INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT
Posted by Humanitad - 09/11/11 at 05:11:46 pm
A controversial proposal was submitted to the United Nations ‘Human Rights Commissioner (Ms. Navi Pillay) and 181 UN Ambassadors’ – calling for the extension of ‘The International Year for People of African Descent; plus the abolition of the EU Food Supplements Directive and Codex Alimentarius… to avert Corporate Global Slavery. Together, these laws and guidelines, pose the greatest threat to natural healthcare, freedom of choice, human rights, cultural heritage and the environment; by legalizing ‘synthetic medication & artificial foods’ for consumption throughout the world. Passed by Governments without the people’s knowledge or consent, to control their lives on a global scale… thereby secretly imposing Corporate Global Slavery. This new type of slavery is no longer about RACE but global population control, power & wealth, in the hands of a few driven by greed. This crime against humanity will be the worst and most deceptive form of slavery imaginable in our civilized history. Lack of transparency, accountability, vested interests, corruption and collusion between Governments, Medical Establishments, Pharmaceutical Industries, Corporations, Organizations and Media Networks… raises serious cause for concern. To this end, Dounne has set up petitions ‘The Nations Speaks – NO! Not In My Name and ‘Global Voices Unite’, to alert and empower people around the world; to collectively take back control and safeguard their future.
In her introductory letter Dounne writes;-
It is my honor to provide herewith a full and cogent Proposal for the UN Declaration of 2011 – as the International Year for People of African Descent. Via this holistic medium, I’ve aptly chosen to foreground not just the history, but the legacy of the African *Maafa – the Holocaust of the 500 years during which people of African heritage suffered severely through Slavery, imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, oppression, invasions and exploitation.
I reaffirm the African *Maafa as a crime against humanity, as well as its recognition by the United Nations, scholars and historians who have documented the primary and overwhelming culpability of European nations for enslavement in Europe, in ‘Plantation Africana’ and elsewhere. Moreover, I contend that the impending Government/Corporate Global Slavery, which now threatens to erode the moral matrix of our civilization, would serve to perpetuate these crimes not only against all wo/mankind but also the natural environment and its inhabitants.
In speaking directly to this fact, I have penned this central thesis on my landmark petition The Nation Speaks – “NO! NOT IN MY NAME”. The document contains the full background and explanations of the recommendations that admittedly challenge existing unethical practices of the UK Government, European Parliament and transnational business conglomerates, which collusively extol with graphic perfidy, the virtues of artificial science over natural science. More ominously, such a blatant disregard for Non-Western organic healthcare interventions and traditions are being demonstrated, allegedly in our name as citizens of the EU and/or overseas administrative regions. The subliminal message of my timely campaign therefore indicates deep problems in the discourse on the fabric of international law, which over-emphasize the place of Western pharmacology and a genetically-engineered healthcare system that systematically undermines the work, sacrifices, diverse heritage and culture of the Africana nation. Symbolizing a compelling and signal contribution to a long-neglected aspect of Africana cultural and intellectual life, you are all petitioned through the attached proposal to revisit this Western brand of deficiency in plurality-consciousness, which denies the existence of ‘Natural & Moral Justice’ in a global development context, especially when it relates to the disingenuous imposition of the European Food Supplements Directive ‘2002/46/EC’ and CODEX ALIMENTARIUS.
My examination of how the UK Government, the European Union, World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization are codifying Healthcare and Food Distribution reforms, which are systematically undermining the authority of the U.N. Declaration in recognition of The African *Maafa, reveals both the Western world’s debt to ‘Plantation Africana’ and our need as U.N. Member States to reassess the way current global coverage of this auspicious year’s celebration has been suppressed, both locally and globally. My suggestion to extend the Declaration’s mandate to 2012 is therefore neither far-fetched nor provocative. Overall, the attached proposal will serve as an invaluable input to you, the Distinguished Representatives of the U.N. Member States, as you advise your Governments in the preparation of the legal, political and socio-economic pillars (both systemic and localized) to “Wake Up! Right past wrongs and prevent future atrocities”.
