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martes, 28 de mayo de 2013

COLOMBIA: MEDELLIN, PRIMERA CIUDAD EN SUSTITUIR LOS VEHICULOS DE TRACCION ANIMAL

Fuente: El Tiempo
Vía: Econcientiza


COLOMBIA |  7 DE MARZO DE 2013
Los animales no son cosas, son seres ‘sintientes’, así quedó establecido en el acuerdo 22 de 2007, mediante el cual se estableció una política pública para la protección integral de la fauna del municipio de Medellín. “Las situaciones de maltrato a que se sometían los equinos y la necesidad de terminar estas, así como la búsqueda de una armonía con la política pública vigente para la protección de los animales, unidas a la voluntad política que existía en el momento, hicieron que la alcaldía, en el año 2008, tomara la iniciativa de crear un programa de sustitución de vehículos de tracción animal”, relató Mónica Jaramillo, subdirectora de Ambiente de la alcaldía de Medellín. Para el año 2010 ya se habían beneficiado 231 cocheros (el total de la población de carreteros en la ciudad en ese momento) y 181 caballos fueron entregados en adopción. El proceso de remplazar las ‘zorras’ por vehículos –carromotos- duró un año y tuvo un costo de $ 2.838.173.396.
Mónica Jaramillo, subsecretaria de Ambiente de Medellín, conocedora de otros procesos similares que se adelantan en el país recomendó: “Es muy importante que los carreteros conformen una asociación o cooperativa, debidamente constituida, que luego el municipio pueda contratar para el manejo de residuos. Se debe hacer una caracterización rigurosa de la población de carreteros, quiénes son, dónde viven, cómo viven, etc. Recomiendo revisar cuánto presupuesto hay y con base en eso desarrollar la estrategia. De no planearse bien, pues son procesos sociales complejos, podría crear un problema de orden público”
¿Cómo fue el proceso de sustitución en Medellín?
A cada cochero se le entregó un ‘plante’ de 7 millones de pesos, a este proceso se le llamó ‘alternativa de sustitución’. Había dos posibles alternativas. Individual: personas o grupos familiares que deciden no seguir con el oficio de recolección y transporte de escombros y otros residuos; 89 personas se acogieron a proyectos de emprendimiento como manejo de ganado, almacenes de abarrotes y viandas, ampliación de viviendas para alquiler y siembra de pequeños cultivos, entre muchos otros. Colectiva: formación de la Cooperativa de Asociación de los cocheros, para la recolección y el transporte de escombros, acompañado por la Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Se entregaron 142 motocarros en remplazo de las carretas.
Así fueron las fases del proceso que llevaron a Medellín a ser un ejemplo:
-Caracterización de la población. Visitas domiciliarias y encuestas que arrojaron el perfil de cada cochero así como la identificación de las personas a cargo.
-Acompañamiento y capacitación. Campañas de sensibilización en valores como el respeto a la diferencia, la paciencia, amor por los animales y productividad.
- Evaluación de alternativas de sustitución de la actividad económica. A cada cochero se le entregó un plante de 7 millones para ser utilizado de manera individual o colectiva: para remplazar por motocarro o para acogerse a actividades alternativas de emprendimiento.
-Entrega simbólica de alternativas: Eventos en la que los cocheros llevaban el caballo para sensibilizar a la ciudadanía con el proceso.
- Entrega física de lo acordado. Valoración médica y adopción de los equinos, y revisión de los perfiles de quienes adoptaban. Entrega oficial de los carromotos.
Los carreteros en Latinoamérica
La Plata y Buenos Aires, Argentina, así como Montevideo, Uruguay, son algunas de las ciudades donde todavía, al igual que en Bogotá, hay un significativo número de recicladores –también conocidos como cartoneros-, que realizan su actividad apoyados por caballos. En Argentina, organizaciones defensoras de animales han pedido la elaboración de un censo para determinar cuántas personas se dedican a este oficio y cuántas de ellas utilizan caballos para la carga de materiales. Hasta mediados del año pasado, en Paraguay aún se trabaja por abolir la tracción a sangre (como allí se denomina) y se hacían avances para cambiar el uso de caballos por motos. En Montevideo, Uruguay, hay quienes aseguran que unos 5 mil caballos son usados para este fin.
*Trabajo de Investigación “La revolución de los animales no humanos, su lugar en el Derecho”. Realizado para optar al título Magíster en Derecho, Universidad de Antioquia. Autora Mónica Jaramillo Palacio. 

lunes, 27 de mayo de 2013

CLUB OF ROME: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER

 
Source: DAVID ICKE.COM




Source: Recycle Washington

So, what exactly is the Club of Rome and who are its members? Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.” It consists of current and former Heads of State, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.

