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Preserve Our Paradise

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VIGIL ON THE EVE OF THE DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON OIL DRILLING IN GOLDEN GATE ESTATES
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On the beach next to the Naples Fishing Pier, 12th Ave. South, Naples.

 

 

 

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All participants in St Petersburg gay pride arrested for marching

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Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve

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Lakewood Estates residents have joined the Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in opposing a proposed major construction project adjacent to the preserve. The St. Petersburg Country Club, a private corporation, is requesting that the City of St. Petersburg transfer public lands which would then be used for their own financial gain. This is clearly wrong on so many levels.

Article published in to...day’s issue of the Tampa Bay Times: http://www.tampabay.com/search/?q=boyd+hill+nature+preserve

Please start paying attention to this local conservation issue. The ecological integrity of the preserve is at stake. Hardening of the urban interface is the greatest concern to me. The currently existing buffer zone between the preserve and golf course would be eliminated and replaced by a wall of development that is 3,200 linear feet in length. Habitat management challenges, particularly the need for increased use of prescribed fire, will be made even more difficult that it already is at this time. There is also a concern regarding the threat of a new roadway to imperiled and other wildlife. The proposed project site is near the area with the highest density of wildlife mortality during a roadkill survey conducted from 1992-1994.

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs defenders.” – Edward Abbey
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  Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/lakewood-estates-residents-also-concerned-about-townhouses-proposed-near/2129098

  

  Lakewood Estates residents also concerned about townhouses proposed near Boyd Hill

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  ST. PETERSBURG — First it was the Friends of Boyd Hill. Now some Lakewood Estate...s residents have come out against the 115 townhomes proposed for a swath of land near the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve.

Mackenzie Conner shared Lakewood Estates Civic Association's status update.

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  Lakewood Estates Civic Association

  A summary of the June 26th meeting with the Country Club and the developer is now available on the web site - lakewoodstpete.com. Today we received a copy of the land use regulations variance request filed by the parties to this project; anyone who wants a copy should email lecapresident@tampabay.r.com and we'll send you the PDF. It is, to say the least, heavy reading. As we receive copies of other filings, we will of course make them available. We intend to call at least one more meeting before all of this makes its way toward a final decision by the city.

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• MUST READ: Impactful PETA presentation of the years when capture of orcas from the wild was conducted in U.S. waters, which is reported to have a direct link to the resulting inclusion of the Southern Resident Orca population on the Endangered Species List.
  
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Mass Protest Movement in Chile

Thousands of students, labor groups and activists march in Santiago as fires and violence run rampant during citywide demonstration.

More than 100,000 gathered throughout various locations in Santiago on Wednesday afternoon to march for sweeping social changes aimed at improving education and working conditions.
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The mobilization was part of a nationwide strike organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech), an umbrella student group, and was accompanied by other marches in key cities throughout the country as well as a massive halt to the country’s port operations.

Participants in the Santiago march included university and high school students, the National Teacher’s Union, port workers, copper workers and The National Confederation of Municipal Health Workers, among others.

But despite the color and cheer of marching bands and costumed protesters, hooded vandals known as “encapuchados,” wasted no time in dragging the city into violence.

Carabineros, Chile’s uniformed police force, were deployed to the streets early in the morning as various barricades and garbage piles were set ablaze throughout the city just before sunrise.

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Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve

The Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve would like to announce that we intend to actively oppose the proposed development of land located adjacent to Boyd Hill.

This project would clearly compromise the integrity of the preserve, which is home to several state and federally listed species of plants and animals. W...e are urging everyone to speak up for the preserve and let your city council members know that this development, if approved, will threaten the delicate ecosystems that exist within Boyd Hill Nature Preserve. The City’s last natural area and the jewel of the St. Petersburg parks system needs your support.

For information on how you can help, please email us at friendsofboydhill@yahoo.com, and thank you for supporting Boyd Hill Nature Preserve!

   

A Sheep No More

The Zionist International Body Snatching Ring


(An English translation of the famous article in a leading Swedish paper. More about it soon).

... You could call me a "matchmaker," said Levy Yitzhak Rosenbaum, from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI-agent whom he believed to be a client. Ten days later, at the end of July this year, Rosenbaum was arrested and a vast, Sopranos-like, imbroglio of money-laundering and illegal organ-trade was revealed. Rosenbaum's matchmaking had nothing to do with romance. It was all about buying and selling kidneys from Israel on the black market. Rosenbaum says that he buys the kidneys for 10,000 dollars, from poor people. He then proceeds to sell the organs to desperate patients in the States for 160,000 dollars. The accusations have shaken the American transplantation business. If they are true it means that organ trafficking is documented for the first time in the US, experts tell the New Jersey Real-Time News.

On the question of how many organs he has sold Rosenbaum replies: "Quite a lot. And I have never failed," he boasts. The business has been running for quite some time. Francis Delmonici, professor of transplant surgery at Harvard and member of the National Kidney Foundation's Board of Directors, tells the same newspaper that organ-trafficking, similar to the one reported from Israel, is carried out in other places of the world as well. 5-6,000 operations a year, about ten per cent of the world's kidney transplants are carried out illegally, according to Delmonici.

Countries suspected of these activities are Pakistan, the Philippines and China, where the organs are allegedly taken from executed prisoners. But Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the country's organ reserve - a very serious accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.

Israel has repeatedly been under fire for its unethical ways of dealing with organs and transplants. France was among the countries that ceased organ collaboration with Israel in the nineties. Jerusalem Post wrote that "the rest of the European countries are expected to follow France's example shortly."

Half of the kidneys transplanted to Israelis since the beginning of the 2000s have been bought illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe or Latin America. Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of this business but do nothing to stop it. At a conference in 2003 it was shown that Israel is the only western country with a medical profession that doesn't condemn the illegal organ trade. The country takes no legal measures against doctors participating in the illegal business - on the contrary, chief medical officers of Israel's big hospitals are involved in most of the illegal transplants, according to Dagens Nyheter (December 5, 2003).

In the summer of 1992, Ehud Olmert, then minister of health, tried to address the issue of organ shortage by launching a big campaign aimed at having the Israeli public register for postmortal organ donation. Half a million pamphlets were spread in local newspapers. Ehud Olmert himself was the first person to sign up. A couple of weeks later the Jerusalem Post reported that the campaign was a success. No fewer than 35,000 people had signed up. Prior to the campaign it would have been 500 in a normal month. In the same article, however, Judy Siegel, the reporter, wrote that the gap between supply and demand was still large. 500 people were in line for a kidney transplant, but only 124 transplants could be performed. Of 45 people in need of a new liver, only three could be operated on in Israel.

While the campaign was running, young Palestinian men started to disappear from villages in the West Bank and Gaza. After five days Israeli soldiers would bring them back dead, with their bodies ripped open.

Talk of the bodies terrified the population of the occupied territories. There were rumors of a dramatic increase of young men disappearing, with ensuing nightly funerals of autopsied bodies.

I was in the area at the time, working on a book. On several occasions I was approached by UN staff concerned about the developments. The persons contacting me said that organ theft definitely occurred but that they were prevented from doing anything about it. On an assignment from a broadcasting network I then travelled around interviewing a great number of Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza - meeting parents who told of how their sons had been deprived of organs before being killed. One example that I encountered on this eerie trip was the young stone-thrower Bilal Ahmed Ghanan.

It was close to midnight when the motor roar from an Israeli military column sounded from the outskirts of Imatin, a small village in the northern parts of the West Bank. The two thousand inhabitants were awake. They were still, waiting, like silent shadows in the dark, some lying upon roofs, others hiding behind curtains, walls, or trees that provided protection during the curfew but still offered a full view toward what would become the grave for the first martyr of the village. The military had interrupted the electricity and the area was now a closed-off military zone - not even a cat could move outdoors without risking its life. The overpowering silence of the dark night was only interrupted by quiet sobbing. I don't remember if our shivering was due to the cold or to the tension. Five days earlier, on May 13, 1992, an Israeli special force had used the village's carpentry workshop for an ambush. The person they were assigned to put out of action was Bilal Ahmed Ghanan, one of the stone-throwing Palestinian youngsters who made life difficult for the Israeli soldiers.

As one of the leading stone-throwers Bilal Ghanan had been wanted by the military for a couple of years. Together with other stone-throwing boys he hid in the Nablus mountains, with no roof over his head. Getting caught meant torture and death for these boys - they had to stay in the mountains at all costs.

On May 13 Bilal made an exception, when for some reason, he walked unprotected by the carpentry workshop. Not even Talal, his older brother, knows why he took this risk. Maybe the boys were out of food and needed to restock.

Everything went according to plan for the Israeli special force. The soldiers stubbed their cigarettes, put away their cans of Coca-Cola, and calmly aimed through the broken window. When Bilal was close enough they needed only to pull the triggers. The first shot hit him in the chest. According to villagers who witnessed the incident he was subsequently shot with one bullet in each leg. Two soldiers then ran down from the carpentry workshop and shot Bilal once in the stomach. Finally, they grabbed him by his feet and dragged him up the twenty stone steps of the workshop stair. Villagers say that people from both the UN and the Red Crescent were close by, heard the discharge and came to look for wounded people in need of care. Some arguing took place as to who should take care of the victim. Discussions ended with Israeli soldiers loading the badly wounded Bilal in a jeep and driving him to the outskirts of the village, where a military helicopter waited. The boy was flown to a destination unknown to his family. Five days later he came back, dead and wrapped in green hospital fabric.

A villager recognized Captain Yahya, the leader of the military column who had transported Bilal from the postmortem center Abu Kabir, outside of Tel Aviv, to the place for his final rest. "Captain Yahya is the worst of them all," the villager whispered in my ear. After Yahya had unloaded the body and changed the green fabric for a light cotton one, some male relatives of the victim were chosen by the soldiers to do the job of digging and mixing cement.

Together with the sharp noises from the shovels we could hear laughter from the soldiers who, as they waited to go home, exchanged some jokes. As Bilal was put in the grave his chest was uncovered. Suddenly it became clear to the few people present just what kind of abuse the boy had been exposed to. Bilal was not by far the first young Palestinian to be buried with a slit from his abdomen up to his chin.

The families in the West Bank and in Gaza felt that they knew exactly what had happened: "Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors," relatives of Khaled from Nablus told me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin and the uncles of Mahmud and Nafes from Gaza, who had all disappeared for a number of days only to return at night, dead and autopsied.

- Why are they keeping the bodies for up to five days before they let us bury them? What happened to the bodies during that time? Why are they performing autopsy, against our will, when the cause of death is obvious? Why are the bodies returned at night? Why is it done with a military escort? Why is the area closed off during the funeral? Why is the electricity interrupted? Nafes's uncle was upset and he had a lot of questions.

The relatives of the dead Palestinians no longer harbored any doubts as to the reasons for the killings, but the spokesperson for the Israeli army claimed that the allegations of organ theft were lies. All the Palestinian victims go through autopsy on a routine basis, he said. Bilal Ahmed Ghanem was one of 133 Palestinians killed in various ways that year. According to the Palestinian statistics the causes of death were: shot in the street, explosion, tear gas, deliberately run over, hanged in prison, shot in school, killed at home et cetera. The 133 people killed were between four months to 88 years old. Only half of them, 69 victims, went through postmortem examination. The routine autopsy of killed Palestinians - of which the army spokesperson was talking - has no bearing on the reality in the occupied territories. The questions remain.

We know that Israel has a great need for organs, that there is a vast and illegal trade of organs which has been running for many years now, that the authorities are aware of it and that doctors in managing positions at the big hospitals participate, as well as civil servants at various levels. We also know that young Palestinian men disappeared, that they were brought back after five days, at night, under tremendous secrecy, stitched back together after having been cut from abdomen to chin.

It's time to bring clarity to this macabre business, to shed light on what is going on and what has taken place in the territories occupied by Israel since the Intifada began.

Donald Boström

This is the url of the original article http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article5652583.ab
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“A KIDNEY BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SOUR,” can be said of the organ-trafficking and money-laundering FBI sting operation which implicated five Talmudic rabbis from New York and neighboring New Jersey.

This international rabbinical operation spanned from Jewish-entrenched New York to the Jewish state of Israel.

The FBI used an informant, a Talmudic Jew named Solomon Dwek, to approach the rabbis — who were from the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn NY and Deal NJ — to help hide his assets. Deal is a wealthy oceanfront borough of New Jersey where the rabbis and their Jewish accomplices have posh summer homes.
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=417

Costa Rican authorities announced on Wednesday that they had broken up an international organ trafficking ring that worked with Israeli doctors and specialized in selling kidneys to patients in Israel and East Europe.

Costa Rica’s Attorney General’s Office said Israeli doctors had performed kidney-removal operations on some Costa Rican “donors” who sold their organs. Authorities also said the key suspect arrested in Costa Rica, a physician, had been in touch with Israeli doctors to match up Costa Rican kidney donors with Israeli recipients.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-mds-harvesting-organs-for-international-trafficking-ring.premium-1.530848

Israel admits it harvested organs of dead Palestinians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cjleKTVCp4

         

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Smoking marijuana appears to reduce tremors and pain and improve sleep among patients with Parkinson's disease, Israeli researchers reported this week.

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A major piece of farm legislation went down to a surprising and dramatic defeat in the House on Thursday, as conservatives joined with most Democrats to oppose the $940 billion bill.
The House voted 195-234, with 62 Republicans joining 172 Democrats, to defeat the bill. The vote was regarded as a surprise, and represented an embarrassment to the House GOP leadership team.
President Barack Obama had threatened to veto the House legislation had it somehow eventually reached his desk.
Democrats were angry about the heavy cuts to food stamp programs contained in the Republican-written legislation, prompting all but 24 of them to oppose the legislation. Conservatives, who had come under pressure from groups like the Club for Growth and the Koch Brothers-linked Americans for Prosperity, cited concerns about the legislation’s hefty price tag in voting down the bill.
Farm bills are typically authorized in five-year increments, but an agreement on the lat...est installation of such legislation has eluded Congress. Farmers are currently operating under a farm bill from the beginning of this year that was extended, in parts, through the end of September.

Democrats were the majority to vote nay to to food stamp cuts and need for further subsidy reforms, and the Republicans that joined with nay votes were also calling for further subsidy reforms.

Read more: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/20/19060053-farm-bill-fails-in-the-house?lite

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