The incestuous links between NGOs and states and transnational http://www.voltairenet.org/article163755.htmlTo conduct their work, humanitarian NGOs courting big donors: transnational corporations and states. This proximity encourages profiteering leaders and the politicization of the major causes. Slowly, some associations to derive targets unrelated to their official goals. Julian Teil explores this evolution through several examples.Many international solidarity programs are preferred by inter-governmental organizations, followed closely by NGOs and the media. Some of them do not seem to represent the values and ideals they claim. A brief overview can decipher some relationships that are forged. We focus here on a concept born in the 90s and a solidarity program under development. This is not to acknowledge the different actors and intermediaries of these programs, but to investigate the reports that are maintained in order to prepare an overview of the context in which they undertake.
The 1%, Africa and networks That upon issuance of the Century Walking the January 5, 1994 the President of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine and Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, said: "It is necessary that France take the lead d 'a crusade for development. We know that today, all the experts are there to say, if we spend on development assistance by industrialized countries, underdeveloped, the equivalent of 1% of our GDP, the problem would resolved. This practice is already established within the mixed company (SEM) 92 Co, founded at the initiative of Mr. Pasqua and directed by his relatives.
The real action of 92 Co in Gabon have been done without bidding and have proved very costly. No formal link with the foregoing, amounts equivalent to what has been spent has been offered by the Head of State of Gabon to finance political activities of Mr. Pasqua and his staff http://www.amazon.fr/Noir-silence-François-Xavier-Verschave/dp/2912485150/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264693921&sr=1-2Only 14 years later, October 24, 2008 the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine vote dissolution of the company, which was nevertheless the subject of sharp criticism over a decade. The opposition (PS, Green, PC) denounced its opacity and regretted the absence of NGOs in the project http://archives.lesechos.fr/archives/2008/lesechos.fr/10/24/300304137.htm
The dedication of a portion of the budget of a public or mixed operation of international solidarity when it is not the purpose of this organization is a misuse of public funds, regardless of the worthiness of these operations. Or rather, "was a diversion of funds" because the Oudin-Santini Law, effective January 27, 2005, allows municipalities, certain public institutions of cooperation in mixed unions over public services of drinking water the water agencies, etc.. to allocate 1% of their budget for actions of international solidarity and cooperation. This law, according to Andre Santini "is both a way to export the French model of management of water, but also a means of conquering new markets for French groups http://seaus.free.fr/spip.php?article392
This legislation legalized the practice hitherto existing tort including some water agencies (Seine Normandy and the Rhine-Meuse), denounced by the Court of Auditors in 2002 http://www.bakchich.info/article2676.html
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André Santini, principal author of this law, was vice-chairman of the parliamentary study group on water issues. This close to Charles Pasqua was also vice-president at General Council of Hauts-de-Seine, Union President of the waters of Ile-de-France (SEDIF) and the Committee Seine Normandy Basin. Water management in the Ile-de-France has been given until 2010 Generale des Eaux, Vivendi Environment reputation, and Veolia. Committee Seine Normandy Basin, head of water in the region, Mr. Santini is assisted by a vice-president, Paul-Louis Girardot, also chairman of the Supervisory Board of Veolia Water and Vice-Chairman of Directors of Veolia Environnement. Veolia Environnement in 2006 launched his independent assessment committee to "enrich the strategic vision of Veolia Environment. It includes among others Jean Michel Severino, Director General of the French Development Agency (AFD) and Philippe Leveque CEO of Care France. France enjoys Care Partnership in force through the Oudin-Santini Law and thank the various water agencies and the general council of Hauts de Seine in its report of 2009. First recipient of the law Santini and first cooperation partner of 92, SOS Sahel is dedicated to greening the desert. It was after the great drought of 1973-1974 that Léopold Sédar Senghor, then President of Senegal, asked the French civil society and Africa to create an association to fight against famine. Thus was born in Dakar in November 1976, SOS Sahel. The NGO Action Against Hunger campaign for "ratify [the law Santini] at the European level (in order to help more people to have access to water and sanitation and this in agreement with the objectives Millennium) [5]. This proposal should be serious criticism insofar as it is to legalize the practice