciding in which target groups vaccination should begin first. At its July 7 meeting, SAGE recommended that health care workers worldwide should be immunized as a first priority (see: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 2 below). Ultimately, national authorities will identify priority groups for vaccination based on circumstances within the country.
Will developing countries have access to pandemic influenza vaccines?
The WHO Director-General has called for international solidarity to provide fair and equitable access for all countries to pandemic vaccine when it becomes available. WHO has requested that manufacturers set aside future influenza A (H1N1) vaccines for developing country populations, through donations or affordable pricing arrangementsThe drug Tamiflu which is officially recommended by the WHO as treatment to ‘ameliorate’ the symptoms of possible Swine Flu or H1N1 Influenza A as it has been renamed, is itself highly toxic. Health Canada informed Canadians of international reports of hallucinations and abnormal behaviour, including self harm, in patients taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu. In some cases death was the result and severe lung complications are widely reported associated with Tamiflu, the drug whose main financial benefactor is believed to be its largest stockholder, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Truth Behind Swine Flu : Pharmaceutical Giants Are Making Billions
The following is a list of the 50 largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies ranked by healthcare revenue as of 2008[update].
| Revenue Rank 2008 | Company | Country | Total Revenues (USD millions) | Healthcare R&D 2008 (USD millions) | Net income/ (loss) 2008 (USD millions) | Employees 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pfizer (with Wyeth) | U.S. | 70,818 | NA | 12,760 | 137,127 |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | U.S. | 61,095 | NA | 10,576 | 119,200 |
| 3 | GlaxoSmithKline | United Kingdom | 45,447 | 6,373 | 10,432 | 103,483 |
| 4 | Hoffmann–La Roche | Switzerland | 40,315 | NA | 8,135 | 78,604 |
| 5 | Sanofi-Aventis | France | 39,997 | NA | 7,204 | 99,495 |
| 6 | Novartis | Switzerland | 39,800 | NA | 11,946 | 98,200 |
| 7 | AstraZeneca | UK/Sweden | 29,559 | NA | 5,959 | 67,400 |
| 8 | Abbott Laboratories | U.S. | 25,914 | NA | 3,606 | 68,697 |
| 9 | Merck & Co. | U.S. | (2008) 23,850 | 4,678 | 7,808 | 74,372 |
| 10 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | U.S. | 19,977 | NA | 2,165 | 42,000 |
| 11 | Eli Lilly and Company | U.S. | 18,634 | NA9 | 2,953 | 40,600 |
| 12 | Amgen | U.S. | 14,268 | 3,366 | 2,950 | 48,000 |
| 13 | Boehringer Ingelheim | Germany | 13,284 | 1,977 | 2,163 | 43,000 |
| 14 | Baxter International | U.S. | 10,378 | 614 | 1,397 | 38,428 |
| 15 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. | Japan | 10,284 | 1,620 | 2,870 | 15,000 |
| 16 | Genentech | U.S. | 9,284 | 1,773 | 2,113 | 33,500 |
| 17 | Procter & Gamble | U.S. | 8,964 | n/a | 10,340 | 29,258 |
| 18 | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries | Israel | 8,408 | 495 | 546 | 26,670 |
| 19 | Astellas Pharma | Japan | 7,850 | 1,435 | 1,122 | 23,613 |
| 20 | Daiichi Sankyo | Japan | 7,158 | 1,459 | 671 | 20,100 |
Sursa : Wikipedia, WHO, Bloomberg, Global Research, dw-world
18 iul. 2009
Economic Predictions - The Future Is Now
America now owns the car industry. America owns the mortgage industry. America owns a lot of the insurance industry. Karl Marx must be somewhere standing up in his grave cheering. And why is that? America has become a socialist and maybe even communist nation in many ways.
British Pound And The US Dollar Are Doomed
"I still expect it to be doomed. Throughout history, major currencies have lost their status. The problem is, the pound and the US dollar are both terribly flawed currencies right now and they may go down together."
Dollar And US Government Bonds Outlook
“The government is printing lots of money and borrowing even more; that’s not the basis for a sound currency. The idea that anybody would lend money to the U.S. government for 30 years at 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 percent interest is mind-boggling to me."
The dollar and U.S. Treasuries are both likely to slide as soaring government debt in the world’s biggest economy undermines confidence in its assets, according to Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings. Jim gave a telephone interview to Bloomberg TV earlier today.
