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#Africa
Selon une estimation donnée par l’ONG Oxfam, les pays en développement perdent chaque année 100 milliards de dollars de recettes fiscales qui ne sont pas acquittées par les multinationales opérant sur leur sol.
http://www.politis.fr/Joseph-Stiglitz-l-Allemagne-a,31894.html

#Assassinations
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/murder-map-latin-america-leads-world-key-cities-buck-deadly-trend?CMP=edit_2221: Finding: According to an interactive online world map with data on the distribution of murder by country, year, age of victim and – where figures are available – gender and type of weapon drawing on statistics from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, government offices, health institutes and police records; the world experiences 450,000 murders each year. This Monitor has been compiled as a tool for policymakers and researchers by the Igarapé Institute, a Rio thinktank with funding from the Open Society Foundation and Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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#curveball
The lie that fermented the justificatory modern-age tonkin-like lie for the invasion of Iraq in March 2013 was told by a man whom the CIA nicknamed “CURVEBALL”. The WMD accusations were trumped up on a heap of lies that had been identified as such – a fact made known to MI-5, CIA-NSA and other secret services with an interest in the region by the German BND. The government under Fischer and Schröder refused to go to war and did not join the coalition of the willing because they KNEW the WMD charges were unproven and based on falsified claims by Iraqi chemical engineer Rafed Ahmed Alvan who sought and acquired refugee-status in Germany – based on these lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyVvVHRReE

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#Daesh
French military support for “democratic Sunnis” in Syria has backfired as they’ve been coopted by Al Nusra (= AlQaida)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNKVJ59jIc

#Diplomacy
The secret lives of diplomats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6b2DBMRy4g

Diplomacy:
What is in our toolbox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQUmnMFuRWg

1/4:Inside View: the diplomat’s life: Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdOOZaFOZw
2/4:Inside View: the diplomat’s life: A typical day in the life of a diplomat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xgppSUqIRM
3/4:Inside View: the diplomat’s life: Functions of an ambassador’s life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpvLYrUB6M
4/4:Inside View: the diplomat’s life: Do we need ambassadors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGq4qsfLtQ

21st Century Diplomacy: Who are we and what do we do? (i.e:Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b3rC9KRXes

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#Gore-Vidal on his life and economic-crisis induced class war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76ArLbSABA

GWOT: a timeline

Bush declares war on both Alqaida and Taliban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFVT48eeqU

NBC Nightly News Oct 7, 2001 – America Strikes Back
https://youtu.be/Q-St8s9RKEU
comment: Rumsfeld is wrong: There is a single bullet: DIALOGUE & CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7Mg9G2–A
Taliban deny having anything to do with the 9/11 attacks and claim they had limited osama bin laden’s communication to the outside world

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#Habeas Corpus
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15220450/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/death-habeas-corpus/#.VVRY8pNAaM8 Keith Olberman (wonder what he is up to these days) satirizes the grave process of abolishing due process in the post 9/11 world of G.W.Bush.

#Homicides
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/murder-map-latin-america-leads-world-key-cities-buck-deadly-trend?CMP=edit_2221: Finding: According to an interactive online world map with data on the distribution of murder by country, year, age of victim and – where figures are available – gender and type of weapon drawing on statistics from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, government offices, health institutes and police records; the world experiences 450,000 murders each year. This Monitor has been compiled as a tool for policymakers and researchers by the Igarapé Institute, a Rio thinktank with funding from the Open Society Foundation and Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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#Inequalities
For example, global inequalities in income in the twentieth century have increased by more than anything previously experienced, illustrated by the fact that the distance between the incomes of the richest and poorest country was about 3 to 1 in 1820, 35 to 1 in 1950, 44 to 1 in 1973, and 72 to 1 in 1992 (UNDP 2000: 6). [David Slater p.3]

#inequality in the U.S
The top 20% of Americans captured 51% of before-tax household income in 2010, according to the Congressional Research Service. The bottom 20% got just 5% of the earnings.
In 2013 the average CEO made just under 300 times as much as the average worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute. 20% of American kids lived in poverty as of 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. income inequality is the 4th-highest in the OECD. The only countries with more inequality are Turkey, Mexico and Chile, in that order.

