Strobe Talbott: "Javier Solana will make a significant contribution to our [Brookings Institution] Global Agenda http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/us-diplomacy.2m1

Javier Solana, who stepped down as the European Union's foreign policy chief in November, is joining The Brookings Institution as an expert, the US think-tank said Tuesday.Solana, 67, will head foreign policy research and "participate in the policy debate," according to Brookings, which ranks among Washington's top policy research institutions.In his new role, he will also consult with Brookings programs on transnational governance and the global economy and development.

The bespectacled Solana became a familiar face on the European stage over the past decade, with his affable smile and usual three-day-growth beard.He took over European diplomacy after serving as secretary general of NATO where he led the military alliance into the war in Kosovo in 1999.

"With his many years of outstanding service as Europe's leading diplomat and as leader of NATO during a period of transformation and challenge, Javier will make a significant contribution to the institution's global agenda," Brookings President Strobe Talbott said in a statement.

comment-strobe talbott the man behind Obamas main think tank brookings,is also a rhodes scholar and was roommate to bill clinton at oxford.Under clinton he received a norman cousins global governance award(world federalist association) https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFImLBcwW0bc-pRUofLIVX4RUWq7Y-5GOJcTpTWctPT2__ccNnz6O0YBtEhK_lZqUF4Vp6Jrr7y2Fwu2ShJkMKioK7GXrjccrexuOfh5rVNWrwe0bm6wXErUO1zeGxMa6Mrvlh1FyiOuz/s1600-h/Letter.gif

Strobe Talbott received the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award (World Federalists) for his 1992 TIME article, “The Birth of the Global Nation http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=PowerEliteExposed

the people behind this award are world federalist association.In 2004, the World Federalist Association changed its name to Citizens for Global Solutions http://www.globalsolutions.org/wfi

The World Federalist Association (WFA) - initially the United World Federalists - was created in Asheville, North Carolina, in November of 1947. Its mission was to "work to create a world federal government with authority to enact, interpret and enforce world law adequate to maintain peace." Under the leadership of national figures such as Oscar Hammerstein, Norman Cousins, E.B. White, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, UWF secured 111 co-sponsors for a bill in favor of a strengthened United Nations in the U.S. Congress, and succeeded in getting twenty-three state legislations to pass resolutions in support of world federation.

Other early achievements included a campaign to establish the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961), a campaign for U.S. support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1969) and active support of negotiations on a Law of the Sea Treaty (1970's.) From the late 1980's on, WFA was a leading supporter of a treaty to create an International Criminal Court, culminating in the creation of the treaty in Rome, August, 1998, where World Federalists played a key leadership role in organizing backing for the ICC by the NGO community.

also see.. Sam Husseini, Brookings - The Establishment's Think Tank, Extra!, FAIR, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1436

some Brookings institute alumny in obama's admnistration

Richard Haas, who heads the think tank's foreign policy department, was a senior director at the National Security Council under Bush.(appointed as envoy by obama)Richard Nathan Haass (born July 28, 1951, Brooklyn) has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003 The Senate approved Haass as a candidate for the position of ambassador and he has been U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan

Susan E. Rice. Susan Rice was a senior fellow at Brookings from 2002 to 2009 Dr. Susan E. Rice on Barack's Foreign Policy Plans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oyhoAM5snY

Dennis Ross is also connected thru saban center at brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy - Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/saban.aspx

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The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan: Black Sites in the Empire of Bases http://www.truthout.org/the-700-military-bases-afghanistan-black-sites-empire-bases56789

"Currently we have over $3 billion worth of work going on in Afghanistan," says Colonel Wilson, "and probably by the summer, when the dust settles from all the uplift, we'll have about $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion worth of that [in the South]." By comparison, between 2002 and 2008, the Army Corps of Engineers spent more than $4.5 billion on construction projects, most of it base-building, in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon's most recent inventory of bases lists a total of 716 overseas sites. These include facilities owned and leased all across the Middle East as well as a significant presence in Europe and Asia, especially Japan and South Korea. Perhaps even more notable than the Pentagon's impressive public foreign property portfolio are the many sites left off the official inventory.

While bases in the Persian Gulf countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates are all listed, one conspicuously absent site is Al-Udeid Air Base, a billion-dollar facility in nearby Qatar, where the U.S. Air Force secretly oversees its on-going unmanned drone wars.The count also does not include any sites in Iraq where, as of August 2009, there were still nearly 300 American bases and outposts. Similarly, U.S. bases in Afghanistan -- a significant percentage of the 400 foreign sites scattered across the country -- are noticeably absent from the Pentagon inventory.

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Felicity Arbuthnot: Haiti; 'Support of U.S. National Interests'  http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=7231&blz=1

john perkins''"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. "In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.''