Many people have heard of the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. What do they have in common with the CoR?  They were all founded by Rockefeller. The head hancho’s at each organization sit on the Board of the CoR.  The T-LC and the CFR are really just the Public Relations unit of the CoR, for the CoR is where the buck stops.

I have been tirelessly talking about Agenda 21, so I hope that people are aware of this little nugget of legislation by now. It was the outcome of the Club of Rome, a think-tank that provides ‘suggestions’ to the United Nations.  We are currently seeing all these ‘suggestions’ coming to fruition as current legislation bombards us daily as America is being radically transformed.  This transformation is no accident, and it is not aimless nor mindless.  It has been carefully construed and orchestrated.  It is the work of the Club of Rome.

Their mission can be most readily surmised just by looking at the graphic they designed for their ‘mission statement’ home page….


…and for those with more time on your hands than you care to have, you can expand the synposis and follow the links provided and delve right into their rhetoric:

1.Environment and Resources: This cluster relates climate change, peak oil, ecosystems and water. Radical and rapid social and economic transformations will be needed to avert runaway climate change and ecological breakdown;

2. Globalisation: This cluster relates interdependence, distribution of wealth and income, demographic change, employment, trade and finance. Rising inequalities and imbalances associated with the present path of globalisation risk the breakdown of the world economic and financial systems;
3. World Development: This cluster relates sustainable development, demographic growth, poverty, environmental stress, food production, health and employment. The scandal of abiding poverty, deprivation, inequity and exclusion in a wealthy world must be corrected;

4. Social Transformation: This cluster relates social change, gender equity, values and ethics, religion and spirituality, culture, identity and behaviour. The values and behaviour on which the present path of world development is based must change if peace and progress are to be preserved within the tightening human and environmental limits;

5. Peace and Security: This cluster relates justice, democracy, governance, solidarity, security and peace. The present path of world development risks alienation, polarization, violence and conflict; the preservation of peace is vital in itself but is also a precondition for progress and for the resolution of the issues which threaten the future.

The Club of Rome subsequently founded two sibling organizations, the Club of Budapest and the Club of Madrid. The former is focused on social and cultural aspects of their agenda, while the latter concentrates on the political aspects. All three of these ‘Clubs’ share many common members and hold joint meetings and conferences. As explained in other articles on this website it is abundantly clear that these are three heads of the same beast. The CoR has also established a network of 33 National Associations. Membership of the ‘main Club’ is limited to 100 individuals at any one time. Some members, like Al Gore and Maurice Strong, are affiliated through their respective National Associations (e.g. USACOR, CACOR etc).

I would like to start this analysis of the Club of Rome by listing some prominent members of the CoR and its two sub-groups, the Clubs of Budapest and Madrid. Personally it isn’t what the CoR is that I find so astonishing; it is WHO the CoR is! This isn’t some quirky little group of green activists or obscure politicians. They are the most senior officials in the United Nations, current and ex-world leaders, and the founders of some of the most influential environmental organisations. When you read their reports in the context of who they are – its gives an entirely new, and frightening, context to their extreme claims.


Some current members of the Club of Rome or its two siblings:

Al Gore – former VP of the USA, leading climate change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner. Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC in 1997.

Javier Solana – Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.

Maurice Strong – former Head of the UN Environment Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth Council, devout Baha’i.

Mikhail Gorbachev – CoR executive member, former President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.

Diego Hidalgo – CoR executive member, co-founder (with Gorbachev) of the Club of Madrid, founder and President of the European Council on Foreign Relations in association with George Soros.

Ervin Laszlo – founding member of the CoR, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, founder and Chairman of the World Wisdom Council.