across Europe remains tort in many states. Action Against Hunger is an international association founded in November 1979 under the name Action Internationale Contre la Faim (AICF) under the auspices of intellectuals whose Atlanticist Francoise Giroud, Guy Sorman, Jacques Attali, Bernard-Henry Levy. It was at the time of feeding in Pakistan Afghan Islamists fleeing the Red Army. Four months after its founding in February 1980, AICF participates in a media event: "the march for survival." At the call of Doctors Without Borders, celebrities escorting a humanitarian convoy that was stopped at the Cambodian border. Would follow the heartbreaking images where Bernard Henry-Levi and Elie Wiesel implored the Vietnamese Communist troops let humanitarian aid to the Khmer Rouge, they just turn and let die of hunger. The march was organized covertly by the CIA with the help of Claude Malhuret [6]. It will prove later that there was no starvation in refugee camps Khmer Rouge. The creation of the association was funded by Michel David-Weill, then chairman of the Franco-American bank Lazard and politically engaged in the anti-Soviet crusade. Jean Guyot, who joined Lazard in 1955, is the founder and first president of the NGO CARE France. Guy Sorman explains: "David-Weill wanted us to check this. But at the time, that exchange control was difficult to transfer funds between the United States and France. We have therefore decided to create a U.S. subsidiary "[7]. Thus, links between local communities, NGOs and generous patrons seem tainted by ulterior motives political or business far removed from ideal viewing.
The Global Water Initiative and the Water Efficient Maize for Africa In 2007, a generous offering of 15 million dollars annually over 10 years to a group of NGOs for long-term actions to promote access to water. This is the Global Water Initiative (GWI). The project is conducted in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and nine other countries in Africa and Central America. It aims to provide communities with sustainable access to safe water and sanitation, especially access to water for the needs of rural production. Seven NGOs involved in the GWI: Action Against Hunger / Action against Hunger (AAH / ACF) CARE [8] Catholic Relief Services (CRS) The World Conservation Union - IUCN International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Oxfam America SOS Sahel. [9] The program has been shaped by David White (Director of Operations Action Against Hunger USA) in collaboration with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which funds the project in its entirety [10].
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DAS detective arrest with powerful arsenal in his possession http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/66097-NN/detienen-a-detective-del-das-con-poderoso-arsenal-en-su-poder/
According to a statement from the DAS, this Friday Gerson Cuellar Quira detective assigned to the Directorate General Operations of the DAS, was detained by National Army units at a checkpoint Yarumal municipality (Antioquia). In reviewing the particular vehicle in which the officer was traveling, they found inside 29 hand grenades, 20 grenades for MGL, 28 communication radios and 6 Nock rifle.
According to the intelligence agency, Gerson Cuellar was linked to the DAS Quira since May 1996 and from January 01 2010 were found on vacation. The detective mentioned are now guarded by National Army units, who in coordination with judicial authorities of the municipality of Yarumal will advance the legalization of capture by the alleged crime of manufacture, trafficking and possession of arms and ammunition for use unique to the armed forces, and consistent with the criminal action
comment-another scandal documented...keep in mind this is the same DAS wich lied about arresting two venezuelan spies,wich was debunked by DAS's own video...same DAS wich this week claimed it had evidence of an alledged venezuelan helicopter breaching colombian territory,and showed a mere picture of a helicopter flying above a tree...and here's the many more scandals by DAS...see...Uribe stays quiet about DAS wiretap scandal http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7903-key-witness-in-wiretap-scandal-case-dies-el-tiempo.html Plan Colombia and Beyond » DAS Scandal http://www.cipcol.org/?cat=57 The DAS' 'Political War' http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7338-the-das-political-war.html DAS illegal wiretapping http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/2981-das-continues-illegal-wiretapping.html 7 former DAS officials called to trial over illegal wiretaps http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7868-7-former-das-officials-called-to-trial-over-illegal-wiretaps.html
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Army mass grave in La Macarena http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303
Jurist Jairo Ramírez, the secretary of the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Colombia, accompanied a delegation of British legislators to the site several weeks ago, when the magnitude of the La Macarena grave began to be discovered. “What we saw was chilling,” he told Público.