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Copies of the proposal sent to 181 UN Ambassadors includes;
- Ms. Navi Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- H.E. Mr. Michel Tommo Monthe (UN Chair of the 3rd Committee for Human Rights)
- Ms. Valerie Amos (UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs)
- Ms. Irina Bokova (UNESCO Director-General)
- Mr. Philippe Kridelka (UNESCO Director)
- Mr. Nassir Abdulazziz Al-Nasser (President of the 66th.session of the General Assembly)
- Prime Ministers & Presidents of all Caribbean Islands and African Nations.
- UK Ambassadors of the Caribbean Islands and African Nations
- 174 of the 193 UN Ambassadors.
- Ms. Dowoti Desir (UN NGO founder of the Durban Declaration)
Notes to Editors:
Dounne Alexander MBE. FRSA – founder of the Joining Hands In Health campaign; GRAMMA’S Herbal Foods and Chair of the Natural World Organization (NWO). Pioneering British/Caribbean entrepreneur; Author of ‘The Black Cinderella and A Mission of Love’; Health Campaigner and Freedom Fighter. Voted one of the greatest & most influential black people in British history; honoured by the Queen with the MBE for service to the British Food Industry and the recipient of the 2011 Human Rights Award. Dounne, (recognized as a leading light and beacon-of-hope), herself has been directly affected by these laws, as two of her extraordinary herbal products (proven safe, non toxic & effective on cancer and a wide range of conditions); previously approved by The Public Health Minister but was subsequently banned by UK Regulator (The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency – MHRA). In-depth research unearthed, the devastating impact these laws pose not only on the ‘natural health industry’ but also the nation’s health. Dounne decided to inform the wider public with the launch of her petition ‘The Nation Speaks – NO! Not In My Name” (May 2010) and Global Voices Unite (November 2011).
*The Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) refers to the 500 years of suffering of Africans and the African Diaspora, through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, invasion, oppression, dehumanization and exploitation. The terms also refer to the social and academic policies that were used to invalidate or appropriate the contributions of African peoples to humanity as a whole, and the residual effects of this persecution, as manifest in contemporary society.
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In Memoriam : Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Posted by Humanitad - 26/10/11 at 09:10:55 amOn the NATO sponsored killing of Muammar Al-Gaddafi – a Libyan citizen
As millions of Arabs and Africans enter into mourning – acknowledgements go to the BBC, CNN and Associated Press for downgrading our collective human experience by a quantum leap. The shotgun syndication of images of screeching zealots (Barak Obama’s “peaceful non violent protesters.”) in the Libyan desert – kicking, pounding, shredding the crippled body of Muammar Gaddafi in glorious technicolor. What a noble feat of reportage. A perfectly honed network of gibbering journalistic ducks quack in unison across the digital highway: “liberty at last” – “freed from tyranny” – “the war is over”.
Whatever.
Jim Walton (President of CNN Worldwide), Lord Patten (Chairman of the BBC) and Tom Curley (President of Associated Press) – if the truth is any longer a factor in your tri-quest of porn/horror/profit whilst serving the dictates of Freemasons – for the record:
- It wasn’t a goddamned war – it was state sponsored unlawful invasion of a sovereign land
- It wasn’t a liberation struggle – it was state sponsored unlawful foment of insurgency coupled to a collateral massacre of innocent people under guise of a NATO humanitarian intervention
- It wasn’t an overthrow of tyranny – it was state sponsored unlawful assassination (cold-blooded murder) of a legitimate leader within his own borders – and seizure of sovereign assets: theft
The USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy worked in synchronised concord to foment an unlawful culture of sabotage and insurgency. They did so at the behest of an illumined syndicate of individuals, families, who hated the person of Muammar Gaddafi. They hated this man because he warned us of them to anyone who would listen for forty years – they hated him because he planned to nail the US dollar to the wall with a unified African currency pegged to real resources, real assets, and not debt, enslavement and arms-trade. He ridiculed the heraldry of Western ‘civilization’ by parading his private Amazonian bodyguard (as if Berlusconi wouldn’t if he only could….) in lurid epaulets and insignia. He wore sunglasses like a rock-star and lived in a tent (don’t believe the BS about marble Jacuzzis and champagne fountains) ……and he looked the devil in the eye.