Anne Ehrlich – Population Biologist. Married to Paul Ehrlich with whom she has authored many books on human overpopulation. Also aformer director of Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, and a member of the UN’s Global Roll of Honor.
 
Hassan bin Talal – President of the CoR, President of the Arab Thought Forum, founder of the World Future Council, recently named as the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth‘.
 
Sir Crispin Tickell – former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.

Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Javier Perez de Cuellar – former Secretary General of the United Nations.
 
Gro Harlem Bruntland – United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change, former President of Norway

Robert Muller – former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, founder and Chancellor of the UN University of Peace.

The Dalai Lama – The ‘Spiritual Leader’ of Tibet. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Father Berry Thomas – Catholic Priest who is one of the leading proponents of deep ecology, ecospirituality and global consciousness.

David Rockefeller – CoR executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United Nations stands.

Stephen Schneider – Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports.

Bill Clinton – former President of the United States, founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.

Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Bill Gates – founder of Microsoft, philanthropist.

Garret Hardin – Professor of Human Ecology. Originator of the ‘Global Commons‘ concept. Has authored many controversial papers on human overpopulation and eugenics.


Other current influential members:

(these can be found on the membership lists of the COR (
here, here, and here), Club of Budapest, Club of Madrid and/or CoR National Association membership pages)

Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of CNN
George Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the UN
Tony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deepak Chopra – New Age Guru
Desmond Tutu – South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Timothy Wirth – President of the United Nations Foundation
Henry Kissinger – former US Secretary of State
George Matthews
Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation
Harlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary of State and NATO Ambassador
Barbara Marx Hubbard – President of the
Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Betty Williams – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Marianne Williamson – New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’
Robert Thurman – assistant to the Dalai Lama
Jane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary Biologist
Juan Carlos I – King of Spain
Prince Philippe of Belgium
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of Spain
Karan Singh – Former Cabinet Member of India, Chairman of the
Temple of Understanding, Ambassador to U.S.
Daisaku Ikeda – founder of the
Soka Gakkai cult
Martin Lees – CoR Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of Peace
Ernesto Zedillo – Director of
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Frithjof Finkbeiner – Coordinator of the
Global Marshall Plan
Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the
Global Marshall Plan
Eduard Shevardnadze – former Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia
Richard von Weizsacker – former President of Germany
Carl Bildt – former President of Sweden
Kim Campbell – former Prime Minister of Canada and
Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation
Vincente Fox – former President of Mexico
Helmut Kohl – former Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi – former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission
Vaclav Havel – former President of the Czech Republic
Hans Kung – Founder of the
Global Ethic Foundation
Ruud Lubbers – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mary Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Jerome Binde – Director of Foresight, UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of UNESCO
Federico Mayor – Former Director General of UNESCO
Tapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning, United Nations
Konrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Johnston – Director General of European Commission
Jacques Delors – Former President of the European Commission
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Thomas Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto
Hazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary economist’
Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary General, current President of the
World Wildlife Fund
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the
Green Belt Movement
and many more….
As discussed previously the CoR directly spawned two affiliated ‘Clubs’ – the Club of Budapest (CoB) and the Club of Madrid (CoM). The purpose of these siblings is to “provide spiritual, cultural and political context to the Club of Rome’s technical research.

The Club of Budapest is an offshoot of the CoR designed to promote the Global Green Agenda though ‘Art and Culture’ – The idea of the Club of Budapest stems from discussions between its founder and president Ervin Laszlo, and The Club of Rome founder Aurelia Peccei in the late seventies. Peccei suggested that Laszlo, a fellow founding member of the Club of Rome, should bring together writers, artists and people of high spiritual qualifications to complement abstract theoretical information about current and coming global problems with the insight and creativity inherent in art, literature, and various domains of the human spirit.

However the Club of Budapest seems to have little to do with the Arts and much more to do with the usual themes. The Mission of its WorldShift Network is to address:

The Governance of Nations
Education for Wisdom
Public Health Policy
The Ethics of Planetary Freedom
Reverence for Nature
Approaching a modern Subsistence Economy

The Club of Budapest has also established the World Wisdom Council. It is jointly chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev and Robert Muller and consists of almost exactly the same people as the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality described below. In 1996 the Club of Budapest released THE MANIFESTO ON THE SPIRIT OF PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS which was signed by 16 global environmental leaders, 12 of which are also CoR members!
 