“An infinity of bodies, and on the surface hundreds of white wooden plaques with the inscription NN [name unknown] and dates from 2005 until today.”Ramírez adds: “The Army commander told us that they were guerrillas killed in combat, but the people in the region told us of a multitude of social leaders, campesinos and community human rights defenders who disappeared without a trace.”
La Macarena, the site of the grave, has been a very important site of U.S.-aided military operations since the mid-2000s. In this area, the U.S. government supported and advised the Colombian Army’s 2004-2006 “Plan Patriota” military offensive, and since 2007 has supported the “Plan for the Integral Consolidation of La Macarena” or PCIM, part of the new “Integrated Action” framework that is now guiding much U.S. assistance.http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1242
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Canadian Mining and Popular Resistance in Honduras http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/301.php
And something interesting that we have to say is the fact that here in Honduras there exists the Asociación de Mineros de Honduras (Mining Association of Honduras). The projects for reforms in the mining industry initiated by (ousted) President Manuel Zelaya said that for the time being there would be no more mining exploitation or exploration of mines in the country. This was a severe blow to those who were trying, at the time, to mine gold out of our territories. As a result, the Mining Association of Honduras played a determinant role in the Honduran coup. The coup was mechanized by the huge transnational companies that had investments in the mining sector in Honduras.
comment-also see...Canada, Honduras and the Coup d’Etat http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3080Obama officials supported Honduras coup http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20090705 Mining companies active in Honduras and supported the coup include those based in Canada.Peter Kent, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for the Americas in the mining interests-beholden Tory government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has been less than enthusiastic about Zelaya's return to Honduras. Kent, who represents a heavily-Jewish Toronto constituency, is a major backer of the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) (Canada's version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC). Many of Canada's mining companies in Honduras, especially those involved in gold mining, are linked to Israeli investors.
FLAHBACK-The U.S. and its unruly Latin American 'backyard' http://alainet.org/active/35774&lang=enJRW/TG: How has the scenario in mining changed since the fraudulent elections of November 29, 2009.
SLEDGEHAMMER; 9 11 http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/01/sledgehammer-9-11.html
Reportedly, the CIA, Mossad and the Turkish military want to topple Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan, because he is not sufficiently pro-Israel and pro-USA. Erdogan is a moderate, but he has criticised Israel.
Inside Israeli land grabs http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4762
TRNN speaks to settlers, Palestinians, and experts to understand the process of land confiscation in OPT
Formaldehyde-Laced Death Trailers to Haiti!? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Push-to-send-FEMA-trailers-to-apf-3680755540.html
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor.“Just go ahead and sign their death certificate,” said Paul Nelson of Coden, Ala., who contends his mother died because of formaldehyde fumes in a FEMA trailer.
comment-also see...Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments http://cryptogon.com/?p=2649 FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed http://cryptogon.com/?p=2888
FLASHBACK-Recording test violation of Venezuelan sovereignty by the U.S. http://www.vtv.gob.ve/files/converted_videos/28187_DandoViolacionpilotoCurazao.flv
teleSUR obtained the exclusive conversation between the pilot and control tower Maiquetía / Proof that modern U.S. fighters flying in Netherlands Antilles and breached Venezuelan airspace while claiming "error" / Pilot acknowledged that he had no authorization and was in "training"
Government of Colombia created "false positives" to justify Uribe's domestic agenda http://www.vtv.gob.ve/noticias-nacionales/29274
"No aircraft has passed the limits to Colombia, all are set to their internal operating within Venezuelan territory (...) Our Government and our Armed Forces are of peace, respectful of international law," Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro reiterated The current Colombian government is expert at creating "false positives" to generate hate campaigns and justify any kind of crisis that may give rise. "These events can give Uribe weapons to impose their domestic agenda.
comment-Had it been true that it had violated Colombian airspace, the Venezuelan opposition and the oligarchy would have passed it through their TV channels and all the details of the event, but as it is a lie by the Uribe government, no evidence of any kind has been shown that this in fact had happened. This is a smoke screen of the Colombian government to divert attention from the multiplicity of problems and scandals around URIBE and his gov and its agencies are involved in at home...see below...
