Globalization, what it is and its cure

Globalization is the abuse of global corporations in Third world countries supported by First world economies, world banking and world trade organizations so that the poor nations are used as reserves for cheap natural resources, cheap labor resources, and dumping grounds for surplus production. The global corporations make huge profits while destroying internal domestic interdependency in trade and domestic markets suddenly and without warning to the ones that get dispossessed. Add to this the callous pillage of the environment, cultures, currencies, development programs, and even governance through bribery and corruption in any and all forms.

Remember the Bhopal tragedy? No aspersions on India but according to my understanding the politicians of India could not care less about the poor and the broken and the dispossessed in this Bhopal tragedy so that the concerned global corporation escaped with very little penalty and loss in spite of its criminal negligence giving rise to tens of thousands of dead, maimed, sickened, or made destitute or dispossessed from their polluted homes.

In the USA global banks and brokerages have taken the entire world on a junketeer. The USA government not only did not do anything significant at all to help recover the losses of the people caught in this mess in spite of admissions of guilt by these global companies, but actually bailed them out lock, stock and barrel! The reason is because the global corporations ensure their political and judicial clout and well-being by contributing to the election funds of those supposed to enact and dispense justice. In other words the USA leaders are as corrupt as any in the world, if not worse, since they do not need to be corrupt in order to live a reasonably good life with the salaries given to them by the state.

The only cure for the Third world is that there be international economic justice and that is not going to happen as long as there is military and economic muscle with lack of principle in a world where industrialized countries prefer to retain their hegemony at the expense of the poor and the downtrodden nations. Therefore, the Third world MUST group together and fight back militarily if need be against the destabilizing efforts of the Industrialized countries in the targeted Third world countries which have the huge strategic reserves of natural resources which the Industrialized world covets – and is unwilling to trade fairly for them.

Salim e-a Ebrahim

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF)

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF)

By Gideon Levy

July 06, 2009 "Haaretz"

"Combat is the best, my brother," the famous bumper sticker reads. It's a good thing we have Shayetet 13. Operating at the crack of dawn - or was it before nightfall? - the daring naval commandos fearlessly took control of a rusty, rickety, unarmed boat bobbing in the middle of the sea. That's exactly why we have a naval commando force - to take control of ships offering humanitarian aid. Behold, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. The military correspondents reported on the incident with an amazement that only they can muster. But even they could not provide a fig leaf for the operation: The Israel Defense Forces has once again used its power to overcome the weak; the navy has once again acted like pirates. The Arion was abducted in the framework of protecting Israel's security for all eternity, blah, blah, blah.

Soldiers, journalists and news consumers automatically refrain from asking questions. The navy captured another ship carrying symbolic aid, as if its passengers were Somali pirates. These were people of conscience from various countries carrying toys and medicine.

This was not the navy's first daring operation of this kind, nor will it be the last. When there are no hostile aid ships on the horizon, the navy takes control of wretched Gazan boats, using water hoses or firing at its passengers - poor fishermen who only want to make a living at sea. This is the main activity unfolding off Gaza's shores. A navy outfitted with the best arsenal in the world is hunting surfboards. One of the best-armed forces in the world is chasing children, examining old people's documents and entering bedrooms to make arrests.

We ought to pay close attention to what preoccupies our military. While defense officials hold discussions on buying the F-35 combat jet at $200 million per plane, the IDF is mostly busy with miserable, pointless police work that befits an occupation army. It is engaged in ludicrous and useless policing in a "war" against people equipped with some of the most primitive weapons in the world.

In the dead of night, soldiers in elite and not-so-elite units break into the homes of Palestinians, some of whom are guilty of no crime, and needlessly awaken and frighten women and children. Their comrades spend their service standing at checkpoints, occasionally shooting and killing needlessly. Other soldiers chase after children throwing stones or Molotov cocktails and shoot at them. "A huge terrorist attack" that was thwarted near the security fence in Gaza a month ago was to be carried out by "a force" that numbered eight Palestinians, some of them mounted on mules. The mule-rider's brigade - these are the forces against us.