The Club of Madrid consists of 70 former Heads of State handpicked by the CoR to consider “appropriate forms of governance” and methods of “democratic transition to a new global order.” The Club was officially founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and Diego Hidalgo. They are both given as “executive members of the Governing Council of the Club of Rome.” The CoM is funded by the Gorbachev Foundation and Hildalgo’s organization FRIDE (the European Council on Foreign Relations).

A quick perusal of their membership list reveals that more than half are also members of CoR National Associations and contain the usual suspects such as Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Mary Robinson, Vaclav Havel, Romano Prodi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Javier Perez de Cuellar, and Carl Bildt. They state that their top priority is “facilitating a global post-Kyoto climate treaty.” The Club of Madrid, in a similar fashion to the CoR, is an official consultant body to the UN and is contracted by them to produce reports and technical advice.

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Perhaps the most interesting of all these organizations is the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. The purpose of this ‘Commission’ appears to be to perpetuate the spiritual aspects of the Global Green Agenda. It is basically just old-fashioned paganism dressed up as a new eco-theology. I challenge the reader to make sense of this page! The commission is composed mostly of CoR members including Gore and Gorbachev.
The United Nations Foundation was created by prominent CoR member Ted Turner. He donated one billion dollars to support the environmental activites of the UN. A significant proportion of this money was designated for “programmes specifically addressing climate change” and funding the IPCC. The Foundation has also recently created the Global Security Institute to “propose far-reaching reforms of the international system.” As would be expected the Foundation’s Board is full of the same old names including: Ted Turner, Timothy Wirth, Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Emma Rothschild, and Muhammad Yunus.

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Global Leadership for Climate Action is a joint initiative of the United Nations Foundation and the Club of Madrid which “aims to design a framework for a new enforceable international agreement on climate change.” The GLCA has editorial input into reports and assessments produced by the IPCC and provides “technical expertise on the implications and communication of climate change science.” By my count more than two-thirds of the GLCA members are also members of the CoR including: George Soros, Ted Turner, Timothy Wirth, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Sir Crispin Tickell, Kim Campbell, Wangari Maathai, Petre Roman and Richard Lagos. Now I have to wonder what qualifies George Soros and Ted Turner to provide technical advice on climate change science!!

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The Gorbachev Foundation was created by Mikhail Gorbachev immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He described the Foundation “as a think-tank whose purpose is to explore the path that global governance should take as mankind progresses into an interdependent global society.” The overall motto of the Gorbachev Foundation is Toward a New Civilization”. The Foundation is deeply involved in many aspects of the modern green movement. They provide advice and funding to many non-government environmental orgaizations. The Board of the Foundation includes CoR members: Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert Muller, Ted Turner, Ruud Lubbers, Wangari Maathai, Sri Chinmoy, Robert Redford, Vaclav Havel and Javier Peres de Cuellar. Who would have thought Robert Redford was involved in all of this! In a similar fashion to the CoR, the Gorbachev Foundation now has several ‘Gorbachev Foundation National Associations’ each with their own management structure.

The Foundation works very closely with the CoR and the Club of Madrid and regularly holds joint conferences. These conferences must be fairly easy to organise since they have so many members in common. In order to carry out their ‘mission’ the Foundation has created a number of susidiary organizations. Chief among these is Green Cross International


Life is sacred. All forms of life have their own intrinsic value and share our planetary home in an interdependent community. All parts of this community are essential to the functioning of the whole. The beauty of the Earth and its life is food for the human spirit, inspiring human consciousness with wonder, joy and creativity. Human beings are not outside or above the community of life. We have not woven the web of life, we are but a strand in it. We depend on the whole for our very existence. For the first time in history, human beings have the capacity to damage, knowingly or unknowingly, the ecological balances on which all life depends. The crisis is urgent.

The GCI Board contains the same familiar names: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Basma Bin Talal, Jean Michel Cousteau, Ruud Lubbers, Wangari Maathai, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Robert Redford, Karan Singh, David Suzuki

Another Gorbachev Foundation creation is Global Green USA which promotes sustainability and ‘climate action’. Its motto is “fostering a global shift towards a sustainable future.

