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Plastic Pollution Mortality Facts: It is in Your Veins, Causing Cancer, Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Death
by Tracy Turner
Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in the early 20th century.
"Despite its deep roots, plasticulture is often overlooked in mainstream discussions of sustainable agriculture (mainly because of its non-visibility in the public eye), but researchers are increasingly discovering the practice poses real threats to the future of food security.
Late last year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued A Call for Action concerning the long-term impact of plasticulture on terrestrial and aquatic environments and human health. The FAO found that in 2019 alone, 12.5 million tons of plastic products were used in plant and animal production, and another 37.3 million tons in food packaging. Most of those plastics are single-use and replaced annually, if not seasonally. Often possessing little recycling value, millions of tons end up in landfills or are incinerated, releasing microplastics into food, fields, air, and water all along the way." FAO/Sierra Club.
How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an
Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip.
(Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
JAMES BAMFORD
Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts civilians in the way of the bombs.
Glilot Junction, in the Israeli city of Ramat HaSharon, is a crossroad where the Trans-Samaria Highway bisects the Coastal Highway. It is also a key crossroad for Israel’s human and technical spies. On the east side of the highway is Hertzog Camp and to the west is Dane Camp. Together, the 462 acres of land make up Camp Moshe Dayan‑the most secret military base in the country.
Surrounded by a variety of intrusion-prevention devices and high steel fences topped with barbed wire, Camp Dayan is home to a number of highly sensitive military intelligence instillations, including its central training base; the advanced Targeting Center; Unit 81, a secret technology unit attached to the Special Operations Division; and the IDF Signals Intelligence College.
Hidden Story About Reality In Kosovo: Who Was Suppressing Whom?
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Southern Serbia’s autonomous province of Kosovo and Metochia (KosMet) has been subject to a gradual, but permanent change in its demographic content during the time of Titoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945−1991). Three principal factors were crucial to the drastic demographic change in this Serbian province in favor of ethnic (Muslim) Albanians and at the expense of ethnic (Christian Orthodox) Serbs and Montenegrins.
Demographic explosion
First and the most important has been the demographic explosion, due to the enormous birth rate of Albanians. In the situation when this trend on the global scale was in the opposite direction, with even African countries diminishing their birth rate, the only European regions with breeding out of all proportions, have been Albania and KosMet. In a comprehensive article in Newsweek,[1] entitled “Demographic Bomb Is No Longer As It Used To Be”, it has been estimated that by 2050 the only regions with more than 2 children per woman will be the Caribbean Islands, Pakistan, Eastern Guinea, and African countries (except for North and South Africa). And one region in Europe - KosMet.
Analyzing the world situation, the author writes:
“If the figures are correct, they signify that almost half of the world population lives in the countries whose demographic regime is situated below the replacement level: comments Ebershtadt”.
NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk
By David Swanson
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking is authorized for whoever jumps in on the appropriate side.
The North Atlantic Treaty’s authors may have been aware that they were on dubious legal ground because they went on twice to claim otherwise, first adding the words “Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.” But shouldn’t the United Nations be the one to decide when it has taken necessary measures and when it has not?
Israel and Unit 8200: The Powerhouse of Intelligence
By Tracy Turner
The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of Unit 8200 is to infiltrate and control world events while simultaneously play-acting innocence and plausible deniability. The Mossad has slices of all pies: Universities, Police Departments, K-Street in Washington, The Departments and Bureaus of State Troopers, sheriff departments, FBI Agents, Political Offices of all types, banks, stock trading houses globally, the list is too long to etcetera or et al.
Talpiot Program Unit 8200 - The Talpiot program requires applicants to pass a stringent selection process to be accepted. They are in the top grades in their academic classes, with an emphasis on Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Information Technology (A.I.). They must also pass two-day exams that measure psychologically appropriate time acceptance, social dynamics, I.Q., and group tasks. Candidates must pass stringent security clearance exams and follow task instructions for military personnel. Each fifty to sixty applicants are selected from a pool of ten thousand top scorers.
Does Every Person in Israel Deserve to Die?
David Swanson
I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that nobody ever anywhere “deserves to die.” But the closer you can get to agreeing with that, the better!
Have you heard people calling the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel a “success,” despite the perfectly predictable results piling up in mass graves? You can quickly search and find that claim, not just from Iranian militarists quoted in Israeli media, but also from former UN inspectors, and hip leftist revolutionaries all over social media and all over the world.