Sursa : Jim Rogers - Blog
11 mai 2009
LECTIA DE ISTORIE - Antony C. Sutton
Interviu cu Antony Cyril Sutton despre adevarata istorie a secolului 20
Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 - June 17, 2002) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer. He studied at the universities of London, Goettingen and California and received his D.Sc. degree from University of Southampton, England. He was an economics professor at California State University Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973.
29 apr. 2009
SALVATI ROSIA MONTANA - Spune NU distrugerii mediului in care traiesti

Prostituţie, frate. În publicitate.
O agenţie cu prestigiul pe care şi-l revendică Leo Burnett este dispusă să facă badvertising - să promoveze minciuna şi încălcarea legii. Oare a ajuns Leo Burnett într-o situaţie într-atât de disperată încât să-şi încalce propriile principii şi să accepte orice contract, în orice condiţii?
Problema Roşiei Montane e una încheiată. Justiţia şi-a spus cuvântul şi, rând pe rând, a anulat toate avizele şi autorizaţiile obţinute pe diferite căi de către RMGC. Aplicarea legii nu se negociează în dezbateri publice şi nici nu poate fi subiectul unor campanii de comunicare.
RMGC a tocmit însă o agenţie de publicitate de renume să-i spele imaginea. Agenţia şi-a început campania sugerând că investiţia RMGC de la Roşia Montană ar fi una sigură, ca şi cum legea nu ar avea nici o valoare. Conform acestui principiu, singurele lucruri care ar conta ar fi „ambalajul” şi „comunicarea” profesionistă! MindBomb consideră că abilitatea unei agenţii de a prezenta în mod pozitiv nerespectarea hotărârilor judecătoreşti nu este o dovadă de profesionalism ci, pur şi simplu, minciună.
Suntem mulţi, mult mai mulţi decât vă puteţi imagina, cei care credem că legea trebuie aplicată şi respectată. Care nu putem accepta că banii pot cumpăra orice în ţara asta. Că banii îţi pot aduce la picioare politicienii şi justiţia. Iar atunci când justiţia nu se lasă cumpărată, că o poţi încălca. Că prostituţia poate fi un merit în politică ori în publicitate.
Campanie sustinuta de:
Mindbomb
www.mindbomb.ro
18 apr. 2009
Just try not to worry
Hold up/ Hold on/ Dont be scared/ Youll never change whats been and gone......And stop crying your heart out
7 apr. 2009
5 apr. 2009
24 mar. 2009
Revolution Action
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT
| Atari Teenage Riot | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Origin | Berlin, Germany |
| Genre(s) | Breakcore Digital hardcore Hardcore punk Hardcore techno Industrial rock Anarcho-punk |
| Years active | 1992 – 2000 |
| Label(s) | Digital Hardcore Recordings Phonogram Records Grand Royal |
| Members | |
| Carl Crack Hanin Elias Alec Empire Nic Endo | |
8 mar. 2009
Depeche Mode - "Wrong"
Depeche Mode - "Wrong"
from the album "Sounds Of The Universe"
Released April 20th, 2009 (UK), April 21st, 2009 (USA)
For all the latest news on Depeche Mode, visit http://www.depechemode.com/
5 mar. 2009
BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS
Big Brother Big Business," CNBC takes a look at the companies behind the powerful business of personal information and the people whose lives are affected by it, including: a woman who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a woman whose personal information was stolen from a company she had never heard of; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move. The documentary also looks at how the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools are using biometric technologies to establish identity as well as an inside peeks at an AOL division that works solely to satisfy the requests of law enforcement for information about AOL's members.
For more go to www.freedocumentaries.org
12 feb. 2009
Darwin Day - Ziua şi anul Darwin in România
Anul acesta se împlinesc 200 de ani de la naşterea lui Charles Darwin şi 150 de ani de la publicarea cărţii lui "Despre originea speciilor” care a revoluţionat biologia şi numeroase alte discipline ştiinţifice precum şi viziunea asupra originii omului şi a lumii vii. Intra pe www.evolutionism.ro
31 dec. 2008
I Wish I Was Someone Better
Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better
| Blood Red Shoes | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Origin | |
| Genre(s) | Alternative rock Grunge Punk rock |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Label(s) | V2 |
| Members | |
| Steven Ansell (Vocals and drums) Laura-Mary Carter (Vocals and guitar) | |
Blood Red Shoes are a two-piece, punk/grunge band from Brighton, England. Consisting of Steven Ansell (originally from Horsham, West Sussex) and Laura-Mary Carter (originally from Staines), they formed in 2005 after their previous bands (Cat On Form and Lady Muck respectively) had broken up and they decided to "have a jam"[1]. Blood Red Shoes is a musical democracy in which both members have equal say and control over the music and activities of the band. More here