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Another organization that is closely linked to the CoR is the United Nations University of Peace. The Chancellor (Robert Muller), Rector (Konrad Osterwalder) and CEO (Martin Lees) are all prominent CoR members. In fact Martin Lees has just been appointed as the CoR Secretary-General. Dr Muller founded the UN’s University of Peace on a mountain in Costa Rica. Why did he choose this location? Because of this ancient prophecy:
“Dear children, the Great Spirit is in every animal, in every bird, butterfly, flower, insect, leaf and grass you see.
The Great Spirit is also in you, the Creator’s children. Please take care of the wonderful nature created by God and some day, from this mountain, you will see the birth of a civilization of peace spread to the entire world.

The ‘Board of Honor’ of the University includes: Betty Williams, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, the Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk and David Trimble. The University is also home to Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong’s infamous Earth Charter Initiative.

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An excellent source of information is the Kosmos Journal, a publication dedicated to the ‘Global Awakening’ and fostering a ‘New Human Civilisation’. Many of the articles are written by CoR members. It actually makes me feel physically ill after spending a few hours wading through their nonsense. The founding partners of this journal include many of the organisations listed above and show how truly interconnected they are:

Founding Partners:
Club of Rome
Club of Budapest
World Wisdom Council
Gorbachev Foundation
World Commission for Global Consciousness and Spirituality
Goi Peace Foundation
Global Youth Network
The Future 500
Institute of Noetic Studies

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These are just a few of the influential ‘environmental’ organizations that were either founded by, or are dominated by, CoR members. There are many more that I have come across but it would take forever to describe them all here. The leaders of the Global Green Agenda are deadly serious about their intention to “transform humanity into an interdependent global sustainable Earth Community, based on reverence and respect for Gaia” and they have been spreading their tentacles into every area of global politics. Some other CoR initiated organizations you may wish to research are:



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References

Bramhall S. J. (2012). The Origins of the Club of Rome. The Most Revolutionary Act, stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com. 2 p.

King A. & Schneider B. (1991). The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome. Orient Longman, Andhra Pradesh, India. 174 p.

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FRANKEN-WORLD: ROBOTIC BEES TO POLLINATE MONSANTO CROPS

Source: Earth First! Newswire
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By Russ McSpadden / Earth First! Newswire
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Pollinators participate in the sexual-reproduction of plants. When you eat an almond, beet, watermelon or sip on coffee, you’re partaking of an ancient relationship between pollinators and flowers. But since the 1990s, worldwide bee health has been in decline and most evidence points to toxic pesticides created by Shell and Bayer and the loss of genetic biodiversity due to the proliferation of GMO monocrops created in laboratories by biotech companies like Monsanto.

But never worry, those real life pollinators—the birds and the bees, as they say—may soon be irrelevant to the food needs of civilization. Harvard roboticists are developing a solution to the crisis: swarms of tiny robot bees made of titanium and plastic that can pollinate those vast dystopian fields of GMO cash crops.

The Harvard Microrobotics Lab has been working on its Micro Air Vehicles Project since early 2009. Borrowing from the biomechanics and social organization of bees, the team of researchers is undergoing the creation of tiny winged robots to fly from flower to flower, immune to the toxins dripping from petals, to spread pollen. They even believe that they will soon be able to program the robobees to live in an artificial hive, coordinate algorithms and communicate amongst themselves about methods of pollination and location of particular crops. 




Of course, published reports from the lab also describe potential military uses—surveillance and mapping—but the dime-sized cyber-bees have yet to be outfitted with neurotoxin tipped stingers.

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If you think this bee news is strange, be sure to check out this recent article from the newswire: Anarchist Beekeepers Claim Responsibility for U.S. Drone Attack 

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domingo, 26 de mayo de 2013

WILDLIFE CINEMA: THE LOST ELEPHANTS OF TIMBUKTU

"Sir David Attenborough narrates this documentary following young research student Anne Orlando as she sets out on an unforgettable adventure, hoping to solve the mysteries surrounding a herd of elephants that inhabit the desert south of the fabled city of Timbuktu.