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GAO investigators found that companies primarily used offshore subsidiaries to avoid contributing to Social Security and Medicare. This avoidance was perfectly legal, thanks to the way Congress crafted the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. Since then, lawmakers passed new legislation in 2008, the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act, which sought to close this loophole.
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Honduras: ‘We march against the coup’ http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/824/42374
To the peoples of Honduras and the world: 1. From the different Lenca communities and from all the corners of our country, we are mobilising to take part in the great march convened by the FNRG against the coup d’etat. 2. We mobilise to reject the regime of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, developer, planner, executor and inheritor of the coup with which the oligarchy has once again violated the constitution. 3. We mobilise to denounce the impunity enjoyed in our country by the oligarchic, political, police and military leadership. 4. We mobilise to demand the punishment of the assassins of our sisters and brothers who lost their lives defending the right to live in democracy. 5. We mobilise to defend our right to free expression.
6. We mobilise to denounce the plans of the oligarchy, which are nothing less than the dispossession of natural resources and the exploitation of the people. 7. We mobilise to denounce the Organisation of American States, the United Nations and the European Union, entities that are complacent with the coup-makers and that once again demonstrated that their reason for existence is to serve the powerful.
8. We mobilise to call, from the resistance, for a broad front as a space for electoral participation of the Honduran people that allows us to develop a new type of political instrument, so we are not used by the parties of the oligarchy that carried out the coup. 9. We mobilise to move forward the struggle for a democratic and grassroots National Constitutional Assembly, to have a new political constitution that allows for the re-founding of our country. We raise our voices full of life, dignity, justice, freedom and peace.
Bolivia: ‘We are here to serve people, not capitalists’ http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/824/42365
Pledging to move the country towards “communitarian socialism”, Bolivian president Evo Morales proclaimed the death of the “colonial state” during the January 21 inauguration of his second term as president. He said “a new plurinational, autonomy and solidarity-based state is being born”.
However, Morales said: “Although the Armed Forces have participated in helping us attend to social demands, the recuperation of our natural resources, I feel something is missing ... unfortunately in some military institutes, they continue to teach that the enemy is socialism. “We have to change that. The real enemy is capitalism, not socialism. “We are not here to serve the capitalists; we are here to serve the people.”
Honduras; Obama’s new puppets on display http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/824/42372
On January 27, new puppets will take centre stage in the puppetry act in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. “President” Pepe Lobo (“elected” in a fraudulent poll on November 27 in which most Hondurans refused to vote) will accept the strings of attachment to the invisible power that continues to rule Honduras. This obscure and menacing group are an unelected corps of representatives of the army high command and the 10 ruling oligarchic families. They meet under the informal moderation of the US ambassador, with the blessing of the top Catholic clerics.
It is clear the coup was part of Washington’s strategy to re-militarise the region. The coup was followed by the agreement to install military bases in Colombia, and later in Panama; and by the decision to take the US Fourth Fleet out of mothballs and redeploy it to the southwest Caribbean theatre — offshore from Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. Obama has demonstrated not only his skills at “smart diplomacy”, but also his readiness to use the big stick — even if he has to go through denial acts and blame secretary of state Hillary Clinton for the more crude moves in this warfare.
Cheyenne River Sioux waiting disaster declaration from Obama http://www.examiner.com/x-34368-Rapid-City-Native-American-Culture-Examiner~y2010m1d27-CRST-awaiting-disaster-declaration-by-president-Obama
The first Native Tribe to officially support Barack Obama for president is now waiting for him to declare the reservation a disaster. According to a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) press release, 3,000 utility poles were downed during recent severe storms. CRST Chairman, Joseph Brings Plenty, has declared a state of emergency. Thousands of CRST residents have been without water, heat, and electricity for six days as of this morning. Experts relate it may be as long as one month to restore power across the reservation. Wind-chill factors in central South Dakota have been subzero.
Disaster Declared: Cheyenne River Sioux http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/01/disaster-declared-cheyenne-river-sioux.html
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. – The Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has declared a State of Emergency in central South Dakota, an Indian reservation approximately the size of Connecticut with nearly 15,000 Tribal members. The Tribe is still awaiting Presidential disaster declaration.