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/19/quiz-can-you-recognize-the-shape-of-inequality-in-america-most-cant/?tid=sm_tw
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/charts-income-inequality-middle-class-census

IRAQ
Very good summary of it all: 11:53 onwards. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasb91L5SQM

IRAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeqiHfj0OFY
So according to Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney made a proposal, which did not make it into U.S. policy, but is worth knowing: PROVOCATION of a very special kind.

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#Longshadowsofhistory
Between 1400 and 1800, European Young men brought 90% of earth under their dominion. Gunnar Heinsohn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYVxqYx5s4

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#Murder
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/murder-map-latin-america-leads-world-key-cities-buck-deadly-trend?CMP=edit_2221: Finding: According to an interactive online world map with data on the distribution of murder by country, year, age of victim and – where figures are available – gender and type of weapon drawing on statistics from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, government offices, health institutes and police records; the world experiences 450,000 murders each year. This Monitor has been compiled as a tool for policymakers and researchers by the Igarapé Institute, a Rio thinktank with funding from the Open Society Foundation and Peace Research Institute Oslo.

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#NDAA
On the National Defense Authorisation Act See Videos:
December 2011 shortly before the signature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7Ekz2ABFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNcbsB1Pizg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Bv5BTCVqw

Findings: Passed on new years’ eve 2012 by Barak Obama, the NDAA authorizes the U.S military to arrest & detain anyone anywhere indefinitely without granting acces to a lawyer or to a fair trial based on accusations of being a belligerent or violence-driven enemy of America or its allies.

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On #ScientificRigor and policy consultancy
“Policy arguments that draw on scientific findings will inevitably include scientists who have personal opinions and political associations. Those personal opinions often influence which areas we choose to research. The challenge for all scientists is to do rigorous, reviewable, transparent work that supports or rebuts existing theories — or advances a new theory — about how the world works. Such work should be done without the scientists working in fear of personal attacks. (…) Good scientific work does not depend on who did the science. Every scientific finding must be assessed by the quality and appropriateness of the data and methods, and their relevance to the theory being tested. Science depends on anonymous peer review precisely so that the reviewers are not biased by who the authors might be. The personalities and biographies of the scientists involved must be irrelevant to the quality and veracity of the scientific result. Similarly, science is tested by replication: given a finding, another scientist should be able to use the same data and method to reach the same result. Anonymous review and replication are fundamental to science precisely in order to distinguish scientific knowledge from the scientists who do the work.
http://www.nafeezahmed.com/2015/05/scientific-responsibility-in-counting.html

#SOCIAL DEMOCRACY /labour-labor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2h0o3uZ-8

#SYRIA
Finding 2012?2013?: 6% of the Syrian population has been killed and more than half the Syrian population has been forced to migrate into neighboring countries: Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon (1m refugees), Egypt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=290&v=33FtWmgUGn8

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Understanding #Terrorism, the U.S war on “it” and wars by subsequent governments on “it”.

The US government has traditionally used four criteria in determining what counts as an act of terror:
1-Premeditation
2-Political motivation
3-Aimed at civilians
4-Carried out by sub-national groups, rather than the state or army
source: http://www.salon.com/2003/04/17/terrorist_act/

(a) Gore Vidal on Terrorism and Terror – a U.S perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=509x6ldT3wI

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#Violence

Direct Violence classified as “murder”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/murder-map-latin-america-leads-world-key-cities-buck-deadly-trend?CMP=edit_2221: Finding: According to an interactive online world map with data on the distribution of murder by country, year, age of victim and – where figures are available – gender and type of weapon drawing on statistics from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, government offices, health institutes and police records; the world experiences 450,000 murders each year. This Monitor has been compiled as a tool for policymakers and researchers by the Igarapé Institute, a Rio thinktank with funding from the Open Society Foundation and Peace Research Institute Oslo.

#DirectViolence in #Irak by #TheWest #MiddleEast #MENA : BODY COUNT IN IRAQ
By Nafeez Ahmed: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-western-wars-have-killed-four-million-muslims-1990-39149394 Key Finding: PSR Physicians for Social Responsibility publish a report claiming that #theWest is responsible for 1,3 Million deaths in #iraq alone. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxM2PhNbNgQ

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