How do they survive the arid conditions? Why do they disappear for two months each year? And why do they make an annual journey across the desert?"



miércoles, 22 de mayo de 2013

INDIA´S GANGES: A RIVER IN A DROP OF WATER

By Hugo M. G. von Österreich und von Toskana
May 22, 2013


Source: Stay Woo


Life is a mysterious force that pervades planet Earth. Each speck of life contains a bit of this force since it originated. All together these portions make up an entire current of life that has given rise to the Biosphere, the self-sustaining thin layer that keeps out the harshness of outer space at bay.

Likewise, a single drop of water contains a whole ocean. The mightiest river always start out as one drop... two drops... three drops... a hundred drops... a thousand drops... and then millions upon millions of drops of water until all of them combined give rise to a river.  

A river which is a source of life. Water is the substance behind the force of life. Life depends on water on planet Earth. Thus, here lies water´s sacredness.

Nowhere on Earth is this best understood than in India, the mystic land where Gods and Goddesses still find a refuge and the natural elements are still revered.

In a highly homogenised and fast moving modern world, a lot of travelers search for fields where flowers of authenticity still bloom, to recapture the connection with the beauty and blissfulness of the lost paradise.

Let us take a journey to India and explore the sacred Ganges River, from the temple of Gangotri, the place where Hindus believe that Ganges first appeared on Earth, to the Bay of Bengal, where the drops of water from the Himalayas reconnect once again with the ocean. 

One drop of water from the mountains coming together with its source after wandering for thousands of years along mysterious pathways on its homeward bound trip.

So are our lives. We are drops of water that one day will reconnect with the ocean of life. It does not matter how many twists and turns we describe in our lives, we are always homeward bound. 

We are an atom of water observing itself along the mysterious path of life. And we should feel blessed we have been given such a gift. A gift to ponder about life. 

A gift to ponder about a drop of water. We are water captured in a single pack to observe the path of life before our eyes, just for an instant before we join the vastness of the ocean once again. Let us rejoice for that!

This is well understood in India, the land that has not yet given up its sacred vein despite the assault of the barrenness of the engine of modernity. 

And indeed we do hope that India never loses this insight towards life. Now more than ever we need India´s wisdom, its knowledge and reverence for life, for we are in mortal danger of becoming mere pieces of a cold, dead machine.





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GANGES: UN RIO EN UNA GOTA DE AGUA



La vida es una fuerza misteriosa que impregna el planeta Tierra. Cada partícula de vida contiene un poco de esa fuerza, desde que se originó. En conjunto estas partes constituyen toda una corriente de vida que ha dado lugar a la biosfera, la capa delgada autosustentable que mantiene la dureza del espacio exterior al margen.
 

Del mismo modo, una sola gota de agua contiene todo un océano. El río más caudaloso siempre comienza como una gota ... dos gotas ... tres gotas ... un centenar de gotas ... un millar de gotas ... y millones y millones de gotas de agua hasta que todas ellas combinadas dan lugar a un río.


Un río que es una fuente de la vida. El agua es la sustancia detrás de la fuerza de la vida. La vida depende del agua en el planeta Tierra. Por lo tanto, aquí está lo sagrado del agua.



En ningún lugar de la Tierra entienden esto mejor que en la India, tierra mística donde los dioses y diosas todavía encuentran un refugio y los elementos naturales son aún venerados.


En un mundo moderno rápido y muy homogenizado, muchos viajeros buscan campos donde las flores de autenticidad todavía florecen, para recuperar la conexión con la belleza y bienaventuranza del paraíso perdido.



Tomemos un viaje a la India y exploremos el río sagrado Ganges, desde el templo de Gangotri, el lugar donde los hindúes creen que el Ganges apareció por primera vez en la Tierra, hasta la Bahía de Bengala, donde las gotas de agua de la cordillera del Himalaya se reconectan de nuevo con el océano.


Una gota de agua de las montañas se une con su origen después de vagar durante miles de años a lo largo de rutas misteriosas en su viaje de vuelta a casa.



Así son nuestras vidas. Somos gotas de agua que un día volverán a conectarse con el océano de la vida. No importa la cantidad de giros y vueltas que describimos en nuestras vidas, estamos siempre de vuelta a casa.



Somos un átomo de agua observándose sí mismo a lo largo del camino misterioso de la vida. Y debemos sentirnos bendecidos que nos ha dado tal regalo. Un regalo para reflexionar sobre la vida.