Hilary Clinton’s delightfully stagecrafted “Wow!” barely conceals a reptilian glee as one of those weird glossy interns hands her a mobile phone….. “we came, we saw, he died!” A perfectly disgusting comment. People of America get this woman out from your corridors of power – get her out of your chambers of governance – get her out, out, out of public office and into a war crimes tribunal. Get her out before she shreds the last golden thread of the Divine Feminine in your energetic midst. This crea- ture is harming the sacred heart of your people, of your great nation. She is far more dangerous than you dare to imagine. Look. See.
And the man ducking behind the man hiding behind the man in the mask? The one who resides in the White House. The one who appeared out of nowhere a mere 48 months before being crowned Emperor in the biggest mind-control mass media swindle of all time – taking command of the greatest military force on earth. The one who has still failed to deliver on over 50 key proofs of eligibility for the US Presidency (see earlier Humanitad report). Whose wet-ink signature must somewhere have been put to paper in order to authorise the extermination of Gaddafi and seizure of Libyan assets? The one who appears to have got up to some strange antics in Chicago back in the day – if Google Search of words like “gay…sauna…Larry…Sinclair…murder most foul etc…” is any- thing to go by. What he say?
Hard to know – but I would personally love to shake the PR flunkey by the hand who came up with …..Libya has a “long and winding road towards full democracy”…Obama delivered it with sensational understatement. That old hippy meme was snatched out of the air, reducing four decades of peace n’ love into a cold, dry, sign-off to the premeditated murder of countless men, women and children of Libya. Humanitarian collateral. The means justified by a glittering end. The body-count has yet to be determined. But US military infection and intelligence operatives crawling all over the Sahara can and will ensure a favorable tally. There is no doubt.
And NATO? What da man say?
Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization declared his perfect- ly engineered strategic butchering of a sovereign leader on prime-time TV as welcome news – vouchsafing that NATO would retain its “capacity to respond to threats to civilians, if needed”. This is where you want to slow the tape folks – or better still – press the eject button and baton down the New World Order hatches. This is the bit where the Canaanite ritualists start salivating in the shadowy recesses of their underground cloisters. NATO will retain its “capacity to respond to threats to civilians if needed”….? With this deft little sentence we learn that a trillion dollar death machinery (paid for by the goyim) will do the bidding of a small clutch of suits in the most powerful gang on earth – the UN Security Council. They will in turn do the bidding of a small oli- garchy of central bankers. The same nest of central bankers will click their heels to our veiled cult of shadowy figures. This undisclosed uber-elite share three things in common with one another: a) the entire wealth of the world, b) a propensity for murder, deception, treason and helter-skelter, – and; c) unearthly bloodlines.
So – NATO reserve the right to hunt down and assassinate unfavorable people at discretion, in- vade sovereign territories at discretion and enforce the will of their Masters. We did not react in outrage to this little algorithm for T-R-E-A-S-O-N as it was slipped into the media frenzy last week. Therefore we have tacitly accepted the fact, by virtue of our gravest crime – our greatest illness: silence.
And at Number 10. David Cameron delivers the money-shot in sending an invoice to the Libyan people for the billion dollars spent on missiles rained down upon their towns and families by his government. There was a time when the conqueror used to pay for the restoration of that which they destroyed. In fact – it is the legal requirement. Is there an Arab voice left in the great white Sahara who is capable of articulating this fact? Of laying the claim?
As for the archetype of evil himself – Mu’ummar Qaddafi. What were his own last words?: To the witless bandits screaming “Allah Akbar!” as they tore him to pieces he simply said: “Don’t shoot….don’t kill me my sons….. what have I ever done to you?” Those were not the words of a coward – they were perfectly reasonable words to say to a child pointing a gun at you. Perfectly reasonable thing to say to treacherous vigilantes who have been given free petrol, free trucks, free cigarettes, free automatic weapons and Rambo costumes, drugged with promises of power and glory derailed into blood-lust frenzy by paleface mandarins in London, Brussels and Washington.
And his last spoken words to followers delivered shortly before the murder:
“In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful…
For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union. I did all I could to help people understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our coun- try. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more.
They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed “democracy” and “freedom” never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup. No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination – from thieves who would steal from us.
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism”, but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer. So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our coun- try rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters. I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.
Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.
When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself… In the West, some have called me “mad”, “crazy”, but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.”
There you have it folks – the words of the mad-dog of the desert himself. No recriminations. No justifications. No pleas. Just a few well laid out facts – an even tone.