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The Shadow Prison Industry and Its Government Enablers http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6671
Elements of our criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems are spinning dangerously out of public control. Increasingly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are outsourcing their imprisonment and detention responsibilities to hundreds of contractors and subcontractors—with scant oversight, little transparency, and often tragic consequences. As a result, human rights abuses, squandering of public revenues, and unscrupulous profiteering pervade and pervert the U.S. system of crime and punishment.
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Nato strategy to look at EU relations, says Albright http://euobserver.com/9/29358
Relations between the EU and Nato are to be included in the new strategic concept for the military alliance currently being developed by a group of experts led by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright."We need to maximise collaboration with the EU and make more use of political consultation," Ms Albright told MEPs in Brussels during a special hearing on Wednesday (27 January). Ms Albright was the US' foreign policy supremo during 1997-2001 when Nato launched its first military action in the former Yugoslavia. The 72-year old has now been appointed to chair an expert panel tasked to advise Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Ramussen on an updated "strategic concept" for the military alliance.The document will outline new security threats ranging from cyberattacks to terrorism and energy security and the way the military alliance, founded during the Cold War to protect Europe from a potential Soviet invasion, can respond.
UK Liberal MEP Andrew Duff asked Ms Albright if she was worried about the possibility of a "core group" of military-capable states establishing their own club within the EU – a provision enshrined in the bloc's new legal framework, the Lisbon Treaty.Ms Albright kept her remarks general and pointed out that her team's work was still ongoing. A draft concept is to be issued by Nato's secretary general in time for the November summit in Lisbon, when Nato leaders are meant to adopt the final document.
comment-notice how albright didnt answer MP Duff's question about a possible ''core group'' establishing their own club...
$708 Billion means Real Growth in Military Spending http://www.huffingtonpost.com/winslow-t-wheeler/the-new-pentagon-budget-p_b_441929.html
We witness an age of terror from 100 al Qaeda members that require a budget $200 billion higher than that during the cold war where we faced nuclear annihilation from the Soviets. OK military enthusiasts, please justify this.
Village children gassed while taking refuge from military http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/village-children-gassed-while-taking-refuge-from-military/
Over 20 village residents – including 14 children – were targeted by Israeli soldiers in a volley of tear gas and rubber coated bullets as they took refuge in the Tamimi family house in An Nabi Salih. The residents were not part of the weekly demonstration and children from surrounding houses had gathered there for safety. One boy was hit in the stomach with a gas canister. Five people, children and elderly women, were taken away in ambulances and treated for injuries including tear gas asphyxiation
Water pirates: They are working hard to make publicly owned water their privately held asset http://vimeo.com/8521134
The Water Pirates is the first of many videos that explain why it is critical to defeat the water bond that will be on California’s November ballot. The $11 billion dollar measure is a pork-filled, naked power grab that will enrich a small group of wealthy powerful interests at the expense of an already bankrupt California - and that’s just for starters.
If it passes, it will kill The Delta and be the end for the biggest and most important estuary in North and South America, San Francisco Bay.Stop the water pirates! They are working hard to make publicly owned water their privately held asset. It’s happening now and the pirates need to be stopped! Watch and share this video. Vote NO on the water bond. Together, we can make what is wrong, right again.
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Water Heist: Corporations Are Targeting Cash-Strapped Cities for Control of Their Public Water http://www.alternet.org/water/145480/water_heist:_corporations_are_targeting_cash-strapped_cities_for_control_of_their_public_water?page=entire
"From wastewater to drinking water, big business is looking to cash in on public water systems and they've got a new tactic.""They're using desperate economic times to convince city officials that they should place a corporation between families and their ability to eat, drink, and clean.
U.S. Accused of Mismanaging Billions in Iraq http://current.com/items/92022950_u-s-accused-of-mismanaging-billions-in-iraq.htm
The US special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction says the US state department's gross mismanagement of a multibillion-dollar contract for training Iraqi police has left US funds vulnerable to waste and fraud. In a scathing report, Stuart Bowen, strongly criticizes both the state department and DynCorp International, the firm that won the $2.5 billion dollar contract in 2004.