Un regalo para reflexionar acerca de una gota de agua. Somos agua captada en un solo paquete para observar el transcurso de la vida fluyendo ante nuestros ojos, sólo por un instante antes de que nos unamos a la inmensidad del océano, una vez más. Alegrémonos por eso!


Esto es bien comprendido en la India, la tierra que aún no ha renunciado a su vena sagrada a pesar del asalto de la esterilidad de la máquina de la modernidad.



Y de hecho nosotros esperamos que la India nunca pierda su percepción hacia la vida. Ahora más que nunca necesitamos la sabiduría de la India, su conocimiento y respeto por la vida, porque estamos en peligro mortal de ser meras piezas de una máquina fría y muerta.
 


References

Klostermaier K. K. (1998). A Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK. 243 p.

domingo, 19 de mayo de 2013

DAEMOCRACY: THE BELO MONTE DAM PROJECT

By Gundhramns Hammer
May 19, 2013



Source: International Rivers


Earth belongs to all living creatures, including humans. In man´s evil economical system only the rich and powerful and their corporations have a voice and also their slaves running the governments, their puppets who must follow if they want to continue at the helm. 

All of the world´s governments are really private corporations run by vassals and servants working for the global oligarchy, around 300 families who in turn are controlled by djinns that take human shape or appear as reptiloid aliens who live in bunkers underground in Egypt.


The elite decides who will be elected next and put him/her in power to handle the governmental reigns in their fiefdoms around the world, all beautifully disguised in a mock parade called "voting for democracy", which really is daemocracy (government by the dinns or demons).


This ingenious and evil system keeps the sheeple content and zombie with the illusion that they are free and therefore can decide who rules over them. It is all a fucking farce.


Considering that rich and poor alike are all inhabiting the same Earth and that we all have a duty and obligation to be good custodians of this planet on behalf of the generations of humans and non-humans yet to come and of Nature above all, at least we all should do a better job at guarding Earth instead of the lousy one we are already doing, therefore it stands to reason that anything done which will damage a large portion of the Biosphere should be consulted with the world´s people wherever they are. 


Thus, constructing and destroying entire rainforests in the name of progress should therefore not be done. 


Let us remember that in the name of progress scientists developed the atomic bomb which we all know was such a nasty and horrible idea anyway. Now 
wherever we go, we have water and soil contaminated with radionuclides from so many nuclear tests done on land and in the atmosphere.
  
To deal with complicated issues including large dams, each country should organise a people´s court, and we are talking of normal people watching over like a dog the "normal law" which usually serves only to protect the interest of the selfish wealthy class, a court which should and must decide major global issues for the benefit of all be it human or non-human, to maintain the integrity of the Biosphere. 

So, in this sense, a world government run by the people and not by the fucking evil elite, does make sense, for we have only this Earth and if we do not start taking care of it as we must soon there will nothing to take care of.


In thiss sense, the Belo Monte Dam project in Brazil is totally illegal, for it is destroying hundreds of square kilometres of rainforests, will displace more that 20.000 people and kill thousands of plants and animals, in other words it will cause the destruction of a big chunk of Nature, just with the excuse that Brazil needs more electricity which is false. 


Let it be known that electricity is nowadays a commodity sold to the highest bidder outside the Brazilian borders. This is called "electricity trade".


Energy is traded on an international power line which interconnects power from dams in Chile and Argentina up to Venezuela and from here to Colombia and from here to Panama (Fig. 1) going up and passing through Central America to the north as far as Guatemala (Fig. 2) (Plan Puebla Panama) which is connected to Mexico and from here to the United States, the final destination. 



Figure 1. Colombia-Panama electrical interconnection. Source: Google Images


Figure 2. Electrical interconnection in Central America. Source: ISA



This is a lot of dams interconnected with other dams, which means a lot of interconnected holes in the Earth´s Biospheric Net which sums up into an environmental damn mess. Damn dams talking to other damn dams so that people can have power for useless and damn things to damn up their brains.

Electricity is a matter of national security now for the USA. Electricity is the future. And to store electricity you must have batteries and to have batteries you must have lithium. And where is the biggest deposit of this mineral? It is in Afghanistan. 