And his Last Will & Testament….a few short sentences in length:
“This is my will. I, Muammar bin Mohammad bin Abdussalam bi Humayd bin Abu Manyar bin Humayd bin Nayil al Fuhsi Gaddafi, do swear that there is no other God but Allah and that Mo- hammad is God’s Prophet, peace be upon him. I pledge that I will die as Muslim. Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
I would like that my family, especially women and children, be treated well after my death. The Libyan people should protect its identity, achievements, history and the honourable image of its ancestors and heroes. The Libyan people should not relinquish the sacrifices of the free and best people.
I call on my supporters to continue the resistance, and fight any foreign aggressor against Libya, today, tomorrow and always.
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.
Even if we do not win immediately, we will give a lesson to future generations that choosing to protect the nation is an honour and selling it out is the greatest betrayal that history will remem- ber forever despite the attempts of the others to tell you otherwise.”
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi – may your ghost haunt the barren hearts of your zombie killers, their zombie instructors, their zombie handlers and the fully lucid commissioners who stand in the shadows, as ever they do. May you haunt them until they are brought full circle to face themselves and their dark hearts in this world or the next.
May the Gods in your own heart judge you for maintaining your own bit of North African tyranny over the last forty years of accelerated social ‘evolution’ of the beautiful Bedouin, Berbers, Tuareg and Tebu peoples you sought to protect from imperialism, debt-slavery and addiction to porn, coke and daytime television.
May the many souls of those oppressed and killed by your regime seek you out and claim remedy from you – and may you in turn seek their forgiveness. You were a product of your birthright, a symmetric manifestation of a bold young Arab of the 1960’s in a marginalized desert nation – tossed about by the geopolitical wiles of devilish foreigners with colonial ambitions and the hubris of Empire to back up their cold appetites.
The thousand tales which will now emerge and be syndicated around the world of your heinous crimes, your gorging on gold and caviar amid countless travesties of democratic justice will prevail for a time – and then scatter to the wind as your people wake up within a dream – a dream not of their own making, a dream which slowly awakens to the stink of deception. Of real enslavement.
You were a damned fine Bedouin warlord. A finer man than any of the ‘rebels’ who accept Faustian guns and glory from the West in exchange for trading their sovereignty, their re- sources and the birthright of their grandchildren. You called it out for what it was: white mans poison and a goddamned “conspiracy” if ever there was one. The thing – not the word. Your desert-logic and your eccentricity will be missed as our world becomes shrouded by little grey men in little grey suits – trading death, degradation and disinformation behind remote-controlled drones.
Your enemies have already ‘done unto themselves’ with a perfect geometric response. They have already made of you a supreme martyr. As for those lesser brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of yours who now take the devils silver dollar across their palm – they are too intoxicated in the glare of the present to have any sense of history – of poise – of soulful reflection. But in a little while – your words – especially your final words – will take root in the atom-seed of the Bedouin heart – the Tuareg heart – the Arab heart.
I for one, did not lose my true sight, or the voice in my heart – in this dark, sordid chapter of the human story.
May Gods peace be upon the good people and the nation of Libya.
Insh’allah.
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Humanitad calls for Presidential Intervention
Posted by Humanitad - 26/09/11 at 02:09:50 pmHumanitad Claims Ukrainian Judicial Process is so Flawed that the President Should Intervene
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London, United Kingdom, 26 September, 2011: Humanitad, an international non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting justice, human rights and good governance, announced today that the judicial process in Ukraine is so flawed that the President must intervene urgently to prevent serious miscarriages of justice and reform the system as it is incapable of reforming itself. The statement came from its legal observer mission that attended the trial of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and which has reviewed Ukrainian judicial procedures.
“We have grave concerns that the prosecution and judicial system in Ukraine is so significantly flawed that the trials of Yulia Tymoshenko and other political defendants are likely to result in horrendous miscarriages of justice,” said Jerry Prus-Butwilowicz, the leader of the Humanitad observer mission. Mr Prus-Butwilowicz, who is a barrister-at –law, in independent practice in Australia, NZ and UK and a former UK Senior Crown Prosecutor, added: “There is compelling evidence that the judicial system itself is subject to improper influence from the Prosecutor’s Office and incapable of being independent, or fair. Judges themselves are open to intimidation and even prosecution by the Prosecutor’s Office when they exercise their objectivity on behalf of a defendant or appellant. This is abhorrent to standards of European justice. In these circumstances it is the responsibility of the executive to take urgent and immediate corrective measures to prevent serious miscarriages of justice.”