We saw it, of course, during Operation Cast Lead, the war that provoked almost no opposition. As reported last week by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, our drones bombed helpless Gaza residents, killing a few dozen, including children. Our jets and helicopters, among the most sophisticated in the world, are bombing residential neighborhoods. They may be preparing for an operation that fires the imagination in Iran, but meanwhile they are circling the Gaza sky as if it belonged to them.

If that were not enough, we now have the most advanced system of all: female soldiers who are lookouts trained to shoot live fire after completing "precedent-setting training." The army newspaper Bamahane reported it with great enthusiasm: "This is the first time female soldiers will shoot automatic gunfire from within a W.R., noted the C.O. of the T.B," whatever those initials mean. In simpler language, it means that 19-year-old girls are playing with joysticks in an air-conditioned room and "taking down" people.

This then is the great progress of the "people's army" to train women to kill, while their comrades, soldiers and Border Police, are routinely sent to shoot live fire at unarmed demonstrators at Bil'in and Na'alin. This, for the most part, is the IDF's balance sheet. This is what largely preoccupies the best, most moral army in the world. Pilots who have never fought in an air battle and soldiers with no army against them now spend most of their time maintaining the occupation in a kind of pathetic combat, and they are our protective shield.

When the day of reckoning comes, we will remember this.

© Copyright 2009 Haaretz. All rights reserved

Autism and chronic diseases: gene modified primitive bacteria are the cause!

Autism and chronic diseases: gene modified primitive bacteria as contaminants in commercial vaccines are the cause!

Professor Garth Nicolson is a microbiologist and director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine in the USA. Gene modified primitive bacteria as contaminants in commercial vaccines and the injecting of multiple vaccinations especially at a young age, are the cause of autism and chronic diseases in human beings. This is the opinion of one of THE world’s foremost scientist. WHO IS ANYONE TO CHALLENGE THIS TRUTH DERIVED FROM THE LIFE WORKS OF SUCH MEN AS THESE? The corporate and government manipulators of truth do so for reasons to be explained below.

The US government does not require vaccine makers to test for, and remove, certain BIOLOGICAL contaminants known as “mycoplasma” the extremely dangerous gene modified primitive bacteria in commercial vaccines.

Because the vast majority of physicians are unaware of this common source of chronic illnesses, they do not test for the presence of these contaminant mycoplasma primitive bacteria injected into human beings via commercial vaccines. These contaminants create havoc in the health and quality of lives in that segment of the human population susceptible to these contaminants.

Professor Garth Nicolson is one of the WORLD’S foremost scientists who co-authored the science paper which holds the Classic Contents Citation record for a classic science paper, across all science disciplines, UP TO NOW, for: The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes by S. Singer and G Nicolson.

Here below is the link to the video of the part presentation made by Professor Garth Nicolson in the 9^th Annual Conference of Common Cause Medical Research Foundation held from 29-31 August 2008 at Sudby, Ontario, Canada: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/659.html

Whereas WHO (World Health Organization) rests its case on the US Institute of Medicine’s 8^th and Final Report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee dated February, 2004, Professor Nicolson’s presentation is not even a year old and his science based convictions have not changed ever since he discovered the link between these vaccine contaminants and their effect upon the molecular structures of the biological cell. He even informs us in the above-mentioned video that it is not beyond the US Government to collude with pharmaceutical corporations who had helped (and who may be needed again) in the development of weapons of biological warfare.

And here, for a kicker, is another report about secret guinea pig vaccines administered to US Marines, collusion between the military, the pharmaceutical corporations and the FDA (Food and Drugs Agency). As usual, the segment of the human population that does not have the immunity for such devious, experimental vaccines can be devastating AS IT WAS FOR THE POOR YOUNG TRUSTING MAN in this video report: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/661.html

In the development and manufacture of commercial vaccines it is understood from the very beginning that some of these contaminant mycoplasma WILL contaminate the vaccine products. But, it is a huge cost to test for and cleanse the vaccine products for safe usage for ALL human beings and so the industry is prepared to sacrifice the less biologically healthy children and adults at the altar of the primitive jungle law, “survival of the fittest”. It is for us to know and then to protect our vulnerable children (as well as adults) in this most callous of worlds which holds profit above God - because money is their god.