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Jack Abramoff’s old friend now South African envoy to Argentina http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

After the presidential election victory in Chile of the neo-Pinochet candidate and billionaire Sebastian Pinera, the right wing and their Zionist allies can turn their attention to Argentina’s 2011 presidential election. Current President Cristina de Fernandez Kirchner’s husband, Nestor Kirchner, her predecessor as president in expected to run for president in 2011 against his one-time mentor Eduardo Duhalde. President Cristina de Fernandez Kirchner and her husband have established close relations with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and other progressive Latin American leaders.

That has brought them into the sights of the neoconservative and Zionist network, which now seeks to destabilize countries like Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, and others that have maintained good relations with Iran and have criticized Israeli policies. Leon’s posting to Buenos Aires supplements the plans being hammered out in Jerusalem and Washington to bring about the election of capitalists subservient to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and eliminate the “progressive bloc” in Latin America.

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Over-Drugged Animals, Superbugs and DIRT! the Movie http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/over-drugged-animals-superbugs-and-dirt-the-movie/

The Union of Concerned Scientists advises that a recent study reveals “the number of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil microbes has significantly increased over the past 70 years” – fifteen-fold in the case of tetracyclins. Linked below is a petition to support the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, and a discount for DIRT! the movie.The UCS reports, “A team of British scientists tested samples of benign and disease-causing bacteria from a soil archive in the Netherlands that dates back to 1940, the era when antibiotic use became common.

“Genes that confer resistance significantly increased over time for every antibiotic drug class they tested. Genes that confer resistance to tetracycline antibiotics are 15 times more abundant in current-day soil samples than in samples even from the 1970s.“Levels of resistance rose in spite of improved waste management practices and the Dutch policy restricting nontherapeutic antibiotic use in agriculture, which is tougher than that of many other countries including the United States. The team concluded that environmental levels of antibiotic-resistance genes are probably still increasing in similar locations worldwide. Read the study abstract in Environmental Science and Technology.”http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es901221x

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MNN: Commander's crime should not be associated with Mohawks http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/02/mnn-commanders-crime-should-not-be.html

The following story is dangeous b.s. meant to associate Mohawks with one of the most horrendous crimes in Canada. Who is this writer serving and what is the real story?As an Indigenous person, I always look at "pat" stories with a critical eye. This story sounds like the kind of false propaganda that is always being put out about the Mohawks, that our women are prostitutes, are in the prison system, we are criminals, dealing in contraband, etc. These PR stories are put out about us to justify railroading us into jail for the rest of our lives and to demonize us.

Often they don't have the right person or the facts. It's meant to scare us into towing the line.Why is this writer trying to make us think they are native? Why is this writer connecting us with prostitutes being released into the streets of Kingston? Why is this writer trying to misrepresent the city of Belleville and the Mohawk women from Tyendinaga, as if we are displaying ourselves at the local bars to pick up soldiers? Is this association meant to look like this officer had a motive for picking up an indigenous looking person with dark skin and hair?

Something's seriously wrong here. This writer says that Indigenous are being released into the streets of Kingston. This is not true anymore. The Prison for Women was closed down about ten years ago [Arbour Inquiry Report]. A documentary was made and televised on it. Today Indigenous women are scattered throughout Canada and kept where they are arrested.

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Chevron Caught Misrepresenting Facts about Expert Report in Ecuador Trial Oil Giant "Desperate" to Derail $27 Billion Liability http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=2003

QUITO, Ecuador–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In its latest attempt to evade a $27 billion liability in Ecuador, Chevron is misrepresenting key facts about a court-appointed expert who conducted a damages assessment not to the company's liking, representatives of the plaintiffs announced. "Chevron is again trying to strong-arm the court by misrepresenting facts," said Steven R. Donziger, an American legal advisor to the plaintiffs. "This is part of an underhanded attempt to derail a trial Chevron is losing based on the voluminous scientific evidence."

Cabrera, working with a team of 14 scientists, found damages could be as high as $27.3 billion. A court will make a final determination on liability and damages later this year. According to Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer in the case, in its latest court filing Chevron fails to note that: • Cabrera disclosed to the court that he owned a clean-up company before his appointment as Special Master. This fact was properly cited by the court as one of the reasons he was qualified to do the damages assessment. •

Chevron thought so highly of Cabrera's qualifications that it accepted him as a court-appointed expert in an earlier part of the case and paid his fees as required by court rules. • The fact Cabrera's company is qualified to bid on clean-up contracts offered by Ecuador's state-owned oil company is irrelevant. That company, Petroecuador, is not a party to the case against Chevron and would have no role in any eventual cleanup. • Cabrera by virtue of his role in the case would be barred from having a role in a future clean-up.

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PERU: CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50270

Nine years after the 2001 shootdown of a small airplane carrying U.S. missionaries over the Peruvian jungle, the CIA and the armed forces of this South American country are pointing fingers at each other over who was responsible for the fatal mistake, which cost the lives of two people.