The announcement from Humanitad follows its open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych of 21 September, 2011.
Humanitad also noted that the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, presided over by Judge Rodion Kireyev, has been marred by numerous, significant breaches of procedural fairness and breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights. It noted egregious breaches such as insufficient time given to prepare a defence; continuation of court proceedings in the absence of the defendant and legal counsel; unreasonable and unjustified use of detention; and refusal for medical assistance from a personal physician, etc. It also reported that the trial judge frequently favoured the prosecution to the detriment of the defendant which supports the hypothesis that judges are influenced improperly against the interests of the defendant by the Prosecutor’s Office.
“In these unusual and critical circumstances, where lives are at risk, it is imperative that the Head of State is personally made fully aware of the deplorable circumstances of the prosecutions currently before the Ukrainian Courts. Where the judicial institutions cannot act, the “buck stops” with the Head of State,” said Sir John Walsh of Brannagh, a barrister-at-law and constitutional and human rights lawyer.
The legal observers witnessed part of the trial and monitored closely the proceedings and reports of other third-party observers, taking into account published reports such as The Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, “Legal Monitoring in Ukraine II.” The observer mission asserts that the courts and prosecution are not independent and impartial and notes the following in support of its conclusion:
• The selection of judges violates both Ukrainian and international law. Judges are appointed for an initial 5 year term. To become a judge for an unlimited time they must be approved by parliament, making them vulnerable to political assessment and influence. The judge in the Tymoshenko case is only two years into his 5 year term. The computerised selection of judges to cases also appears open to abuse.
• The judiciary is too easily swayed to allow remand in custody as a precautionary measure – 88% of custody requests were fulfilled in 2010 – illustrating an extraordinary influence from prosecutors.
• Not all politicians respect the independence of the judiciary. The latter can be influenced by statements from senior politicians, such as the President, Prime Minister, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, etc..
• The Prosecutor General exerts undue influence on the judiciary. Prosecutors should not be responsible for disciplining judges.
The Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Report cites a case on 7 June, 2011 when Deputy Prosecutor General M. Havrylyuk, a member of the Higher Council of Justice, initiated disciplinary proceedings in the Higher Council of Justice against three appeal court judges for “having ignored the opinion of the prosecutor, unreasonably interfered with the course of pre-trial investigation, and taken a one-sided position in favour of the defendant.” This situation highlights the fact that there is no legitimate and honest appeal system in Ukraine and judges who decide against the prosecution are likely to be prosecuted themselves.
• If judicial officers in Ukraine can be influenced in such a manner, then defence lawyers are likely to be operating under similar undue pressure and influence which may impact the efficacy of their defence to the detriment of their client.
Humanitad noted a general public consensus and considerable public comment from international political leaders, supporting the opinion that the charges against Yulia Tymoshenko and the other defendants amount to the criminalisation of normal political decisions.
In summary, Humanitad concluded that the Ukrainian Courts and prosecutors have failed to be independent or impartial; preventive custody is overused and abused; the presumption of innocence and equality of the parties is non-existent; there is a lack of independence of the judiciary from political influence – courts are open to undue influence by politicians in power; the process to appoint and discipline judges is flawed and the selection of judges violates international and Ukrainian law; the Higher Council of Justice is under undue political influence; the role of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General is overly powerful and fatally undermines the separation of legal functions; and there is imbalance between the prosecution and judiciary.
“If persons such as judges and former ministers cannot expect due process, no-one can be assured of the protection of law in Ukraine,” said Paul Wilson, a Research Fellow and Honorary Professor at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. “We therefore urge President Yanukovych, as Head of State, to serve the interests of justice and the Ukrainian people as mandated by his office and remedy the situation without delay. It is our hope that Mrs Tymoshenko and other political prisoners will be freed at the nearest opportunity.”
Humanitad welcomed reports that the Ukrainian authorities are seeking to overhaul the Soviet-era Criminal Procedure Code to bring it in line with European standards and recommended that this be done in compliance with advice and recommendations from the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).
Notes to Editors:
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