The medical practitioners must have the intellectual humility to understand that they themselves are not involved in a purely technical field but in a subjective field of human diagnosis and in the application of subjective treatments which may or may not be successful for any particular individual because of the infinite variance inherent within any human population. Clearly therefore the correct thing to do for the medical practitioner is to be very cautious of the technical people they rely upon for their medicinal products.

For a non-profit and philanthropic institution like the Aga Khan University and Hospital, the simplest and wisest thing to do for our children is to recognize that THEIR IMMUNITY SYSTEMS ARE NOT FULLY DEVELOPED AT A TENDER AGE and therefore certain vaccines are to be delayed; and again we must reduce the number of vaccines to be given within a certain time interval. IS THIS ASKING TOO MUCH OR IS IT BEYOND OUR ABILITY TO DEVISE SUCH A METHODOLOGY after hearing the words of the world’s foremost scientist in molecular medicine that a vaccine manufacturer himself had once unwittingly admitted to him in private that they are unwilling to spend on cleansing the commercial vaccines of contaminant mycoplasma because of the costs involved?

Salim e-a Ebrahim

To: The Zeitgeist Movement.

03 July 2009

To: The Zeitgeist Movement.

Dear friends:

I have taken the time and the trouble to read the book and view the video on the Zeitgeist Movement.

There is a serious FAULT in your theory and it is this:

It is not a matter of SIMPLY 'nature or nurture' when it comes to understanding the nature of human will - or willfulness - but the human being's own hazy and even fearsome areas of the human mind: its needs, wants, desires, greed, jealousy, anger, revenge, power, status, pride, arrogance, intolerance, rigidity, tyranny, violence and battering, cruelty, sadism and masochism, lying, cheating, hypocrisy.

You cannot remove any of the above items in the list of HUMAN VICES inherent - inherent in humans not genetically, not culturally, not psychologically, not educationally, not spiritually but inherent by the simple fact of BEING human - by eliminating the monetary economic system with its 'profit motive' (which in and of itself is an IMPOSSIBLE endeavor in light of the human mind) but by ethics and ethical reasoning in pursuing the idea of your "ONE WORLD".

Without putting due emphasis on ethics, morals and values you have reduced your thesis to an idealist's impractical dreaming.

I should like to help you but you have to FIRST answer the question:

"Where will you go to search for and list the common human values that all humanity will abide by in your ONE WORLD?"

Then after that you need to draft out a common human charter (you may wish to refer to the UN charter to ensure comprehensiveness in yours) for all humanity.

And after that you need to devise a method or create a power yourself with which to unilaterally confront the power of the militarized nations with the veto power in the UN Security Council. You should not forget what happened to the Falun Gong movement when the Chinese elite felt their power threatened by this huge mass of people peacefully claiming their right to be heard.

And after that you must create a common UNIVERSAL currency for international exchange in which all countries can participate on the basis of their own unique heritage of natural resources.

And all the while you must guard against the workings of national terrorist organizations like the CIA, the Mossad, the RAW, the ISI, the MI5, etc. etc. ad infinitum i.e. the secret services of ALL nations who can eliminate anyone and anybody in the world with their hired guns if these individuals are perceived as endangering their "national interests".

After that one can think about YOUR DREAM WORLD of cyber-automation and a 'world without property' living for the common good in altruistic cheerfulness.

Hi-ho (yawn) back to bed I go. To sleep off this damned headache I got while writing out this homily.

Kind regards,

Salim e-a Ebrahim

"We may yet set the world right" - Aga Khan

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The Aga Khan after 50 years: We may yet set the world right

Don Cayo, Vancouver Sun

Published: Monday, November 24, 2008

TORONTO - Despite the West's "big, big, big failure" in Iraq and continuing conflict in much of Afghanistan, the Aga Khan says the world has made great strides against mass poverty, and he now sees real prospects for new bridges between Muslim states and the West.