Now you know one of the main reasons why Afghanistan was invaded. It was invaded to secure the lithium deposits along with other strategic minerals. 


Afghanistan is also important from the perspective of the market of the opium. And birds of the same feather flock together.


But let us get back to our issue of damn dams. The Belo Monte Dam project is illegal because no one consulted the local people, who are really against this project. Neither were consulted the plants and animals who, who because they are also persons, will be destroyed. 


It is illegal because it is a crime against Nature. It is a crime against Biosphericity.


Why should these evil corporations construct dams in the name of progress, which really is a specialised ecological vampirism? 


Of course, more power is needed to keep zombier the already brain-washed sheeple. Power is needed to keep them enslaved. Power is needed to keep the sheeple masturbating their mushy brains. Power is needed to turn them into perfect consuming machines. 


Constructing anything for consuming the Earth just to masturbate poeple´s brains is fucking insane!  But after all this is the grand economic system devised by Homo insapiens


And what it is really sickening is that most humans love it! Most people are damn insane! Are you one of those?


We will leave it here. Now let us see what the Belo Monte Dam project is all about:



Source: YouTube
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Sigourney Weaver narrates New Google Earth Animation on Brazil's Controversial Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon Rainforest. Amazon Watch and International Rivers have teamed up to create a state-of-the-art 10-minute Google Earth 3-D tour and video narrated by actress Sigourney Weaver, with technical assistance from Google Earth Outreach. The video is in support of Brazil's Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre (Xingu River Forever Alive Movement). The tour allows viewers to learn about the harmful impacts of, and alternatives to the massive Belo Monte Dam Complex on the Amazon's Xingu River. A Portuguese version of the video and tour, narrated by well-known Brazilian actor Dira Paes to be released soon.






The face behind the Belo Monte Dam project 


Now the question. Who is behind the Belo Monte Dam project in Brazil?

The answer is: Eletrobras, the main one. 

Besides Brazil, Eletrobras has operations in Argentina, Uruguay, Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana,Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and El Salvador in Latin America; Angola, Namibia, Morocco, Nigeria and Guinea Bissau in Africa; and also in China (Wikipedia, 2013).   Eletrobras is a giant power octopus.

And so it happens that this company has a registered branch in Panama, a country listed as a tax haven in the CRS Report for the US Congress in 2013. 

The branch in Panama is called ELECTROBRAS S.A., which is one head of the same hydra. 

Here is the information of ELECTROBRAS S.A. in Panama, all taken from Dan O´Huiggin´s database


ELECTROBRAS S.A.

Full Details

Directors

Subscribers

Agent

Date Registered

1993-06-22

Look up complete file


(search for 274053 as "Numero de Ficha")



Electricity, power, money and power for power.... Power for what? For man´s enlightenment? It could but this is not the case. It is for a happy sleep. Baa! Baa! 


The secret meeting

In the room there was a bunch of powerful businessmen. They had been discussing ways to keep masses of people under control. They came up with many solutions, for they always had lots of experts willing to work for them. At end of the meeting, the richest man said:

-How wondeful is to have people under our rule! 

And then he cleared his throat.

He has never given a damn about the Earth. Too busy tearing up Mother Nature to make money. He is with one foot on a banana peel and the other one in his tomb and yet he had not found the meaning of life. 

Is there such a thing?


What really counts in life

Hello, my dear brethren! Hello, dear earthlings! Where are you? Are you going straight to hell or heavens? Do you already now how to tell them apart? 

We are only here for a short sojourn. We are all in the waiting room. 


By the way, the person who is writing this to you is doing it via borrowed equipment, for I have nothing. Nothing! And now that I haven´t got anything I have everything!

What counts, the important questions are: 

Where will you be when the last hour finds thee?


Did your passing through on this beautiful Earth add or substrat to the whole, the Biosphere?




References


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EFE. 2012. Interconexión Eléctrica entre Panamá y Colombia será calibrada en subastas. elespectador.com, Economía, Colombia. 2 p.

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Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior (ICEX). 2011. El Sector Eléctrico en Costa Rica. Notas Sectoriales, Oficina Económica y Comercial de la Embajada de España en Panamá, República de Panamá. 18 p.


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