How many other Holocausts have occurred and why are they not remembered? http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/3843-how-many-other-holocaust-occurred-and-why-are-they-not-remembered
Today, January 28,2010 is UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but why do we only remember this one event, when so many other holocausts have taken place? Think Armenia, Rwanda, the Congo, Cambodia, Sudan, Iraq, etc. Why such a high-profile focus on this one holocaust, while the many other holocausts never get a mention?
Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1145670.html
Wednesday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and an Israeli public relations drive like this hasn't been seen for ages. The timing of the unusual effort - never have so many ministers deployed across the globe - is not coincidental: When the world is talking Goldstone, we talk Holocaust, as if out to blur the impression. When the world talks occupation, we'll talk Iran as if we wanted them to forget.
Netanyahu spoke of a new "migration policy," one that is evil through and through. He malevolently lumped together migrant workers and wretched refugees - warning that they all endanger Israel, lower our wages, harm our security, make us into a third-world country and bring in drugs. He zealously supported our racist interior minister,
Eli Yishai, who has spoken of the migrants as the spreaders of diseases such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, AIDS and God knows what else.No Holocaust speech will erase these words of incitement and slander against migrants. No remembrance speech will obliterate the xenophobia that has reared its head in Israel, not only on the extreme right, as in Europe, but throughout government.
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Ecuador: Indigenous Radio Station Spared Closure http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/2340-ecuador-indigenous-radio-station-spared-closure-
Telecommunications Commission retracted a December decision to shut down an indigenous radio station. The commission, known as CONATEL, had previously determined that the “The Voice of Arutam” was responsible for inciting indigenous protesters to violence during a strike in September 2009 that cost the life of an indigenous bilingual teacher, Bosco Wisum. One indigenous politician called the earlier decision “a Christmas present to Canadian mining companies” operating in the southern Amazonian region. Companies hoping to open up the area to gold and copper mining, such as Vancouver-based Corriente Resources, were the focal point of local protests in September. Corriente recently announced its sale for $653 million USD to a Chinese joint venture between the Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co. Ltd. and the China Railway Construction Corporation.
“The Voice of Arutam” is a Shuar indigenous radio station believed to be the only broadcaster critically informing listeners about the possible impacts of projected oil and mining extraction in the southern Amazon. Its bilingual programming in the Shuar language and Spanish has also provided important services to remote indigenous communities for decades. Arutam is the name of the Shuar spiritual guide.
SAVIA ANDINA ( Instrumental Andino ) Latinoamericanos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCwSGzgrR4
this is peruvian flute music with backround hosting pictures of the reality most americans have no knowledge of,and some who do still show indifference....
Colombian Congress requests $3bn for military air defense http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7930-colombian-congress-requests-3bn-for-military-air-defense.html
Colombia's Congress has requested that the Ministry of Defense invest in more sophisticated weaponry, due to the country's current turbulent relations with Venezuela.Vice President of Congress Santiago Castro suggested an investment of up to $3 billion to improve Colombia's air force, due to the country's supposed vulnerability to air attack by its socialist neighbor.
"Colombia cannot enter into an arms race... But the Plan of Purchase must be changed this year," said Castro.After allegations that a Venezuelan military helicopter entered Colombian airspace this week, the vice president of Congress argued that, "If next time we do not respond to these provocations we will be giving the erroneous message that what we are demonstrating is not caution but weakness."
comment-This is very dangerous,we are on the precipice of something that could trigger a continental war pitting us gov puppet regimes and their millitaries against progressive gov majority wich is just now shaking off the neoliberal domination and exploitation by the us government and its corporations,that lasted over 60 years .colombia is acting in the interests of its masters in us government...the colombian gov claim thru DAS that it had caugth 2 venezuelan spies 2 weeks ago was discredited and exposed when DAS's own video showed two ordinary venezuelans asked for documentation,then being immediatly released.Now its claiming an alledged helicopter violation...we know whos violating whos sovereignty..also see...comment-both groups mentioned are colombian rigthwing paramilitary...COLOMBIAN Paramilitaries displace population near Venezuela borderhttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7821-paramilitaries-displace-population-near-venezuela-border.htmlThe U.S. and its unruly Latin American 'backyard' http://alainet.org/active/35774&lang=en
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