Such optimism was recurrent during an hour-long exclusive interview with The Vancouver Sun on Sunday. The Aga Khan was here on the second stop of a four-city tour of Canada, which ends in Vancouver today, to celebrate his 50 years as hereditary leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims.

He cited several reasons for hope.

One is growing acceptance on both sides of the divide for his urgent call to combat what Harvard professor Samuel Huntington dubs "the clash of civilizations" and the Aga Khan terms "the clash of ignorance."

This is what led to the mess in Iraq, he said. It was "entirely predictable."

"Hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslim leaders would have told the Western world exactly what to expect when Saddam Hussein was eliminated."

And, "That's the sort of situation where predictability is absolutely essential."

Historically, he said, it has been common in the West to assume, "the industrialized world is always right and therefore . . . should be the norm for everybody else."

The Muslim world doesn't always agree, but it is often torn, wanting to adopt what it sees as the best from the West while shunning the rest.

Education is the key to better relations, he said.

For Muslim states, this involves continuing his 50-year push for acceptance of pluralism and an end to insistence that tribal or ethnic priorities always trump the greater good.

And it involves schooling - one of the key thrusts of his Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). This $500-million- a-year group of agencies works in a score of poor countries on projects that range from activity-filled little madrassas where preschoolers learn to read in rural villages and urban slums, to on-the-job teacher training in places where qualifications are rock-bottom low, to state-of-the-art high schools offering the international baccalaureate program, to two acclaimed international universities.

For the West, it means more inclusive curriculums in institutions that were long rooted solely in the Judeo-Christian tradition, unaware of Muslim history and culture. This is happening, he said, to the point where the West will come to redefine what it means to be an educated person in today's world.

So, too, with Western governments. They are gradually coming to understand just how diverse is the Muslim world, yet how in every Muslim country the relationship between religion and state is, unlike in the West, inextricably intertwined.

What's still needed, he said, is two things.

The Muslim world has to be clearer about what it wants. And the Western world must learn to assess the risks in doing what it does.

"The reactive mode is a tremendous liability. Being in an anticipatory mode changes the whole nature of things. . . .

"What's very encouraging, from my point of view, is that this identifying of risk is something I can [now] talk to Western governments about."

The Aga Khan stressed again and again the need for patience and taking the long-term view. But when asked about the urgent problem of Afghanistan - the need for Western nations to decide what to do next week and next month and next year - he concedes that in the violent areas security is an immediate concern.

"Development cannot take place in an environment of insecurity," so regional issues have to be taken care of, including in the neighboring tribal areas of Pakistan, where there has never been central government control.

But, "I tend to think of Afghanistan as a number of countries . . . with different ethnic backgrounds, different levels of security and peace."

So it's important "not only to deal with security issues - and security is severe - but to continue to build strongly and confidently in areas where reconstruction is taking place."

"Once [reconstruction] becomes self-sustaining, it tends to grow across divides. People look at what's happening village to village or province to province, and they ask themselves, 'Can we get this?'"

This opens up the possibility of dialogue. And, once this process starts, "success will spill over."

In some once-destitute parts of the world - he mentioned Malaysia and Indonesia, but there are many more - progress is well under way.

So, despite the continuing strife and uncertain outcomes in Afghanistan, Iraq and several other parts of the world he cares about deeply, his optimism remains intact.

In fact, he said, over the half century since he inherited the Ismaili imamate from his grandfather, the gap between what he hopes for the world and what he actually expects has narrowed greatly.

That was the era of declining colonialism and frightening Cold War tensions.

"The world I became involved in in 1957 was a very, very difficult world to work in. The forces at play were dramatic.

"That has all changed significantly."

Today's challenge, he said, has evolved into how to make the remaining poor areas of the world "areas of opportunity where people can have hope and confidence in improving the quality of life."

That challenge fits perfectly with a central ethic of his faith.

Muslims, he said, do believe in concepts of charity - giving to needy people who have no other options.

But a higher concept - a duty, rather than a gift inspired by kindness - is to help build in the powerless "the capacity to be masters of their own destiny.”

That is referred to [in his faith] as the best form of charity.

From this ethic sprang what was, at the time, the odd mix of non-profit and profit-seeking agencies that make up the AKDN. It has led, for example, to substantial investments in things like Afghanistan's first five-star hotel - sure from the get-go to be a money-loser, but a potential profit centre nonetheless - or a plant to manufacture nets for a not-yet-established aquaculture industry in Uganda.

It is, in other words, remarkably patient capital. And while his agencies that make such investments hope to make money - and some, indeed, do - the decision to invest is never profit-driven. The business case is based first on whether it will foster improvements in quality of life.

Though the AKDN had few peers when it pioneered the use of business tools to attain social goals, the approach is catching on: As has the ethical imperative for at least some of those who have done well to also do good.

The Aga Khan said he is delighted at the resurgence of massive private capital in development initiatives manifested by people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet or, on a smaller but still dramatic scale, Vancouver mining magnates Frank Giustra and Lukas Lundin, who have pledged $100 million each to the Clinton Foundation.

"I am very, very, very pleased that there is a sense of social ethics which is coming back in a part of the world which I thought had become so materialistic that they had lost the notion of ethics. That they had lost notions of the unity of humanity and the fact that they couldn't leave people - millions and millions of people - at risk of ill health, of marginalization, lack of security. . . .”

"At one time I thought things were really becoming just too materialistic. But Bill Gates and other people around him are starting to reverse that whole attitude."

A benefit that is perhaps related to this is Western donors' increasing adoption of another concept his agencies have long practiced - businesslike oversight of development spending.

"For a long time, there was a notion that development work, development activity, should not be measured," he said. "It was [seen as] unethical to measure something which was done with a charitable attitude.

"But measuring the impact doesn't mean that it's a commercial goal. It's understanding the impact on the communities you want to help.

"If your programs of support are not doing what they should do, you need to know that. You need to be able to understand what's gone wrong, and you need to be able to correct it."

For programs delivering things such as education and health care, outcomes are usually countable and easy to understand. But in areas that are less tangible but equally important - such as fostering vibrant elements of civil society that he considers so important to protecting nascent democracies and pre-empting conflict - measurement is not straightforward.

For this, donors must gauge the impact on quality of life - as defined by the aid recipients.

"One of the lessons we've learned is to . . . listen and listen and listen," he said. "If you apply your own criteria, you'll get it wrong."

Yet, even then, it's not quite so simple.

Both for the faith-based Aga Khan network and for principled democracies like Canada, donors can and often do face a delicate dilemma when their cherished beliefs are not shared by recipient societies. Equal treatment for women is one such value that is shared by the Aga Khan and the Canadian government but often flies in the face of tradition in the places that most need our help.

Drawing a line in the sand is one option when such values conflict, he said, but "you have to be very careful handling these things, because they can be a real boomerang if you get them wrong. . . .

"It's not the issue of whether you want to see them changed. It's the issue of how do you change them."

So his answer boils down to persistence and patience.

These themes of patience and persistence permeate the Aga Khan's responses on almost every issue. It has taken 25 years - half the span of his long-running imamate - to foster modest, though significant, economic development and functional cooperation among nearly 4,000 villages in lawless northern Pakistan. It will take similar patience, plus a lot of wisdom, to counter the fallout of failed democracies in areas as diverse as Central Asia, East Africa and Eastern Europe.

But, going forward, he sees a 25-year span as probably long enough to set right the worst of the dire poverty that afflicts a quarter of the world's people. If, and this is a huge if, the world gets its policies and priorities right.

Getting it right would mean more global and regional stability, better quality of life for millions, and, eventually, a raft of new players buying and selling in the world marketplace.

And getting it wrong?

"The risk of failure is that these parts of the world will remain fragile, ill-governed, with weak economies. Internal stresses will become external stresses."

This risk, he warns, is dangerously high. Thus, "The downside is very, very serious. And the upside is encouraging, and can even be achieved."

Then, as the interview ends, the Aga Khan added one more risk to avoid: "Intellectual vanity. For everyone."