In fact, I recently participated in an online debate on whether war can ever be justified. The moderator asked whether it wasn’t obviously counterproductive in terms of halting NATO for Russia to have invaded Ukraine and in terms of liberating Palestine for Hamas to have attacked civilians on October 7th. The answer on both points seems to be a clear yes. You can agree with me that NATO and the West are largely to blame for problems in Ukraine, including for preventing a negotiated agreement to end the war, as well as for not supporting adherence to the previous agreement of Minsk 2, and still — mirabile dictu — recognize that nothing has benefitted NATO more than the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as — for godsake — a RAND report advocated for creating for just that reason. And you can recognize that many in the Israeli government have been passionately drooling for an excuse to genocide Gaza for years, and still think it was counterproductive to hand them that excuse. You can recognize how many lies and exaggerations have been told about what happened on October 7 and still think it was counterproductive to hand them that excuse.
What is critical global geopolitics?
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
From the very pan-global perspective, the best-known geopolitical thesis is of the British Mackinder – "Heartland Thesis". According to the thesis, the Asian "Heartland" is a pivotal area of global geopolitics. Who controls this area provides a chief position in world politics and, therefore, global domination. This "Pivot Area" is surrounded by the "Outer Rim" of the lands divided into two territories: 1) "Inner or marginal crescent"; and 2) "Lands of outer or insular crescent"). If not resistance from the area of the "Outer Rim", which is proximate to the "Heartland", some occupying power could quite easily come to control first Europe and then the world. According to Mackinder's thesis from 1919, the precondition to command "Heartland" is to rule East Europe. However, whoever rules "Heartland" commands the World Island which is a precondition to rule over the World.
Mackinder's geopolitical analysis of world politics, nevertheless, had a very practical task – to assist British global colonial imperialism. In other words, he suggested to the British policymakers to be wary of powers that are occupying the "Heartland" and should establish a "buffer zone" around the territory of "Heartland" to prevent the accumulation of power in the future that might challenge the hegemony of the British Empire within both "Inner" and "Outer Crescents". Mackinder's geopolitical reasoning had a certain influence on both British foreign policy and popular imagination.
Asymmetric Warfare
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). There are, historically, several types of warfare as conventional warfare, civil war, lightning war (blitzkrieg in German), total war, hegemonic war, liberation war, war on terrorism, etc. However, according to the used warfare technique, there is, for instance, little war (guerrilla war in Spanish) or according to the (counter)balance of warfare sides, there is asymmetric war as an example.
Asymmetric warfare exists in the case when two sides of combat forces (two states, two blocs, a state vs. one military bloc, etc.) are very or even extremely different regarding their military and other capacities to fight each other. They are also very different in terms of their areas of comparative strategic advantage, Therefore, the confrontation between such two different sides is coming to turn on one belligerent side's ability/capacity to force the other side to fight on their terms and conditions.
On the Importance of Tents
By: Brett Redmayne-Titley.
“… we see the brutal repression that we have not seen in the [US] universities...The truth is that this unprecedented brutal repression...expresses at state of panic for the western system in general.”- Bashar al-Assad.
As University campuses across America attempt to re-educate their students that Genocide is intellectually “acceptable,” these university presidents and administrations have a problem: No matter how hard these Zionist-inflicted champions of re-education try, their students will not be convinced to rip out from their minds the page containing the definition of the word “Genocide” contained in the dictionaries of every campus library in America.
Duplicitous college presidents nationally cannot mandate that the students sacrifice the scholarship of their minds and fail to bear witness to 35,000 arbitrarily slaughtered Palestinians. University administrators will not magically make those of correct conscience-nor the students- go away.
I’m currently searching for my tent. Enough is enough. For I have seen the power of the tent… and the people who occupy them, before. Just down the road at LA City Hall too long ago the outraged citizens of Los Angeles brought our tents and made a stand against “the System” and “the 99%.”
We won!
Is the Electoral Fix Already In?
Matt Taibbi
The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election.
The fix is in. To “protect democracy,” democracy is already being canceled. We just haven’t admitted the implications of this to ourselves yet.
On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story: “Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House.” It described “a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers” that is “quietly” making plans to “foil any efforts to expand presidential power” on the part of Donald Trump.
The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims. Since Joe Biden’s team “leaked” a strategy memo in late December listing “Trump is an existential threat to democracy” as Campaign 2024’s central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert existential or democracy in quotes. This was no different:
