Apartheid 101

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2008–2003 Report Trends in Brief on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101

   — Nonviolence Guides, Manuas, or Handbook Sources: http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/trends_in_brief.htm; http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/search.htm.

  Planetary Energy–“Peace”   Planetary CyberWar   Planetary Apartheid–“War”  Planetary Disease–Pollution

2008 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy-”Peace”              Celebrating Nonviolence ~ Miguel d’Escoto (U.N.) on Satyagraha from Gandhi to Gaza (2008.9-12)  Afganis, Iraqis, Israelis, and Ecuadorans on Nonviolence (2008.9-12)  Local-Global-Oriented Currencies Parallel National Monetary Systems (2008.9-12)  Mohandas Gandhi Recordings resurface on Truth manifest as Satyagraha — Nonviolent Love/Truth Force (2008.7-9) Day-shift Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore & Warehouse Union Dock Workers shut-down internationally-significant sea-“war” ports along U.S. West Coast — May Day 2008, for about 10 hours (2008.3-4)  U.S. Militarily-rooted elite Radford & Virginia Tech Universities adopt Peace & Conflict Resolution Training Programs (2008.3-4)

Planetary CyberWar                          Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, NRA, and Pentagon prevent disability-oriented, DC-based, Veterans for Peace Chapter from walking in Washington DC National (Military “Honor” Dead) Memorial Day Parade (2008.5-6)  U.S. Farm Bureaus, Farm Workers, Texas Historical Commission, Texan-Mexican Border Networks & Coalitions, and Texas Southernmost University groups protest, boycott an Apartheid-(Berlin-Israeli-Style)-Wall — A Wall meant to partition USA from Mexico, via a bantustan-like Mexican-side “labor pool” pocket — Via transcorporate Haifa-based Elbit-Kollsman, Chicago-based Boeing, and space-based L-3/Raytheon–SkyWatch–E-Systems Border & Battlefield Management Systems, L-3/Raytheon’s Long Range Reconnaissance-Observation System (LORROS), and L-3/Raytheon’s Advanced Turnkey-Unmanned-Aerial Targetting Systems; All demonstrated during Lebanon, Palestine, and Gulf-Iraq bombing and satellite-fire-targetting systems along the Israeli Apartheid Wall; Elbit, founded by Uzia Galil, (via U.S. Elron & Control Data), being Israel’s largest (U.S.-sourced) private corporation, e.g., including:

o Structural ‘security’ for 400+ privatized U.S. prisons, Buckingham Palace, Chicago O’Hare and Boston “9-11” Airports;

o Triangulating espionage drones, planes, and satellites over the Koreas, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, & so forth; and

o NATO Battlefield Management Systems “Vision” — where U.N. specifies Elbit re e-tritium space-border technology. (2008.1–2)

Planetary Apartheid–“War”             Chicago Factory “Sit-Ins” and Mumbai “Human Chains” Overpower Apartheid Violence (2008.9-12) Nonviolent protest of U.S. “RNC–Eight” during Twin Cities–U.S. Republican Party Convention leads to felony arrest warrants under U.S.–Minnesota “Terrorism” Patriot Act (2008.7-9)  South African anti-apartheid veterans critique apartheid repression of Palestinians, in Israeli-occupied territories, as more violent to living beings than RSA’s black majority under South African apartheid white rule, as to Apartheid Israeli Wall and ID Passes (2008.7-9)  Consumer–Corporate “Rule-of-Law” Seattle Divest from [Mid-East] War and Occupation Group organizes city-wide “I-97” Ballot Initiative (2008.5-6)

Planetary Disease-Pollution            Greeks Inspire International Green Democracy Protests, Articulate Change (2008.9-12)  BirdLife World Conservation Conference on (Ruinous) Disappearing State of the World’s Birds, Argentina (2008.7-9)  BBC and the U.S National Geographic Society surveys on international war (on “terrorism”) as degrading climate trends & patterns (2008.5-6)  Gardens vs Epidemiology of Nuclear Fallout–Contamination, Overhead, Downwind, & Downstream; Urban Gardens in Cuba (under U.S. Blockade) may provide over 30% of Cuban energy needs, with over half Cuban vegetable production likely organic (2008.5-6)  Wind–Marine Energy as Liberation from Oil Energy Wars  (2008.3-4)

2007 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy-”Peace”                Arab–International Nonviolence Training (2007.11–12)  SE Asian–Burmese–Buddhist nonviolence; U.S. District of Columbia awards $1.6 million in damages to pro-sustainable-development, anti-war demonstrators; Palestinian Bil’in village overcomes land seizures in Israeli Supreme Court, after 2½ years of nonviolent action; South African “Truth in Translation” Drama; First International Celebration of World Global Day of Nonviolence (2007.8–10) Nonviolence dazes U.S. Capitol Hill and Pivotal Pacific Intel Base (Pine Gap) (2007. 6–7) Planetwide citizen demonstrations against militarization (2007.3)

Planetary CyberWar                          War Resisters 2008 Peace Calendar Middle-East Websites  (2007.11–12) Pacific coral reef die-offs digitally-linked to global warming (2007.8–10)  Desertification, dustbowl–blizzard (like Mars) digitally-predicted from planetary-warming-induced drought (atmospheric, hydrologic, geological), by 2080; declination latitudes, Beijing to Nairobi, average summers, 100–110º F (2007. 4–5)  USA, Israel, Taiwan, & South Korea (5% population, 80% cybercrime) stimulate record planet cybercrime growth rates (2007. 3)

Planetary Apartheid-”War”  AIDS Vaccine Claimed on Horizon (Cuba–South Africa) (2007.11–12) Prisons vs Restorative Justice — 10 million jailed long-term worldwide; China sponsors 2007 International Criminal Court (ICC) Symposium, vetoed by Russia, USA; Apartheid-Patterned Prison Walls ~ from China, Texas, California, Caribbean, and Israel-Palestine “walls” to militarized Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Georgia, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Algeria, Australia, Afghanistan Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Romania, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Pakistan “bases” (2007. 4–5)  Genocidal Child Soldier, Disappearance, & Cluster Bomb Ban Treaty issues globally-marginalized, undercutting 1997 Cape Town Principles, vetoed by Sudan, USA (2007.2)  Another million-plus-potential “missing” as U.S.–Israeli war exiles, soldiers, deserters, and resisters; “Missing” like those opposing former U.S.–SE Asia wars, plus millions more “depleted” uranium trash casualties (2007.1)

Planetary Disease-Pollution               Conferences (U.N.–National) on Flood, Desertification Trends (2007.11–12)  Massive Anglo–U.S. Bio-Chem-Nuclear Weapons Dumping inventory made public, coastally, from Hudson River & Chesapeake Bay to Pacific Coast, and North–Baltic Seas.  Most lethal — U.S.–CA Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory/NRDL, Hunters Point; U.S.–WA Bangor Naval Base & Drydocks, Seattle-Puget Sound; U.S.–MD Fort Detrick–Edgewood-Aberdeen; and Britain/UK – Porton Downs.  U.S. Project BioShield (NBACC, 2008), to void U.N. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; Record Europe heat–drought—rainfall–floods oscillate with crop damage (2007. 6–7); Global environmental reports reveal world militaries produce 2/3ds of planet’s ozone-depleting CFC-113; U. S. Pentagon spending outpaces top five largest U.S. chemical corporations, by 5 times (2007.3) Disappearance of honey bees noted as threat to world food crop genome (2007. 2)  Europe and U.S. blizzards cripple major world heat–power–transport systems; U.S. “U-2”–“ER2” (projected from Pretoria Airport, Pietersburg, South Africa) monitor Antarctic ice melt (2007.1)

2006 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy–“Peace”               Beirut–Mexico City General Strikes vs Air–War Pollution (2006.12 & 8–7)  Great Lakes Coalition demilitarizes U.S. Coast Guard (2006.12–7)  Historical peace projected from world-class library in Cordoba, Spain, modeled after Beirut & Alexandria (2006.11)  Gallaudet (“Deaf”) University Celebrates Hunger Strike for Peace & Justice, massing solidarity across Europe and Americas (2006.10)  Memorial of century for conscience with nonviolence across planet comforts war survivors and honors fighters against war (2006.9 & 5)  Hungry millions march in planet’s most nuclearized nation-states, across 70 U.S. and 280 French urban areas. Latin Americans co-create concomitant campaign across Americas, highlighted in 1 May 2006 Boycott of Millions across USA, in No–School–Shop–Work “Day [as if] without Immigrants” (2006.3-4)  Moroccans counter U.S.–Mediterranean–Political–Prison–Torture “Dustbins” (2006.2)

Planetary CyberWar                        Psiphon & Torpark Sidestep Torture–Censorship Online (2006.11)  Satellite-Driven (…GIS/GPS) Rebuilding of Detroit vs Destabilizing Iraq–Lebanon–Palestine (2006.9) Wireless Access Initiatives across Americas (2006.2)  Planetary Coca-Cola Boycott from Bangalore, India (2006.1)

Planetary Apartheid–”War”             “911” Cough–Cancer–Autism Syndrome symbolized in Basra, Palestine, South Lebanon, New York City (2006)  U.S. hegemony prevents WHO, UNEP, and national & world health agencies from treating-analyzing cancer data (2006.9) Overcoming religious apartheid in weaponized-cancer in Pacific Port, Tacoma–Kitsap County WA (2006.6)  Ontario and British Columbia public employees unions boycott religious U.S.–Israeli apartheid–oil–wars. (2006.5)  Palestinians oppose death & torture squads (2006.2)   Divestment coalition momentum against Israeli–U.S. Apartheid (2006.2-1)

Planetary Disease–Pollution             UN caveats on global warming extend to broad economic catastrophe (2006.11)  Arctic storms grind–down mountainous Antarctic icebergs (2006.10) Hemispheric hyperthermia & hyperexia climate results embody Northern fossil-fuel greenhouse drawbacks, constrain cost-beneficial transportation, and escalate Southern oil-based aerosols that amplify drought–wind storm vortices (2006.7–8)  Citgo (Venezuela) leverages lower heating-air conditioning expenses for poor U.S. communities; Costs countered by congressional legislation to re–enforce “Universal Draft” Military Conscription Act (2006.5)  Iceland, planet’s oldest constitutional (as compared to republican) democracy, evicts U.S.–NATO, while world scientists look to Arctic & Antarctic for resolving global warming disasters (2006.3-4) 

2005 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy–“Peace”              World Conference on Nonviolence, Bethlehem, Palestine (2005.12)  Kerem Shalom-Salaam Anchors Seminal Gazan–Palestinian-Israeli-Egyptian Border Crossing (2005.8)  Nonviolence Learned — Septima: Rosa … Quiet Strength (2005.10) Library Holdings–Hyperlinked / Keyword “Nonviolence” Table (2005.7)  Global Nonviolence Initiatives in Bethlehem, Palestine, and Putrajaya, Malaysia (2005.6)  Bolivian Alteño Gas & Oil Self-Determination Campaign over Oil War Transnational Corporations/TNCs; Detroit MI & Ramallah, Palestine, Nonviolence Conferences (2005.5)   Indonesians Incorporate Gandhian Protest at Planet’s Demographic Islamic Core (2005.4)  Eastern Mediterranean Eco-Demonstrations against War Resonate Worldwide (2005.3)  Martin Luther King, Jr., Essay Contest in Detroit–Dearborn MI — Arab Capitol of Americas (2005.1)

Planetary CyberWorld                       Public Domain Code-Scalable Computers (2005.12)  U.S. Debt under GWB Regime Exceeds all Presidential Debt Retroactively; U.S. M.I.T. Scientists hawk $100 Wind-Up One–Laptop–per–Child Project (2005.11)  Paper Much Harder than Steel (2005.10)  Wireless City and County Connect across USA despite TNCs (2005.7)  U.S. Genetic–Acoustic Street Control Weapons Initiatives (2005.5) Cytogenetic Chinese–U.S. National Geographic Planetary “One Family” Genome Atlas; Google LandSat — View–Zoom Overhead–Prospect (2005.4)  U.S. Military Draft & Pulsed Energy Weapon Initiatives (2005.3)  Remote, Wireless ThroughVision Terahertz–Planet-wide Data-mining–Communication Network Initiatives (2005.2)

Planetary Apartheid–”War”             Visionary Cuban–Venezuelan Medicine, Beyond Oil Profits (2005.12)  U.S. “Evolution” = More Debt, Violence; Less “Human” over against China (2005.11) Planetary Internet Governance Forum (Tunis) vs USA (2005.11)  U.S. Educational Apartheid Nationwide (2005.9)  UnLearning T-orture in Violence (2005.10)  U.N. Summit/60th Anniversary w Index, Reports on Violence of Poverty; Palestinian Rejoinder (2005.9)  “ID” of U.S. TNC Divestment Targets Enabling Israeli Apartheid (2005.8)  Divestment undercuts, undermines torture for oil hegemony (2005.6)  Universities in Michigan & Wisconsin Lead in U.S.–Israeli Transcorporate Divestiture Campaign; WCC Advises 500 Million Christians to Divest from Israeli Apartheid, following OPEC priorities (2005.2)  Israelis issue Palestinian (Bantustani-like) ID Pass; Iraqi women social status regresses toward that of Afghan or Saudi women, toward cave or tent housing epoch levels (2005.1) 

Planetary Disease–Pollution            Global Cancer Genome Atlas Coordination Project (2005.12)  Planetary Climate Summit (Montreal) minus USA (2005.11)  Bicycle over Car in Cuba & the U.S. (2005.10)  Israeli TNC Monopoly Guards U.S.–Euro Nuclear–Weapon Plants (2005.8)  “Global Warming” Costs, Pandemics, Dead Zones, and Hurricane Intensification (2005.8)  Radioactive GeoPolitics of Depopulation in Palestine & Iraq–USA (2005.8–7)  High School Student Solar Car Race — Texas to California (2005.7)  Nonviolence Blockades against Nuke $s & Uranium Processing (2005.6)  Israelis dump toxic, radioactive trash over Apartheid Wall (2005.5)  Euro-Fusion Reactor Projected for Pollution-Free Energy (2005.3)  Michigan sets a trend in U.S. state-level attempts to transcend oil for transport energy (2005.2) 

2004 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy–“Peace”               Wangari Maathai (Kenya) earns 2004 environmentally-sustainable Nobel Peace Prize; OPEC Boycott counters half-century of U.S. Dollar Supremacy (2004.12)  Europa Commences — 450 Million People in 25 States Resolve “Cold War” (2004.05)  Greenpeace Overcomes U.S. Bush Regime in Miami Court (2004.5-6) “Trust Women” Demonstration for women’s rights and against U.S.-Iraq-Palestinian Wars (2004.4) Anti-War Tax Movement momentum in USA & Israel (2004.2) International Monetary Fund Report warns that U.S. Budget Deficit$ bleed Planet (2004.1)  U.S. Institute of Medicine Calls for Common Medical Insurance to safeguard U.S. economy (2004.1)

Planetary CyberWorld                       GooglePrint to publish academic etexts online, first from U of Michigan (2004.12)  California Institute for Regenerative (Cytogenetic) Medicine/CIRM (2004.11)  State police smash Ahimsa (Nonviolence Activist) IndyMedia Worldwide Web (2004.10)  Cyber Scientists break 100-petabit meter/second speed barrier (2004.10)  Geologists forecast “Big Rollover” — Plunging terrestrial oil supply by 2012 (2004.4)

Planetary Apartheid–”War”             U.S. & Israel plan Haifa–Iraq oil pipeline — 42” diameter, Pre-1948 — 8” (2004.11)  Iraqi population study underscores 1 to 2 million war dead equivalent in U.S. population (2004.10)  Hague International Court of Justice Judgment — against Israeli’s Apartheid Wall, a demagogic hate symbol visible Off-World (“from ‘Space’”) like China’s Great Wall — and for U.N.-Palestine-&-Israel Blue-Helmeted Peacekeeping Force Actions; World and U.S National Council of Churches move against (Christian) Zionist Apartheid Wall (2004.7-8)  Apartheid characterized worldwide in — Largest military tank war, first nuclear-intensity non-nuclear war, & first “Depleted Uranium” (du) war (1973) on planet;

— in Demographic war against transcultural metropolis of Ramallah–Jerusalem–Bethlehem.

Planetary Disease–Pollution             Tsunami-Quake devastates Indian Ocean Coasts, as primal flood stage of 21st Century Global Warming Crisis (2004.12)  Last U.S. World Trade Center/WTC Class Action Health Damage Lawsuit re “du” filed 10 Sept. 2004 by 800+ people (2004.10)  SwissRe Insurance predicts that geo-climatic catastrophes — from Global Warming to SnowCanes & Tsunami-Quake — will cost more than a WTC Attack each year, plus “interest”  (2004.3)  90% Iraqis need safe water, + 80%, employment; U.S. Govt (2003) $6 Billion Deficit, from 2001 $127 Bil U.S. Budget Surplus (2004.1)

2003 Global Trends in Brief

Planetary Energy–“Peace”               eEngine In-Wheel: Truck, Forklift, & City Bus; Mars Orbited on Winter Solstice (2003.12) South African Jews draw “Bethlehem” and “Sharpeville” parallels (2003-2002.12)  British Columbia first in Northern Americas to respect “Doctors” of Chinese Medicine (2003.6)   Iceland pioneers hydrogen-fuel stations for cars–trucks–buses (2003.4)  Planet’s 600+ largest cities protest U.S. Iraq War (2003.2)  Pulse–fusion plasma–electric power (2003.4)  Euro-Nuclear reactor power plants to phase-out (2003.1)

Planetary CyberWorld                      Bronfman Inc oligarchic control of terrestrial mass media world (2003.11)  Geneva/CERN future-shifts WorldWideWeb (2003.7)  U.S.–Israeli DNA–Enzyme Computer to outclass Digital Computer (2003.2)  Tablet-PCs interface ideographic-alphabet cultures (2003.1)  One-Minute Hack–Attack Cripples Banks (2003.1)   

Planetary Apartheid–”War”             Mandela & Mbeki assert that USA threatens world peace through Iraq & Palestine wars (2003.7)  Iraqi Women loose civil-human rights; South Africa bids farewell to Walter Sisulu, ‘Quiet Giant’ of anti-apartheid racialized struggle (2003.5)  Southern African–Apartheid political-prisoner records made public (2003.1) 

Planetary Disease–Pollution            GW Bush & Ashcroft fail to kill Greenpeace-style activism; “Mad Cow” Brain Disease by Blood Transfusion (2003.12)  Preliminary hurricane strikes Washington, DC — shuts down U.S. Govt (2003.10) North-Baltic Sea ecosystem falters under Global Warming Impact (2003.10)  U.S. sets world’s highest jail & prison rate trends (2003.8)  Military pollution most dangerous to Earth (2003.9)