Tag: human rights
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#MorningMonarchy: January 9, 2017
Atlantic Resolve, Designated Successor and the Black Spider Memos + this day in history w/”A Gift of Song” and our song of the day by Nahko & Medicine for the People w/Joseph on your Morning Monarchy for January 9, 2017.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: A.I. Trials, Nonsense Research, Bard Co-Author (Audio Only)
This week on an audio-only New World Next Week: AI predicts the future of human rights trials; nonsense paper accepted for academic conference; and the bard gets a coauthor.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode246 – Placebo Effect, CIA Retaliation, Iceland’s Still Right
A healthy mind’s the most effective drug; Another suspicious break-in points back to the Agency; Iceland still shows how to deal with banksters.
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United Nations Report Catalogs North Korea’s Crimes Against Humanity
from latimes.com: Torture, deliberate starvation and other abuses carried out by North Korean authorities — possibly on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un — are crimes against humanity and should be referred to an international court or tribunal for prosecution, United Nations investigators said Monday. A 400-page report catalogs practices long cited by defectors…
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Talking Peace, Waging War
from indybay.org: Obama’s war on Syria rages. It’s taken a horrific toll nationwide. Tens of thousands died. Dozens more do daily. Millions were displaced. Numbers internally and abroad range up to one-third of Syria’s population. Humanitarian crisis conditions exist. Human suffering is extreme. Peace talks reflect more illusion than reality. On January 22, they’re scheduled…
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‘Nearly 500’ Killed in Syria Rebel Infighting
from aljazeera.com: Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the fighting that has pitted a loose alliance of…
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China Easing Up On Its One Child Policy and Forced Labor Camps
from seattletimes.com: President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country’s “one-child” policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps. The changes rolled back harsh social policies that dated back to Communist China’s two most eminent…
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The Ultimate Freedom – Food Security: Easier than you think Students at 1-Acre Youth Farm Speak Out
from therealfoodchannel.com: Agri-business and the criminal government officials who work for them in Congress and the White House would like you to think that growing food is a difficult and hazardous process and too complicated for normal people to do safely. Common sense initiatives like the one described in this video threaten Agri-business so Monsanto…
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Court forces chemo on eight-year-old Minnesota girl despite family’s desire to use alternative medicine
from naturalnews.com: Where once it was rare for courts of law to invade the privacy and purview of parents when it came to raising their children, in today’s America the wall between parental rights and the state’s Leviathan is increasingly being dismantled by activists disguised as public servants. Karen Parisian of Minnetonka, Minn., told a…
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Oregon Criminalizes Permaculture; Claims State Ownership Over All Rainwater
Jackson County, Oregon says it owns YOUR rainwater, and the county has sentenced a man to 30 days in jail and fined him over $1500, for the supposed “crime” of collecting rainwater on his own property.
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US Researchers Create 30 Genetically Modified Human Babies
from naturalnews.com: US fertility researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas in New Jersey have created 30 healthy babies who have been genetically altered. It has been confirmed that two of these children have the DNA of three parents. The babies were created when women were treated for infertility by…
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Feds Hit Family Farms With ‘Labor Laws’ for the Children
from naturalnews.com: New labor laws being proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) would prohibit children from performing many of the routine farm chores they have been involved with for centuries, which some see as a direct attack on small-scale agriculture… The Daily Caller reports that the DoL, under the guidance of the Obama…
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled
The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill.
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At Center of Health Care Fight, a Farmer’s 1942 Case
from nytimes.com: If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn. Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him how much wheat he could grow on…
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Monsanto, Coca-Cola Among Top ‘Responsible Corporations’
The so-called “Corporate Responsibility Magazine,” (CRO) has released a list of the 100 most responsible corporations in the world. Some of the corporations that made it to the list are: #31 Monsanto, #23 Nike, #51 Exxon Mobil, and #8 Coca-Cola.